"Simple Salvation" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God,

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indeed, the war goes on, and it is a war.

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And we thank you, Lord, that you've already won that war. The battle is yours.

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And from the foundation of the world, this has already been done.

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So we thank you for giving us grace, and I would like to say grit,

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too, to dig in, to follow, to go forward and make traction, give us traction

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in our spiritual walk, in our salvation, in our following of you, Lord Jesus.

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And we thank you, Lord, for giving us eternal life through your shed blood,

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paying the price for ourselves.

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That's what salvation really is, is believing what you said when you died in

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our place and understanding that.

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So, Lord God, give us eyes to see today, ears to hear, that people will receive

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and realize, understand the

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revelation of salvation in the midst of all of this trivia out here, Lord.

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Salvation doesn't seem to be that important to some, and yet to others.

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It's their tormenting—it's where the enemy tries to kill them.

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That altar of, am I saved or not?

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And so, Lord God, as we look into your word today, I pray your Holy Spirit would guide us completely.

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Connect your thoughts with ours and speak them through our mouths that we would

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be speaking as the oracles of God, and that the enemy cannot snatch things out

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of our minds and hearts today as he would try,

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and even on the hearers, that they will have ears to hear, and they will have

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hearts to understand, and that we will be encouraged by the fact that there

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is this precious gift of salvation that you have imparted and given to us as a gift.

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And I thank you, Lord, we can't earn it. And I thank you, Lord,

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now for giving us divine protection from the enemy.

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You said no weapon formed against you will prosper. So cover us,

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our families, those who work for us, pray for us, love us, and have come to

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us for help in the past that you cover and encourage each one today that they'd

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walk in the fullness of who they are,

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the identity, sons and daughters of the Most High God, knowing who they are

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and that you are good all the time and not to waver, not to be double-minded,

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not to be faltering in this very,

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basic foundational principle of truth, Father. So help us now.

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We thank you that you are the wonderful counselor, the faithful witness.

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Give us your understanding in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Well, today we're going to be talking about a very basic, basic subject,

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and, you know, it's one that actually a lot of people are tormented over,

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and that is, am I saved, or can I lose my salvation, or, you know, I don't feel saved.

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So, we're going to be talking about, how do I know I'm saved,

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and what that means in terms of everything.

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So, the core verse on this, the verses on this is Romans 10,

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9 and 10, that if you confess.

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I want to go on here in verses 11 through 13.

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For the scripture says, whoever believes on him will not be put to shame.

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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. The same Lord over all is

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rich to all who call upon him.

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So for whoever calls calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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It doesn't mean you call once.

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It means you continually. Pray, intercede.

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You're continually calling in communication with the living God.

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And Jesus said it this way in John 5, verse 24.

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He says, most assuredly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me.

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Has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death to life.

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Then he goes on to say, do not marvel at this.

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There's people who are marveling. How can we be saved? How can we know that

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we're saved? He wants us to know that we're being drawn and called together.

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If you believe, the hour is coming and now is that the dead will hear the voice

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of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

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Dead, I would think he would be referring to dead in sins and trespasses at that point.

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And as for the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have

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life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of Man.

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So he's saying that there is those who ever believe, whoever believes,

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John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,

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that whosoever believes in him, that's one of the basic verses,

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believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

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So the believing, the question is, the enemy actually is what's doing this to people.

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You accept Jesus, you believe he died on the cross, rose from the dead according

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to Romans 10, 9, and 10. if you believe that in your heart and confess it with

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your mouth, you're actually making a transaction.

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You're actually making an agreement. You're giving your consent to the Lord's

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method of rescuing us out of the grip of the terrible one.

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Because at that point, the agreement you're making with salvation is,

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I cannot pay for my own sins.

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It doesn't work. I cannot save myself because the wages of sin is death,

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and Satan demands death.

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And my death will not accomplish anything in terms of my salvation.

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Well, salvation, what do we need to be saved from? The things that we need to

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be saved from— Our death and destruction.

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Right. Well, I want to just read this as a foundational set of scriptures here.

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Ephesians 1, verse 2, verse 1, And you he made alive who were dead in trespasses

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and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world,

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according to the prince of the power of the air, that would be Satan.

