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Brian Thomas: How Can Believers In Christ Be Ashamed Of The Gospel? · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity, no topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Hey friends, family and Christ, thank you so much for tuning in.
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  Our friend Brian Thomas is back with us, discerning the times on YouTube, his main website,
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  BlessingsToIsrael.com, BlessingsToIsrael.com, if you scroll down to the bottom, there's
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  all the social media, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and many, many others that you can connect
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  with Brian and his wife, Danita.
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  But I do want to get his take on some articles that we've been talking about.
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  It's very interesting what's coming out, and we're trying to make sense of some of
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  the apparent contradictions.
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  But there's a one survey that says there's a rising number of Christians who are not sharing
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  their faith.
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  That's not a good direction, right?
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  And also, there's one over, Harbinger's, ashamed of the gospel, troubling studies,
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  highlight vast trend of American Christians hiding their faith from public life, some not
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  even admitting their Christian, it's just really weird stuff.
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  It shouldn't be happening.
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  But Brian, good to see you, brother, thanks for your time today.
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  Thanks for having me, David.
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  It's always a great day when I can be on with you on where we met us, so just to be here.
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  Great to connect with you.
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  You're in North Carolina, right?
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  That's right.
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  That's right.
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  Central North Carolina.
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  Awesome.
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  So what's been happening with your ministry since we last talked, anything, any new things,
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  any interesting shows, topics, what's going on with you in DeNita?
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  Yeah, well, we've been still got the podcast going.
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  That's our central thing, and we've been really focusing here lately on teachings from
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  the book of Revelation, my favorite in all of the Bible.
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  I know it's a book that a lot of people steer clear of, but we like to focus on it.
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  And, you know, David, these times that we're in, I mean, we're, I think it's upon us as
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  far as the threshold, you know, we don't make predictions as far as the coming of Christ
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  or when the tribulation will start and, you know, we truly believe that as the church,
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  we are taking out before the tribulation begins.
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  But I just like to share revelation with people to get them to understand that these
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  things are upon us.
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  It's not way out there in the future somewhere.
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  So teaching on revelation, I have some appearances coming up soon on other podcasts.
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  So we're just staying with it and sharing the word of God in these last days that we're
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  living in.
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  Awesome.
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  I give you guys a lot of credit for tackling revelation.
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  I am always fascinated by revelation two and three, the letters to the early church in
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  Asia Minor, there are those seven churches.
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  And I see a lot of parallels, interestingly enough, to some of the warnings as far as
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  America is concerned, now America isn't in the Bible, of course, but some of the warnings
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  either about leaving your first love or being lukewarm or so many others.
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  But Brian, I wanted to touch on just a couple of things and get your response to it.
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  I love your view on some of these issues.
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  And one of them is very interesting over at the Washington stand.
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  It says being June, which formerly was known as Pride Month, now where it's marriage
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  fidelity or fidelity month or natural family month, let's call it some different things.
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  It's rebranded.
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  It says Republican support for same sex marriage collapses, falling almost 20% since 2022.
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  And this is brand new.
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  It says according to the latest Gallup poll, just released only 37% of Republicans now say
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  same sex marriage should be legal.
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  Now that's an interesting shift.
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  It's an 18 point drop since 2022 when it was 55% more than half.
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  But this is interesting.
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  Now the political divide Democrats still strongly back the redefinition of marriage at 87%.
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  And I think independence, Republicans, conservatives are going, moving away from the Obergefell decision
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  in 2015 that struck down gay marriage bands across the country, Brian, your thoughts.
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  Yeah, that is an interesting report, David.
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  I am one of those.
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  I hear people often say those in the church that we are upon a great revival.
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  I'm one of those that as much as I would love for that to happen, I don't see it in
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  scripture other than if you want to say the great harvest that will come in during the
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  seven year tribulation.
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  But as far as prior to the rapture of the church, I do not see a great revival.
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  But what I do see, there are movements of people who are seeking truth.
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  And I'm really encouraged by the young generation, you know, those in these thirties, they are
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  really craving now truth.
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  That's what they're looking for.
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  Even as they seek out church homes, I'm hearing more and more, especially among men.
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  And that's really interesting.
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  And I'm very encouraged though to see that there are those who are saying, well, God's
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  word defines marriage.
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  We cannot change it.
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  We cannot redefine it.
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  And really it's just a matter of David coming back to what's really just reality and
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  what's common sense.
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  We see it also happen even with the transgender movement.
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  I see their places in the world where people are saying, no, this is not, this is just
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  not logical.
