It has stood the test of time.
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God's book, the Bible.
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Still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
sharing hope around the globe.
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Thanks for joining me
today on It is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Today, a very important
subject from the Bible.
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The Bible tells us that
Jesus came into this world
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to save us.
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You would think, therefore,
that anybody who encountered
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the Bible or knew Jesus
on any level at all, would
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understand that and would
be able to say "I am confident
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that I have in my hands, in
my heart, in my life the gift
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of everlasting life.
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RO6:23 - The wages of sin is,
death, but the gift of God is
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eternal life through
Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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I would think that if we
together took a journey into
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a ...oh let4s say ...a desert
where people were starving
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for food or dying of
thirst and we went together
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distributing bottles of water
or food packages, that people
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would say "There's life.
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I will take the water.
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There's the food I need, I
will grab it." If we came so
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that people could have life,
you'd expect that people would
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come to us and receive life.
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The Bible says the
gift of God is eternal life.
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If Jesus came to this
world with a gift to give out to
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anybody who wants it, why
is it that not more people have
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the gift or believe,
and/or know they have the gift?
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I have a special guest
with me today, Ron Halverson,
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author, speaker,
international preacher of the
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Word of God and
someone that God has .. to use
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a biblical phrase,
called out of darkness and into
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his marvelous light.
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God has spoken through Ron
Halverson many times to point
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many, thousands, literally,
thousands of men and women
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to a saving
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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JB: Ron Halverson,
thanks for joining me today.
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RH: Glad to be here.
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JB: I'm glad you're here.
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Salvation.
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Let's talk about how people can
receive the gift of salvation
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and how they can
know they have the gift of
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salvation, but
before we do that,
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tell me what salvation is.
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RH: Well, that's the
most important point.
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If you have a gift that's
wrapped, until you unwrap it,
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you don't know what it is.
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And the thing with salvation
is you gotta open your eyes
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to see who Jesus is.
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You have got to understand
who he is before you ever
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discover who you are.
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The Bible says in
Matthew when he introduces Jesus
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Christ before his birth,
his incarnation, before the seed
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becomes the child, he says
in the 21st verse, and she shall
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bring forth a son.
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They shall call his
name Jesus for he shall save
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his people from their sins.
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JB: So salvation, whatever
it is, has got to have something
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to do with being saved
from our sins, from sin.
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RH: Right.
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JB: The Bible says
the wages of sin is death.
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Back in the garden of
eden, two perfect people
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in a perfect world.
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Sin came and caused
separation between God.
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So this act of
salvation, what is that?
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Removing the separation so
we could be one with God again.
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RH: It's kind of
being in prison set free.
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That's salvation.
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Being in the storm in the
water alone and a helicopter
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comes down and lifts you out.
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Going into a surgery, almost
dead, and coming out alive
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and well.
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Well, in the spiritual
sense, that's the same thing,
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because the Bible talks
about two types of dying.
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He says, don't worry about
him that kills the body but
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kills the soul and body.
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And what he means is be more
concerned about your eternal
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destiny then your earthly
destiny and a person has to
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come to a place where they
need to feel that they have
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to be taken out or to escape
the prison house, what Paul
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calls the prison house of self.
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Salvation is the only
thing that can save us from sin.
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Nothing else can
save us from sin.
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JB: The person has
got to know that they need
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to be taken out.
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So a person has got to
realize that they are lost.
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RH: That's the first step.
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JB: Someone is doing a
little self-examination and they
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were to say to themselves:
"How can I know I'm lost."
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RH: First of all, a lot
of people don't think they're
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lost.
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But that's why a lot of
people are not receiving
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Jesus into their life.
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The first principle of
salvation is you've got to
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believe you have to
be saved from something.
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It may be your ego,
yourself, your depression, even
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emotional, but you have
to be saved from yourself.
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See, by nature, the
Bible says, we're all sinners.
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It runs through our veins.
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It is in our core.
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I mean, that's your
job description, John.
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I know I hate to say
that but you're a sinner.
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He is a Savior.
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Well what does that mean?
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Well he came to save the world.
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Why?
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Because the world needs saving.
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Now the world maybe at
the time didn't know it needed
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saving, but it needed saving.
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So Christ came
to save the world.
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Now the worlds needs
to recognize it needs
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to be saved.
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Once they recognize that,
once I recognize that I was a
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sinner, I needed to be saved,
that was the beginning of the
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process of God's
Holy Spirit in my life.
