I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
to family worship.
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As you can see I
have my co-pilot with me
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right on my left.
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Good to have you here, honey.
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Oh, I'm so happy to be here,
and happy Sabbath to all of you
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that are joining us.
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That's right. That's right.
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I tell you, when we get a
chance to do family worship,
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as we've traveled,
we've heard the good news
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that praise God
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that this program has
been able to fill the hearts
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and lives of those that tune in
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and it fills our
hearts and lives too.
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And we have a wonderful panel...
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Oh, I'm excited about our panel.
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..a family here today.
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Yes. So?
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I'm excited about
today's family worship.
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And we have some
special guest too.
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Yes, we do.
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That people have been tuning in
probably haven't known recently
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as a part of our
family worship team.
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So let's go ahead and
we're gonna introduce them,
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then we're gonna have prayer,
we're gonna sing some songs,
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and we're gonna
dive into a topic,
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"The Assurance of Salvation".
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What a gift? Yes.
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And why are so
many unsure about it?
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So to make the
best use of our time,
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let's go ahead and
introduce our guests.
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I'll start to my far right.
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A young man that I believe
is a man on fire for the Lord.
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Good to have you here, Dee.
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Good to be here.
I appreciate that.
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Yes.
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You're part of...?
UnScene Media Group.
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And you're
becoming more and more seen
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as the day go on.
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Yeah, despite my best efforts,
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it seems to be
happening more and more.
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Yeah. Good to have you here.
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To my right, the one and only.
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Good to have you
here, Mollie. Thank you.
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It's always good
to be here and, Dee,
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I know you're part
of UnScene Media Group,
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but we are claiming you also.
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We want him to be
part of 3ABN more and more.
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That's right, that's right.
What a young man for the Lord.
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Mollie, I tell you,
I'm so glad, I tell you,
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we have to hold
on to our seats today
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because this is not
going to be a program
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that's going to be a
tiptoe through the tulip.
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This is gonna be a walk
with the joy of the Lord
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and His blessed
message of salvation.
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And my wife, Angela,
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I know somebody out
there might not know us.
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Oh.
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Somebody might have just
tuned in for the first time
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so we can't take for granted.
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I'm John
Lomacang, the pastor at 3ABN
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and the host of the
number of programs and...
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And you're pastor of
the Thompsonville Church.
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That's right.
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And I'm Angela Lomacang,
and I work for 3ABN Radio,
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and I'm very happy to be here
with you tonight and pray that,
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I know that this is gonna
be a blessing to all of you
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and I just praise
God for being here,
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for the gift of salvation.
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That's right and, honey...
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And to my left,
Dr. Magna Porterfield,
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and she's a
doctor of Psychology.
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Let her introduce herself?
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Go ahead, Magna. Yes.
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I'm so glad to be here
with Lomacangs, and Mollie,
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and just meeting Dee
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and my dear
husband Ron Porterfield.
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And it's a blessing to be here
with this the group, the family
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and it's a privilege to be here
with my dear beautiful wife...
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Yes.
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..to discuss
this wonderful topic.
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You know, I
think, as we mentioned,
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we want to take every,
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we want to
squeeze this grapefruit
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with everything it has.
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So, honey, why don't
you begin with prayer
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before we go into our music?
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Sure. Let's bow our heads.
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Our kind Father in heaven,
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what a privilege and
honor it is to bow before You,
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this blessed Sabbath evening.
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Thank You, Lord, for
the gift of salvation,
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thank you for Jesus.
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Where would we be, if
it were not for Jesus?
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Lord, I pray that
Your Spirit will come now
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and anoint our voices,
our hearts, everything.
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We give our
praise to You right now.
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I pray, Lord, that
those that are watching this
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they will be blessed.
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Those that are seeking salvation
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that don't know you,
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will reach out to You
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and, Lord, You are not
willing that any should perish.
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And we just thank You.
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So we ask that You'll bless,
lead and guide in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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And the other thing that I like
about this program is music.
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We have the one
and only good friend,
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also part of 3ABN family,
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Tim Parton is going
to play for us today.
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Good to have
you here, Tim. Amen.
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And we're gonna sing two songs
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that really
encapsulate the whole theme
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of this program.
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First, "Blessed Assurance",
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which is the
title of our sermon,
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"The assurance of salvation,"
and then, "Jesus Saves".
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So join us, we're
gonna sing the first
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and third stanzas
of each of these songs,
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but we begin with,
"Blessed Assurance".
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Blessed assurance
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Jesus is mine!
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O, what a foretaste
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Of glory divine!
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Heir of salvation
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Purchase of God
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Born of His Spirit
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Washed in His blood
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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Perfect submission
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All is at rest
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I in my Savior
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Am happy and blest
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Watching and waiting
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Looking above
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Filled with His goodness
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Lost in His love
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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Amen. Amen.
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This is family worship.
We're gonna have church.
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Praise God for that.
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And what better song to continue
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as we go into our topic,
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we have heard the joyful
sound, what is that sound?
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"Jesus Saves". "Jesus Saves".
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First and third stanzas.
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We have heard a joyful sound
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Spread the gladness all around
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Bear the news to every land
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Climb the steeps
and cross the waves
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Onward, 'tis our Lord's command
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Sing above the battle's strife.
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Sing above the battle's strife
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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By His death and endless life
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves
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Sing it softly through the gloom
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When the heart for mercy craves
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Sing in triumph o'er the tomb
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What's the message?
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
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You want to give the wend?
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Amen.
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Wow, thank you, Tim. Yes.
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Can I have an amen?
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Amen. Amen.
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We have to really,
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this topic has been
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and I know on the hearts of
all of us has been a weight,
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and what I mean by that
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it's not a weight
of fear of my life.
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But I heard so many brothers
and sisters in our church
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and I'm sure, this may
permeate other denominations
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have wondered
whether or not I'm savable,
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whether or not I'm saved,
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whether or not I'm fully saved,
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how have I been
saved, if I have been saved.
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And so today, we
want to talk about
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the greatest gift, Mollie,
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that has ever been given
is the gift of salvation.
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Yes.
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But why are so many uncertain,
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Dee, about this
gift of salvation
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Why are so many
Christians unsure,
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Dr. Magna and Ron,
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about whether or not
they even have salvation?
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So what we want to do is
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we are gonna address
some of the questions,
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what is salvation?
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How is salvation obtained?
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Why is salvation necessary?
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How is it maintained
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and can we have the
assurance of salvation?
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And I'd like to begin by saying,
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the only way that
you could not have
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the assurance of salvation is
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if your devil is
bigger than your God.
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Wow.
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And I'll begin by
saying, "He ain't". Come on.
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Amen. Amen.
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He's not bigger
than our God. No.
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You know, I was
thinking recently,
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our hearts want
to make the statement
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that Satan can't stop God
from answering your prayers.
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What he can do is
discourage you from praying
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hence you have, you know,
God has no prayers to answer.
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I want to kind of
modify that a bit.
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Satan can't stop
you from being saved,
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what he can do is discourage you
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from accepting that salvation
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or accepting the
assurance of your salvation.
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Recognize the root of where
this discouragement comes from
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or dislike of
assurance comes from,
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certainly not from God.
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No. That's right.
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Mollie, I think
it would be fitting,
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you just made that point,
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why don't we begin
this first question,
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what is salvation?
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And I think it'd be
good, we want to just,
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we want to really
squeeze this orange today
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because one of the things
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that we know on
this program is time
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doesn't wait for anybody.
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So let's begin
with the basic question,
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what is salvation.
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Go with us to Matthew 1:21.
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What is salvation?
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This announcement was the
most pleasing announcement
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to fall on humanity,
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the most fearful
announcement to the enemy.
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When this announcement
was made, Satan said,
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"What am I going
to get myself into?"
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When this announcement was made.
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Matthew 1:21. Okay.
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Mollie's on her way
there. Aye, I'm on my way there.
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It's in our syllabus
but it's also in the Bible.
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Praise God for that.
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Matthew 1:21,
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"And she will bring forth a Son,
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and you shall
call His name Jesus,
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for He will save His
people from their sins."
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He might?
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He will. He might?
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Will. He will.
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Let's begin with
these, let's add some essence
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and some
electricity to these words.
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He will.
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You know, you heard in
one of the former elections,
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"Yes, we can."
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Well, let me just
add "Yes, he can."
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Amen.
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He will, not he might,
not he might attempt to.
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But what's the phrase? He...?
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He will. He will.
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But I want to get this,
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He will save His
people from their sins,
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but salvation is
deeper than that.
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Dee, I want to throw this to you
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because salvation is deeper
than just the things we do.
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Read the next text and
let's just explore that.
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John 1:29.
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Salvation is bigger
than just the things we do,
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oftentimes people are
meant over the things they do,
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Jesus didn't come
just to forgive you
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of the things you do.
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But look what He came to do.
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John 1:29 says this.
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"The next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him, and said,
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'Behold, the Lamb of God
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who takes away the
sin of the world."'
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What is the sin of the
world? Let's talk about that.
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I'll open this to anybody.
What is the sin of the world?
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The sin of the world?
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Placing anything above God,
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I think it would
be one of the things.
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Okay. That. What
else? Anyone over here?
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The sin of the world?
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Well, it's been separated
from God for disobedience.
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Well, actually,
was it 1 John 3:14
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sin is the
transgression of the law.
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Okay.
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So it's transgressing God's law.
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Okay.
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It's rejection of the
person of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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rejecting God was
the sin of the world.
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You wonderfully said,
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rejecting God
brought in a condition.
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Just quickly, 1
Corinthians 15:22,
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"As in Adam all die."
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See when that death came
in, Romans 5:12, through Adam,
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death spread to all
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by one man sin
entered the world,
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and death through sin
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and thus death
spread to all men.
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So this sin, this
sin wall was built
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and Jesus came to take it away.
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Amen.
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Yeah, I know this text is
actually related in the handout
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but it's relevant
now in Isaiah 59:1-2
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that says that your
sins are separated you
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from your God.
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And John 1 says that
God is our source of life.
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It's the inevitable result
of our sin is being separated
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from our source of life
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and this is why death is
the inevitable result for us
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as a race,
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and then why
we're in such trouble.
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So this broken
relationship we had,
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this wall that
separated us from God
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and Paul after realizing that
salvation has been introduced,
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he says, "What can separate
us from the love of God.
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You see when the
wall is brought down,
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when the separation between
man and God is no longer there
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breaking down the
middle wall of partition
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as Jesus did at
this crucifixion,
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breaking it down.
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When it's no longer there,
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nothing can separate us from it.
