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5 Things You MUST Remember if You're TRULY Saved... · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  If you've recently been asking yourself this question, Am I
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  truly saved? Am I truly a child of God?
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  Am I even a Christian? If you've been asking yourself
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  this question, this video has not found you by any accident
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  because I'm going to give you 5 things you need to remember
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  every time you start to doubt your own salvation.
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  Every time you start to think I don't have assurance that I'm
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  even saved, Here are 5 things you must remember.
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  But First off, if it's your first time I'm on the channel,
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  not actually. I'm a bit under the weather
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  So I thought, do you know what I'll do?
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  Let's have a nice cup of Joe. Let's study the Bible.
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  And this will make me feel a lot better.
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  But yeah, if it's your first time on the channel, please do
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  All right, before I give you these five things that you need
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  to remember, there's something that's absolutely crucial that I
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  need to check in with you, and it's this.
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  Are you genuinely a Christian? How do we check this?
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  Well, I want to ask you, are you born again?
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  Was there a point in your life, maybe it was gradual over a
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  period of time, or maybe it was in just one moment where you
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  realised you're a Sinner. You failed this holy God.
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  If if the books of your life or the records or the wrongdoing
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  that you've done, those books were opened, you stand before
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  this holy God condemned. But whilst remembering you're a
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  Sinner, you also realised God loves you, He cares about you.
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  And so he sent his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to
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  die upon. An old Roman cross, a rugged
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  cross there between two thieves there, the innocent one.
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  Jesus died in your place. He took all of your sins, past,
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  present and future, and he took the wrath of God in his own
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  body. He suffered that for all of our
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  sins in his own body, there on that tree.
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  He died so that we can be forgiven, so that this wrath
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  that was aimed at us, he's turned away from us and it was
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  turned towards Jesus. He absorbed it and took that,
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  paid the price, paid the punishment so that you and I,
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  because Jesus Christ shed his precious, righteous, holy blood
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  at Calvary. Because he shed his blood, we
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  can be washed white than snow. We can be forgiven and we can be
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  saved because we've we call on his name.
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  We call on the name of the one who after dying went into a tomb
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  and then rose from the dead. We put our faith in Him who is
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  risen from the grave and says I can give you eternal life.
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  Has there been a point where you've believed on his name,
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  where you've put your faith in him, where you've repented and
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  believed on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ?
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  If you have, if you have truly believed on his name, I'm just
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  going to say right from the offset, you're as safe as
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  houses. You're safe because the blood of
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  Jesus has cleansed you and made you totally pure in God's eyes.
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  It's purified your soul. So you are safe.
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  If you're trusting in Jesus, it's just a wonderful thing
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  because it's all about him. You know, when you go to
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  someone's house, I don't know if it's the same in America or
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  where you're watching this from, but in in English and British
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  culture, if you go to someone's house, there's a sort of
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  unwritten rule. Take something, maybe bring some
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  flowers, maybe bring a dessert, maybe bring some salad, but
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  don't come empty handed. Make sure you bring something.
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  But with the Gospel, with the Lord Jesus Christ, it's the
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  complete opposite. You must come out empty handed.
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  You mustn't try to contribute any good works or anything of
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  yourself. You must just come as you are
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  and Jesus Christ will do the rest because he's done it all.
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  His finished work at the cross was more than enough for you and
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  I if we trust in Him. So that's the first thing.
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  If you have trusted in Him, I want to say you are, you're
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  already safe. But here are 5 things to
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  remember if you're struggling. The first one is this.
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  I want you to remember. I want you to remember your
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  location. OK, Turn in your Bibles to
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  Ephesians 2, verse 6. Ephesians 2, verse 6.
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  I'll start in verse 5. Actually, even when we were dead
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  in sins have quickened us together with Christ.
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  By grace ye are saved and have raised us up together and made
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  us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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  Did you catch that last bit? If you have trusted in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, if you have received the grace of God
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  through Christ Jesus, right now as a Christian, you are seated
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  in heavenly places. Just think about that right now.
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  You're in heaven right now because of what Jesus has done.
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  So if one day you know you believe you're saved, and then
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  the next day you're doubting your salvation, how does that
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  work? How can you be seated in
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  heavenly places and the next minute believe that you're
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  seated in hell? That's not how the Lord works.
