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Episode 62: Are You Saved Conclusion · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in
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the land of the Living. Wait on the Lord, and be of good
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courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on the
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Lord. Lord. Our soul waits for thee O God, the Living God,
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as the dear panted for the water. So our soul longs after thee
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even So calm, Lord Jesus, Look, we thank you for this blessed
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day, this blessed hope, this blessed salvation in which you have made us
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even partakers by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the one who came and
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gave himself a ransom so that we could be redeemed from all iniquity, all
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and righteousness. Thank you for the great sacrifice that she paid on our Lord,
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so that we can have life, and have it more abundantly. So
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we rejoice now in this great hope, Lord, and we look forward amen
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to that glorious day when you shall return for your people, to them that
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look for you, shall you appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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So help us to run in this race with the patience that we need to
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finish the course. Lord to hear you say, well done, good and
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faithful servant. Bless and we shall be blessed keith, and we shall be
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kept by your mighty power. We give you the praise the glory of the
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honor in all things. In Jesus name, we pray and ask you blessings
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upon your people. Ever rewear a man and a man. All right,
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God, bless you again. We welcome you once more to this another edition
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of In Time Revival Ministries USA Broadcast and podcast. I am your host.
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My name is al Zachary. And today we are certainly again rejoicing in the
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God of our salvation. Who has a man given us a man life,
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a man through a man, the Great again sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We
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were dead, and our trustpasses and sins. But He quickened us a man
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by his Holy Spirit. He breathed life into us, a man. And
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now we live with hope and assurance a man. Our soul rests in hope,
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a man, knowing a man that Jesus has a place prepared for us.
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He said, where I am, there you may be also. And
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so we look forward to a man. The great and precious promises that God
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has a man even far beyond this, a man, mortal existence that we
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have here on this side of eternity. A man. So again we are,
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a man, grateful to the Lord for all of the benefits that he
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from the Word the truth, a man of God. Amen to a man
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compromise it in any way, a man. It is not ours. It's
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not my gospel, not my word, not my Bible, not my truth
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a man. It belongs to God, the Word of God. We endeavor
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to be faithful with what has been entrusted to us. Amen. All right,
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Today we're going to conclude our series on this question that we have been
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in for the past several several weeks. Are you saved. The question are
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you saved? Amen? And so today we're going to if you have your
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bidble's go with us to the Gospel of Luke, chapter number nineteen. Amen.
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The Gospel of Luke, chapter number nineteen. Amen. We're gonna begin
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at verse number one Amen. Luke's Gospel, chapter number nineteen. These words
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are recorded. I'll be reading from the New King James version. Then Jesus
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entered and passed through Jericho. Now behold, there was a man named Zacheus
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who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich, and he sought
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to see Jesus to see who Jesus was brother. But he could not be
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cause of the crowd, for he was of short stature. So he ran
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ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was
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going to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he
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looked up and saw him and said to him, Zakis, make haste and
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calm down, for today I must stay at your house. Amen. So
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he made haste and came down and received him joyfully. But when they saw
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it, they all complained, saying, he has gone to be a guest
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with a man who is a sinner. Then Zaki has stood and said to
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the Lord. Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the
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poor. And if I have taken anything from any one by false accusation,
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I restore fourfold. And Jesus said to him today, salvation has come to
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this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the son
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of Man verse number ten, has come to seek and to save that which
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was lost. Amen. The Gospel of Luke, chapter number nineteen, verses
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one through ten. We've just read in your hearing. Now what we see
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in this particular recording of a portion of Jesus' ministry, as he a man,
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encountered a great deal of people, but certain end viduals were marked out
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for their particular encounters, a man Zychius being one of them, being a
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rich man who was also, by the way, a tax collector. Now
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what we find here is unique in the sense that a man. This encounter
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was with a man, a man that was despised and rejected by his fellow
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Jewish, a man brethren. And by the way, in the previous chapter
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of Luke, we find that Jesus had an encounter with another rich young man
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who was a ruler the Bible says, and he was resistant to the idea
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of parting ways with his wealth. And so afterwards Jesus a man asked this
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question, and how hard is it? How hard is it for a rich
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man to enter into the kingdom? How difficult is it for a wealthy person,
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a rich person, a person who has many of the goods of this
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world? How hard is it for them to be saved? A man?
