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Amen.

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Well, I want to thank Pastor Mahia for giving me the opportunity to preach this morning.

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And you're there in 1 John chapter 5, look down at your Bibles at verse 13.

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The Bible says, these things have arisen unto you that believe on the name of the Son of

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God.

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And it says that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe

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on the name of the Son of God.

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And the title of the sermon this morning is the importance of eternal security,

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the importance of eternal security.

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And this is why I want to preach on this doctrine of eternal security or one

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save while we save because it is an essential doctrine of the Christian faith.

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The Bible does teach that eternal security is the gospel.

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So in order to be saved, you have to believe in this doctrine.

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And according to the eternal security, you know, as a believer, we can have full assurance

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that we are saved.

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So if you're here this morning visiting and you don't know whether or not you're

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going to go to heaven, the Bible says right there in 1 John 5, 13 that God wrote this

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so that we can know that we have eternal life.

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And this morning I have six points that I want to cover of what eternal security proves.

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And I have a seventh point as a bonus of what happens if you deny this doctrine.

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So just as a way of introduction, I'm going to read to you a couple of verses and while

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I do that, just go to John chapter 10 if you would, John chapter 10.

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And as I said, eternal security is the gospel.

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It is something that God has made clear in the Bible.

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It's not an obscure doctrine where, you know, we have to wonder whether or

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not we're going to go to heaven.

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The Bible makes it very clear that we can know.

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And that's a good assurance to us.

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That's the good news knowing whether or not we're going to go to heaven when we die.

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And it's not something that we have to wait until, you know, we die, you know,

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to find out whether or not we were good enough to go.

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The Bible says right here that he wrote this so that we can actually know

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because we believe on the name of the Son of God.

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And so Acts 16 tells us exactly what we have to do in order to get saved.

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Obviously this is just a review for a lot of us because we know what it

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takes to get saved if you're saved this morning.

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The Bible makes it clear that there's only one thing that we have to do

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in order to go to heaven and that's just to believe on Jesus Christ,

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which means we have to put all our faith, all our trust, all our confidence

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in what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross.

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You know, the fact that he died for us was buried and that he rose again

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three days later. And if we put our faith on this,

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the Bible says that we have eternal life.

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The Bible says in Acts 16 30 and 31 and brought them out and said,

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sirs, what must I do to be saved?

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And so that question was asked in the Bible.

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You know, what do I have to do in order to go to heaven?

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And it's pretty simple. The answer, right?

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It was very clear.

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You know, God could have put anything on this passage, you know,

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when it talks about what do we have to do to go to be saved?

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You know, God could have said you have to repent of your sins.

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God could have said you have to get baptized.

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You have to go to church.

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You have to be a good person.

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But when we read that verse, when the question was asked,

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what must I do to be saved?

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The answer was clear and it says this, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

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and thou shall be saved.

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So it's that simple, just believing on Jesus Christ,

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having faith in the Jesus of the Bible.

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And like I say, you know, eternal security is not an obscure doctrine.

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It's something that's very clear in the Bible.

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It's not something that we have to, you know, study for long hours.

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We read a verse and we take it at face value, use some common sense,

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use some logic, and we can understand that once we're saved, we're always saved.

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And we read to you another verse.

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The Bible says in Acts 4 12, you're still there in John chapter 10.

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The Bible says in Acts 4 12, neither is there salvation and any other

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for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

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And so the point I'm trying to make here is that Jesus Christ

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is the one that gives us eternal life and there's no other name

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given among men under heaven where we must be saved.

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And so the Bible makes it clear that we have to put our faith on Jesus Christ.

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And when we talk about Jesus Christ, we're talking about the Jesus of the Bible.

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See, because there's a lot of false Jesus out there.

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There's a lot of false Gospels out there.

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And when we tell people, hey, put your faith on Jesus Christ,

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we're talking about Jesus of the Bible.

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The Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter two, verse five, it says, for there is one God

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and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.

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So all throughout the Bible, it's going to emphasize that the Savior of men

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is Jesus Christ.

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And notice that it says that there's one mediator between man and God,

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the man Christ Jesus.

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It's not saying the Virgin Mary.

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It's not saying the Pope, that faggot, right?

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It's not saying the priest or anything like that.

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It's saying that there's one man between one mediator between man and God,

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the man Christ Jesus.

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Now I'm going to read to you in John chapter 22, you're still there in John 10.

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John 22, 31, similar

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wordage to what we saw in 1 John chapter five.

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It says, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,

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the Son of God, and that believing you might have life through his name.

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And so John makes it very clear what we have to believe, right?

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In order to get saved.

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He tells us the purpose of his books.

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He says, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,

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the Son of God, and that believing you might have life through his name.

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In 1 John five, 13, when we first started,

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he said that these things are written that you may know that you have eternal life,

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right? That you believe on the name of Son of God, may know that you have

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eternal life.

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And so this morning, as I said, I want to give you six points of what the

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doctrine of eternal security proves and a seventh one as a bonus of what

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happens if you denied this doctrine.

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So let me read to you another verse before we get started.

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Second Corinthians chapter 11 and verse four says,

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for if he that cometh, preach another Jesus whom we have not preached,

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or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received or another

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gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

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And so here we see that there is another Jesus, obviously the false Jesus.

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There's another gospel, which is a false gospel.

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There's another spirit.

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And the Bible tells us in the first John five,

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I believe it says, beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits,

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whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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And so there's a lot of false prophets out there.

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The Bible makes it very clear.

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People that profess to be Christians, people that pass themselves as passers,

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you know, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what

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they teach nor where they affirm.

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And so there's a lot of people out there that have the title of a pastor,

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but they're teaching a false gospel.

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And why is it false?

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Because they deny one, save what we save.

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They deny eternal security.

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And so here we see that there's another spirit.

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There's another gospel.

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The Bible also says in Galatians one, it says, which is not another,

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but there will be some that trouble you who would pervert the gospel of Christ.

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So it's not that there's two gospels or anything like that.

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There's only one gospel, believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But there are people out there that would pervert this gospel of Christ.

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And so, like I said this morning,

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I just want to give you six points on what the doctrine of eternal security proves.

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And then a bonus point of what happens if you were to deny this doctrine.

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So go to you're there in John chapter 10.

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Look down at your Bibles at verse 28.

