Hello friends, welcome to
our Wednesday night Bible study
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here at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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We welcome you
with a hearty amen.
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And we thank you for
taking the time to tune in for
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a Bible study that I believe is
going to be thought provoking.
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to get your Bibles and pens,
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invite your family and
your friends, and stay with us
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for the next 57 minutes,
or however long we have.
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It doesn't go
beyond 8:00 o'clock,
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if you are in the
Central time zone.
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But if you are joining
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thank you so much for tuning in.
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I'd like to get the
best use of our time.
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After we have the prayer
I'll tell you how to get a
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copy of the lesson.
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We will sing our theme
song and we'll dive into our
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topic entitled, The
Truth About Our Greatest Need.
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So let's have a
word of prayer together.
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Loving Father in heaven, we
thank You for the opportunity
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and privilege that You present
to us when we open our hearts
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as we open Your Word.
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Send Your Holy Spirit
tonight, Lord, to be our Teacher
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and our Guide.
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And may our understand increase.
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But also may our dedication by
Your indwelling Spirit increase.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Lesson number 39, if you'd
like to get a copy of that,
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go to this
website, the website is...
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Download lesson
number 39, Our Greatest Need.
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What is the
lesson title tonight?
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Our Greatest Need.
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And it has
fourteen questions so far.
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But as you know, I add more
questions as the lesson goes on.
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This is, to me, probably
one of the most vital topics
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I'm going to be covering,
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because it talks
about our greatest need.
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And I'll preface that
with a few more statements
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on the other side of the song.
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But right now we're going to
sing our theme song which is,
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Victory in Jesus.
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Let's sing that together.
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I heard an old, old story
how the Savior came from glory,
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how He gave His life on Calvary
to save a wretch like me.
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I heard about His groaning,
of His precious blood's atoning.
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Then I repented of my
sins and won the victory.
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O victory in
Jesus, my Savior forever.
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He sought me and bought
me with His redeeming blood.
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He loved me ere I knew
Him, and all my love is due Him.
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He plunged me to victory
beneath the cleansing flood.
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I heard about a mansion
He has built for me in glory,
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and I heard about the streets
of gold beyond the crystal sea,
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about the angels singing
and the old redemption story.
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And some sweet day I'll sing
up there the song of victory.
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O victory in
Jesus, my Savior forever.
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He sought me and bought
me with His redeeming blood.
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He loved me ere I knew
Him, and all my love is due Him.
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He plunged me to victory
beneath the cleansing flood.
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He plunged me to victory
beneath the cleansing flood.
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Amen.
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Our Greatest Need.
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The Truth About
Our Greatest Need,
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is the study of
our topic tonight.
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And I'm sure it's going
to be the next broadcast,
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and the next broadcast.
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Because we're covering a large
list of very important items.
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Among our greatest needs,
we're going to also talk about:
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What is grace?
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What is repentance?
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What is confession?
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How these elements
of the Christian walk
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fit into our daily
lives, and how important it is
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to understand how
they apply to our walk.
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Why do we need grace?
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Why is it important to
repent before we are baptized?
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And how many
people repent anymore?
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How many people even say, "I
have something to repent of."
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How many people look
at membership rather than
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a new fellowship with Christ?
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Some people say, "I
want to join the church.
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What does your church believe?"
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rather than,
"How am I to change?"
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"Who am I to follow?"
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"How is my life
going to be different?"
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And so these are
really important aspects.
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That's why I entitled
it, let's say it together,
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Our Greatest Need.
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Our Greatest Need.
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There you go. Our Greatest Need.
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You don't say,
"That was a great dinner."
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"That was a great dinner."
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So we're going to talk
about our greatest need.
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Now to dive right into it,
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I'd like to go to
our first question.
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Because we have
quite a bit to cover.
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And as I lead into it,
what I want to ask you,
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or actually lay
the foundation for is,
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we live in a world where, when
storms hit, when hurricanes hit,
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when fires hit, when floods hit,
when we lose the things that
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we have relied on so much;
a house, a roof over our head,
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our food, our cars that
are often washed away in floods
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or destroyed in earthquakes, or
become the victim of tsunamis,
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all these basic things
that we spend a lot of money on,
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when you look at the
relief effort, people don't say,
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"I need another car."
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They say, "I
just want some food.
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I want some water.
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I want some
place to lay my head.
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I just need the
basic necessities."
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And all of a sudden, the
things that they spent a lot of
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money on lose their significance
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when it comes down
to the basic things.
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"Just give me some fresh water.
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I need some food.
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It wouldn't hurt to
have the air conditioning,
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but I can forgo that
if I could just have some
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place to lay my head."
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And so in our world
today, which is a world
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wracked by disasters...
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And I'm sure that many of you
that are watching the program,
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not to date this program,
but many of you that watch
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the program or listen to the
program know that our world is
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at any given moment
another disaster can break out.
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We are on the verge, in
some cases, of nuclear war
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or nuclear exchange.
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And there is no such thing
as limited nuclear exchange.
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It's like limited annihilation.
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There is no such thing.
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But we live in a world where the
basic needs are often ignored
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until the things that we have
leaned on are no longer there.
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So tonight that's
why I want to begin with
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one of the most basic needs.
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And the first question is a
very thought provoking question,
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which is as follows.
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Question number one.
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Now we know He's
willing about a lot of things,
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but what's the only
thing He's unwilling about?
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Let us go to 2 Peter 3:9.
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2 Peter 3:9
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Those of you
that know your Bible,
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you know where I'm headed.
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But let's let the Bible
speak for our topic tonight.
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Since it is our first verse,
let's read this one together.
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Here we are.
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Isn't that good news?
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So when you thing about
it, if you were to put Jesus
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in our society
today, and He's walking past
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people in the grocery
store, or people on the train,
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or people in the restaurant,
or people just in general,
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just passing them by,
and somebody would say,
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"What about him, Lord?"
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"I'm not willing
that he should perish."
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"What about her?"
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"I'm not willing
that she should perish."
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"What about them?"
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"I'm not willing
that they should perish."
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The only ones that Jesus
had a difficult time with
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were those that did not
have a sense of their own need.
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And He talked about
it in a sense, He said,
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"If you were sick, I
could do something for you.
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I'm the master
Physician, but you don't admit
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that you even have an illness.
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So I can't do anything for you.
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I've come to help those who
know they need a physician."
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But what I like
about this is, He says,
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"I'm not willing
that any should..." What?
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"...that any should perish."
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Thus John 3:16, that,
"Whosoever believeth in Him
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should not perish."
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So this whole idea
that there are those that
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are predestined to be lost and
those predestined to be saved
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is not true about Christ.
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Nobody is born to be lost.
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Everyone is born with
an opportunity to be saved.
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And let me reiterate, no
one is born to be determined
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to be destroyed.
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We are born in a lost condition.
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But no one is born to
be determined to be lost.
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Each one makes a
decision for him or herself.
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So let's write this down.
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What is the only thing
that Jesus is unwilling about?
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What is it about?
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He's unwilling
that any should perish.
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When you go back and
look at the Bible statistics,
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you ask yourself, how is
it that only eight people
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got saved in Noah's day?
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It wasn't that He was
unwilling to save them,
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it's that they were
unwilling to receive salvation.
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So for
something to be effective,
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you've got to receive it.
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I say to people, and I do
this sometimes in the context of
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prayer meeting, inviting
people to prayer meeting,
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or sometimes I'd say,
"If you're really hungry,
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turn on the television, wait
till the commercial comes on.
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If you see a really nice
dinner, look at that dinner,
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and see if you
get any nourishment."
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You really don't.
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Right?
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You have to receive it.
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It has to be ingested.
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It has to be
masticated, you have to chew it.
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You have to ingest.
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You have to chew
on the Word of God.
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And so, when it
comes to salvation,
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one of the first
things we have to keep in mind
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is the Lord can't
do anything for anyone
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who doesn't acknowledge
his or her condition.
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But He's not willing
that they should perish.
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He doesn't give up
anybody to be lost.
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They make that
their own decision.
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But now here's a
passage that is very important.
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Because I've heard
people sometimes say,
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"Well you know, there are people
that are going to burn in hell
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forever and ever, and ever,
and ever, and ever, and ever."