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Mollie, I know
you're a firebrand,
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what do you say about that?
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Nothing can separate
us from the love of God.
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Nothing can.
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Okay.
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But we can allow it.
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We can allow it. Okay.
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Great. Yes.
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And that I think is
where we have to understand
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what the word says
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and allow God by the
power of His spirit to fill us
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with His Holy
Spirit, with His presence,
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so that we can stand up
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against those
fiery darts of the enemy,
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they come to
discourage and dissuade us
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from that relationship with God.
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That's right.
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Honey, why don't you take
us through the second question
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we have here?
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Because this topic
on salvation we had a...
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I had a Bible study
on just the topic of sin.
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It was amazing.
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And what we discovered is
sin is first an enslaving power.
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Yeah.
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And then sin is a
controlling power.
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When Paul said, it's
no longer I who doeth
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but sin that delves in
me, it's an enslaving power.
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First it takes you into its grip
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and then it does
through you things
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that you would never imagine.
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That's what sin does.
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But let's look at this,
how is salvation obtained.
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It says in John 3:17,
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"For God did not send
His Son into the world
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to condemn the world,
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but that the world
through Him might be saved."
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Okay. So let's talk about that.
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Can you put on that the world
through Jesus might be saved,
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how is salvation obtained?
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Through...
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Through Jesus. Through Jesus.
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Through Jesus
only. Through Jesus.
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There's so many who
don't believe in Jesus.
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There's so many who look
for other means of being saved,
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maybe not for heaven,
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just being saved
from this world of trial
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and difficulty
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but the only sure
route is through Jesus.
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That's right.
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And understanding
that helps us to understand
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that there are many other
paths that Satan presents,
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but there's only one true path.
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That's right. Well, well.
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Anything, Dr. Ron?
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And Hebrews lets us know that
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without the shedding of
blood is no remission of sins.
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Okay.
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So without that blood of
Jesus then our sin remains.
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So we need Jesus
to remove the sins
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or we have to look at Jesus
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in order to have
that blood applied.
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Okay.
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Because the work is
there, the sacrifices were made,
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that provision has been
made for it, but if I don't,
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if I don't partake of
it, then my sins remain.
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Yeah. Go ahead, Mollie.
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How is salvation obtained?
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And we've said truly
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it's through the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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through that blood that He shed.
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But first of all, we
need Pastor Lomacang,
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the preachers, the evangelists,
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the teachers of this
world to stand up and proclaim
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because it's the presentation
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of the message of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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that will go into the
heart and convict the heart
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because without a preacher,
who's gonna hear the message.
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So you have to come
first, Pastor Lomacang and Dee,
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and everyone that proclaims
the word of the living God
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because we are
saying it's through Jesus.
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But until that
message is preached,
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and it goes into the heart,
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then the heart
can't be convicted in.
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I recall, when I was
working in an office,
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when the boss would be gone,
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this one of the
co-workers would stand up
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and he wanted to be a preacher
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and he would
preach to his secretaries,
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but, you know, he proclaimed
the word of the living God
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and what we were thinking
was why don't he go away,
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we've got work,
we've got work to do.
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But the power of that word
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that he would preach
went into our hearts,
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and I know that was
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the beginning
of that fire in me.
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Because then, like
that he got me from
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maybe home plate to first base,
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then I went to church
and the preacher got me
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from first...
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you know, it was a process,
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but you have to hear
the word of God first
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before you can
accept the Lord Jesus Christ
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and have confidence in
that blood that He shed.
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We had to have an
encounter with the living God,
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the gospel to see our
need to then make the decision
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to accept that need
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to appropriate the
merits of Christ's blood
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to our own particular account.
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I think,
something that's important,
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we asked, you know,
the people wrestling
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with the assurance of salvation,
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at the same time,
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that Christ just
pursuing His people to woo them
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and draw them to Himself,
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He says in
Revelation 12 that the enemy,
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that the devil is the
accuser of the brethren.
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That's right.
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And this is why
Jesus in contrast says,
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I didn't come to
condemn. That's right.
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But that all might be saved.
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And so I think that
it's a helpful balance here
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that those voices
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that people are
hearing of condemnation
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in their experience
are not coming from Jesus.
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That's right.
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It's from the
accuser of the brethren.
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It happens in Zechariah 3,
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he's accusing
Joshua the high priest,
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it happens in Jude 9,
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he's standing before the Lord
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and before Michael
the archangel saying,
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"You can't take
Moses, he's mine."
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That's right.
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And his job is to harangue,
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and to harass,
and to discourage,
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and I'll phrase it this way,
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if the devil can't deceive
you, he'll discourage you.
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And this is why
many believers still feel
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that they can't be saved
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and maybe won't be in that sense
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if they don't accept
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the fullness of
the Gospel of Christ
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that they choose to
believe the lies of the enemy
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instead of the promises of God.
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This is why we're
getting in this situation.
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And what you're saying is
it depends on where we look.
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You know, if we're
looking at ourselves
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as you've heard
the statement before,
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people said, if
I look at myself,
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there's no way I could be saved.
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But if I look at Jesus,
there's no way I could be lost.
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And that's why Jesus
says, looking unto me...
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Yes.
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..the author and
finisher, I think Isaiah 45:22,
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"Look to Me, and be saved,
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For I am God, and
there is no other."
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And so there's a text
that I didn't include this
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but in Romans 9:14
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because we talked about
salvation is in Christ alone,
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but look at this text.
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Paul has this
cadence in his writings
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"What shall we say then?"
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You know, "Shall we continue
in sin that grace may abound."
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And so he brings up
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one of those
here in Romans 9:14.
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Read that for me, honey?
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"What shall we say then?
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Is there
unrighteousness with God?"
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And the answer? "Certainly not!"
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Okay. No, there isn't.
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So when you have God, is there
any unrighteousness with Him?
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No, no, no.
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So one of the reasons why
Jesus didn't come to condemn is
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because we are
already condemned.
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Exactly. Yes, we are.
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Ain't that right? Yes.
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Let's talk to that.
We're already condemned.
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So He's not coming
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and so many of
us have been raised,
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unfortunately there
was an age of our church,
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there was an age
of very legalistic age
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that our church went through,
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and I think in some
cases maybe other Christians
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have experienced the same thing.
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You heard the phrase
"Fire and brimstone", sermons?
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Those "Fire and
brimstone", sermons,
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will not necessarily
tell us about the love of God
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but the fires that held
us way and to destroy us.
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If we don't act
right and live right,
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and straighten up and fly right,
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and we're going to
church and we get beat up
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and we come home,
we'll feel cut up,
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we don't feel lifted
up, we don't feel delivered.
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You know, that
was Romans 2:4. Okay.
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This scripture is one
that spoke to my heart
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because I was raised, you know,
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that's my frame of
reference, that background.
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Fire and
brimstone? Fire and brimstone.
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Hold that over,
held like a hotdog
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and say burn, baby, no,
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I'm not supposed to
say things like that.
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Okay, but Romans 2:4,
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"Or do you despise the riches
of His goodness, forbearance,
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and longsuffering not knowing
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that the goodness of God
leads you to repentance?"
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Not hellfire and brimstone.
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I was just at the
gym couple of months ago
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and the girl at the front desk,
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I just asked her,
what are you reading?
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And or, you know, what's that?
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She said it's my
homework assignment.
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And I said what is it?
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And she said, "Sinners in
the Hand of an Angry God."
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The sermon by Jonathan Edwards,
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this is in her literature
class at a public school.
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And I'm just thinking
like, this is the picture
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that's being given to
kids in a secular school,
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that this is what God is
like, he takes delight, right,
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in the consummation, the
destruction of the wicked,
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but God says, "I don't have
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any pleasure in the
death of the wicked.
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But the wicked turn from
the ways and they repent.
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And it's just
frustrating to see that picture
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painted to people but
this is why Jesus says,
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if anyone who've seen
Me has seen the Father.
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That's right. And how
did Jesus treat people?
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How did Jesus deal with people
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in their situation of
brokenness, of being lost,
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and having needs?
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That's the way the
Father deals with us,
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that's why He sent His Son
because He wants to save us,
00:23:24.57\00:23:26.57
not rejoicing over
our lost condition.
00:23:26.60\00:23:28.67
I think that some
people's picture in wrestling
00:23:28.70\00:23:30.97
with the assurance
of salvation has to do
00:23:31.01\00:23:33.27
with the corrupt
picture of God, the Father.
00:23:33.31\00:23:34.98
That's right.
00:23:35.01\00:23:36.34
A very darkened picture of God,
00:23:36.38\00:23:37.71
the Father that is
kind of disappointed parent
00:23:37.75\00:23:39.85
with the finger
over the red button.
00:23:39.88\00:23:42.02
And so we assume that
00:23:42.05\00:23:43.39
we'll never be
good enough for Him,
00:23:43.42\00:23:44.75
because He's
always disappointed in us.
00:23:44.79\00:23:46.65
But why would He send Jesus
if that's the type of person
00:23:46.69\00:23:49.39
that He was.
00:23:49.42\00:23:50.76
He sent Jesus to pull
us out of the condition
00:23:50.79\00:23:52.86
that we were in and to enable us
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.23
to live a holy life
through the power of the Spirit.
00:23:54.26\00:23:55.76
So it doesn't make sense
that, that would be the case.
00:23:55.80\00:23:58.03
We get the picture of
this through the gospels.
00:23:58.07\00:24:00.57
We can think of the woman
that was caught in adultery.
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.87
Yes.
00:24:02.90\00:24:04.24
Now back in Moses' day
she would have been stoned.
00:24:04.27\00:24:06.68
And rightfully so. Yes.
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.24
But Jesus said, I'm
not gonna condemn you.
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.95
Where are your accusers?
00:24:10.98\00:24:13.45
They couldn't stand around
because they had all sinned.
00:24:13.48\00:24:17.05
But Jesus stood as someone
who offered her salvation.
00:24:17.09\00:24:20.76
That's right.
00:24:20.79\00:24:22.12
As a matter of fact
we see right in John 3:17
00:24:22.16\00:24:25.99
like follows the
worlds, what most famous texts,
00:24:26.03\00:24:29.23
John 3:16 for
gospel of the world.
00:24:29.26\00:24:31.57
But it says here "For God
sent not His Son into the world
00:24:31.60\00:24:35.47
to condemn the world,
00:24:35.50\00:24:36.91
but that the world
through Him might be saved."
00:24:36.94\00:24:40.11
Amen. Praise God.
