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526 | Throwback - I go to prepare · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Be prepared is the familiar motto of the Boy Scouts of America,
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  but takes on new meaning when eternity is considered.
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  Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you. If Jesus prepared,
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  how much more do we need to prepare?
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  He not only prepared, he prepared a place for you, a mansion.
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  And only the prepared will receive their mansion.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim discusses the
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  truth of the necessity to be prepared.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  and what a pleasure it is to be able to come to you as a lesson,
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  again, out of John chapter 14.
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  In John chapter 14, in verses 1 through 3, it reads as this,
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  Let not your heart be troubled.
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  Believe in God. Believe also in me.
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  In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,
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  I would have told you, i go to prepare
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  a place for you and
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  if i go and prepare a place for you i will
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  come again and receive you unto myself that where
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  i am there you may be also i ask
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  that you pay special attention to the words that jesus christ spoke when he
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  said i go to prepare a place for you i don't think that there is any more precious
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  promise that we can think of that as a believer in Christ that we have,
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  knowing that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
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  he himself has gone to prepare a place for you.
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  It is incredibly important that you listen very closely to the next few words.
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  For you see, he went away to prepare a place for you that where he is, you may be also.
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  But he said that he would receive you unto himself.
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  And that means you must accept his personal gift of salvation before you can
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  receive that home not made with hands,
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  eternal into the heavens.
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  You see, he went away to prepare. He receives unto himself a prepared people.
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  If Jesus Christ had to prepare how
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  much more than must you and I for we're
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  unfit to be in the kingdom of God except and
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  through by Jesus Christ he said in John chapter 14 and verse 6 I am the way
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  the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father but by me he is the
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  way and he prepared the way that we might be prepared to meet him,
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  that he could receive us unto himself.
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  The question that I have for you today, my friend, is, are you prepared?
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  We spend an inordinate amount of time preparing ourselves before we leave the house.
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  Many of us spend hours getting ready to leave.
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  I ask you this question. If your soul would be required of you today,
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  have you prepared to leave?
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  My friend, it's important that we look nice when we leave.
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  It's important that we put on our best foot so that others will come to us and
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  speak to us and we have an opportunity to explain to them who Jesus Christ is.
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  But the real preparation to leave needs to be made right here and right now
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  that you might be prepared to lead this world.
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  People die all the time unexpectedly.
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  Young people die. Old people die. People in between die.
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  People who are sick die. People who have never been sick a day and their life fall over dead.
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  You see, when it's your time to come to meet face to face with Jesus Christ,
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  when you're getting ready to leave this world,
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  you better have been prepared because in revelation chapter 20 and verse 15
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  jesus christ says that whosoever's name is not found written in the lamb's book
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  of life shall be cast into hell fire the question we have for you today is are you prepared.
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  Many of us spend a lot of time preparing for vacations.
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  We spend time preparing for our careers.
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  We spend time preparing for our jobs. And we spend time preparing for our children's education.
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  We spend time preparing for our leisure activities. We spend time preparing our dinners.
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  We spend time preparing ourselves for events and for holidays and for all these
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  things we prepare for. but many of us never prepare to leave this world.
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  Some of us prepare to take care of the things about leaving this world.
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  I no doubt I'm speaking to people who have already got their funeral arrangements
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  planned, who've already got all of that taken care of so that they wouldn't
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  have to leave that burden to their family.
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  Well, that's great, but there's a bigger burden you need to take care of,
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  and that's the sin burden that is everyone's.
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  In Romans 3.23, it says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of
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  god are you prepared to leave this world let me tell you the preparation that
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  jesus christ made in luke chapter 19 and verse 10 it said he came to seek and
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  to save those which were lost.
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  And he realized that there was a sin debt that you and I couldn't pay.
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  And that God required a sin debt to be paid.
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  And when God, in his infinite wisdom and in his amazing love,
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  looked down upon the earth,
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  he realized that the creation he had made in his image was bound and doomed
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  for eternal hell because they had rejected the plan that he had for them.
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  The knowledge of good and evil, they now had, and something had to take away their sins.
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  And there wasn't anything that could do that.
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  But Jesus Christ, his only son, was the only payment acceptable and able to
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  be done for the payment of sin.
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  Jesus Christ was the only way that your sin and my sin could be paid.
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  And it required him to shed his sinless, spotless blood.
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  That you and I might receive cleansing. That we might be made fit.
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  And have his righteousness imputed in us. That we might be able to be received by God.
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  And to claim that place prepared for us.
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  And so Jesus prepared the way because he was the way in John chapter 14 and
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  verse 6. And he walked the way of Golgotha.