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JB: You know in Matthew
they come to Jesus and they say
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Lord, Lord, haven't we
prophesied in your name.
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We've done wonderful works.
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We cast out demons.
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Jesus said I never knew you.
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Depart from me.
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They thought they were
okay, but they weren't.
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RH: Yeah, it's not how
high you jump, it's how straight
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you walk.
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I mean, that's the gospel.
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The gospel said that
Jesus Christ should, when
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he touches you, change you.
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I mean, you're going in
one direction and then you turn
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in another direction,
that's what conversion means.
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Conversion means a change of
direction and repentance is a
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change of direction.
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You see, these are
theological terms but the
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reality is I'm going this
way, determined to go to the
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dead-end wall or to my
death, but he turns me around
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and heads me towards life
so that's what he is trying to
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teach us in salvation,
that I'm going in one direction
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and he comes
and touches my life.
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He saves me from
that direction first.
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He turns me in
another direction.
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Then he saves me from myself.
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The biggest problem is for
us to be saved from ourselves
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and Jesus is the
only who can do that.
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JB: Somebody says,
OK, I don't go to church.
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I don't read the Bible.
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I don't have faith in God.
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I've got all
this stuff in my life.
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Chances are I'm not
going in the right direction.
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I'm a lost person.
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I have no faith in Jesus Christ.
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I have not received the
gift and it shows in my life.
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OK.
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So that person
comes to that realization.
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How do we help that person
be the person God wants him to
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be and accept the gift
God wants him to receive.
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How can we help that person
to receive everlasting life?
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What does that person do?
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RH: First of all, that person
is in a very good position
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right now.
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JB: Good position?
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RH: Very good position.
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JB: How is that good?
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RH: Well it's good
because he realizes he is lost.
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Once you realize you
are lost, then you are in
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a good position.
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So once he gets to that
place, "Whew, I'm lost" then
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I say to him "Would
you like to be saved?
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Would you like to have
a new life?" "Well, yeah."
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I remember I was sharing faith
with a person at home and he
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said "I don't believe in
heaven." I said, "If you were
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to die tonight
would you go to heaven?
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Do you have that assurance?"
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And he said, "well I
don't believe in heaven." I said
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"What if there was a
beautiful place, you didn't
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have to pay rent.
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You ate the fruit.
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Everything.
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I mean, you'd live forever.
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Would you like to go to
a place like that?" He said
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"Sure.
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You'd have to be crazy."
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I said "that's right.
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Now let's get on with it."
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And then I showed him
how eternal life was the only
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sane thing that you could do.
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So a person has to come and
cry out "Lord, I'm a sinner."
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That's the first.
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Recognize you're a sinner
and that's hard for most people
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but to the person that
does, like this man, that's the
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beginning of his turns.
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Then you have to say "How".
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Well you have to first of
all now, secondly, you have to
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believe.
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Believe what?
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Okay, believe that
Jesus Christ can save you.
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JB: So that person believes,
now that person can do what?
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RH: Once the person believes,
the Bible tells us Ephesians
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2:8, 9, Acts 16.
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I think they need to hear
that and they said "Believe
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on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved
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and thy house."
Belief is the next step.
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He has to go from the
believing he is a sinner to
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believe that God is the
Savior and he has to come to
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that positive step to say
"He can save me because He's the
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Savior." The only reason
he can save me is because he's
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the Savior.
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JB: Is there someone who
can come to the place and
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believing "I'm a sinner
and I'm headed in the wrong
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direction."
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That's point number 1.
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I've got to do
something about this.
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Now I can believe
that the medicine on offer
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an make me well.
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RH: That's right.
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JB: Is that fair
enough to put it that way?
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RH: Right.
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And when I found out I
had colon cancer, I went right
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away to take care of it.
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Well, that's
the same thing here.
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You see, because all
have sinned and become short
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of the glory of
God, we're all sinners.
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JB: All of us.
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RH: So you have got to
now believe in Jesus Christ.
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What does belief do?
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You have to trust him.
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And trust is the hardest thing.
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That's the hardest part
of coming to this salvation.
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JB: How can a person have the
assurance of ever-lasting life?
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How can you have the assurance?
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How does it work and then how
can you know it's working for
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you so that you can rest
your head on your pillow saying
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"I'm okay.