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Of course, with God, Jesus made it clear all things are possible.
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So with this encounter Jesus, as he did, for example, with the
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woman at the well, the Samaritan woman, he had purpose a man in
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coming to this well to do prosperous region of Jericho, and and and and
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and and of course he had a purpose in his mind, and that was
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to a man bring salvation to the house of this man's kids. And this
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man desired an audience with Jesus. He wanted to see Jesus. He had
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heard about Jesus, and because of his height, he was short of stature.
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The Bible tells us he assumed that it would be perhaps next to him
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possible for him to get to Jesus, to get to see Jesus, perhaps
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to get a conversation with Jesus with the crowd of individuals who were more than
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likely taller than he was. And so Zach he has made the decision to
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climb up into a sycamore tree which was along the path along the road where
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Jesus was traveling. And he climbed up in this tree with the intention of
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getting Jesus's attention. A man, and although again he was short in stature,
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he was high in prominence. He was very rich, perhaps a man
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because the Bible tells us he was a chief tax collector, so he had
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tax collectors working for him as well. And so this climbing up into a
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tree and perhaps hanging out on a limb with the intent of seeing Jesus was
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an act of humility a man on the part of this rich man. The
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kids and and and you see the kids and his ilk A man. They
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were detestable, They were despised a man by not only the religious community,
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but of course also the common man on the street, because they were tax
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collectors for the hated Roman oppressive regime that was ruling over a man the Jews
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and and Zakias was in their mind a treasonous traitor, a man who was
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enriching himself off of his fellow Jewish brethren, earning a living in such a
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despicable way as they saw it. Amen. So so this was not a
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man who was welcome, a man in the community as far as they were
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concerned, and welcome on the streeting much. He was much despised, sort
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of like the the woman at the well who had the five husbands. A
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man. And she came out not with the other women, but but but
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but but she perhaps came alone a man, because she was not well receiving.
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Zakias was that kind of individual, not well received, and considered to
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be a sinner. Amen, a sinner. And then and and of course,
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when Jesus encountered him and said that I must come to your house,
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the crowd, the Bible tells us a man did not take well to this.
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Amen. And they again saw this man as a sinner. And as
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Jesus, you're going to the house of this man who is a sinner.
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Amen. Amen. But Jesus, as he did, Amen with all of
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us. Amen, as he does for all of us. He had compassion
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for the rich man and the poor man. Not all rich people are lost,
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Amen. And not all poor people are saved. Amen. The Lord
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came to the place where he was, and the Lord called him down.
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God will come to wherever you are. And that's what he does. He
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comes knocking at the door of your heart. He comes seeking you and me,
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a man calling, calling amen for us to respond. A man standing
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at the door, Amen, and knocking a man, and and and he
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said, if any man will open, I will come in and sup with
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him. And so when Zachius, a man, had this encounter with Jesus,
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a man, Jesus came to him, looked up, saw where he
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was, saw his heart, sees man. And he's looking on the out
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with the parents, seeing that he's a tax collector, despised and despicable.
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And they're looking on the outward man, the sinner man, the things that
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he had done in his past, a man. And Jesus is instead looking
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at the man's heart, a man. He sees the man has a heart
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of repent us. He sees that the man a man desires a man to
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see him a man. And no one who comes to Jesus a man with
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a broken and a contrite heart will be rejected a man. So Jesus had
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compassion on the man and called him down, Come on down, I'm coming
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to your house to day. Amen. And when Zakias came down, the
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Bible lets us know he didn't just come down, Amen, with a spirit
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of arrogance. He came down with repentance. He had repentance in his heart,
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and he recognized Jesus for who he is. Look what the Bible tells
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us in verse number eight. Again. Then Zakias stood and said to the
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Lord, Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to feed the
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poor. Amen. And if listen, we say, listen what he says.
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That's not all. If I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation,
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I restore fourfold, four times whatever I have taken from anyone by false
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accusation. Now, the law of Moses, Amen, the law that God
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gave to them to the Jewish people. Amen. It required a penalty of
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one fifth, in other words, only twenty percent a man as restitution for
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money that had been acquired by way of fraud. So what Zakias was doing
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here, he was going beyond what the law required. Again, the law,
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and it required a man a twenty percent penalty. But Zaki has said,
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I will pay back four times whatever I have taken from anyone. Amen.
