"Simple Salvation" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war goes on, and it is a war. And we thank you, Lord, that you've already won that war. The battle is yours. And from the foundation of the world, this has already been done. So we thank you for giving us grace, and I would like to say grit, too, to dig in, to follow, to go forward and make traction, give us traction in our spiritual walk, in our salvation, in our following of you, Lord Jesus.

0:53 And we thank you, Lord, for giving us eternal life through your shed blood, paying the price for ourselves. That's what salvation really is, is believing what you said when you died in our place and understanding that. So, Lord God, give us eyes to see today, ears to hear, that people will receive and realize, understand the revelation of salvation in the midst of all of this trivia out here, Lord. Salvation doesn't seem to be that important to some, and yet to others. It's their tormenting—it's where the enemy tries to kill them. That altar of, am I saved or not? And so, Lord God, as we look into your word today, I pray your Holy Spirit would guide us completely. Connect your thoughts with ours and speak them through our mouths that we would be speaking as the oracles of God, and that the enemy cannot snatch things out of our minds and hearts today as he would try, and even on the hearers, that they will have ears to hear, and they will have hearts to understand, and that we will be encouraged by the fact that there is this precious gift of salvation that you have imparted and given to us as a gift.

1:53 And I thank you, Lord, we can't earn it. And I thank you, Lord, now for giving us divine protection from the enemy. You said no weapon formed against you will prosper. So cover us, our families, those who work for us, pray for us, love us, and have come to us for help in the past that you cover and encourage each one today that they'd walk in the fullness of who they are, the identity, sons and daughters of the Most High God, knowing who they are and that you are good all the time and not to waver, not to be double-minded, not to be faltering in this very, basic foundational principle of truth, Father. So help us now. We thank you that you are the wonderful counselor, the faithful witness. Give us your understanding in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, today we're going to be talking about a very basic, basic subject, and, you know, it's one that actually a lot of people are tormented over, and that is, am I saved, or can I lose my salvation, or, you know, I don't feel saved.

2:43 So, we're going to be talking about, how do I know I'm saved, and what that means in terms of everything. So, the core verse on this, the verses on this is Romans 10, 9 and 10, that if you confess. I want to go on here in verses 11 through 13. For the scripture says, whoever believes on him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. The same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon him.

3:26 So for whoever calls calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. It doesn't mean you call once. It means you continually. Pray, intercede. You're continually calling in communication with the living God. And Jesus said it this way in John 5, verse 24. He says, most assuredly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me. Has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death to life. Then he goes on to say, do not marvel at this.

4:07 There's people who are marveling. How can we be saved? How can we know that we're saved? He wants us to know that we're being drawn and called together. If you believe, the hour is coming and now is that the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. Dead, I would think he would be referring to dead in sins and trespasses at that point. And as for the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of Man. So he's saying that there is those who ever believe, whoever believes, John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him, that's one of the basic verses, believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

4:54 So the believing, the question is, the enemy actually is what's doing this to people. You accept Jesus, you believe he died on the cross, rose from the dead according to Romans 10, 9, and 10. if you believe that in your heart and confess it with your mouth, you're actually making a transaction. You're actually making an agreement. You're giving your consent to the Lord's method of rescuing us out of the grip of the terrible one. Because at that point, the agreement you're making with salvation is, I cannot pay for my own sins. It doesn't work. I cannot save myself because the wages of sin is death, and Satan demands death.

5:37 And my death will not accomplish anything in terms of my salvation. Well, salvation, what do we need to be saved from? The things that we need to be saved from— Our death and destruction. Right. Well, I want to just read this as a foundational set of scriptures here. Ephesians 1, verse 2, verse 1, And you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, that would be Satan. The Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

6:21 But God, who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us to sit in heavenly places and sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Jesus Christ. And then these verses that are quite common to a lot of us. Verses 8 through 10, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, you didn't earn it, lest anyone should boast.

7:08 It's a gift of God. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. You know, we're created for good works. We don't earn our salvation by good works. Right. But we receive it, but then the good works come out of our salvation, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So God has got a course for us. He's got works for us to do as a result, as an outflow of the salvation that we have. So we're saved from destruction. We're saved for the Lord and sharing his love and truth everywhere we can while we can.