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  And so I am encouraged to see that happening as much as I would like to see a great revival.
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  I don't see that taking place.
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  But again, it is very encouraging to see that that percentage of the Republican party
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  saying, no, we're not going to go along with that.
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  That goes against God's word.
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  Yes.
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  And as Bible believing Christians, we better stand on the word of God's side on all these
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  issues, friends.
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  You mentioned transgenderism.
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  And we've had not a turnaround, but there is a shift back to truth and I mean, science,
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  DNA, but how God created them, male and female, God, marriage, family, gender, civil society.
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  But what's interesting is along with that shift with people, maybe more quote, detransitioners,
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  because you can't transition under God's, you know, sovereignty, you can't transition
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  in the first place.
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  You cannot become a male if you're a female.
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  You cannot become a female if you're a male.
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  So let's just that being aside, we're used to hearing transition, but there's a lot,
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  which detransitioners are not getting the headlines.
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  But that's very interesting, because so the media won't promote that side of things,
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  even though it's true, and people are moving away from, you know, some of these things.
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  So let's shift to this article over at Harbinger's Daily.
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  Now, this was also in Decision Magazine about being ashamed of the gospel.
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  Brian, isn't there a Bible verse?
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  I'm unashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Paul wrote, and I believe in Romans, but it says, troubling studies highlight vast
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  trend of American Christians hiding their faith from public life.
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  So this may be a shout out to the second biggest lion America, which is the separation
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  of church and state, which has done a lot of damage.
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  That lie over the many decades has done a lot of damage to our culture, to our country,
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  but in the church with Christians thinking, eh, that's quote, political.
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  And our faith is not political, right?
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  So let's get into what this says.
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  It's a new study, and it found that American Protestant Christians are increasingly
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  less likely to talk about their faith with non-Christians and hesitant to discuss spiritual
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  beliefs, even with fellow Christians, I'm thinking that must be in public, because that
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  church, why would you be hesitant?
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  And here's what the survey says, we found that one in six church goers in the US agree
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  that they are reluctant to tell non-Christians in their life, that they are Christian.
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  Friend, are you embarrassed of Jesus Christ's sacrifice for you?
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  If you are truly saved and eternally secured, and are you embarrassed to, are you ashamed
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  of Jesus, but Brian, your thoughts on that, because I'm, this is a little disturbing,
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  to be honest.
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  Yeah, that is disturbing.
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  And you know, you quoted from Romans, yeah, that we are not to be ashamed of the gospel.
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  And I think David about how, when we think as you touched on Christ, what he did for us,
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  dying for us, if it were not for his sacrifice, we would be eternally damned.
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  How could you not want to, to share that?
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  And I warned people in the book of Mark, chapter eight, verse 38, you know, I lowered
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  said, if you are ashamed of him, then he will also be ashamed of you before the father
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  upon his coming.
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  So, you know, if people can debate as far as whether that's talking about an unsaved person
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  versus a saved person, but I think there's a warning that is in there that even for
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  to save, well, you could lose rewards.
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  Why would you not want to share with the world, the one who came and died for us?
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  And David, you know, I think that the things that you love the most just naturally flow
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  from your heart.
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  Yes.
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  You don't have to talk about their, their favorite sports team, their favorite television
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  show.
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  Come on.
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  Their spouse, things that you love are going to flow from your heart.
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  And I also believe that those who have been saved from many things, meaning those who
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  have been out there in the world who have been in great sin, they're going to be the ones
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  that are most grateful.
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  They are going to be the ones in which that will flow from.
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  And to be honest with you, even for those who have not, let's say you haven't lived
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  a, a lifestyle in which you were just all out there in the world, but the Bible says
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  all have seen and fallen short.
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  And so regardless, all of us will be lost without Jesus Christ.
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  And so I truly believe that when you really reflect on what he saved you from, what he
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  saved us from, you're going to share that.
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  It's going to naturally flow from your heart.
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  But I do think you should question David, you know, where are you with Jesus Christ?
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  Are you truly saved?
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  If you are, I do try to be a little bit understanding.
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  I understand that this whole thing of sanctification, it is a process.
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  The apostles spoke about those who are new in Christ, their babes who are on milk, but
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  he said, there comes a point where you got to put the milk away and you have to start
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  eating meat.
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  And so, you know, we saw where Peter, he did not Christ out of fear, but the Bible says
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  the spirit of fear is not of God.
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  But we saw that Peter later got that boldness by the Holy Spirit to stand for Christ regardless
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  of the outcome.
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  So I just want to encourage Christians, do not be ashamed and share it, share it, let
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  that love of the Lord flow.
