The Carter Report presents
Plain Talk with John Carter.
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Welcome back to Plain Talk.
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Our television program
is seen around the world
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and thousands of people
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Today we are
answering these questions
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with some plain talk.
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Allen Deleon is your spokesman
and the first question is,
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here it comes.
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What is the unpardonable sin?
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Well, that's the sin
that God cannot forgive,
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that's why it's
called the unpardonable sin.
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How do you know if you've
committed the unpardonable sin?
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Please take your Bible,
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come over here to Matthew 12:31,
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dear hearts and gentle people,
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Matthew 12:31 is we think
about the unpardonable sin,
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Matthew 12.
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Welcome today,
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ladies and
Gentlemen to Plain Talk.
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Matthew Chapter
12, what did I say, 31?
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"Therefore I say to you,
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every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men."
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Well, somebody
got to say hallelujah,
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that's good news.
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"Every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men,
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but the blasphemy
against the Spirit
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shall not be forgiven men."
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The Bible says God
will forgive every sin.
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Every sin that is
confessed and forsaken.
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That means that God
will forgive murder,
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adultery, lying,
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cheating, stealing, every sin.
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Now listen to this, every
sin that you confess to God,
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every sin you repent off to God,
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every sin that you repudiate.
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But the unpardonable
sin is unpardonable,
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because it isn't
confessed to God.
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It's not confessed to God.
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And the reason it
isn't confessed to God
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because it's the sin
against the Holy Spirit,
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Jesus said.
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If you sin
against the Holy Spirit,
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Jesus said, you never,
never going to get forgiveness.
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Now who is the Holy Spirit?
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He is the third
person of the Godhead.
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There's the Father, the Son
and there is the Holy Spirit,
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and the Holy
Spirit is the person
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who comes from God and who...
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No, wait for this.
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He comes and he
talks to our minds,
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he talks to our souls.
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So if I'd been
sinning against God.
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All of a sudden,
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I feel something
inside that is stirring,
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it is stirring, what is it?
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It's conscience.
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So he works
through the conscience.
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Now if I'm wise, I
will go to God and I'll say,
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"God, I've sinned against heaven
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and I've sinned against you.
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I'm no longer worthy
to be known as your son."
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If you read in Luke Chapter 15,
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but there is an
alternative that I can do
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and many people do it.
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I say, God, no, not now
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and I hardened my heart.
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Every time I say no to God,
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it makes it easier to
say no to God the next time.
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Now, look at these hands,
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they're not very
callused, are they?
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When I was a boy, I
used to drive a big bulldozer
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up in North Queensland,
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and I had some
calluses on my hands
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because if you're
driving a huge big bulldozer
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and you're pulling the levers,
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your hands get
a little callused.
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But if I were to go back
to doing that work again,
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I would build up calluses.
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And as I build up the calluses,
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my hands loose
their sensitivity.
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When I say no
to God, my friends,
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my heart starts
to build up calluses
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and I lose my
spiritual sensitivity,
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so that God can be speaking
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in my ear like thunder
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and I don't hear him.
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So when God
comes and talks to me,
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the first time it
sounds like a thunder.
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It seems as though I'm
right there at Mount Sinai.
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When I say no,
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I build up a little callus.
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I say no and the
callus gets thicker.
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And if I keep saying no to God,
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the time will come
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when I'll build up so
many spiritual calluses
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that God will speak
with a voice of thunder
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but I won't hear Him.
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When Beverley and
I were first married,
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we were sent to
a town in Australia
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by the name of Wagga Wagga.
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That's all right,
Americans got funny names too,
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but anyhow, we
are sent to a town
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by the name of Wagga Wagga.
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You know why?
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Well, I helped a man by the name
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of George Bernard Shaw,
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a great evangelist run
an evangelistic campaign.
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We stayed in the house,
not on the railway track,
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but right next to it.
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And at midnight the
Southern Aurora came through.
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In those days
there were steam trains,
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they are the best trains.
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You know, blowing lots of steam,
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making lots of noise
and the Southern Aurora
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would come
thundering through Wagga.
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When it came
thundering through Wagga,
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we thought it came
through our bedroom.
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We both jumped up so
fast, we hid ourselves,
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we bumped into each
other in the middle.
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The train was
about 100 yards away,
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where you now
came roaring through
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and blowing this
tremendous whistle.
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You know,
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we were the only
people in Wagga who woke up.
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You know why?
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They had build up calluses
to the Southern Aurora train.
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The next night we woke up too,
and the next night we woke up
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and the next night
we almost didn't wake up
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but we woke up a bit.