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  Come on, let's think about this logically.
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  But here's the next one of your location.
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  Here's the next points. Remember, just turn in your
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  Bibles to Micah 7 verse 19. He will turn again, He will have
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  compassion upon us, He will subdue our iniquities, and thou
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  wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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  Now some of you will know I preach on this passage a lot,
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  that when you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, He casts our
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  sins into the depths of the sea. So again, just consider this,
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  the day you got saved, the day you believed on the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, your sins were buried, all of them buried at the bottom
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  of the ocean as deep as the Mariana trenches.
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  They were down there. Do you honestly believe that the
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  same Lord God who buried your sins at the bottom of the sea is
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  going to take his his his large arm?
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  Because we know the Lord is his right arm is, is strong, it's
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  mighty to save. But do you think he's going to
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  take his arm and he's going to reach right down to the bottom
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  of the sea, scoop them up and then throw them into your left
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  up again and say take them, you dirty, rotten Sinner.
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  You've not believed enough on me.
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  You've committed this. You've done that.
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  You can have all of your sins back.
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  That promise that I said where I'd cast them down to the bottom
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  of the sea. It's broken now.
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  And you can have all of your sins.
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  Take them, keep them, hold on to them.
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  Come on. You know that doesn't sound like
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  the God of the Bible. They were buried at the bottom
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  of the sea and that is where they will stay.
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  Remember that. Hold on to that.
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  Don't let the devil come knocking on your door, making
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  you feel guilty about things you've done.
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  It is true If if the devil comes knocking about your past,
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  telling you that you've done this, that and and the other
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  remind him of of his future. Remind him where the devil's
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  going. He he's got a terrible future
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  ahead of him. Just remind him of that next
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  time he starts bringing your past sins into your mind, OK,
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  the second thing that you should remember when you are struggling
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  with assurance of salvation is you need to remember your
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  affirmations, things that you've already affirmed.
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  Just turn to 1 Corinthians 12 with me.
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  One Corinthians 12 and we're going to look at verse 31,
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  Corinthians 12 and verse 3, Wherefore I give you to
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  understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, all of
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  Jesus accursed and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord but
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  by the Holy Ghost. Can you that's that's just a
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  very personal question right now.
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  Let me ask you, can you say Jesus Christ it's Lord?
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  Can you do it? I can say Jesus Christ is the
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  Lord of Lords. He's the King of kings.
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  He is the greatest, He is the most high God.
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  I've put my trust in him. Can you say that?
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  Have you got a smile on your face right now as I tell you
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  that Jesus Christ is Lord? I think some of you have.
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  If you can honestly say that Jesus is Lord, the Bible is very
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  clear. You can't do that unless you've
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  got the Holy Spirit inside of you.
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  You see, the unbeliever, they don't believe he's Lord.
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  The unbeliever believed Jesus was either a good moral teacher,
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  either a fairy tale. Some of them would say, some
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  would say, yeah, he was a religious figure.
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  They'd say this, that and the other.
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  But would they say Jesus is Lord?
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  Will they say Jesus is God in the flesh?
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  Can they really? You can't say that unless the
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  Holy Spirit has witnessed that into your soul.
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  So can you say, is that an affirmation that you would say
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  that Jesus is Lord? Will take courage You are saved.
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  Here's the next verse. Galatians 4 verse 6 Galatians 4
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  verse 6 And because ye are sons, God have sent forth the spirit
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  of his son into your hearts crying ABBA father.
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  That word ABBA, it's often been said means daddy, dad, ABA,
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  Father, when you pray to the Lord God, do you call him
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  father? Does it warm your heart to think
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  that the I have a Father in heaven and he delights in me?
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  I, I, I know that I've been adopted into his family.
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  I'm a child of God. If you're a man watching this,
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  you're a son of God. If you're a lady watching this,
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  you're a daughter of God. You have a Father in heaven and
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  he loves you. The Bible is saying here, it's
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  so clear that that God have sent forth the spirit of his Son into
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  your hearts, crying ABA Father. So the fact that you cry ABA
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  Father in your own heart is such a strong sign that you are
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  saved. Because again, the unbeliever
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  doesn't do this. The unbeliever doesn't call God
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  their father. That has only happened when
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  you've received his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  You might remember when Jesus rose from the dead, he started
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  referring to the other disciples as brothers.
