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is the roles in salvation, the roles in salvation.

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This morning, I wanna give you three distinct roles

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that individuals play within the salvation of a person.

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Of course, when we're talking about someone's salvation,

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there's various ways that the Bible describes this,

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being born again, being justified through Jesus Christ.

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We're talking about eternal life, right?

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Someone who is converted from being

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an unregenerated, unsafe person

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to being a saved person who has eternal life.

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Their sins have been forgiven.

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They have an eternal home in heaven

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and they are a child of God, right?

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The Bible says,

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but as many as received him,

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to them gave you power to become the sons of God.

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Excuse me, even unto them that believe on his name,

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essentially equating, believing on his name

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with becoming a son of God, a child of God.

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First, John chapter three says,

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behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us

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that we should be called the sons of God.

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Essentially demonstrating that at salvation,

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God adopts us as his spiritual children and so forth.

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But this morning, I wanna go through

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some of the various roles

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that individuals in the Bible play in our salvation.

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Obviously, we know that it happens in an instant.

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You know, at the moment that someone believes

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on the Lord Jesus Christ, they call upon him in faith.

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At that point, they're saved.

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It's not a process.

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It's not a lifelong commitment.

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It's not something that you have to make sure

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that you endure until the end

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in order to make sure that you're saved.

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Those are all works-based salvation gospels, right?

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That we as a church need to reject.

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And let me just say this by way of introduction

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is that we need to make sure we're not lenient

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when it comes to the message of salvation, okay?

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What do I mean by that?

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Meaning that, you know, we've gotta make sure

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that we don't make exceptions to the rules of the Bible.

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A lot of times Christians today,

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because there's so much doubt,

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the reason there's so much doubt in churches,

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the reason there's so much confusion,

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the reason there's so much people

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that are just ignorant of the doctrine of justification

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is because the pastors and the Christians

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within those churches are just kind of flippant

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regarding doctrine, right?

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They don't wanna offend people

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and so they don't wanna just pass judgment on someone

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and say, oh, this person's not saved

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because they believe in a false gospel.

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They're like, well, you don't wanna say that

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because you don't wanna offend them

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and they believe in God, they believe in Jesus

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and that's just good enough for us.

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But it's important for us as Christians

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to prove all things, hold fast that which is good, right?

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To make sure that we judge

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what a person claims to believe

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and compare it to the clear teachings of the Bible, okay?

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Not just, oh, okay, they say they're a Christian

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so I'm just gonna go ahead and believe it or something.

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Well, they said they're a Christian,

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they said they're a Baptist,

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they said they believe in the Bible,

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that's not necessarily good enough

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according to biblical standards.

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By thy words thou shalt be justified

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and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

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And look, folks, the Lord didn't spend just centuries

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of just placing content within the word of God, right?

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Just systematic doctrine, systematic doctrine

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on the doctrine of salvation

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for us to just write it all off and say, well,

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if they say they believe in God,

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that's good enough for me, not good enough

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because Muslims can't claim to believe in God.

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Mormons claim to believe in God.

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Joel's witnesses claim to believe in God.

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So all types of people out there

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who claim to believe in God,

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they don't really believe in the matter of salvation.

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And when I say we need to be strict,

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we need to be narrow in this regard,

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I mean that we need to place the same standard

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on others as the Bible places on us, right?

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You say, what do you mean by that?

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Well, you know, let me just say this,

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you know, sometimes people think,

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well, if a person claims to believe in Jesus,

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that's automatic that they're saved.

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And I do agree that if a person claims to believe

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in Jesus, that puts them in a good ballpark, right?

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Like it puts them in the right sport.

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Like, okay, you know, you're definitely not a Hindu, right?

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Or maybe you are, I don't know,

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but you know, at least you're kind of narrowing it

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down there, right?

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So if they say they believe in Jesus Christ,

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if they start, you know, talking about

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or using biblical terminologies,

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Christianese as we would say it,

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in regards to salvation,

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we could kind of say, all right,

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maybe this person is saved, maybe not,

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but it seems as though maybe they lean more towards,

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they're not far from the kingdom of God, at least, okay?

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But let me also say this, you know,

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sometimes people say these words,

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they're just simply repeating what others say to them

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or what they've heard.

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And so it's important for us to, you know,

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if for lack of a better way of saying it,

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it's kind of corner people, right?

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To kind of see what they actually believe.

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Because look, folks, you'll have people out there

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that say, well, I know that Jesus died on the cross

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to pay for my sins and that he resurrected

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on the third day, you know?

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And you know, that is good,

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but we also need to ask them,

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but can you lose your salvation though?

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Because you know a lot of times people are like,

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oh yeah, for sure.

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And it's an oxymoron, right?

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It's a contradictory statement

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to claim to believe that Jesus died for all sins,

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that he resurrected on the third day,

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but then still hold to this ideology

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that you can lose your salvation.

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These are contrasting ideas

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that are not compatible one with another.

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Because if he died for all sins,

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I mean he died for all of your sins,

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the sins that you claim you can commit in the future

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that will take away your salvation.

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It doesn't make sense.

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So it's important for us to help people

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to understand that eternal security is the gospel,

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that is salvation.

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These are not separate issues.

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We may in our gospel presentation

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often treat it as separate

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as one step after the other,

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but at the end of the day,

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eternal security, one saved always saved,

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you know, you can't lose your salvation,

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is in conjunction with the gospel.

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You say, why do you say that?

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Well, it's called eternal life.

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Eternal life means that you're always saved.

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It's eternal.

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Meaning it's not temporal, okay?

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So that's important.

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But also let me say this,

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you know, we need to make sure

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that we prove all things whole fast,

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that which is good,

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and not be like the simple that believe with every word

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because of the fact that you'll have people out there

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such as Muslims, for example,

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that will assert, well, you know,

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we believe that Jesus is the Christ.

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And it is like, oh, oh dang, you know.

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I didn't know that, okay,

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they must be saved and they believe

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that Jesus is the Christ.

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Yeah, but here's the problem though,

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they don't believe that Jesus is God.

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And so there is a collection of fundamental doctrines

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that a person must believe in order to be saved.

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And we're talking about doctrines

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and beliefs about Jesus, okay?

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Like if you believe Jesus is the brother of Satan,

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it's not the same Jesus of the Bible.

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And make no mistake about it,

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the Bible talks about people preaching,

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listen to this, another Jesus,

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another gospel, there's another spirit.

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Keep in mind that Satan is a major liar,

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he counterfeits religion,

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he counterfeits Christianity,

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he counterfeits Jesus Christ,

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he's always offering an alternative

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to what the Bible actually says, okay?

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So it's important that the way we can overcome that,

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the way we can determine and decipher

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whether someone believes in the right doctrine

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is by number one, knowing what the right doctrine is.

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But number two, asking the right questions, right?

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And so when we talk about salvation,

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we're talking about the fact

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that you have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

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exclusively to be saved.

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That's another important thing, right?

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When we say exclusively,

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that means at the exclusion of everyone else

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and everything else.

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Meaning you can't add anything to that.

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A lot of times people will say,

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well, I believe in Jesus,

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but you also have to

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and then fill in the blank or whatever, okay?

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That's not salvation,

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you can't get saved that way.

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You can't add another God,

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another work, baptism, doing good works,

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another saint, Catholicism more.

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You can't add anything to Jesus Christ.

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If you do, salvation is no longer available to you.

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And if by grace then it is no more of works,

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otherwise grace is no more grace.

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And so what we're talking about here

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when it comes to salvation

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is no adding to Jesus Christ, okay?

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He's the one that provides salvation.

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He's the one that paid it in full

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and he does not require anybody else's payment.

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He doesn't need you to give him a loan on salvation.

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He doesn't need layaway plans from you saying,

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you know what, I'll pay you off little by little

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by my obedience,

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by my ability to keep God's commands,

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by my church attendance.

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Lord, you know, when he actually paid for all sins,

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guess what?