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The only requirement for a fourfold restitution was when an animal had been stolen
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and killed. That was the only requirement in the law a man for fourfold
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restitution. So Zaki is a man being willing to make restitution. This was
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This was proof a man of his desire for the greater riches of Christ over
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the temporal treasures of this world. Some people don't want again. As the
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rich young ruler Aman in the previous chapter eighteen of Luke, he did not
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want to part with his earthly possessions. A man. Jesus gave him a
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man the opportunities. Sell what you have, give to the poor. Come
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and follow me. You'll have treasure in heaven. The Bible says. The
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man went away sorrowful because he had a lot of stuff. Amen. How
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hard is it for a rich man a man to be saved? How hard
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is it for a rich man to come into the kingdom? Amen. He
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must ambo himself just as the poor man must. So Zachias saw himself for
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who he really was. A man is kind of reminiscent in my mind of
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the thief on the cross that repented. Amen. Amen, he said,
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we deserve this, Amen, I deserve to be here. I am a
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man, a thief, I am a sinner. And this is how Zachis
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saw himself a man. He saw himself as a robber. He saw himself
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as a thief who had fortunately obtained his wealth by legalized theft. And there's
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a lot of that even now to this day, legalized theft that goes home
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in our world. But Zachkiss was willing a man to repay fourfold a man
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anything that he had taken by fraud. So Jesus responds to him and says,
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today, zakids, today, salvation has come to this house because he
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also is a son of Abraham. Lookup verse number ten. Let's what Jesus
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said. For the son of man has come to seek and to save that
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which was lost. Am you know what? That's what Jesus came to do.
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Amen? Do you know? Do you realize that's what Jesus came to
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do. Jesus came to save. He came to seek and to save that
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which was lost. Amen. So Jesus seized this man knows the condition that
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he's in, as he does of all men. Knowing the hearts a man
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knowing our condition a man, Jesus says, I have come, the Son
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of Man has come to seek and to save that which was loss. What
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is lost, what is lost, what is lost, what is lost is
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the souls of men. Amen. What is lost is our original relationship with
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our creator, who made us a man in his image, who made us
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to be like him, to make he who made us to be a man
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with him, to be inharmonious fellow ship with him. Remember, before Adam
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sin, the Lord would come him a man, as it were, on
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a daily basis, perhaps in the cool of the evening. Amen, having
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amen, fellowship with Adam. Amen. And and and that's what we lost.
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Amen. We lost that. Amen. What we lost is our way
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and we what we lost is our sight, our ability to see why,
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because we are now in the darkness. We are born in sin, shaping
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and iniquity, groping in the darkness. Amen. And Jesus has come,
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who declared, Amen, I am the light of the world. God who
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Amen commanded the light Amn to shine, has commanded the light Amen of the
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glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ to shine in our hearts. Amen. We lost
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our sight. We don't have the ability to see. Amen. We lost
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our purpose a man. We have also lost our perception. We don't have
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our unders standing. We lost it, Amen. We don't have our will
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to live godly a man. God has to work in us. God has
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to quicken us. God has to make us alive. God has to turn
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us. God has to bring us. He shows first of all his love
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and compassion for us. This is what Jesus said. God, so what
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loved the world that he gave his only be God and Son, that whosoever
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will believe in him should not perish, but we'll have everlasting life. We
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don't have the will a man to come to him. We don't have the
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ability to come to him. No man can come unless my Father draws him.
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We lost it. We lost it. We lost in all of us,
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in all of our Amen of ways, we lost in that relationship.
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We lost it all, Amen, And we can't find our way back to
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him. That's why he came down, as he said here in the God
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Hospital of Luke. He came to seek and to save that which was lost.
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Every lost person, Please understand that everyone who is lost is in an
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unrepentant state. They have rejected repentance or have not yet come to repentance.