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If I open my eyes
or not, I have Jesus."
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How can you know that?
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How can you have that assurance?
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We'll find out in just a moment.
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In Matthew 4:4 the Word of
God says "It is written 'Man
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shall not live by bread alone
but by every word that proceeds
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out of the mouth of God'."
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This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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My very special guest, Ron
Halverson, who for many years
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has helped people understand
the love of God and what it
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means and what it takes
to experience the love of God
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and the salvation
of God in their life.
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Today, we're talking about
salvation, what it is and how
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you can know that it is yours.
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How you can have
assurance through Jesus Christ.
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JB: Ron, just a moment ago
we were talking about, firstly,
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a person needs to realize
that he or she is a sinner.
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Then recognize that
Jesus is a great savior.
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RH: Savior.
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Believe.
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JB: And then, now, you talked
about belief and the challenge
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to that is trust.
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Why is trust such a hard thing?
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RH: Because we want to drive.
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We want to control the car.
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We want to control our destiny.
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To trust is this.
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If I had a chair overthere
and I am sitting on this
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chair and I say to you:
John, you think that chair would
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hold me?
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You'd say to me, Well, Ron,
you'd have to go over and try.
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So I go over and
sit on the chair.
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You see, most of our
life we trust ourselves.
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We sit on
ourselves, our good works.
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You know, most answers they
give me when I ask them, they
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say Oh, I don't kick the dog.
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I work hard.
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I pay my bills.
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That has nothing to do
with getting you into heaven.
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It's nice to do that because
you should, as a believer,
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but that doesn't
get you into heaven.
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Because he says here,
Ephesians: "For by grace are
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you saved through faith,
not of yourselves as a gift of
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God." Grace is
called unmerited favor.
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I don't deserve it.
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Once he recognizes he's a
sinner, second he recognizes
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Jesus is a Savior.
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He doens't deserve it.
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The gift is free.
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You see, the value of
any gift is in the love
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of the giver.
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Right?
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The value of the gift is
in the love of the giver.
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Once I can show that sinner
that the Savior is a loving,
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caring God, that he loves
him with such love that he gave
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his life for
him, that's the gift.
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And the gift is free.
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We always want to pay for it.
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If I say something to
you, How's your spiritual life
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going?
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OR me?
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You say to me, Ron
how's your spiritual life?
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I think well, I said my
prayers, I went to prayer
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meeting..
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No!
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How's your spiritual life?
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I'm putting my trust in Christ.
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I received the gift.
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That moment you receive
the gift of eternal life.
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Jesus gave you the gift.
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Enjoy it and that'st
he next step, the trust.
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Once I trust him, I repent.
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JB: I'm going to come
back to repentance in a moment.
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There's a lot of tension in
salvation, there shouldn't be
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but there's a little bit
of tension and understanding
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it right.
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You see, God has given us the
gift, let's enjoy it but that
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gift is not a license is it?
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That gift doesn't mean, well
hey, I can live how I please.
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John Wesley, years ago,
this is the struggle he had,
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because the prevailing
belief was, in many circles,
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I can do what I want it's okay.
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I've been saved and so
I can live how I please.
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Wesley came along and
said well....not quite right.
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You've received the gift
of salvation so there is going
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to work a change in your life.
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RH: I'm not doing
good things to please God.
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I'm doing good things
because God pleased me.
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JB; Yeah, right, right.
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The good things are not
the root of your salvation
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but the fruits.
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RH: That's right, the fruit.
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That's going to
be natural fruit.
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It's a natural fruit.
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It's natural for me now
to walk into a store and not
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want to steal.
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JB: Right.
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RH: You see,
that's the difference.
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But to say that God saved
me and now I have to do these
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good works so that I
will be saved, that's wrong.
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That's not the gospel.
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The gospel is I want to do it.
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I need to do it.
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I mean, I get my
greatest pleasure doing it.
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I get my greatest
pleasure out of purity.
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I get my greatest
pleasure out of honesty.
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JB: Which means, Ron,
salvation cannot just be
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a theory.
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If all was theology or a
theory, your heart is not
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involved and so you are never
going to want to live like a
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saved person out of love
for God if all it is is a theory
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so salvation has got to
involve more than our mind.
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It's got to
involve more than our mind.
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It must be our
heart and our life.
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Whole life, right?
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RH: Yeah.
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JB: Okay, okay.