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But the next night
in the week or so time,
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the train would come through,
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we didn't even know
if it's coming through.
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You know why?
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We had become desensitized.
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Now, let me tell you
something very important.
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You don't get a suntan sitting
inside a refrigerator, do you?
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You don't get a suntan
sitting inside a refrigerator.
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You get a suntan
sitting out in the sun.
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But sitting out in
the sun is a great place
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to get a suntan but
it is also dangerous.
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When you go to a place
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where the sun
shine of God's love
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is streaming
forth, it's pleasant
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and it's wonderful
but it is also dangerous,
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because you are being exposed
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to the rays of
God's Holy Spirit.
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Now, if you are
sitting in a meeting like this
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and somebody one of us,
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and we are
committing a sin against God.
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Say somebody is fornicating,
that's very common today.
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As the text of
the Bible are read,
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there will be a voice
that is speaking to my heart.
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It will worry me in my stomach.
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When I get to bed at night,
I'll find it hard to sleep.
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Southern Aurora
will be pounding down.
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And if I keep saying no to God,
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the time will come
when God will speak
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the voice of the Southern
Aurora but I won't hear,
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not because God is not speaking,
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but because I've closed my mind.
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Therefore, the unpardonable sin
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is the sin that
I do not confess,
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because I've closed my mind.
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Will God
torment sinners forever?
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Well, that's what the pope says.
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So if you believe the
pope, I guess you would say yes.
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Now that's what the
great churches teach,
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the Catholic Church teaches
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that God is going to
torment sinners forever.
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The great Protestant Churches,
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my beloved friends in
the Baptist Church say yes,
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God is going to burn
sinners for all eternity.
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I want you to think about this.
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I want you to think about it
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'cause we can throw
these statements away,
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you know just
like glib statements.
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Have you ever put your finger
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over a flame of fire by mistake?
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Ever done it?
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I have, you know, even a candle.
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Your finger, you smell,
you smell the burning flesh.
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Could you imagine
if for one second,
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your whole body
was immersed in fire?
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Flame, not for a
minute but for an hour,
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inconceivable torture for a day,
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for a day, for a
week, for a year.
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People tell me that
God is going to work
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a trillion miracles to
keep the body of the damned.
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He's going to
work these miracles
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and keep the bodies or the souls
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so sensitive that
He can torture them
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for trillions of years.
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That's why, Ingersoll said,
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if there is a God then
he became a great skeptic.
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He said, if there is a
God, that he is the devil.
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I do not believe
that God is a torturer.
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I believe that the
doctrine of eternal torment
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is based upon misunderstanding
of the text of the Bible.
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And let me give you a
text that should help you.
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Come over here to Jude 7.
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That's one book before
the Book of Revelation.
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One book, Revelation is
the last book in the Bible.
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If you come to
Jude and Jesus said,
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"It is written man
shall not live by bread alone
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but by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God."
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Jude verse 7, you got it,
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my audience, and you
folks watching on television.
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Listen up.
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"As Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and the cities around them
in a similar manner to these,
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having given themselves
over to sexual immorality
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and gone after
strange flesh, sexual version,
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and set forth..."
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as what, say it to me,
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"as an example,
suffering the vengeance..."
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of what, "eternal fire."
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Well, I've been to that
area, I've been down to Numirah,
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been down to the
southern part of the Dead Sea.
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I have actually
felt in these hands,
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the ashes of the great fires
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that destroyed
that civilization.
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I picked out little
pieces of human bone
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but those places
are not burning today.
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Sodom and Gomorrah were
destroyed with eternal fire,
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with hellfire, with
fire that burnt for ever
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and ever and ever,
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while there was
anything there to burn.
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But when everything that
could be burned was burned,
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the fire went out.
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And that's how it's going to be,
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God is going to create a
new heaven and a new earth.
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The punishment of the wicked
will take place upon the earth.
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It's going to burn
with fire, hellfire.
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God is going to bring
judgment upon America,
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going to bring
judgment upon Australia.
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There is a judgment day coming.
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God is just.
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Justice cannot sleep
forever, don't forget it.
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There's going to
be a judgment day,
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there's going to be hell,
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there's going to be fire.
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But after the fire
has done the cleansing,
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the fire is going to go out.
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And sin and
sinners will be no more,
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because God is a just God
but He is also a loving God.
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God is not a terrorist.
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Where do you disagree
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with the
teachings of Pope Francis?
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Lot of people
have been obliviously
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influenced by Pope Francis
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because he is a
very charismatic person,
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seems to be such a nice person.
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But we are not
talking about nice people.
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We don't join
churches 'cause we like...