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There are those who are already a man, even though they may be living,
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they're in a state of reprobation because they have rejected repentance. He said,
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I called, and you refuse. I stretched out my hand, and
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you did not regard. You said, it nought all my counsel, and
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you would none of my reproof. Amen. And therefore, when your calamities
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come upon you, when your troubles come upon you, when your afflictions come
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upon you, when the pains of death take hold on you, he said,
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I will not be there for you. See, God gives every man
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space to repent a man. So every lost person is in an un repentance
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state. Either they have rejected the love of God, rejected repentance, refuse
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to turn a man, refuse to come to Jesus a man, or they
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have yet to come to repentance. Not all have a man had there a
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man space of time, yet a man to repent. That's what God does,
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in his compassion and his grace and his long suffering. He gives to
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all men space to repent. And unless we repent, said Jesus, we
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will all likewise perish. Unless we repent. Repentance is not an optional,
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optional command. It is not in some kind of optional advice. It is
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not optional at all. Amen. Unless we repent, we perish. These
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are the words of Jesus. All who will be saved must repent. These
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are the first words a man of the preacher, the forerunner of Jesus,
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when he came preaching repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Jesus
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came with the same words, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
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On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit fell on those who
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were in the upper room, and the crowd, being astonished, they asked
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the question a man, when they were pricked in their heart of the apostles,
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men and brethren, what shall we do. The first word out of
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the mouth of the apostle Peter on that day of Pentecost was repent and be
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baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission
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of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Egost.
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This is the promise that God has for everyone who repents this his Holy Spirit,
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He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. This is what
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Jones said. I only baptize with water unto repentance. But there is one
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one coming after me who is mightier than I. He's going to baptize you
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with the Holy Ghost and fire. But all who will be saved must first
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repent, repent, repent, or perish. God has commanded all men everywhere
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to repent, said the apostle Paul in his magnificent speech, a man that
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you can find in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, I believes
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in chapter number seventeen, when he was at Mars Hill in Athens. He
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said, God has now commanded all men everywhere to repent, because he has
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appointed a day in which He's going to judge the world in righteousness by that
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man, Jesus Christ, the same one who came down from glory, making
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himself of no reputation, a man dying the death of a sinner, the
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one who knew no sin, became sin and took on sin, so that
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we the sinner who is guilty all of us. A man could escape,
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a man could escape. He is the way of escape. Amen, Jesus
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Christ, dying the death, Amen, that we deserve to die. He
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is the judge of the quick and the dead, and God has appointed a
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day. Amen. The apostle Paul reminds us in which God is going to
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judge the world by Jesus Christ. Amen, who is the savior of all
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them that believe and obey the Gospel. Amen. The grace of God,
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the Bible tells us, teaches us. Amen, that brings salvation appears to
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all men. Amen. We are saved by grace through faith. The Bible
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reminds us that not of ourselves, not of works, lest any ship boasts.
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It is the gift of God. We are saved by God's grace,
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and that grace that God brings down from heaven, it brings salvation to all
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men. A man. It appears rather to all men, a man teaching
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us to deny ungodliness. The grace of God appears to all men, teaching
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us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, and that we should live soberly,
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righteously and godly right here in this present world. Again, God wants fruitfulness
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from our lives. A man showing forth the praises of Him who brought us
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out of the darkness. We are to be the salt of the earth with
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a man light on the hill, with it be that city set on the
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hill. A man the light in the darkness, a man letting our lights
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shine. He wants a man us to be on display as living epistols,
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as it were again known and read of men examples to the unbelievers. A
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man, God save us, a man to show forth, a man his
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glory. A man's salvation is the gift of God. A man's salvation is
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the gift of God to lost man. See, we have no ability within
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ourselves, nor do we even possess, as I said earlier, the will
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a man to be saved again, as Jesus said, no man can,
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which means no man has the ability, no man has the will of their
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own to come to Jesus. That's why Jesus comes, seeking, seeking,
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seeking, How why would he be seeking? He's seeking for someone who is
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lost. Amen, he didn't come, he said, I didn't come to
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call the righteous. I came to call sinners. This man, Zachieas,
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was a sinner, a man, he was a sinner. He knew he
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was a sinner. He admitted he understood a man his state, A man
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in the people looked at him as a sinner, a man as a traitor,
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as a treasonous, treacherous a man a man uh uh I mean really
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for the please understand how despised a man the Roman government uh was in the
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eyes of the Jews. So someone who worked for them collected the money for
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them and then overcharged or overtaxed, and the fee that they could charge could
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be as as high as I guess that they could possibly extract from them.
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So so so the tax collector was. It's just despicable in the eyes of
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his fellow brethren. Amen. But this man understood that he was a sinner,
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and this is what Jesus came to to to to come to do.
