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It Is Written, 
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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 hqve 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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[Intro music]
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You'll see in a football game
 a kick is shot just missing,
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or in a baseball game,  a
player's swing for the fence
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is caught by an outfielder
 on the warm up track.
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Nearly, but not quite.
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Now, nothing too
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But what if it is
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The Apostle Paul appealed 
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Agrippa believed what
Paul  had been teaching
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about the Scriptures.
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And Acts 26:28 records 
some of the saddest words
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in the Bible.
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Agrippa said to Paul:
 You almost persuade me
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to become a Christian.
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Almost persuaded,
 but totally lost.
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If you are on the fence,  if
you are wondering, if you are
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trying to decide what to
do  with God, with the Bible,
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I pray you won't be
almost  persuaded, but totally
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persuaded to follow
Jesus  and accept eternal life.
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I'm John Bradshaw
 for It Is Written.
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Let's live today  by Every Word.
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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.
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I didn't know they
were the  synoptic Gospels.
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I couldn't even say "Zacariah".
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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
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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
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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?"
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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.
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But then I think, "Oh
no, my  mother!" We feared
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my mother more.
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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.
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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.
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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: Ron, a moment ago we
 talked about how a person
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comes to the place that
they  realize they're a sinner,
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then they realize that
Jesus  is a great Savior and
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so they believe.
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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
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heart sorrow for sin.
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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?
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Because you see, your life is
 going to be lived for God and
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if you hurt because you
hurt  God, then it's less apt to
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want to hurt God and so
it  puts you in a power of
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positive living and even 
your life if shown in your
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repentance.
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You turn in a new
direction  now and you are going
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to live for God.
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Jb: The Bible says God has 
called us out of darkness and
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into his marvelous life and
 that's nice to be reflected
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in our life.
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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
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we're no longer children of
 the dark we come to God and
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we're children of the light.
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Repentance you say heart 
sorrow for sin, recognizing
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that wrong is wrong and right
 is right and wanting that God
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lead us in that
direction,  sorry for our bads.
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RH: And that comes because
of  your belief in Christ.
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You couldn't have a sorry
for  sin unless the Savior came
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down in the Spirit and
 convicted you of that.
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You're coming to this
place  where God is filling you,
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your life, and
now you say  "Wow!
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I don't want to
hurt him  anymore.
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I mean, I love Him."
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And you turn around in a 
direction now, you're walking
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in the direction of God.
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JB: You were once a child
of  the dark and now you're a
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child of the light.
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RH: You are walking in the 
light and that's why he says
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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
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him with his Hand.
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Someone is watching and 
they're hard, hard, hard.
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Can they have that experience?
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They say I'm lost, 
Ron Halverson, I'm lost.
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And I don't care.
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RH: It doesn't matter how
hard  they are because the light
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of God melts the heart.
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Let them open themselves
to  the melting power of God
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and then he won't be so hard.
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They can't in the spirit
of  hardness but they can if
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the live the life of hardness 
because now they turned around.
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They are going
in a  new direction.
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JB: There's hope for anybody.
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RH: Oh there's
hope for  everybody.
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The Bible says that
God  so loved the world
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that he gave his Son.
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That's the broadness.
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God loves the world
of  mankind of womankind
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of childkind.
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He loves the world, my world,
 your world, the ghetto world.
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He loves the world.
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We can't even
fathom  that kind of love.
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JB: Briefly because there is
 something else I want to ask
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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
00:21:33.99\00:21:36.93
"Hey, I'm sorry."
00:21:36.93\00:21:38.23
I'm married 54 years.
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The reason I am is not 
because I am the best husband
00:21:39.46\00:21:42.26
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.
00:21:52.91\00:21:54.61
I'm sorry, God, I hurt you.
00:21:54.61\00:21:56.24
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.
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.15
I believe that I was a sinner.
00:22:04.15\00:22:05.22
Not hard to see,  I'm a sinner.
00:22:05.22\00:22:08.06
And so I believe.
00:22:08.06\00:22:09.19
I believe and Lord, I repent.
00:22:09.19\00:22:10.56
I turn away.
00:22:10.56\00:22:11.79
I've confessed my sins.
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I'm in this
attitude  of repentance.
00:22:13.09\00:22:18.10
So tonight, I'm getting ready
 to go to bed and the Devil
00:22:18.10\00:22:19.87
says ..."You know you
want  a shot of whiskey.