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  Why? Because in other words, the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, now he's risen, now he's completed his work.
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  He's not ashamed. He's not embarrassed.
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  In fact, he's he's proud to call me and you, brothers and
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  sisters, because we share the same Father, all because of what
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  Jesus Christ did on the cross. OK, I think perhaps #3 is
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  possibly the most helpful out of all these five things to
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  remember. And it's this.
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  You need to remember you're God. You see, the problem with you
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  and I as Christians is we can so often put pressure on ourselves.
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  I've got to do this. I've got to do that.
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  It's almost as if the devil tries to wire us up to have this
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  kind of mindset of I must do something.
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  I must contribute to my salvation.
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  I must do this work and that work, but the God of the Bible,
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  again, as I said, it's, it's already been done.
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  It's all about his promises, his covenants that he has made with
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  his people. So just turning your Bibles to
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  Philippians chapter 1 and verse 6, Philippians chapter 1 and
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  verse 6, being confident of this very thing that he which have
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  begun a good working, you will perform it until the day of
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  Jesus Christ. I really love that verse.
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  God has started this good work in you.
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  The moment you receive the Lord Jesus Christ, God started to do
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  a work in you and some of you can see it over the years he's
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  done. He's chipped away all those bad
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  bits, those rotten bits that things were embarrassed off and
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  he started this work. But God, if he sets his mind to
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  do something. This is the Lord we're talking
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  about some of you men watching this or even women, you, you're
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  very stubborn, if I can say this, or very.
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  You've got a strong will and you've got to achieve something.
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  I'm like that with certain jobs that I've just got to finish
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  this. I can't rest.
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  But the Lord's, the Lord is on a different level.
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  If he starts a good work in you, he's not going to cast it aside.
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  He's not like the lazy man or the procrastinator who starts 10
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  different jobs and and never finishes them.
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  No, the Lord, when he starts at work, he will finish it.
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  He will complete it and He started a work of salvation in
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  you and He's going to keep it going all the way until the day
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  you die, until He takes you to be with Him in paradise for all
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  of eternity. Isn't that reassuring?
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  You need to read that verse again.
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  Maybe, maybe write that one down.
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  Philippians one, verse 6. And then this one, a really
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  famous one. This is the one that we always
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  talk about when it comes to salvation, and it's John 10
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  verse 27. It says, My sheep hear my voice,
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  and I know them, and they follow me.
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  And then it says verse 28 And I give unto them eternal life, and
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  they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of
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  my hand. Now I do want to be really
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  gentle with you in this video because I know that some of you
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  are really hurting and you're struggling and that's why you're
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  watching this video because you have so many doubts and you look
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  down on yourself so much and you just think God could never love
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  you. But can I say something a little
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  bit strong? It's actually a bit of an insult
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  when we say to the Lord God, I don't think I'm truly saved.
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  I feel like I'm such a mess. Can I tell you why?
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  Because the Lord God has got a very strong hand.
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  He has a very strong grip. And the Bible says, as we've
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  just read, none, none shall pluck them out of his hand.
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  If you're in the moment you became a believer or a child of
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  God, you were in the in his hands.
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  You came to live, you came to reside in the very hands of God.
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  And once he has hold of you, he does not let you go.
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  Now, some people would say, yeah, but that doesn't change
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  the fact that I myself can jump out of the hands of God.
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  OK, you want to play that game? I think that's very silly to say
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  that. But you want to play that game.
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  You jump out of the hands of God.
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  Well, do you know there's another verse in the Bible?
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  It says beneath are the everlasting arms of God.
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  So you jump out of His hand, and you get caught in His
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  everlasting arms. God will not let go of you.
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  My dear friend, my dear believer, the moment you trusted
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  in Jesus Christ, you were secure, you were safe.
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  So just rest in that. It's not about you, it's about
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  Him and His promises #4 The fourth thing you need to
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  remember if you're struggling with assurance of salvation is
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  your incapability. You're incapability.
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  Now, as we've just been reminded on the last point, some of us
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  don't give God enough credit for how strong He is, for how great
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  He is. But on the flip side, some of
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  us, we give ourselves more credit than is due.