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RH: You see, I've never met
a person who was converted that
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didn't want to serve God.
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I've never met a
converted person.
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I've met religious people but
never a converted person that
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didn't want to live for God.
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And that's why
Aquinas said "Love God.
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Do as you please for what you
do will please God." And what
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I do everyday is to please God.
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The good works that come
from me are the works of Christ.
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They are not my works.
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I mean, there is
no good in any of us.
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I mean, the
scripture makes it clear.
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Who is righteous?
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No, not one.
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JB: That's right.
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RH: I mean, all have
sinned and come short of
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the glory of God.
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That's not a good picture of us.
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JB: It is God who works
in you both to will and to do
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his good pleasure.
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RH: Yeah, that's right.
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Get acquainted
with Christ everyday.
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Read the Word.
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Love Christ.
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And what you do will please
God and so he comes to this
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place where he repents.
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He says I'm sorry to God.
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He turns in that
new direction and now he
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confesses that he is a sinner.
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I mean, here's the process.
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It's all happening.
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And I don't mean this
happens this day, next day.
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No, it happens
sometimes almost instantaneous.
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I mean, I get amazed
sometimes what we put people
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through to get them saved
when God in a few moments can
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save them.
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I can't explain this except
to say that moment, at that
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week of prayer, I
knew nothing about Matthew,
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Mark, Luke.
00:15:16.63\00:15:17.40
I didn't know they
were the synoptic Gospels.
00:15:17.40\00:15:19.10
I couldn't even say "Zacariah".
00:15:19.10\00:15:22.10
But that moment, God did
something in my life and from
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then on, I wanted to please
God, and that doesn't mean
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I have always pleased him.
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I'm never sorry I'm a Christian.
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I've been a sorry Christian
sometimes, but I'm never
00:15:30.93\00:15:32.80
sorry I'm a Christian.
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Why?
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Because I experienced
the gift of eternal life.
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First time I saw
grace, can I tell you?
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JB: Yeah, please.
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RH: I threw a rock through
a window at the public school
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and I ran.
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I was laughing.
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I was having a ball and I
ran right into the arms of the
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Irish cop in my
neighborhood, 60th Precinct.
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He lifted me up.
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My feet were still going and
he said, "Young man, you just
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threw a rock through
that window." So, right away
00:15:54.93\00:15:56.43
I lie.
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"No I didn't."
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"I saw you throw a
rock through that window.
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You're going down to the
precinct." He said "I'm gonna
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put you in jail." "Jail?"
00:16:04.66\00:16:07.20
And now my mind is going.
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My feet are still going.
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He's holding me
up off the ground.
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He is carrying me
toward the 60th Precinct.
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There's the big doors and
I'm thinking boy, my father will
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come down to get me.
00:16:17.40\00:16:20.10
But then I think, "Oh
no, my mother!" We feared
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my mother more.
00:16:23.10\00:16:24.80
And I said "I'll be in
black and white stripes."
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I had all these
things going across my mind.
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JB: Sure.
00:16:29.53\00:16:30.13
RH: He gets to the
door and he says this.
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He puts me down and he says:
"Young man, you won't do that
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again, will you?
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"No, officer." He said,
"alright, go and be a good
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boy." I ran as
fast as I could to home.
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Hey, that was grace.
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That didn't mean I
never threw a rock through
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the window again.
00:16:46.80\00:16:48.16
That was where
I first saw grace.
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I deserved to be
punished but the cop let me go.
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The law let me
go and I was free.
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WOW.
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That was the first time I
ran into grace and I run into it
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when I wake up in the morning.
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JB: A moment ago we started
talking about repentance.
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I cut you off to
talk about something else.
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RH: Right.
00:17:07.93\00:17:08.70
JB: We've come back to that.
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We need to talk about
repentance, what that is, how
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it works and how we can
have the assurance, how we can
00:17:11.26\00:17:13.86
know that we have the
gift of everlasting life.
00:17:13.86\00:17:17.20
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This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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Today, how can you know
that you have the gift of
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salvation?
00:18:06.96\00:18:07.93
How can you go from being
lost to knowing that you can
00:18:07.93\00:18:10.86
look forward to
eternity with God.
00:18:10.86\00:18:14.03
My special guest
today is Ron Halverson.
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JB: Ron, a moment ago we
talked about how a person
00:18:16.53\00:18:19.16
comes to the place that
they realize they're a sinner,
00:18:19.16\00:18:21.26
then they realize that
Jesus is a great Savior and
00:18:21.26\00:18:23.90
so they believe.
