"Highway to Heaven" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we know, we get it.

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There is a war going on for our souls, both inside our souls and outside.

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And so, Lord God, we pray that your kingdom come, your will be done, O God, on earth

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and through all of us this day, even everyone who's listening as it's being

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done and declared in heaven, that you cover and keep us, Lord, with direction, Holy Spirit

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guidance, protection, and joy. Father God, we thank you, Jesus,

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for dying on the cross, that you endure the shame of that cross

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for us, that you might bring many of us to eternal life

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and whosoever will. Thank you for purchasing our salvation with your own blood

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and thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy, so that we're not just

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down here as victims, but we can be more than conquerors through your love for us,

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Father. And we thank you, Lord, that you guide us, lead us by your wisdom today,

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all day, everything that has to do with this day, it's dedicated to you.

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And we thank you for, Lord God, connecting our minds, our hearts, our thoughts,

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even the eyes and the ears of the hearers and the seers, so that we can have eyes to see

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and ears to hear, like Jesus would ask. Do you have eyes? Do you have ears? Hear.

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So open our hearts to understand, and at the end we cannot snatch these

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concepts and truths out of us, but that they will stick with us. Ring in our ears,

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not ring, but, you know, I don't want your ears to ring, but that there will be

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a solid reminding,

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mulling over, meditating upon these precepts. And Father,

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we thank you, too, that the enemy has been defeated, is defeated,

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and we give him no more power. We declare over him your

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word, God, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed

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done, or action taken will be able to be used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble,

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or reproach, and that we're taking an offensive stand against the

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enemy. Lord God, to stand in heaven and all, to stand in these days, Father,

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in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, so what are we talking about today?

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Well, what is salvation, anyway? And how to get to heaven.

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Yeah. How do we get to heaven? I think that's a very big and important question we need to answer,

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and there's a lot of mess around it, a lot of mystery, a lot of

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counterfeiting, a lot of, you know, lies that have to do with

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salvation and how to get to heaven. Well, you know, there's

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all kinds of ideas that there are, ideas and traditions

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in churches. Let's talk about churches, and we can

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talk about, you know, other religions as well.

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Well, we've got a lot of... It's what we call Christian religion. Yeah, we've got a lot to cover. But, you know, the

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problem is, with salvation, the real beginning problem is sin.

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And, you know, we all are in this snake pit, and we live in that place where

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we don't like sin. We need to get rid of sin. We don't want to keep it.

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It's contrary to our divine nature. And some people,

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you know, believe, okay, we're sinners, and there's just no way to get out of it.

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All right, but Jesus Christ made a way, because sin is the transgression of the law.

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It's the breaking of the law. You know, Jesus

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said, when they were asking in Matthew 22, 37,

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what is the greatest commandment? Jesus said,

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you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself.

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This is the first commandment. The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor

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as yourself. He said that's a summary of all the laws.

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All the moral laws that were given through Moses

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and that we read about in the Old Testament.

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Well, the problem is the law could not save anyone. The law was unable

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to really do the work of redemption, salvation,

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because the law says, you know,

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you've got to be good. But you can't be good. There's no way to be

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good enough.

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Well, only if there's a fear of being caught,

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I guess. But anyway,

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the way we get to heaven, the rich young ruler said to Jesus

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in Mark 10, when he was looking for the highway to heaven,

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he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life? So do to inherit

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is kind of an oxymoron. It's already indicating

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he's thinking in any way that you have to do something to inherit

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something. You have to do something to be something you have to get,

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you know, work your way to heaven, which I think is true of

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what a lot of people think. But then God

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comes back and says in the next verse to the young man who wants to know

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how to get to heaven. There's none good but one. And that is God.

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So what Jesus is saying to the rich young ruler is it's not about being good.

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There's no one good but God. And you can't be good enough to get to heaven.

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That's the whole idea. You know, it's just it's a salvation.

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We find out is a free gift. It's not

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something God doesn't say, oh, you've done it. You've done so well.

