I don't understand.
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Why did this
have to happen to me?
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I feel like I just
can't make sense of things.
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I need answers.
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Where is God?
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Welcome to Raw
Questions Relevant Answers,
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a program where we
deal with heavy, real issues
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that plague our young people
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and giving
Christ-centered simple answers.
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So today's
program is on the topic
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of assurance of salvation
or the topic of salvation,
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and I've two
awesome co-hosts with me
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Michelle
Doucoumes, a college professor
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and Mark Paden, a
freelance film maker.
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And we're just
gonna start right away
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'cause we have a
lot we want to cover.
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So the first question
is, "Can we feel saved?
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Or do we just take it by faith?"
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This is from a 22-year
old male from Illinois.
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"Can we feel saved
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or do we just take it on faith?"
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What say ye?
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Yeah, I think the first thing
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and, I think,
some of the background
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that this is coming from is
just the understanding that,
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you know, sometimes
we won't feel saved.
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We feel like God isn't near.
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We feel in the dark,
and we feel sometimes that,
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it's just a concept
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that we don't
always feel God near.
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And does that
mean we are unsaved?
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Well, the
beauty of the scripture
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is that it teaches that we
walk by faith and not by sight.
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If we have given
our lives to God,
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if we have given up
the sin that we know
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and are doing what
we know to be right,
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then we are safe with God.
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But the question
goes deeper than that.
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Actually, can you read
the question one more time?
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Sure. It says,
"Can we feel saved?
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Or do we just take it on faith?"
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Like we have any feeling
of confirmation at some stage
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or what can we know
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or do we just have to believe
by faith that we're saved,
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we never fully know.
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Yeah, well, and I think
the beauty of this is that
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just because at times
we have to rely on faith
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that God has accepting
of us, we can also know
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that the smile of
heaven is upon us.
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There's those times
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when we draw close to
God in sweet communion
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and know that he is
looking down on us in love
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that we can have
the conscious knowledge
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that we are
obedient and saved in Him.
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And I don't think that,
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at least it hasn't
been in my experience
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that every single day,
I'm having to rely on faith
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that somehow God
has approving of me.
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Right.
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You know, one of
my favorite verses
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just regarding in
general salvation,
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how I know that,
what I feel about that
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is in 1 John 5:13.
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It says, "These
things I have written to you
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who believe in the
name of the Son of God,
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that you may know
that you have eternal life,
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and that you may continue
to believe in the Son of God."
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You know, that we may
know that we have eternal life.
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It doesn't say that I may
guess that I have eternal life,
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that I may have eternal life
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when I feel like
I have eternal life,
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that we may know.
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And an interesting thing to me
is how beliefs cause feelings,
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and it's really interesting.
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We can have feelings,
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but we don't know why
we feel a certain way.
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But those
feelings are really rooted
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in some kind of belief,
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and so the
question I would ask is
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do I truly
believe what God says.
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If I truly have accepted Jesus,
if I've given my life to Him,
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if I've asked Him to
be the Lord of my life,
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do I then take what this
says in scripture literally
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that says that I may
know that I have eternal life,
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and there is faith with it too.
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Hebrews 10:22,
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"Let us draw near
with a true heart,
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full of assurance of faith,
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having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience
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and our bodies
washed with pure water,"
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and then it says to,
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"Let our hope
be without wavering
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for he who
promised is faithful."
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So what I've seen is that
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it needs to start
with being really grounded
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and what God says
about my salvation,
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and you may find that
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that in turn kind of
changes the feelings,
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they start to go
with those beliefs.
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It says in James 2:16,
that Abraham believed God
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and it was accounted
to him as righteousness.
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And the context is Genesis 15
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when He's trusting
the seed of Abraham,
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the future seed to be indeed
the Messiah for the world.
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And I think
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there are some good
principles for us there
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that when he
believed what God said
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about his standing in heaven,
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he was viewed as
righteous, right?
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We're told in 1 John 1:9
that if we confess our sins,
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He is faithful, He's
not going to let us down,
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and He's just in doing
so to forgive us our sins
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and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
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I think there are some
good principles there for us
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as far as from scripture,
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that if we've
brought those sins to Jesus,
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if we've asked for forgiveness,
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if we trust Him
for our righteousness,
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we can know that we are viewed
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as righteous in heaven.