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  And just so that you know how much his love is for you, just so that you understand
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  the breadth and depth of his love for you, he explains it clearly in Romans 8.
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  And nothing can separate you from the love of God. But he demonstrated it on his walk to Calvary.
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  And he stood in the garden of gethsemane and sweat was on him as drops of blood,
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  and he spoke to god the father and he said if there be any other way let this
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  cup pass from me my friend he wasn't shirking his duty.
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  He was preparing the way, and he knew what it was going to cost him.
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  He didn't have to read it in God's holy word.
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  He didn't have to be spoken to about it.
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  For God the Father had said, this is my son in whom I am well pleased.
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  This is the payment for sins.
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  He realized that his son would die once for all, and after this would come the
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  judgment as we die and those who have received him as savior would be able to
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  be received by Jesus into the kingdom of God.
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  And those who have rejected him, though he's pleaded with them,
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  though he has spoken to them, would never see heaven as their home.
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  But I need you to listen.
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  You will not escape eternity.
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  Everyone will live for eternity. There is eternal life in Jesus Christ.
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  That is a home not made with hands eternal into heaven.
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  The streets are of gold. The water is of crystal clear. The gates are of jasper.
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  The sun never sets and there is praising and worshiping of God.
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  We are known as we were known.
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  Our loved ones who received him as Savior has been received into heaven.
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  They are praising and worshiping in God. There's no tears in heaven.
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  And the world that we now know can't even comprehend even the slightest amount
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  of the joy unspeakable and full
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  of glory that the saints of God are experiencing now who are in heaven.
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  Because to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
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  He said, what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us that we be called the sons of God?
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  My friend, if your loved one knew Jesus Christ.
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  They're not in the grave. There's a popular song they'll sing, Dust Will Sing.
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  And one day, the dead in Christ shall rise. But I want you to know something.
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  They're not waiting to that day to praise Jesus.
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  They're not waiting to that day to walk in the streets of gold.
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  I believe with every fiber of my body that my Father sits on the river of life,
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  and He is praising God, and He's enjoying all of the glories of heaven.
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  And I believe from the very top of my head to the very bottom of my toes and
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  the depth of my heart that my mother is kicking up gold dust on the streets
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  of gold and I believe that she's enjoying the joys of heaven for eternity,
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  but with just as much conviction and just as much assurity,
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  because the same word of God that teaches me that teaches me this that those
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  who escape into eternity without knowing jesus christ as savior are in hell
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  and just as the rich man lifted up his eyes in torment.
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  That's where they are. And heaven is a real place.
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  But Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you. And let me tell you,
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  hell was never part of it.
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  You were never intended to go to hell and hell was never intended for you to be there.
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  For you see, hell was intended for the devil and his angels.
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  If you would, please turn to the book of Revelation chapter 20.
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  John saw heaven. but the scriptures plainly reveal what lies ahead for those
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  who don't know jesus as savior,
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  and a devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone
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  beginning in verse 10 where the beast and the prophet are and shall be tormented
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  day and night forever and ever and i saw a great white throne and him that sat
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  on it whose face the earth and the heaven fled away,
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  and there was found no place for them.
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  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened.
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  I want to bring to your attention, you may not claim him as God now, but one day you will.
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  And it is my prayer and the prayer of this ministry and the prayer of many people
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  in your life, no doubt, that you will accept him as Savior right now,
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  that you could receive the place he has gone to prepare for you before it's eternally too late.
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  Because you will recognize him as God. and every
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  knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that jesus
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  christ is lord and you
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  won't be any different and as the scripture said the books were open and another
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  book was open which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those
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  things which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were
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  in them and they were judged every man according to the works.
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  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire
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  this is the second death and whosoever was
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  not found written in the book of life was cast into the
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  lake of fire my friend if you're a child of the most high god you'll only see
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  death once if you're still here and you're remaining when jesus christ comes
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  you'll escape death completely and you'll have life eternal but my friend it
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  doesn't end in the grave if you're a believer for there's a home not made with
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  hands prepared by you. He said, I go away.
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  Go back to John chapter 14. He says, let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions.
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  If it were not so, I would have told you.
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  I go to prepare a place for you.
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  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
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  That where I am there, you may be also. I'll receive you unto myself he's waiting
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  for you to just answer his call in revelations chapter 20 if you just scoot
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  on down a little bit more he says behold i stand at the door and knock.
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  Oh, he's calling you because he's prepared a place for you. And that place isn't hell.
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  But you can choose hell because we're told plainly, choose you this day whom you will serve.
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  Joshua said, ask for me at my house, we'll serve the Lord.
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  The Philippian jailer said to Paul and Silas, what must I do to be saved?
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  They said, Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I shall be saved.