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The Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all

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once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh,

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fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children

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of wrath, just as the others.

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But God, who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved

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us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.

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By grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us to sit in

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heavenly places and sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

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that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in

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his kindness toward us in Jesus Christ.

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And then these verses that are quite common to a lot of us.

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Verses 8 through 10, for by grace you have been saved through faith,

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and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works,

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you didn't earn it, lest anyone should boast.

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It's a gift of God. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works.

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You know, we're created for good works. We don't earn our salvation by good works. Right.

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But we receive it, but then the good works come out of our salvation,

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which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

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So God has got a course for us. He's got works for us to do as a result,

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as an outflow of the salvation that we have. So we're saved from destruction.

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We're saved for the Lord and sharing his love and truth everywhere we can while we can.

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Right. And so the thing is, you know, again, we're kind of crumpled up with

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the idea that I've got to earn this, whether, you know, gifts,

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gifts, like the gift of salvation, the gift of healing, the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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We seem to think that somehow I have to work to earn it.

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And if I don't work hard enough or if I've dropped off, or here's another problem,

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I don't feel saved. I don't feel any different.

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I don't feel like, you know, the thing is we base our spiritual experience on

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the experiences that we get in our souls, our minds, wills, and emotions.

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And the soul cannot really, it's not a credible, accurate evaluation or determination

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of our real position in Christ.

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The position in Christ is who's, you know, some people, it's like receiving a gift.

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Okay, at Christmas time, somebody is giving you a gift and you open it quietly

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and it's just what you wanted and you smile and you say thank you.

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And you don't jump up and down and, you know, get all excited about it.

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But you still have the gift. Another person will get maybe the same gift,

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and they just go ecstatic.

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I mean, you know, they're jumping all over, and they're screaming and squealing

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and excited, and they have a great outburst of emotion.

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Salvation does not depend on the emotional response. It's a heart response.

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It's an agreement that you're making in an understanding.

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I think the most important thing about knowing and being sure of your salvation

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is to know what you did, what needed to be done.

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The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life.

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And so, whosoever sin shall die. We had sinned.

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We'd been gathered together with Adam and Eve in that sin, and Satan was collecting

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on all of us and said, you're all going to die.

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And so, when we passed from death to life through the agreement,

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we're saying, Jesus' blood,

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his death, pays in full for my sins, and whatever accusations or claims that

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Satan had made to my life have been removed because I have accepted Jesus.

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But people say, well, I don't know if I'm saved, and I don't feel saved,

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and I could have lost my salvation because I was bad, because I left God.

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You know, you may think you leave God, but God never leaves us.

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It's just a lot of battling going on in our minds and in our hearts that the

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enemy is trying to wrestle away our confidence in God and our salvation.

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Well, you have to know that you're saved. Now, some people think you're very

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presumptuous if you know you're saved.

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Or say you're saved, yeah. Yeah. If you say you know you're saved,

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you're very presumptuous because it's guesswork.

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In some church situations, some churches, denominations, you don't know if you're saved.

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That's their doctrine. You can do everything according to the doctrine of that

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particular organization.

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You can follow that to the T, and you still don't know if you're saved when

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you die. That's really a dangerous doctrine because here's the deal. You work hard.

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You serve the church. You keep all their rules and regs, and they won't let you know for sure.

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There's no guarantee that if you be good and do all this stuff faithfully to

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the church, they still don't guarantee that you're going to go to heaven.

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And so that's their doctrine. And how can you live in such an ambivalent situation

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for 20, 30, 80 years, not knowing for sure if you're going to be okay in the end?

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It's got to be the most fearful, anxiety-provoking situation you can imagine.

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And at your funeral, they pray that you'll be saved.

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Or pray you out of somewhere that you don't want to be.

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So the thing is, that's unfortunately a lot of people in the earth.

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Tragic. Have that same concept. I remember when I was a kid,

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when I heard Billy Graham say, you know, talk to the people about being saved

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and knowing you can know that you're saved.

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I thought that's presumptuous. That's arrogant.

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It's presumptuous on the part of God. But I did not understand that God wants us to understand.