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He came to seek out sinners. Amen, seek out sinners. This is
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God's gift. Salvation is God's gift to lost sinners. Amen. Again,
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we don't have the ability with ourselves. Amen. We don't have the will
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within us. Amen. The Lord and his great love and his great compassion
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a man for us. He provided the way of excape for man. And
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that way, that one way is by and through Jesus the Christ, the
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Son of the Living God. The salvation of lost souls of men is the
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choice exclusively of the divine. Amen. This was accomplished a man before the
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foundation of the world. Bible says, the lamb of God was slain from
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the foundation of the world. Amen. This is the plan of God.
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Amen. Before amen, we transgressed before a man, we ran away from
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him, and before we a man rejected him, before we begin to hide
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from him as it were. Amen. This is, this is, this
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is God's great gift for God so loved, so loved. He looked and
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he saw, and he knew a man, and he made this a man
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salvation and possible for us. Amen. And again this is exclusively by his
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own will, according to his own good pleasure. Amen. He decided and
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that he would not leave us in the state into which we would fall,
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which we did, of course Amen, But he would Amen. Amen,
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from the again foundation of the world. Make this one way for us to
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escape, and that is through the blood of Jesus Christ. Through the blood
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of Jesus Christ. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of
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sins. The life of us, the life of man, the life of
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a man, all of us creatures is in the blood. Amen. So
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we cannot and we could not save ourselves. Amen. We cannot even give
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our own bodies. Amen, to redeem our souls. Amen. Amen,
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Because amen, our blood is tainted. A man in the Bible makes it
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clear. And because hebrews that the blood of buds and ghosts can't take away
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sin. Amen. So God prepared in advance, predestined, predetermined, Amen,
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in the divine the sacrifice that would wash away all of our sins.
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Amen. He did not leave us groping in the darkness. Amen. That's
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what we were doing. We were groping in the darkness, seeking to hide
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from the light, a man fleeing from the presence of God. And this
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is the nature that we inherited from Adam. As the Bible reminds us,
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all we like sheep, go astray from our creator. And he it is
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again who comes seeking to save that which was lost. God has made the
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way of salvation so plain that there need not be any ambiguity about the way
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to be saved. In fact, in the progologue, if you will to
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the Gospel of John, it is crystal clear, crystal crystal clear, that
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there is one and only one way for us to be born again, and
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it is through receiving Jesus Christ. The Gospel of John chapter one, Verses
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twelve and thirteen. For as many that's what the Bible says. For as
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many as received him received Who Jesus in the beginning was the word. It
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words with God's word. Was God's word was made fleshed. What among us
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we baild His glory, the glory as of the only begot of the Father,
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full of grace and truth. He was in the world of world's made
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by him. He came into his own, his own received him. Not
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this is what the body was saying. But as many as received him Jesus
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to them, he gave the right to become children of God to those who
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believe in his name. And I have stressed and stressed and stressed Amen,
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throughout this particular series, the absolute necessity of believing, Amen, to those
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who believe in his name. You cannot be saved without believing the Word,
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believing God's report, Amen, Believing in Jesus, Believing that Jesus is the
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Christ, Amen, the Savior, the Redeemer. You cannot be saved without
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that. Neither is their salvation in any other There's no other name, nor
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other way for you to be saved. Amen. So as many as received
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Jesus believe the gospel. Obey the gospel. The Bible says, as many
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as received him, to them, he gave the right to become children of
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God. Amen to those who believe in his name. Listen what the Bible
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says, Verse thirteen. How are they born? The Bible says, not
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of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
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of man, but of God. Amen. You are born by the Spirit
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of God, by the power of God, by the Holy Spirit moving,
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Amen, quickening, awakening, stirring up coming inside of you. And again
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you must be leave, and you must repent. You must obey the gospel.
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That's the only way to be saved. Amen. But that's that's all
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in Jesus. That's all in receiving Jesus. Because see listen, anyone who
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receives Jesus, you have to come to repentance. Every need bows, every
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tongue, confesses that he is Lord. Everyone who comes to him. Amen,
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again, with a brokenness, with contrition, Amen, salvation, God
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rends the heavens. Amen. So you're not born of blood. See the
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Jews, many of them thought that they were there, and they were in
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the kingdom, and they were saved, and they were Amen, included because
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of their lineage, because because of their birthright, because they were blood of
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the seed of Abraham. Amen. But no, no, no, no,
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no, it's not of blood. It's not of the will of the
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flesh. We don't have it within us, Amen, Nor of the will
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of man, the Bible says, But it is of God. Those who
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receive him are those who believe on him. Those who believe on him,
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the Bible says, again, receive the right to become the children of God.
