Latest / The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast / 353 | Three Fundamental Questions
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- 0:00Music.
- 0:07Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
- 0:11where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
- 0:16well in John chapter four.
- 0:18Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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- 0:25or on our website at watwm.org,
- 0:28we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
- 0:33about God and to strengthen in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
- 0:38Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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- 0:48She's a happy girl.
- 1:02Every day we are faced with many many questions if you would ask somebody how
- 1:09many questions have you answered at the end of the day they would tell you plenty
- 1:14for some people it's as many as hundreds.
- 1:18For some people, it's as few as maybe 10 or 15.
- 1:23But we ask ourselves questions like, what do I wear?
- 1:27Where should I go? What am I going to eat? Will I exercise or not?
- 1:32We spend the vast majority of our days, consciously or unconsciously,
- 1:37seeking answers to questions we have.
- 1:41But the reality of it is, we are truly seeking answers to three questions.
- 1:51And everything we do depends on how we answer three fundamental questions.
- 2:00Our answers to these These three fundamental questions are so important that
- 2:08everything else, including our eternity, depends on our answers.
- 2:14The three questions are, who do you say Jesus is?
- 2:20Do you love Jesus? And what will you do with this man named Jesus?
- 2:27Now, you might say to me, figuring out what I'm going to eat doesn't have anything
- 2:34to do with any of those three questions.
- 2:38It does. How we choose to take care of ourselves, how we choose to live,
- 2:46the things that are important to us, These are all things that say something
- 2:51about how much we love him, about what impact he has in our lives,
- 2:58and what we're doing about whether we ignore,
- 3:02reject, or accept him.
- 3:06And follow Jesus Christ. We settle the questions of what we wear,
- 3:13where we'll go, what we'll do, how we'll respond, what we'll eat,
- 3:17and a host of other questions automatically.
- 3:21Rarely do we think of them. Sometimes we might think of what we wear,
- 3:28especially as we get older and modesty becomes a little bit more conscious to us.
- 3:33It shouldn't be any more important to us at age 59 than it was at 49, 29, and 19.
- 3:40But we get a little bit more interested in it.
- 3:42And that is something that truly immediately, if you think for just a second,
- 3:48you can see the connection between who you say Jesus is and what you wear.
- 3:55If you're wearing clothes that are not becoming of godliness.
- 3:58Witness, and I'll let you work that out between you and God.
- 4:02But if you're not, then you're saying God's commandment to be pure and to live
- 4:09a life that is a godly witness is one you're not going to follow.
- 4:13So your life says Jesus's word and who he is because the word was made flesh
- 4:19and dwelt among us isn't exactly important to me.
- 4:24Sometimes it seems like all day long, all we do is answer questions or ask questions.
- 4:33If you're part of my family, you know that one of the most frustrating things
- 4:38I do is I ask a lot of questions.
- 4:43My sisters especially will tell you that as a child, they would even bribe me,
- 4:49just don't ask me one more thing.
- 4:51Give me 15 minutes of not asking questions. I spent my entire career asking
- 4:58questions, learning how to answer things for other people,
- 5:02trying to know exactly what question to ask in order to get the answer that was necessary.
- 5:09But let me tell you, though we think we're answering dozens of questions,
- 5:16we are actually just answering these three.
- 5:20If we get our mind caught up on all the decisions you make every day, it can be overwhelming.
- 5:29But the truth is there really is only three questions that we must answer correctly
- 5:34to get all the others correct.
- 5:37And again, those three questions are, who do you say Jesus is?
- 5:41Do you love Jesus? And what will you do with this man named Jesus?
- 5:48Life's questions are all predicated on these three questions.
- 5:53When we get up every morning determined to follow Jesus, then everything else falls into place.
- 6:01If you simply get up in the morning and you decide to follow Jesus,
- 6:06the answers to these three questions will align perfectly and all of life's
- 6:13questions can be answered correctly by getting these three correct.
- 6:19So let's start with the first one. Who do you say Jesus is?