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That's how the sermon this morning is the importance of eternal security.

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So here's the first thing that proves number one is this,

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that eternal security does prove one save, always save, right?

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Or as we also can put it as you cannot lose your salvation.

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The Bible teaches that once you're saved, you're always saved.

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That's it. Once you put your faith on Jesus Christ, you have eternal life.

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And like the word implies eternal means eternal.

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It's not temporal life.

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It's something that once you have it, you're always going to have it.

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Now in John chapter 10, verse 28, look down at your Bibles and it says,

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And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.

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Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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My father, which gave them me, is greater than all.

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And no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.

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Now go to Romans chapter eight.

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And so here we see, you know, that not only are we placed in the hand of Jesus,

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we're also placed in the hand of the Father.

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And so once we're in God's hand, there's nothing that we can do to pluck ourselves out.

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That's why it doesn't make sense when people say, you know,

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well, I'm able to walk away or what if I were to give the gift back?

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Or what if I were to fall away?

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That wouldn't make any sense.

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I would contradict this verse because the Bible clearly teaches that we're in

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the Father's hand and it says that no man is able to pluck them out out of my

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father's hand. And so that would include me. That would include you.

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You know, anything that you do,

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there's nothing that you can do, whereas you would fall out of the hand of God.

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God is preserving us. God is protecting us in his hand.

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Now you're there in Romans chapter eight.

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I'm going to read to you from John chapter six.

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And this reinforces what John 10 says.

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It says, All that the Father give me shall come to me and hand that come

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into me, I will know wise.

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Now notice how it says in no wise cast out, which means for any reason.

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So there's nothing that we can do where Jesus Christ will say, you know,

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cast us out, right? He knew far before we even got saved, you know,

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all the sins that we were ever to commit our future sins, our past sins,

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our present sins, because we sin every single day.

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And knowing that, having the knowledge of that, you know,

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the Bible says that he will cast us out in no wise.

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So for any reason, he will not cast us out.

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As I said, not only are we in Jesus hand, but we're also in the hand of the Father.

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The Bible says that, you know, no man is able to pluck them out.

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So we're not able to pluck ourselves out.

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Nobody is able to pluck us out.

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And in no wise means for any reason.

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Now you're there in Romans chapter eight.

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Look down at verse thirty eight.

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The Bible says, For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,

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nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come.

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I want you to remember that.

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And it says in verse thirty nine, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature

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shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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And so notice how it says in verse thirty eight, nor things to come.

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And you know, what's included in that are future sins, right?

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Because what's what's to come?

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We're going to sin tomorrow.

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You know, we probably already sinned today.

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There's no day that we can go without even sinning one time.

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And so God, knowing that beforehand,

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he still chose to die for us over 2000 years ago.

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Jesus Christ died for all our sins and knowing very well that we're still going to

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sin, the Bible says, nor things to come, that would include our future sins.

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Because here's the thing, we're going to sin regardless, right?

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Whether you're saved, whether you're lost, we're all sinners.

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The Bible says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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And so even if we were to backslide, according to the Bible,

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we would still be saved, right?

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It's not to say that, you know, we should backslide.

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But the reality is this, Christians backslide, people fall out of church.

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People get involved in sin.

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People start developing sinful habits or resorting to old habits,

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where it takes them out of the race.

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And even if we were to do that, according to the Bible, we would still be saved.

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The Bible says in Hebrews 10, it says,

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for we are not of them that draw back into perdition,

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but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

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And so we're never going to backslide to the point where we're lost, right?

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Because again, nobody could pluck us out out of the hand of the Father.

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Now go with me, if you would, to Romans chapter four.

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Romans chapter four.

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So the point I'm trying to make this morning, the first point is that

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eternal security proves one's save all we save.

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And the reason why we say that this is the gospel is because

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in order to get saved, you have to believe in the promise of God.

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The Bible says that in the hope of eternal life,

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which God that cannot lie promised before the world began.

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So if you were to get saved, you have to believe that you can never lose it.

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If you believe that you can lose it for any reason at all, for any wise,

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right, you're not believing what God is saying.

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The Bible says that in, give me a second here.

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And go to, I told you, go to Romans chapter four.

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The Bible says in Romans chapter four,

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look down your browser, verse number six.

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It says, even as David also described the blessedness of the man

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unto whom God and Peter righteous without works.

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So before I get to the second point, what I'm trying to make here

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is that the first point is this, that once we believe on Jesus Christ

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on the right Jesus, we have eternal life.

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That's it.

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No man could pull like this out of his hand.

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The first point I'm making is this, that eternal life proves one save,

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always save.

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The second point that I want to make this morning is that eternal

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security proves that Jesus paid for every single sin.

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Jesus Christ died for every single sin.

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And what we're saying is that this too, that once you believe

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on Jesus, the right Jesus, the Jesus of the Bible,

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not the Jesus of the Mormons, who's the brother of Satan,

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not the Jesus of the Muslims, right?

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Who just think he's a prophet or something like that.

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Not the one who's Pentecostal Jesus, none of that.

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We're believing in Jesus of the Bible, the Son of God, God and the flesh.

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So once we believe on him, we have eternal life.

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The second point is this, that eternal

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eternal security proves that Jesus paid for every single sin.

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Now you're still there in Romans chapter four.

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Let's continue reading there.

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It says in verse number seven, saying blessed are they whose

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iniquities are forgiven, which would refer to our past sins.

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And then it says and whose sins are covered, which would refer to our

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present sins. And it says, blessed is the man to whom the Lord

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will not impute sin.

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So that shows us that Jesus Christ even paid for our future sins.

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And a lot of people at the door, sometimes you ask him that question,

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right? Do you believe that Jesus paid for your sins?

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And they're going to say, of course, but then sometimes, you know,

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they wonder, you know, what if I were to kill myself?

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What if I were to go and commit murder or adultery?

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The Bible says that he paid for every single sin.

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So any sin that you could think of, you know, it would fall

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in under that category.

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He not only paid for the big sins, he paid for the smallest

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of sins, like a white lie.

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He paid for every single sin.

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And that's something that we have to understand.

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That's something that people have to believe and not just pay

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lip service to it, because the Bible literally teaches that

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that he paid for every single sin.

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Now go to Colossians chapter two, Colossians chapter two.