00:24:40.14\00:24:41.84
And so this
extension of God's grace,
00:24:41.88\00:24:45.95
thank you for
reminding us of that
00:24:45.98\00:24:47.92
because sinners are not
in the hands of an angry God.
00:24:47.95\00:24:52.05
Amen.
00:24:52.09\00:24:53.42
But sinners are in the
hand of a God who has...
00:24:53.46\00:24:56.66
I have loved you
with an everlasting love,
00:24:56.69\00:24:59.36
therefore with loving
kindness I have drawn thee.
00:24:59.39\00:25:02.03
His mercies are
new every morning,
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.43
great is His faithfulness.
00:25:04.47\00:25:07.04
That's the kind of God
00:25:07.07\00:25:08.40
and for the
secular world to do that,
00:25:08.44\00:25:10.34
that seems to be the
only religious literature
00:25:10.37\00:25:12.87
that they will put in the hand
of a secular mind to kill God
00:25:12.91\00:25:16.54
and put Darwin in his place
00:25:16.58\00:25:18.58
or some
anti-Christian philosophy.
00:25:18.61\00:25:21.68
But Acts 4:12
says, "Nor is there,"
00:25:21.72\00:25:26.42
I want my wife
to read this for us
00:25:26.45\00:25:27.79
because this is a
powerful passage here.
00:25:27.82\00:25:30.23
"Nor is there
salvation in any other,
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for there is no other name
under heaven given among men
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by which we must be saved."
00:25:37.40\00:25:39.50
So if I don't mention
the name Jesus, I'm okay.
00:25:39.53\00:25:42.80
Is that true? No.
00:25:42.84\00:25:44.17
No.
00:25:44.21\00:25:45.54
There's no other name,
00:25:45.57\00:25:46.91
you could knock
on the door of heaven
00:25:46.94\00:25:48.28
but unless you
mention the name Jesus,
00:25:48.31\00:25:49.91
that's why Jesus even in
His own existence here on earth,
00:25:49.94\00:25:54.18
had a difficult time
saying to the church of His day,
00:25:54.22\00:25:57.42
they said, they believe in God,
00:25:57.59\00:25:58.92
but He said, you
believe in God, believe also...
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.42
In me. In me.
00:26:00.46\00:26:01.79
'Cause there's no other name.
00:26:01.82\00:26:03.16
They were searching all through
the Old Testament finding out
00:26:03.19\00:26:05.36
all the sets that we need to do.
00:26:05.39\00:26:06.90
And he says,
00:26:06.93\00:26:08.26
these are they
which testify of me.
00:26:08.30\00:26:10.80
The whole point of all
the doing was to remind you
00:26:10.83\00:26:13.64
that someone is
coming to do for you.
00:26:13.67\00:26:15.90
Yes. And that's the whole point.
00:26:15.94\00:26:17.27
Yeah.
00:26:17.31\00:26:18.64
You know, on a
little different note,
00:26:18.67\00:26:20.08
you just mentioned to do,
00:26:20.11\00:26:21.44
one thing I thought about
00:26:21.48\00:26:22.81
that sometimes
prevents us from heaven,
00:26:22.84\00:26:24.18
the assurance of salvation,
is our need for control.
00:26:24.21\00:26:26.61
That salvation is a gift. Right.
00:26:26.65\00:26:28.55
And the idea of just this gift
being given to us and you know
00:26:28.58\00:26:32.62
we just accept
it and we're saved,
00:26:32.65\00:26:34.42
that sounds too easy.
00:26:34.46\00:26:35.79
In our world, you know,
you work to achieve things.
00:26:35.82\00:26:38.73
And this idea
that believe in Jesus,
00:26:38.76\00:26:41.13
even though we know
there are things more
00:26:41.16\00:26:42.50
that come along with it
00:26:42.53\00:26:43.87
but just the basis of
believing sometimes is hard,
00:26:43.90\00:26:46.47
'cause, you know,
I earned my degree,
00:26:46.50\00:26:48.40
you earned your trade,
you earned whatever you have
00:26:48.44\00:26:51.07
and so this idea of not
having to earn it by our works
00:26:51.11\00:26:54.54
sometimes takes away
too from that salvation.
00:26:54.58\00:26:56.31
We have this
performance based mentality,
00:26:56.34\00:26:59.98
the harder I
work the better I am,
00:27:00.02\00:27:02.38
the better I do,
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.02
then and only then
am I worthy of something
00:27:04.05\00:27:06.99
that's just a free gift.
00:27:07.02\00:27:08.36
You just accept it.
00:27:08.39\00:27:09.72
Paul uses this amazing language
in Romans 6:23 that he says,
00:27:09.76\00:27:12.99
"For the wages of sin is death".
00:27:13.03\00:27:15.63
And we gloss over
his use of language.
00:27:15.66\00:27:17.53
Because you know what a wage is?
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.50
It's what you deserve
as a result of the work
00:27:19.53\00:27:21.40
that you performed.
00:27:21.44\00:27:22.77
That's right.
00:27:22.80\00:27:24.14
What your works have
earned you is death, Paul says.
00:27:24.17\00:27:26.34
But the gift of God,
00:27:26.37\00:27:27.91
something you don't deserve
is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
00:27:27.94\00:27:30.61
That's right. You can't buy it.
00:27:30.65\00:27:31.98
You can't buy that.
00:27:32.01\00:27:33.35
That's not a meritorious thing,
00:27:33.38\00:27:34.72
it's solely because
of the merit of Jesus,
00:27:34.75\00:27:36.08
you can receive it, that's it.
00:27:36.12\00:27:38.02
And so when we look
at this, this whole gift,
00:27:38.05\00:27:40.12
I'm so thankful that
you brought that out,
00:27:40.16\00:27:42.96
I got to get
used to the new name,
00:27:42.99\00:27:44.79
I'll just call,
can I call you, Magna.
00:27:44.83\00:27:46.36
Please, yes.
00:27:46.39\00:27:47.96
Social level here.
00:27:48.00\00:27:49.80
In the professional setting
00:27:49.83\00:27:51.17
I would definitely
refer to your credentials.
00:27:51.20\00:27:53.34
But in this
beautiful thing of gift-giving,
00:27:53.37\00:27:57.17
we all love Christmas.
00:27:57.21\00:27:59.84
We don't ever say to somebody,
"How much do I owe you?"
00:27:59.87\00:28:03.75
No.
00:28:03.78\00:28:05.21
When you get, how
much do I owe you?
00:28:05.25\00:28:07.38
Jesus is saying the same thing.
00:28:07.42\00:28:09.32
But I want to add a caveat.
00:28:09.35\00:28:11.52
He says, "All I want is you."
00:28:11.55\00:28:13.49
Amen.
00:28:13.52\00:28:14.86
All of you.
00:28:14.89\00:28:16.22
All I want is all of you,
00:28:16.26\00:28:17.59
just give me you
and I will give you me.
00:28:17.63\00:28:20.23
Yes.
00:28:20.26\00:28:21.60
And this trading
place is a phrase
00:28:21.63\00:28:23.33
that I could think of that,
00:28:23.37\00:28:24.70
so what I want to do now is
00:28:24.73\00:28:26.07
I want to go to the
experience of salvation.
00:28:26.10\00:28:29.47
And I think this is,
00:28:29.50\00:28:31.87
let me dive into
this with the statement.
00:28:31.91\00:28:34.31
When we've grown
up here in this too.
00:28:34.34\00:28:36.71
Salvation is a work of a...
00:28:36.75\00:28:38.45
Lifetime.
00:28:38.48\00:28:40.48
That's not the exact quote
00:28:40.52\00:28:42.68
but sanctification is
the work of a lifetime.
00:28:42.72\00:28:45.22
Yes.
00:28:45.25\00:28:46.59
And so we run up against this
and we say how long do I have?
00:28:46.62\00:28:52.53
And we then take
it to the next level.
00:28:52.56\00:28:55.66
Well, I'm thinking about myself,
00:28:55.70\00:28:57.27
I'm gonna need 42 years
to complete my salvation.
00:28:57.30\00:29:00.97
And we add into this a work
00:29:01.00\00:29:03.07
that the Lord
never accomplished,
00:29:03.10\00:29:04.77
the Lord never
asked us to accomplish.
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.81
So let's begin with
00:29:06.84\00:29:08.18
the first stage
of sanctification
00:29:08.21\00:29:09.98
or the first
experience of salvation.
00:29:10.01\00:29:15.68
Dr. Porterfield, Magna,
00:29:15.72\00:29:18.55
could you read Ephesians 2:8, 9?
00:29:18.59\00:29:20.46
I'll be glad to. Okay.
00:29:20.49\00:29:22.02
"For by grace you have
been saved through faith.
00:29:22.06\00:29:25.59
And that not of
yourselves it is the gift of God
00:29:25.63\00:29:29.60
not of works lest
anyone should boast."
00:29:29.63\00:29:32.47
Okay, now this experience
of salvation is salvation
00:29:32.50\00:29:35.44
from what, Mollie?
00:29:35.47\00:29:36.91
Salvation from the
world order of Satan.
00:29:36.94\00:29:39.24
That's right.
00:29:39.27\00:29:40.61
And in even greater
00:29:40.64\00:29:42.01
or even an addition to salvation
00:29:42.04\00:29:43.91
from the penalty of sin.
00:29:43.95\00:29:46.05
We have prison
ministry here at 3ABN.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.28
On our church is just
an act of daily, weekly,
00:29:49.32\00:29:52.15
it actually
almost a daily activity.
00:29:52.19\00:29:54.66
When you are on death row,
00:29:54.69\00:29:57.49
when you go to death row
maximum security institutions,
00:29:57.53\00:29:59.49
you meet people
that are on death row.
00:29:59.53\00:30:01.36
And you say to them,
"You may be on death row
00:30:01.40\00:30:04.33
but I've come to let you know
that God has another death row
00:30:04.37\00:30:06.94
He wants to deliver you from."
00:30:06.97\00:30:08.74
There are people that have
gone to their physical death
00:30:08.77\00:30:12.01
with such peace
because they know
00:30:12.04\00:30:13.61
they will come forth
in the first resurrection.
00:30:13.64\00:30:15.14
Amen. Exactly.
00:30:15.18\00:30:16.51
So this whole idea, if
I was serving time, honey,
00:30:16.54\00:30:20.25
and I got let out of prison,
00:30:20.28\00:30:24.35
and I'm no longer on death row,
00:30:24.39\00:30:25.85
am I gonna walk
around with a long face?
00:30:25.89\00:30:27.59
Help me out. No.