7:49 Right. And so the thing is, you know, again, we're kind of crumpled up with the idea that I've got to earn this, whether, you know, gifts, gifts, like the gift of salvation, the gift of healing, the gift of the Holy Spirit. We seem to think that somehow I have to work to earn it. And if I don't work hard enough or if I've dropped off, or here's another problem, I don't feel saved. I don't feel any different. I don't feel like, you know, the thing is we base our spiritual experience on the experiences that we get in our souls, our minds, wills, and emotions. And the soul cannot really, it's not a credible, accurate evaluation or determination of our real position in Christ.

8:29 The position in Christ is who's, you know, some people, it's like receiving a gift. Okay, at Christmas time, somebody is giving you a gift and you open it quietly and it's just what you wanted and you smile and you say thank you. And you don't jump up and down and, you know, get all excited about it. But you still have the gift. Another person will get maybe the same gift, and they just go ecstatic. I mean, you know, they're jumping all over, and they're screaming and squealing and excited, and they have a great outburst of emotion. Salvation does not depend on the emotional response. It's a heart response. It's an agreement that you're making in an understanding. I think the most important thing about knowing and being sure of your salvation is to know what you did, what needed to be done.

9:13 The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life. And so, whosoever sin shall die. We had sinned. We'd been gathered together with Adam and Eve in that sin, and Satan was collecting on all of us and said, you're all going to die. And so, when we passed from death to life through the agreement, we're saying, Jesus' blood, his death, pays in full for my sins, and whatever accusations or claims that Satan had made to my life have been removed because I have accepted Jesus. But people say, well, I don't know if I'm saved, and I don't feel saved, and I could have lost my salvation because I was bad, because I left God.

9:54 You know, you may think you leave God, but God never leaves us. It's just a lot of battling going on in our minds and in our hearts that the enemy is trying to wrestle away our confidence in God and our salvation. Well, you have to know that you're saved. Now, some people think you're very presumptuous if you know you're saved. Or say you're saved, yeah. Yeah. If you say you know you're saved, you're very presumptuous because it's guesswork. In some church situations, some churches, denominations, you don't know if you're saved. That's their doctrine. You can do everything according to the doctrine of that particular organization. You can follow that to the T, and you still don't know if you're saved when you die. That's really a dangerous doctrine because here's the deal. You work hard.

10:41 You serve the church. You keep all their rules and regs, and they won't let you know for sure. There's no guarantee that if you be good and do all this stuff faithfully to the church, they still don't guarantee that you're going to go to heaven. And so that's their doctrine. And how can you live in such an ambivalent situation for 20, 30, 80 years, not knowing for sure if you're going to be okay in the end? It's got to be the most fearful, anxiety-provoking situation you can imagine. And at your funeral, they pray that you'll be saved. Or pray you out of somewhere that you don't want to be. So the thing is, that's unfortunately a lot of people in the earth. Tragic. Have that same concept. I remember when I was a kid, when I heard Billy Graham say, you know, talk to the people about being saved and knowing you can know that you're saved.

11:31 I thought that's presumptuous. That's arrogant. It's presumptuous on the part of God. But I did not understand that God wants us to understand. And God is the one, according to Jesus, who draws us to himself. No man can come to me except to be drawn by the Father. And then you say, well, that's kind of restrictive. Who's he calling? Well, then you go to Romans chapter 8, and you want to, you know, because, well, it's predestination. Some people are called to be saved, and some are not. That is not true. Let me read to you something that's very accurate, right out of the Bible, Romans 8, starting with verse, well, start with verse 28, because everybody knows that verse, and then we're going to go down further. And we know, this is verse 28, 828, all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

12:16 So, okay, now he's talking about being called according to his purpose. Who is this that's called? Verse 29, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. So who did God foreknow? Who did he know about ahead of time? Well, Jerry just read it in Ephesians. Everybody from the foundation of the world, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. So the whole purpose of God is to make us like Jesus, to conform us to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. So God's whole purpose for our salvation is to, you know, redeem us, bring us back from the dumpster and bring us back into the fullness of being his sons and daughters.

13:00 Moreover, whom he predestined. Now, who was that? Is everybody he foreknew. So everybody is also predestined. These he calls. So everybody he knew, God didn't say, well, no, I'm just going to make a few people for heaven and the rest of the people, I don't know. Too bad for you. Yeah, too bad for you. That would be the most horrible, atrocious God, to create some people for heaven and some for hell. He doesn't do that. He makes all of his creation, all of his children eligible, by the very fact that he's created them with human beings, human spirits, be eligible for heaven. So those he predestined, he called. Now, whom he called, these he also justified. So when it's a point of a call, now you have to agree or not agree. It's like you're being invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb, that you're invited to the wedding feast.