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Amen. And please understand. The Bible makes it clear. And I've
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gone through this several uh. I mean, I mean often often, very
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often, as it were, in this particular series about a man, the
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proofs, the biblical proofs of our salvation. Amen. And there is character.
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Amen, there is character, and and and and and and and again.
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Jesus does not save us a man just to take us to heaven,
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just to take us to glory. I mean, we understand and that that
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is a man the end of our salvation, when we are going to be
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glorified with him. We understand John's Gospel chapter fourteen, when Jesus says,
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let not your heart be trouble. Believe if you believe in God. Believe
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also in me and my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare
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a place for you, that where I am there you may be. Also
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we look forward to that Paul wrote about a man, the richest, a
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man what I has not seen, an ear has not heard, nor has
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it entered into the heart. The things that God has for those who love
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him, a man we should read about in Revelation, the streets being paved
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with gold a man, the beauty of that city, of that new Jerusalem
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that comes down from God out of heaven. We understand all of those things,
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and we are a man greatly in anticipation of being in that place,
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not only being in that place, but also being healed, being delivered,
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being in that place again where the Bible makes this promise, Jesus himself makes
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this promise where there would be no more tears, no more sorrow, no
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more pain, no more death, no more sickness, none of these things,
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because the former things he said are going to be passed away. We
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look, we look forward to all things he said I make behold all I
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make all things new. Yes, all of the benefits I mean, the
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benefits that God has in store that far surpass, that are greatly beyond this
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life. Yes, we look forward to that. We live in the great
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hope of that. As Abraham looked for a city not made when has this
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man, by the way, was another one of those who was rich.
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And I've said several times a man over the years, often over the years,
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that a man God is not against riches. Abraham was one of those
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rich men, very rich as a matter of fact. But the Bible says
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he looked for a city. Abraham looked for something beyond this world, something
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beyond this life, a city which has foundations, a city not made with
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hands, that is, that is eternal in the heavens. That is what
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we are anticipating and looking forward to. Amen. But again the Lord saves
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us, Amen, with the intent of us living out the rest of our
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days. However, many that may be on this earth as beacons of light,
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as hope, a man as examples, a man as again living epistles,
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Amen, as examples to unbelievers. Amen, God wants amen again to
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display the glorious Amen power of his saving and his delivering. Amen, sinners
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through us, such were some of you, Amen, we were Amen.
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But now but now this is our testimony. That's why we witnesses a man
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of his great salvation, a man, and we are born, not of
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the will of flesh, not of our lineage, not because my father,
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my grandfather, my great grandfather, I come from a whole lineage of preachers
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or something. No, no, no, no, no. None of
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us are saved because of those things. A man. We are saved by
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the will of God. We are saved by the spirit of God. Is
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not by might, not by power, a man, but by the spirit
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of the Living God. And God again, a man, when he saves
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us, he has purpose in this a man. And he demonstrated with this
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man's a kiss, who was a rank sinner, who was a chief of
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sinners, and the eyes of the individuals, a man of the nation of
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Israel, especially a man. God had a purpose in coming to individuals like
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that. A man prostitutes a man and the poor, the blind, the
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sick, the maimed. Amen, tax collectors, Amen, people of that
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ilk. Amen. Jesus came and and and again. They accused him of
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being a wine bibber, a friend of sinners. Amen, But they listen,
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listen, what did he say? I came to seek and to save
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that which was lost. And again Paul reminds us, such were some of
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you. But now you are washed. Amen. Now you are sanctified.
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Sanctified means you are set apart. You are now set apart for the purpose
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of God being glorified in your life, in your life right here in this
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present world. That's what he saves us to be. Amen. Amen,
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lights in the world. Amen, and so and so as children of God.