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  If you don't have that in you then pray and seek him as you touched on David's revelation,
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  you said, return to your first love.
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  That should be the message for all of us as Christians.
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  Yes.
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  I heard a lot of Bible verses in what you were saying.
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  One of them is out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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  Another, I'm just thinking of Acts chapter four when the apostles were warned not to
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  teach in the name of Jesus.
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  How did they respond?
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  Not in fear.
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  Not been given a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.
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  If you are a saved friend, if you believe in Christ, if he is your salvation, your redeemer,
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  your savior, then we've been given the Holy Spirit, not a spirit of fear.
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  But anyway, they responded and said, whether it is right in the sight of God to give
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  heed to you, rather than God, you be the judge.
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  Verse 20, for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.
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  And after they said that, they were threatened again.
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  The religious leaders threatened them again.
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  The disciples left.
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  But this is just something that I'm just disappointed rather than this conversation, but we
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  have to because a lot of people maybe don't know how to talk about their faith and my encouragement
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  would be get in the book.
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  Read the Bible.
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  This scripture in you and you'll understand, you'll discern, you'll understand what
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  Jesus did for you, how precious a salvation we have.
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  Brian, your thoughts again?
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  Go ahead.
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  Yeah.
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  And I love David that you quoted there from the book of Acts also as they continued
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  in that account.
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  What we found from the apostles that when they went before the council, they were beaten.
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  And they went away.
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  The Bible says in Acts chapter 5 verse 40 and 41, they went away rejoicing.
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  Having been counted worthy to suffer for Christ.
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  And David, that should be something that should really touch the hearts of all of us today.
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  I think that's an indictment on a lot today.
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  Do you find yourself worthy?
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  Do you find it joyous that you're being counted worthy to suffer for Christ?
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  Or are you out of fear and shame you choose not to speak about him?
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  You don't want to be identified with him.
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  I think it's my prayer that the hearts of us all would be like those apostles.
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  And again, we look at Peter, he denied Christ at first, but we see how he grew by way
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  of the Holy Spirit.
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  So I want to encourage you, if you have that fear, seek the Holy Spirit, ask him to give
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  you that boldly willing to stand.
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  And yeah, it's something to rejoice about because Jesus said, if you suffer in this life
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  for his sake, great is your reward in heaven.
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  Do people know you're a Christian?
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  Serious question.
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  To keep our something so precious, private, I don't believe is serving the Lord Jesus Christ
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  fully.
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  One of the things you mentioned in Acts chapter five, one of the things that got them
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  in trouble is as they said, we must obey God rather than man.
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  I mean, we need to have that same attitude.
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  We must obey God rather than man.
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  We got to take a very brief pause with Brian Thomas.
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  So Brian Scott McConnell is the executive director of life way research.
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  And here's how he responded before we jump to the next article.
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  He said ideally a Christian true Christian would be talking about their relationship with
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  Jesus Christ, their love for him and his impact on their lives.
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  And he says large numbers have believers have room for growth in this important aspect
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  of discipleship.
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  And that's true.
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  If we're you're not talking about God or your relationship with Jesus or how the word
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  has helped you, we're not we're not being a blessing to others.
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  Brian, your last thoughts and we'll jump to the next article.
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  Yeah, you're right.
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  We're not being a blessing to others.
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  We are to share the king with the lost and dying world, the king Jesus Christ.
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  And Jesus gave a commandment David in the book of Matthew chapter 28.
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  He said, fulfilled the great commission.
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  That great commission.
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  It wasn't just for the apostles during that day, it is for all of us.
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  He said go into the world making disciples, teaching them, telling them, baptizing them.
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  And if you're being quiet about your faith, you cannot do that.
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  So you're violating the command from the Lord in which he said go into all the world and
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  share him with this lost and dying world.
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  And one of the things that David, my young son, my teenage son and he is growing in the
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  Lord and I am just so grateful to see their times I walk into his room.
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  He's just sitting there on the bed reading his Bible and I just love to see how he is
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  getting closer and closer to God.
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  And one day he was asking me about how can he share Christ?
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  What a ways that he can share Christ.
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  And so giving him some ideas and one of the things I told him just right from our home,
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  he can type up a letter to people sharing Jesus Christ.
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  And he typed a beautiful letter, I was blown away by it, telling people how much they
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  need Christ, how they need him and he's the only way to be saved.
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  And I said, I will help you, we can go online and just find addresses and we can mail them
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  out.
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  And that's something that he started doing.