00:30:27.62\00:30:28.96
You'll be
excited, happy, joyful.
00:30:28.99\00:30:31.19
Somebody see me at the mall say,
00:30:31.23\00:30:32.56
hey, I'm here, I'm
free right, Mollie?
00:30:32.59\00:30:35.13
Yes.
00:30:35.16\00:30:36.50
So what is first this experience
00:30:36.53\00:30:37.87
of being set free from death,
00:30:37.90\00:30:39.67
let's talk about
that for a moment.
00:30:39.70\00:30:41.04
What does that say to us?
00:30:41.07\00:30:43.07
Well, I think about
00:30:43.10\00:30:44.44
the prayer of David in Psalm 51.
00:30:44.47\00:30:46.78
Okay.
00:30:46.81\00:30:48.14
He had done that
incredible act of sin
00:30:48.18\00:30:51.88
and so he was
pleading with the Lord
00:30:51.91\00:30:53.38
to remove this thing from his...
00:30:53.42\00:30:56.48
He wanted to be
cleansed from this,
00:30:56.52\00:30:58.72
and in verse 8, Psalm 51,
00:30:58.75\00:31:00.49
I think it's, no,
verse 12, he said,
00:31:00.52\00:31:02.69
"Restore unto me the
joy of your salvation."
00:31:02.72\00:31:06.23
So David realized
that there was a joy
00:31:06.26\00:31:08.63
with this
experience of salvation.
00:31:08.66\00:31:12.97
So we should be joyous.
00:31:13.00\00:31:14.60
You know, shame is
kind of the opposite of joy
00:31:14.64\00:31:16.84
in that sense of identifying
with what you've done.
00:31:16.87\00:31:19.87
It's not just that
I did something wrong
00:31:19.91\00:31:21.58
but I'm something wrong.
00:31:21.61\00:31:23.65
And I think that
shame is that aspect
00:31:23.68\00:31:25.55
that deprives us this joy
00:31:25.58\00:31:26.92
because we feel
that we have to identify
00:31:26.95\00:31:28.48
with what we've done.
00:31:28.52\00:31:29.85
But the power
of 2 Corinthians 5,
00:31:29.88\00:31:31.69
is that Jesus
became what we did.
00:31:31.72\00:31:33.66
He became sin
00:31:33.69\00:31:35.29
so that we might become
00:31:35.32\00:31:36.66
the
righteousness of God in Christ
00:31:36.69\00:31:38.89
that we don't have to be
filled with shamed anymore
00:31:38.93\00:31:40.73
because Christ carried
that to the cross on our behalf.
00:31:40.76\00:31:43.03
That's a powerful
thought, "He became sin."
00:31:43.06\00:31:44.70
Let's just touch that a moment.
00:31:44.73\00:31:46.07
And there is a text,
00:31:46.10\00:31:47.44
I want you to read in a
moment here in Habakkuk,
00:31:47.47\00:31:49.20
"He became sin."
00:31:49.24\00:31:50.57
In other words, we
identify, we say we are sinners.
00:31:50.61\00:31:55.44
But I want to say
something, we are not sin.
00:31:55.48\00:31:57.95
Right. Come on help me out.
00:31:57.98\00:31:59.31
That's right.
00:31:59.35\00:32:00.68
We are sinners
but we are not sin.
00:32:00.72\00:32:02.15
That's right.
00:32:02.18\00:32:03.52
Jesus went deeper than
just becoming our brother.
00:32:03.55\00:32:06.45
He went to the core
issue, He became sin,
00:32:06.49\00:32:11.03
He never became a sinner.
00:32:11.06\00:32:12.63
Amen. That's right.
00:32:12.66\00:32:14.00
Wow. Yeah.
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.36
Did you get that? Yes.
00:32:15.40\00:32:16.73
Yes. He became sin.
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.10
He said, I'm
bypassing you, Mollie,
00:32:18.13\00:32:19.47
I'm going to the
root of your issue.
00:32:19.50\00:32:21.97
So when He went to
the root of the issue,
00:32:22.00\00:32:23.91
took the root to the cross,
00:32:23.94\00:32:25.77
that's what I
meant in the beginning,
00:32:25.81\00:32:27.14
that's what John 1:29
"That taketh away the sin."
00:32:27.18\00:32:30.25
The sin is the root issue. Yes.
00:32:30.28\00:32:32.35
The root, when the root is good,
00:32:32.38\00:32:33.82
the fruit are good.
00:32:33.85\00:32:35.18
Yes.
00:32:35.22\00:32:36.55
That's why He's gonna
destroy root and branch,
00:32:36.58\00:32:38.32
Malachi 4:1-4,
00:32:38.35\00:32:41.32
"He's gonna
destroy root and branch."
00:32:41.36\00:32:42.69
So there will be no
sin in the eternity.
00:32:42.72\00:32:45.16
But when we are
connected to the vine now,
00:32:45.19\00:32:48.56
He's the vine, we are what?
00:32:48.60\00:32:49.93
The branch. Branch.
00:32:49.96\00:32:51.30
How can He take
away the bad root,
00:32:51.33\00:32:53.67
how can we be
connected to the good root,
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.30
and still be abiding in death?
00:32:56.34\00:32:58.07
We can't. We can't.
00:32:58.11\00:33:00.58
We're abiding in the vine.
00:33:00.61\00:33:02.34
And it's his sap
that flows through us.
00:33:02.38\00:33:07.08
And that confessing of our sin.
00:33:07.12\00:33:11.59
Do we sin? Yeah, of course.
00:33:11.62\00:33:12.95
Yeah, we're abiding in the vine
00:33:12.99\00:33:14.92
and we are filled with
His presence in that life,
00:33:14.96\00:33:19.19
the very life in nature
of God is flowing through us
00:33:19.23\00:33:22.10
like sap flows through a tree
00:33:22.13\00:33:24.63
that's the presence
of God that's within us.
00:33:24.67\00:33:28.10
But we do sin
but then 1 John 1:9,
00:33:28.14\00:33:33.04
thank the Lord for 1 John 1:9.
00:33:33.07\00:33:35.28
If we confess that
sin, what does He do?
00:33:35.31\00:33:38.08
He's faithful and
just to forgive us
00:33:38.11\00:33:41.05
and cleanse us
from all unrighteousness
00:33:41.08\00:33:43.15
which puts us back in
that right relationship
00:33:43.18\00:33:46.05
with almighty God.
00:33:46.09\00:33:47.42
Amen.
00:33:47.46\00:33:48.79
It comes back to
what we're saying
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.16
in the very beginning.
00:33:50.19\00:33:51.53
We need to
behold the Lamb of God
00:33:51.56\00:33:52.93
which taketh away
the sin of the world,
00:33:52.96\00:33:54.86
and by beholding
we become change.
00:33:54.90\00:33:56.67
Okay.
00:33:56.70\00:33:58.03
And I'll need
to go a little step
00:33:58.07\00:33:59.40
to add to what
Mollie just mentioned here.
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.97
This because when we
add, okay, we are in Christ,
00:34:02.00\00:34:05.94
but we do sin,
but what did He say?
00:34:05.97\00:34:08.91
My little children,
00:34:08.94\00:34:10.28
I write to you that you sin not.
00:34:10.31\00:34:11.65
Amen.
00:34:11.68\00:34:13.01
But if any man sin, he has...
00:34:13.05\00:34:14.98
Advocate.
00:34:15.02\00:34:16.35
Advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the righteous.
00:34:16.38\00:34:20.19
Advocate is a representative.
00:34:20.22\00:34:21.86
One who goes to the
Father in our behalf.
00:34:21.89\00:34:23.99
He knows that the one thing
00:34:24.03\00:34:25.36
that is still
maintained is this sinful flesh.
00:34:25.39\00:34:27.93
Yes. He's gonna replace that.
00:34:27.96\00:34:29.56
But there's a text, I
want you to read in Habakkuk,
00:34:29.60\00:34:31.73
honey, that you wrote down,
00:34:31.77\00:34:33.10
that is just a
powerful realization.
00:34:33.13\00:34:34.57
Habakkuk 3:18
and actually 19 says,
00:34:34.60\00:34:40.84
"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
00:34:40.88\00:34:43.75
I will joy in the
God of my salvation."
00:34:43.78\00:34:47.55
And verse 19 says, "The
Lord God is my strength,
00:34:47.58\00:34:51.75
He will make my
feet like deer's feet,
00:34:51.79\00:34:55.06
and He will make me
walk on my high hills."
00:34:55.09\00:34:59.06
It's powerful.
00:34:59.09\00:35:00.50
And in Exodus 14:13
he talks about standstill
00:35:00.53\00:35:04.77
and see the
salvation of the Lord.
00:35:04.80\00:35:07.80
And I was thinking of this,
00:35:07.84\00:35:09.27
if we just get
out of the Lord's way,
00:35:09.30\00:35:12.07
you know, and stop interrupting,
00:35:12.11\00:35:14.31
then we could see the
salvation of the Lord,
00:35:14.34\00:35:16.64
and stop looking at
me, me, me and look at him.
00:35:16.68\00:35:19.91
That's how I look at it.
00:35:19.95\00:35:21.35
And he says also the Egyptians
00:35:21.38\00:35:24.09
whom you see today,
00:35:24.12\00:35:25.75
you're not
gonna see them anyone.
00:35:25.79\00:35:27.59
So the sin in your life,
00:35:27.62\00:35:28.96
you're not
gonna see that anymore
00:35:28.99\00:35:30.33
if you accept the
Lord as your Savior
00:35:30.36\00:35:32.69
and turn from your wicked
ways, and it's just wonderful.
00:35:32.73\00:35:37.87
And it says in
2 Corinthians 6:2,
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.87
"Now is the acceptable time,
now is the day of salvation."
00:35:40.90\00:35:45.14
Not tomorrow, it's right now.
00:35:45.17\00:35:48.74
You do not have to try
to get it all together.
00:35:48.78\00:35:50.55
Yeah. Because
that's a big hurdle.
00:35:50.58\00:35:52.88
It is. Let's talk to that.
00:35:52.91\00:35:54.25
Some people try
to save themselves.
00:35:54.28\00:35:55.78
Yeah.
00:35:55.82\00:35:57.15
Let's talk about
that for a moment.
00:35:57.19\00:35:58.52
This sense of needing to
kind of clean ourselves up
00:35:58.55\00:36:00.29
before we come to Jesus...
00:36:00.32\00:36:01.66
Yes.
00:36:01.69\00:36:03.02
..that we have to kind of...