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I have to just keep
saying it for it to be forever.
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But I'm not going to do that.
I only have but so much time.
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They say people are
going to burn throughout
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eternity ceaselessly.
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But that's not
in the Scriptures.
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Because if that were the
case, then this scripture
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that we're going to
read in just a moment here
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would not be true about
the character of Christ.
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So let's look at
the next question.
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Look at the next question.
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The question is, what is
God's great appeal to humanity?
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This is an amazing appeal.
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Moses extended
this to the Israelites.
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Noah extended this to
the antediluvian world.
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And every place where
you find salvation and loss
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at the same intersection,
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you find both of
these elements there.
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But notice what Jesus extended,
or the great appeal to humanity.
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Let's look at this together.
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He says, "For I have..." What?
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Turn and live.
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Which means, some of
us are already on the
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road to destruction.
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But as the saying
goes, if you're going in the
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wrong
direction, God allows what?
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God allows U-turns.
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But now here's the other aspect
of it which we're going to
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find out in just a moment.
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It is not, if you're on the road
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or if you're moving
in the wrong direction.
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It is, you'll find
in the next few verses
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or in the next few questions,
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we were all born
moving in the wrong direction.
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So Jesus didn't just
come to change our standing,
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He came to change our direction.
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And every time you look
in the Bible on the place of
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righteousness, you find
the sheep on the right hand,
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the way of
salvation is the right hand,
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we have pleasures
at His right hand.
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Every time the right hand.
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You'll never see salvation
referred to as the left hand.
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The goats are on the left.
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The way of
destruction is on the left.
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Strangely enough
they have songs that say,
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"To the left, to the left."
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Anyway, you
might have caught that.
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So here's the question,
what is God's great appeal
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to humanity?
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What is God's great appeal?
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Three words.
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Turn and live. Write that down.
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Turn and live. Turn and live.
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It's kind of like the
flashing railroad signs,
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the bridge out
signs, the roadblocks.
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Turn and live.
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But there are those who are
speeding to their destruction
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because they don't
understand their greatest need.
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Thus far we've
discovered that He's not willing
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that any should perish.
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But there's an action
that each person has to take.
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And what is the action?
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We have to what? Turn and live.
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The Lord doesn't
turn anybody's shoulder.
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He invites.
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This is the way, this
is the way; walk in it.
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But you've got to
make the decision.
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He doesn't put anybody on
the conveyor belt to salvation,
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but He offers them a place
in the journey of salvation.
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Now, look at the next question.
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The next question.
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Why is the appeal for
salvation life, or eternal life,
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I put,
"salvation life," so vital?
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Which, in fact, it's not just
salvation, but it is a life.
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Okay?
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Why is it so vital?
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Let's go to Romans 3:23.
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Romans 3:23
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So vital.
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Sometimes you think
of vital statistics.
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Or the vitality of life.
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Why is the appeal for
salvation so vital to all?
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Let's look at this together.
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Romans 3:23
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And I'd like to invite
you to read this one with me.
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Are we ready?
Let's read it together.
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What I've learned
in times of disaster
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is that disaster doesn't
care how much your house cost.
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Flood doesn't
care how much you paid.
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Water doesn't say, "Oh,
that's an expensive car.
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Let's go around it."
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No.
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Everything that is in
the path of destruction
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will be destroyed when
any kind of calamity comes.
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And in reality here, the
calamity that each one of us
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could avoid is in fact,
based on this text, it says,
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"For all have done..." What?
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Sinned.
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Every one of us is
in a fallen condition.
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We're born into
that. That's our lot.
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So why is the appeal
for salvation so vital?
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Why?
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All have sinned.
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All have sinned.
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And when you look at
that, if you compare that to
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the other verses in the Bible
such as 1 Corinthians 15:22,
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the word here, or specifically
the definition here,
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"for all have sinned,"
is not just at the point of
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accountability, but all
are in the condition of sin.
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All have inherited
what Adam has given to them.
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As in Adam, all die.
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Even so, in Christ
all shall be made alive.
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Notice, provision
for all on both sides.
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The Lord can save everyone
if we respond to His invitation.
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Now, number four is very
important because it talks about
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the biblical description of sin.
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Let's look at
number four together.
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Number four.
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Let's look at four categories.
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I've decided to look a
little deeper into the Bible,
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because a lot of times we
go over the same scriptures.
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But I decided, Lord, I
know there are thousands
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of scriptures in the Bible.
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Let's look at a new one tonight.
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Isaiah 48:8
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This is an amazing one.
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Maybe you have read
it, maybe you have not.
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But let's read this together.
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The first word, "Surely..."
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Wow!
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Wow!
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So this baby comes
out into an environment,
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and if you follow this text you
look down at the baby and say,
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"You are such a
beautiful transgressor."
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We wouldn't say that, would we?
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Oh we say, "He looks
so innocent, so cute."
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Miss their feeding time.
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Right?
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Mothers, do you know
what I'm talking about?
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Miss the feeding time.
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They look at you
like they're saying,
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"You better be glad
I'm not bigger than this."
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Right?
00:19:35.47\00:19:36.81
Because I've heard
babies cry with a vehement wail.
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They don't cry cute. They wail.
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I was reminded recently on a
flight my wife and I were on.
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We were going to
Bogota, Columbia.
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And there were two
babies in front of us
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and a baby behind us.
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And thus the reason I always
carry two pairs of ear plugs
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or headsets.
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Because I will not be digested
by the crying of a baby.
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And when they cry on those
planes, they really wail out.
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But that's what they do.
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That's their nature.
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And the Bible describes
that from the very moment
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that we were born, we were what?
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Transgressors.
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We were transgressors.
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It just took time for us to
manifest whatever that sin was.
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But we had the
nature immediately.
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And David says it the other way.
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He says, "In sin, my
mother did conceive me."
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He didn't say, "My mother was
a sinner when she conceived me,"
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which in fact was true,
but he's in essence saying,
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"The environment to which I was
born was an environment of sin."
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I was born this way.
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That's why each one
of us must be born again.
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Very important to understand.
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So the answer,
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how does the Bible
describe the sin condition?
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What did you put for "A"?
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Transgressor from the womb.
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Wow!
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That would really
revolutionize the nursery.
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"Transgressors in this section."
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I don't think the
parents would like that.
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But now this is the first one.
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By the way,
question number four, to me,
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is the reality check.
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It's the reality check.
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Just when you think that
you're just above or below,
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or to the side, or
elevated above someone else,
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question four comes into play.
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Now let's look at the other one.
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Ephesians 4:18
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Ephesians 4:18
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Wow, wow, this is just...
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When I was looking
these text up, it was just
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another reminder of how
important it is to have a
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walking relationship with Jesus.
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Ephesians 4:18, look
at what the Bible says.
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That's the natural condition.
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Let's look at that again.
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"Understanding darkened,"
means you can't understand.
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That's why when people say to me
when I'm sharing in the Bible,
00:22:14.33\00:22:17.90
a particular
teaching the Bible, they say,
00:22:17.93\00:22:20.97
"I don't see how the
Sabbath is important."
00:22:21.00\00:22:23.34
I say, "I understand that."
00:22:23.37\00:22:24.74
Because you can't see.
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Unless you are born
again, we cannot see.
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Unless one is born of
the water and of the Spirit,
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they cannot see.
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So when people say, "I don't
see what's wrong with this,"
00:22:37.05\00:22:38.95
or, "I don't see
what's wrong with that,"
00:22:39.15\00:22:40.59
or, "I don't see what's
wrong with going there,"
00:22:40.62\00:22:42.36
or wearing this, or eating that,
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or this kind of activity, that
is exactly what the Bible says.
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Their understanding is what?
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.63
Darkened.
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And why?
00:22:51.37\00:22:52.70
Being alienated from God.
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Now God is
light. Is He not? Amen?
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So if He's light and
you're alienated, where are you?
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In the dark.
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You can't see without light.
00:23:03.55\00:23:05.21
We all know that.
00:23:05.25\00:23:06.58
The other thing that results
from being alienated from God:
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ignorance.
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Now sometimes people
take the word, "ignorance,"
00:23:13.42\00:23:15.22
as a bad word.