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And God is the one, according to Jesus, who draws us to himself.

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No man can come to me except to be drawn by the Father.

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And then you say, well, that's kind of restrictive.

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Who's he calling? Well, then you go to Romans chapter 8, and you want to,

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you know, because, well, it's predestination.

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Some people are called to be saved, and some are not. That is not true.

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Let me read to you something that's very accurate, right out of the Bible,

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Romans 8, starting with verse, well, start with verse 28, because everybody

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knows that verse, and then we're going to go down further.

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And we know, this is verse 28, 828, all things work together for good to those

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who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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So, okay, now he's talking about being called according to his purpose.

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Who is this that's called?

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Verse 29, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.

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So who did God foreknow? Who did he know about ahead of time?

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Well, Jerry just read it in Ephesians.

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Everybody from the foundation of the world, for whom he foreknew,

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he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.

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So the whole purpose of God is to make us like Jesus, to conform us to the image

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of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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So God's whole purpose for our salvation is to, you know, redeem us,

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bring us back from the dumpster and bring us back into the fullness of being his sons and daughters.

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Moreover, whom he predestined. Now, who was that?

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Is everybody he foreknew. So everybody is also predestined.

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These he calls. So everybody he knew, God didn't say, well, no,

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I'm just going to make a few people for heaven and the rest of the people, I don't know.

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Too bad for you. Yeah, too bad for you. That would be the most horrible,

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atrocious God, to create some people for heaven and some for hell. He doesn't do that.

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He makes all of his creation, all of his children eligible, by the very fact

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that he's created them with human beings, human spirits, be eligible for heaven.

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So those he predestined, he called.

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Now, whom he called, these he also justified. So when it's a point of a call,

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now you have to agree or not agree. It's like you're being invited to the marriage

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supper of the Lamb, that you're invited to the wedding feast.

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You're invited to, but you have that invitation, and you can reject it.

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You don't have to go. You don't have to respond.

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And so not everybody responds to the call. I'm sure God says in the Word,

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He lights every man that comes into the world.

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Okay, so everyone has a part of some measure of light that's coming because

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He alighted us through putting His truth in our spirit.

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And so he predestined, he called. So you answer the call when you say,

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yes, Lord, I believe you died on the cross for my sins. That is...

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Moment of salvation. God doesn't say, well, let's just check your birth certificate.

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Let's just check your attendance at Sunday school.

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Let's just check your behavior patterns here before we give you a nod to go forward.

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That is not what this is. It's whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord.

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Not just those who look good or have, you know, right standing or economic status.

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It is whosoever. And so when we answer that call, he says, whom he called.

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Okay, now that we've answered the call, in verse 30, these he also justified.

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So God can justify through the blood of Jesus Christ.

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So Jesus' blood is actually being used to pay for the sins of that person who answered the call.

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So now he's removed from the devil's grip, the devil's kingdom,

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translated into the kingdom of God.

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And so he says, those he justified and whom he justified, these he also glorified.

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So once you answer that call and begin to follow Jesus, that is the requirement. It's not being good.

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Jesus never said, you've got to be good to get to heaven. So therefore,

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if you can't be good to get to heaven, the converse of that is also true,

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that you cannot lose your salvation by being bad.

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How many thousands of people accepted Jesus when they're three,

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four, five years old, six years old, and then the devil comes slamming against

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him like a vulture out of heaven, picking up a little baby chick and taking

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it and trying to destroy it.

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We're knocked down and 20 years later, 30 years later, you feel like I'm,

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well, you're not feeling or walking with God, but God is still with you.

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You have not lost your salvation.

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Salvation is a birth moment, okay? And so when you're born in the hospital or

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at home birth, whatever it is, when you are physically born, you are born.

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You are now eligible to live life, which means you're eligible to go forward

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in the circumstances to bring forth the gifts, the traits, the abilities that

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God has planted in you, develop, all these things.

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That comes through the process of sanctification. Sanctification is,

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cleaning the house. Salvation is buying the house. Jesus, you gave him your

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heart, you gave him your life, you gave him your whatever.

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And so you're giving him rights back to come into your house to live with you.