00:36:03.06\00:36:04.43
'Cause He's not
going to take as we are,
00:36:04.46\00:36:05.79
it's kind of the thought.
00:36:05.83\00:36:07.16
But that isn't why He came.
00:36:07.20\00:36:08.70
He didn't come to give us
prerequisites before we come.
00:36:08.73\00:36:11.87
He says, if any
man comes unto me,
00:36:11.90\00:36:13.30
I will no way cast him out.
00:36:13.34\00:36:15.37
And Ellen White actually
comment on that, and says,
00:36:15.40\00:36:17.17
if we claim this one
promise, and it may me feel that
00:36:17.21\00:36:19.67
you're only holding
on to a single promise.
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.54
She says, we are as safe
00:36:21.58\00:36:22.91
as if we were
inside the City of God.
00:36:22.94\00:36:25.35
If that's all you have,
is that claim with Jesus,
00:36:25.38\00:36:28.42
if I come to you,
you won't cast me out.
00:36:28.45\00:36:30.39
She says that's
enough. Wow, wow.
00:36:30.42\00:36:32.75
It's believing
the promises of God
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.22
and applying them to our lives.
00:36:34.26\00:36:35.69
Yes. That's our only hope.
00:36:35.72\00:36:37.06
Mollie?
00:36:37.09\00:36:39.83
Also coming to him,
00:36:39.86\00:36:42.36
and holding on the
promises any scriptures
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.73
that you hold on to.
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.57
God's word is the most powerful,
00:36:46.60\00:36:48.54
one of the most
powerful forces in the universe
00:36:48.57\00:36:50.61
is the power of God's
word, and you find a promise,
00:36:50.64\00:36:54.34
a promise that
speaks to your heart
00:36:54.38\00:36:56.14
and you hold on to that promise,
00:36:56.18\00:36:58.31
and have confidence,
00:36:58.35\00:36:59.88
and God will place
His confidence in you
00:36:59.91\00:37:02.28
and should you feel
00:37:02.32\00:37:05.25
that you couldn't
possibly be saved in
00:37:05.29\00:37:08.22
because you've
just been too bad,
00:37:08.26\00:37:10.19
just know that there is nothing,
00:37:10.23\00:37:13.13
God doesn't care
and it doesn't matter.
00:37:13.16\00:37:16.77
That's right.
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.13
What you've done, He loves you,
00:37:18.17\00:37:20.54
He doesn't care one
bit about your past,
00:37:20.57\00:37:23.37
all He's concerned
about is your future.
00:37:23.41\00:37:25.91
You hold on to
that promise knowing
00:37:25.94\00:37:28.41
He loves you,
00:37:28.44\00:37:29.78
and He would then
none of us be lost
00:37:29.81\00:37:31.95
but we would all come
to the knowledge of the Son
00:37:31.98\00:37:34.48
of the living God.
00:37:34.52\00:37:36.05
So being taken off the death row
00:37:36.08\00:37:37.95
now is the first
experience of salvation.
00:37:37.99\00:37:40.09
Now let's go
ahead and look at this.
00:37:40.12\00:37:43.16
He who the son sets free is?
00:37:43.19\00:37:45.09
Free indeed.
00:37:45.13\00:37:46.56
You shall know the
truth and the truth shall?
00:37:46.59\00:37:48.46
Make you free. Make you free.
00:37:48.50\00:37:51.30
Now I wanted to
just talk about this.
00:37:51.33\00:37:52.77
We use the word,
said a lot. Yeah.
00:37:52.80\00:37:54.64
Said and make
are quite different.
00:37:54.67\00:37:56.24
Yes, it really is.
Make is the mentality.
00:37:56.27\00:37:58.67
There's a term used
in the penal institution,
00:37:58.71\00:38:01.14
it's called the recidivism rate,
00:38:01.18\00:38:03.38
the recidivism rate.
00:38:03.41\00:38:05.01
Meaning, here I'm
again, I'm back in here
00:38:05.05\00:38:08.32
'cause I couldn't, in
my mind, I wasn't free.
00:38:08.35\00:38:11.25
People often end up
where they are again
00:38:11.29\00:38:13.56
because in their
mind they're not free.
00:38:13.59\00:38:14.92
Right.
00:38:14.96\00:38:16.29
Or they entertain a thought
00:38:16.32\00:38:17.66
that they bear on
or that they lean on
00:38:17.69\00:38:19.03
and all of a sudden it
takes them all over again
00:38:19.06\00:38:20.70
because sin is a
controlling power.
00:38:20.73\00:38:22.60
It's an enslaving
power then it controls.
00:38:22.63\00:38:24.80
But salvation from the penalty,
00:38:24.83\00:38:27.00
now let's look
at the other text.
00:38:27.04\00:38:28.44
Someone read 1 Corinthians 1:18,
00:38:28.47\00:38:31.64
it's in our syllabus
00:38:31.67\00:38:33.01
but if you do want to read that,
00:38:33.04\00:38:34.38
1 Corinthians 1:18
it's a powerful passage.
00:38:34.41\00:38:36.64
You have it, Mollie? Okay. Yes.
00:38:36.68\00:38:38.01
"For the message of
the cross is foolishness
00:38:38.05\00:38:40.12
to those who are perishing,
00:38:40.15\00:38:41.98
but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God."
00:38:42.02\00:38:46.35
Okay.
00:38:46.39\00:38:47.82
So it's a hallelujah text. Yes.
00:38:47.86\00:38:49.82
For those of us we are
being saved, it is what?
00:38:49.86\00:38:52.03
Power of God.
00:38:52.06\00:38:53.40
Let's talk about
the power of God.
00:38:53.43\00:38:54.76
What kind of
power does God have?
00:38:54.80\00:38:56.50
Unlimited.
00:38:56.53\00:38:57.87
Paul says, "I'm not
ashamed of the gospel
00:38:57.90\00:38:59.23
because it is the power of God
00:38:59.27\00:39:00.67
to salvation for
those who believe."
00:39:00.70\00:39:02.04
When you realize the
true depth of the ability
00:39:02.07\00:39:05.01
of the blood of
Jesus to set you free,
00:39:05.04\00:39:07.18
you're not afraid to
talk about it anymore.
00:39:07.21\00:39:08.98
You're not afraid or
ashamed, it changes everything.
00:39:09.01\00:39:11.91
And that's what
happened with Paul's experience,
00:39:11.95\00:39:13.38
but he says at Romans
1 I think at verse 60.
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.99
He talks in 1:60. Yeah.
00:39:17.02\00:39:18.35
It's the power of
God and so this power,
00:39:18.39\00:39:22.56
talk about power for a moment.
00:39:22.59\00:39:23.93
Who has more power
than God? Give me a name.
00:39:23.96\00:39:25.79
No-one. Not one person.
00:39:25.83\00:39:27.93
Is there anything
that God can't do, Ron?
00:39:27.96\00:39:29.66
No, nothing.
00:39:29.70\00:39:31.63
Except He cannot force us
to, He won't force our choices.
00:39:31.67\00:39:35.90
Right. We have to choose.
00:39:35.94\00:39:37.94
And that's the side
obviously with, you know,
00:39:37.97\00:39:39.31
we say he could everything,
supply, die, feel, and change.
00:39:39.34\00:39:41.61
We understand that, but
without the trick question,
00:39:41.64\00:39:43.55
is there anything hard for God?
00:39:43.58\00:39:44.91
Nothing. Nothing
is impossible for God.
00:39:44.95\00:39:47.42
So now the reason I
brought this one is,
00:39:47.45\00:39:49.78
first of all we're
saved from the penalty,
00:39:49.82\00:39:51.75
for by grace
you have been saved,
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.46
you're taking off the death row.
00:39:53.49\00:39:54.82
But now let's go to the daily.
00:39:54.86\00:39:56.19
That's the salvation from
the penalty is the first one.
00:39:56.22\00:39:58.86
You have been saved.
00:39:58.89\00:40:00.23
You just have to accept the fact
00:40:00.26\00:40:01.60
that you have been
saved except that gift.
00:40:01.63\00:40:03.13
But now what about the
walk with Christ everyday,
00:40:03.16\00:40:05.50
to those who are being saved,
00:40:05.53\00:40:07.70
that's the term we
often use sanctification.
00:40:07.74\00:40:11.07
Right? Salvation
from the sin's power.
00:40:11.11\00:40:13.71
And so how often
00:40:13.74\00:40:15.14
do we have to dedicate
ourselves to Lord, honey?
00:40:15.18\00:40:16.51
Every day, every moment.
00:40:16.54\00:40:18.38
Every day we have to
do it, it's a daily thing.
00:40:18.41\00:40:21.42
You have to
dedicate your life to God.
00:40:21.45\00:40:22.78
And what are some of the things
00:40:22.82\00:40:24.15
you do to dedicate
your life every day?
00:40:24.19\00:40:25.59
Oh, I pray, I talk to the Lord,
not just morning and night,
00:40:25.62\00:40:29.82
I talk to the Lord
throughout the day,
00:40:29.86\00:40:32.63
and I do read His
word, I have to read it.
00:40:32.66\00:40:35.46
Where would I be
without the word of God?
00:40:35.50\00:40:37.57
That's right.
00:40:37.60\00:40:38.93
And I have my worship,
00:40:38.97\00:40:40.30
I even take my
Bible to work sometimes
00:40:40.34\00:40:41.67
while I'm doing a program
00:40:41.70\00:40:43.87
and it's going
through its process
00:40:43.91\00:40:45.37
and I'll pick up the word of God
00:40:45.41\00:40:46.74
and I'll read it.
00:40:46.78\00:40:48.11
And it nourishes my soul like
no other book in the world can.
00:40:48.14\00:40:51.58
That's true, yes. It does.
00:40:51.61\00:40:53.45
And what you put
inside, go ahead, Dee.
00:40:53.48\00:40:55.02
Well, in John 17
Jesus prayed specifically.
00:40:55.05\00:40:58.12
First question,
when Jesus prays,
00:40:58.15\00:41:00.62
does He get answers?
00:41:00.66\00:41:02.69
Did He get
answers? I'm just saying.
00:41:02.72\00:41:04.29
So Jesus prays in John 17
sanctify them by your truth,
00:41:04.33\00:41:08.36
your word's truth.
00:41:08.40\00:41:10.37
So the means that which
Christ and the God, the Father,
00:41:10.40\00:41:12.63
intended for us
to be sanctified,
00:41:12.67\00:41:14.00
one of those means
was communion in the word.
00:41:14.04\00:41:16.10
Now if he prayed for
that to happen, it can happen.
