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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Clearly explained.
- 0:07SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
- 0:20SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am very excited to share the Word of God with you.
- 0:29SPEAKER_01: Today I'm gonna start this new series called Heart Matters.
- 0:34SPEAKER_01: And there is a lot to cover in the Bible from the Word of God concerning the heart.
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: I mean a lot.
- 0:42SPEAKER_01: And I'm not sure whether I'm gonna be able to share on all of the hard matters that we can find in the Word of God, but I'm gonna use a few of them which I believe there are important for us to understand.
- 0:57SPEAKER_01: And some things that have nothing to do with one the other.
- 1:03SPEAKER_01: For example, I'm gonna share on the heart of the gospel, but then I'm also gonna share on you know how believing is a heart matter, and then also how we can pray after the heart of the Father, and that also the Bible says, don't let your heart be troubled.
- 1:19SPEAKER_01: And so you see, there are different aspects of you know the heart and heart matters that you can cover, and these things I'm uh surely gonna share with you, and then we will see if the Lord will add more to it.
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: Um, before I'm gonna go into the study, I just wanted to tell you that I I have written a few books, and you can find them on the website in the link below here on the screen.
- 1:42SPEAKER_01: But I just wanted to mention the The God of Restoration.
- 1:45SPEAKER_01: This is a Dutch copy, but I have it in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch, and Urdu, and also all my other books are in various languages.
- 1:53SPEAKER_01: You can all download them for free or as an ePUB, and uh, but you can also get the physical copies, you know, but you have to pay for mail costs.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: Um, but this book um is also a hard matter, it's the God of restoration, and it and it covers the whole story, the whole redemption plan, like detailed, you know, and then what happened when Christ came and what he did for us and who we are now in him, and how we can walk that out and what that means for our lives, etc.
- 2:20SPEAKER_01: But it's like really beautiful, it's a really beautiful book.
- 2:23SPEAKER_01: I really am in love with that book, you know, because it's one of the best books I believe that I've written, um, because the heart of the father really comes forth from this book.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: And so I really want to recommend you to get that copy and uh, you know, um let me know what you thought of it.
- 2:42SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 2:42SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you so much for the word, thank you for who you are, thank you for your Holy Spirit, and thank you for this teaching.
- 2:49SPEAKER_01: I pray, Father, that it will be a blessing for those who hear and that you will prompt me, uh, you know, and guide me and use my mouth to share concerning these topics what you want to share.
- 3:01SPEAKER_01: I give you all the praise in Jesus' mighty name.
- 3:04SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 3:05SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 3:06SPEAKER_01: And so today in this series, I want to start with the heart of the gospel.
- 3:11SPEAKER_01: You see, the whole gospel is based on the desire of the Father and on his heart, uh, or how you could say that, and on the heart desire of the Father.
- 3:22SPEAKER_01: It's his heart's desire for us, his children, um, you know, where this whole gospel has been based on.
- 3:30SPEAKER_01: And so after this uh the fall of man, uh something uh was lost.
- 3:38SPEAKER_01: You know, in Matthew 18, 11 it says that Jesus uh has come to seek that which was lost.
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: You know, we we could like let us just go there quickly and to read it, and uh because I'm gonna use a lot of Bible verses.
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: I don't want to misquote things because English is not my first language, and so in Dutch I know how it says it, but if I'm translated it, if I'm translating the Dutch in my head to English, it doesn't always come out right.
- 4:03SPEAKER_01: So, you know, please have grace with me.
- 4:06SPEAKER_01: I'm sure you still can follow me and understand what I want to say, and if I need to slow down, then I will slow down because I am teaching and I'm not preaching, amen.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: So here it says in verse 18, verse 11, chapter 18, verse 11, it says, For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
- 4:26SPEAKER_01: And so he didn't come to save who was lost because you know if he needed to seek who was lost, he didn't need to seek far, because each and every person in this planet without Christ is completely and utterly lost in darkness.