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or some people do, but
that's not really good reason
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to join a church
or I like the pastor.
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I like the way,
the curl in his hair
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and all the rest in.
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You don't go to a church
because you like the pastor.
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Oh, now the question
was where do I disagree
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with the
teachings of Pope Francis.
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Well, I'll tell
you the main one,
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come over here
to Matthew 16:15-19.
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It's in the New Testament.
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Matthew Chapter 16, and folks,
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this is the book that you
got to get inside your heart,
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Matthew 16:15
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and onwards,
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Verse 14 said, "So they said,
'Some say John the Baptist,
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who are you, some Elijah,
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others Jeremiah,
one of the prophets.
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Jesus said, 'who do
people say that I am?'
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And then, verse
15, he said to them,
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'But who do you say that I am?
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Simon Peter, you got the
text, he answered and said,
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'You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God.'
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' That was a great testimony.
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Who are you, Christ, you
are the Son of living God
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and Peter got it
right, Peter got it right.
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Verse 17, "Jesus
answered and said to him,
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'Blessed are
you, Simon Bar-Jonah,
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for flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you,
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but My Father who is in heaven.
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And I say to you
that you are Peter,
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and on this rock I
will build my church,
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and the gates of Hades or hell
shall not prevail against it."
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Let me tell you where
I disagree with the pope,
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where I believe
that pope is dead wrong.
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The pope
believes that he is Peter,
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when he is made the pope,
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they say to him in
Latin, "You are Peter."
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The Pope believe if they
sit in the chair of Saint Peter,
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and they believe
that Peter was first pope.
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I don't believe that.
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There is no evidence at all,
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no evidence at all
that Peter was a pope.
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And if he was, it makes it
more difficult for the pope,
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because Peter was a married man.
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So if Peter was the first
pope, first pope was married.
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Okay, I say to
you that you're Peter,
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and on this rock I
will build my church.
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What did he just say?
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He said, You are the
Christ, Son of the living God.
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The true church is
not build upon Peter
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but upon Peter's confession
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that Christ was the Son of God.
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The church is
built upon the rock
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and not Peter
because Peter was not a rock.
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Peter was a tumbling stone
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and he denied the Lord
with cursing and swearing.
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And more than this
Peter is asleep in the grave
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awaiting the resurrection.
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The true church is
build upon the living Christ,
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the false church is
build upon a dead man.
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Don't forget it.
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Now come over here,
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I want to show you
a text, another text.
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Come over here,
1 Corinthians 10:4.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John, 1 Corinthians 10:4.
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I love the Bible, don't you?
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Yeah.
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You are really good
audience, you really are.
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1 Corinthians...
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and we have a great
television audience,
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We just got a great
television audience.
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1 Corinthians 10:4,
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" And all drank the
same spiritual drink.
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For they drank of that spiritual
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Rock that followed them..."
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Now what does it
say, dear hearts?
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Come on, that
rock, that rock was who?
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That rock was Peter.
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No, no, no, no.
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That rock was
Christ, Christ is the rock.
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The church is not
built upon Saint Peter,
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the church is built upon Christ,
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He is the rock.
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Now Peter doesn't
save, Jesus saves.
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And so the pope says, he
is the successor of Peter.
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I don't believe
that for a moment,
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even if he was,
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it wouldn't be a compliment,
because Peter is a dead man.
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I want to belong to a church
that is built upon Christ.
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So that's where I
disagree with the good pope.
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I also disagree
on these subjects.
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Sola Scriptura, I don't believe
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in the authority
of church councils,
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including my own church.
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I don't believe, I'm
talking spiritually now,
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I'm talking about the doctrine.
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I do not believe
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in the authority
of church council.
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I believe in the
authority of Holy Scripture.
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That's what Martin Luther talks,
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solo scriptura, Solus Christus,
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only Christ, Sola
gratia, only grace,
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Sola Fide, only faith.
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That's why I'm a Protestant,
you see, I'm a Protestant.
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I disagree with
the pope on the gospel.
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Do I need to be
perfect to be saved?
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Do I need to be
perfect to be saved?
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Yes, you do.
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One hundred percent perfect.
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Oh, wow, no, no, no good,
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you're shaking heads
that means thinking out,
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I told you big heresy.
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I told you the truth.
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Yeah, God demands
absolute, complete perfection,
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a 100 percent
obedience, don't get disturbed,
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don't get...listen,
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I'm telling you the truth.
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God demands a 100
percent obedience,
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a 100 percent love,
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all the way through
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from the moment of
conception until now.
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The only problem is
none of us have got it.
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Now you're not gonna
understand the good news
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until you
understand the bad news.