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And while you turn down, I'm going to read to you from first

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Peter two, it says in verse 24, who his own self bear our sins

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in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sins should

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live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed.

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And so we can see here that our sins were placed on Jesus Christ

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on the cross and he paid for every single one of them.

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And that's why the Bible says that we're justified because

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when God looks down on us from heaven, he sees us just as

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if we never sinned.

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He sees us with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

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The Bible also says in second Corinthians, who he had made

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sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness

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of a God in him.

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And so all our sins were placed on him.

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His righteousness, righteousness was placed on us.

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And so that's why when God sees us, we're deemed as righteous,

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we're saved.

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So in Colossians chapter two, you're there in Colossians

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chapter two, look down on your Bibles in verse number 13.

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The Bible says, and ye being dead in your sins and the

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uncircumcision of your flesh, had he quickened together with

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him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the

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handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was

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contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to

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the cross.

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And so again, the Bible, this just reinforces that Jesus

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Christ paid for every single sin because it wouldn't make

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sense if he only paid for our passions because then we

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would still have to our pay for make atonement for our

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future sins.

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And we know that that's not possible because once we were

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sinners, you know, we're always going to sin.

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We're the Bible says there's not a just man upon, there's

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not a just man.

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That's it.

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How's the verse go?

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Nobody finished.

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Yeah, upon earth that sin is not doing good, right?

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So there's nobody in this world that can say that

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they've never sinned or does not sin.

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That's why it's very comical when we're at the door

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and then, you know, they say, well, I lied when I was

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a little kid, right?

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Is it like, don't you lie more sometimes as an adult?

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You know, sometimes people, because they fear getting

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in trouble at work or, you know, at home or kids, right?

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They just fear getting in trouble with their parents.

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Sometimes they resort to lying.

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And so it's impossible for anybody to say, you know, with

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a clear conscience that they don't lie at all.

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So they may not commit bigger sins, but at the end of

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the day, we still all lie, right?

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So you're so go with me to James chapter two.

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Go to me to James chapter two.

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I'm going to read to you a verse from the Old

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Testament that also talks about this.

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It says in Isaiah 53 verse six, it says, all we like sheep

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have gone astray.

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We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord had

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laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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And so we know that Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain

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before the foundation of the world.

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So even before we were born, Jesus Christ already knew

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the sins that we would commit and he still paid for

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every single one of them.

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That's what the Bible says in Romans 5.8, but God

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commended his love toward us in that while we were

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yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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And that's a beautiful truth because we know and we

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have that confidence that there's no sin that we

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could ever commit after that we get saved or God

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would say, you know what, that's it, you know, I'm

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going to take your salvation away because that

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wouldn't make any sense.

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You know, that would be just temporal life.

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And if God were to do that, you know, that

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would, you know, that would prove that his

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promises were not true.

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Now James chapter two, if you're there in James

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chapter two, it says in verse 10, for whose

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service shall keep the whole law and yet offend?

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And look what it says in one point, he is guilty of

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all. So even if you were to try to commit the

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whole law, you know, I'm not going to steal, I'm

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not going to commit adultery, I'm not going to

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murder, I'm not going to cover my neighbor's

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wife, whatever you want to think of, you

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know, even if you were to stay away from all

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these sins, we still bear false witness

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sometimes, right?

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And we're guilty of all.

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So there's no sin.

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There's nothing, no day where we go where we

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don't sin, the Bible says that even the thought

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of foolishness is sin.

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And you know, I'll be the first one to admit, you

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know, sometimes throughout the day you have

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dumb thoughts, right?

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I mean, anybody else, right?

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But we all struggle with that, right?

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You have some dumb thoughts and the Bible

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says that even that is sin.

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So that just shows us that there's sins

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that we commit not only with our mind, not

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only with the things that we say, the

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things that we do, there are sins that

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we commit throughout the day that we're

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not even aware of.

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And if you've only been a church for a certain

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amount of time, you don't really know what

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the Bible teaches as far as like sins, right?

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There's a lot of things that sometimes you're

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in church and you hear about it for the

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first time, like long hair on men.

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How many people would think, you know, in

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the world today that long hair on man is

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a sin, but the Bible clearly teaches

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that that is a sin and that's something

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as men we have to steer away from, right?

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But you wouldn't know that unless you come

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to a church that actually preaches the

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whole counsel of God.

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And so what I'm trying to say here is

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that, you know, there's no moment in time

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where we're not going to sin.

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We're going to be sinners to the day

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that we die because we still have the

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flesh, we have the old man.

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But thanks to the promises of God, we

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know that he paid for every single sin.

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Now go with me if you will to

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go to Mark chapter one.

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Go to Mark chapter one.

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So the title of the sermon this morning

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is the importance of eternal security.

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Why eternal security matters?

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And the first point that I made is

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that eternal security proves one

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save always save.

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The second point that I made is that

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eternal security proves that Jesus

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Christ paid for every single sin.

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Now here's the next thing it proves.

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Eternal security proves that you don't

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have to turn away from your sins to

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be saved.

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And this is a heresy that we hear a

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lot today, right?

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That you have to turn from your sins.

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You have to be willing to turn from

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your sins.

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You have to, you know, you can't

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make a practice of sinners.

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All these ways that people try to

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twist it, but at the end of the

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day you will not find a verse in

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the Bible that says that you have to

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turn from your sins in order to be

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saved.

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Now to repent means obviously to

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have a change of mind, you know,

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change your mind about what you're

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trusting in and put your faith on

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Jesus Christ.

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And there's a lot of people today,

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you know, that they have bad language

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when it comes to this.

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You know, we do go to people at

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the doors and we tell them that

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they're sinners and they have to

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realize, you know, that they sin

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against God, that they need a savior.

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But we're not telling them, hey,

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you need to be willing to forsake

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your sins in order to be saved.

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That's a big difference right

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there.

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And unfortunately there's a lot of

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people in churches, in non-denoms,

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in all the old IV churches that

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give a pass to people that teach

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this and let that not be said

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that that's somebody like us.

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You know, that would be any of us

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right, giving a pass to people

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when they teach that you have to

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turn from your sins.

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Maybe you listen to somebody that

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says some good stuff, right,

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some good advice, but if they're

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teaching that you have to turn

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from your sins in order to be

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saved, they're a heretic.