- 4:41SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 4:42SPEAKER_01: And so he didn't came to seek who was lost, he came to seek that what was lost, and what was lost was the community, it was the oneness with the Father, it was the unity with the Father.
- 4:56SPEAKER_01: You know, God couldn't be in man anymore because of sin nature.
- 5:01SPEAKER_01: He couldn't walk with man as it was in the garden before the fall of man.
- 5:06SPEAKER_01: Now I shared on this also in uh um Back to the Garden, uh, the God of Restoration, I guess I called the title, I'm not sure about it, but I shared on that also that you know, in the in the garden everything was perfect before the fall, and God had pre-vided uh sorry, provided for everything within the garden.
- 5:30SPEAKER_01: And so man was taken care of, and man had perfect community and oneness with God.
- 5:36SPEAKER_01: He spoke with uh God face to face, they walked together in the cool breeze of the garden afternoon, in the afternoon in the garden.
- 5:45SPEAKER_01: And so there was nothing standing between God and man, even not eating from the tree of life, because the tree of life was in the garden, and all the other trees were in the garden, but there was only one tree that they were not able to that God said, Don't touch that, because if you do it, you will surely die.
- 6:00SPEAKER_01: If you eat from it, you will surely die.
- 6:02SPEAKER_01: Not touch, but if you eat from it, you will surely die.
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: And so, and then they could have eaten from that tree of life, and we seriously would have a problem now.
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: But thank God that they did not eat from the tree of life, but they did eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and then because of that, you know, God had to protect them against the tree of life, uh, or the tree of life against them, wow yeah, however you want to fly it, but so that they wouldn't live forever in that same miserable state.
- 6:30SPEAKER_01: And so God, by an act of grace, placed them outside of the garden to protect them from not eating of that tree so that they would be in that situation, that miserable, wretched sin uh nature situation for eternity, and so God protected them the way to the tree of life.
- 6:47SPEAKER_01: But you know, because of the fall of man, man couldn't be in oneness, couldn't be in unity with God anymore.
- 6:53SPEAKER_01: His his spirit, the spirit of God wasn't in man anymore.
- 6:58SPEAKER_01: You know, it was the man just was blood, flesh, and the will of man.
- 7:02SPEAKER_01: The man was just made natural, carnal, flesh.
- 7:06SPEAKER_01: That's it.
- 7:07SPEAKER_01: And he had a soul, but his spirit, you know, is was completely in darkness and blinded, and you know, and so God needed to do something.
- 7:15SPEAKER_01: But I will get to all of that.
- 7:16SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get a get ahead.
- 7:18SPEAKER_01: But God's spirit could not be in man anymore because man now had a sin nature, man had a fallen nature, man was contaminated with sin, and so man became unholy, and the spirit of God is the Holy Spirit, and so the Holy Spirit could not be in unholy men.
- 7:37SPEAKER_01: It's impossible.
- 7:38SPEAKER_01: And so God couldn't be in man anymore, and the sin nature of man was in the way, and that was never the intention of the father.
- 7:45SPEAKER_01: You know, he created us for his pleasure, he created us so that he could be our father and that we could be his children.
- 7:51SPEAKER_01: That's what he says in 2 Corinthians 6 18.
- 7:53SPEAKER_01: He says, and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and my daughters.
- 7:57SPEAKER_01: You know, that is the heart of the father.
- 7:59SPEAKER_01: The heart of the father is that he always wanted to be our father, not only our God, you know, like you know you know, you are really small and he's really big, but he wanted to be our father and wanted to have communion and relationship with us.
- 8:12SPEAKER_01: And so uh God loves his creation and God loves man.
- 8:16SPEAKER_01: I mean, he truly loves man without you know any shadow of a doubt, more than you can imagine, more than you can ever comprehend.
- 8:24SPEAKER_01: He loves man.