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He paid for them completely, totally.

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Past, present, future.

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His obedience is what saves us, amen.

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It's not our obedience to his commands,

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therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith

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without the deeds of the law.

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And so it's important for us to realize what salvation is,

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but you know, as we grow in our faith,

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let us move on into perfection, right?

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Let's learn a little deeper regarding the doctrine

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of salvation, who plays a vital role

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in getting someone saved, okay?

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So once someone is born again,

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meaning they have believed on Jesus Christ,

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they placed their faith in him,

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you know, at that point they're saved.

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They have eternal life.

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But if we're to get down to the nitty

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and gritty details of what has taken place at that moment,

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there's a law that has happened,

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and there's a lot of effort on various parts,

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you know, the various people and individuals

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to make that happen for that person.

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So let's talk about that.

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First Peter chapter one,

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and verse number one says this,

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Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ

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through the stranger scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia,

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Cappadocia, Asia, Bethany,

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he says, elect according to the foreknowledge

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of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit

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unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ,

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grace unto you in peace be multiplied.

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Here we see what we commonly refer to as the Trinity, okay?

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You have God the Father, God the Son,

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and God the Holy Spirit.

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Let me just say this real quick,

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is that this sermon is not gonna be

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an encouraging sermon for you.

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I'm not trying to exhort you.

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This is a doctrinal sermon to teach you information, okay?

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But it's important for you to know,

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because we don't need doctrinally illiterate Christians

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in this world that are just ignorant

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of what the Bible actually says.

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So here in verse number two,

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we find the three most important factors in salvation

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which is God the Father, God the Son,

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and God the Holy Spirit.

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I said that there's six people, six individuals involved.

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The first part of the sermon is the first three

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which is the Trinity's part in salvation.

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Go to John chapter six if you would.

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John chapter six.

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John chapter six if you would.

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Point number one, when it comes to the roles in salvation,

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let's talk about God the Father's role in salvation.

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What role does he play in the justification

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of an individual at the moment of salvation?

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Point number one is that the Father draws the sinner,

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okay?

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The Father drew you.

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He drew me, right?

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At the moment of salvation.

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And in fact, prior to us getting saved,

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the Lord was drawing us unto him.

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Now let me explain to you first what that doesn't mean, okay?

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Because a lot of times people,

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namely the Calvinists,

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they have this doctrinal position, this false doctrine,

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that asserts that when the Father is drawing you,

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it's like this supernatural pool or something.

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Because you are elect,

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meaning God has chosen you for salvation.

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You don't choose yourself.

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It's predestined for you.

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And the doctrine of the Calvinists essentially asserts that

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God basically chooses who gets saved

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and chooses who doesn't get saved, okay?

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At a whim.

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Meaning that if we're to just take this crowd right here,

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this is the way God did it.

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Not saved for sure, okay?

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Save, save, not saved, save, not saved, not saved.

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Save, save, that's how you do it.

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Just on a whim.

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Not based upon your decision,

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not based upon your belief,

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just based upon his whim that he desires

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for some people to go to heaven

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and some people to go to hell.

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And that is a false doctrine.

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And look, not only is it a false doctrine,

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it's just a godless doctrine, period.

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Because when you get down to the nitty and gritty

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of that heresy,

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you realize that what they're asserting is that,

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for example, if a child were to die

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and they were not chosen, they would go to hell.

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So according to their doctrine,

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hell is filled with children who died in the womb,

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died thereafter, and if they were not,

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because they were not chosen.

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They were not elect, they were reprobate.

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They were depraved, and for that reason,

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they are in hell, and that's a godless doctrine.

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The Bible does not teach that at all.

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Now look, folks, at the moment of salvation,

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yes, we are called the chosen,

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but that essentially is based upon,

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the condition of being chosen

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is based upon being in Christ.

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And we choose.

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Whosoever will may come, the Bible says, right?

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There's all types of verses in the Bible,

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a myriad of scriptures that calls people

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to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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Why would they be there if we couldn't choose, right?

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And so this doctrine asserts, well,

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he's drawing the elect, he's drawing the chosen.

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There's just something in this that says,

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I just know that I'm chosen.

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I just want to be saved.

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I just love God.

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And let me tell you where this ends up heading to

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is that when they claim to get saved,

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these people who are Calvinists, hardcore Calvinists,

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they believe, well, because I'm the elect,

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I just naturally want to do right all the time.

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I just naturally want to obey the commandments.

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I just naturally love God.

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I just will do right all the time,

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and I will not sin, but that's also heresy.

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You know, if anyone says they have no sin,

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they may God a liar, the Bible says.

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They're deceiving themselves.

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No one naturally wants to do what the Bible says

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because number one, everyone starts off ignorant

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of what the Bible actually requires of them.

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So until you read it, until it's preached to you,

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you're not really gonna know

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what is required of you, right?

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We have to be able to be exposed to the doctrines

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and the standard of the Bible to obey the Bible.

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You know, the apostle Paul said,

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I had not known less except the scripture has said,

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thou shalt not covet.

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So he's like, I didn't even know about less

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until the Bible literally said that I shouldn't covet

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and then I realized that it was a sin, okay?

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And so it's important for us to realize

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that when the Bible talks about God drawing people,

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he's not referring to this supernatural pool

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where he's just wooing you, you know?

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He's like the cartoon with the pie,

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and you know how the scent of the pie

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just goes through the window and it gets on the,

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and then he just like floats or something.

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That's not the way the Lord does it, okay?

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I want pie.

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What does he mean by he says that the father draws

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or the father's the one who draws the sinner?

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Look at John chapter six, verse 44 if you would.

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John chapter six and verse 44 says,

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no man can come to me except the father

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which had sent me draw him

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and I will raise him up at the last day.

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So the Bible's telling us here

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that anybody who comes to Christ came

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because they responded to the drawing of the Lord, right?

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Of God the Father.

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Now luckily, the next verse explains to us

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what it means when he says he draws them.

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Verse 45 says, it is written in the prophets

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and they shall be all taught of God.

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Every man therefore, listen to this,

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they have heard and have learned of the Father

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come to them to me.

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So how does God draw people through the Bible?

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That's how he does it, okay?

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When the Bible talks about God bringing people,

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drawing people, he does it through the scriptures.

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Whether it's a saturated amount of scriptures

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that you hear in churches as a child,

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whether it's a verse that you see on TV, on social media,

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he's working through the scriptures

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to draw you unto him.

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But folks, let me just say this at the end of the day,

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you have to choose to go, right?

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If God is calling, he's drawing you through the scriptures,

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he's using social media, pastors in churches

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to kind of put the bait out there,

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he's using the Bible, you have to take the bait.

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You have to allow yourself to be drawn unto him,

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you have a choice, you're not a robot, okay?

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And look folks, the Bible tells us

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that there's various forms the way God does this.

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He does it through the scriptures,

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he does it through the word of God.

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This of course comes through preaching,

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it can come through a soul winner,

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it can come through, you know,

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it can even come through to a certain degree unsaved people.

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You know, unsaved people, they give scriptures all the time.

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They can't get anybody saved,

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but the word of God still has power

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and it can be planted in the heart of a person.

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This is often when we talk about a seed being planted,

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you know, an unsaved person can give you a verse

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or something like that, they quote a verse

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and it's in there in your mind,

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you're just like, oh, I never really thought about that.

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And then as you respond to the truth of that verse,

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it can in like manner,

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position you to hear the gospel and so forth, okay?

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So God draws the sinner at salvation,

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of course he's working on these people,

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he's working on us,

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he was working on us prior to salvation,

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he does it through the Bible,

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but let me also say this,

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he also does it through our conscience and our,

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and creation, okay?

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Look, go to Romans chapter one if you would.

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Romans chapter one.

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This is the system that God has set forth

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to make salvation available to people, okay?

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And let me just say this is that,

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you know, dreams can't save you, okay?

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Looking at a jungle can't save you,

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admiring the stars and the celestial bodies

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cannot save you,

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and you know, just being given a verse

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can't save you either, okay?