- 6:25Now if I'm asking you point blank person by person who you say Jesus is,
- 6:31You can give me one or two sentences. They'll be correct.
- 6:37But your words tell them who you say he is.
- 6:41But your action tells them who he truly is to you.
- 6:48Your actions to the following questions are how you truly say who Jesus is with your life.
- 6:56How do you respond to someone who has done you wrong?
- 7:00Do you react out of a fleshly response? Do you have a get-even mentality?
- 7:07Are you out to win at any cost to inflict pain?
- 7:11How do you respond to someone who's lied about you? Do you write them out of your life?
- 7:18Do they become dead to you? Are they a non-entity?
- 7:24How about people who've hurt you, perhaps even intentionally.
- 7:29How you respond to these situations and these questions,
- 7:35they say a lot about who Jesus is, because Jesus from Genesis to Revelations
- 7:41has given us a roadmap of how we are to live our lives.
- 7:45And if we are following the commandments of Jesus, our responses to those questions
- 7:51and other questions, such as how you respond to difficult situations.
- 7:55How do you handle blessings and prosperity? How is your attitude?
- 8:01How you respond has a lot to say with what you believe the Word of God says,
- 8:06because he gives us a roadmap of how we're to live our life,
- 8:10and he explains to us that we are his witnesses, that we are his ambassadors.
- 8:17So let's look at a passage of Scripture where Jesus asks his disciples what
- 8:23men were saying about who he was.
- 8:26It matters how you answer this question. And the closer you are to Jesus,
- 8:32the more accurate your answer should be.
- 8:37In James 4.8, he says.
- 8:44We are to purify our hearts by focusing them on Jesus Christ.
- 8:55Then our life will line up with what our words say.
- 8:59And our life will fulfill the requirements that God has for us.
- 9:05It will emulate the commandments he's given us.
- 9:09In Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 through 16, it reads like this.
- 9:15When Jesus came into the coats of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples
- 9:21saying, whom do men say that I am?
- 9:25And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist.
- 9:29Some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
- 9:35He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
- 9:40Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- 9:48It matters how you answer the question, who do you say that Jesus is?
- 9:56When we call ourselves Christians, we're wearing a title that says we are Christ-like.
- 10:06And if we are Christ-like, we need to follow how Christ walked.
- 10:14He said to us to take up your cross and follow me. He said to deny yourself.
- 10:22We are to submit ourselves under the mighty hand of God, and he will exalt us in due time.
- 10:27When we submit, we are giving the authority of who we are to him.
- 10:31So decisions that we are to make are to be made in alignment with what God says.
- 10:38And the amazing thing about that truth is this.
- 10:42If you align your decisions with God's word and with his will and his ways,
- 10:49then you are positioning yourself
- 10:51to live the abundant life that he promises in John chapter 10, 10.
- 10:56He's not telling you to do this or don't do that because he wants to be punitive.
- 11:02He knows the way because he is the way he's come that we might have life and
- 11:07have it more abundantly.
- 11:08And so he lays down the navigational tools in Genesis to Revelations for us
- 11:16to follow that we might obtain that which he has ordained for us to have.
- 11:23So how does your life reflect what he's asking us to do?
- 11:31Are you living in accordance with God's word?
- 11:37In Matthew chapter 5, verses 14 through 16, he says this.
- 11:42You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
- 11:47Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick,
- 11:52and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
- 11:56Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify
- 12:02your Father which is in heaven.
- 12:05It is a privilege to be God's ambassador and to be part of his story.
- 12:11We love him because he first loved us.
- 12:15Every part of who God is, every ounce of the character of Jesus Christ motivates,
- 12:23inspires, and encourages us to love him.
- 12:27There is nothing about the Trinity that wouldn't make you want to love them.
- 12:34God gave his son, his son gave his life, and the Holy Spirit's entire purpose
- 12:41is to draw you towards God, to teach you, to comfort you, to lead you, and to guide you.
- 12:48Their purpose is all about your good.
- 12:52How could you not love that?
- 12:55It's an amazing grace that saves us and calls us.