00:41:16.14\00:41:18.91
Yes. Done deal.
00:41:18.94\00:41:20.28
But the variable
is will we use it,
00:41:20.31\00:41:23.48
will we seek it, will we eat it,
00:41:23.51\00:41:25.41
will we taste and see
that the Lord is good.
00:41:25.45\00:41:27.55
And I think that's
the main difference.
00:41:27.58\00:41:29.38
But it's there for us.
00:41:29.42\00:41:30.75
That means of sanctification
I can look back at
00:41:30.79\00:41:32.49
when I begin a devotional life
like eight or nine years ago
00:41:32.52\00:41:35.62
and where I am now.
00:41:35.66\00:41:37.09
I'm not the same
person I was then.
00:41:37.13\00:41:38.49
And I didn't do
anything to change me,
00:41:38.53\00:41:39.96
the word of God
itself changed me.
00:41:40.00\00:41:42.40
It effectively works
in those who believe.
00:41:42.43\00:41:44.07
Exactly.
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.43
You know, you go to the
best dinner at Thanksgiving
00:41:45.47\00:41:47.07
and look at it
and starve to death.
00:41:47.10\00:41:49.74
What do we have to do? Eat it.
00:41:49.77\00:41:51.34
Taste and see. Yes.
00:41:51.37\00:41:53.98
That the Lord is
good. Oh, that's good.
00:41:54.01\00:41:55.94
And once you
start tasting, Mollie,
00:41:55.98\00:41:58.11
once you start tasting, honey,
00:41:58.15\00:42:00.12
once you start
tasting of God's goodness,
00:42:00.15\00:42:02.42
nothing can turn you off.
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.79
Nothing at all.
You just want more.
00:42:03.82\00:42:05.25
Yeah.
00:42:05.29\00:42:06.69
And because you can taste Him,
what you taste my taste buds
00:42:06.72\00:42:12.46
have no idea of what, I
have to do it for myself.
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.10
It's not something
00:42:16.13\00:42:17.47
that can be
transmitted to you by osmosis,
00:42:17.50\00:42:19.93
you have to taste of the Lord
00:42:19.97\00:42:21.40
and see that
He's good to yourself.
00:42:21.44\00:42:22.77
That's a powerful thought.
00:42:22.80\00:42:24.14
Honey, share that
thought about being a waiter.
00:42:24.17\00:42:26.01
Oh, man. I love this example.
00:42:26.04\00:42:27.71
And this really, actually,
00:42:27.74\00:42:29.68
let me just be
very real with you.
00:42:29.71\00:42:31.65
This actually challenged us
00:42:31.68\00:42:33.01
to accelerate our
dedication to God,
00:42:33.05\00:42:35.35
'cause you can work for
God and die of starvation.
00:42:35.38\00:42:37.89
Yeah. That's true.
00:42:37.92\00:42:39.25
Yeah. Yes, it is.
00:42:39.29\00:42:40.62
So last year I felt
like I was a waiter,
00:42:40.66\00:42:45.03
giving everybody food
and starving myself to death.
00:42:45.06\00:42:49.83
You could get so locked
into the cycle of performance,
00:42:49.86\00:42:54.20
and you could be a great,
00:42:54.24\00:42:56.57
you could be
efficient at what you do,
00:42:56.60\00:42:58.01
and it could be
blessing other people's lives,
00:42:58.04\00:42:59.91
but you could
slowly, slowly, slowly,
00:42:59.94\00:43:01.54
slowly fall into the category
00:43:01.58\00:43:02.91
where you're
about to be a castaway.
00:43:02.94\00:43:05.35
So I don't want to
be a waiter anymore.
00:43:05.38\00:43:07.15
I don't want to say, "Did
you like what I made, Ron?
00:43:07.18\00:43:09.32
Did you enjoy
that sermon, Magna?
00:43:09.35\00:43:11.19
Was that a good Bible study?
00:43:11.22\00:43:12.65
Mollie, did you enjoy that song?
00:43:12.69\00:43:14.46
Wasn't that a great program?"
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.19
I don't want that. I
want to be able to eat.
00:43:16.22\00:43:18.99
Yes. Amen.
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.36
But I'm giving everybody else
00:43:20.40\00:43:21.86
because it's in the eating
that the nourishment comes,
00:43:21.90\00:43:25.27
it's in the
eating that I experience.
00:43:25.30\00:43:27.20
I was so glad you said that.
00:43:27.24\00:43:29.10
I could sit next to Angie
00:43:29.14\00:43:30.47
and she's eating off
the righteousness of God
00:43:30.51\00:43:31.97
and I'm starving to
death and with this close,
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.74
but I can't even,
she can't even transmit
00:43:33.78\00:43:35.88
through her pores
the spiritual nourishment
00:43:35.91\00:43:38.38
that she has.
00:43:38.41\00:43:39.75
So we've got to eat
ourselves that daily walking,
00:43:39.78\00:43:41.52
what we do as a
couple daily prayer,
00:43:41.55\00:43:44.42
Bible says
reading in the morning,
00:43:44.45\00:43:46.25
we wake up devotional.
00:43:46.29\00:43:47.86
Father, speak to us
today, pray through the day.
00:43:47.89\00:43:51.43
Pause and pray,
lunch time read, pray.
00:43:51.46\00:43:53.96
Evening, let's read our
Bible before we go to bed, pray.
00:43:54.00\00:43:56.90
Father, if there is
anything we did today,
00:43:56.93\00:43:59.87
thank you for
being our advocate.
00:43:59.90\00:44:01.64
So what I want to point out
00:44:01.67\00:44:03.00
in this very
passage of sanctification,
00:44:03.04\00:44:04.47
somebody read Philippians 2:12.
00:44:04.51\00:44:06.57
You had a passage there,
00:44:06.61\00:44:07.94
Mollie, anything
you want to say there
00:44:07.98\00:44:09.31
that you had turned to?
00:44:09.34\00:44:10.68
No, he was just
talking about the prayer
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.05
that Jesus
prayed in the John 17,
00:44:12.08\00:44:14.45
I love that prayer
because everything he's praying,
00:44:14.48\00:44:18.99
it's put it toward me
00:44:19.02\00:44:21.12
because he's
praying not only for these
00:44:21.16\00:44:22.99
but those that are to come.
00:44:23.02\00:44:24.36
That prayer is for us.
00:44:24.39\00:44:25.73
And that should
give anybody confidence
00:44:25.76\00:44:27.96
to know that Jesus
Himself is praying for you.
00:44:28.00\00:44:30.03
Praise the Lord.
00:44:30.07\00:44:31.40
So this process
of sanctification,
00:44:31.43\00:44:32.77
Philippians 2:12 who has it?
00:44:32.80\00:44:34.14
Mollie. Okay, well.
00:44:34.17\00:44:35.64
I thought... go ahead.
00:44:35.67\00:44:38.57
"Wherefore, my beloved,
as you have always obeyed,
00:44:38.61\00:44:41.28
not as in my
presence only, but now."
00:44:41.31\00:44:43.55
Philippians 2:13.
00:44:43.58\00:44:45.25
Sorry, Philippians
2:13, it's the next verse.
00:44:45.28\00:44:47.12
"For it is God which
worketh in you both to will
00:44:47.15\00:44:50.15
and to do of His good pleasure."
00:44:50.19\00:44:52.05
Okay, in this
sanctification, who's working?
00:44:52.09\00:44:53.89
God. Who's working?
00:44:53.92\00:44:55.29
Jesus, yeah. God.
00:44:55.32\00:44:56.66
Who's not working? Us.
00:44:56.69\00:44:59.13
Not of works. It's
emphasized all over.
00:44:59.16\00:45:02.30
Paul the Apostle has
taken the work out of our hand.
00:45:02.33\00:45:05.10
Jesus has taken the
work out of our hand.
00:45:05.13\00:45:06.70
Paul has said, first of
all, you're saved by grace,
00:45:06.74\00:45:08.44
not of works
lest you should boast.
00:45:08.47\00:45:10.61
Now, you are saved
the sanctifying process,
00:45:10.64\00:45:12.67
it is God who works.
00:45:12.71\00:45:15.34
I'm jumping out of my
skin at two brief points.
00:45:15.38\00:45:17.65
Go for it. Go for it.
00:45:17.68\00:45:19.01
Obedience to the Ten
Commandments is a fruit
00:45:19.05\00:45:21.75
of the Holy Spirit in your life.
00:45:21.78\00:45:23.12
Thanks you.
00:45:23.15\00:45:24.49
Not your own achievement.
00:45:24.52\00:45:25.85
And that's how
you're abide in the vine,
00:45:25.89\00:45:27.22
you bear much fruit.
00:45:27.26\00:45:28.59
Because when Jesus says,
00:45:28.62\00:45:29.96
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:45:29.99\00:45:31.33
It's not in the imperative
in the original language,
00:45:31.36\00:45:32.83
we treated that way in the
way we preach it a lot of times,
00:45:32.86\00:45:34.36
but that's not the way
00:45:34.40\00:45:35.73
that it reads in
the original language.
00:45:35.76\00:45:37.27
And the way that that happensis
00:45:37.30\00:45:38.87
because we have
a love for Jesus,
00:45:38.90\00:45:40.57
because we have
a love for Jesus,
00:45:40.60\00:45:41.94
the Holy Spirit
is part of our life,
00:45:41.97\00:45:43.41
and the Holy Spirit
bears fruit in that.
00:45:43.44\00:45:45.11
But the idea of justification
and sanctification,
00:45:45.14\00:45:47.78
I think a text that
puts those two together well
00:45:47.81\00:45:50.15
and shows this
efficiency of Jesus
00:45:50.18\00:45:52.28
in both of these is in Romans 5,
00:45:52.31\00:45:53.88
we had this laid
it in the handout.
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.25
Sure.
00:45:55.28\00:45:56.62
But in Romans 5. Oh,
yes. Ain't that beautiful?
00:45:56.65\00:45:57.99
I never heard
this until arise...
00:45:58.02\00:45:59.35
Verse 6-11? Yes.
00:45:59.39\00:46:00.72
I never heard this until arise.
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.09
I'd always hear that
00:46:02.12\00:46:03.46
the death of Jesus was
really important to me,
00:46:03.49\00:46:05.69
but the life of
Jesus is equally important
00:46:05.73\00:46:08.06
for sanctification.
00:46:08.10\00:46:09.43
And this hadn't
been made clear to me
00:46:09.46\00:46:10.87
until I got this in Romans 5
00:46:10.90\00:46:12.30
that the point that Paul makes
is that the death of Jesus,
00:46:12.33\00:46:16.50
well, I guess we'll just start,
00:46:16.54\00:46:17.87
we'll just read the
whole text, verse 6.