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And I'll explain later on why that is.

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These are all conducive, though.

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These are all necessary.

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These are all elements that God has placed

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in the structure of this world

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in order to gear a person towards the truth, okay?

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So you know, we, the Bible says that,

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you know, you have to equate

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and who were dead in trespasses and sin,

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that in time past we walked according

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to the course of this world,

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according to the prince of power of the air,

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the spirit that now worketh

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in the children of disobedience.

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The Bible talks about the course of this world.

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So we're walking through this course

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and all of a sudden we get like a measure of truth here.

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You know, someone gives us a verse

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or we get a measure of truth here.

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We look at creation.

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We get a measure of truth.

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Our conscience bothers us

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and as we respond to that light, as the Bible says,

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we're essentially led on the path of salvation

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so we can reach a point

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where God ends up sending someone

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who knows the gospel,

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can give us the gospel and get saved, amen?

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Look at Romans 1 and verse number 17.

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It says, for therein is the righteousness

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of God revealed from faith to faith

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as it is written that just shall live by faith

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for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven

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against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men

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who hold the truth in unrighteousness

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because that which may be known of God

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is manifest in them for God has showed it unto them.

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So according to the Bible,

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every single person in this world,

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whether they want to admit it or not,

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they believe in hell.

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They believe in eternal damnation

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whereas the Bible puts it,

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the wrath of God.

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No, that's not true.

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It says here that it's manifest in them.

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Like they know it in here

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that there's something waiting on the other side

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called damnation.

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They may not know all the details

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but they know there's a consequence to their actions.

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And why did God reveal that to people?

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I'll tell you why,

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to motivate people to get saved,

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to motivate people to seek out the truth, right?

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Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come

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as John the Baptist told the Pharisees.

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It says in verse number 20

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for the invisible things of him

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from the creation of the world

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are clearly seen being understood

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by the things that are made,

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even his eternal power and Godhead

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so that they are without excuse.

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So the Bible is saying here

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that he uses creation as a means

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to point to a creator

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and thereby get the gears rolling, right?

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The spiritual gears rolling to say

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there has to be a creator.

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And look, I remember being an unsafe person

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looking at the heavenly bodies,

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looking at the stars,

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viewing the skies,

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viewing all of creation

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and being in all of a creator.

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I wasn't saved.

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But I remember thinking like this is beautiful.

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Like there's something bigger than all of this, right?

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And the Bible says here

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that it's for this reason

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that people are without excuse.

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Meaning that the pygmy

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that dies and goes to hell

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at the white throne judgment

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and he's not gonna be like, I didn't know.

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Nobody wanted to come with me.

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No missionary came.

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I don't wanna give me the gospel.

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It was like, bro, you lived in the jungle.

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You had the witness of creation.

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You know, the Lord sent rain upon you, right?

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Isn't that what the Bible says

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that he sends rain upon the just and the unjust?

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You got rain, you were fed,

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you saw the trees,

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you ran from tigers, you hunted.

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I fed your family.

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He provided for them all the days of their life.

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He gave them a breath.

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I mean, everything that was around him

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essentially testified that there was a creator

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that he was experiencing those residual blessings from.

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And so that person is without excuse.

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Now obviously, if that person doesn't get the gospel,

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according to the Bible, he will not suffer.

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Listen to this.

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He's not gonna suffer a as severe punishment

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in hell as others.

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He's still gonna hell though.

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And keep in mind, the Bible talks about

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various levels of punishment in hell.

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Bible talks about the greater damnation, okay?

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The greater sin.

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If there's a greater damnation,

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that means there's certain people in this world

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that suffer a hotter hell than others according to the Bible.

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And if we were to conjecture why that is,

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it's based upon the fact that

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the people who suffer a greater damnation

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are those who have more truth and rejected it.

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Meaning that they were exposed to the Bible,

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they know the gospel.

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Let me say this.

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If a person goes to a fundamental Baptist church

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and never gets saved, they die,

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they are going to a very low hell.

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Cause they're coming to church every single Sunday

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listening to the word of God.

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They're reading the scriptures, hearing the hymns.

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They're surrounded by Christians.

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They're surrounded by the truth.

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The Holy Spirit is constantly working on them

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and they're rejecting it.

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They get a lower hell.

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Lower hell.

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Whereas the pygmy,

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you know, the guy in the wilderness

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who's, you know, just a savage.

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Yeah, he's going to go to hell as well,

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but the only thing is,

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is that he's going to be like a higher level.

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You know what I mean?

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He's on the fifth story of hell.

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Whereas the other person is on the first story

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closer to the core.

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The point being though,

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is that even though he's on the fifth story,

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guess what?

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According to the Bible, he's still without excuse.

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Because living in the jungle is not a good enough excuse

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because the jungle provides the witness of creation

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that should tell them,

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oh, there's a God out there.

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And don't give me this.

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Well, they just don't know about Jesus.

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Yeah, but so how do they,

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I mean, does like the devil have a book too or something?

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Why are they worshiping Satan?

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Why are they worshiping false gods?

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Why are they worshiping idols?

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Why are they worshiping devils?

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I'll tell you why,

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because they looked at the creation and said,

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no, God's not responsible for this.

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This false God is.

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They gave credit to a false God

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rather than the God of the Bible.

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This is why the Bible says,

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because that which may be known of God

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has manifested in them,

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for God has showed it unto them.

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So it's not like,

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oh, they're just ignorant of the God of the Bible.

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Well, you know what?

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They're just as ignorant of devils to them.

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But yet somehow,

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somehow they're worshiping false gods.

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So I don't have sympathy for heathens and savages.

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And I do believe that people need to go win them

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to Christ for sure.

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I want them to come to the saving knowledge

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of Jesus Christ.

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And look, in the colonial days of our country,

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there's many missionaries that went to the Indians

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and want them to the Lord.

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And a lot of these Indians assimilated into

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American culture,

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as well as Christianity.

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But many of them just stayed in their pagan beliefs.

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And guess what?

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They died and went to hell.

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That is the reality of it.

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But you know what?

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They are with that excuse according to the Bible.

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Because God did his part.

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He created the word of God.

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He created creation

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so that these Indians who are hunting buffalo,

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they get to enjoy all the splendors of American land,

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that should have witnessed to them,

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there is a creator,

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instead of worshiping whatever religion that they have.

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It goes on to say in verse number 20, verse 21,

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because that when they knew God,

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they glorified him not as God.

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So they looked at the stars

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and they're just like God of fertility.

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You know, they looked at a tree like the God of the trees.

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They glorified him not as God.

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They glorified him not as God.

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Neither were thankful,

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but became vain in their imaginations

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and their foolish heart was darkened.

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What does it mean to be vain in their imaginations?

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Creating a plethora of false gods

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based upon certain aspects of their society.

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Oh, God of fertility, a God of this, a God of that.

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You're just vain.

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You're just making up stuff that's not true.

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And your heart is darkened,

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therefore, you know,

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they're gonna suffer the consequences of their actions.

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Go to chapter two, if you would.

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Chapter two, we're talking about the father

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who draws the sinner.

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How does he draw the sinner?

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What role does he play in salvation?

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He draws the sinner through the clear teachings

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of the word of God.

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If someone does not have access to the word of God,

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it's okay.

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He has created the witness of creation

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that will move them to worship the unknown God, right?

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As Acts chapter 17 clearly demonstrates.

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And in light of that,

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someone came and gave them the word of God.

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That's how it works.

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But he also gave them their conscience as well.

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Look at Romans chapter two in verse number 12.

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It says,

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For as many as have sinned without law,

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shall also perish without law.

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And as many have sinned in the law,

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shall be judged by the law.

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What does that mean?

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It means, oh, you don't have the law of God?

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You're gonna perish without the law of God.

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There's no, like God's like, oh, my bad, you know?

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So I didn't know you didn't have the law.

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So we're just gonna be more lenient with you.