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And the bad news
tells me that I'm a sinner
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and I'm not good in myself.
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Come over here to Romans 3:10.
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Now, it seems to me most folks
don't understand this gospel.
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Romans 3:10, that's
because they don't read,
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that's because they
don't study the Bible,
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that's because
they're ignorant of scripture.
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You know, just
a lot of religion.
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Romans 3:10 "As it is written:"
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what does it say?
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'There is none
righteous, no, not one..."
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Listen.
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Somebody comes to you and says
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"I am sinless,"
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well that person is a liar.
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That's what the Bible says.
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There is no person
righteous, not one.
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The Bible tells us, we have
all sinned and we fall short.
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Come over here to verse 23,
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"For all have sinned... "
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that's past tense,
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"and fall short of
the glory of God..."
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that's present
perfect continuous.
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The Bible says, I fall
short of the glory of God.
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It's like this,
there is an abyss here,
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you see, and I
jump over the abyss
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and I miss it by this much
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and I fall down into hell.
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Doesn't matter if I
miss it by this or this,
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I've missed it.
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The Bible says,
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"We fall short of glory of God."
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That means we
continue to fall short
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of the glory of God.
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That means there are no
perfect people in themselves.
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There are no sinless people
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but the Bible says
God demands perfection.
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So what a dilemma?
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Now unless you
understand the issues,
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the judicial issues,
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you'll have a superficial
view of the character of God
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and the justice
of God and Christ.
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So the Bible
says, it's unrighteous,
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that's the whole lot.
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Okay, verse 24,
Romans 3:24, got it.
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Here we go, "Being
justified freely by His grace
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through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus..."
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Being justified.
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And look here, look at me,
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the word "justify"
means to declare righteous.
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It doesn't mean as the
Pope teaches to make righteous.
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Because if it
means to make righteous,
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I never come to the place
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where I have
enough righteousness.
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That's why the pope says
I got to go to purgatory.
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Now this is the
great issue in the gospel.
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So it says, being
justified, declare righteous.
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It means this, if I
come to Christ as a sinner
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and come and face at His cross,
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I come as the sinner
and I trust fully in Christ
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and rely upon Him,
because He died for me.
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God has to judge then
declares that I'm righteous.
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Not because I am
but because he is.
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And his righteousness is
given to me as a free gift.
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You see, that's the
gospel, I can't earn it,
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you see, I can't pay for it.
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It's the gift of God
because Christ did it for me.
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How long does it
take to be saved?
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Oh, how long does
it take to be saved?
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You know these are
all good questions.
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Come over here
to Luke Chapter 17,
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I'll give you an illustration.
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Luke 17:12 and onwards.
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The miracles of Jesus were given
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to teach spiritual truths.
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Now, look at me, hear this.
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The miracles of Jesus were given
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to teach spiritual
truths as in nature so in grace.
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Now look at this text.
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Luke 17:12,
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"Then as He
entered a certain village,
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there met Him ten
men who were lepers,
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who stood afar off."
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Lepers, that represents us.
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And in ourselves,
because we are sinners,
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we stand afar off from God.
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You see, we are born lepers.
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This is the hardest
truth for a sinner to see
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because leprosy
or spiritual leprosy
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makes us blind.
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We are blind to our sinfulness.
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"And they lifted up
their voice and said,
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'Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us!'
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' Mercy, this is grace.
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"So when he saw
them, He said to them,
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'Go, show
yourselves to the priests.'
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And so it was that as they went,
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they were cleansed."
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You see,
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they went and that
was an act of believing.
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People say, "Why do you ask
people to come down to front
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when you campaigned.
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Why do you do this?
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Because it helps
people to believe.
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It's the action
that they can do.
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It shows that they're
relying and they have faith.
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Now these lepers
who represent us.
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As the leper went
to Christ in faith,
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he was healed and immediately
he had 100 percent perfection.
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100 percent
perfection by God's mercy.
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How long did it take?
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As long as it took
to believe in Christ.
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Now you come to
this meeting today
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and you feel like a leper.
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You know you
are not good enough.
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None of us are good enough.
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But the good news is
that Christ is good enough.
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And you come to Him
and you truly believe.
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And as you truly believe,
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so you are healed
of the leprosy of sin.
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And there is another
name written down in glory.
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And it's mine as the
hymn says, Oh, yes, it's mine.
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God says, I no longer
look upon you as a person,
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who's going to hell,
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I look upon you just
like I look upon Jesus,
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and you are saved.
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That is the gospel and
that is the gospel we teach,
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and that is the
gospel we believe
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and that is the
gospel that saves our souls.
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