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.24
Verse 6-11. I
mean it's powerful.
00:46:19.27\00:46:21.04
We'll walk through it here then.
00:46:21.08\00:46:22.41
So in verse 6 it says,
00:46:22.44\00:46:23.78
"For when we were
still without strength..."
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.01
That means before we
cleaned ourselves up.
00:46:26.05\00:46:28.12
Before we even had
the ability to do it.
00:46:28.15\00:46:30.22
"In due time Christ
died for the ungodly."
00:46:30.25\00:46:32.95
The unworthy if you will.
00:46:32.99\00:46:34.49
"For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die,
00:46:34.52\00:46:36.83
yet perhaps for a good man
someone would even dare to die.
00:46:36.86\00:46:39.93
But God demonstrates
His own love toward us."
00:46:39.96\00:46:42.56
I love this because
that bankrupt picture
00:46:42.60\00:46:45.10
that some of us
have of God the Father
00:46:45.13\00:46:46.77
falls apart with this text.
00:46:46.80\00:46:48.14
That's right.
00:46:48.17\00:46:49.50
God's love for us sent Jesus,
00:46:49.54\00:46:50.87
it wasn't just that
Jesus is trying to bail us
00:46:50.91\00:46:52.24
out in front of the Father.
00:46:52.27\00:46:53.61
The Father sent
Jesus to reconcile us.
00:46:53.64\00:46:54.98
I want you to say that again
00:46:55.01\00:46:56.34
because somebody
just missed that,
00:46:56.38\00:46:57.71
it wasn't that
Jesus is trying to...
00:46:57.75\00:46:59.08
Jesus didn't go to
try to keep the Father
00:46:59.11\00:47:01.05
from doing bad things to us.
00:47:01.08\00:47:02.42
The Father sent Jesus
00:47:02.45\00:47:03.79
because the
Father Himself loves us.
00:47:03.82\00:47:05.35
Yeah. Thank you.
00:47:05.39\00:47:06.72
So that's Romans 5:8.
00:47:06.76\00:47:08.09
But God demonstrates His
own love for us and that,
00:47:08.12\00:47:09.99
"While we were still sinners,
still a mess, still unworthy,
00:47:10.03\00:47:12.89
Christ died for us."
00:47:12.93\00:47:14.56
So, "Much more then, having
now been justified by His blood,
00:47:14.60\00:47:18.67
we shall be saved
from wrath through Him."
00:47:18.70\00:47:21.44
"For if when we were enemies
we were reconciled to God
00:47:21.47\00:47:24.37
through the death of His Son."
00:47:24.41\00:47:25.74
So the death of Jesus
accomplishes reconciliation.
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.78
So my... the wages
of my sin is death.
00:47:28.81\00:47:31.28
What I deserve is
the result of the work
00:47:31.31\00:47:32.78
that I performed is death.
00:47:32.81\00:47:34.68
Jesus' death cancels out
the death that I deserve.
00:47:34.72\00:47:37.99
And a lot of us stop there
00:47:38.02\00:47:39.35
when we explain the
process of salvation
00:47:39.39\00:47:40.92
and that's super good news
00:47:40.96\00:47:42.39
that cancels out my
death, but the problem is...
00:47:42.42\00:47:43.93
Where do I go?
00:47:43.96\00:47:45.29
From that point forward,
00:47:45.33\00:47:46.66
I know how to live
without sin in word,
00:47:46.70\00:47:48.16
thought, or deed
for the rest of my life,
00:47:48.20\00:47:49.53
or I go back into debt.
00:47:49.56\00:47:51.20
My only hope then after that is
00:47:51.23\00:47:52.87
if someone lives
like a righteous life
00:47:52.90\00:47:55.24
that I haven't lived,
00:47:55.27\00:47:56.60
because that's
my access to heaven.
00:47:56.64\00:47:58.17
Jesus' death clears out my death
00:47:58.21\00:47:59.91
but my access to
heaven is Jesus' life.
00:47:59.94\00:48:02.04
So Paul says,
we're reconciled...
00:48:02.08\00:48:03.41
So verse 10.
00:48:03.45\00:48:04.78
Yeah, in verse 10 Paul says,
00:48:04.81\00:48:06.15
"We're reconciled
by the death of Jesus
00:48:06.18\00:48:07.85
and much more,
having been reconciled,
00:48:07.88\00:48:09.62
we shall be saved by His life."
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.72
By His life. His life.
00:48:11.75\00:48:13.62
So we, through the
power of the spirit
00:48:13.66\00:48:15.59
can be given
Christ's righteousness,
00:48:15.62\00:48:17.86
can live a righteous life.
00:48:17.89\00:48:19.79
So His death cancels
out our death and his life,
00:48:19.83\00:48:22.73
it's a life
that we haven't lived
00:48:22.76\00:48:24.40
and gives us access to heaven.
00:48:24.43\00:48:25.77
That's imputative and
important righteousness.
00:48:25.80\00:48:27.34
Yes.
00:48:27.37\00:48:28.70
See, what happens is
this enables us to stand
00:48:28.74\00:48:33.31
before the Father
and look like His Son.
00:48:33.34\00:48:37.81
Behold what manner of love,
the Father has bestowed on us
00:48:37.85\00:48:43.18
that we should be
called the children of God.
00:48:43.22\00:48:45.49
What's your favorite text?
That's my favorite passage.
00:48:45.52\00:48:49.32
You know, as
we're all talking here,
00:48:49.36\00:48:50.93
I'm thinking to myself,
00:48:50.96\00:48:52.29
this is all about what we think.
00:48:52.33\00:48:54.26
Yes. Yes.
00:48:54.30\00:48:55.63
It starts with
our thought process.
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.30
That's right. What
do I believe about God?
00:48:57.33\00:48:59.77
What do I believe about
what He has done for me?
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.34
That's right.
00:49:01.37\00:49:02.70
What do I believe
about His character?
00:49:02.74\00:49:04.07
What do I believe about
what I need to do to be saved?
00:49:04.11\00:49:06.68
It's all about what we
believe and what we think,
00:49:06.71\00:49:09.11
and if we, we have to start
with changing our mindsets.
00:49:09.14\00:49:12.01
I'm reading this
book called Mindset now.
00:49:12.05\00:49:14.18
And changing our mindsets about
00:49:14.22\00:49:15.82
how we look at the
whole salvation experience.
00:49:15.85\00:49:18.65
I was raised and born
00:49:18.69\00:49:20.02
in the
Seventh-day Adventist church,
00:49:20.06\00:49:21.39
and it was only until I reached,
00:49:21.42\00:49:22.76
I'm not gonna say
what age but years later
00:49:22.79\00:49:24.76
that I started to understand
my mindset has to be changed.
00:49:24.79\00:49:28.00
And it's when
my mindset changed,
00:49:28.03\00:49:29.53
that's why I start,
00:49:29.56\00:49:30.90
when I started to
get that assurance I can
00:49:30.93\00:49:33.07
and I'm saved by God
through Jesus Christ.
00:49:33.10\00:49:35.14
That's right.
00:49:35.17\00:49:36.50
But if that mind is not changed,
00:49:36.54\00:49:37.87
we can quote all these
things that we're saying,
00:49:37.91\00:49:39.24
it sounds wonderful,
00:49:39.27\00:49:40.61
it just goes
right out over our head
00:49:40.64\00:49:41.98
or through our
ears, nothing happens.
00:49:42.01\00:49:43.58
Yeah. It doesn't permeate
the reality of our experience.
00:49:43.61\00:49:47.15
It's like being in an airplane
but you're not the airplane,
00:49:47.18\00:49:50.29
without that
airplane you can't fly.
00:49:50.32\00:49:51.75
What we're saying is,
00:49:51.79\00:49:53.12
we don't need to build
anything around ourselves,
00:49:53.15\00:49:55.22
we need to accept
Christ within ourselves,
00:49:55.26\00:49:57.33
Christ in you,
the hope of glory.
00:49:57.36\00:49:59.59
It is God who works in
you both to will, Mollie?
00:49:59.63\00:50:02.40
What is the only
thing in this whole universe
00:50:02.43\00:50:05.57
that is powerful
enough to change your mindset?
00:50:05.60\00:50:08.74
Holy Spirit.
00:50:08.77\00:50:10.21
The power of God's Word. Yes.
00:50:10.24\00:50:11.57
Yes. It's the
power of God's Word.
00:50:11.61\00:50:13.68
It's, that's why
it's so vitally important
00:50:13.71\00:50:16.14
that we sit
under a good minister
00:50:16.18\00:50:19.58
that's preaching the word,
00:50:19.61\00:50:20.95
that we spent time in God's Word
00:50:20.98\00:50:23.22
and that we
meditate on God's Word.
00:50:23.25\00:50:26.65
I say this and I'm not
saying this dogmatically,
00:50:26.69\00:50:29.79
but the three
most powerful forces
00:50:29.82\00:50:31.46
in the universe
00:50:31.49\00:50:32.83
the Word, the
Name, and the Blood.
00:50:32.86\00:50:34.70
And those
forces work within you.
00:50:34.73\00:50:40.30
You'll be an
overcomer in every situation.
00:50:40.34\00:50:42.90
But the Word is
the powerful force
00:50:42.94\00:50:44.37
that would change your mind.
00:50:44.41\00:50:45.74
You know,
talking about the power,
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.48
it takes me to a
text here in John 1:12,
00:50:47.51\00:50:50.78
"But as many as received him,
00:50:50.81\00:50:53.11
Jesus, to them gave he
power to become sons of God."
00:50:53.15\00:50:58.85
That's right.
00:50:58.89\00:51:00.22
And it also makes
me think of John 10:10,
00:51:00.26\00:51:02.06
it's one of my favorite,
00:51:02.09\00:51:03.43
there is
wonderful promise in there,
00:51:03.46\00:51:04.79
but it's very solemn
00:51:04.83\00:51:06.16
because in that we
see the great controversy.
00:51:06.19\00:51:07.53
The thief cometh
not but for to seal,
00:51:07.56\00:51:09.96
and to kill, and to destroy.
00:51:10.00\00:51:11.87
So many are
focusing on the enemy,
00:51:11.90\00:51:15.44
and their peace is being stolen,
00:51:15.47\00:51:17.47
their health is being stolen,
00:51:17.51\00:51:19.41
their harmony
and their marriages
00:51:19.44\00:51:21.88
and their
relationships are being stolen,
00:51:21.91\00:51:23.95
they're being killed.