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Now, sanctification is like cleaning the house, getting rid of the lies and

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the bats and the rats and all the other stuff in the house. So that is a different process.

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So the sanctification process may be put on pause.

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When you get saved, a lot of times the devil, you know, he comes in like a flood

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to destroy the salvation, to try to.

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He doesn't, but he can try to convince you that you don't have that salvation anymore.

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And so then you go into the place of despair and with the point of, well, who cares?

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What does it matter anymore? I'm lost anyway. Might as well just go,

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you know, live for hell because that's where I'm going, that sort of thing.

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And so then what happens is we go into that place where the devil wants us,

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the place of despair, and we don't live our lives to the fullness of the axis of what we have.

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Salvation is a gift, but you can open that gift, and there's many elements in

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that gift. There's many abilities.

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There's anointings. There's power. There's confidence. There's peace.

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There's a ministry. There's a destiny.

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There's gifts and aptitudes, abilities that God has put in that salvation package

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in you, and He wants you to unwrap it.

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But if people are saying that they don't feel like they're saved or that God's

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mad at them because they've failed.

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They don't understand what this salvation is based on in the first place.

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So another thing, too, is some people, you know, like you mentioned,

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when people receive Jesus when they're very little and they're small,

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but then, you know, they don't get properly nurtured or somehow they get offended

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by something going on in the church if they had the privilege of being involved

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in a decent church or a not-so-decent church,

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and they just kind of go off astray for maybe most of the rest of their lives,

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you know, I mean, and they're not really living for the Lord.

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What about people in that situation?

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They received the gift when they were little, right?

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But they're not living it out. They haven't been living it out for maybe years

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and years, and maybe they've gotten into a horrible situation in their lives

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where they're certainly, you know,

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living actually against the Lord.

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I think people need to understand, first of all, that many times we're doing

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what Paul is talking about in Romans chapter 7, verse 25, 20, I'm sorry, 20 and 24.

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I'm doing the things I don't want to do because a lot of us.

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We're sinning. We sin. We don't like sin. We feel guilty when we sin.

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That proves that we're not built by God to sin because our divine nature is

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our first nature, which is made in the image of God.

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So we feel bad, and then we feel—because we're so vulnerable,

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because we're so innocent and holy and love righteousness, and Satan knows that,

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and he sets us up to bite the bait and get caught on the hook of the lie and sin,

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then we feel guilty, we feel bad, and then Satan takes us on a long journey

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to try to get back our righteousness, but our righteousness is always the same.

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It's always in Christ Jesus.

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It's He paid the price. You have to humble yourself, surrender to the truth,

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and say, you know what? I can't save myself.

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Ultimately, though, I think people get saved and they don't realize that the

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next process is also conversion, because you get saved and now God wants to

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reveal Himself, His life to you. He wants to live His life through you.

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And to do that, He's got it. You know, if we get our chances,

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okay, we make our choices. We make bad choices, good choices.

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We live our life. We do what we want to do.

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And finally, at the end of it all, we come to the end of ourselves.

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We have salvation, eternal life, because we accepted Jesus when we were young.

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And that is the bottom line. You know, that does not change. We're still alive.

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Okay, so you're alive. You were born on a date, and you went forward.

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And at five years old, you fell off your bike and broke your back,

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or you broke your finger.

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At 10 years old, you know, you were hit by a car.

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At 15 years old, You got hooked up with a wicked person who led you astray and

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seduced you and abused you.

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You know, all of these things that happened to us in our lives,

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the depression, got kicked off the team, whatever it is, all of these events

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don't change the fact that you're alive.

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You're still alive, but you're encountering all kinds of bumps in the road,

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big bumps, little bumps, terrifying things, horrible things, but you're still alive.

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So in the salvation, same thing. You're alive in Christ, but you're getting

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all beat up along the way, and you don't realize the power,

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the access we have to the comfort and the peace of Jesus Christ,

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because we're just still trying in the world's way to figure it out and do it ourselves.

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So, salvation, there's many events that happen along the way of your life.

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But at some point, the Lord will work to bring you back to the truth.

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You know, reset, center, make you solid in the solid rock, Christ Jesus.

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So, you can go back to the Word, back to truth, back to peace,

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because that's the whole journey.