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It's not a reward. It's not a reward. It's a gift. It's not a reward

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for behavior that's judged

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acceptable by God or services that, oh, you know, it's not for service

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rendered, a reward for service rendered. It's a free gift because there's

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no way the whole deal with the Old Covenant

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and the law and the law of the Old Covenant

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is that there's no nothing we can do on ourselves

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in ourselves, through ourselves, by ourselves

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to earn salvation. It is impossible to be good

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enough to be saved. Right. Because the law says you've got to be good enough to

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be saved. But being good, you know, the whole

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concept has been twisted around by the enemy, the counterfeit

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gospels. Satan says in terms of summarizing

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his approach to salvation and the gospel is basically

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you've got to get rid of your sin. But the Lord God says

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what have you done with my son? So we see the word sin and son

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are very closely related in their spelling. But in the middle of sin

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S-I-N is all about me getting rid of my sin and doing good and doing

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better. And with the son, God is saying the only way is through the

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son. And basically getting rid of the son of the

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sin was happened through the son.

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So the law, you know, says we've got to be good.

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The law says we but the law says you cannot earn heaven by being

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good enough to get there. So the law is unable, for example, to

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build a ladder for us to climb up to heaven. Jesus

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did not do this and it needed to be done to repair the Grand Canyon

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breach that had come between us and God. And that breach was not

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fixable by us. Only God could fulfill the demands made

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upon us by Satan. See, Satan, he held all the cards.

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Sin and death were now in his hand after the sin of Adam and Eve.

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So the Bible says the soul that sins shall die.

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So that was, you could say, well, that was a curse. Well, it was a curse

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put on us by Satan. But as a warning put on us by God, God

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was saying, if you sin, if you obey the devil, you know, you're going to sin, obey the devil,

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then you're going to die because you're going to play yourself right into the devil's hand.

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So whether this is a curse or a warning depends on us

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because God does not want, he's not willing that any should perish.

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But so, for example, the good example in the

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New Testament is Abraham, who was in the Old Testament. And it says

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I think it's Romans four. Abraham believed God and it

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was accounted to him for righteousness that it was attributed. That was

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credited. Yes, that's a good word. Credited to him for

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righteousness way before the existence of the commandments, because the commandments didn't come until

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Moses and Moses was way after Abraham. So believing in the promises of God.

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And what is the promise God has made to us nowadays? It is to believe that Jesus Christ

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has paid for our sins in full and all we must do is believe,

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that we confess it with our mouth and believe it in our heart and follow Jesus.

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Let's let's look at this in John chapter three.

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And of course, that famous verse of the Bible that almost everybody seems to know,

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at least in this country, for God so loved the world that he gave

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his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him

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should not perish, but have everlasting life. But there are verses after

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that that we don't hardly even think about. For

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he did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him might be saved. He who

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believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is

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condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only

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begotten son of God. And this is the combination condemnation that

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light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than

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light because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil

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comes to the light, does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

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But he that does the truth comes to the

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light that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.

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The condemnation, he that believes, this is our situation,

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Margie, without Christ, he that does not believe is already

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condemned. We're already condemned as

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sinners before God. But we can come out of that condemnation

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believing in Jesus and his righteousness, his

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perfection is credited to us. This is

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what we call being justified by faith and having

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peace with God. Yes. So so Jesus paid the debt that we

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couldn't pay because the real debt was the wages of sin is death,

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not a fruit basket of good deeds. So we couldn't pay for it ourselves

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by earning it. But God had to give it to us as a gift.

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And if we're willing to receive that gift, then that gift becomes ours.

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And just a simple, simple illustration

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of this would be, say, say if you owe a debt, a huge

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debt and to the bank, let's say to a

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bank and then someone you're in

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an impossible situation, you don't have a decent job, you're not

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able to work, you're not able to pay that debt. It's just like it's just

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building, building, building. And then all of a sudden somebody

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comes, some wealthy person comes and pays off your debt

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for you. You you get the credit for

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that debt being paid off in

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full, even though you didn't you were not able to pay

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yourself. Someone else paid the price for you.