00:23:15.26\00:23:16.59
Because growing up in
New York, people use to say,
00:23:16.62\00:23:18.56
"You're just ignorant."
00:23:18.59\00:23:19.93
And we thought
that was a bad word.
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What it just simply
means is, you don't understand.
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Meaning, you don't know.
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But in this case, it simply
means that their understanding
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is darkened.
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That's why the Bible says
the entrance of God's word
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brings light.
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Am I right?
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The entrance of
God's word brings light.
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And then it talks about
the blindness of their heart.
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How many of you
see with your heart?
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Raise your hand.
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I'll do it for you.
00:23:52.13\00:23:53.96
Because we do
see with our heart.
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Because what you love,
00:23:57.70\00:24:00.07
what you focus on, what
really grabs your affection,
00:24:02.04\00:24:05.51
is where your heart usually is.
00:24:07.38\00:24:10.05
But when your heart is
not in it, you're blind.
00:24:10.78\00:24:15.55
Somebody once
said, "Love is blind."
00:24:16.15\00:24:17.62
That's not true.
00:24:17.65\00:24:18.99
That's the most misunderstood
statement I've ever heard.
00:24:19.02\00:24:21.92
God is love. Amen, somebody?
00:24:22.02\00:24:23.83
If God is love,
love can't be blind.
00:24:24.23\00:24:26.29
You see how they put
love and blindness together?
00:24:26.33\00:24:29.80
No, the carnal heart is blind.
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The blindness of the heart.
00:24:32.87\00:24:34.27
That's why the Word of God
is needed on a day by day basis.
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So far, so far we have
transgressor from the womb.
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Now the other thing
is, you can summarize it
00:24:41.04\00:24:44.05
in any way
you'd like to do that.
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But let's go to the third one.
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Let's go to Jeremiah 17:9.
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Summarize it the
way that you feel
00:24:50.52\00:24:52.09
will best fit
your understanding.
00:24:52.19\00:24:53.99
The third one.
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This is one you cannot
find out with a stethoscope.
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Jeremiah 17:9
00:25:01.33\00:25:03.13
Hmm.
00:25:04.10\00:25:05.43
This is the passage
I've always thought of
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to tell people when
they say, "Well my neighbor
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.98
has a good heart."
00:25:14.54\00:25:16.04
Well according to this...
00:25:17.05\00:25:18.48
The Bible says, together,
"The heart is..." What?
00:25:19.71\00:25:23.18
That means you
don't know what to expect.
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.63
When a person is not
regenerated, when a person
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.46
hasn't given his
or her life to Christ,
00:25:36.50\00:25:38.10
you don't know
what's coming next.
00:25:38.30\00:25:40.10
Because the heart
is what? Deceitful.
00:25:40.14\00:25:41.97
The word, "deceitful,"
means, it's like a mouse
00:25:42.00\00:25:46.44
looking for an opening.
00:25:46.47\00:25:47.81
It's like a mouse
that's sniffing everything
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.31
making sure this is not a trap.
00:25:50.35\00:25:51.71
It's like a mouse
that comes to capitalize.
00:25:52.51\00:25:55.55
You've just
cleaned your house up,
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.59
you just put everything
away nice in your closet,
00:25:57.89\00:26:00.76
and the mouse
comes overnight and
00:26:01.02\00:26:02.59
chews a hole in your cereal box.
00:26:02.62\00:26:04.46
Because if there's a
way for that deceitful mouse
00:26:05.83\00:26:08.23
to find his way in, he's
going to find his way in.
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.73
And then you can't find him.
00:26:12.00\00:26:13.34
That's why it
says, "Who can know it?"
00:26:13.37\00:26:14.80
You can't, you cannot know.
00:26:14.84\00:26:16.74
The heart is deceitful
and desperately wicked.
00:26:16.77\00:26:19.54
That's why we all need Jesus.
00:26:19.57\00:26:20.91
Can somebody say amen?
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.28
The condition is amazing.
00:26:23.14\00:26:24.48
See, I'm laying the
foundation here because
00:26:24.98\00:26:26.55
we have to
understand our condition
00:26:26.65\00:26:29.65
before we understand
how beautiful the Savior is.
00:26:30.19\00:26:32.29
We've got to
understand our true standing
00:26:32.32\00:26:37.26
before we understand
whether or not we need to be
00:26:37.29\00:26:39.66
wheeled into
surgery, spiritual surgery.
00:26:39.69\00:26:42.43
If we are put on a
gurney and we're being wheeled
00:26:42.80\00:26:45.23
into surgery, and the doctor
says, "What's your problem?"
00:26:45.27\00:26:47.97
"I have no idea."
00:26:48.37\00:26:49.87
Then you better
get off the gurney.
00:26:50.77\00:26:53.01
But if you say,
"I've got a bad heart,
00:26:53.54\00:26:55.91
I can't see, I
don't understand anything,
00:26:57.51\00:27:01.72
I think I have insomnia,"
whatever the case may be,
00:27:01.75\00:27:05.02
"I can't sleep," when you
understand your condition,
00:27:05.05\00:27:08.29
then you know
you need a physician.
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.19
And these are conditions
that are being described as
00:27:10.23\00:27:12.56
the spiritual, let
me use the word here,
00:27:12.59\00:27:17.53
our spiritual bankruptcy.
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.54
These are the places that we are
00:27:21.64\00:27:23.47
when it comes to
the human nature.
00:27:23.67\00:27:25.24
Look at the other
one. Look at the other one.
00:27:25.27\00:27:27.44
This is Ephesians 2:1.
00:27:28.48\00:27:30.11
So for "C", you put what?
00:27:30.31\00:27:32.15
Heart problems. Heart problems.
00:27:32.51\00:27:35.08
That's a good
one. Heart trouble.
00:27:35.35\00:27:36.99
And "D", here it is.
00:27:37.59\00:27:39.62
Ephesians 2:1
00:27:39.65\00:27:41.02
Now you might think,
why put trespasses and sins?
00:27:51.93\00:27:56.34
Understand the two.
00:27:56.44\00:27:57.84
It's very important to
understand the difference
00:27:58.07\00:27:59.84
between a trespass and sins.
00:27:59.87\00:28:01.88
Sins were often
things that people just
00:28:02.14\00:28:06.25
were gravitatedly drawn to.
00:28:06.38\00:28:09.72
They repeated.
00:28:09.92\00:28:11.25
And the word there,
"sins," can be better described
00:28:11.29\00:28:13.86
as a pet sin.
00:28:13.89\00:28:16.02
Trespasses were things that
people did, they stumbled into
00:28:16.62\00:28:21.36
or they did it unintentionally.
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.67
And there in the Old Testament,
when you study in the book of
00:28:23.70\00:28:25.73
Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
look up, "trespass offerings."
00:28:25.77\00:28:29.80
Trespass offerings.
00:28:30.47\00:28:31.97
For the person, and
this is a very great example,
00:28:32.61\00:28:35.34
it says, if you are
out cutting a tree down
00:28:35.38\00:28:38.35
and the ax slips out of your
hand and killed your neighbor,
00:28:38.88\00:28:43.22
unintentionally, you must
offer a trespass offering.
00:28:43.92\00:28:48.66
And you must remunerate,
or not pay, but give something
00:28:49.32\00:28:53.33
to the family
who has been injured.
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.06
And that is
something that can be forgiven.
00:28:55.66\00:28:58.10
Right, but the next
one is the city of refuge.
00:28:59.40\00:29:02.94
But then if you are out
just killing folk with an ax,
00:29:02.97\00:29:06.57
that's not a trespass,
that's an intentional act.
00:29:07.04\00:29:09.88
And it's okay if
people pursue you to kill you.
00:29:10.55\00:29:14.45
That's where the
city of refuge comes in.
00:29:17.99\00:29:20.09
You've got to run.
But only for those...
00:29:20.56\00:29:23.32
The city of refuge is
not a haven for criminals,
00:29:23.83\00:29:27.10
but it's a place where
we meet with the high priest
00:29:27.80\00:29:31.43
if we have a
heart of repentance.
00:29:31.80\00:29:33.77
You don't run into the
city of refuge and wait till
00:29:33.80\00:29:35.80
people go to sleep and come
back out and keep killing folk.