- 13:00It's unmerited favor and unspeakable joy to be living in the blessings of God
- 13:06and for him to choose to use us.
- 13:10It makes no sense that he would allow us, a sinful, depraved person,
- 13:16frail and fleshly, to be part of his story.
- 13:22But nothing else makes any sense but for us to allow him to be part of our story.
- 13:31Choosing Jesus is not only an appropriate choice, it is not only the right choice,
- 13:40it is clearly the best choice.
- 13:44And these choices we make about choosing Jesus, about being his ambassador,
- 13:52the light of the world, we are his witnesses, this choice to let Let others see Jesus in us.
- 13:59These actions that we decide to do, they are made and formed in our hearts.
- 14:06Matthew 6, 21 says, For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- 14:12And I'm telling you where your feet lead you.
- 14:16We'll let everybody else around know what really matters to you.
- 14:21Where you spend your time, your money, your energy, your purposes in life,
- 14:28the subject of your conversations, the foundation of your attitude.
- 14:35Jesus Christ is powerful. And if you're walking around like you've been baptized
- 14:42face forward in pickle juice,
- 14:44why would anyone around you who isn't saved think jesus is joy and life and goodness and grace,
- 14:53if you've got your trust in the lord he'll direct your paths if you trust in the lord,
- 15:00you'll have peace if you keep your mind on jesus christ isaiah's 26 3 says that
- 15:07you'll have perfect peace.
- 15:10Worry doesn't have a place when there's trust in God.
- 15:15Faith in Jesus Christ changes a person from the inside out.
- 15:24And who you say he is, it matters.
- 15:28We are told in Matthew 28, 19 through 20, that we are to go into all the world
- 15:34and preach and teach the gospel.
- 15:36He says, therefore, Therefore teaching all nations, baptizing them in the name
- 15:40of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe
- 15:44all things whatsoever I have commanded you.
- 15:47And lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the world.
- 15:53It's not a popular verse in Scripture that we find in Thessalonians that says
- 15:57abstain from all appearance of evil.
- 15:59But who do you say he is?
- 16:02You're taking him everywhere you go. you've got the title Christian.
- 16:08You are portraying that you are Christ-like.
- 16:13And if your actions don't align with his will,
- 16:19his ways, and his word, than you, my friend, are giving a false picture of who God is.
- 16:30How you live is how you answer the question, who do you say Jesus is?
- 16:41The second question we find is, do you love Jesus?
- 16:48It seems like an easy question to answer. 1 John 4 19 says we love him because he first loved us.
- 16:55But let's put your love for Jesus to the test and let's see if you truly love him.
- 17:05Scripture says, if you love him, you'll love your neighbor. Do you love your
- 17:09neighbor? That doesn't just mean the person next door.
- 17:13That means the person God has put in your life.
- 17:18What are your dreams, your goals, your aspirations?
- 17:23Does Jesus fit into any of these? Are they aligned with his will for your life?
- 17:28Have you spoken to him and said, Lord, why did you create me?
- 17:33What purpose do you have for me?
- 17:35Are you like Samuel and you'll say, here am I, send me?
- 17:39In Isaiah, we hear the voice saying, I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
- 17:43whom shall I send and who will go for us?
- 17:47He says, then said I, here am I, send me.
- 17:53When I was a kid, I was 19 years old. There was a group of missionaries that came to my church.
- 18:01They were from the Philippines, and one of the things they were doing was purifying
- 18:07water for villages and remote locations so that they would have life-giving water.
- 18:14They also were presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ to them,
- 18:18which is life-giving water.
- 18:21And in John chapter 4, we hear that if you drink of the water of life that comes
- 18:26from Jesus Christ, you'll never thirst again.
- 18:29And the experience of knowing Jesus is so great that the woman at the well,
- 18:34when she encounters him, says, come see a man that told me all things ever I
- 18:38knew is not this, the Christ.
- 18:41But I remember distinctly sitting in the third pew on the right-hand side of this church at age 19.
- 18:47I remember what I was wearing, and I remember hearing the voice of God in my
- 18:53heart. I did not hear an audible voice.