- 8:25SPEAKER_01: And so he wanted to do something, he wanted to set man free from the slavery that man uh was fallen into.
- 8:35SPEAKER_01: And you know, um God man was fallen into this slavery, he was fallen into the arms, or not the arms, into the claws of Satan, the God of this world.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: He fell into his trap, he believed his lies, and then he became his slave, and now he became a puppet from Satan, and Satan could do with men whatever he wanted to do because he he owned man now.
- 9:00SPEAKER_01: You know, but God wanted to set men free.
- 9:02SPEAKER_01: God wants to have a relationship with his children, he wants to, he wants to be a father to us, and so God wanted to set us free, you know, and but to re to resolve the sin problem that was now between uh standing between God and man, uh blood needed to flow.
- 9:24SPEAKER_01: Because the price for sin is death, and the life is in the blood, and so blood needed to flow to pay the price for sin.
- 9:36SPEAKER_01: But there was no innocent blood that could flow to pay for sin.
- 9:42SPEAKER_01: All blood of all men in this world has been contaminated with sin.
- 9:50SPEAKER_01: And because it's contaminated with sin, you cannot restore, you cannot pay sin with sin.
- 10:01SPEAKER_01: It's impossible to pay with sin blood for sin.
- 10:06SPEAKER_01: It had to be innocent blood, it had to be blood that was completely free from sin, that was never ever contaminated with sin.
- 10:16SPEAKER_01: And so to bring reconciliation, to bring redemption, to pay the price, to redeem and pay the price that needed to be paid, this innocent blood needed to flow so that the relationship could be restored between God and man, and uh there could be peace again between God and man, because that's what God wants.
- 10:36SPEAKER_01: God wants peace.
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: He wants peace with his children, he wants peace with men, because he created us for his own pleasure, and so this innocent sin-free blood that needed to flow could not be blood of a man uh born into this world from Adam, born from the blood from blood, the will of man.
- 11:03SPEAKER_01: I don't know, man.
- 11:04SPEAKER_01: John 1.12, born of blood, flesh, and the will of man.
- 11:08SPEAKER_01: That's what it says in John 1.12, sometimes, man.
- 11:11SPEAKER_01: Alright, anyway, so it couldn't be that blood that was born, was born of blood, flesh, and the will of man, because that was born from Adam, from a fallen, contaminated nature, from a sin nature.
- 11:26SPEAKER_01: That blood from Adam was contaminated, and everything that came forth from Adam was contaminated with sin and had a sin nature by birth.
- 11:37SPEAKER_01: You didn't choose to become a sinner, you were born a sinner, you know, and therefore you lived in sin, and your whole nature was sin.
- 11:47SPEAKER_01: It was a sin nature before Christ Jesus.
- 11:51SPEAKER_01: And so there was nothing that God could do, um, you know, himself to just turn it around.
- 12:04SPEAKER_01: Man couldn't do nothing to turn it around.
- 12:06SPEAKER_01: Man couldn't, I mean, God is omnipotent, and God, if he wanted, you know, he could just just wave his hand and make it all new again, but that's not who God is, and I will get to that, you know, because God is righteous.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: But then also, man couldn't do anything to get rid of that sin nature.
- 12:26SPEAKER_01: He couldn't do anything, you cannot clean mud with mud, you cannot clean, you know, your sin nature with the blood of that's contaminated with sin.
- 12:35SPEAKER_01: And so there was nothing in this earth that we could do to restore that what has lost.
- 12:40SPEAKER_01: There was nothing that we could do to save ourselves.
- 12:43SPEAKER_01: Look what it says here in Romans 3.
- 12:48SPEAKER_01: Romans 3.
- 12:51SPEAKER_01: And then verse 23.
- 12:55SPEAKER_01: Here it says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
- 13:01SPEAKER_01: Romans 3.23.
- 13:03SPEAKER_01: All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
- 13:09SPEAKER_01: And so all men have sinned, and because of sin we fall short of the glory of God, and we sin because of our sin nature.