00:18:23.90\00:18:25.26
Then you said the
next thing is repentance.
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Tell me abou repentance,
what that is and how we
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lay hold of it.
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RH: Theologically, we
would say that repentance is the
00:18:32.03\00:18:34.76
heart sorrow for sin.
00:18:34.76\00:18:36.26
The heart feels
bad that it hurt God.
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Before that, it didn't
matter, but now it matters.
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Why is that important?
00:18:42.66\00:18:44.13
Because you see, your life
is going to be lived for God and
00:18:44.13\00:18:45.63
if you hurt because you
hurt God, then it's less apt to
00:18:45.63\00:18:50.86
want to hurt God and so
it puts you in a power of
00:18:50.86\00:18:55.86
positive living and even
your life if shown in your
00:18:55.86\00:19:00.16
repentance.
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You turn in a new
direction now and you are going
00:19:01.13\00:19:03.33
to live for God.
00:19:03.33\00:19:07.63
Jb: The Bible says God has
called us out of darkness and
00:19:07.63\00:19:09.00
into his marvelous life
and that's nice to be reflected
00:19:09.00\00:19:10.53
in our life.
00:19:10.53\00:19:11.20
I guess if we couldn't give
two hoots about the darkness
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then we'd still be living
like we're in the dark but
00:19:12.93\00:19:14.60
we're no longer children
of the dark we come to God and
00:19:14.60\00:19:16.46
we're children of the light.
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Repentance you say heart
sorrow for sin, recognizing
00:19:17.50\00:19:20.83
that wrong is wrong and right
is right and wanting that God
00:19:20.83\00:19:25.90
lead us in that
direction, sorry for our bads.
00:19:25.90\00:19:28.80
RH: And that comes because
of your belief in Christ.
00:19:28.80\00:19:31.03
You couldn't have a sorry
for sin unless the Savior came
00:19:31.03\00:19:34.53
down in the Spirit
and convicted you of that.
00:19:34.53\00:19:42.33
You're coming to this
place where God is filling you,
00:19:42.33\00:19:45.93
your life, and now you say "Wow!
00:19:45.93\00:19:47.63
I don't want to
hurt him anymore.
00:19:47.63\00:19:49.23
I mean, I love Him."
00:19:49.23\00:19:50.10
And you turn around in a
direction now, you're walking
00:19:50.10\00:19:51.30
in the direction of God.
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JB: You were once a child
of the dark and now you're a
00:19:51.80\00:19:53.43
child of the light.
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RH: You are walking in the
light and that's why he says
00:19:54.33\00:19:55.83
even when you stumble,
you're still in the light.
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So fall forward if
you're going to fall, John.
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And that's what he says.
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JB: Remember that verse in
the Psalms, Though he fall he
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shall not be utterly cast
down because the Lord upholds
00:20:03.40\00:20:05.93
him with his Hand.
00:20:05.93\00:20:07.03
Someone is watching and
they're hard, hard, hard.
00:20:07.03\00:20:09.83
Can they have that experience?
00:20:09.83\00:20:14.10
They say I'm lost,
Ron Halverson, I'm lost.
00:20:14.10\00:20:16.43
And I don't care.
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RH: It doesn't matter how
hard they are because the light
00:20:17.26\00:20:19.80
of God melts the heart.
00:20:19.80\00:20:21.63
Let them open themselves
to the melting power of God
00:20:21.63\00:20:25.20
and then he won't be so hard.
00:20:25.20\00:20:26.40
They can't in the spirit
of hardness but they can if
00:20:26.40\00:20:29.20
the live the life of hardness
because now they turned around.
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They are going
in a new direction.
00:20:34.20\00:20:35.60
JB: There's hope for anybody.
00:20:35.60\00:20:36.40
RH: Oh there's
hope for everybody.
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The Bible says that
God so loved the world
00:20:37.93\00:20:40.63
that he gave his Son.
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That's the broadness.
00:20:41.96\00:20:42.93
God loves the world
of mankind of womankind
00:20:42.93\00:20:45.13
of childkind.
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He loves the world, my world,
your world, the ghetto world.
00:20:46.16\00:20:49.93
He loves the world.
00:20:49.93\00:20:53.03
We can't even
fathom that kind of love.