13:47 You're invited to, but you have that invitation, and you can reject it. You don't have to go. You don't have to respond. And so not everybody responds to the call. I'm sure God says in the Word, He lights every man that comes into the world. Okay, so everyone has a part of some measure of light that's coming because He alighted us through putting His truth in our spirit. And so he predestined, he called. So you answer the call when you say, yes, Lord, I believe you died on the cross for my sins. That is... Moment of salvation. God doesn't say, well, let's just check your birth certificate. Let's just check your attendance at Sunday school.

14:27 Let's just check your behavior patterns here before we give you a nod to go forward. That is not what this is. It's whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord. Not just those who look good or have, you know, right standing or economic status. It is whosoever. And so when we answer that call, he says, whom he called. Okay, now that we've answered the call, in verse 30, these he also justified. So God can justify through the blood of Jesus Christ. So Jesus' blood is actually being used to pay for the sins of that person who answered the call. So now he's removed from the devil's grip, the devil's kingdom, translated into the kingdom of God. And so he says, those he justified and whom he justified, these he also glorified.

15:10 So once you answer that call and begin to follow Jesus, that is the requirement. It's not being good. Jesus never said, you've got to be good to get to heaven. So therefore, if you can't be good to get to heaven, the converse of that is also true, that you cannot lose your salvation by being bad. How many thousands of people accepted Jesus when they're three, four, five years old, six years old, and then the devil comes slamming against him like a vulture out of heaven, picking up a little baby chick and taking it and trying to destroy it. We're knocked down and 20 years later, 30 years later, you feel like I'm, well, you're not feeling or walking with God, but God is still with you. You have not lost your salvation.

15:52 Salvation is a birth moment, okay? And so when you're born in the hospital or at home birth, whatever it is, when you are physically born, you are born. You are now eligible to live life, which means you're eligible to go forward in the circumstances to bring forth the gifts, the traits, the abilities that God has planted in you, develop, all these things. That comes through the process of sanctification. Sanctification is, cleaning the house. Salvation is buying the house. Jesus, you gave him your heart, you gave him your life, you gave him your whatever. And so you're giving him rights back to come into your house to live with you. Now, sanctification is like cleaning the house, getting rid of the lies and the bats and the rats and all the other stuff in the house. So that is a different process.

16:38 So the sanctification process may be put on pause. When you get saved, a lot of times the devil, you know, he comes in like a flood to destroy the salvation, to try to. He doesn't, but he can try to convince you that you don't have that salvation anymore. And so then you go into the place of despair and with the point of, well, who cares? What does it matter anymore? I'm lost anyway. Might as well just go, you know, live for hell because that's where I'm going, that sort of thing. And so then what happens is we go into that place where the devil wants us, the place of despair, and we don't live our lives to the fullness of the axis of what we have. Salvation is a gift, but you can open that gift, and there's many elements in that gift. There's many abilities.

17:21 There's anointings. There's power. There's confidence. There's peace. There's a ministry. There's a destiny. There's gifts and aptitudes, abilities that God has put in that salvation package in you, and He wants you to unwrap it. But if people are saying that they don't feel like they're saved or that God's mad at them because they've failed. They don't understand what this salvation is based on in the first place. So another thing, too, is some people, you know, like you mentioned, when people receive Jesus when they're very little and they're small, but then, you know, they don't get properly nurtured or somehow they get offended by something going on in the church if they had the privilege of being involved in a decent church or a not-so-decent church, and they just kind of go off astray for maybe most of the rest of their lives, you know, I mean, and they're not really living for the Lord.

18:11 What about people in that situation? They received the gift when they were little, right? But they're not living it out. They haven't been living it out for maybe years and years, and maybe they've gotten into a horrible situation in their lives where they're certainly, you know, living actually against the Lord. I think people need to understand, first of all, that many times we're doing what Paul is talking about in Romans chapter 7, verse 25, 20, I'm sorry, 20 and 24. I'm doing the things I don't want to do because a lot of us. We're sinning. We sin. We don't like sin. We feel guilty when we sin. That proves that we're not built by God to sin because our divine nature is our first nature, which is made in the image of God.