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No, you're gonna perish without law.

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That's what the Bible says.

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It says in verse 14,

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for when the Gentiles,

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and when the Bible talks about Gentiles,

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it's referring to nations,

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but it's often used in the Bible

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in conjunction with those who are unsaved.

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So anytime you hear like Gentiles

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in these particular contexts,

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it's often referring to like the unregenerated, okay?

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It says for when the Gentiles,

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which have not the law,

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do by nature the things contained in the law,

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these having not the law,

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are a law unto themselves.

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So isn't that interesting?

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This kind of flies in the face

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of the total depravity doctrine of the Calvinists.

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Because the Calvinists believe,

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well, you know, the totally depraved,

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those who are not elect,

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they can't obey God.

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They can't obey the laws of God.

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They can't, well, it says here that the Gentiles do.

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They do by nature the things contained in the law.

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And then it says why?

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Because their law unto themselves, verse 15,

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which show the work of the law written in their hearts,

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their conscience also bearing witness,

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and their thoughts to meanwhile,

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accuse or else excusing one another.

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In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men

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by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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So he gave them a conscience

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to know between right and wrong.

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That means that no society throughout history

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has the right to be a degenerate society.

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It doesn't matter how they grew up

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or what their culture was, it does not matter.

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They have no right to be a degenerate society.

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Because the Bible says that they have the law of God

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written in their hearts telling them this is wrong,

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this is right, this is wrong.

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Hey, eating people is wrong.

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That's just how they grew up.

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Well, you know, still no excuse.

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It's not like the conscience is like,

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oh, this is how they grew up.

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So I'll just switch the settings here real quick.

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We'll just switch the settings and justify cannibalism.

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And you know, many societies

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have participated in cannibalism

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and even Indians in America, okay?

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You know, a lot of times people want to defend Indians,

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Native Americans and how they deserve reparations

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and all these things.

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And they often portray the European settlers

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and colonists as being just evil people.

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But Europeans weren't eating people, though.

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That's an absolute degenerate thing to do.

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You know, and yeah, but they're eating the colonists

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because the colonists, no, no, no,

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they're eating other Indians.

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They ate other Indians.

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Well, yeah, but you colonists, they brought slavery.

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The Indians enslaved other Indians.

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That's what they did.

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No, but you know, they came and they just like,

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stole the land.

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Indians were stealing land from other Indians.

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They're pillaging them, stealing from them,

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cannibalizing them, raping them.

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So a lot of these accusations,

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which by the way, a lot of that stuff

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did happen, like the Europeans did participate

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in a lot of atrocities for sure.

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But let's not minimize the fact

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that these Indians did the same thing, though.

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And in some cases, even worse, okay?

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I mean, absolute depravity, okay?

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And it's like, yeah, but that's just the way of the land,

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you know, just how they grew up and, you know,

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oh, just naked, barbaric and cannibalistic?

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No, because they had a conscience

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that told them that that was wrong and they ignored that.

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That's exactly how it happened.

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And so, you know, and I'm not against

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Native Americans or anything like that.

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I'm just against the victim mentality type thing.

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And I'm definitely against people trying to get reparations

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for things that didn't happen to them.

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That's not you, okay?

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Unless you're still cannibalizing people, I don't know.

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Point being here is that the role

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that God the Father plays in salvation

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is that he draws the center.

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You and I were drawn into the Lord through the scriptures.

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We were drawn through creation.

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We were, you're like, why didn't he creation?

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I grew up like in the city.

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Well, you're drawn by your conscience

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and you probably had an abundance of exposure to the Bible

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without even knowing it.

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And look, if I were to think long and hard,

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I can think of various instances in my life

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as a child up until I got saved

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where I was exposed to the Word of God.

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Someone explained the, and look,

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some of it was through like false religion too.

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I'm just saying, you know,

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even though they took it out of context,

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I was exposed to the Bible.

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In fact, you know,

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how many of you have ever heard of the cult

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called La Luz del Mundo?

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Okay?

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It's a major cult in Mexico.

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It's made its way here.

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I went to that church,

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not out of convictions because of a girl.

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And I was, a girl in vitamin.

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You're like, I'll go to your church, you know?

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And it was weird.

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You know, I remember going there

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and you know, I want to sit next to her

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and she was like, actually here we sit separate.

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You know, the males sit here, the women sit here.

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And I remember them reading scriptures.

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And in my mind, I'm like, man,

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what they're reading doesn't seem to match up

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with what they're doing here.

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But I didn't really care about religious things

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at that time, you know?

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But I just remember reading that

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and seeing that and thinking to myself,

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something doesn't seem right here.

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You know, that was God exposing me

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to the Word of God, even through Balaam.

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Okay?

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And so we all get exposed to the Word of God

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throughout our lifetime.

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Maybe some of them might give us a verse.

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We see it on social media.

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Maybe it's family, friends, whatever it may be.

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But it's essentially the Lord trying to draw you

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unto him.

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Go to Acts chapter four, if you would.

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Acts chapter four.

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Acts chapter four, we're talking about roles in salvation.

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Talk about God, the Father's role in salvation

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is to draw you.

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It's to bring you to the lights, right?

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It's to help you to respond to the light

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that he gives you.

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You know, the Bible talks about Jesus Christ

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being the light of the world,

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but it also says that he is that true light

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which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

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So the more we respond to the Word of God

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and the light, the more enlightened we become to the truth.

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But let's talk about God, the Son here.

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So the Father draws a sinner in the role of salvation.

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The Son, of course, died and resurrected for us.

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All right?

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Now look at Acts chapter four, verse 12.

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It says here, neither is there salvation in any other

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including Mary, including saints, works, baptism.

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No exception in any other

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for there's none other name under heaven given among men

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whereby we must be saved.

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Oh, I'm just kidding.

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You gotta go to the mom too though.

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You gotta pray into the mom to get to the son.

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Doesn't work that way.

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The Bible says there's none other name

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given among men whereby we must be saved

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meaning that the only name that can save you is Jesus.

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That is the name.

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And obviously we know that people in the Old Testament

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they got saved through the same manner.

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And obviously they're not calling upon the name

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of Jesus Christ because the name of Jesus

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was not revealed in the Old Testament.

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But his name has varied throughout history.

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And the stipulation of what name we have to call upon

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has changed, has it not?

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The manner of salvation has not.

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Meaning that someone can't just call upon

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the name of the Lord, we need to specify to them

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they need to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jesus has to be the one they believe in.

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And look, it's important that we defend the name of Jesus

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in the day and age in which we live

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because there's so many alternatives to this.

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Yahashua and Yeshua and people are like,

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well, isn't that his Hebrew name?

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You don't know Hebrew though, okay?

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And you're like, yeah, but that's what they called

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each other, you don't know that.

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We can speculate that, we can conjecture that,

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but if we're to go to the written word of God,

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even in its original language,

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there's no existence of that, anybody calling him that.

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Just under Isus, which is modern day

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what we would say in English, Jesus, okay?

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And you say, well, what's wrong with Yahashua, Yeshua?

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Well, here's the problem with it, okay?

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Often it's connected to a lot of false doctrine.

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I have yet to meet a person who uses that name

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and has the right salvation.

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Whereas the name of Jesus is associated

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with justification by faith.

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It has the salvation that is in line with the Bible.

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Whereas most of the time you have these people

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who use these terms, and I'm talking about teachers

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and false prophets who use these terms

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and they believe in a false salvation.

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What kind of salvation do they believe in?

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Well, it's often a Judaizing movement is what it is.

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A Hebrew roots movement where they're trying

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to bring people back under the law,

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try to get you to obey the law instead

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and try to minimize the work of Jesus Christ.

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That's exactly what that movement does.

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And you know what?

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That's what the Bible means by another Jesus, okay?

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The name we have to call upon is Jesus Christ.

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That is what the Bible tells us.

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Go to Romans chapter four, you're in Acts four,

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go to Romans four, if you would.