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It says in Ephesians chapter 1,
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the Holy Spirit acts as
a seal of our redemption
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when we say yes to Christ,
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not in this like once
saved, always saved sense,
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it's assuming we
walk in that decision,
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but the point is
when we say yes to Jesus,
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the Holy Spirit's testifying
that this is a child of God,
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this person has been
grafted into the branch
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as a child of heaven.
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Paul in Romans 8 says
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that we are
adopted into the family
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as a child of God.
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And so there's lots of
language used in scripture
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that gives us that
sense of affirmation
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that we can know.
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It says in 1 John in
two different instances
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that how do we
know that we know Him,
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by His Spirit
whom He has given us,
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evidence of the
Spirit working in our life,
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many verses that we could run to
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I think in that context.
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But I think there are
some good principles here
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that we can start with.
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Do you have something else
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or you want to go
to the next question?
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I just wanted to dern
this really quick too.
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I think one important thing
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that we would be
remiss without saying is,
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each of us have an
individual accountability to God
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in which we need to
be sure of our salvation.
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We don't...
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It's not safe for us
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to go one day
without the knowledge
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that we are safe in God,
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that we are doing His
will, that we are His children,
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that we haven't
sinfully departed from Christ.
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We shouldn't ever get in this
kind of false sense of security
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in which we're
just going through life
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doing our normal
thing and relaxing
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in the fact that
because we're Christians
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and have that one time
or even maybe a couple times
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profess to follow
God that then we're safe.
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Daily, we need to be
honest with ourselves
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and honest with God and
coming to Him and truly,
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truly repenting and
truly seeking Him daily
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and truly trusting
and resting in Him daily
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because without that experience,
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our Christian life will lack
the vitality that is needed.
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So there's never a day in
which we should not understand
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and recognize our need of Jesus.
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Right.
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There's never been
a day in my experience
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where I haven't needed
Jesus, and no matter how awesome
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my life may look to
the people around me
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or how much fruit there is,
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I'm still
desperately in need of Jesus
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because the
only good things I do
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came from Him anyway, right?
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Whether I feel saved that day
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or I feel really
horrible that day,
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I need Jesus the same amount.
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Absolutely.
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So our second
question kind of picks up
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on this idea to some degree
of some logical follow-ups
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to our experience
that we ask, right?
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Maybe we can know
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we had that assurance
initially, but then what about
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when something
like this happens?
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They say, this is from a
female who's 26 years old
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who says that, "Is
my repentance false
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if I later fall
under the same sin?"
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which I think we
all can relate to
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in some form or fashion
like, "If I came to Jesus
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and asked for
forgiveness and meant it,
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but then I fall later,
what does God do with that?
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How does He work with
that? And how does that look?"
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So what are some
thoughts you guys have on that?
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You know, a really
common text that encourages me
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is Proverbs 24:16.
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It says, "For a righteous man
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may fall seven
times and rise again,
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but the wicked
shall fall by calamity."
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You know, and the
big thing there is
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the righteous man may fall
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but what does he
do when he falls?
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He rises again.
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And that's what a
Christian life is.
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We keep getting up, we
keep going back to Jesus
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even when we mess up.
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And I know there's a lot of
kind of controversy about this,
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well, what if
though I got hit by a car
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right after I fell down
and I didn't get to get up yet,
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and so on and so forth.
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An illustration that kind
of helped me with that also
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is remembering
that our salvation
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is a relationship.
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It's a connection with God.
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It's analogized in scripture
to a marriage with Christ.
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And for those of
you who are married,
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just because you
mess up with your spouse
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or have a fight, does that mean
that you're suddenly divorced?
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No.
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But if you
continue that pattern,
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if we don't go back,
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if there's not
reconciliation in working to it,
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it's gonna lead to divorce,
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it's gonna lead to a
breaking of that relationship
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in the long run.
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So maybe something
is not just saying,
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"Did I fall? But am I
building that relationship?"
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What's the
trajectory of the heart?
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That's the question.
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"Like are my goals, ambitions
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and everything about what I want
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is that heaven word
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or do I have like this
dual citizenship," right?
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There's a big difference here.
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And I think
that's helpful. Go ahead.
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There's this other quote
that, it's from the book,
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Steps to Christ,
that I really love.
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"There are those who have known
the partnering love of Christ
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and who really desire
to be children of God,
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yet they realize that
their character is imperfect,
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their life faulty, and
they are ready to doubt
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whether their
hearts have been renewed
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by the Holy Spirit.