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Yeah. But you get the credit. So see, the thing is like this. So Adam

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the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal

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life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. However, that gift that

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is given has to be accepted. It's not just blanketed to

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everyone. Whosoever will call upon the name of God, whosoever will believe.

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And so it's your option to believe in the free gift. But

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the thing is, again, Satan, because of our sin, was able

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to demand of us death. The soul of the sin shall die.

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So he was being very legalistic and literal about it. And so

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the only one who was qualified to die was a sinless man. And that was Jesus Christ.

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So he died, laid down his life. He gave his blood. The life of the

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flesh is in the blood. So he had to give his blood. Life equals blood.

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Blood equals life. He had to give his blood, his life

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for our lives as an exchange. Life for life. And so

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it's not that complicated, but it somehow seems to be

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too easy or something. A lot of

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people have been really mistaught when it comes to this because

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Satan wants to make sure that we are locked up

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in some very seriously bad places. I know

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many people are born into these old, seemingly pious religious institutions

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that are more like tombs. Dead religions,

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practices are filled with dead men's bones. Lifeless

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liturgies, religion, rote, mindless activities

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that have nothing, nothing to do with God. But we think they do because that's

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the counterfeit gospel because Satan says you've got to be good to get

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to heaven. So they work on trying to get rid of their sin. And these people are

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born into these places and they think they've got the answer, but they're

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caught in going to church. It's like we're enslaved to a lie.

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They go to church, they're bound with all these serious religious obligations

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and mandates and restrictions. And they believe that that's the way to heaven.

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And they don't want to give it up because they were born into it. Just because you're born

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into something doesn't mean it's something you need to stay in or something you should stay in.

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It's like, okay, now we start there. Now where do we go from there?

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What happens is that we get caught into it, right? Almost

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from birth, born into families, born into churches that are

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all about tradition.

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Traditions rather than truth. Jesus said

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you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your

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traditions. And this is exactly what Satan does because he wants to

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tangle us up in being good. For him, the whole world is set on the

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premise of I've got to do good to be good.

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Out of being comes doing. Like Jesus says, being and abiding. Out of being and abiding in him

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comes the good, comes the doing. But Satan says, no, you've got to do something to be

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something. So this world, the religions of this world are all set

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up. Every one of them. I don't care if it's weird and awkward and it's on the other side

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of the world. These religions are all set up on a condemnation, fear,

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control, manipulation, and performance basis. They have to

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have this perfect mindset. Make these sacrifices, do these

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pilgrimages, whatever it all is. So they're all set up.

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And the mindsets, the programmed to fail, to strive,

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try, fall short. Always, always Satan is setting it up so we fall short

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so that we're not being able to finish this obligation

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or the expectations. And so we've never been able to

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supposedly accomplish what is required for us to get to heaven

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through these many counterfeit Gospels.

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These counterfeit Gospels or counterfeit religions, it's all about the fact

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there's something wrong with us and God somehow is really

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mad at us. So we've got to do something to pacify his

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wrath, whether it's offing up your children as a sacrifice,

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walking through hot coals,

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or, you know...

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the blood, the atonement that had to be made to

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set us free from the demonic death obligations to sin.

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churches that believe that basically, as long as you have a sort of a

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general intellectual faith in Jesus, you can pretty much

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live however you want because God understands

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and it's okay. He loves you no matter what you do, no matter what perverted

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practices you're involved with, God still loves you and you're still going to be saved.

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it was never about works. Even when he gave the law, it was only

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a prescription to protect them for the time being, to keep them from

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being condemned by the devil, keeping their bloodlines more pierced so that they

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can bring forth Jesus Christ, the atonement for our sins, getting Jesus

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to Bethlehem, so to speak. So it was never, that was only a precaution. It was only

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an identification for them as they wandered through the wildernesses until they

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came to the place where Jesus was born. So that law was

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obsolete after a while. It was only temporary.

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He never said, keep these ten commandments and if you're good enough, then you can go to heaven. He never said

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that. But we've made it sound like that. Satan's made it sound like that.