00:29:35.84\00:29:38.21
No, the city of refuge
is, you run in to be saved.
00:29:38.41\00:29:42.48
And the high priest
waits for you at the door.
00:29:42.81\00:29:44.81
He can't come out,
you've got to go in.
00:29:44.85\00:29:47.65
And here's the beauty of it.
00:29:47.68\00:29:49.12
As long as the high
priest lives, you are safe.
00:29:49.15\00:29:52.35
So now you see in the Bible,
I think it's Hebrews 7:25,
00:29:52.62\00:29:55.62
we'll get there later on,
but it says, "He ever lives."
00:29:55.66\00:29:58.69
Amen, somebody?
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.06
So any time you want to
run into the city of refuge,
00:30:00.20\00:30:02.60
or into the arms of
Christ, He ever lives.
00:30:02.63\00:30:06.20
He's always there.
00:30:06.23\00:30:07.74
You're not going to run
and find, "Where is He?"
00:30:07.77\00:30:10.97
He ever lives to
make intercession for us.
00:30:11.07\00:30:14.91
So on "D" you'll put,
dead in trespasses and sin.
00:30:15.58\00:30:20.98
These are the
conditions that we're in.
00:30:22.15\00:30:23.85
So you might meet a
person that is very wealthy,
00:30:23.89\00:30:25.85
a person that's
good, that has great means,
00:30:25.95\00:30:28.42
or you might meet a
person that just has nothing.
00:30:28.46\00:30:30.99
From the person with absolutely
nothing to the person with
00:30:31.29\00:30:34.76
appearingly almost everything,
each one of those individuals
00:30:34.86\00:30:39.47
without Christ falls into
all four of these categories.
00:30:39.50\00:30:43.61
No deception here.
00:30:44.24\00:30:45.87
But let's keep going.
00:30:47.04\00:30:48.38
This lesson is to paint
the most horrible picture
00:30:49.31\00:30:52.31
so that the next lesson
can paint the most beautiful.
00:30:52.81\00:30:55.42
And we're going to transition
somewhere along the way.
00:30:55.45\00:30:57.35
So you're not going
to leave here depressed.
00:30:57.45\00:30:59.59
You're going to
leave here encouraged.
00:31:00.16\00:31:01.49
Amen?
00:31:01.52\00:31:02.86
Let's go to number five, though.
00:31:02.89\00:31:04.23
We've got to get all the
conditions outlined here.
00:31:04.26\00:31:06.56
Very important.
00:31:06.59\00:31:07.93
Okay, question number five.
00:31:08.00\00:31:10.40
What if we put on the
most expensive perfume?
00:31:17.31\00:31:20.08
What about the
most expensive suit?
00:31:20.88\00:31:22.78
What about if we
got a new haircut?
00:31:23.21\00:31:25.38
Nice clothes?
00:31:26.35\00:31:27.68
Beautiful house?
00:31:28.12\00:31:29.45
There's a problem.
00:31:29.52\00:31:30.85
How capable are we?
00:31:30.89\00:31:32.45
Look at what the Bible
says in Jeremiah 13:23.
00:31:32.49\00:31:35.82
Jeremiah, those prophets
that told it like it is.
00:31:35.92\00:31:38.79
The Bible says...
00:31:39.33\00:31:40.66
The answer? No.
But look at this.
00:31:47.20\00:31:49.90
The word, "accustomed," means
evil is a trend in your life.
00:31:58.41\00:32:01.85
And the person
without Christ is...
00:32:02.18\00:32:04.45
Let's use the analogy here.
00:32:04.75\00:32:07.86
You find some dark
analogies in the Scriptures.
00:32:07.89\00:32:10.23
But the word there,
"accustomed," is tending toward
00:32:10.26\00:32:13.50
Genesis about the antediluvian
where their thoughts
00:32:14.10\00:32:17.10
and intentions
were only evil, how?
00:32:17.13\00:32:19.53
Continually.
00:32:19.83\00:32:21.60
And so when you look about
it, if you think of a person who
00:32:21.64\00:32:24.27
is a liar, liar, liar, liar,
liar, liar, lair, liar, liar,
00:32:24.31\00:32:29.01
thief, thief,
thief, thief, thief,
00:32:29.04\00:32:30.48
murderer,
murderer, murderer, murderer,
00:32:30.51\00:32:31.85
and they have no
resentment, no desire to change,
00:32:31.88\00:32:35.78
no second plan to accept Christ,
00:32:35.82\00:32:37.99
they get to the point where they
are calcified in their lives.
00:32:38.02\00:32:43.46
Because they are accustomed.
00:32:44.39\00:32:46.80
Have you ever met somebody
who is just almost at the point
00:32:46.83\00:32:50.90
where they just lie naturally?
00:32:50.93\00:32:54.90
We had somebody in our
family once that said that,
00:32:59.54\00:33:01.54
"If their lips are
moving, they're lying."
00:33:01.91\00:33:03.71
You ever heard that before?
00:33:04.65\00:33:05.98
"So what do
you..." "You're lying."
00:33:06.72\00:33:08.68
"So what..." "You're lying."
00:33:09.28\00:33:10.69
"Let me see your homework."
00:33:10.72\00:33:12.05
I remember growing
up I knew someone that,
00:33:12.55\00:33:15.32
"Did you get any homework?"
"Nope, did it in class today."
00:33:16.19\00:33:18.59
So the teacher
and I created a pact.
00:33:19.46\00:33:21.43
Now I'm not going to
ask, I'm not going to say
00:33:22.16\00:33:25.07
male or female, I'm not
going to ask my family member
00:33:25.10\00:33:28.10
if he or she has homework.
00:33:28.94\00:33:31.04
I'm going to tell you to call me
00:33:31.47\00:33:33.31
and tell me that
they have homework.
00:33:33.61\00:33:35.24
It's amazing what
the human heart will do.
00:33:36.34\00:33:38.18
And the things that
they will do just to get away
00:33:38.61\00:33:42.55
from doing homework.
00:33:42.58\00:33:43.92
Photocopy stuff and photocopy...
00:33:43.95\00:33:46.35
You know, young
people are foolish at times.
00:33:46.39\00:33:48.86
So I said to the teacher,
"You send home a sheet of paper
00:33:50.36\00:33:54.53
with the specific
instructions on it."
00:33:56.06\00:33:58.43
And the paper had lines on it.
00:33:58.47\00:34:00.27
And I'll look at
that, and I'll sign it.
00:34:01.60\00:34:03.87
And if they come back
tomorrow with my signature,
00:34:04.17\00:34:06.98
then that means I saw it.
00:34:07.01\00:34:08.51
What do you think the
first attempt will be?
00:34:08.84\00:34:10.75
Try to sign it.
00:34:11.08\00:34:12.41
Well the teacher
figured that one out.
00:34:13.62\00:34:16.82
So the next thing
they did was to try to,
00:34:17.75\00:34:19.95
I had a photocopy machine,
00:34:20.79\00:34:22.52
so they put a blank sheet
of paper over a piece of paper
00:34:22.76\00:34:26.23
that had lines.
00:34:26.26\00:34:27.70
A paper with no lines over a
piece of paper that had lines.
00:34:28.30\00:34:32.10
And they photocopied
the paper with no lines
00:34:32.13\00:34:34.24
to cover the
paper that had lines.
00:34:34.27\00:34:36.14
And then they gave me
the photocopy and said,
00:34:36.24\00:34:38.81
"See, I don't
have any homework."
00:34:38.84\00:34:40.31
I said, "I've never
seen a piece of paper that
00:34:40.34\00:34:42.34
runs out of lines halfway.
00:34:42.38\00:34:44.21
So why is this the only
sheet of paper I've ever seen
00:34:47.72\00:34:50.59
that has lines
only halfway down?"
00:34:50.69\00:34:53.05
"I don't know."
00:34:54.16\00:34:55.49
Come to find out,
accustomed to doing evil.
00:34:56.12\00:35:00.00
Thank the Lord that
person I'm referring to grew up.
00:35:01.03\00:35:04.10
Amen?
00:35:04.77\00:35:06.10
But that's the
human heart. Accustomed.