18:56 So we feel bad, and then we feel—because we're so vulnerable, because we're so innocent and holy and love righteousness, and Satan knows that, and he sets us up to bite the bait and get caught on the hook of the lie and sin, then we feel guilty, we feel bad, and then Satan takes us on a long journey to try to get back our righteousness, but our righteousness is always the same. It's always in Christ Jesus. It's He paid the price. You have to humble yourself, surrender to the truth, and say, you know what? I can't save myself. Ultimately, though, I think people get saved and they don't realize that the next process is also conversion, because you get saved and now God wants to reveal Himself, His life to you. He wants to live His life through you.

19:38 And to do that, He's got it. You know, if we get our chances, okay, we make our choices. We make bad choices, good choices. We live our life. We do what we want to do. And finally, at the end of it all, we come to the end of ourselves. We have salvation, eternal life, because we accepted Jesus when we were young. And that is the bottom line. You know, that does not change. We're still alive. Okay, so you're alive. You were born on a date, and you went forward. And at five years old, you fell off your bike and broke your back, or you broke your finger. At 10 years old, you know, you were hit by a car. At 15 years old, You got hooked up with a wicked person who led you astray and seduced you and abused you. You know, all of these things that happened to us in our lives, the depression, got kicked off the team, whatever it is, all of these events don't change the fact that you're alive.

20:29 You're still alive, but you're encountering all kinds of bumps in the road, big bumps, little bumps, terrifying things, horrible things, but you're still alive. So in the salvation, same thing. You're alive in Christ, but you're getting all beat up along the way, and you don't realize the power, the access we have to the comfort and the peace of Jesus Christ, because we're just still trying in the world's way to figure it out and do it ourselves. So, salvation, there's many events that happen along the way of your life. But at some point, the Lord will work to bring you back to the truth. You know, reset, center, make you solid in the solid rock, Christ Jesus.

21:12 So, you can go back to the Word, back to truth, back to peace, because that's the whole journey. And Satan is trying to destroy us through the journey, but God is using the journey to actually make us more like Jesus. So the journey is, okay, you start out, you're born again, you receive Jesus, and you know that. You know that. And then you get hit almost immediately. And you get hit, you get attacked, you get thrown away. Basically, you go away, you go astray. And that's one of the most tragic things, Margie, in the world is people that receive Jesus. It's more tragic if they've never heard of Jesus or they've heard of Jesus.

21:52 What I'm saying is this, you come to know Jesus, and then all of a sudden you just yield to the lies of the enemy. There you go. Right, because they don't. There you go, you end up in the pit. Hijacked and kidnapped is what it is. Hijacked and kidnapped, yeah. Because you don't understand the spiritual battle, and so the devil puts it all back on you. You're bad, you did bad things, you're in the wilderness now because you made a bad choice. He's always trying to make our situation about something we did, But recognize that before we did it, he deceived us into doing it. And so going back to the truth, did you want to do that in the first place? Yes, at the moment you felt the pressure, the craving, the whatever to do it. You were seduced, enchanted, sorceried, all these things.

22:35 And Eve, she was enchanted by that tree. She didn't even know that she was being at that moment deceived until later. She stepped back and then she said to God, the serpent deceived me. At the moment it was happening, she didn't know that. At the moment, she just wanted to be more like God and know what was on that tree and didn't think that was such a bad thing to do. And so the thing is, the same thing happens with us. We get deceived into believing that I am what I do and forget that we're a being. We don't even know. You know, for most of us, we don't ever really get a full comprehension of the fact that we are the sons and daughters of the Most High God. Especially after we've accepted Jesus. Now He dwells within us. His Holy Spirit has been sent to lead us into all truth and triumph.

23:15 And so we can have a full, rich, powerful, abundant life in Jesus Christ. And we don't have to go through all this garbage that the enemy set up because there are remedies. God said, repent, confess, forgive, those kinds of things. I've given you power. I'll never leave you or forsake you. I'm with you always. So we have a choice to believe either what the word says, you know, what does the word of God say? Or what does it look like? Or what does it feel like? So those two things pull against us to set that war up inside of us. So now we're going to the place of doubt. And Satan says, look at you. Look at what you didn't do. Look at what you did. God's mad at you. See what happens. See, God's really mad at you now because this happened, blah, blah, blah. And so Satan's always building his case in our minds against the love of God, trying to believe God is not for us.