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pass to sin. It's not. People think, well, we can't

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take grace because then we'll be naughty, we'll be bad. But the thing is,

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we want to be good in the first place because we're made in the image of God to love

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goodness and to hate sin and to love holiness

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and purity and righteousness. All these things are part of our divine innate nature.

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human nature and you've got to fight it. You've got to get over it. You've got to

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conquer it. You've got to overcome it. But Jesus overcame it and he says

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he doesn't say be good to get to heaven. He never said that one time. He said to the guys,

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follow me and I will perfect that which concerns you. So, of course,

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you know, Satan also knows that we want to be good to get to heaven. So he

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plays on that and makes us, you know, draws on that. And then

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when we sin, we feel bad for sinning because we're not made by God to sin because if you were made

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to sin, you wouldn't feel guilty for sinning. So Satan

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control us, draw us back into trying harder to be good because he knows

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he knows how we're made. He knows we're made to hate sin

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and so it's a natural, easy draw for him to get us to go back to

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I want to get rid of my sin. But Jesus Christ said, you know, it's not

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about me getting rid of my sin. So being good to get to

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heaven is not, being good to get to heaven

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is not a solution that separates us from sin. You know, it's like

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with my inward man, he says, I agree with the law of God that is good, but I see another

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law working in my members. He says I've

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causing us to do what we don't want to do. And then he says it is causing

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me, which causes me, he says, to do what I do not want to do. Which caused

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Paul to then conclude that he is doing something, behaving in a manner

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of performing, not being able to do what is good.

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in my flesh, in my flesh dwells no good thing, he says.

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not me doing it, it is the sin that dwells within me. But we would say to Paul

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you need to take responsibility for your actions, your sins, your addictions,

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your this or that. You need to be responsible. Well, the way we be

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sinning and that we need God. We repent and ask God to

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help us. We confess our sins and ask God. That's being responsible.

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115, and the kingdom of God is at hand. That means it's near, it's

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in your face. The kingdom of God's at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel.

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we say penance. We have to do penance. In other words, we have to

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rice krispies for two weeks or something like that. It would use

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some kind of penance, some kind of thing afflicting our soul, starving

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ourselves, whatever, whatever it is. And it's

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that's Satan's substitute. His his counterfeit

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change your direction of life. You come into not just

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believe the gospel, but repent and believe. Come into

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agreement. Yes, you're coming in agreement with God's true

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evaluation of this. Yes, we are sinners. We need to be set

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free. We need salvation. We've been in the wrong.

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and I'm going to follow him from now on. So

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it's it's repentance because the Bible says

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let me give you this. He says, you know, just

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believing in a sense, there's a false faith, too,

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and tremble. So they they are there and they're not going to be

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saved. Some people believe that Satan is going to be saved and the demons are going

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to be saved, which is not true at all. But

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the devils believe they know that Jesus Christ

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is is God and he is. They know that they tremble,

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but they are not in a place of repenting. It's impossible

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for demons to repent. It's too late for them. It's too late for them.

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to say, Lord, I you know, we admit that

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we've sinned and come short of the glory of God. And we say, Lord, I believe

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in you. I believe that you paid in full the price

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that I could never pay. You paid my debt.

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paid a debt. He did not. Oh, I owed a debt. I could not pay.

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Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could

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never pay. Yeah. And, you know, so the thing is, we go back to this

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things. And so but when you put the cart before the horse and you do the good

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things to get to heaven, you've made your life very difficult and it doesn't work.

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Lord and Savior, we're abiding in the vine. He says, I'm the vine and you're the branch.

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righteousness, peace and joy. Those are the good works that God is looking

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enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven.

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cast out demons in your name and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare

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to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.

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prophesying, casting out demons. Not that these things should not be done.

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for us to get to heaven. Those things are done after we

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know who we are and are walking and following Jesus. Then

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we prophesy, cast out demons and do many wonders in his name. Because Satan

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is also going to deceive people by causing them to be able to do some of these things

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and they're going to think that they're good. But God is not looking even for these wonderful

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things. He is looking for you and I to submit to the truth that I cannot

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save myself. It's not that hard. I don't know why people make it such an offense.