- 13:17SPEAKER_01: We cannot we cannot undo our sin nature, and we cannot save ourselves, we cannot justify ourselves before God.
- 13:23SPEAKER_01: There is no way that we could get out of this sin nature, this miserable, wretched state that we are born in from the moment we, you know, are birthed into this world.
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: And man, it's it's horrific, it's terrible.
- 13:38SPEAKER_01: There is no way out.
- 13:40SPEAKER_01: There is truly no way out.
- 13:42SPEAKER_01: But God wouldn't be God if He wouldn't help us, you know, because God is a good God in 1 John 4, verse 8, it says that God is love.
- 13:52SPEAKER_01: But even in the old covenant, you know, where everybody says that God is an angry God, which is absolutely not true.
- 13:57SPEAKER_01: But let's see what it says in 1 Chronicles 16.
- 14:00SPEAKER_01: 1 Chronicles 16.
- 14:05SPEAKER_01: All right, almost there.
- 14:11SPEAKER_01: No, of course not.
- 14:13SPEAKER_01: Where are you looking?
- 14:16SPEAKER_01: Run Chronicles verse 16.
- 14:20SPEAKER_01: No, 1 Chronicles chapter 16.
- 14:24SPEAKER_01: 1 Chronicles chapter 16, verse 34.
- 14:28SPEAKER_01: It says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy endures forever.
- 14:36SPEAKER_01: You see, the Bible says that God is love and that is God, and that God is good and that his mercies endure forever.
- 14:43SPEAKER_01: That's what the Bible teaches me.
- 14:45SPEAKER_01: And so he is a good God and he is a God of love.
- 14:50SPEAKER_01: And so God wouldn't be God if He wouldn't help us by His mercy and by His love.
- 14:56SPEAKER_01: You know, now we are have fallen into this fallen state.
- 15:01SPEAKER_01: And also, you know, if you think on it, you know, I didn't choose to be born a sinner, and you also didn't choose to be born a sinner.
- 15:11SPEAKER_01: It was just the consequence of the first man that fell into sin and gave everything over to Satan.
- 15:17SPEAKER_01: It was the consequence of his mistake that man fell into sin, and now everything that would be born from Adam would be born into sin with a sin nature, and he cannot save nor redeem himself.
- 15:33SPEAKER_01: You know, but I didn't choose to do that.
- 15:36SPEAKER_01: It it happened because I was born with a nature like that into this world.
- 15:41SPEAKER_01: And so God, you know, he had pity on us and he had mercy on us, you know, and he was like, no, that's not my plan, that's not what I want for my mankind that I created for my pleasure to have relationship with him and intimacy with him.
- 15:54SPEAKER_01: And so God set this redemption plan into motion, and to he did that so he could redeem man from his miserable position, from his miserable state.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: And so this redemption plan that God set in motion that would really shake the world and his foundations.
- 16:14SPEAKER_01: It really would shake the world and his foundation.
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: It wasn't just a twist of a hand, you know.
- 16:19SPEAKER_01: It wasn't like I said, that God is omnipotent and you know, if he wanted to, you know, he just would wave his hand and then it would make everything just start all over again, you know, and would make everything new again.
- 16:31SPEAKER_01: He could do that because he is omnipotent, you know, uh, but God is not like that.
- 16:40SPEAKER_01: You know, he he um he had placed in he had in how you say that the price for sin is dead, and death always is paid with blood because life is in the blood, so the debt only can be paid with blood.
- 17:06SPEAKER_01: He cannot do anything else because that would be out of uh you know the order that he had said, you know, concerning this.
- 17:16SPEAKER_01: He he cannot um place himself above his word, he places his word above his name, and so you know there had to be a sacrifice like there is no other, because it had to be blood that needed to flow.
- 17:34SPEAKER_01: There was no other way.