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And Satan is trying to destroy us through the journey, but God is using the

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journey to actually make us more like Jesus. So the journey is,

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okay, you start out, you're born again, you receive Jesus, and you know that.

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You know that. And then you get hit almost immediately. And you get hit,

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you get attacked, you get thrown away.

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Basically, you go away, you go astray.

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And that's one of the most tragic things, Margie, in the world is people that receive Jesus.

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It's more tragic if they've never heard of Jesus or they've heard of Jesus.

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What I'm saying is this, you come to know Jesus, and then all of a sudden you

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just yield to the lies of the enemy.

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There you go. Right, because they don't. There you go, you end up in the pit.

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Hijacked and kidnapped is what it is. Hijacked and kidnapped,

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yeah. Because you don't understand the spiritual battle, and so the devil puts it all back on you.

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You're bad, you did bad things, you're in the wilderness now because you made a bad choice.

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He's always trying to make our situation about something we did,

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But recognize that before we did it, he deceived us into doing it.

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And so going back to the truth, did you want to do that in the first place?

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Yes, at the moment you felt the pressure, the craving, the whatever to do it.

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You were seduced, enchanted, sorceried, all these things.

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And Eve, she was enchanted by that tree.

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She didn't even know that she was being at that moment deceived until later.

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She stepped back and then she said to God, the serpent deceived me.

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At the moment it was happening, she didn't know that. At the moment,

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she just wanted to be more like God and know what was on that tree and didn't

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think that was such a bad thing to do.

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And so the thing is, the same thing happens with us.

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We get deceived into believing that I am what I do and forget that we're a being. We don't even know.

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You know, for most of us, we don't ever really get a full comprehension of the

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fact that we are the sons and daughters of the Most High God.

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Especially after we've accepted Jesus. Now He dwells within us.

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His Holy Spirit has been sent to lead us into all truth and triumph.

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And so we can have a full, rich, powerful, abundant life in Jesus Christ.

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And we don't have to go through all this garbage that the enemy set up because there are remedies.

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God said, repent, confess, forgive, those kinds of things. I've given you power.

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I'll never leave you or forsake you. I'm with you always.

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So we have a choice to believe either what the word says, you know,

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what does the word of God say? Or what does it look like? Or what does it feel like?

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So those two things pull against us to set that war up inside of us.

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So now we're going to the place of doubt. And Satan says, look at you.

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Look at what you didn't do. Look at what you did. God's mad at you.

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See what happens. See, God's really mad at you now because this happened, blah, blah, blah.

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And so Satan's always building his case in our minds against the love of God,

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trying to believe God is not for us.

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He's against us, and he's just testing us and waiting to see what bad thing we did.

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And finally, we just crush, crumble, give up, and go away and don't believe anymore.

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We just can't do it because God is saying, that's the very point.

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You can't do it. I'm trying to prove to you, you cannot do this without me.

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Surrender. We've got this. Follow me. I'll carry you. Abide in me.

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We've got this. And so the whole point is, after we're saved,

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it's to convert, to realize I can of my own self do nothing.

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Another part of this is you can believe in God without being saved. That's interesting.

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James 2, verses 19, he says, you believe there is one God, you do well.

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Even the demons believe and tremble.

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But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

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So the devils, the demons, believe in God. They believe in Jesus.

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You read in the New Testament, they say, we know who you are.

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You're the Holy One of God. They believed in Jesus.

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They knew he was the Son of God, but they were not saved.

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They have no chance of being saved. Some people believe that even the devil is going to get saved.

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Absolutely not. The demons are not going to be saved. This is an interesting point.

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The demons are not going to be saved. Satan cannot be saved.

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But the demons have more accurate faith in Jesus than a lot of so-called believers.

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Yeah, they do. Because even when Jesus was confronting people,

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demonized people, the demons would talk and say, we know who you are,

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the Son of the Most High God.

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And so they knew who he was, and immediately they surrendered and submitted

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to him because they knew who he was. But here's another quirk.

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It's actually happening. I've actually had clients that have had this problem.

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They are saved. They have accepted Jesus maybe then even 14 times.