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we should have to surrender, submit to the idea that I need somebody to pay for my sins.

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pride. If you haven't accepted Jesus Christ yet

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they don't really know or recognize what that is

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if you're going to heaven. There's a whole bunch of those kind of people that salvation isn't even in their

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doctrine. And to know that you're safe. So they're always floundering

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around if I'm good enough, good enough, good enough. And so they're always constantly being controlled

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by trying to, trying to, trying to do it right, get rid of my sins, go to

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confession, whatever all that looks like. And they just go round and round and they never really

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accomplish anything. What Jesus said to do, go tell people the good news

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and get them saved. So there's a lot of people in that situation where

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they're not able to accept the free gift because

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they don't even know about salvation. And then there's other people who are saved,

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you know, they accepted Jesus, maybe they're three, five years old and

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nobody told them about it. So they accepted him, they believed him, but

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no one's confirmed it back to them that, you know, if you do this, believe,

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receive, accept, confess, you're saved because they don't know

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saved. What does salvation mean? What means that you've turned your

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life over to Jesus Christ? You know, it's like your house. You know, God built

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your house. He created you in the beginning. Then he redeemed your house, bought it back.

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to him so that he can occupy that house with you, that salvation.

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gather around and say, well, that was a false conversion. Well, there's no

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fruits there. Well, he must not really be saved. Well, he's still smoking. Well, he's still carrying on.

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when the fact is when a baby is born, the baby is born, but well, the baby still

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doesn't know how to walk. Well, the baby still can't talk. Well, the baby is still not

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feeding himself. Well, the baby still can't ride a bike. So he's not really a baby.

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bringing the truth into your temple, into your life, into your soul, body,

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soul, and spirit. And so when people sin after they're saved,

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the people say, oh, this is a false conversion. You know what? That's detrimental

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because you know what? People then get all confused. Am I saved? Am I not saved?

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you are still being deceived by the enemy. So go back and say, Lord,

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I believe Romans 10, 9, and 10. I believe you died on the cross

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for my sins. I believe you rose from the dead because the Bible says

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in Romans 10, 9, and 10, if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus

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Christ died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead, you shall be saved. For whosoever

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confesses with his mouth, believes in his heart is saved. Verse 13,

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whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. So question,

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have you ever called upon the name of the Lord? Have you ever prayed? Probably a lot of you

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already have done that and you don't realize that that is your key. Whosoever shall

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call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's a quote out of Romans 10, 13

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directly out of the Bible. So if you've called upon the Lord and you

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have prayed, asked him whether you got the answer you wanted

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or not, you've called whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord.

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Not the ones who get their answers directly the way they want it necessarily, but those who call.

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When you call upon the Lord, talk to the Lord, include him in your

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everyday thoughts and actions and prayers and seek his counsel, you're

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saved because you're walking with Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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You're not seeking some guru or some other thing. You're surrendering

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to the Holy Spirit who lives in you to lead and guide us into all truth and understanding

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and wisdom. The whole idea of this, it's a big word called

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sanctification. Salvation means basically

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our spirit, soul, and body are to be saved,

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redeemed, brought into a place of, could we say

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shalom, of peace and wholeness? That's what salvation

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speaks of, coming into wholeness the way God has

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designed you to be. It's not a matter of rules, following rules.

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So salvation is exactly what you said. It brings us to shalom and peace and relationship.

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Jesus is now in the house. You gave him keys to your heart, keys to your house.

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and we had trashed it pretty well. So now we move to the second step which is

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sanctification. So sanctification is get the demons out, get out the junk, the

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strongholds, the rats, whatever. Get out the lies and begin to walk

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in holiness because it's about holiness and being like Jesus.

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It's like a person that's born. They're definitely born

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by faith in Jesus. We're born again. But if someone's

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born but if they stay a baby for ten years,

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not good. That's right because they got nobody around them to teach them and raise them.