- 17:36SPEAKER_01: You know, God won't break his own word, he won't break his own uh rules, or I don't know how to explain it in English, but he just can't go against you know himself.
- 17:48SPEAKER_01: He is a just God, and so you know there is sin and sin needs to be paid with death.
- 17:54SPEAKER_01: It's that simple.
- 17:56SPEAKER_01: There is sin and it needs to be paid with death.
- 17:59SPEAKER_01: So whether you are gonna die, because you're you deserve to die.
- 18:05SPEAKER_01: That's the law.
- 18:07SPEAKER_01: That's the that's the you know, that's the that's how it is.
- 18:11SPEAKER_01: You need to die when you have sinned.
- 18:15SPEAKER_01: And so each and every person born into sin is gonna die, and then they have the second death also to be in a place where God is not, which is not God's intention or his plan.
- 18:25SPEAKER_01: But this is just the situation.
- 18:27SPEAKER_01: It's just a situation that because man obeyed Satan in the garden instead of obeying God, man gave himself away.
- 18:38SPEAKER_01: Man fell into the sin nature, and then everything that came forth from the first man was born with that same nature and contaminated with sin.
- 18:48SPEAKER_01: And God didn't want that, and God doesn't, and the way he proves that is to say, listen, I'm gonna place you outside of the garden so you won't also eat from the tree of life, and then continue forever in that state.
- 19:01SPEAKER_01: But I wanted to give you the option to choose yourself whether you're gonna eat or not eat of the tree.
- 19:06SPEAKER_01: I could have said, you know, I place the tree somewhere else, and so you won't be able to reach it.
- 19:10SPEAKER_01: But I wanted to give men, that's what God said, I wanted to give men his a choice and don't make zombies and robots, you know, that can, you know, like, okay, you know, where I have to go, what do I need to do?
- 19:21SPEAKER_01: No, he wants to give us a choice, and so he placed everything in the garden and then gave us a choice whether we're gonna do it and we're gonna believe God, or we're not gonna do it, and we're gonna believe Satan.
- 19:31SPEAKER_01: He gave us a choice and we made the wrong choice.
- 19:34SPEAKER_01: And by making the wrong choice, there were super, you know, consequences that completely, you know, changed the whole course of mankind.
- 19:46SPEAKER_01: Never intended to be like this, but it happened because he gave men a choice and they made the wrong choice.
- 19:52SPEAKER_01: And then so God loves them so much, but he can't undo their choice because they made the choice.
- 19:57SPEAKER_01: And so God needs to do something else so he can restore legally what needed to be restored.
- 20:05SPEAKER_01: He needed to think on something because now that man had sinned, the price for sin is death, the wages of sin is death, and so blood needed to flow, and he knew man, all man, was now contaminated with this sin nature.
- 20:22SPEAKER_01: His blood was contaminated with sin.
- 20:24SPEAKER_01: So, what I am to do, and so God had this redemption plan in place, and this redemption plan would involve his own son, because nobody in this world could ever pay for the wages of sin.
- 20:41SPEAKER_01: No one, we all would die, and we all had no hope and no future, all of us had sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and so God needed to send his son, his own son, needed to come in the flesh.
- 20:58SPEAKER_01: Now, we can see in the book of Genesis how the offspring of the descendant that would bring forth the Savior, because the Savior needed to become needed to be brought forth.
- 21:12SPEAKER_01: He needed to be, he was, Jesus was spoken into existence by all the prophecies and you know, and and the prophets uh and the mouth of God in the old covenant.
- 21:22SPEAKER_01: He was spoken into existence based on the promise that God gave in Genesis, in the book of Genesis, to Eve, where he said that your seed, you know, will crush, you know, the head of Satan, and and then Satan will crush its heel, but your seed will crush it.
- 21:40SPEAKER_01: Your seed there the redemption plan started to get into motion, but it had to be given to the firstborn, you know, of the whole lineage of the offspring.