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They've been baptized in water or rededicated their lives or went to the altar

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20 times and got saved many, many times.

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You only get to be born once in order to be eligible to live,

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and then you live until, obviously, in the human form, you die.

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But now, so they're getting saved over and over, born over and over and over,

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reborn over and over again.

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What they really need to understand is that they're just simply— They don't

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have the assurance. They don't have the assurance.

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But here's another interesting thing. in these last days, I've noticed there

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are people who are tormented by hearing what's coming out of their mouth.

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They're actually, you know, we have to understand that you are not the only

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one in your head thinking and saying things and hearing things.

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It is also the demonic spirits. If you have not been delivered from these things,

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they're going to be chattering in your head.

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And many of them are, well, they're terrified that they are damned.

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They're under the curse of damnation. they cannot be saved. And so they will

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say things like, I'm not saved.

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They won't say you're not saved.

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They'll say in the first person pronoun, I'm not saved. And you hear that coming

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out of your mouth and you think you're saying it to yourself.

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You're saying it's coming from you, but it's from that spirit of terror that's

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inside of you that's terrified that he's lost, he's not saved.

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And you don't recognize the difference or distinguish between you and that spirit

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that's freaking out and in your mind, in your heart, in your mouth,

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in your soul. and you don't say, yeah, you're right.

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You're not saved, but I am. Now get out. Because we do not consider the fact

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that we are accompanied many times in our physical bodies. We're housing many...

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Demonic spirits, entities, visitors who come and go, they speak things,

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they do things, they crave for things, they manipulate us, and we do things

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we hate, and we don't give any, we say, oh no, Christians can't have demons.

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That is not, there's no verse in the Bible that says a Christian cannot have a demon.

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As a matter of fact, there's quite a few examples of where Jesus actually dealt

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with demons that were in his own followers, and so therefore,

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we, and that was after they were, after they were following him, not before.

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We know Mary Magdalene had seven demons that were cast out of her.

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But even while, you know, that was before she got saved, maybe. We'll give her that.

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But Jesus was dealing with demons in Peter. Get behind me, Satan,

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for you do not, you know, savor the things that belong to God.

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And so you're offense to me.

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And so believers were speaking lies.

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And Jesus was not saying, oh, that's nice, Peter. You don't want me to go to

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the cross. That's so sweet of you.

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He didn't say that. He said, get behind me, Satan. he knew Satan was talking through Peter's mouth.

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And Peter at that moment had already done miracles and cast out demons. So there you have it.

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Now, this doesn't mean that Peter wasn't saved. You can have a demon in you and still be saved.

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You can have a rat in your house, but the rat doesn't make you a rat and you

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still have the house. The house belongs to you.

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You can get the rat out and live peaceably, or you can live with the rat if you want to.

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But the thing is, a lot of people die and they have a lot of spirits that don't

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belong to them. And here's another issue.

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I had another person just yesterday who was noticing all kinds of physical infirmities that.

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After their father died. And they knew the date. They knew it was recent.

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And then they had a visit from their mother who said, well, that's just like your dad.

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He just died and it's just like your dad.

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Everything that you're complaining about, the pain in your foot,

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the pain in your head, the pain in your side, the pain in your whatever,

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your dad was doing that too.

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And so what we see is these spirits that are in these people have learned to

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nest in there and kind of we tolerate them.

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They chat with us. They, you know, provoke us. They crave through us.

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And so, you know, and then I said to that person, I said, well,

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okay, there was a transference of the spirit from the dead person to you.

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Now, how does that happen? You say, oh, no, freak out, freak out.

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What's going to happen if that happens to me?

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It only happens when, you know, the enemy's got to, he doesn't want to be homeless,

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so he wants to go somewhere.

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You can't stay in the dead body, so he's going to find the next most familiar

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person, the one that's the most like the one that left.

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And so this person was the favorite of their father, and they were the one that he blessed.

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And I asked the person, it was very interesting, I always ask,

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well, what's the, I want to understand why this works, you know,

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because it does work, and there's got to be a reason to lie in agreement.

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And I said to the enemy, I said, what right are you claiming to transfer from

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the Father to this person?

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And the person said, this came to their mind.