24:00 He's against us, and he's just testing us and waiting to see what bad thing we did. And finally, we just crush, crumble, give up, and go away and don't believe anymore. We just can't do it because God is saying, that's the very point. You can't do it. I'm trying to prove to you, you cannot do this without me. Surrender. We've got this. Follow me. I'll carry you. Abide in me. We've got this. And so the whole point is, after we're saved, it's to convert, to realize I can of my own self do nothing. Another part of this is you can believe in God without being saved. That's interesting. James 2, verses 19, he says, you believe there is one God, you do well. Even the demons believe and tremble.

24:42 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? So the devils, the demons, believe in God. They believe in Jesus. You read in the New Testament, they say, we know who you are. You're the Holy One of God. They believed in Jesus. They knew he was the Son of God, but they were not saved. They have no chance of being saved. Some people believe that even the devil is going to get saved. Absolutely not. The demons are not going to be saved. This is an interesting point. The demons are not going to be saved. Satan cannot be saved. But the demons have more accurate faith in Jesus than a lot of so-called believers.

25:24 Yeah, they do. Because even when Jesus was confronting people, demonized people, the demons would talk and say, we know who you are, the Son of the Most High God. And so they knew who he was, and immediately they surrendered and submitted to him because they knew who he was. But here's another quirk. It's actually happening. I've actually had clients that have had this problem. They are saved. They have accepted Jesus maybe then even 14 times. They've been baptized in water or rededicated their lives or went to the altar 20 times and got saved many, many times. You only get to be born once in order to be eligible to live, and then you live until, obviously, in the human form, you die. But now, so they're getting saved over and over, born over and over and over, reborn over and over again.

26:08 What they really need to understand is that they're just simply— They don't have the assurance. They don't have the assurance. But here's another interesting thing. in these last days, I've noticed there are people who are tormented by hearing what's coming out of their mouth. They're actually, you know, we have to understand that you are not the only one in your head thinking and saying things and hearing things. It is also the demonic spirits. If you have not been delivered from these things, they're going to be chattering in your head. And many of them are, well, they're terrified that they are damned. They're under the curse of damnation. they cannot be saved. And so they will say things like, I'm not saved. They won't say you're not saved.

26:49 They'll say in the first person pronoun, I'm not saved. And you hear that coming out of your mouth and you think you're saying it to yourself. You're saying it's coming from you, but it's from that spirit of terror that's inside of you that's terrified that he's lost, he's not saved. And you don't recognize the difference or distinguish between you and that spirit that's freaking out and in your mind, in your heart, in your mouth, in your soul. and you don't say, yeah, you're right. You're not saved, but I am. Now get out. Because we do not consider the fact that we are accompanied many times in our physical bodies. We're housing many... Demonic spirits, entities, visitors who come and go, they speak things, they do things, they crave for things, they manipulate us, and we do things we hate, and we don't give any, we say, oh no, Christians can't have demons.

27:36 That is not, there's no verse in the Bible that says a Christian cannot have a demon. As a matter of fact, there's quite a few examples of where Jesus actually dealt with demons that were in his own followers, and so therefore, we, and that was after they were, after they were following him, not before. We know Mary Magdalene had seven demons that were cast out of her. But even while, you know, that was before she got saved, maybe. We'll give her that. But Jesus was dealing with demons in Peter. Get behind me, Satan, for you do not, you know, savor the things that belong to God. And so you're offense to me. And so believers were speaking lies. And Jesus was not saying, oh, that's nice, Peter. You don't want me to go to the cross. That's so sweet of you. He didn't say that. He said, get behind me, Satan. he knew Satan was talking through Peter's mouth.

28:20 And Peter at that moment had already done miracles and cast out demons. So there you have it. Now, this doesn't mean that Peter wasn't saved. You can have a demon in you and still be saved. You can have a rat in your house, but the rat doesn't make you a rat and you still have the house. The house belongs to you. You can get the rat out and live peaceably, or you can live with the rat if you want to. But the thing is, a lot of people die and they have a lot of spirits that don't belong to them. And here's another issue. I had another person just yesterday who was noticing all kinds of physical infirmities that. After their father died. And they knew the date. They knew it was recent.

29:01 And then they had a visit from their mother who said, well, that's just like your dad. He just died and it's just like your dad. Everything that you're complaining about, the pain in your foot, the pain in your head, the pain in your side, the pain in your whatever, your dad was doing that too. And so what we see is these spirits that are in these people have learned to nest in there and kind of we tolerate them. They chat with us. They, you know, provoke us. They crave through us. And so, you know, and then I said to that person, I said, well, okay, there was a transference of the spirit from the dead person to you. Now, how does that happen? You say, oh, no, freak out, freak out.