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And so let me give you an example

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of one, probably the one of the

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most famous ones in the last

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couple of years, John MacArthur,

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right?

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John MacArthur is a false prophet

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and I thank God that he's burning

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in hell today.

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And that offends people

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sometimes because people like

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John MacArthur, right?

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He's been around for years.

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You have a brother Howells

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that preached against him.

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You have, you know,

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Roland Rasmussen preached against

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him. That guy's been around

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for years and, you know, he

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finally died.

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He's finally in hell.

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And unfortunately he left back a

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lot of books that are damning

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people to hell.

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And that's why it's important

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to preach against individuals

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like this.

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But listen to what he said in one

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of his books and just the title

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of the book itself should tell

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you, you know, it should show

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you red flags.

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The title of the book is hard

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to believe.

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Is that what we believe in a

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church? We don't, right?

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We believe that it's easy to

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believe. Easy believes it says

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him.

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And so John MacArthur in that

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book, it says salvation for

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sinners cost God his own

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son.

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It cost God his, it cost

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God's son his life and it'll

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cost you the same thing.

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So is that salvation us giving

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our life to Jesus Christ?

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No, it's not.

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You know, salvation is what

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Christ did for us.

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Not what we can do for him.

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It's not us giving our life to

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Jesus.

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It's the fact that Jesus Christ

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gave his life for us.

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And so John MacArthur is a

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heretic, you know, like I

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say, he's in hell right now

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and he'll be in hell for all

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eternity.

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And so this is a false gospel,

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the fact that you have to

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give your life to Jesus Christ

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and we shouldn't use language

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like that, you know, give your

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life to Christ, you know, be a

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follower of Jesus Christ.

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These are things obviously that

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we want to follow Jesus Christ,

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but that's not something that we

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do to get saved.

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So salvation is not again giving

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our life for Christ is what

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Christ did for us, the fact

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that he gave his life for us.

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Let me give you another

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example.

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And this is another false

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prophet who's still alive

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unfortunately, right?

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His name is Ray Comfort.

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I'm sure a lot of you have

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seen his videos, you know,

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the way of the master, all

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this stuff that he has and

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he's out there never getting

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people saved, right?

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He's out there supposedly

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soul winning and trying to show

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people how their sinners and

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this and that, but he never

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gets them saved.

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Why?

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Because he's not saved

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himself.

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And so he said in his book,

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it says, if you will repent

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of your sins and put your

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trust in Jesus, God says he

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will forgive you of all your

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sins and grant you the gift

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of everlasting life.

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And you can see how that's

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confusing to some people

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because it's saying that you

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have to trust in Jesus

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Christ.

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He'll give you the gift of

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everlasting life.

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But what does he start off

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if you repent of your sins?

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Now, what does he mean by

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that forsaking your sins?

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And that's not the gospel.

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You don't have to forsake

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your sins to be saved.

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Then he goes on to say, if

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you repent, that means to

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confess and forsake your

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sins.

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So in case there was any

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doubt, you know, I wonder

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what he means by this.

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He puts it in parentheses.

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He says, if you repent, that

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means to confess and

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forsake your sins and put

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your trust in Jesus, then

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you will not have to suffer

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God's justice in hell because

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the payment for your crimes

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was made by Jesus on the

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cross.

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And that's what he said.

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And that's a false narrative,

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right? The fact that you have

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to forsake your sin in order

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to be saved.

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You just have to believe on

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Jesus Christ.

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That's it.

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Now, you're there in Mark

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chapter one, look down on

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your Bible as a verse

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number four.

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The Bible says, John did

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baptize in the wilderness and

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preach the baptism of

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repentance for the remission

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of sins.

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And so here we see, obviously

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the word is used throughout

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the Bible of repenting.

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But we have to look at the

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context.

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You know, what does God

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mean by repenting in this

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passage?

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And they always bring up

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verses like that, having

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to repent and, you know,

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do and all this, but it's

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never in the context of

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salvation.

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And if we have to repent of

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our sins, you know, we have

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to ask the question, you

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know, what sins do we have

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to repent of?

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You know, is it the small

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sins?

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Is it the bigger sins?

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Is it like sins that I'm

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like continuously doing?

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You know, what, how many

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sins do I have to repent

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of?

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And that just shows you if

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you use some logic and

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common sense, it's

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impossible to forsake

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every single sin.

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Now go to 1st John

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chapter three, 1st John

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chapter three, I'm going to

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read to you from Acts 19

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verse four, that explains

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to us what the baptism of

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repentance is.

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And it says, then said Paul,

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John barely baptized with the

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baptism of repentance.

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And look what it says.

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It says, saying unto the

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people that they should

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believe on him, which

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should come after him, that

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is on Christ Jesus.

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So what was John the

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Baptist preaching?

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The same thing Baptist

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today are preaching,

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believing on the name of

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Jesus Christ.

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Now in 1st John chapter three,

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look down at your Bibles at

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verse number nine.

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It says, whosoever is born of

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God does not commit sin, for

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his seed remained within him

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and he cannot sin because

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he is born of God.

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Let me read to you from a

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modern version, not that I

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have it. This is the King

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James Bible.

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All right. I don't want to

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scare anybody.

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KJV.

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But let me read to you from

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the NIV and a lot of

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confusion comes because

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people use a false version

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of the Bible.

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That's why it's important to

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stick to the King James,

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the word of God in English.

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So in the NIV it says no one

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who who is born of God will

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continue to sin because

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God's seed remains in them.

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They cannot go on sinning

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because they have been born

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of God.

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The ESV, another false

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version says no one born

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of God makes a practice of

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sin for God's seed abides

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in him and he cannot keep

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on sinning because he has

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been born of God.

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And so that's why a lot of

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people today are mixed up

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when it comes to

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salvation because they're

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reading a false version.

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You know they read stuff like

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cannot make a practice of

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sin, cannot continue sinning.

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And salvation for one is not

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a process.

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Right.

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It's not that we're being

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saved like the New King James

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says we are saved.

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And that's why a lot of

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confusion comes from these

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modern versions because

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people think you know when

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it says born of God does

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not commit sin, of course

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we still sin right.

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But what it's referring to

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is that the spirit of God

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that lives within us,

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our new man does not

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commit sin.

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When we walk in the spirit

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the Bible says walk in the

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spirit and you should not

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fulfill the lust of the

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flesh.

