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Who Needs Jesus? Pt. 3 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Each weekday I bring you a short message from God's word,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible to help you in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking this week about the question, who needs Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: It may be that uh you're listening and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a living relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know Jesus Christ personally, you are not what
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  Speaker 1: Christians call saved, and you think, well, why do I
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  Speaker 1: need to be saved, what do I need to be
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  Speaker 1: rescued from? And we looked Monday at the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we are spiritually dead.
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  Speaker 1: That we don't have a living relationship with God, we're
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  Speaker 1: cut off from God, and if we want a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with God, we need Jesus to give us spiritual life.
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  Speaker 1: We looked yesterday at the fact that that
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  Speaker 1: Damaged nature that is in us that makes us spiritually
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  Speaker 1: dead gives us a tendency towards living for ourselves, rebelling
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  Speaker 1: against what we know God would want in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't overcome those tendencies towards wrong. We desire
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  Speaker 1: to live even more.
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  Speaker 1: Sinful lives than we do live and though our society
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  Speaker 1: restrains that to some degree we still find ourselves pulled
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  Speaker 1: towards lives that are more and more destructive both to
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  Speaker 1: ourselves and to the people around us we need
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  Speaker 1: What only God can do for us.
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  Speaker 1: Today we want to read the passage again.
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  Speaker 1: It says in Ephesians chapter 2 in the Bible verses
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 3, and you were dead in your trespasses
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  Speaker 1: and sins in which you formerly walked according to the
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  Speaker 1: course of this world, according to the prince of the
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  Speaker 1: power of the air.
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  Speaker 1: Of the spirit that is now working in the sons
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  Speaker 1: of disobedience, among them we two all formerly lived in
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  Speaker 1: the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children
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  Speaker 1: of wrath even as the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Well, did you catch that last thing he said?
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  Speaker 1: We were by nature children of wrath even as the rest.
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  Speaker 1: What does wrath mean? Well, it means the righteous anger
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  Speaker 1: of God.
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  Speaker 1: God justly punishing our sins against Him. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: when we have disobeyed God and dishonoured Him, which we
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  Speaker 1: do constantly in our lives, that disobedience puts us under
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God. And according to this verse, we
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  Speaker 1: all lived by nature as children of wrath.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and that means that every one of us faces
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  Speaker 1: the wrath, the righteous judgement of God. Nothing we do
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  Speaker 1: can undo that. Doesn't matter how good you are for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life, you can't undo the ways
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  Speaker 1: you've broken God's moral laws, can you?
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  Speaker 1: We can't escape the sentence we face when we face
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  Speaker 1: God's judgement at the end of our lives. Our only
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  Speaker 1: hope of escaping that judgement is if God Himself does
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  Speaker 1: something for us, and He has done something for us.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ says.
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  Speaker 1: I am the way and the truth and the life.
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  Speaker 1: No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ makes it possible for God to accept us. You
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  Speaker 1: need Jesus in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.