00:35:06.47\00:35:08.70
We get so, we practice
evil to the point where
00:35:08.74\00:35:12.41
when a heart is deceitful
and desperately wicked,
00:35:13.61\00:35:17.91
and doesn't even sense
his or her need of Christ,
00:35:18.11\00:35:20.62
they become, the term
that's used often times in the
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.79
criminal world, they
become career criminals.
00:35:23.82\00:35:26.99
Or they are career sinners.
00:35:27.22\00:35:30.26
Accustomed to do evil.
00:35:31.53\00:35:33.09
And they can't change.
00:35:33.13\00:35:34.56
This is something
that's very important.
00:35:35.56\00:35:37.33
A person cannot
change his or her ways.
00:35:37.53\00:35:42.54
Cannot do it.
00:35:43.87\00:35:45.21
I wish I had that
quotation in front of me.
00:35:45.44\00:35:47.48
We cannot not, we can't
say, "Okay, you know what?
00:35:47.94\00:35:51.35
Today I'm not doing it."
00:35:52.48\00:35:56.58
They could stand there.
00:36:02.06\00:36:03.49
The moment they move from that
spot, they're going to do it.
00:36:03.89\00:36:06.63
That's why they say "Never say,
00:36:07.20\00:36:09.06
'I'm not going
to eat the doughnut.
00:36:09.10\00:36:11.27
I am not going to
eat the doughnut.'"
00:36:11.73\00:36:14.14
You know what happens?
00:36:14.17\00:36:15.50
The doughnut is gone.
00:36:16.00\00:36:17.34
It's a
psychological conditioning.
00:36:18.87\00:36:20.68
The very thing you focus on
that you're not going to do,
00:36:20.71\00:36:22.98
you do.
00:36:24.15\00:36:25.48
Paul said it. Didn't
he say that in Romans?
00:36:25.98\00:36:28.02
"That which I don't want
to do, that's what I'm doing.
00:36:28.32\00:36:31.29
And what I want
to do, that's not...
00:36:31.32\00:36:33.79
I hate myself. Oh
wretched man that I am."
00:36:33.82\00:36:37.19
So don't think
that this is willpower.
00:36:37.23\00:36:39.43
This is not a
study about willpower.
00:36:39.53\00:36:41.30
This is a study about our need
of the power that Jesus offers
00:36:41.66\00:36:46.67
that is not native to us.
00:36:46.70\00:36:48.40
Amen?
00:36:48.44\00:36:49.77
The power outside of ourselves.
00:36:50.17\00:36:51.97
Cannot do it.
00:36:53.58\00:36:54.91
Let's go to the next
question. Number six.
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.25
Cannot do it.
00:36:57.28\00:36:58.95
Cannot do it.
00:36:59.81\00:37:01.15
What did I say?
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.52
Cannot do it.
00:37:02.88\00:37:04.22
Just make sure it's clear.
00:37:04.42\00:37:05.75
Okay. Here it is.
00:37:06.39\00:37:09.42
We live in a
world with multiplicity.
00:37:16.63\00:37:19.23
Duplicity is just two choices.
00:37:19.27\00:37:21.30
But multiplicity.
00:37:21.34\00:37:22.67
Meaning, we say, "I want to
be Christian, Buddhist, Muslim,
00:37:22.70\00:37:28.08
Hindu, Sikh, Mormon,
Jehovah's Witness..."
00:37:28.11\00:37:33.38
And the list goes on, and
on, and on, and on, and on.
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.68
We think of multiplicity.
00:37:35.72\00:37:37.25
And often times people
pick what fits them better.
00:37:37.29\00:37:44.23
So they say, "I want
to be in this religion
00:37:45.86\00:37:48.50
or that religion."
00:37:49.03\00:37:50.73
But what I like about
this question, it guides us
00:37:50.77\00:37:54.30
and it narrows down our
options to just very minimal.
00:37:54.34\00:38:01.14
What options do we have
in searching for salvation?
00:38:01.24\00:38:04.91
Look at Acts 4:12.
00:38:04.95\00:38:07.08
What options do we have?
00:38:07.12\00:38:08.48
People say,
"What are the options?"
00:38:08.52\00:38:10.15
What options do we have...
00:38:10.92\00:38:12.49
...in this world
where Jesus is being denied?
00:38:13.86\00:38:19.09
Acts 4:12, the Bible says...
00:38:19.46\00:38:21.40
And what is that
name? Somebody tell me.
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.35
The name is Jesus.
00:38:38.18\00:38:39.51
"He shall save His
people from their sins."
00:38:40.25\00:38:43.39
Matthew 1:21
00:38:43.42\00:38:45.25
Luke 19:10, "He comes to seek
and save that which was lost."
00:38:46.19\00:38:49.26
And in the world today,
I could see how there's a
00:38:49.29\00:38:52.86
great controversy going on.
00:38:52.89\00:38:54.56
Because the devil
makes people think,
00:38:54.60\00:38:56.10
"Oh, you don't
really need Jesus."
00:38:56.13\00:38:57.93
So in some religions
they make Him a good prophet,
00:38:57.97\00:39:00.17
some they make
Him a good teacher,
00:39:00.54\00:39:02.10
Some they say, "Well,
it's obvious He was around."
00:39:02.54\00:39:04.54
But then if you think
about all the other prophets,
00:39:04.57\00:39:06.84
and teachers, and
philosophers that have existed
00:39:06.88\00:39:09.48
in our world today,
whether in the area of
00:39:09.51\00:39:12.98
psychology, music, or religion,
or whatever the area may be,
00:39:13.01\00:39:17.75
no singular man has
impacted the world as Jesus has.
00:39:17.79\00:39:22.59
Amen?
00:39:22.62\00:39:23.96
I mean, the entire
dating system of the world
00:39:23.99\00:39:25.86
is based on His existence.
00:39:25.89\00:39:28.20
B.C., which is what?
00:39:28.46\00:39:30.10
Which is, "Before Christ."
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.64
And A.D., "Anno Domini;"
"in the year of our Lord."
00:39:33.67\00:39:37.31
So when people say,
00:39:37.34\00:39:38.67
"Well, Jesus is a
fictitious character."
00:39:38.71\00:39:42.44
Who would impact the
world in such a way...
00:39:42.48\00:39:46.31
...as a fictitious character?
00:39:49.92\00:39:51.62
He is not a
fictitious character.
00:39:52.02\00:39:54.66
Jesus is real. What do you say?
00:39:54.69\00:39:56.86
There's no
salvation in any other.
00:39:58.19\00:39:59.69
What options do we have?
00:39:59.73\00:40:01.16
There's only one
name. And the name is Jesus.
00:40:01.20\00:40:04.80
Wow!
00:40:04.83\00:40:06.17
Now, we're going to
start chiseling away.
00:40:07.54\00:40:10.84
We looked at the
negative side of our condition,
00:40:10.87\00:40:14.74
then we now introduce
the only one through whom
00:40:14.98\00:40:17.75
we can find salvation.
00:40:17.78\00:40:19.21
Now we're going to
find out what He does.
00:40:19.58\00:40:23.18
We're going to
find out what He does.
00:40:23.75\00:40:25.09
Because a lot of times we say,
"Well I know He's our Savior,
00:40:25.12\00:40:27.42
He's our Lord."
00:40:27.76\00:40:29.22
You know when you think of
those terms, Savior and Lord,
00:40:29.69\00:40:32.16
different functions.
00:40:32.66\00:40:34.03
But let's look at
question number seven.
00:40:34.66\00:40:37.43
Are you ready for it?
00:40:38.03\00:40:39.37
Here it is,
question number seven.
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.27
What glorious
benefit do we receive?
00:40:55.78\00:40:58.32
Acts 10:43, you all turn there.
00:40:58.35\00:41:00.52
Okay, I like to hear
those Bibles turning.
00:41:01.16\00:41:03.53
Even though the text...
00:41:03.56\00:41:04.89
The text is primarily
for those who are not here.
00:41:04.93\00:41:08.83
But we use our Bibles.
00:41:08.86\00:41:10.20
Here it is, Acts 10:43.
00:41:10.47\00:41:13.00
The Bible says...
00:41:13.03\00:41:14.47
Remember, there
is no other name.