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So we're in the spirit of

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course we're not sinning

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against God but we still

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have the old man.

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We still have the flesh.

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And you know there's a lot

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of podcasts out there

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that you know it's good

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for enjoyment in the sense

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of like you see what

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other people believe.

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And they always bring

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up this fact you know how

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can God still grant us

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eternal life if we

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continue sinning.

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I'm thinking of one of

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George Janko.

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I don't know some of you

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guys are familiar with it

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but he always has these

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heretics on there and he

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himself he's not saved

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because anytime you know

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he's talking about

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salvation he's always

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referring to how he

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still has to you know keep

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the commandments.

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He doesn't say straight out

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like that but that's what

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he implies.

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And so these

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podcasts when they talk

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about salvation being a

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gift salvation being only

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by believing they and

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then how even if you

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were to sin you would

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never lose it.

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What they forget to

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mention is the fact

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that we do have the new

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man obviously but we also

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have the old man still

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living with it within us.

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We still have the flesh

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with sinful desires

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and every day we have to

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choose whether or not we're

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going to walk in the spirit.

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You know the first thing

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that you do when you wake

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up in the morning you

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read your Bible you listen

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to hymns you come to church

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why so you could have a

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fighting chance to walk

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in the spirit to know

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what God wants from you.

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But if you're constantly

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just you know listening

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to worldly music

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watching worldly shows

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you know out in the

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work for you just making

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like all these bad jokes

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you're still going to

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be in the flesh you're

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still going to sin.

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The point I'm trying to

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make is that when the

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Bible says that the

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not commit sin is

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referring to our spirit.

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We don't sin with the

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new man now go to Romans

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chapter seven go to Romans

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chapter seven go to Romans

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chapter seven and over

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there look down at your

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Bible is in verse number

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14. The Bible says for

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we know that the law is

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spiritual but I am carnal

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soul under sin for that

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which I do I allow not for

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what I would that do I

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not but what I hate that

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I do that do I if then

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I do that which I would

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not I can send it to the

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law that it is good now

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then it is no more I that

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do it but sin that dwelleth

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in me for I know that in

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me that is in my flesh

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dwelleth no good thing

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for to will is present with

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me but how to perform it

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that which is good I find

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not. Now I'm not going to

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repeat that because

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that's always a tongue

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twister for everybody but

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you know basically what

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Paul is saying is the

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show that we would all

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agree that we go through

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day to day the fact that

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the things that we want

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to do which are spiritual

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things we don't always

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do it right. I for

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well I don't always wake

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up with the desire you

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know every morning

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especially retired to

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read my Bible but you

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have to do it right. You

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don't always wake up with

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the desire of coming to

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church you know some of

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you guys look like you

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just roll out a bit

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and I'm just kidding but

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but you don't always

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wake up with that desire

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right. You know these

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are things that you have

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to purposely form that

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discipline and say you

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know what Sundays are

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for church right. These

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are things that the

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spiritual man desires but

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you know what the old

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man desires to sleep in

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right. It desires to just

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chill at home you know

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watch cartoons but you

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know just be you know

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just be lazy sometimes

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but the spirit you know

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desires good things. It

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desires to read the

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Bible. It desires to be

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among God's people. It

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desires to be in church

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to preach the gospel.

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These are all good

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things that the

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spiritual man has but

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we're not always in

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the spirit which is

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why we're not always

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doing them and so here

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we see the fact that

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even the greatest

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Christian some would

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say which is Paul he

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struggled with in himself

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and are we not a lot like

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Paul we struggle every day.

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You know this is a

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continued battle that

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we're going to have

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until we have our glorified

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body and so go with me

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if you would to John

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chapter one John

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chapter one I'm going to

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read to you from

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Galatians chapter five

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another verse that has

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to do with this. It says

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this I say then walk

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in the spirit and you

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should not fulfill

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the lust of the flesh

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for the flesh lusted

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against the spirit and

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the spirit against the

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flesh and these are

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contrary the one to the

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other so that you

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cannot do the things

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that you would and so

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we see there again

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that constant battle

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with between us.

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We have the flesh

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the spirit and their

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constant just battling

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within us and it's up

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to us to be in church

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to be able to have

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like I said that

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fighting chance to be

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able to renew our mind

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to know what God

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expects from us.

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That's why a lot of

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people you know they

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live their lives

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and they don't know

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what the Bible says

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they don't get

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godly counsel

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they're just living

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like the world you know

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there's no difference.

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You know when you look

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at their life

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and what they're doing

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their aspirations

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their dreams

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their goals

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there's no difference why

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because they haven't

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renewed their mind.

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They haven't

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brought themselves

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to think biblically

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and put their life

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and thinking

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and align with the Bible.

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Now you're there

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in John chapter

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one.

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Give me a second.

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John chapter one.

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We said the title

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of the sermon this morning

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is the importance

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of eternal security.

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The first point is

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that it proves

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one save what we save.

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Second it proves

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that Jesus

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paid for all our sins.

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It also proves

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that we don't have to turn

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from our sins to be saved.

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Here's the fourth thing

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that eternal security proves

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it proves that we are

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the children of God.

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Now here's the thing

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obviously we're all

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created by God

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but not everybody

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is a child of God

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and the Bible

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makes that very clear.

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That's why I hate it.

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Well you know

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you're not going to say

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nothing at the door

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but when they say

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we're all brothers

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you know we all

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serve the same God

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if that guy is a Catholic

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that ain't my brother.

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Right.

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So in John chapter one

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look down at verse number 12

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the Bible says

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but as many as receive them

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to them gave the power

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to become the sons of God

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even to them

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that believe on his name.

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And again we see it over

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and over again.

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What's the requirement

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believing on his name?

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And once we do that

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the Bible says

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that he gave power

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to become the sons of God.

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So it is at that moment

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of salvation

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that you become

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a child of God.

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Go to Hebrews chapter 12

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go to Hebrews chapter 12

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I'm going to read to you

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from 1st John chapter 3

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verse one says

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behold what manner of love

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the Father had bestowed upon us

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that we should be called

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the sons of God

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therefore the world

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knoweth us not

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because it knew him not.

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And so again

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once you trust

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in Jesus Christ

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you become a child of God

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and because you're a child

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of God

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now you're able to receive

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that chastisement

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from Jesus Christ.