- 21:53SPEAKER_01: But that didn't always go well because not everybody did, you know, what uh God.
- 22:00SPEAKER_01: God expected or wanted him to do.
- 22:02SPEAKER_01: And so we can see how the blessing of the offspring, the descendant that would bring forth the Savior, always went from one to the other.
- 22:10SPEAKER_01: But even though it normally would go to the firstborn, it didn't always go to the firstborn because of the matter of the heart.
- 22:17SPEAKER_01: And we can see that with Cain and Abel, the blessing that you know would go to Cain.
- 22:24SPEAKER_01: You know, the blessing in whom the redemption plan could be continued would go to from Eve, Adam and Eve, would go to Cain, but because he was the firstborn.
- 22:38SPEAKER_01: But Cain did something horrific.
- 22:40SPEAKER_01: And so it didn't go to Cain because his heart was not right.
- 22:43SPEAKER_01: And we can see that in Genesis 4, verse 3 and 4.
- 22:47SPEAKER_01: Let's read that.
- 22:47SPEAKER_01: Genesis 4, verse 3 and 4.
- 22:52SPEAKER_01: Man, it's so you try to explain it like in a nutshell, but it's not always easy to do so.
- 22:58SPEAKER_01: Genesis 4, verse 3 and 4.
- 23:01SPEAKER_01: 4 verse 3 and 4, it says, Then in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord.
- 23:10SPEAKER_01: Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat.
- 23:15SPEAKER_01: And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but he did not respect Cain and his offering.
- 23:21SPEAKER_01: And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
- 23:27SPEAKER_01: And so you can see that, you know, Cain didn't, he his heart wasn't right.
- 23:36SPEAKER_01: It wasn't right in the offering, you know, and then God even says in verse 7, if you do well, will you not be accepted?
- 23:45SPEAKER_01: And if you do not well, sin lies at the door, and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.
- 23:54SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, um the heart of Cain was not right.
- 24:00SPEAKER_01: And because he was so jealous, because he saw that God blessed uh Abel and his offering and not that of Cain, he rejected that of Cain.
- 24:10SPEAKER_01: He was so jealous that by a bitter and jealous heart he killed his own brother.
- 24:16SPEAKER_01: He just hit him with a rock and crossed his skull and died.
- 24:21SPEAKER_01: And so now there was nobody anymore left in whom the redemption plan could be continued because he was the firstborn, but he was rejected, and then the second in line was Abel and he killed him.
- 24:34SPEAKER_01: And so it was a huge problem.
- 24:38SPEAKER_01: But then God gave Adam and Eve a new offspring, because nobody can stand in the way of God's plan.
- 24:44SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 24:44SPEAKER_01: And so the new offspring was set, and said would become the offspring in whom the Redeemer, uh the redemption plan would be continued, and the Redeemer finally would be come forth of.
- 24:59SPEAKER_01: And so we can read it in Genesis 4.25.
- 25:04SPEAKER_01: In Genesis 4.25, and Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth.
- 25:11SPEAKER_01: For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, who Cain killed.
- 25:19SPEAKER_01: And so, as for Set to him an also son was born in Amon Enosh, and the men, and then men became to call on the name of the Lord.
- 25:26SPEAKER_01: And so here it says that God has appointed another seed for me instead of Cain.
- 25:32SPEAKER_01: Uh, sorry, instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.
- 25:35SPEAKER_01: So Cain's heart was not right, it would go to Abel, but then he killed Abel, and then God appointed another seed in whom the blessing, the redemption plan, would be continued.
- 25:46SPEAKER_01: Uh, I have a lot to cover on this, and I'm not gonna make it within this episode, so I'm gonna leave it with this, but I really want to encourage you to go to the next episode of One Gospel where I'm gonna continue this redemption plan and the heart of the gospel in this series Heart Matters.
- 26:00SPEAKER_01: I hope to see you there.
- 26:01SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
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