- 18:56No one around me heard what I was hearing.
- 18:59But I remember the Lord telling me, you are going to work so that others have life-giving water.
- 19:12And I remember seizing up in my soul for a moment, and I'm praying with every
- 19:18fiber of my body, Lord, don't send me to the Philippines.
- 19:21Lord, don't send me out of the country.
- 19:24Then and now, I'm a person who just fears not being able to get back into my own country.
- 19:29And I believe from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet that the United
- 19:33States is the greatest place on earth.
- 19:37But I dedicated my career to assisting in making sure our nation's water was pure and safe to drink.
- 19:50Frequently, I would be in different places, and my mission field was in the United States.
- 19:57And I would open many doors to be able to tell them about who Jesus was.
- 20:02But every time I read the account in Isaiah 6-8, when he said,
- 20:07Here am I, send me, I have a little, oh, in my heart.
- 20:11I was willing to do what he asked, but I was praying that he wouldn't send me outside my country.
- 20:20I'm not certain to this day about that prayer, but he honored it.
- 20:27He's allowed me to do for him, and only a couple times did I have to go outside the country.
- 20:32And when I did, I was fully protected by the United States.
- 20:36But if you love him, you'll say, here am I.
- 20:40And I've always been a girl who did it reluctantly sometimes, but I did what he asked.
- 20:47And I believe that's because I love him.
- 20:52I've tried to answer the call in my life, and I've done things I was not qualified
- 20:57for. I've done things that I didn't enjoy.
- 21:00But when it's in the will of God, quickly I would enjoy it, and quickly I would feel comfortable.
- 21:05And he would equip me to do that he's asked me to do.
- 21:08When you love him, you'll do anything. thing.
- 21:13Many of you within the sound of my voice have children and grandchildren.
- 21:18There probably isn't hardly anything you wouldn't do for either of them.
- 21:24Most of you would probably lay your life down for them because you love them.
- 21:30Love is sacrificial. Love puts the other person's needs in front of yours.
- 21:35Love steps aside and allows the other person to bloom and to raise and to rise.
- 21:42Do you love him? What is your purpose?
- 21:46Have you hidden his word in your heart and purpose not to sin against him?
- 21:52Psalms 119.11 says, thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.
- 21:572 Timothy 2.15 says, to study to show yourself approved unto God,
- 22:02a workman that needeth not ought to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- 22:07Do you love the word?
- 22:09Do you spend time in the word?
- 22:12John 1.14 said to us that the word was made flesh and dwell among us.
- 22:17And this precious, holy word of God, from Genesis to Revelations,
- 22:24is the greatest love letter ever written.
- 22:27And it's written specifically for you. And it's dynamic.
- 22:30And it's alive. And it changes. And it moves.
- 22:34Not what it stands for, but how
- 22:37it hits you. Because the Holy Spirit is delivering it to you specifically.
- 22:42It's time we did an attitude check. How do you feel about the Word of God?
- 22:47Do you know it's inspired by God? Do you understand it's infallible?
- 22:53Do you understand that it is the authority and the truth?
- 22:58Are you certain that you need to live by it and it's the standard by which you
- 23:04stand and it's your firm foundation?
- 23:06Are you honest and kind and considerate?
- 23:09See, we emulate those that we love. We pick up their traits and their characteristics.
- 23:14And so we are Christians, so we should be Christ-like. He said in John 13,
- 23:2035, you'll know you are my disciples because you have love one for another. Do you love him?
- 23:27How willing are you to literally.
- 23:32It all up for him. Spoiler alert, you can't out give him.
- 23:38In John chapter 21, verses 15 through 17, we read a very familiar account,
- 23:45but we're going to go there again.
- 23:47Jesus is asking his disciple Peter if he loves him.
- 23:53And first, let's notice that loving Jesus is an action.
- 23:57Peter is told to feed his sheep if he loves him.
- 24:01You can't love the Lord and not be motivated to serve.
- 24:08Love is a verb and it requires action.
- 24:11It compels you to serve the one you love.