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Right.

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Because the Bible says

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in Hebrews 12

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look down to verse number 6

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Hebrews 12 verse number 6

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it says

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for whom the Lord loveth

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he chastened it

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and scourged every son

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whom he received it.

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And ye endure

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if you endure chastening

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God dealeth with you as sons

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for what son is he

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whom the Father chastened

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if not.

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But if ye be

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without chastisement

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whereof all are partakers

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then are ye bastards

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and not sons.

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So if you're not

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being chastised by God

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it clearly says

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whether you're bastards

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right and not sons.

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And God

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being our heavenly Father

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he doesn't want to see us

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going down the wrong path.

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That's why if we were to get

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involved in sin

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you know God will chastise you

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God will discipline you

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you know spiritually spank you

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to make sure

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that you get back

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on the right track.

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And us as parents

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you know if you have children

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you know this to be true.

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You know we try to raise

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our children in such a way

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so that they could be

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you know good kids.

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And the way that we do that

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often requires spanks.

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Right.

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If they're doing something

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that it's not right

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if they're going down

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a bad path you know

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they're going to get spanked

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right so that they can do

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what's right.

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It's not that we spank them

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as parents because you know

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oh I just hate this child

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so much.

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I'm just like

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give them a good one.

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No you have love

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for that child

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so that they can do

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what's right.

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And our parents did that

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with us.

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You know a lot of people

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hopefully in here grew up

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getting spanked right.

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If you're in church today

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I'm pretty sure you got

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spanked right.

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Because people out there

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are grown adults

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who are spoiled brats

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you know it's just

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throwing fits acting

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like little kids

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I guarantee you

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they weren't spanked

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as a child.

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And if they were

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they probably weren't spanked

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hard enough.

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So Hebrews 12 just shows us

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because we're children

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of God we're going to get

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disciplined and chastised

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by God.

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Now go to Romans chapter 6

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Romans chapter 6

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I'm going to read to you

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from Psalm 89

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Romans chapter 6

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you turn there

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it says in Psalm 89

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verse 30

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if his children forsake

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my law and walk

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not in my judgments

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if they break my statues

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and keep not

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my commandments

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then will I visit

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their transgression

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with the rod

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and their iniquity

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with stripes

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nevertheless

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my loving kindness

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will not

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will I not utterly

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take from him

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nor suffer my faithfulness

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to fail

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my covenant will I not break

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nor alter the thing

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that has gone out of my lips

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and so regardless

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if we sin or not

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which we are

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God will discipline us

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but what does it say

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nevertheless

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it says nevertheless

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my loving kindness

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why I not utterly

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take from him

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so even though

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we're getting chastised

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that's just God

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showing us

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that he loves us

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he wants us to do what's right

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why because we're his children

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but we will not lose our salvation

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we will not go to hell

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and the Bible teaches that

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the children of God

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if you're saved

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you know you do suffer consequences

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but the difference is this

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that every consequence

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that we receive from God

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will be in this life

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will be in this earth

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and that's something that we always

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clear up at the doors

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and it makes sense for them

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it clicks

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you know because oftentimes

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if Jesus paid for our sins

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and there's no sin

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that can send us to hell

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then you know what happens

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that we sin

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if we're not going to hell

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that doesn't change the fact

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that we're still going to receive

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consequences in this life

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and that helps people understand

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like okay

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that makes sense

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because

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although I'm going to heaven

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you know I should still want to do

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what's right

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so I could avoid

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getting spanked by God

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now the first thing I said

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the first point I made

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is that eternal security

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approves one same

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while we save

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it proves that Jesus died

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for every single sin

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it proves that

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you know we don't have to turn

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from our sins to be saved

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and then lastly I said

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that it proves that we are

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the children of God

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now here's the fifth thing it proves

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eternal security proves

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salvation is a gift

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and not a reward

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salvation is a gift

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and not a reward

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you're there in Romans chapter 6

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familiar verse it says in verse 23

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for the wages of sin is death

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and then look at the second part

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it says

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but the gift of God

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is eternal life

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through Jesus Christ our Lord

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and so we know that God

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gives us the gift of eternal life

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and it's only through Jesus

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it's not through the church

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it's not through your baptism

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it's not through how well you keep

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the commandments

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it's through Jesus Christ

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and it's sacrifice alone

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so God gives us that gift

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and like any other gift

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there's no conditions attached to it

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there's nothing that we can do

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or have to do in order to get it

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the Bible says right there

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but the gift of God

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is eternal life

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through Jesus Christ our Lord

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now go with me

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if you went to Romans chapter 4

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Romans chapter 4

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and so obviously when we receive a gift

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even in an earthly sense

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if I were to give somebody a gift

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you know I'm the one that pays for it

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okay

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and all you have to do is receive it

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and the same way

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that's the way that God gives us that gift

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you know he paid for it

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by the death of his son on the cross

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and all we're doing is just receiving it

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by believing in his son

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now if you're there in Romans chapter 4

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I'm gonna read to you from Romans chapter 5

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before going to

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Romans chapter 5 verse 18 says

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therefore as by the offense of one

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judgment came upon all men

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to condemnation

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even so by the righteousness of one

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the free gift came upon all men

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to justify

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justification of life

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and if you're there in Romans chapter 4

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look down on your Bibles in verse number 4

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it says now to him that worketh not

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sorry now to him that worketh

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is the reward not reckoned of grace

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but of debt

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but to him that worketh not

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but believe it on him that justified the ungodly

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his faith is counted for righteousness

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and so we see the difference there

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if you're working for it

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it's not a reward

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it's not a gift it's a reward

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it's something that you earn

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by the things that you do

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and the Bible makes it clear that salvation

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is not a reward it's a gift

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now granted we could get rewards

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if we serve Jesus Christ

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right

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the Bible says in Ephesians 2 for by grace

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or you say through faith

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and it says

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and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God

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not of works

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let's any man should boast

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so I don't know how many times the Bible has to say

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over and over again

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that salvation is not of works

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you know it's the gift of God

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now go to

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with me if you would to Romans chapter 11

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Romans chapter 11

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as I said a gift is something that's free

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no conditions

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it's unearned

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it's ours to keep no matter what

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and as a believer

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salvation being a gift

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you're still able to earn rewards

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by the things that you do

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you know anything that you do as unto the Lord