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  We think we're stronger than we are, but guys, we're not capable
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  of of separating ourselves from God.
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  We're not capable of running away from God even if we wanted
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  to. Look at Romans chapter 8 with
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  me, Romans chapter 8. Just so you know, there's a lot
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  of Bible verses in this one. But when I've sort of apologised
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  in the past, having too many Bible verses making you flick
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  here, there and everywhere, you've all said don't apologise.
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  The more Bible verses the better.
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  Well, you've got lots of Bible verses in this video, Romans
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  chapter 8, verse 38, it says, For I am persuaded that neither
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  death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
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  things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor
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  any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of
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  God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  I'm not sure what version you had when you're reading that,
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  but that that line about not any other creature.
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  We're a creature. Or in some versions, it says
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  things that are made or things that are unmade.
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  I myself a maid. I'm a, I'm a human being.
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  So in other words, I myself cannot separate myself from the
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  love of God even if I wanted to. So again, you're incapable of
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  separating yourself from God's love.
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  He set His eyes on you. He set His love upon you, and He
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  will not let you go. Remember that, believer.
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  OK, now look at this verse with me, Romans 11 verse 29.
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  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, or in
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  other versions are irrevocable. So here's something else to
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  remember when God gives gifts. So he gives us many gifts.
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  Sometimes it's a gift of an ability.
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  Maybe you've got a gift of administration, or a gift of
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  encouragement, or a gift of speaking, or a gift of healing.
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  You know, God gives us all gifts.
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  But what's the key gift that God gives us?
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  What's the gift that we talk about all the way through the
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  Bible? The gift of salvation, the gift
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  of eternal life. I mean, how can eternal life be
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  eternal if it could be lost tomorrow?
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  Come on, how can it be so precious and so great if
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  tomorrow it's gone? So if God has given us this
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  precious gift, and if this verse says that the gifts of God are
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  irrevocable, well, that means there is no repentance as the
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  Bible says. There is no way this can be
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  lost. It's there, it's yours.
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  The day you received eternal life, God said in in his mind,
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  he set a promise, a covenant there.
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  It's irrevocable, it's unchangeable.
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  You have this gift and there's no going back now.
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  So again, for whoever you are watching this right now, don't
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  give yourself more credit than is due.
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  If God has given you something, you can't change it.
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  You can't change the writing. God has already set it in stone.
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  Before we come to #5 please do let me know if I've missed
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  anything out, any verses or anything else you'd like to add
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  to this list. Just to say I have got kind of
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  flu right now. You won't be able to tell it,
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  but I feel boiling hot. But I've also got shivers and
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  everything. So I don't know what's going on
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  here. So I know I've missed things
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  out. And I'm not on top form.
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  I'm never on top form. But I do feel, as I said before,
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  particularly under the weather right now.
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  But the last one, the last, the 5th and final thing I want you
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  to remember right now, if you are struggling with assurance of
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  salvation, you don't know if you're a Christian, is this
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  remember your experiences. Remember all the past things
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  that the Lord God has brought you through.
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  Just turn your Bible to one Peter 1 and verse 5 it says and
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  this is talking about Christians.
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  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
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  ready to be revealed in the last time.
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  So very similar to what we've already been saying, it's not on
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  you. It's all on the Lord.
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  We're kept by his power. But I want to remind you, just
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  look at your own life. Maybe right now, pause the video
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  and just have a little think what has God already brought you
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  through? Maybe great sickness, maybe
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  great trials, maybe great suffering, maybe just loneliness
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  since he's, he's brought you through so, so much.
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  Some of you are watching this channel and I know because
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  either you send me the pictures of you having your cup of Joe,
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  or you tell me you're in your 70s, you're in your 80s and
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  you're watching this and you've been walking with the Lord for
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  years and years. And he has brought you through
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  so much. And sometimes he just keeps us
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  in the ordinary, A bit like in the book of Ruth.
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  It kind of shows us that the ordinariness of life where
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  they're just gleaning that wheat.
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  They're just there and things are just going on.