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I said, so I asked the Lord to show them what is the claim the devil is making,

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Satan. What's the claim you're making? We're not Satan, but the entity.

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What's the claim? And he said, that came out of their mouth, this is what was said.

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Okay, you got the blessings of your Father, but you got to take the whole package.

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The whole package would include all of his infirmities. And that was the claim

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Satan was making to put this sickness and infirmity upon this person.

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And usually, like I said, there is a road, there's a familiar spirit that's

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finding the easiest place to go next.

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And so this place was formed not with bitterness.

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Bitterness and unforgiveness can be a definite road that Satan will use also

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to bring demonic treasures.

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But this was a road of love. and so the enemy moved through that because this

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person loves their father and so it was the enemy used it to bring the whole

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package which included his sicknesses, his infirmities and I thought, wow,

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you know, so you they were making a subconscious agreement well,

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I get the blessing so I also have to get the whole package which includes the

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infirmities but they didn't say that,

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the devil said you have to take the whole package and so see how clever the

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enemy is now that we understand that for this particular person Now we can go

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after it and we can cancel out the claims.

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We can deal with, we can forgive, and we can command, because now you have found the rat hole.

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Now you can command that spirit to get out in Jesus' name.

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And, you know, there may be some other connections, but we have to understand

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this is a very spiritual world and Satan does not want you to know you're saved.

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He does not want you to operate in that power of that anointing and that salvation,

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because if you do that, you will do what Jesus said.

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You'll preach the gospel, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,

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make a difference in the world.

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Yeah, another foundational scripture for knowing that you're saved is that 1

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John 5, verses 10 through 13.

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He who believes in the Son has the witness in himself. Remember,

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we were talking about Romans 8, 16.

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His spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

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I don't think we read that yet, but yeah, you're right. We didn't read that, but it's Romans 8, 16.

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Look at that. His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, bears witness with our spirit that

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we're the children of God.

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So there is an agreement, the Holy Spirit, yes, yes, you're mine,

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and our Spirit says yes, and the Holy Spirit says yes, we are truly the children

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of God because of our faith in Jesus Christ.

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So again, going back, 1 John 5, verse 10, he who believes in the Son of God

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has the witness in himself.

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He who does not believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed

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the testimony that God has given of his Son.

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And this is the testimony, verse 11, that God has given us eternal life.

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And this life, it's a gift, right? The gift of eternal life.

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Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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He who has the Son has life.

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He who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

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These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God

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that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe

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in the name of the Son of God.

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And Romans 8, going with that in verse 15, it says, The Spirit of God gives sonship.

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Therefore, we are debtors. This is verse 8, verse 12 of Romans.

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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to

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the flesh. For if we live according to the flesh, we will die.

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But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

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For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear.

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So we were in bondage, and now we're in freedom.

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But you've received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry out,

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Abba, Father. These things are done.

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Then he says, the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

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And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.

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If indeed we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified together.

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These things are based on and received through faith, through agreement.

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All of this, many times we do things based on faith.

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You buy something based on faith. You send off an order for something and you're

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believing that it's going to be sent to you in the mail. You're basing your

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actions on faith that it's going to happen.

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The problem here is this salvation, this gift of salvation is based on faith. What does that mean?

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It's based on us believing what God said, believing that God doesn't lie,

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that His Spirit is actually, if you ask Him, and He said, my sheep know my voice,

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if you ask Him to show you or bear witness,

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by His Spirit with the salvation that He's given you, you ask Him, He will confirm it.

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The enemy will try to confuse you, cause double-mindedness in the soul, make you feel not saved.

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But in your spirit, God, that's why we have to live in the Spirit,

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because we have soul software and spirit software.

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And if you're living in the Spirit software, then God's Spirit can bear witness with your spirit.

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So God's Holy Spirit, which is in you, is confirming in you,

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confirming in you, comforting you, assuring you that he is with you.

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Now, this whole walk with God down here is based on faith.

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Whose report are you going to believe? What God said, what the devil said.

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Do we believe God? Well, we say, I need to trust God more. No, you don't.

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You've been built by God, put that 100% trust of God. You know God does not

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lie. You know he doesn't cheat.