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  So there are various ways, you know, I know some people, they are kind of shy or uncomfortable
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  with maybe walking up to someone, a stranger.
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  That'll come with time.
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  And as you seek the Holy Spirit, but there are many ways in which you can share the gospel
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  with others.
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  And so I just want to encourage people, seek God, seek the Holy Spirit.
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  He will guide you on how to share your faith.
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  Amen.
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  Amen.
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  And you don't have to know everything.
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  You don't have to know all the answers.
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  Yes, we should be able to defend the faith, but you can always say, well, let me get back
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  to you on that.
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  There's nothing to be ashamed of when we don't know everything about Bible prophecy or
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  about the Old Testament.
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  There's so many things.
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  So friends, share the importance of Jesus and salvation because otherwise, you know where
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  people will end up, a lot of people have not heard the gospel.
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  So onto the next one before run out of time, Brian, this is a survey over the Washington
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  stand.
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  Again, a rising number of Christians aren't sharing their faith with others.
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  To me, it's a head scratcher, but now again, they start off this article, Brian, this
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  is interesting.
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  As the share of American Christians who identify as Christian, that's funny, it's because
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  some, you know, who identify or not, but anyway, are this group remains stagnant, newly released
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  survey data suggests that a contributing factor toward a lack of growth and believers
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  may be due to Christians being increasingly hesitant to share their faith with others.
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  There's a theme going here.
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  So this is Pew Research.
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  And from the last year, the Christian share of the U.S. population steadily declined.
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  Now, check this out, friends, in 2007, those who identified as Christian, it was 78 percent
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  of Americans.
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  So almost 80 percent.
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  In 2019, so about 20, I'm sorry, just 12 years later, it dropped to 63 percent.
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  And then it continues now to go in that direction.
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  So Brian, I'll just turn it over to you and just share, I'll let you share whatever's
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  on your heart before I share some more numbers with the audience.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, something you touched on, David, that was my thought, exactly.
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  Yeah, I am grateful that there is a high percentage of people, meaning more than 50 percent
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  that identify as Christians.
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  But I think the reality is a lot of these people are not true Christians, they're not
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  truly born again.
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  And I know some people out there hear that and they'll probably say, they scoff at it and
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  they say, well, who are you to judge?
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  And they'll quote the scripture of thou shalt not judge.
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  And we don't have time to unpack it today, which that's not a accurate interpretation
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  that a lot of people give and Christ went on to explain how to judge.
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  So we are to judge, David.
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  And the thing about it is, can we know whether someone is going to heaven or hell?
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  We can't know that.
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  But the Bible does say we are to examine and we can know by the fruits.
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  And I know David in my life, many people that I have come in contact with, people who
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  attended church on a regular basis.
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  But when I looked at the fruit, I did not see Christian.
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  And that is the thing, are we talking about perfection?
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  No, of course not.
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  I'm not perfect.
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  None of us are perfect.
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  There's only one perfect man there who walked this earth and that was Jesus Christ.
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  But we should be looking for people who are striving to live the life in which God called
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  us to live.
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  So I think that is the reality that there are many who identify.
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  They say, yeah, I'm a Christian, but the truth of the matter is, I think there are
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  nominal.
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  They're really Christian in name only.
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  Yeah.
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  That's a good point to make.
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  And friends, I hope you're not offended by us saying that because there are people in
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  many, many churches in America that are not saved.
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  Truly, they're not saved.
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  They might not be living for Christ all week long and yet they'll come to church thinking
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  that's maybe their ticket to heaven.
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  I don't know.
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  There's some mixed up theology out there in doctrines.
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  But most, this is interesting that this is, this, this, this, there, this mentions a
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  Barnett survey from four years ago, goes along with this.
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  It found that most Christians, 56% at the time, consider their spiritual lives to be private.
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  And here are the top three reasons according to Barnett for not sharing their faith.
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  One, they can get to heaven through their different religious beliefs.
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  Two, we shouldn't impose our ideas on others.
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  And three, the Bible tells us not to judge us.
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  And you mentioned that.
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  Judge Enot is one of the phrases, the most taken out of context phrases in all of scripture
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  perhaps, judge Enot because there's a whole lot before and after that.
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  You don't scribble out the whole chapter and just highlight judge Enot.
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  It's not truly biblical.
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  Brian, go ahead.
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  Yeah, yes, all right, David.
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  And the thing about it is people have to look at the Bible, look at the word of God and
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  ask yourself the question, do you truly believe it?
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  One thing is people are not reading the Bible.