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JB: Briefly because there
is something else I want to ask
00:20:57.43\00:20:59.43
you about in the few
moments we have left.
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Where does
confession come into this?
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RH: I think confession comes
soon after belief, somewhere
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in the repentance area.
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JB: It's important.
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RH: It's very important.
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JB: I'm not that
interested in making sure you're
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this step right,
your'e that step right.
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But confession is important.
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RH: Confession is important.
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JB: Why is it important?
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God knew what we did wrong.
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RH: Because it is important
to me more than it is to God.
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JB: Yeah.
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RH: Because God has
already accepted it.
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Because it says "Hey,
I'm serious about this thing.
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I am sorry that I hurt you."
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You know, even in a
relationship, a marriage
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relationship, it can't last
unless you're willing to say
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"Hey, I'm sorry."
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I'm married 54 years.
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The reason I am is not
because I am the best husband
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in the world, not because
she's the best wife in the
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world but I know
to say I"m sorry.
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I know to say I'm sorry
even when I didn't do it wrong.
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But hey, we're happy.
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What I'm saying is my sorrow.
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I'm sorry, God, I hurt you.
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And that is
bringing it all together.
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JB: So someone comes
to the Lord and they say
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"I've been lost.
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I believe that I was a sinner.
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Not hard to see, I'm a sinner.
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And so I believe.
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I believe and Lord, I repent.
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I turn away.
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I've confessed my sins.
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I'm in this
attitude of repentance.
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So tonight, I'm getting
ready to go to bed and the Devil
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says ..."You know you
want a shot of whiskey.
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You know you want to
watch the late movie.
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You know
whatever, whatever, and you
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call yourself a Christian.
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Who wants to go
through life wondering?
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Does God want us to wonder
or does God want us to know we
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have eternal life?
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RH: I think John, the
Apostle clarified it for me in
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1 John 5.
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He says this in verse 13:
"These things have I written
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unto you that believe - see,
there it is - on the name of
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the Son of God that ye
may know that ye have eternal
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.60
life and that ye may believe
on the name of the Son of
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God." Know.
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Some Christians get mad at
me when I say that such a day
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I gave my life to
Christ, 1953, I got saved.
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I gave my heart to
God and listen to me,
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I have that assurance.
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That doesn't mean I'm perfect.
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Hey, if I'm perfect, I
wouldn't need a perfect God.
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JB: You wouldn't
need Christ's perfection.
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RH: That's right.
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I wouldn't need his perfection.
00:23:11.13\00:23:12.96
I'm not righteous.
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If I was I wouldn't
need his righteousness.
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JB: The Bible says our
righteousness is like filthy
00:23:17.30\00:23:18.90
rags.
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RH: And so my assurance is
the fact that he that begun
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the good work will finish it.
00:23:24.56\00:23:25.36
But God didn't
call me to darkness.
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He called me to light.
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God didn't call me to live
and then to die without hope.
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Everyday is full of hope.
00:23:32.13\00:23:33.16
I've been adopted
into the family of God.
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Hey, everytime my boy got
in trouble, I didn't cast him
00:23:34.83\00:23:37.56
out of the family.
00:23:37.56\00:23:38.83
And yet there are some
people who go through paranoia
00:23:38.83\00:23:40.83
through their life...
00:23:40.83\00:23:41.76
"Oh, I did that.
00:23:41.76\00:23:42.66
I gotta get
back ..." No, no, no.
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Just get up where you
are and get going again.
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JB: And maintain that faith
and trust and believe in God.
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RH: That's the faith,
trust and belief in God.
00:23:53.60\00:23:54.76
JB: Yeah.
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So you're saying if someone
came to the Lord, they've
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accepted him, their life is
turned around, they're living
00:23:57.56\00:24:01.63
their lives towards God now,
in an attitude of repentance
00:24:01.63\00:24:03.53
and that person
should just stop worrying
00:24:03.53\00:24:04.53
and keep believing.
00:24:04.53\00:24:05.13
RH: Here's what happens.
00:24:05.13\00:24:05.80
That doesn't mean you
just surrender and you just sit
00:24:05.80\00:24:07.23
there.
00:24:07.23\00:24:07.93
That means "Hey, the Bible.
00:24:07.93\00:24:09.10
I want to know more about
Jesus." So I begin to read
00:24:09.10\00:24:10.93
the Bible and I begin
to read it more and more.