29:43 What's going to happen if that happens to me? It only happens when, you know, the enemy's got to, he doesn't want to be homeless, so he wants to go somewhere. You can't stay in the dead body, so he's going to find the next most familiar person, the one that's the most like the one that left. And so this person was the favorite of their father, and they were the one that he blessed. And I asked the person, it was very interesting, I always ask, well, what's the, I want to understand why this works, you know, because it does work, and there's got to be a reason to lie in agreement. And I said to the enemy, I said, what right are you claiming to transfer from the Father to this person? And the person said, this came to their mind.

30:26 I said, so I asked the Lord to show them what is the claim the devil is making, Satan. What's the claim you're making? We're not Satan, but the entity. What's the claim? And he said, that came out of their mouth, this is what was said. Okay, you got the blessings of your Father, but you got to take the whole package. The whole package would include all of his infirmities. And that was the claim Satan was making to put this sickness and infirmity upon this person. And usually, like I said, there is a road, there's a familiar spirit that's finding the easiest place to go next. And so this place was formed not with bitterness.

31:06 Bitterness and unforgiveness can be a definite road that Satan will use also to bring demonic treasures. But this was a road of love. and so the enemy moved through that because this person loves their father and so it was the enemy used it to bring the whole package which included his sicknesses, his infirmities and I thought, wow, you know, so you they were making a subconscious agreement well, I get the blessing so I also have to get the whole package which includes the infirmities but they didn't say that, the devil said you have to take the whole package and so see how clever the enemy is now that we understand that for this particular person Now we can go after it and we can cancel out the claims. We can deal with, we can forgive, and we can command, because now you have found the rat hole.

31:51 Now you can command that spirit to get out in Jesus' name. And, you know, there may be some other connections, but we have to understand this is a very spiritual world and Satan does not want you to know you're saved. He does not want you to operate in that power of that anointing and that salvation, because if you do that, you will do what Jesus said. You'll preach the gospel, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, make a difference in the world. Yeah, another foundational scripture for knowing that you're saved is that 1 John 5, verses 10 through 13. He who believes in the Son has the witness in himself. Remember, we were talking about Romans 8, 16.

32:31 His spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. I don't think we read that yet, but yeah, you're right. We didn't read that, but it's Romans 8, 16. Look at that. His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, bears witness with our spirit that we're the children of God. So there is an agreement, the Holy Spirit, yes, yes, you're mine, and our Spirit says yes, and the Holy Spirit says yes, we are truly the children of God because of our faith in Jesus Christ. So again, going back, 1 John 5, verse 10, he who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of his Son.

33:19 And this is the testimony, verse 11, that God has given us eternal life. And this life, it's a gift, right? The gift of eternal life. Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

34:02 And Romans 8, going with that in verse 15, it says, The Spirit of God gives sonship. Therefore, we are debtors. This is verse 8, verse 12 of Romans. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if we live according to the flesh, we will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear. So we were in bondage, and now we're in freedom. But you've received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry out, Abba, Father. These things are done. Then he says, the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

34:46 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified together. These things are based on and received through faith, through agreement. All of this, many times we do things based on faith. You buy something based on faith. You send off an order for something and you're believing that it's going to be sent to you in the mail. You're basing your actions on faith that it's going to happen. The problem here is this salvation, this gift of salvation is based on faith. What does that mean? It's based on us believing what God said, believing that God doesn't lie, that His Spirit is actually, if you ask Him, and He said, my sheep know my voice, if you ask Him to show you or bear witness, by His Spirit with the salvation that He's given you, you ask Him, He will confirm it.

35:42 The enemy will try to confuse you, cause double-mindedness in the soul, make you feel not saved. But in your spirit, God, that's why we have to live in the Spirit, because we have soul software and spirit software. And if you're living in the Spirit software, then God's Spirit can bear witness with your spirit. So God's Holy Spirit, which is in you, is confirming in you, confirming in you, comforting you, assuring you that he is with you. Now, this whole walk with God down here is based on faith. Whose report are you going to believe? What God said, what the devil said. Do we believe God? Well, we say, I need to trust God more. No, you don't.