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This is the important thing, folks, to find

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a way to be able to grow, to be able to be nurtured

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by the word of God. Let the word of God

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fill your heart and fill your mind and not only

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look at it, meditate it, think about it, but do what it says

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and getting around people, other people.

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We're not alone with Jesus. There are other people that are gifted

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on this journey with us. Help us grow

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because there's evangelists, pastors, teachers, apostles, prophets

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that can help us, are there to help us grow

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in faith and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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But this journey is also treacherous because a lot of the people that

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are supposedly the ones to train us will send us

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off course. So you have to be very discerned.

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So you discern it through the Holy Spirit who Jesus said he sent the Holy Spirit to live in us.

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God's spirit will bear witness with your spirit because your spirit has now been activated

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through that salvation. Your candle has been lit. Your spirit is now

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queued up to God's spirit and is able to receive

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the download of the revelation of God, his spirit bearing witness with our spirit

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so we can walk in the spirit. So you're going to ultimately walk in the spirit

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with him and don't use your old soul software. I think I feel and I don't know

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on the one side is that corrupted software filled with the body

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of death and on the other side is the new spirit of God

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bearing witness with your spirit. So again, it's a

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walk that you can be mostly guided. The simplest,

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safest way to stay guided is through the Holy Spirit in the word of God

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and ask the Lord. Ask him, talk to him. Holy Spirit's inside you.

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What should I do? Show me what to do. Lead me, guide me, help me, protect me.

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Just talk to God all the time. Yeah, and if you're not on the highway to heaven

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Jesus Christ is the way, he is the truth, and he

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is the life. He is the highway to heaven. And you know what? You already know that.

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You already know that in your spirit because God put that in your spirit. He says he delights

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every man that comes into the world. He put it in your spirit but you just have not yet

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acknowledged it. You're still over here trying to be good and get it right

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and do it over and measure up and make somebody else happy when that's not

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the goal. The goal is to abide in Jesus Christ, follow him

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and do what he said to do. So Father God, we thank you now for making it

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very clear, hopefully, to these people, all of us, to know

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that we are saved, if we are saved, that we're sure and we're following

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you, Jesus, in the true path. By the power of your Holy Spirit, you're leading us.

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And if people are listening who are not saved or not sure, just reaffirm

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your agreement with God, believing that he, Jesus, died on the cross

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for your sins, paid the price the devil demanded, which was death,

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which you didn't and couldn't pay. Acknowledge that Jesus Christ laid down his life

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and paid the debt for you and that now you can get up and walk

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with him. We've been brought back into a new place, a place of life

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and redemption and meaning and purpose. And now

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as you follow him, he's going to clean your house. He's going to sanctify, get rid

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of all those things that you hated so much and tried to get rid of yourself.

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Now just let the Holy Spirit lead you. Just abide, follow

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and obey. That's kind of like simply trust and obey the Lord.

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So, amen. What about A Case for Righteousness?

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Oh, yeah. Is that something, something people, something you wrote

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a while back? It is very, it's a very good Bible study book. You can get it on

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liferecovery.com. That pertains to pretty much

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everything we've been talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pre-salvation,

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salvation and then after salvation and even how to get to the lies

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that have caused us to get tangled up again and again in sin and

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sin and death and destruction. So A Case for Righteousness, again

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liferecovery.com. You can also pick up Spiritual Warfare and how

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deliverance can change your life on Amazon.com

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as well. Now, here's the other thing. We do have a Thursday night

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live interactive session available to whosoever

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will. It's called, on Teams we call it SWAT. And so

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you can go to my website liferecovery.com and pick up the link and join us at

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630, from 630 to 730 every Thursday night

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and it's a live interactive kind of conversation people are

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having with prayer. And SWAT stands for Spiritual Warfare

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Application Techniques. Right, yeah. It's a fancy

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kind of fancy name. And so again, very interactive. Tell everybody about

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Rescue Radio too. If you enjoy it, if it helps you, just

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pass along the good news because we're running out of time. Thank you Jesus.

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Amen. See you next week.

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Rescue Radio. Cause there's a war for your soul.