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  Very, very simple. And sometimes that can be
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  yourself. You've just worked a simple job,
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  you've raised children, you've had grandchildren, a simple,
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  quiet life. And yet you can attest to the
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  fact that God has kept you. But some of you, you have
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  wandered, you have gone into sin, and yet God has brought you
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  out of it and he's kept you. But I thought I'd share with you
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  2 examples of where the Lord God has kept me over the years.
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  I could give. Honestly, when I was writing
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  down notes, I was thinking which one do I share?
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  There's been many. The Lord has brought me through
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  many different trials, snares, sins, but he's kept me.
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  He's been faithful even when I've been faithless and is all I
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  can say is he would not do that if I, if I was not a child of
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  God, he would not bring me out onto the other side.
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  He would have left me there, but he didn't.
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  So when I was a student, I was brought up in a Christian home,
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  a really lovely Christian home. I was showered with love.
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  I was brought up going to church every Sunday.
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  My dad was a Sunday school teacher.
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  He read the Bible with us every night, really loving Christian
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  home. But for me, I felt this.
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  I thought it was a little bit stifling and I wanted to get out
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  there. I wanted to experience the
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  world. And so when I went to
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  university, there was one word in my mind.
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  Freedom. Freedom.
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  I was free right now. And so I started to fool around
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  in sin. And I remember the night when I
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  lost my virginity. And I honestly, even though, you
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  know, I wasn't walking with God, I did want to wait till
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  marriage, but I lost it that night.
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  And I remember in my student halls of residence, I went into
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  the communal kitchen. It was like two or three in the
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  morning and I just fell on the floor with the girl in the room,
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  just fell on the floor just just crying and crying.
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  And I honestly just thought it was over.
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  I just, I can't even explain the pain that I'd failed God, that
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  the shame that it wasn't, you know, in my mind, I'd kept
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  thinking this is going to be great.
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  You know, I'm missing out. The grass is greener on the
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  other side. But the moment I did it, I
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  realised it wasn't the answer to anything at all.
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  And yet God brought me out through that and brought me to a
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  place of repentance. Another time, kind of in a
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  similar kind of vein, I remember I wanted to go to a nightclub
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  and different Christians have different views.
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  And I remember I'd heard from some Christians on a camp that
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  I'd been on where I was helping as a leader as a young person.
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  Christians should go in nightclubs.
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  Jesus would be in the nightclubs.
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  Jesus would be witnessing there, go in there and be a light in
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  that darkness. But on the flip side, United
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  Beach Missions, which was an organization that shared the
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  gospel on beaches with children and also did open air work, the
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  side on that side that camp on the same summer was saying stay
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  away from the nightclubs. Oh, you should not go in the
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  nightclubs whatsoever. They're they're wrong.
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  And listen, I knew in my heart I shouldn't be in the nightclub.
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  I knew that that wasn't where God wanted me to be in my
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  parents as well for my upbringing.
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  But one night I tried to get into a nightclub and it didn't
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  matter which nightclub I knocked on, they wouldn't let me in.
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  One bouncer said, I'm sorry, your shoes aren't smart enough,
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  you can't come in here tonight. I went to another nightclub then
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  round the corner and he said no, you're not coming in here
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  because you're on your own. And then another and another and
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  and whatever happened, I was not allowed to get into these
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  nightclubs. Now for me, I just see that as
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  the Providence of God. What are the chances all these
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  night and my shoes weren't that bad, by the way, but what are
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  the chances that I wouldn't be allowed to get into all of these
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  nightclubs? It was God protecting me.
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  It was God keeping me from sin. My dear friends, I'm sure you've
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  got stories, you've got testimonies, and I would just
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  encourage you all right now, get a piece of paper and write down
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  some of them. Remind yourself what the Lord
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  has already done for you and it will really help you to refresh
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  your memory that God loves you. He saved you.
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  You truly are a child of God, and He doesn't do this with the
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  unbeliever. He does this with His children
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  that have trusted in Him. Now, if you remember how I
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  started this video at the beginning, I said it's no
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  accident that you're watching this video, that you've seen it
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  right now. Well, actually my last video.
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  I also believe for many people that was no accident.
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  that video, please click here. Thank you again to all of our
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  channel members. Thank you to everyone who
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  supports this ministry and for all of your love and care.
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  It really means a lot. God bless you all and thank you
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  for watching.