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Romans chapter four.

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Romans chapter number four

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and look down at verse number,

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let's see verse number 22.

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It says,

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What does that mean when it's counted

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unto him for righteousness?

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What exactly does that phrase entail?

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When the Bible talks about righteousness,

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it really depends on the context

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of what we're talking about.

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There's instances in the Bible

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where righteousness is simply referring

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to someone's moral conduct.

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Their uprightness, right?

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You see this a lot in the Old Testament.

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This is a righteous person,

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meaning they're morally upright,

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they're an outstanding person,

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they're an honest individual and so forth.

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But in the context of salvation,

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it's often referring to the righteousness,

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the perfection of Jesus Christ,

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the sinlessness of Jesus.

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Now you and I both know that the Bible teaches

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that we are sinners.

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For all of sin and come short of the glory of God,

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the Bible also says that our righteousness

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are as filthy rags,

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meaning we have no righteousness,

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perfection, moral purity in and of ourselves

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we are tainted with this corruptible flesh for sinners.

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And that's the problem.

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That's why we can't save ourselves.

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So in order to be saved,

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it's not like, well, I need to work on righteousness.

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I need to become a righteous person

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because of the fact that the Bible says

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that there's none righteous.

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No, no, no, I'm just gonna keep doing the right thing

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and keeping God's commandments

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and obeying the Bible and serving the Lord.

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Not enough.

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It's not enough.

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And people think it's enough sometimes.

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Like, well, if you just do these things,

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you'll be saved.

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No, because the Bible's already condemned you.

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So what are you gonna do about the last 20 years

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of all the disobedience and sins that you've committed?

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What about that?

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You know, you're righteous.

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When he says there's none righteous,

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it means from the time that you were born

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because you have a corruptible flesh

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up until this time right now,

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you are an unrighteous person in the eyes of God.

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You're not perfect.

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You sin against the Lord.

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And on top of that, you have this corruptible flesh.

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So the answer is that we need someone else's perfection

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to be placed on our account.

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This is what the word imputation is referring to.

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Okay, meaning that Jesus Christ takes his own righteousness

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and he gives it to you.

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Because keep in mind, the condemnation from God the Father

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is that there's none righteous.

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So he looks at you as just like unrighteous,

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but then when you get saved,

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the righteousness of Jesus goes on you

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and God sees you through the perfection of Jesus Christ.

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Not your own perfection.

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Your own perfection sends you straight to hell.

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Straight to hell.

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You know, you go straight to hell for that.

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It cannot save you whatsoever.

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Then why do you do works?

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Then why do you have maintained good works then?

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To please the Lord?

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Because I want rewards when I get to heaven?

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Well, I do it because I love God.

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No, you don't.

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Because you're not saved.

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If you believe works save you,

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then you don't have the love of God in your heart.

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Okay?

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Because the love of God is shed a bra

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through Jesus Christ.

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We can think we love God prior to salvation,

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but we don't really love God

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because of the fact that God is love

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and the one who sheds love into our hearts

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is Jesus Christ at the moment of salvation.

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Because then you realize what salvation is, right?

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When you get saved you're like, man,

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you know, God did commend his love toward me

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and that while I was a sinner,

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Christ died for me.

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Like he loves me, he paid for him,

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then you start realizing,

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as the Bible says in Ephesians chapter four,

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the length, breadth, depth and height

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and to know the love of Christ

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that passed through all knowledge.

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That's what the love of God is, right?

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And so once you have the righteousness of Jesus,

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at that point, when God looks at you,

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he doesn't look at you based upon the sins you've committed.

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He doesn't look at you based upon the sins

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that you will commit

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when it comes to the context of salvation.

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He sees you through the perfection of Jesus Christ

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which leads us to this term, justification.

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So when he sees you, he doesn't condemn you,

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means you were already justified in the eyes of God.

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And a lot of preachers have said,

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justification a good way to explain it is like saying,

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just as if I've never sinned.

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So this is what it means when it talks about

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that righteousness was imputed unto Abraham

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and how was it imputed by him keeping the law?

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No, because there was no law back then.

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How was it imputed because he believed God?

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Yeah, but that's Abraham though.

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That's Old Testament, that's Abraham.

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Well, look what it says.

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Verse 23 again,

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now it was not written for his sake alone

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that it was imputed unto him,

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but for us also,

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to whom it shall be imputed,

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listen to this,

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if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord

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from the dead who was delivered for our offenses

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and raised again for our justification,

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there you have it.

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So he is delivered for our offenses

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meaning that he was crucified for our sins,

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past, present, and future,

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big and small.

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We see that in the chapter as well.

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And he's also raised again for our justification

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because folks, if Jesus died for us

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but he did not resurrect,

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it would just be meaningless.

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Because he wasn't able to conquer death,

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but he did conquer death, okay?

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So this is the role of Jesus Christ

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in the subject of salvation,

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is that he died and he resurrected

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and he is the only name that can save us.

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And we need to eradicate

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the doctrine of interlopers into that doctrine.

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People who try to interfere like Mary,

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you know, and obviously she's in heaven,

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she doesn't agree with what Catholics are doing.

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I'm saying people who, you know,

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use and abuse her name

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in order to assert that we have to also trust in her

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for salvation, it's nonsensical,

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it's not in the Bible.

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And look, let me just tell you,

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Catholics don't have a leg to stand on

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if they only use the Bible.

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They don't have a leg to stand on.

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Because in order for them to prove their doctrine,

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they have to go outside of the Bible, okay?

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They have to go to the church fathers

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and other heretics and false prophets

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in order to back up what they're talking about.

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Go to John chapter 16.

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Let's go to John chapter 16, if you would.

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John chapter 16, the roles in salvation,

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we talked about the father drawing the sinner

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through the scriptures, through creation,

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through the conscience.

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We talked about the role of Jesus Christ.

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He's the one that dies and resurrects.

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And then we have the role of the Holy Spirit.

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Now what's interesting when you actually observe

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these three in its context of salvation,

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you notice that like obviously everyone

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does a lot of work for this thing, right?

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But there's a lot that the Holy Spirit does

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when it comes to the moment of salvation.

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Even prior to salvation, at the moment of salvation

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and thereafter, he does a lot, okay?

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Like he has a lot of responsibilities, okay?

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And we're gonna look at one of them first and foremost

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in John 16.

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What are we gonna talk about?

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The Holy Spirit reproves sinners, okay?

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Look at John 16 and verse number eight, if you would.

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Actually, let's go to verse number seven.

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Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.

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It is expeding for you that I go away

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for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come

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unto you, but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

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And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin

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and of righteousness and of judgment,

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of sin because they believe not on me,

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of righteousness because I go to my father

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and he's seen me no more, of judgment

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because the prince of this world is judged.

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So what does the Bible say in here?

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It's saying that one of the ministries

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of the Holy Spirit is that he reproves unbelievers.

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Now, I don't believe this is referring to

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like an unregenerated person, unsafe person,

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just feeling bad about something

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because according to the Bible, that's the conscience, right?

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The conscience is doing that.

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I believe the way the Holy Spirit reproves

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is through the preaching of the word of God, okay?

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And what I mean by that is this, you know,

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Jesus said, my words that I speak unto you,

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they are spirit and they are life.

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So he works through the preaching of God's word

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to bring reprovement upon a person.

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And look, we've had this happen even here.

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Where unsafe people come to church

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and they're not saved and we talk about salvation

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and they're just kind of sitting there

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and they're just like, I'm not saved.

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You know, like, I don't believe this.

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I need to believe this.

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I need to be saved.

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And, you know, you said, what is that?

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That's the Holy Spirit reproving you.

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That's like when we would say like

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the Holy Spirit is working on you, okay?

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And make no mistake about it, prior to salvation

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all of us had the Holy Spirit working on us.

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Just like working and working.

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Hebrew chapter six describes it as, you know,

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being a partaker of the Holy Ghost.