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You know he doesn't steal. You know he's for you because he said he keeps his word.

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You know that in your spirit. You do not know that in your soul.

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So if the devil can manipulate the doubt, double-mindedness in your soul,

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make you feel stupid, bad, like you're a sinner, and God's mad at you,

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and you didn't do it right, and you're basing your salvation on good works,

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you're gonna be doubtful and double-minded, and let not that man think that

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he'll receive anything from the Lord.

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So we have to go back, live in your spirit, and know that you know what you know.

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God said it. Okay, what else are you gonna do about it?

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If God says something, God creates a tree, what are you gonna do about it?

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Well, you can tear it down. You can cut it down, but God is in control of what

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he says and does to the fact that, yes, he's given us some jurisdiction over

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things, but God is holy, sovereign.

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The end result is what God says will stand, and if he says, if you believe in

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Jesus, this isn't that complicated, accept his blood as payment for your sin.

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Because the wages of sin is death, and your death didn't count.

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Your blood didn't count.

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Jesus had to take the form of a human, but he was also sinless,

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so he was also divine, to take and stand in the place of all humans.

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This is how God got us out of trouble.

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We were in trouble, and the bottom line was the wages of sin is death,

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the soul of the sin shall die.

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And God says, yeah, okay, one, I got the answer.

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I will take the punishment that Satan is putting on them, I will take it.

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And there's nothing he can do about it because there's no rule that says, I can't.

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So God took your place. Jesus stood in our place. He died for us.

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He died for your pain to be relieved.

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He died for you to live. He died for you to be refreshed and renewed and full of joy and rejoicing.

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He died for these gifts to be given to you. Now go get them.

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Go to the foot of the cross and pick up those things Jesus died to give you,

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including salvation and the joy of our salvation, you know, so that you can

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live and survive in this wicked,

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evil world where Satan is trying to smother everybody with death and destruction,

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hopelessness and despair.

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You don't have to live there. You can live in the fullness of the peace of God,

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but you have to stay in his word and you have to speak with him on a daily basis

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and let the Holy Spirit bear witness with your spirit that you're one of God's

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kids. You have to and you get to.

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Mainly it's you get to. Well, yeah, you're right. I just say that.

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Not got to get to, right? Yeah, right. And so, Lord, I thank you,

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Father, for anybody that's listening here right now that don't really know you, Lord.

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They're not sure if they are saved. They're not sure if they have eternal life.

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But you made it so plain and so simple and so clear.

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If we confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord and we believe in our hearts that

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God has raised him from the dead, we shall be saved. For with the heart man believes.

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You believe with your heart. You confess with your mouth.

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And then the Bible says that you're saved. You have eternal life.

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You receive the gift of God today.

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Receive Jesus as your Lord, as your Savior.

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And then in that receiving, there's that knowing.

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The Spirit of God bearing witness with your spirit. It's a transaction.

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It's a support. It's an authentication within your own life,

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within your spirit, with His Spirit.

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Declare it. You know that you are a child of the living God.

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Declare it with your mouth. Then it seals the deal.

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You know, you can look at the contract. You can think about buying the car. You can walk around it.

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But the deal is not sealed. You've got a sign on the dotted line.

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Well, until you say yes or you say yes to signing.

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So speak the word with your mouth. And even if you don't feel it,

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say, you know, Lord, I believe you died on the cross for my sins—,

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I believe you're coming again. I believe you rose from the dead.

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When you say those things, you've actually made the deal.

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And the Lord God comes into our heart. And he will say, come into my life. Take over my life.

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Some of you may be making that deal right now, or you will shortly.

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Some of you that maybe have made that deal a long time ago.

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Let's walk in that deal. Come back. Let's walk in that deal.

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So let's get back to where we need to be and grow in grace and in the knowledge

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of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Just everything you can imagine. So, why can't I concentrate?

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That's a good one. People are really inundated with the deaf and dumb spirits.

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It's a two-part MP3. Why can't I concentrate?

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And on the end of that, we have a prayer to reject, cancel out any agreements

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we've made with the deaf and dumb spirit.

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And by the way, they are everywhere. Okay, so God bless you. Talk to you soon.

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