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I'm sure God will reward you

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the Bible says

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in Ephesians 2 10 for we are his workmanship

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created in Christ Jesus

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unto good works

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which God have

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before ordained that we should walk in them

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so of course God wants us to do works

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God wants us to serve them

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but not for salvation

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you know anything that you do

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when you get people saved

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when you get people to gospel

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God will reward you for that

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and that makes God a great God

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because not only did he give us the gift of salvation

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for free without ever earning it

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but he's even willing to reward us

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for the things that we do after that

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so that's why it's important to get in a good church

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so that you're able to get equipped

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to learn the Bible

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to learn how to preach the gospel

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so that you could earn some rewards

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and if you're in this church this morning

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and first of all if you're not saved

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get saved today

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but if you're saved

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you know it's time to earn some rewards

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right

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you don't want to live a life without purpose

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without ever ever doing anything for God

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you know it would be a sad reality

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to go throughout your whole life

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and never getting one person saved

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you know we live in the year 2026

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technology exists

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you know it removes a lot of excuses

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you know it's too hot outside

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I'm tired I can't walk or whatever

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there's Omi TV nowadays right

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you can literally sew in

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do missions online right

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you could get connected to somebody

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across the world in South Africa

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across the states right

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in any other state

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you know I'm thankful for people like brother T.J.

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right who's a silent worker really

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he's been like on Omi for the longest

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and now he's pretty popular on there

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one of his videos went viral

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he got some South African rapper

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saved

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and then I think next month

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he's going to go on tour with them

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but you know this is the work

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that he's getting done online

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and I like that video for several reasons

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one because the haters

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no matter how hard they try to hate on it

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they can't

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right

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that video you know what it shows

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that we're thorough with our gospel presentation

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it shows that we're charitable

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right

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T.J. wasn't on there you know

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cussing him out calling him the N

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we're nothing like that

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he was you know he had Matt

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yeah he was charitable right

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and he was thorough in his presentation

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he wasn't sloppy

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he wasn't just trying to get him to pray

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like hey real quick you know

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let's just pray real quick

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so I could count him as a number

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because that's what they say right

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you know those South Asians even count

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they do count

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you don't you think they don't count

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because you don't believe

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right you don't believe in getting people saved

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and so I love that video

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you know it shows

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somebody getting saved in real time

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and he didn't know that he was being recorded

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right

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and that's why it's important when you're

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all know me to be you know

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abnormal

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you know be a good testimony of our church

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now you're there in

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sorry I told you go to Romans chapter 11

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before I go there

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let me read to you from

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Ephesians 10 to 10

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I'm going to read it for you again

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it says for we are his work

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we should create and cross Jesus

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unto good works

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which God had before ordained

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that we should walk in them

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so again salvation is a gift

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anything that we do after that

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we will get rewarded for it

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so eternal security proves

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number one that once you're saved

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you're always saved

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I want you to remember that

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number two is that Jesus Christ

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paid for every single sin

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number three is that

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it teaches us and it proves

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that we don't have to turn from our sins

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to be saved

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and then it teaches us that

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we are the children of God

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it also teaches us right here

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that salvation is a gift

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and not a reward

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and lastly

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eternal security proves

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that salvation is not of works

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and that's the most obvious one

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but that's important to always

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you know hit on

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because we want to make it clear

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to everybody in our church

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that salvation is not based

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on your works

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anything like that

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you don't need works to get saved

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you don't need works to stay saved

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and you don't need works to prove

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that you're saved

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right all you have to do is just

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believe on Jesus Christ

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because a lot of people pay

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lip service to this that

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yeah of course salvation is not of works

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but if you don't have works

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are you really saved right

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then they do believe that it takes works

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and we got to be careful

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with how we word things

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you know just make it clear

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as the Bible makes it clear

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not of works

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as Annie mentioned both

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for any reason

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now if you're there in Romans

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chapter 11

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look down verse number 6

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the Bible says

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and if by grace

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then it is no more of works

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otherwise grace is no more grace

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but if it be of works

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then is it no more grace

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otherwise work is no more work

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and so it's saying there

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it can't be both

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it's either salvation is by works

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or salvation is by grace

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if it's by grace

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then it's not of works

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if it's by works

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then it's not of grace

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there's no other way to put it

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you know eternal security proves that

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that it's not of works

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because if it was based

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on our works

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then we can't really know

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if we're saved

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can we?

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how do you know

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when you've done enough works

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how do you know

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when you've been good enough

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and it's only because it's

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reliant on the fact

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that Jesus Christ paid

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for every single sin

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that we know

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that we have eternal life

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that's why it is good news

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and people that don't

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that believe that

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it's based on their works

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they'll never know

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whether or not they're saved

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you could ask any one of them

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any religion

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you know do they

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are they 100% sure going to heaven

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they're not going to give you 100%

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and if they say 100% they're lying

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because when you ask them

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what do you trust in

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what do you believe it takes

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they're going to say

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well I'm a pretty good person

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right?

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so they don't believe

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that it's not of works

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and I'm thankful it's not of works

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because none of us would make it to heaven

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if it was based on that

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now go to Galatians chapter 2

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Galatians chapter 2

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and again

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not of works

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that includes

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it doesn't require you to be baptized

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you should get baptized

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after salvation

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but even if you were to not get baptized

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you would still go to heaven

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it's not based on church sacraments

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it's not based on

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anything religious that you could think of

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it's definitely not based on the Eucharist

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right

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it's just based on believing on Jesus Christ

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and I'm thankful God put

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you know the example of the thief on the cross

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the story of the thief on the cross

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in the Bible

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because that just

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disproves every single argument about it

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and they like to say

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well that's just an example

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you know that's the exception

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not the rule

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no that just proves

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over and over again

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what the Bible teaches

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that salvation is only by faith

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so in Galatians chapter 2

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verse 16 it says

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knowing that a man is not justified

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by the works of the law

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and it says

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but by the faith of Jesus Christ

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even we have believed in Jesus Christ

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that we might be justified

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by the faith of Christ

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and not by the works of the law

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for by the works of the law

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shall no flesh be justified

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and so how many other ways can it put it

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you know it's saying that we're not justified

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by the works of the law

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but by the faith

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and it says we're justified by faith

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and not the works of the law

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so they just keep saying it over and over

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and it says for by the works of the law

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shall no flesh be justified

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And now I'm going to read to you from Romans 3 while I do that.