00:41:19.11\00:41:20.44
Have you heard the
term, "remission," before?
00:41:30.99\00:41:32.59
What is it often
connected to in our society?
00:41:32.95\00:41:35.02
Cancer. We say what?
00:41:35.46\00:41:37.06
"Your cancer is in remission."
00:41:38.03\00:41:39.39
Wouldn't it be nice
to say, "You know what?
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.66
My sin is in remission."
00:41:41.70\00:41:43.16
Right?
00:41:44.27\00:41:45.60
Wouldn't it be nice
to go to the Lord and
00:41:45.63\00:41:47.74
the Lord say, "You
know, I've checked.
00:41:47.77\00:41:49.37
You are sin free."
00:41:49.97\00:41:51.81
Amen?
00:41:52.21\00:41:53.54
Because to hear the words,
"cancer free," is beautiful.
00:41:53.58\00:41:55.94
When we accept Jesus, He
comes in and cleans us up.
00:41:56.14\00:41:59.78
Didn't He say that?
00:42:00.32\00:42:01.65
1 John 1:9, here it is.
00:42:01.68\00:42:03.52
"If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just
00:42:03.55\00:42:06.89
to forgive us of our
sins and to cleanse us from
00:42:06.92\00:42:10.49
all unrighteousness."
00:42:10.53\00:42:13.23
So what does that mean?
00:42:13.50\00:42:14.83
If you're cleansed from
all cancer, you are what?
00:42:15.50\00:42:18.03
Cancer free.
00:42:18.23\00:42:19.57
If you're cleansed from all
unrighteousness, you are what?
00:42:19.60\00:42:22.90
It's very
important to understand that.
00:42:24.04\00:42:25.87
Now some people will
say, "Okay, let me see.
00:42:26.47\00:42:28.04
Is that safe to
say, that I'm sin free?"
00:42:28.08\00:42:30.75
That means you have
been taken off of death row.
00:42:31.41\00:42:34.12
That means your sins are
no longer hanging over you
00:42:34.22\00:42:36.69
as the penalty for death.
00:42:36.72\00:42:39.45
That's what that means.
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.09
It doesn't mean sin
has been eradicated.
00:42:41.39\00:42:43.66
It simply means the
sin that condemned you
00:42:43.69\00:42:46.13
no longer condemns you.
00:42:46.16\00:42:47.73
But now you move into another
phase in your walk with Christ.
00:42:48.83\00:42:52.03
This new phase
means, "Okay, I've just been
00:42:52.40\00:42:55.04
taken off of death row.
00:42:55.07\00:42:56.40
I'm no longer in prison.
00:42:56.44\00:42:57.77
I'm no longer in chains.
00:42:57.91\00:42:59.61
I'm no longer incarcerated.
00:42:59.64\00:43:01.44
But now I have been made free,
00:43:02.11\00:43:03.88
which mean I have
to now walk free."
00:43:03.91\00:43:06.01
That's why James says,
"Stand fast in the liberty."
00:43:06.48\00:43:10.02
The word there,
"liberty," means, the freedom.
00:43:10.05\00:43:12.09
You've got to live a
life of freedom day by day.
00:43:12.49\00:43:14.39
Freedom from the power of sin.
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.26
And you've heard
me say that before.
00:43:16.29\00:43:17.69
Salvation is, in
fact, in three phases.
00:43:17.96\00:43:20.46
Salvation from the penalty,
salvation from the power,
00:43:20.50\00:43:23.70
and salvation from the... What?
00:43:23.73\00:43:25.13
...presence.
00:43:25.63\00:43:26.97
When is salvation from the
presence of sin going to happen?
00:43:27.37\00:43:30.51
Somebody tell me.
00:43:30.54\00:43:31.87
Say it again.
00:43:33.14\00:43:34.48
The second coming.
00:43:34.51\00:43:35.84
When Jesus returns, He
is going to eradicate sin.
00:43:35.88\00:43:39.51
Wouldn't it be good to live
in an environment without sin?
00:43:39.55\00:43:41.58
Amen?
00:43:42.38\00:43:43.72
That means you
won't even sin in thought.
00:43:44.05\00:43:45.99
That means you won't
look across the room and say,
00:43:46.82\00:43:48.49
"I wonder what
they're thinking."
00:43:49.62\00:43:50.96
Because they won't be
thinking evil thoughts.
00:43:51.36\00:43:54.10
Because their
character will have been remade
00:43:54.40\00:43:56.46
in the perfect image of Jesus.
00:43:56.50\00:43:58.47
But the decision
to do that is now.
00:43:58.97\00:44:01.80
The decision to
walk in that process.
00:44:02.04\00:44:03.97
And as you have seen
those shows, Extreme Makeover.
00:44:04.01\00:44:07.98
Every day Jesus is
molding us one room at a time.
00:44:08.38\00:44:13.21
Right?
00:44:13.92\00:44:15.25
So if you hear the hammering,
if you feel the chiseling,
00:44:15.28\00:44:18.15
submit to it.
00:44:18.52\00:44:19.85
Despise not the
chastening of the Father.
00:44:20.19\00:44:22.66
Submit to it.
00:44:22.86\00:44:24.19
I said to somebody yesterday,
we are gold tried in the fire.
00:44:24.23\00:44:28.10
Now often we focus on the fire.
00:44:29.03\00:44:31.17
But focus on what you
are in the sight of God.
00:44:31.47\00:44:33.84
We are what?
00:44:34.54\00:44:35.87
Come on, say it. We are what?
00:44:36.50\00:44:38.07
Come on, say it. We are what?
00:44:38.57\00:44:40.18
Gold.
00:44:40.21\00:44:41.54
Why are we being
tried in the fire?
00:44:41.58\00:44:43.31
Because He wants
us to be purified.
00:44:43.48\00:44:45.81
So if you ever see
a pure bar of gold...
00:44:46.41\00:44:50.62
I've never seen one.
00:44:50.72\00:44:52.05
I've seen, you know,
representations of one,
00:44:52.32\00:44:55.19
but I've never
seen a pure bar of gold.
00:44:55.22\00:44:56.86
What makes it pure?
00:44:56.89\00:44:58.23
It's been
smelted down. Liquefied.
00:44:58.26\00:45:01.00
And all the impurities have
been, what's the word there,
00:45:01.06\00:45:05.27
cleansed away.
00:45:05.57\00:45:06.90
Or scraped off the top.
00:45:06.94\00:45:08.27
And then all that's left
is the pure spotless gold.
00:45:08.70\00:45:13.94
So we're going through
the spotless process now.
00:45:14.24\00:45:16.41
But one day we will be clear.
00:45:17.05\00:45:18.75
And the remission of sin
is the process that begins
00:45:18.78\00:45:22.05
the moment you accept Jesus.
00:45:22.08\00:45:24.29
That's what, "repent," means.
00:45:24.49\00:45:26.25
Repent, means to
change direction.
00:45:26.29\00:45:29.02
Remission, means your life is
going in the opposite direction.
00:45:29.06\00:45:32.26
Instead of piling up
sin, sin is being removed.
00:45:32.29\00:45:36.16
It's a difference all together.
00:45:37.00\00:45:38.33
That is number seven.
Was that number seven?
00:45:38.50\00:45:40.44
Okay, so when we receive Jesus,
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.20
what glorious
benefit do we receive?
00:45:42.24\00:45:44.21
Write down, remission of sins.
00:45:44.57\00:45:47.31
Which is important.
00:45:48.04\00:45:49.38
Which is vitally important.
00:45:49.61\00:45:51.21
It's a hard thing to
say, and this is where the
00:45:54.62\00:45:57.35
practice of
Christianity comes in,
00:45:57.39\00:45:58.92
it's a hard thing to
say that I'm a Christian,
00:45:58.95\00:46:03.19
but I live my
life practicing sin.
00:46:03.22\00:46:05.39
It's a hard thing to say that.
00:46:05.79\00:46:07.23
Because if you see a person
that's a racing car driver,
00:46:07.26\00:46:11.07
or a person that's a
professional basketball player,
00:46:11.17\00:46:13.70
or a person that claims to
be in any particular profession
00:46:13.80\00:46:16.30
or a particular practice, you'll
say, "Well then, how come...