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  My friends, the Philippian jailer saw a difference in Paul and Silas.
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  My friends, Nicodemus came to Jesus by night in John chapter 3,
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  confused by his intelligence, deceived by the world.
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  And jesus said to nicodemus marvel
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  not that i say unto thee must
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  be born again paul a
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  great man of god in his later years started
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  out a persecutor of the church and one
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  day was walking down the road and jesus christ
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  showed up in front of him and it blinded him
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  because he saw who he was and Paul
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  came to Jesus one day
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  on a dusty trail to a old
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  well Jacob's well there was a woman who came to Jesus and she wasn't coming
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  to meet him maybe you turned on the radio and you weren't planning on making
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  the best decision of your life maybe you weren't planning on talking about whether
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  you were prepared to leave eternity or not.
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  I tell you, I had a close family member recently die in his sleep.
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  He wasn't thinking about dying when he went to bed, but he had thought about
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  his preparations, and he woke up on heaven's shore.
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  You, my friend, may not be thinking about anything like that.
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  Neither was the woman at the well.
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  As she came to the well with an empty vessel, she left field as she saw who
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  Jesus was, and he gave her life eternal.
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  And he said, within me is a life of everlasting life, springing well within my soul.
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  And it's yours for the asking.
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  I went to church like every other time before. Now I was just a little girl.
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  I expected to see my daddy sing. I expected to hear the man of God preach.
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  I didn't expect to see Jesus come down and sit down beside of me and tell me
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  that I needed to receive him, that he could receive me unto himself.
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  I was just a little girl. But you know what?
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  I received him. And he received me. And he's never left me.
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  He's never forsaken me. And he's never given up on me.
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  And that same God that entered my heart at age five still walks with me today,
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  and talks with me all along life's way.
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  You see, it doesn't matter how old you are. It doesn't matter how young you
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  are. It doesn't matter what you've done.
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  John the Baptist was set apart to serve God, but he had to be humbled and he
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  had to receive him a savor just like I did, just like the woman at the well,
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  just like you have to, my friend.
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  You see, it's a personal relationship. And he says, choose you this day who you're going to serve.
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  And he said, I go to prepare a way that I might receive you.
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  Oh, do you know what it's going to be like?
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  He receives you you see i know a
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  little bit about what it'll be like because i know
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  what it's like when he receives me as i
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  come to him in prayer when he receives me
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  as i come to him and cast my
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  care upon him as he receives me
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  when i boldly tell him who i am and what i
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  need when we walk and we talk and
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  we just pray and we just fellowship together
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  and we sup together and we just hang out
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  but I don't know what it's
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  going to be like when I step on the
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  other side and his arms are open wide
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  and he takes me and introduces me
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  to God but I do know that
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  he's prepared a place and it's for me and
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  buddy I know he's prepared a place for you because in
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  John chapter 3 and verse 16 he says for god so loved
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  the world and hello folks that's us that
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  whosoever and that's you we believe in
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  him should not perish but have everlasting life for god sent not his son into
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  the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved
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  you see my friend he that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth
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  not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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  But God commended his love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  And he said that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  He says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
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  and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made into salvation.
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  He said, I go to prepare a place for you.
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  Are you prepared to receive that place he has prepared for you?
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you for this
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  opportunity to come before you.
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  And Lord, we just pray that you would touch the hearts of each person who's
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  listened to this lesson.
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  And Lord, if there would be a person that would be out there,
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  we pray that you would just ask them to look in their hearts,
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  Lord, and they can receive you as Savior with this simple prayer.
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  Lord, I believe. I know who you are.
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  I know that you love me and I know that I'm a sinner and I cannot make it on my own.
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  I know that my works are as filthy rags and that my righteousness will fail me.
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  But Lord, I ask that you would just come into my heart and that your sinless,
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  spotless blood that beheld death in the grave, the
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  sinless spotless blood that washes away all sin
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  lord i claim you as my savior come
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  into my heart and wash me white as snow lord
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  live with me and send within my heart the holy spirit that part of you that
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  teaches me and comforts me and holds me and guides me that i might be the christian
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  you would have me to be and lord help me to live as you would have me to live But Lord,
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  I come to you just as I am,
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  asking you, the holy lamb of God,
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  to save me from my sins.
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  And I thank you, Lord, because I know you have.
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  I love you and I praise you in Jesus' name and amen.
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  If you have prayed that prayer and you have lifted your heart to God and you
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  have made him your savior, I pray that you would contact us that we might be
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  able to help you get some materials to grow in grace and knowledge of God.
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  I ask that you get in your local Bible-believing church that you may grow in
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  his will and in his grace.
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  But to God be the glory for the great things.
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