00:22:19.87\00:22:23.94
You know you want to
watch  the late movie.
00:22:23.94\00:22:28.44
You know 
whatever, whatever, and you
00:22:28.44\00:22:31.11
call yourself a Christian.
00:22:31.11\00:22:31.65
Who wants to go
through  life wondering?
00:22:31.65\00:22:33.25
Does God want us to wonder
or  does God want us to know we
00:22:33.25\00:22:34.78
have eternal life?
00:22:34.78\00:22:35.45
RH: I think John, the
Apostle  clarified it for me in
00:22:35.45\00:22:38.45
1 John 5.
00:22:38.45\00:22:41.12
He says this in verse 13: 
"These things have I written
00:22:41.12\00:22:47.93
unto you that believe - see,
 there it is - on the name of
00:22:47.93\00:22:49.63
the Son of God that ye
may  know that ye have eternal
00:22:49.63\00:22:52.27
life and that ye may believe
 on the name of the Son of
00:22:52.27\00:22:54.57
God." Know.
00:22:54.57\00:22:56.14
Some Christians get mad at
me  when I say that such a day
00:22:56.14\00:23:00.78
I gave my life to
Christ, 1953,  I got saved.
00:23:00.78\00:23:05.11
I gave my heart to
God  and listen to me,
00:23:05.11\00:23:08.45
I have that assurance.
00:23:08.45\00:23:10.09
That doesn't mean  I'm perfect.
00:23:10.09\00:23:12.32
Hey, if I'm perfect,  I
wouldn't need a perfect God.
00:23:12.32\00:23:14.42
JB: You wouldn't
need  Christ's perfection.
00:23:14.42\00:23:15.96
RH: That's right.
00:23:15.96\00:23:16.76
I wouldn't need his  perfection.
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.59
I'm not righteous.
00:23:18.59\00:23:20.06
If I was I wouldn't
need his  righteousness.
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.93
JB: The Bible says our 
righteousness is like filthy
00:23:22.93\00:23:24.53
rags.
00:23:24.53\00:23:25.47
RH: And so my assurance is
 the fact that he that begun
00:23:25.47\00:23:30.21
the good work will finish it.
00:23:30.21\00:23:31.01
But God didn't
call me  to darkness.
00:23:31.01\00:23:32.51
He called me to light.
00:23:32.51\00:23:33.21
God didn't call me to live 
and then to die without hope.
00:23:33.21\00:23:37.78
Everyday is full of hope.
00:23:37.78\00:23:38.81
I've been adopted
into the  family of God.
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.48
Hey, everytime my boy got
in  trouble, I didn't cast him
00:23:40.48\00:23:43.22
out of the family.
00:23:43.22\00:23:44.49
And yet there are some
people  who go through paranoia
00:23:44.49\00:23:46.49
through their life...
00:23:46.49\00:23:47.42
"Oh, I did that.
00:23:47.42\00:23:48.32
I gotta get back
..." No,  no, no.
00:23:48.32\00:23:52.33
Just get up where you
are  and get going again.
00:23:52.33\00:23:56.93
JB: And maintain that faith 
and trust and believe in God.
00:23:56.93\00:23:59.27
RH: That's the faith,
trust  and belief in God.
00:23:59.27\00:24:00.44
JB: Yeah.
00:24:00.44\00:24:01.14
So you're saying if someone
 came to the Lord, they've
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.24
accepted him, their life is 
turned around, they're living
00:24:03.24\00:24:07.24
their lives towards God now,
 in an attitude of repentance
00:24:07.24\00:24:09.14
and that person
should just  stop worrying
00:24:09.14\00:24:10.15
and keep believing.
00:24:10.15\00:24:10.75
RH: Here's what happens.
00:24:10.75\00:24:11.41
That doesn't mean you just
 surrender and you just sit
00:24:11.41\00:24:12.85
there.
00:24:12.85\00:24:13.55
That means "Hey, the Bible.
00:24:13.55\00:24:14.72
I want to know more about
 Jesus." So I begin to read
00:24:14.72\00:24:16.55
the Bible and I begin
to read  it more and more.
00:24:16.55\00:24:19.55
I begin to pray like
I never  prayed before.
00:24:19.55\00:24:21.96
I begin attend church.
00:24:21.96\00:24:26.63
I begin to do spiritual things.
00:24:26.63\00:24:27.43
Not because doing those
things  are going to get me to
00:24:27.43\00:24:28.80
heaven but because heaven
has  gotten me to these things.