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  We've seen the Barnett research studies over the years that even among professing Christians,
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  those who read the Bible on a daily basis is, is under 10%, less than 10.
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  So one, you're not going to know how to, to be a disciple, how to walk out the faith
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  if you don't know what's in the word.
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  And one of the things in God's word, Jesus clearly said, he is the only way, the truth
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  and the life.
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  No one comes to the Father, but by me, referring to Jesus himself.
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  So David, if you truly believe that, then you know that anyone who is trying to get to
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  heaven by any other means, whether it's by good works, whether it's by any other religion,
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  you know, they're not going to make it.
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  And if you truly love someone, you want to rescue them from eternal damnation.
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  It's just like if you're walking down the street and you see your neighbor's house on fire,
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  are you going to just keep walking and say, well, it's none of my business.
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  I don't want to intrude upon them.
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  No, you're going to see that fire.
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  You're going to rush up and try to get them out of the house.
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  You're going to wake them up.
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  You're going to call for authorities to come, the firefighters and you want to rescue
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  them from that.
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  So if you are truly a follower of Jesus Christ, you want to rescue the laws.
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  And again, yeah, I know there are going to be some who are going to push back when
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  you do that.
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  And they're going to try to put that whole guilt trip on you with the judge, not out
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  of context culture.
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  Yes.
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  But David, if you really love someone, no, you're going to want to rescue them because
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  eternity, David, is eternal.
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  And once a person is on the other side, their fate is sealed.
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  And there is no coming back from that.
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  And we should do all we can to reach a loss in dying world.
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  That's why we need to share our faith.
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  Yeah.
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  If you really love others, love your neighbor as yourself.
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  If you really love the lost friends, you won't care if you win any popularity contests.
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  You won't care what others think.
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  I heard someone say this is years ago, and the late 1980s, I'll never forget this quote.
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  This author was getting criticism and encouragement and praise from a book that he wrote.
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  And he would say the same thing.
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  What other people think of me is none of my business because the people that are critical,
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  you know, oftentimes they just want to find something to be critical about.
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  But I want to pick up one thing before we run out of time in this, the top three reasons
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  for people not Christians not sharing their faith.
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  They can, they, some people think other people can get to heaven through different religious
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  beliefs.
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  That is not true.
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  The co-exist philosophy, right?
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  We just need to co-exist with the world and that's not going to get anybody saved.
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  Brian, just share a little bit about that because other religions and other cults and other
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  systems, beliefs, doctrines do not lead to the one true God and eternal life in Christ.
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  No, they don't, David.
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  And I often think about when this topic comes up, I remember years ago, Oprah Winfrey said
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  we all are worshiping and serving the same God and we can get there by whatever way.
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  Barack Obama said something very similar.
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  There are many paths to God.
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  Those are all false.
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  Those are doctrines of demons.
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  And for people out there that will challenge that, and they will say that, well, who are
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  we to say that our belief is right and all the others are wrong?
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  All you have to do, David, is just look as moral passage to say the proof is in the pudding.
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  How often do you hear people profane the name of those from other religions, meaning,
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  let's say Buddha and Allah?
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  You don't hear that.
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  But how often do you hear people profaning the name of Jesus Christ using Jesus Christ as
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  a curse word?
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  You hear it all the time.
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  That lets you know right there.
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  That's the litmus test that lets us know that Jesus Christ is the way.
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  It's not Buddha, it's not Allah, it's not any of those other ways it is Jesus Christ and
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  that's the only way by which you can be saved.
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  Amen.
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  Why?
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  Because he is the only God who is alive.
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  We believe and trust in the one true living God.
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  You can go to all these other tombs of other gods or wherever their bones or things can
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  be found.
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  They're still there.
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  There's an empty tomb still where Jesus was put in for three days and he is now ascended
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  to the Father and that's why we can pray to him.
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  That's why he sends the Holy Spirit to give us power for this life.
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  And it's such a blessing to get it but don't be selfish with it friends.
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  We need to be able to share and we're running out of time.
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  Let's redeem the time with the gospel.
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  Brian it goes by way too fast and encourage people to check out your podcast.
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  Descerning the times and that is at blessings to israel.com or on YouTube.
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  Descerning the times.
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  Go ahead and subscribe to Brian and to need his channel there and brother we really
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  thank you for coming back on.
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  We will see you and I talk to you soon.
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  Thanks man.
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  All right thanks for having me David.
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  It's always a pleasure.
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  You're most welcome brother.
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  Thanks friends for sharing the podcast and for your prayers.
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  God bless you and as always keep speaking the truth about things that matter.
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  See you next time.