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Meaning that the Holy Spirit

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through the preaching of the word of God

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is coming to you, he's working in your heart.

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He's confirming what the truth is being stated, right?

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And we know that the Holy Spirit does this after salvation.

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Like, you know, if I'm preaching

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or anybody else is preaching about a particular sin,

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you're like, oh man, I feel like he's talking about me.

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Or I feel like I've just dealt with a situation like that.

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Or I feel like this is relatable

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to what I'm going through right now.

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That's the Holy Spirit bringing that application to you.

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Okay, this is not me, you know,

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gossiping with other people about you.

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Okay, this is not me like, hey,

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you guys got anything from me?

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I need some content or something.

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I'm just preaching the word of God

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and the Holy Spirit comes

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and he kind of translates that, he brings it unto you.

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Well, prior to salvation, he does the same thing.

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He's using the word of God, okay,

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to bring compunction to the heart,

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to bring those thoughts to your heart,

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to help you to realize like, man, I don't think I'm saved.

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I need to be saved.

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And he kind of brings that type of compunction to say like,

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hey, I think I need to get saved right now.

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Like that urgency, right?

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And I remember being an unsafe person,

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thinking to myself like, you know,

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when I almost drowned that one the night before

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I got saved, I thought to myself like,

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I should have gone to church tonight.

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Not because I thought like the church can save me

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but I just knew that salvation was there though.

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Like the truth was over there.

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And so like there's this sense of urgency

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that the Holy Spirit brings to you.

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And this is what the Bible says, you know,

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to make sure that you don't harden your heart, right?

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To the Holy Spirit.

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Because the Holy Spirit is constantly working.

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He's using the word of God.

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You don't wanna just like shut him off.

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Because the more you harden your heart,

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the more likely it is that you can become

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what the Bible calls a reprobate,

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which is someone who's beyond the hope of salvation, okay?

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So he reproves unbelievers, go to chapter 15.

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Chapter 15, it says in verse 26 of chapter 15,

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but when the comforters come

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whom I will send unto you from the Father,

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even the spirit of truth which proceeded from the Father,

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he shall testify of me.

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And he also shall bear witness

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because you have been with me from the beginning.

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So what else does the Holy Spirit do?

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He reproves and then he testifies of Jesus Christ, okay?

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What does that mean?

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It means that he bears witness of the truth.

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And look, again, obviously this is personal experience,

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but I do remember hearing the word of God

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and various gospels that were false.

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I'm like, man, I guess this could be true,

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but there's like this always a sense of doubt

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of that gospel, right?

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And it wasn't until I got the right gospel,

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it was just like night and day.

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And you know, obviously fundamental Baptist churches

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are not the only churches that have the right salvation,

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but they're pretty strong on the right salvation.

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I went to a fundamental Baptist church

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and I remember thinking to myself like the confidence

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of this person, the way they're explaining it,

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the verses that they're giving me is just like,

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this is it.

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And I feel like the scales fell off.

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I feel like I was enlightened.

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That's the Holy Spirit testifying of the Son.

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And look, it doesn't take much.

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You know, I remember someone explained to me

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in Eternal Security, and I was like,

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so you can't lose your salvation for any reason whatsoever?

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And they're like, for my grace,

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are you saved through faith?

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And then not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,

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not of works that standing man should boast.

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And then he walked away and I was just like, huh.

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Yeah, that's, I'm not confused about that anymore.

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Like that's not a confusing thing to me anymore.

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That's the Holy Spirit enlightening,

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testifying of the Son.

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Now one point that I wanna make in this regard

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is that the Holy Spirit does not speak of himself, right?

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He testifies of the Son.

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So he's not gonna tell you something

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that's contradictory to the Bible.

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And we have a Christian culture, not here,

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but in various churches where people think,

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well, the Holy Spirit told me this.

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But if it's not in line with the Bible,

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then it's not the Holy Spirit.

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It's a spirit for sure.

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But it's not the Holy Spirit.

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And you know, people get all offended at that

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and bent out of shape because they want

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to associate Christianity with emotionalism

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and that which is of the sensations and how they feel.

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But let me just tell you, we walk by faith, not by sight.

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Meaning the senses of the body is not what we use

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to determine if something right or wrong.

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Cause we walk by faith.

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And this is not blind faith,

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it's faith based upon the word of God.

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Meaning that if you hear something,

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you always gotta compare it to the word of God.

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So it's like, oh, the Holy Spirit told me this

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and you're just like, no, that's not true.

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I don't know who told you that.

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I feel God told me, you know, run screaming

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in the opposite direction when you are in a church

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where people are constantly saying, God told me.

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Cause what are they doing?

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They're making themselves the authority

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of that particular place, okay?

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And look, the Bible specifically says

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of false prophets in Jeremiah chapter 23

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that he condemns these people who steal his words

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and that say, he saith when I have not spoken unto them.

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Stealing his words, claiming that God spoke to them.

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And look, if you feel like, well, you know,

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I feel like in a dream, God told me this.

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Well, let's go ahead and go to the Bible

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and if the Bible agrees with that,

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then we could just ignore your dream.

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Yeah, but it's true though.

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Yeah, but God said it first though here.

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So they're just copying him.

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Your dream has just copied him.

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Maybe you read it here

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and then you had a dream or something,

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but it was already here.

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That revelation is already here.

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And if it contradicts the Bible,

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then we definitely disregard it.

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The problem with people saying he saith

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or the Holy Spirit told me this

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is that now they can come up

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with all kinds of false doctrines.

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They can contradict the Bible all the time.

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And look, don't base what you believe off

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of what you dream about.

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Don't base it off of what you dream about.

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Don't base it off of a vision.

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Don't base it off of whatever.

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Have the conviction to do it

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off of what the Bible actually says.

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Okay, are you guys getting baptized over there or what?

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So you have the Holy Spirit

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who reproves unsafe people.

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Okay, he testifies of the sun.

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Go to Titus chapter three, if you wouldn't.

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Let's go to Titus chapter three.

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Titus chapter three.

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And then we're gonna go to Ephesians chapter one.

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Titus chapter three is a lot.

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The Holy Spirit does a lot.

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He's working through approving them.

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He's testifying of the sun.

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And at the moment of salvation,

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when someone believes on the Lord,

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you know what he does?

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He regenerates you.

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He regains you spiritually speaking.

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Look at Titus three, verse five,

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not by works of righteousness which we have done,

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but according to his mercy, he saved us.

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I want you to notice this

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by the washing of regeneration

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and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

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So he renews and he regenerates.

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Meaning that this is just kind of a fancy way of saying

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that he brings your dead spirit to life.

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He resurrects the spirit that dwells within you.

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Because we're all born with a living spirit.

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At the moment of birth, we have a living spirit.

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But somewhere along our life,

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we're exposed to the standard of God.

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And according to Romans chapter seven,

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the law slays our spirit.

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It kills our spirit,

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which is why the Bible says that we're dead

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in our trespasses and sin.

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So what we need is the resurrection

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of our spirit for salvation,

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which happens when we believe on the Lord.

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So then the Holy Spirit comes

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and he just resurrects us.

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Not our physical flesh, just our spirit, okay?

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And this is what the Bible says in 1 John chapter three

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that, you know, that which is born of God

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does not commit sin.

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Because the spirit doesn't sin.

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The flesh does.

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Flesh is corruptible.

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The works of the flesh are made manifest

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which are these adulteries,

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fornications, thefts and so forth.

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The flesh is always sinning.

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Whereas the spirit is sinless.

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It's already been glorified.

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It's resurrected.

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This is what the Bible calls the new man, right?

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If any man be in Christ,

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he is a new creature.

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Old things have passed away.

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Behold, all things have become new.

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So this is what he does.

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The Holy Spirit comes

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and he's just like, clear.

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And your spirit comes to life.

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Now you have like that new man.

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Now look, the new man desires righteous things.

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Desires the preaching of God's word

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in conjunction with your effort

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in cultivating those desires.