00:24:10.93\00:24:13.93
I begin to pray like
I never prayed before.
00:24:13.93\00:24:16.33
I begin attend church.
00:24:16.33\00:24:21.00
I begin to do spiritual things.
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Not because doing those
things are going to get me to
00:24:21.80\00:24:23.16
heaven but because heaven
has gotten me to these things.
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.83
And once that happens, that's
the horse in the right place.
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Before the cart.
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Some people put the cart
before the horse and we're
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all sinners and didn't
the Apostles say "the things
00:24:35.86\00:24:39.10
I want to do I don't and
the things I don't want to do
00:24:39.10\00:24:40.83
I do.
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Sin is ever constant"
What he said is sin is always
00:24:41.80\00:24:43.46
in the track.
00:24:43.46\00:24:44.46
It's always
trying to disrupt me.
00:24:44.46\00:24:46.63
I study the Word because
it helps me to see Jesus more.
00:24:46.63\00:24:49.13
I want to see him better.
00:24:49.13\00:24:50.63
I want to have a clearer
view of Him because the clearer
00:24:50.63\00:24:52.93
my view of Christ, the
clearer view of mankind.
00:24:52.93\00:24:56.63
Because this is
the people he died for.
00:24:56.63\00:24:59.13
How can I have a passion
for the lost if I don't see
00:24:59.13\00:25:02.60
Christ who is the one
who seeks and saves the lost?
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And so by looking at Jesus,
the Author and the Finisher
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.40
of my faith, not looking at
everybody around me trying to
00:25:09.40\00:25:13.10
live up to them, trying
to live up to those people,
00:25:13.10\00:25:15.90
their rules and their laws,
hey, I know that all of you
00:25:15.90\00:25:19.40
are way ahead of me in
your spiritual life and your
00:25:19.40\00:25:21.70
disciplined life.
00:25:21.70\00:25:23.00
I'm not a very disciplined
person, except for reading
00:25:23.00\00:25:25.40
the Word and praying I
mean that's kind of spiritual
00:25:25.40\00:25:27.60
disciipline but not
these other little disciplines.
00:25:27.60\00:25:30.50
That's not what is
going to get us into heaven.
00:25:30.50\00:25:32.70
My trust that Jesus Christ
paid the price and when he
00:25:32.70\00:25:36.20
paid the price he gave it to me.
00:25:36.20\00:25:39.40
God so loved the world he
gave his only begotten son.
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JB: Powerful truth.
00:25:42.60\00:25:44.30
What did the Bible say?
00:25:44.30\00:25:46.40
"These things I've written
unto you that believe on the
00:25:46.40\00:25:48.60
name of the son of God that
you may know you have eternal
00:25:48.60\00:25:51.60
life and that you may believe
on the name of the Son of
00:25:51.60\00:25:54.60
God." My prayer for you
is that you will know through
00:25:54.60\00:25:58.20
having accepted Jesus
Christ as your Lord and Savior,
00:25:58.20\00:26:00.66
no doubt, no fear, no worry.
00:26:00.66\00:26:02.66
My wish, my prayer is that
you will know that you have
00:26:02.66\00:26:06.16
everlasting life.
00:26:06.16\00:26:07.10
Ron Halverson, thank
you for joining me today.
00:26:07.10\00:26:09.46
RH: Thank you.
00:26:09.46\00:26:10.26
JB: It's been a blessing.
00:26:10.26\00:26:11.46
I've been encouraged.
00:26:11.46\00:26:12.06
Let's pray together.
00:26:12.06\00:26:13.66
Our Father and our God,
thank you for the simple sights
00:26:13.66\00:26:16.00
of salvation.
00:26:16.00\00:26:17.10
Thank you that we can reach
out in our lost condition and
00:26:17.10\00:26:21.36
take hold of the hand of
the one who died to save us and
00:26:21.36\00:26:24.26
thank you that those of
us who walk with you can say
00:26:24.26\00:26:26.56
"Lord we're keeping on.
00:26:26.56\00:26:27.56
We're continuing to trust.
00:26:27.56\00:26:28.96
We look to you." Lord,
forgive us for our sins.
00:26:28.96\00:26:32.26
There are many people today
that are saying I've got to
00:26:32.26\00:26:34.16
have this assurance,
this certainty, this security.
00:26:34.16\00:26:37.06
We claim it now, Father.
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We pray for it
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