00:24:28.80\00:24:31.47
And once that happens, that's
 the horse in the right place.
00:24:31.47\00:24:36.07
Before the cart.
00:24:36.07\00:24:37.84
Some people put the cart 
before the horse and we're
00:24:37.84\00:24:41.51
all sinners and didn't
the  Apostles say "the things
00:24:41.51\00:24:44.75
I want to do I don't and
the  things I don't want to do
00:24:44.75\00:24:46.48
I do.
00:24:46.48\00:24:47.45
Sin is ever constant"
What he  said is sin is always
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.12
in the track.
00:24:49.12\00:24:50.12
It's always
trying to disrupt  me.
00:24:50.12\00:24:52.29
I study the Word because it
 helps me to see Jesus more.
00:24:52.29\00:24:54.79
I want to see him better.
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.29
I want to have a clearer
view  of Him because the clearer
00:24:56.29\00:24:58.59
my view of Christ,  the
clearer view of mankind.
00:24:58.59\00:25:02.30
Because this is the
people  he died for.
00:25:02.30\00:25:04.80
How can I have a passion 
for the lost if I don't see
00:25:04.80\00:25:08.20
Christ who is the one who
 seeks and saves the lost?
00:25:08.20\00:25:12.51
And so by looking at Jesus,
 the Author and the Finisher
00:25:12.51\00:25:15.01
of my faith, not looking at 
everybody around me trying to
00:25:15.01\00:25:18.71
live up to them, trying
to  live up to those people,
00:25:18.71\00:25:21.52
their rules and their laws,
 hey, I know that all of you
00:25:21.52\00:25:25.02
are way ahead of me in 
your spiritual life and your
00:25:25.02\00:25:27.32
disciplined life.
00:25:27.32\00:25:28.62
I'm not a very disciplined
 person, except for reading
00:25:28.62\00:25:31.03
the Word and praying  I
mean that's kind of spiritual
00:25:31.03\00:25:33.23
disciipline but not these
 other little disciplines.
00:25:33.23\00:25:36.13
That's not what is
going to  get us into heaven.
00:25:36.13\00:25:38.33
My trust that Jesus Christ
 paid the price and when he
00:25:38.33\00:25:41.84
paid the price
he gave it to  me.
00:25:41.84\00:25:45.04
God so loved the world he 
gave his only begotten son.
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.24
JB: Powerful truth.
00:25:48.24\00:25:49.94
What did the Bible say?
00:25:49.94\00:25:52.05
"These things I've written 
unto you that believe on the
00:25:52.05\00:25:54.25
name of the son of God that 
you may know you have eternal
00:25:54.25\00:25:57.25
life and that you may believe
 on the name of the Son of
00:25:57.25\00:26:00.26
God." My prayer for you is
 that you will know through
00:26:00.26\00:26:03.86
having accepted Jesus
Christ  as your Lord and Savior,
00:26:03.86\00:26:06.26
no doubt, no fear, no worry.
00:26:06.26\00:26:08.26
My wish, my prayer is that
 you will know that you have
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.77
everlasting life.
00:26:11.77\00:26:12.70
Ron Halverson, thank
you  for joining me today.
00:26:12.70\00:26:15.07
RH: Thank you.
00:26:15.07\00:26:15.87
JB: It's been a blessing.
00:26:15.87\00:26:17.07
I've been encouraged.
00:26:17.07\00:26:17.67
Let's pray together.
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.27
Our Father and our God, 
thank you for the simple sights
00:26:19.27\00:26:21.61
of salvation.
00:26:21.61\00:26:22.71
Thank you that we can reach 
out in our lost condition and
00:26:22.71\00:26:26.98
take hold of the hand of
the  one who died to save us and
00:26:26.98\00:26:29.88
thank you that those of
us  who walk with you can say
00:26:29.88\00:26:32.19
"Lord we're keeping on.
00:26:32.19\00:26:33.19
We're continuing to trust.
00:26:33.19\00:26:34.59
We look to you." Lord, 
forgive us for our sins.
00:26:34.59\00:26:37.89
There are many people today
 that are saying I've got to
00:26:37.89\00:26:39.79
have this assurance, 
this certainty, this security.
00:26:39.79\00:26:42.70
We claim it now, Father.
00:26:42.70\00:26:43.90
We pray for it thankfully
 in Jesus' name, Amen.
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