00:46:16.34\00:46:19.67
I thought you were
a basketball player.
00:46:19.71\00:46:21.54
Why do you have on
a doctor's uniform?"
00:46:21.58\00:46:23.31
Why do you look differently
than you profess to be?
00:46:23.98\00:46:26.92
The difference between
those vocations that are earthly
00:46:27.48\00:46:32.05
and the vocation that's heavenly
is, you don't have anybody
00:46:32.45\00:46:35.56
trying to prevent
you from being a doctor,
00:46:35.59\00:46:37.43
or trying to prevent you
from being a basketball player,
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.83
or trying to prevent you
from being whatever other
00:46:39.86\00:46:42.30
occupation there is.
00:46:42.33\00:46:43.73
But you've got to daily battle.
00:46:43.77\00:46:45.93
And that daily
battle is against what?
00:46:47.34\00:46:50.01
Okay, say it again.
00:46:51.81\00:46:53.14
Self. That's right.
00:46:53.17\00:46:54.61
The devil doesn't even
have to tempt some of us.
00:46:54.71\00:46:57.48
The daily battle, the
greatest battle we'll ever
00:46:57.91\00:47:00.32
fight is against who?
00:47:00.35\00:47:01.95
It's against self.
00:47:02.58\00:47:04.02
When self is put
to death daily...
00:47:04.85\00:47:07.59
How often did Paul
say he had to die to self?
00:47:07.62\00:47:09.92
"I die every day."
00:47:10.26\00:47:12.16
Because self is
really stored in the flesh.
00:47:12.19\00:47:15.20
I'm setting up
the questions here.
00:47:15.46\00:47:17.40
Self is stored in the flesh.
00:47:17.50\00:47:19.67
We have been
regenerated in life,
00:47:20.80\00:47:23.04
but until this flesh is
replaced, all the practices
00:47:23.37\00:47:28.11
and things that we
remember are stored.
00:47:28.14\00:47:30.58
They call it...
00:47:30.61\00:47:31.95
There's another thing
that my throat doctor said.
00:47:31.98\00:47:35.02
He said, "Because
you had a throat injury,
00:47:35.08\00:47:36.95
try not to do anything new.
00:47:37.15\00:47:39.32
Because muscles have memory.
00:47:39.65\00:47:42.79
Muscles have...
00:47:43.69\00:47:45.03
So if you start doing something
different while you're trying to
00:47:45.06\00:47:47.10
heal, your body is going
to remember it and think of it
00:47:47.13\00:47:49.70
as a process that now you
must continue to practice.
00:47:49.73\00:47:53.50
And then what happens
is, when the injury is there
00:47:54.10\00:47:56.60
it builds up what's
called, like a fascia muscle.
00:47:56.64\00:47:59.77
They've got to break up
all those things that have
00:47:59.91\00:48:01.64
taken you in
the wrong direction,
00:48:01.68\00:48:03.35
the remission
process, and get you ready
00:48:03.51\00:48:06.01
for the process that the
Lord is extending to you.
00:48:06.21\00:48:08.68
So here's the question.
00:48:08.72\00:48:10.05
Here's the
question. Number eight.
00:48:10.32\00:48:12.02
Here's the question.
00:48:12.62\00:48:13.96
When we receive Jesus,
to what degree are we saved?
00:48:13.99\00:48:18.13
Question number eight.
00:48:18.16\00:48:19.49
When we receive Jesus...
00:48:19.53\00:48:20.90
Let's look at it together.
00:48:24.90\00:48:26.23
Hebrews 7:25
00:48:26.27\00:48:27.67
One of my favorite
passages in the Bible.
00:48:27.87\00:48:30.14
And there are a lot
of 7:25's in the Bible.
00:48:30.17\00:48:32.41
Like Daniel 7:25, "...think
to change times and laws..."
00:48:32.44\00:48:35.38
Those famous scriptures.
00:48:35.41\00:48:36.75
Here's another
one, Hebrews 7:25.
00:48:36.78\00:48:38.75
And I've highlighted a
couple of words so that you can
00:48:39.28\00:48:41.38
get the answer very quickly.
00:48:41.42\00:48:42.78
When we receive Jesus,
to what degree are we saved?
00:48:43.12\00:48:46.99
Now if you're joining us from
home, read this along with us.
00:48:47.02\00:48:50.06
We're going to
read this one together.
00:48:50.09\00:48:51.43
Are we ready?
00:48:51.46\00:48:52.79
Because this is a
powerful scripture.
00:48:52.83\00:48:54.43
Together.
00:48:54.46\00:48:55.80
Who's able?
00:49:12.71\00:49:14.05
Who's able?
00:49:14.45\00:49:15.78
Who's able? He is.
00:49:16.75\00:49:18.59
To do what?
00:49:18.62\00:49:19.95
Save to the uttermost.
00:49:20.59\00:49:24.03
In other words, He can carry
the process all the way through.
00:49:24.16\00:49:28.90
He doesn't just stop
at, "Hey, your baptized.
00:49:29.26\00:49:32.30
Welcome. See you later."
00:49:32.40\00:49:34.04
No, it's a day by
day commitment to Christ.
00:49:34.07\00:49:36.57
And the devil's part is to
reintroduce you to the past,
00:49:36.77\00:49:40.41
where Christ's part is to say,
"Let's begin the day in prayer.
00:49:40.81\00:49:44.61
Let's begin the day in studies.
00:49:44.88\00:49:46.68
Let's open our Word.
00:49:46.82\00:49:48.25
Let's put our lives
in the hand of the Lord.
00:49:48.65\00:49:50.79
Because I'm able
to save you today.
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.66
And I'm able to
save you tomorrow.
00:49:53.82\00:49:56.76
And I'm able to
save you the next day."
00:49:56.79\00:49:59.29
He's able to
save to the uttermost.
00:49:59.69\00:50:01.53
If somebody was drowning,
they wouldn't want you to
00:50:02.06\00:50:04.83
save them on the
first time they go down
00:50:04.87\00:50:06.37
or the second time they go down.
00:50:06.40\00:50:07.87
They want that Peter experience.
00:50:07.90\00:50:09.70
To be saved from drowning.
00:50:09.74\00:50:12.17
Not to be left in
the same condition.
00:50:12.97\00:50:14.94
He's able to
save to the uttermost.
00:50:14.98\00:50:16.85
And how does He do that?
00:50:16.88\00:50:18.21
Let me help you
understand a particular word.
00:50:18.25\00:50:19.58
"Intercession." This
word was included there.
00:50:19.61\00:50:21.72
And somebody watching many
not know what intercession is.
00:50:21.75\00:50:24.19
Intercession is a
role of the high priest.
00:50:24.65\00:50:26.92
You have the
Father, you have the Son,
00:50:27.32\00:50:30.89
you have us.
00:50:31.09\00:50:32.63
Jesus is the bridge.
00:50:33.33\00:50:35.16
With His hand He
reaches down to us.
00:50:36.10\00:50:39.67
With the other hand He
reaches up to the Father.
00:50:39.70\00:50:42.10
This is an illustration.
00:50:42.14\00:50:43.47
So He brings divinity in
connection with humanity.
00:50:43.51\00:50:49.54
And He brings humanity
in connection with divinity.
00:50:49.58\00:50:52.78
He's the Intercessor.
00:50:52.81\00:50:54.18
But the Intercessor is
more than just bringing
00:50:54.42\00:50:55.98
divinity and humanity together.
00:50:56.02\00:50:57.72
The Intercessor is the one
who is in the functioning of the
00:50:57.75\00:51:01.46
role of the High Priest.
00:51:01.49\00:51:03.06
The one who has provided the
way of our sins being forgiven;
00:51:03.76\00:51:09.03
the remission.
00:51:09.06\00:51:10.40
He's the Lamb.
00:51:10.43\00:51:11.77
The lamb is included in
the ceremonial services.
00:51:11.97\00:51:14.64
So when the lamb is
killed, when the blood is shed,
00:51:14.67\00:51:17.51
only then can the
sprinkling of the blood
00:51:17.54\00:51:19.67
transfer the sin from
the sinner to the tabernacle,
00:51:20.64\00:51:26.01
to the temple, and then
later cleansed from the temple.