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Go to James chapter 2 and Romans 3 says to declare I say at this time his righteousness

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that he might be just and the justifier of him which will leave it in Jesus.

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Where is bolstering then?

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It is excluded by what law of works, nay, but by the law of faith.

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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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Over and over again, without the deeds of the law, by faith.

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You're there in James chapter 2, look down at your bolster, verse number 26.

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The bolster says, for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

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And isn't this what people always bring up, you know, at the door, at your workplace,

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wherever you're trying to give the gospel, you know, when you say it's not a works?

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Yeah, but if you don't have works, you know, you have a dead faith.

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You don't have genuine faith.

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And people like using these terms like, oh, he doesn't have saving faith, you know,

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or if you're truly saved, you know, when they say things like that, they're relying on their works.

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And they like to pull out James 2, but we know that James 2 is not talking about salvation.

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First of all, it's talking about to the believer.

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And we know that our works do not justify us before God.

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It does justify us before men because they can't see our heart.

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But whether or not we have works, we still have faith.

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It still exists.

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It's just dead, right?

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So we should have works in order to help the brethren in order to earn rewards.

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But having no works does not prove that you don't have faith.

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Because the Bible clearly gives us an example of somebody in the Bible that had no works yet was saved.

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The Bible says in Romans 4, but to him that work is not, he had no works.

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But believe it on him that justified the engali.

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It says his faith is counted for righteousness.

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So even though James says they don't contradict each other, you know,

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we should have works to help our brethren.

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But even if we don't have works, God sees our heart.

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It says that our faith is what justifies us.

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And I go to Romans chapter 4.

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I want to read to you some verses there.

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I'm going to read to you from Titus 3.5, reinforcing this.

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It says, not by works of righteousness, which we have done,

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but according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of generation and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

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So again, it says, 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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In Romans 4, look down here in your Bible, verse number 2.

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It says, for if Abraham were justified by works, he had wear of to glory, but not before God.

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For what saved the Scripture, Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

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And then it goes on to the verse that we said, but to him that work is not,

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but believe it on him that just the engali, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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So I think that makes it very clear that it's not of works.

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There's so many verses in the Bible that you could prove to people that it's not of works.

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And at the end of the day, it's just common sense.

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It's logic. It's just taking the Bible at face value.

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And it's not that they don't understand it. They just don't want to believe it.

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Now, go to 1 John chapter 5.

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So again, the title of the sermon this morning was the importance of eternal security.

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And this is an important doctrine. It's something that we constantly have to hit on,

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because we don't want to be a church where we have people who are mixed up,

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you know, in their doctrine, in their language. We want to make it clear that

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eternal security means one save always save.

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You know, the first thing it proves is that you cannot lose your salvation.

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One save always save. It proves that Jesus paid for our sins.

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It proves that we don't have to turn from our sins to be saved.

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It also proves that we are the children of God.

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It proves that salvation is a gift and not a reward.

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And it proves that salvation is not a works.

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That's only the beginning. I did have a bonus point, which is the seventh point.

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And this is what happens if you deny eternal security.

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If you deny eternal security, that tells God that you don't believe what he said.

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That tells God that you think he's a liar.

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You think he's a bull face liar.

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You're making God a liar if you deny eternal security.

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And you don't want to do that, right?

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When people, you know, you listen to people that just deny

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once they've always saved, it's not only that they're denying it.

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They're calling God a liar, right?

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And you know that God is not a man that he should lie.

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And in 1 John chapter 5, look down here, Bible is in verse number 10.

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It says,

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He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself,

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and he that believeth not God had made him a liar,

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because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

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And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life,

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and his life is in his Son.

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He that hath the Son hath life,

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and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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And so we see here that if you deny eternal security,

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you're not believing the record that God gave of his Son.

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You're telling God, you know, I don't believe you,

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you know, I don't believe your promise.

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I don't believe that Jesus paid for all my sins.

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You know, I don't believe that I'm held in your hand.

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You're making him a liar.

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And God loved us enough, as the Bible says,

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for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,

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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

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but have everlasting life.

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But if you deny eternal security,

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you're saying, no, that's not true, right?

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You're denying those verses.

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You're denying he that believeth on the Son

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hath everlasting life,

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he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,

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but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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You're calling God a liar by denying eternal security.

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It's not a place that you want to be at,

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because in order to be saved,

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you do have to believe that it's forever.

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If you deny eternal security, you're not saved.

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You don't have eternal life.

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You're making God a liar.

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Now Titus 1, 2 tells us in hope of eternal life,

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which God that cannot lie promised before the world began.

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So you're calling him a liar.

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You're not believing the promises that he made to us.

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And so if you were to deny that, again, you're not saved.

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If you don't believe in once they've always saved,

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you know, you get that right today.

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If you're visiting today and you're just here,

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you know, in town or whatever,

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you know, get saved today.

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You don't want to go on in life,

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not knowing where you're going to go when you die.

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Where we started, the Bible clearly said that

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these things have written unto you

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that believe on the name of the Son of God

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that you may know that you have eternal life.

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So salvation is something that you can get settled today.

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It's something that you can know for sure,

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whether or not you're going to go to heaven.

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And it's something that has been promised to us.

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All right.

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And lastly is this, that those are the things

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that eternal security proves,

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the fact that, you know, he paid for all our sins.

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We're his children.

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We don't have to repent, turn from our sins to be saved.

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And salvation is clearly a gift and not a reward.

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And when you're out there, I just want to encourage you,

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always emphasize eternal security

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because we want to make sure that people are getting saved.

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All right.

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We don't want to just avoid that

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and people not knowing whether or not it's forever.

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We want to make it clear eternal life means eternal.

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Let's pray.

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Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for all the things that you do

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and for the promise of salvation, Lord,

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that you give unto us.

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I thank you, Lord, that the Bible makes it clear

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that we can know that we're saved

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and that we have your promises.

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And we believe your promises, Lord,

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that you were able to be kept by your hand

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and by your power, Lord.

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I pray that you continue to use this, Lord,

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to reach the people of Anaheim and the city surrounding it.

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And I pray, Lord, that you continue to use our church

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in a mighty way.

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Please bless our pastor and the remainder of our day.

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In Jesus' name, amen.