- 24:17James 2.20 says that faith without works is dead.
- 24:21Let's read the account in John chapter 21 verses 15 through 17.
- 24:27So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas,
- 24:32lovest thou me more than these?
- 24:34He saith unto him, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.
- 24:39He saith unto him, feed my lambs.
- 24:43He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
- 24:50He saith unto him, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.
- 24:56He saith unto him, feed my sheep.
- 25:00He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, Peter was grieved because
- 25:09he said unto him the third time, And he says unto him, Lord,
- 25:14thou knowest all things.
- 25:17Thou knowest that I love thee.
- 25:22Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep.
- 25:25Peter had denied Christ three times, but Jesus didn't give up on Peter.
- 25:31Aren't you glad that he's the potter and we're the clay and he doesn't throw the clay away?
- 25:39Jesus is emphasizing the importance of Peter's love and unwavering obedience
- 25:43to his Lord because he knew that was what was going to be necessary for his future ministry.
- 25:49Ministry, Jesus questions Peter's love, and each time Peter says he loves him.
- 25:58But then Jesus follows up his question with a command for Peter to feed his sheep.
- 26:04Meaning if Peter really loves Jesus, he's going to care for those who are part of the family of God.
- 26:11Are you actively working for for the Lord and caring for the family of God.
- 26:17That isn't just for the shepherd of the church. It's not just for pastors.
- 26:22It's not just for Bible teachers. It's for everyone who's part of the family of God.
- 26:28In Galatians 6, 7, he says, be not deceived. God is not mocked for what's for
- 26:32a man. So is that shall he also reap.
- 26:36See, Jesus is speaking to Peter after Peter's denied him, equipping him for
- 26:43what he needs to get the job done.
- 26:47Doesn't give up on Peter. He forgives, he cleanses, and he uses Peter.
- 26:51And I don't know what's in your life right now, but 1 John 1 says,
- 26:55if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
- 26:59cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- 27:02The first two times that Jesus asked Peter if he loves him, he's using the word
- 27:09agape, which means unconditional love.
- 27:14But when Peter responds, bonds,
- 27:16he uses the word filio, which is more of a friendship or a brotherly love.
- 27:21Jesus was moving Peter from a brotherly love to an unconditional love when he
- 27:27wanted to know, do you love me unconditionally?
- 27:30If you love the Lord, you've got to love him all the way. You've got to be fully committed.
- 27:35You've got to be all in and you've got to love him on the good days,
- 27:39the seemingly bad days, when you can see the end, when you can't see the end.
- 27:45You love him for who he is, for what he's done for you, and because you know
- 27:50that he is right and he is righteous.
- 27:53And regardless of what's happening in your life, regardless of what's going
- 27:58on, Jesus loves you and you love him because of who he is.
- 28:04You are committed. You may have other the reasons why you think he asked three times.
- 28:09And regardless of why he asked three times, Jesus was definitely impressing
- 28:14on Peter how important his role for Jesus was going to be.
- 28:19And he wanted to make sure that Peter understood what he was asking him to do.
- 28:24He was giving him a job.
- 28:28And the reason for it was so he would follow Jesus and glorify God.
- 28:35If you love him, You will keep his commandments.
- 28:41You will do what he asked you to do, and you'll do it willingly and lovingly.
- 28:46When we begin to draw closer to the Lord, it means we are humbling ourselves
- 28:50to him. We're submitting to his authority.
- 28:53You're giving your whole being to him. And in Mark chapter 12 and verse 30,
- 28:58he says, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
- 29:02soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
- 29:07Loving him means dying to self so he can fill you to overflowing.
- 29:12John 14, 21, he says it like this.
- 29:15He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.
- 29:21He that loveth me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him and will manifest myself in him.
- 29:31Our third question tonight is, what will you do with this man named Jesus?
- 29:37Ultimately, those two previous questions are answered by this third and final
- 29:43most important question.
- 29:46What will you do with this man named Jesus?
- 29:51This question sums up the other two and your answer seals your eternity.