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To such, I would say,
'Do not drop back in despair.
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We shall often have to bow down
and weep at the feet of Jesus
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because of our
shortcomings and mistakes.
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But we are not
to be discouraged.
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Even if we are
overcome by the enemy,
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we are not cast off,
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not forsaken
and rejected of God.
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Know Christ is at
the right hand of God
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who also makes
intercession for us.'"
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And I think
that's just so beautiful.
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You know, we
often have to bow down
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and weep at the feet of Jesus.
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We get slammed by
those temptations.
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But the beautiful thing is that
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Christ doesn't
forsake us on that.
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He keeps pursuing.
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Does Jesus want these
sins to exist in our life? No.
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Does Jesus have a solution
to these sins in our life? Yes.
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John picks up on
this one in 1 John 2:1.
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He says, "My little children,
these things I write to you
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so that you may not sin."
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I don't want you to.
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"But if anyone sins,
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we have an
Advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous.
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And He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins,
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and not for ours only but
also for the whole world."
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And I love this because Jesus
is pursuing the whole world,
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not just
believers, first of all.
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But two, God
doesn't want us to sin.
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Sin is never a good
thing. It's never okay.
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But if we sin,
we have an advocate.
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And if we come to Jesus,
scripture is abundantly clear
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that if we come to
Him and confess our sins,
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He's faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
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and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness
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to offer us freedom and
healing and restoration.
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And I believe that
all of us are of the mind
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that this is not going to be
a permanent situation, right?
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If we're
earnestly walking with God
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and growing in grace,
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the spirit of Jesus
begins this transformative work
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that Mark alluded to
in a previous episode,
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in Ezekiel 36, where he says,
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"I'll cleanse you
from all your filthiness
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and from all your idols.
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Those things will begin
to leave your experience.
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I will remove the heart of stone
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from your flesh,
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I'll give you a heart of flesh,
your sincerity, your warmth,
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and your connection
with God will grow."
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But then he
says, "I'm going to put
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the Spirit of God within you,
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who will cause you
to walk in my statues
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and you will keep my
judgments and do them."
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He promises that through
the power of the Holy Spirit,
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He will enable
you to live a life now
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that you couldn't live before.
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And that happens by
trusting the process,
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by abiding in the vine,
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and by immersing
yourself in the truth of God,
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and asking Him to
transform your mind, right?
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We're told to, "Do not
be conformed to this world
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind."
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And it's in another place
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I think talking
about being washed
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with the water of regeneration,
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through the word.
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I believe that the
power of God is indeed that.
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The power of God to salvation,
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as Paul says in
Romans 1:16 and 17,
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that he wasn't
ashamed of the gospel
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because there's the
power of God to salvation
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for everyone who believes.
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Jew, Greek, doesn't matter,
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it is meant to be a
power that transforms,
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but we need to
believe what He says
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first and foremost.
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And when we do
that, He begins a process,
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it says in Philippians, right?
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"That he who
begins the work in you,
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will see it through."
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And so I think there's some
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precious
promises available to us.
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Any closing thoughts
you guys have on this topic?
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Nothing? Well.
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I'll read another text
here that encourages me.
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It's in 1 Corinthians 2:1.
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It says, "That
your faith should not be
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in the wisdom of men
but in the power of God."
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It's the power of
God for our salvation.
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The previous chapter talks
about the message of the cross
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as foolishness to
others, but to us,
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it's the power
of God to salvation.
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And that is the thing.
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The God who has
begun the work in us
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has the power to
finish it and complete it.
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Yeah Go ahead.
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I just want to
throw in here too, sorry.
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Yeah.
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We shouldn't get discouraged
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if we feel
incredibly sinful and hopeless.
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You know, we may have
had the worst history,
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we may have done all
the bad things in the book,
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God's grace is
more powerful than that.
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Amen.
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His blood is able to cleanse
and save to the uttermost
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all men that
come on to God by Him.
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So it doesn't matter
where somebody has been,
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they can be saved.
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Yeah, we're told in scripture
that the power of God is indeed
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that the power of God
to transform the life.
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He wants to do that for you.
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But will you believe Him today?
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Will you receive that
free gift of salvation
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and say yes,
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you have begun,
we'll see it through.
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