36:22 You've been built by God, put that 100% trust of God. You know God does not lie. You know he doesn't cheat. You know he doesn't steal. You know he's for you because he said he keeps his word. You know that in your spirit. You do not know that in your soul. So if the devil can manipulate the doubt, double-mindedness in your soul, make you feel stupid, bad, like you're a sinner, and God's mad at you, and you didn't do it right, and you're basing your salvation on good works, you're gonna be doubtful and double-minded, and let not that man think that he'll receive anything from the Lord. So we have to go back, live in your spirit, and know that you know what you know. God said it. Okay, what else are you gonna do about it? If God says something, God creates a tree, what are you gonna do about it? Well, you can tear it down. You can cut it down, but God is in control of what he says and does to the fact that, yes, he's given us some jurisdiction over things, but God is holy, sovereign.

37:14 The end result is what God says will stand, and if he says, if you believe in Jesus, this isn't that complicated, accept his blood as payment for your sin. Because the wages of sin is death, and your death didn't count. Your blood didn't count. Jesus had to take the form of a human, but he was also sinless, so he was also divine, to take and stand in the place of all humans. This is how God got us out of trouble. We were in trouble, and the bottom line was the wages of sin is death, the soul of the sin shall die. And God says, yeah, okay, one, I got the answer. I will take the punishment that Satan is putting on them, I will take it.

37:55 And there's nothing he can do about it because there's no rule that says, I can't. So God took your place. Jesus stood in our place. He died for us. He died for your pain to be relieved. He died for you to live. He died for you to be refreshed and renewed and full of joy and rejoicing. He died for these gifts to be given to you. Now go get them. Go to the foot of the cross and pick up those things Jesus died to give you, including salvation and the joy of our salvation, you know, so that you can live and survive in this wicked, evil world where Satan is trying to smother everybody with death and destruction, hopelessness and despair. You don't have to live there. You can live in the fullness of the peace of God, but you have to stay in his word and you have to speak with him on a daily basis and let the Holy Spirit bear witness with your spirit that you're one of God's kids. You have to and you get to.

38:44 Mainly it's you get to. Well, yeah, you're right. I just say that. Not got to get to, right? Yeah, right. And so, Lord, I thank you, Father, for anybody that's listening here right now that don't really know you, Lord. They're not sure if they are saved. They're not sure if they have eternal life. But you made it so plain and so simple and so clear. If we confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord and we believe in our hearts that God has raised him from the dead, we shall be saved. For with the heart man believes. You believe with your heart. You confess with your mouth. And then the Bible says that you're saved. You have eternal life.

39:24 You receive the gift of God today. Receive Jesus as your Lord, as your Savior. And then in that receiving, there's that knowing. The Spirit of God bearing witness with your spirit. It's a transaction. It's a support. It's an authentication within your own life, within your spirit, with His Spirit. Declare it. You know that you are a child of the living God. Declare it with your mouth. Then it seals the deal. You know, you can look at the contract. You can think about buying the car. You can walk around it. But the deal is not sealed. You've got a sign on the dotted line. Well, until you say yes or you say yes to signing.

40:07 So speak the word with your mouth. And even if you don't feel it, say, you know, Lord, I believe you died on the cross for my sins—, I believe you're coming again. I believe you rose from the dead. When you say those things, you've actually made the deal. And the Lord God comes into our heart. And he will say, come into my life. Take over my life. Some of you may be making that deal right now, or you will shortly. Some of you that maybe have made that deal a long time ago. Let's walk in that deal. Come back. Let's walk in that deal. So let's get back to where we need to be and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

40:50 Amen. So thank you for listening today. And we want to encourage you to check us out as well at Life Recovery. We also have a new opportunity for you if you go to the website, LifeRecovery.com. We are now featuring a special one-hour live communication broadcast, counseling session, prayer meeting, whatever you want to call it, every Thursday night from 6.30 to 7.30 Minnesota time, central time. And you just go to the website and hit the button. Hopefully the link will work. We're just new at this Teams, but you'll find the link, hit it, come on in and join us. You can listen. You don't even have to let us see your picture. You don't have to say a word. You can just listen or you can participate as well.

41:32 So we've got that. And then check out this Life Recovery, the bookstore. We've got lots of things going on there. Just everything you can imagine. So, why can't I concentrate? That's a good one. People are really inundated with the deaf and dumb spirits. It's a two-part MP3. Why can't I concentrate? And on the end of that, we have a prayer to reject, cancel out any agreements we've made with the deaf and dumb spirit. And by the way, they are everywhere. Okay, so God bless you. Talk to you soon. Music.