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Because look, if a person gets saved

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but they never go to church,

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they never endeavor to read the Bible,

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they never learn doctrine,

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guess what, they're gonna remain a carnal person.

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Not because their spirit is not saved,

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but because they haven't cultivated

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the righteous desires.

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You have to feed the spirit

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in order for you to have the right desires.

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And none of us are born again with the right desires,

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just already present.

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They have to be cultivated, okay?

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You know, when I got saved,

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I did wanna go to church

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because I was just attracted to the truth

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and I just jumped in head first

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and I started going soul winning,

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reading my Bible and so forth.

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But not everyone is like that.

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Sometimes it takes people like a really long time

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to actually get right with God

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and be in church and do all the,

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and then you start seeing people

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who were not in church in times past

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that are back in church

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and then they're on fire for God.

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I'll tell you why they fed the spirit.

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They're giving the spirit,

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the spiritual nutrients that it needs

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in order to grow in their faith

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and be a successful Christian and so forth.

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This is the renewing and regeneration of the Holy Ghost.

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Go to Ephesians chapter one.

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Ephesians chapter one, if you would.

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So he's working.

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Holy Spirit is doing a lot.

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He is reproving.

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He is, you know, testifying of the sun

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at the moment of salvation.

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He is regenerating you.

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He's renewing you, right?

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And then after salvation, he indwells you.

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Okay, look at Ephesians one verse 13,

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in whom you also trusted after that

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you heard the word of truth,

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the gospel of your salvation

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in whom also after that you believed

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you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise

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which is the earnest of our inheritance

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until the redemption of the purchased possession

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until the praise of his glory.

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Meaning that the moment of salvation

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the Holy Spirit comes and he dwells within you.

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So we have the new man dwelling within us

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but we also have the Holy Spirit.

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And the Holy Spirit is within us

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for a variety of reasons, okay?

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One is to empower us to do the work of the Lord, okay?

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But another reason is because he operates

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somewhat as a down payment on this corruptible flesh.

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You understand?

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So it's like a promise to us that like,

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hey, your spirit is redeemed

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and you're gonna struggle for the rest of your life

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with your flesh.

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Your flesh is sinful, okay?

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It's corruptible and you're gonna fight the flesh

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for the rest of your life

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but I promise you I'll redeem that one day too.

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And look, anybody who wants to live a godly life

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and has endeavored, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

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Oh, wretched man that I am

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who should have delivered me from this body of death?

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You know, you wanna do right,

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you wanna think right,

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you wanna behave right,

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you wanna talk right,

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but the stupid flesh,

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that old man,

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the old Bruce Mehe is just constantly getting in

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and no matter how much I crucify him

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with the affections and lust,

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he's still there.

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21 year old Bruce Mehe is still there.

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His sinful desires are still there.

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His sinful way of thinking is still there

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and it could be vexing, all right?

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It's just vexing, he's like, man, I hate the old me.

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I hate that this stuff is still in me,

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in my mind, in my heart,

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maybe bad habits, bad ways of thinking,

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they're still there.

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But the Holy Spirit operates as a down payment, right?

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The earnest of our inheritance to say like,

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one day I'm gonna possess the entire body.

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Now, this shouldn't cause us to think,

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well, I'm gonna be redeemed anyways,

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I'm just gonna live a godless life or something like that.

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No, because the Bible says be holy as your father,

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which is in heaven is holy, right?

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The Bible talks about sanctification

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and the Bible talks about you suffering consequences

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severely if you disobey God.

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That's the sermon for another day.

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The point being here is that the Holy Spirit comes,

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he indwells you, he regenerates you,

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he testifies of the Son.

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This is his role in salvation.

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Turn with me if you would.

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Let's go to Acts chapter 13.

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We're almost done here.

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Acts chapter 13.

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So that is the Trinitarian role

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of salvation for every individual.

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The Father draws the sinner,

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Jesus Christ dies and resurrects for the sinner.

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The Holy Spirit reproves, testifies of the Son,

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regenerates, renews, and indwells the believer, right?

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Now let's talk about the last day,

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and I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on this,

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but here is the fourth participant in our salvation,

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and that is the church.

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The local New Testament church plays a vital role

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in the salvation of a lost person.

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Not, I don't mean like they come here

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and then they get regenerated or something, right?

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Like there's holy water or something.

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I mean, there's water there for sure.

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You guys are getting some holy water

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sprinkled on you today, but none of it's holy.

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The church, what does the church do?

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It sends out the soul-wanderer.

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The church is the place where the believer is trained,

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is discipled, and is taught how to preach the gospel

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and is sent out of there.

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Look at Acts chapter 13, verse one.

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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch,

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certain prophets and teachers in Barnabas

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and seeming that was called Niger,

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and Lucius and Cyrene and Menean,

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which had been brought up with Herod,

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the tetrarch and Saul.

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And they ministered to the Lord and fasted,

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or as they ministered to the Lord and fasted,

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the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul,

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for the work, where unto I have called them.

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And of course, as we know, Barnabas and Saul,

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not under their own accord,

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they were sent out by a church

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to go and preach the gospel, do missions work,

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and get a lot of people saved, okay?

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And look, folks, we need to not minimize

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the importance of a local New Testament church,

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especially in regards to missions work

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and getting people saved.

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You know, the Bible talks about

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that He gave you some pastors and prophets

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and some evangelists and teachers

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for the perfecting of the saints,

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for the edifying of the body of Christ,

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talking about the fact that the church is there

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to complete you as a believer

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in your virtue Christian living,

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but let me just also say this,

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in your ability to preach the gospel as well, okay?

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And this is why it's important to be a part

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of a local New Testament church

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so you can be trained on how to preach the gospel.

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Obviously you have people out there

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who don't have a church,

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they all have to preach in the gospel.

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You do a lot better job

01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:15.080
if you're actually in a local New Testament church

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and you learn to actually preach the gospel there first.

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Say why?

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Well, because of the fact that these ronin soul winners

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can often come up with some funky practices.

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Just come up with weird,

01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.140
and then they're kind of like their own authority.

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They don't have anybody there critiquing them

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and they might have like bad practices,

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things that just are not working.

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And so you need the exhortations of a church

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to kind of mold you into being a soul winner.

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Point being is that the church plays a vital role

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in the salvation of the loss.

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It sends out soul winners.

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Our church sends out soul winners.

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I mean, there's people that are going

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to Barbados today, right?

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You guys are going to,

01:00:56.640 --> 01:00:57.700
tonight you guys are going to Barbados

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to preach the gospel to the heathen,

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you know, whoever's there, whatever.

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These islanders or whatever,

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to preach the gospel to them.

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This is because a church is setting forth

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the project of going there and doing so.

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And so the church plays a vital role.

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Let me also say this,

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is they go with me if you would

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to go to 1 Peter chapter one.

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1 Peter chapter one.

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So the church plays a vital role.

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It sends out the soul winner.

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Let me tell you what else plays a vital role in salvation

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and this is very important, the scriptures.

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The scriptures play a vital role in salvation.

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Not your illustration.

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Not your testimony.

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Not your, you know, cute little phrases or whatever.

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Use them if you want.

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But the Bible needs to be preeminent.

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The scriptures are what they say.

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Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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Look at 1 Peter chapter one.

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And verse 23, if you would,

01:02:03.490 --> 01:02:04.810
it says, being born again,

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not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible,

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by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever.

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Folks, we live in a society

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where people just want to have a way with words.

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They want a way with explaining salvation.

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And they're almost trying to like win people

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and win people over by arguments

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and debates without the Bible.

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But the power is in the Bible.

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You know, the word of God is quick and powerful,

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sharper than any two-edged sword.

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It pierces even to the dividing of thunder

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of soul and spirit, joints of the marrow.

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It's a discerner of the thoughts of the intense of the heart.

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The word of God is what saves people, okay?