00:51:23.98\00:51:25.31
But Jesus says, "I am
come that you might have life
00:51:25.35\00:51:28.05
and have it how?
00:51:28.08\00:51:29.42
More
abundantly. More abundantly.
00:51:29.45\00:51:30.79
So that comes right back
00:51:30.82\00:51:32.15
we have to keep
our eyes on Jesus,
00:51:32.19\00:51:34.26
receiving that
power from His Word.
00:51:34.29\00:51:37.26
And that will give
us the, that the mindset
00:51:37.29\00:51:39.53
that my sweetheart was saying.
00:51:39.56\00:51:41.60
The blessed assurance.
00:51:41.63\00:51:42.96
We truly believe that we
are His sons and daughters
00:51:43.00\00:51:45.30
that we can be saved.
00:51:45.33\00:51:46.67
And, you know what?
00:51:46.70\00:51:48.04
It's not that we're gonna
become His sons and daughters
00:51:48.07\00:51:50.21
but it says, "Beloved, now
are we the children of God."
00:51:50.24\00:51:52.61
Amen.
00:51:52.64\00:51:53.98
1 John 3:2, "Now
we're the children."
00:51:54.01\00:51:56.58
We're not becoming the children.
00:51:56.61\00:51:58.21
He's my father now. Dee? Amen.
00:51:58.25\00:52:00.62
I think the point that
she made is exactly the point
00:52:00.65\00:52:02.72
that when we're believing
lies about who the Father is,
00:52:02.75\00:52:05.49
this is where we really
get ourselves in trouble
00:52:05.52\00:52:07.02
with the assurance of salvation.
00:52:07.06\00:52:08.49
So in the Garden
of Eden in Genesis 3,
00:52:08.52\00:52:10.09
the enemy didn't
come up to her and say,
00:52:10.13\00:52:11.56
"Hey, I want you
to have bad behavior."
00:52:11.59\00:52:14.56
The immediate thing he
started with was a lie about
00:52:14.60\00:52:17.00
who God was.
00:52:17.03\00:52:18.37
And that's where
most of our battles lies,
00:52:18.40\00:52:20.27
that we're
believing lies about Him.
00:52:20.30\00:52:21.64
He's the father
of lies we're told.
00:52:21.67\00:52:23.10
He is the
accuser of the brethren.
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.81
And I think this is what gets us
00:52:24.84\00:52:26.17
in a whole lot of trouble.
00:52:26.21\00:52:27.54
But I say that
00:52:27.58\00:52:28.91
to kind of also
piggyback of off Mollie's point.
00:52:28.94\00:52:30.35
This is a quote
from Signs of the Times,
00:52:30.38\00:52:32.21
March 25, 1889.
00:52:32.25\00:52:34.82
Ellen White says this,
00:52:34.85\00:52:36.18
"We are not to
look into our hearts
00:52:36.22\00:52:37.72
for a joyful emotion
00:52:37.75\00:52:39.22
as evidence of our
acceptance with Heaven,
00:52:39.25\00:52:41.89
but we are to
take God's promises,
00:52:41.92\00:52:43.83
and say, "They are mine.
00:52:43.86\00:52:45.73
The Lord is letting his
Holy Spirit rest upon me.
00:52:45.76\00:52:48.63
I am receiving the
light for the promises
00:52:48.66\00:52:50.77
believe that ye
receive the things ye ask for,
00:52:50.80\00:52:52.93
and ye shall have them.
00:52:52.97\00:52:54.34
By faith I
reach within the veil,
00:52:54.37\00:52:56.47
and lay hold of
Christ, my strength.
00:52:56.50\00:52:58.54
I thank God that
I have a Savior."
00:52:58.57\00:53:01.21
And I think this
is from the revival
00:53:01.24\00:53:02.74
that happened in South Lancaster
00:53:02.78\00:53:04.48
where like the whole
academy was converted in 1889
00:53:04.51\00:53:07.22
right after 1889
General Conference.
00:53:07.25\00:53:09.45
But the point that's made here
is that the promises of God,
00:53:09.48\00:53:13.09
reminding God of
what He told you.
00:53:13.12\00:53:14.72
When lies come into our hearts
00:53:14.76\00:53:16.09
and our minds
about our unworthiness,
00:53:16.12\00:53:18.39
our dirtiness, our shame
all the things that we aren't,
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we can come back to God
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and refute the enemy
by claiming the promises
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that God has given us.
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And remind God
or remind ourselves,
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you said this about me,
you said that if I come to you,
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you will know why
he has cast me out.
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That's right. That's right.
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And there are couple of passages
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we want to get to
before our program winds down.
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Honey, would you read
this for us 1 John 5:11-13.
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This is, to me, the...
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I can even give
the joy of the beauty
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of the
communication of salvation.
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Listen to that.
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"And this is the testimony that
God has given us eternal life,
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and this life is in His Son.
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He who has the Son has life.
00:53:58.30\00:54:01.37
He who does not
have the Son of God
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does not have life.
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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
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in the name of the Son of God."
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He who has the son has life.
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Mollie, can anybody take
us out of the Lord's hand?
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Oh, I love John
10:28. Okay. Read it.
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John 10:28, "And I
give them eternal life,
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and they shall never perish,
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neither shall anyone snatch them
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out of my hand."
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That's a promise of God.
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Nobody can snatch us.
00:54:43.31\00:54:44.65
Anyone who want to
say anything on that one?
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Salvation is sure.
00:54:46.05\00:54:47.38
I like the verse that
come from before that,
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"My sheep hear my voice."
00:54:48.78\00:54:50.12
"And I know them
and they follow me."
00:54:50.15\00:54:51.99
That's right.
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And when we follow
this is the commitment,
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how do we maintain salvation?
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We follow Him.
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Jesus made us...
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"Follow Me, and
I will make you..."
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Let's not go to
the fishers of men.
00:55:01.70\00:55:03.03
"Follow Me and I'll make you."
00:55:03.06\00:55:04.40
We can't make
ourselves, He makes us.
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He wants in us to
do His good pleasure.
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And the last part of
salvation is glorification.
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See, we had been saved
from the penalty of sin.
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We're no longer on death row,
it doesn't hang over our head.
00:55:15.01\00:55:17.58
We are being saved
everyday from the power of sin.
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And then we will be
saved from the presence of sin.
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Isaiah 25:9,
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I'm gonna hit this
quickly in with the quotation,
00:55:26.52\00:55:28.22
it's gonna be a powerful thing.
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"And it will be
said on that day,
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behold, this is our God,
00:55:31.16\00:55:32.69
we have waited for
Him, and He will save us."
00:55:32.73\00:55:35.83
That's from the presence,
finally, "This is the Lord.
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We have waited for him.
00:55:39.27\00:55:41.00
We will be glad and
rejoice in His salvation."
00:55:41.04\00:55:45.17
The final
experience of salvation is
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when sin is no longer
a factor in our hearts.
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Amen?
00:55:49.88\00:55:51.21
Amen. Amen.
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.58
But there is a
quotation in Steps to Christ
00:55:52.61\00:55:53.95
that I found last night.
00:55:53.98\00:55:55.32
I was trying to wake my wife up,
00:55:55.35\00:55:56.69
she said, "I'm
already sleeping."
00:55:56.72\00:55:58.05
I said, "Honey, I
got to tell you this."
00:55:58.09\00:55:59.42
She is like, "Tell
me in the morning."
00:55:59.45\00:56:00.79
Here we're in the morning,
now, I'm gonna tell you.
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Praise God. Nice.
00:56:02.19\00:56:03.86
Steps to Christ,
00:56:03.89\00:56:05.23
yeah, we aren't exactly
a new day in other words.
00:56:05.26\00:56:07.23
Steps to Christ, page 62,
00:56:07.26\00:56:09.10
"When we give
ourselves to Christ,
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He forgives all
of our past wrongs."
00:56:11.27\00:56:14.34
Amen.
00:56:14.37\00:56:15.70
"Christ's character stands
in place of your character
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and you're accepted
00:56:19.14\00:56:20.48
before God just as
if you had not sin."
00:56:20.51\00:56:24.38
Absolutely.
00:56:24.41\00:56:25.75
What better blessed
assurance can you have?
00:56:25.78\00:56:27.68
That book, before we close,
00:56:27.72\00:56:29.75
that book everyone
needs to read that.
00:56:29.78\00:56:31.65
Anyone who is
wrestling with lies about God
00:56:31.69\00:56:33.59
and the assurance of salvation,
read the book Steps to Christ.
00:56:33.62\00:56:36.09
Call 3ABN and get it.
00:56:36.12\00:56:38.09
We got them here
in the call center,
00:56:38.13\00:56:39.49
we'll give it to you free.
00:56:39.53\00:56:41.23
Wow, anything real quick
maybe 10 seconds, 15 seconds?
00:56:41.26\00:56:44.07
I just want to ask
anybody who is listening,
00:56:44.10\00:56:46.77
ask God to transform their
mind and understand, and claim,
00:56:46.80\00:56:49.64
and believe the promises
in His words, they are true.
00:56:49.67\00:56:51.87
Yes.
00:56:51.91\00:56:53.24
It is by His greater
exceeding precious promises
00:56:53.27\00:56:55.34
that we can be
partakers of divine nature.
00:56:55.38\00:56:57.38
Amen. Let this line be in you.
00:56:57.41\00:57:00.52
I was just saying
Christ Jesus. That's right.
00:57:00.55\00:57:02.58
And if you make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life,
00:57:02.62\00:57:04.52
you can know that
and if, but if you sin
00:57:04.55\00:57:06.76
you've got an
advocate with the Father.
00:57:06.79\00:57:08.12
Yes.
00:57:08.16\00:57:09.49
Steps to Christ
has all the answers
00:57:09.52\00:57:10.86
you're looking for,
it's just all there.
00:57:10.89\00:57:12.23
Amen. And trust the Lord.
00:57:12.26\00:57:13.80
Our time has gone so
quickly, but here is the key.
00:57:13.83\00:57:16.03
If you have the
Son you have life.
00:57:16.06\00:57:18.43
Don't take the
enemy's lies into your mind.
00:57:18.47\00:57:21.74
Let the Word of
God dwell in you richly
00:57:21.77\00:57:24.64
and nothing shall
be able to snatch you
00:57:24.67\00:57:27.74
from the hand of your Savior.
00:57:27.78\00:57:29.11
God bless you,
until we see you again.
00:57:29.14\00:57:31.08
Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
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