00:51:27.02\00:51:30.59
So this work of
the intercessor is
00:51:31.39\00:51:33.69
when we ask for forgiveness.
00:51:33.72\00:51:35.72
If we ask for
forgiveness, will we get it?
00:51:35.82\00:51:38.06
Because He is able to
save to the uttermost.
00:51:39.06\00:51:41.63
And how often does He do that?
00:51:41.66\00:51:43.57
He always lives
to make intercession.
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.53
He's not just living, but He's
living to make intercession.
00:51:46.57\00:51:49.40
Can you imagine the job,
can you imagine the function,
00:51:49.80\00:51:53.27
how many billions of
people throughout the centuries,
00:51:53.31\00:51:56.68
throughout the millennia, have
relied on the blood of Jesus?
00:51:56.71\00:51:59.35
Can you imagine the number?
00:51:59.38\00:52:00.78
How many of them
is He able to save?
00:52:01.32\00:52:03.52
Every one of them He is
able to save to the uttermost.
00:52:04.52\00:52:08.16
Praise God for that.
00:52:08.19\00:52:09.52
Now let's look at number nine.
00:52:09.66\00:52:11.06
Moving right along
tonight at a good pace.
00:52:11.43\00:52:13.90
And I want you to see this.
00:52:14.70\00:52:16.03
These were
thought out very carefully
00:52:16.06\00:52:17.83
to put them in a
particular order.
00:52:17.87\00:52:19.40
So if you put the
answer to number seven...
00:52:19.50\00:52:21.44
When we receive Jesus,
to what degree are we saved?
00:52:21.47\00:52:24.64
Put this. To the uttermost.
00:52:24.67\00:52:28.24
Whereas we use
to say in New York,
00:52:28.84\00:52:30.18
"From the
guttermost to the uttermost."
00:52:30.21\00:52:32.51
From the lowest He saves us
and brings us into the image
00:52:32.81\00:52:37.25
of His own righteousness.
00:52:37.62\00:52:39.99
Okay, question number nine.
00:52:40.19\00:52:41.99
Question number nine.
00:52:42.59\00:52:44.03
I had to pause when I was
putting this one together.
00:52:51.53\00:52:54.74
Just thank the Lord for
this promise that He has made,
00:52:54.94\00:52:58.87
for this promise
that He has made.
00:52:59.17\00:53:01.01
Because let me
just put it this way.
00:53:01.04\00:53:02.64
If a person is delivered,
00:53:02.68\00:53:04.15
if a person is
delivered from a situation,
00:53:04.31\00:53:06.95
you might say to them,
"Try to stay out of trouble."
00:53:08.72\00:53:11.59
Have you ever heard that before?
00:53:11.62\00:53:12.95
"Try to stay out of trouble."
00:53:13.09\00:53:14.89
"Well if I don't,
I'll call you the next time
00:53:16.52\00:53:17.86
I get into trouble."
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.23
This passage takes
it to the next level.
00:53:20.10\00:53:22.40
Because the question is,
to those who receive Jesus
00:53:22.73\00:53:25.00
what promise has He made?
00:53:25.03\00:53:26.57
2 Timothy 4:18
00:53:26.60\00:53:28.57
Look at that with me.
00:53:28.97\00:53:30.31
2 Timothy 4:18
00:53:30.34\00:53:32.67
He's made a promise, not just
to save you to the uttermost.
00:53:32.71\00:53:35.31
Because salvation is
not the only thing we need.
00:53:35.78\00:53:38.21
Alright, here it is.
00:53:39.05\00:53:40.72
Here's a new scripture for you.
00:53:41.45\00:53:42.78
See, this is one of
those, "amen," scriptures.
00:54:05.94\00:54:07.71
He's not just able to
deliver me, but to what?
00:54:07.74\00:54:10.85
Preserve me.
00:54:11.05\00:54:12.38
That's why Jude 24 says,
"Now to Him who is able to
00:54:13.82\00:54:17.99
keep us from..." What?
00:54:18.02\00:54:19.35
"...falling, and to
present us before the presence
00:54:19.39\00:54:22.69
of His glory
with exceeding joy."
00:54:22.79\00:54:25.99
He's not able
just to deliver me.
00:54:26.56\00:54:28.33
I don't just
want to be delivered,
00:54:28.36\00:54:29.86
I want to be preserved.
00:54:29.90\00:54:31.47
The word,
"preserved," means, kept.
00:54:32.27\00:54:34.40
In other words, He
builds around you a fortress.
00:54:35.60\00:54:38.57
By the way, for
those who don't know,
00:54:38.61\00:54:40.31
the Bible talks about
this in the Old Testament,
00:54:40.34\00:54:42.38
as the wall that the
Lord built around Israel,
00:54:42.41\00:54:44.88
as a fence He
built around Israel.
00:54:45.41\00:54:47.15
And the fence He built around
them was His Ten Commandments.
00:54:47.25\00:54:49.95
So it's impossible to
say, "I'm saved," and ignore
00:54:50.12\00:54:52.52
the commandments of God.
00:54:52.55\00:54:53.89
The commandments of God are
there to continue to guide us
00:54:54.16\00:54:56.39
in our
relationship one with another
00:54:56.76\00:54:58.93
and our relationship
between us and the Lord.
00:54:59.09\00:55:00.96
The commandments are the
fencing that surrounds us.
00:55:01.00\00:55:03.50
But He's not only
able to deliver us,
00:55:03.97\00:55:06.30
but He's able to preserve us.
00:55:06.33\00:55:08.24
And He delivers us
from every evil work.
00:55:08.90\00:55:12.61
Praise His name for that.
00:55:12.81\00:55:14.14
So did you write that down?
00:55:14.18\00:55:15.51
To those that receive
Jesus, what promise has He made?
00:55:16.28\00:55:18.75
Deliver and
preserve. Write those two down.
00:55:18.85\00:55:21.75
Deliver, and
what else? Preserve.
00:55:21.78\00:55:24.49
And for those of you
that like to can foods,
00:55:24.85\00:55:27.29
You know what
that preserve means.
00:55:27.82\00:55:29.59
Keep it fresh for a long time.
00:55:30.36\00:55:33.13
Some people need that in
their Christian experience.
00:55:33.43\00:55:35.33
Because there's
nothing worse than a
00:55:35.36\00:55:36.70
stale Christian experience.
00:55:36.73\00:55:38.90
It's not preserved.
00:55:39.27\00:55:40.60
That day by day walk
with Christ will bring us
00:55:40.64\00:55:42.67
to the point of preservation.
00:55:42.70\00:55:45.07
Okay.
00:55:45.47\00:55:46.81
Now, this is a
transitioning stage.
00:55:47.54\00:55:50.98
I don't know how
far I'll get on this.
00:55:51.01\00:55:52.35
But now that we know...
00:55:52.48\00:55:53.82
Let's look at the
two stages so far.
00:55:53.85\00:55:56.05
First we talked
about our condition.
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Did we not? Amen?
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Then we talked about who
Jesus is and what He does.
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Right?
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Now we're going to go
to the next actual phase
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and look at what He had to do,
I want you to follow carefully,
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what He had to do to save us.
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Because somebody
asked me the question once,
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listen, listen, somebody
said, "If Jesus, if His work is
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just to save us, could not
He have done that from heaven?
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Did He have to come
down here to save us?"
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Couldn't He have
just said, "You're saved.
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I ain't coming down there."
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Why did He have to come
down here to be our Savior?
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We're going to find this
out in the next question.
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Or maybe, or maybe I
should hold off till next week.
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Let's give one text at least.
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Here it is. Are you ready?
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Question number ten.
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In the interest
of time, I'm going to
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give it to you very quickly.
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Hebrews 10:5 Hebrews 10:5
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Look at it.
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We're going to talk about that
body and why it was necessary
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for Jesus to come to this
earth to qualify as our Savior.
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Is He God? Yes or no.
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Amen?
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But He had to become our Savior.
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He could not, and
this is my exit statement,
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He could not have
saved us from a distance.
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He had to come down
here to be our Savior.
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Keep studying the Bible.
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And if we've made some
sense tonight, praise the Lord.
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But if not, one day we know it
will come into a sharper focus.
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God bless you.
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