01:02:43.810 --> 01:02:45.750
And I'm not downplaying illustrations,

01:02:46.730 --> 01:02:47.910
testimonials, and so forth,

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but they need to be used in conjunction

01:02:50.510 --> 01:02:52.230
with the saturated amount of the Bible.

01:02:53.050 --> 01:02:53.490
You know what that means?

01:02:53.590 --> 01:02:54.610
That means you need to know the Bible.

01:02:55.410 --> 01:02:56.730
That means when you're preaching the word of God,

01:02:56.830 --> 01:02:57.990
you better have some verses memorized.

01:02:58.730 --> 01:03:00.470
You better have passages memorized

01:03:00.790 --> 01:03:03.850
or you better have them tabbed up, highlighted in your Bible.

01:03:04.250 --> 01:03:05.890
You need to make sure you place your faith

01:03:05.890 --> 01:03:06.890
in the word of God

01:03:06.890 --> 01:03:08.390
and you want people to place their faith

01:03:08.390 --> 01:03:09.230
in the word of God as well.

01:03:09.550 --> 01:03:09.890
You know what that means?

01:03:10.070 --> 01:03:11.270
It means when you're preaching to someone,

01:03:11.610 --> 01:03:12.610
show them what the Bible says.

01:03:13.430 --> 01:03:14.750
Okay, like, hey, you know, this is what the Bible,

01:03:15.010 --> 01:03:15.650
read it, you know?

01:03:16.450 --> 01:03:16.950
Read it.

01:03:17.290 --> 01:03:19.070
I remember one time I was out souling with my family

01:03:19.070 --> 01:03:21.670
this lady came out and I was preaching the gospel

01:03:21.670 --> 01:03:24.290
to her and I'm like showing her

01:03:24.290 --> 01:03:25.470
and she just kind of like looking at me

01:03:25.470 --> 01:03:26.590
and I'm just like, man, this is late.

01:03:26.810 --> 01:03:28.590
And I'm just like, hey, you know, right here,

01:03:28.590 --> 01:03:30.850
here, you know, I'm preaching in Spanish.

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And then, you know, after a while, she's like,

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oh, I'm blind, I can't see.

01:03:40.460 --> 01:03:41.820
It's like that fish lens.

01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:46.100
Like, man, she's like, I can't see.

01:03:46.380 --> 01:03:47.820
Well, good thing faith comes with my hearing, man.

01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:51.200
So at that point, I just closed my Bible

01:03:51.680 --> 01:03:54.060
because I can preach the gospel just from memory.

01:03:54.680 --> 01:03:56.240
But, you know, at that point, I was just like,

01:03:56.260 --> 01:03:58.260
okay, then this is no point, you know,

01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:00.080
using the physical Bible because she can't even,

01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:01.460
she can't even see it.

01:04:01.620 --> 01:04:02.940
But in general, you're gonna run into people

01:04:02.940 --> 01:04:05.060
who can't see and you wanna make sure

01:04:05.060 --> 01:04:06.460
that they see what you're saying there,

01:04:06.540 --> 01:04:08.500
what you're reading so that they're not placing

01:04:08.500 --> 01:04:11.640
their faith in you but in the actual power of God

01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:13.380
which comes through the scriptures, okay?

01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:14.960
Very important.

01:04:16.600 --> 01:04:17.820
And let me also say this, you know,

01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:19.920
in 2 Timothy chapter three, verse 15,

01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:23.740
it talks about Timothy being wise into salvation

01:04:23.740 --> 01:04:25.700
through the scriptures, meaning that, you know,

01:04:25.780 --> 01:04:28.040
as a child, he was learning the scriptures

01:04:28.520 --> 01:04:30.660
and, you know, his mother was teaching him

01:04:30.660 --> 01:04:32.360
the scriptures, his grandmother was teaching him

01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:34.400
the scriptures, and what did that do?

01:04:34.740 --> 01:04:37.340
It kind of prepared his heart to receive salvation later on.

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You know what that means, parents,

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you need to make sure that you're reading the scriptures

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and talking about the scriptures

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to your children at home.

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Do not minimize the importance of the Bible

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in your household, okay?

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And don't think, well, you know,

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I just don't think they understand, oh, they get it.

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Okay, they probably listen better interest

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than you do sometimes.

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That's just the fact.

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Kids absorb things like a sponge.

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And, you know, I try to make sure as best as I can

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and my wife does a way better job at this than I do

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because, you know, she's a keeper at home

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that, you know, we give them, we're teaching them the Bible,

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we're teaching them biblical concepts,

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even if they're not saved,

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because we believe that the scriptures

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can make someone wise into salvation, okay?

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Saturates their heart, it's preparing them

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to receive salvation, okay?

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Go to Romans chapter 10, if you would,

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go to Romans chapter 10.

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Romans chapter 10, if you would.

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Woo-hoo, spirit, yeah.

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That's God's judgment on you, Pastor Maria.

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How shall they believe in him

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in whom they have not heard?

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And how shall they hear without a preacher?

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You know what they need?

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They need a preacher of the gospel

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to bring them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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So you know what?

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God the Father can do all this work.

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God the Son died, he already did the work.

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The Holy Spirit can reprove.

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He can testify of the Son.

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The church can send out soul winners.

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The scripture has the power, but if you don't go,

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it's all meaningless, okay?

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Go to 1 Corinthians chapter nine,

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1 Corinthians chapter nine, if you would.

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And look, make no mistake about it.

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Let me just tell you this, we save people, okay?

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Oh, brother, let me just correct you

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on one thing real quick.

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We don't save anybody.

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God says, no, no, no, we save people.

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The Bible says that we save people.

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And if some have compassion, making a difference,

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others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

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And you know what, anytime someone tells me that,

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like, brother, we don't say it,

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I tell them, like, yeah, you probably don't.

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We probably don't preach the gospel at all.

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You know, because you always have

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these Monday morning soul winners online

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that think that they can tell you how to preach the gospel,

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how to get people saved, how to do missions

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when they never do it.

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I'm not gonna take advice from people like that, okay?

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Look at 1 Corinthians chapter nine and verse number 19.

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It says, for though I be free from all men,

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yet have I made myself servant unto all

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that I might gain the more.

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Unto the Jews, I became as a Jew

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that I might gain the Jews to them

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that are under the law as under the law,

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that I might gain them that are under the law,

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to them that are without law as without law,

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being not without law to God but under the law to Christ,

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that I might gain them that are without law.

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Look at verse 22, to the week became I as weak,

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that I might gain the weak.

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I am made all things to all men

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that I might by all means save some.

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Bible says, the apostle Paul saved them.

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And you know what, that's our job as well.

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We need to make sure that in order for us

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to complete this circle,

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we gotta get involved in saving people, right?

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And taking credit when we do, that's what the Bible says.

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Now, what's the, here's my conclusion, okay?

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What's interesting about these points?

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Well, they kind of mirror one another, don't they?

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They mirror one another.

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God the father, right?

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He draws them.

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He sent the son.

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God the son is the one who actually did the work

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on the cross, okay?

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And then you have the Holy Spirit

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that testifies of the son.

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Or the second half, the church sends the soul winner.

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The scripture, just like Jesus,

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is the word of God that actually saves.

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And you know what, the Holy Spirit, like the soul winner,

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testifies of the son.

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All of these have to work in conjunction

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in order to get people saved, my friends.

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These are the rules of salvation.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word

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and thank you for the explicit teachings of the Bible.

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Help us as your people to do our part, Lord.

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God the father has done his part.

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God the son has already done his part.

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The Holy Spirit is doing his part.

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Churches are doing their part.

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The scripture can do its part.

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And Lord, you need us to do our part as well,

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to go out there, open our mouths boldly

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to make known the mysteries of the gospel.

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Help us to do so.

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Keep those who are going to Barbados safe, Lord.

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Give them a prosperous journey.

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May they get a lot of people saved out there, Lord.

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And I pray that you give them a prosperous journey

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as they do so.

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We love you, we thank you.

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We pray the sins in Jesus' name.

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Amen.