- 29:55All other questions are directly influenced
- 29:58by your answer to this last and final
- 30:02question do you believe in
- 30:05mark chapter 9 and verse 23 he says if thou
- 30:08canst believe all things are possible to him that believes is he lord of your
- 30:12life he says you can't have any other gods before him have you placed him king
- 30:17of your heart are you following him the answers to these questions Demonstrates
- 30:23what you've determined to do with Jesus,
- 30:27In Romans 3.23 it says He came to seek and to save those which were lost.
- 30:34Luke 19.10, he says that. In Romans 3.23, he says, all are sinners and have
- 30:40come short of the glory of God.
- 30:42In John 3.7, we are told, in regards to this question of what you're going to
- 30:48do with Jesus, Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus, and he says to him,
- 30:52marvel not that I said unto thee, you must be born again.
- 30:55It isn't an opinion. It isn't an option.
- 30:59It is a fact that everyone must be born again to enter into heaven.
- 31:04Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the Father but through him.
- 31:11You gotta believe. In John chapter 3 and verse 16, very familiar verse.
- 31:18We hear, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
- 31:24that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
- 31:30And then he continues, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
- 31:35world, but that the world through him might be saved.
- 31:39He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned
- 31:44already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
- 31:50This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world,
- 31:55and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
- 32:01For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
- 32:07lest his deeds should be be proved.
- 32:11We are told all through scripture that you have to determine what you're going to do with Jesus.
- 32:17That's a sure question that you must answer with surety.
- 32:24You answer it with your life as you change and he makes you a new creature.
- 32:30You answer it with your determination and your purpose as you prove your love
- 32:34for him, but you have to choose.
- 32:37In James 4.4, he says, ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the.
- 32:42Friendship of the world is enmity with God?
- 32:45Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- 32:49Joshua tells us in Joshua 24.15, if it seems evil for you to serve the Lord,
- 32:55choose you this day whom you're going to serve.
- 32:59As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Have you made that resolute decision?
- 33:07See in Deuteronomy 30 verses 19 through 20 this, I call heaven and earth to
- 33:14record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death.
- 33:20Following Jesus or ignoring him, blessing and cursing.
- 33:24Therefore, choose life, choose Jesus, that
- 33:28both thou and thy seed may live that thou
- 33:31mayest love the Lord thy God and that thou mayest obey his voice that thou mayest
- 33:37cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou mayest
- 33:42dwell in the land which the Lord swear unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac
- 33:47and to Jacob to give them.
- 33:49Life is found in Jesus Christ.
- 33:54And it comes down to this in Matthew 6, 24.
- 33:58No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other,
- 34:04or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.
- 34:07You can't serve God and the devil.
- 34:11You must choose who you're going to serve.
- 34:16And when you make the ultimate decision to serve Jesus Christ,
- 34:22the other two questions of who you say he is and if you love him all feed into
- 34:31that one answer that says, I choose Jesus.
- 34:35And if that doesn't make all the sense in the world to you.
- 34:39Let's break it down again Micah chapter
- 34:436 and verse 8 he says thee this he
- 34:47has showed thee oh man what is good and what does the Lord require thee but
- 34:53to do justly if we're going to do justly we have to have the imputed righteousness
- 34:58of Jesus Christ and to love mercy you know you're You're his disciples because
- 35:04you have loved one for another.
- 35:07And to walk humbly with thy God. There isn't any other way but to submit your
- 35:12life into the mighty hands of God.
- 35:17It matters how you answer those three questions.
- 35:20Because how you answer these three questions we've talked about determines your eternity.
- 35:26Choose Jesus. Follow him.
- 35:30Dedicate your entire being to him and love him with your whole heart,
- 35:34soul, mind, and strength.
- 35:35Be saved today and live forever.
- 35:42Music.
- 35:49Thank you for joining us in today's podcast. You can visit the show notes for
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- 36:39Thank you to the gospel group Fudge Creek for letting us use their hit song,
- 36:43Happy Girl. We greatly appreciate your prayers.
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- 36:49Remember that God loves you. You are loved.
- 36:52Music.