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Remember as he has received him those who believe in his name. The
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Bible says he gave the right to become children of God. Now, if
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you are a child of God, it is manifest a man, it should
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be manifest. It has to be manifest. Amen. The difference between your
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lifestyle and the lifestyle of the children of the devil, because everybody else,
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everyone who is not saved, is a child of the devil. Amen.
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That's biblical. I don't have time I'm going to go through all of that.
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But Jesus spoke of and even speaking to some religious people too, he
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said, you are of your father, the devil, and the deeds of
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your father you will do. Amen. So if you're not living, Amen,
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living as Jesus. A man commands his children to live his people to
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live. Then you are living on the other side. Amen. You can't
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eat from both tables. Amen. Either you are saved and following Jesus.
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You are saved and obeying Jesus. He is that if you love me,
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you keep my commandments. Amen. Every man who is saved, every man
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who is truly saved is in obedience, seeks to be in obedience to the
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will of God. So again throughout this particular series we've stressed that they are
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biblical proofs of our salvation. Amen, And obedience is one of them.
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Amen. And I'm just going to remind you again of some of the biblical
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characteristics, if you will, of those who are saved. Save people love
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Jesus. Amen. Save people love Jesus. And the Bible reminds us again
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we love him because he first loved us, and we love him for the
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great sacrifice a man again greater love. Jesus hath no madness. The man
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will lay down his life for his friends. And he called us his friends.
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Amen. So he loved us enough. Why we were yet sinners?
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The Bible informs us why we were yet sinners? Christ died for thee ungodly.
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He died for sinners. He died for those who hated him. He
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died for those who rejected him, for those who despised him, for those
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who spat upon him. I mean, he died for sinners. And when
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he calls you into the light, Amen, you come with that brokenness,
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with that contrition, Amen, with that repentance. And He saved you and
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fills you with the Holy Ghost. Amen, baptizes you a man with the
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fire, a man that quenches, Amen, and puts out all of the
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a man, the ungodliness away from your character. Amen. Any man be
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in Christ. He's a new creation creation. The Bible tells us another one
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of the biblical proofs that we already talked about. You become a new creation.
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Amen. You come a new creature, and you love Jesus. Saved
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people, love Jesus, and then save people. Love his word. Amen,
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Save people. Love the word of God. Amen. It was said
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in the Old Testament, I extreme the word of God higher than my necessary
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food. Amen. God's word. Man shall not live by what bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
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Amen. His word. We love Jesus, Save people, We love his
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word. Save people. Save people love God's people also, Amen. How
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can you say, John, John, John the apostle, John asked the
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question, how can a man say that he loves God whom he has not
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seen, and he does not love his brother, whom he has seen.
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How can a man say that? Save people love God's people? You love
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the brethren, Amen, You love the people of God. Amen. As
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a matter of fact, you even love your enemies, and you pray for
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your enemies. But inside the house of God. Amen. I wish,
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oh I wish at the time, I mean we we are supposed to.
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We have to, because this is all about fellowship with one with another.
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Amen, loving one another, for burying one another, forgiving. I spent,
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as a matter of fact, the previous session, and I think it
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was I talked about this, Amen, that Jesus said, by this,
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shall all men know that you are My disciples. Indeed, by the love
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that you have one for another, one for another. Amen. So save
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people, love God's people. Amen. Save people have the desire to do
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what is right. May not always, we may not always do it.
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We may not always do the right thing. Amen. But there's a brokenness,
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there's a contrition, there's repentance. Amen. There's godly sorrow that works
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in us. God corrects. Amen. The Bible tells us because hebrews every
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child, every son, Amen, he chastens, He corrects. If you're
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not receiving chastening, if you're not receiving correction from God, guess what.
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You don't belong to him, the Bible says. Otherwise you're a bastard.
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Amen. You don't belong to him. Every son, every child of God,
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he chastens, he corrects. Amen. Say, people have the desire
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to do what is right. Again, all of us sin and fall short
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of the glory of God. But there is a desire in us. If
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you don't have the desire to please God, the desire to do what is
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right, the the desire to work righteousness, something is missing. Amen.
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Say people have convictions about sin. It's a matter of fact. The longer
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we are saved, and I've talked about this in the past, Amen,
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and we come to know God and to know His word. Amen, guess
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what we love the things that God loves, and we hate the things that
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God hates. And God hates sin. God knows what sin does, and
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we need to learn and understand what sin does. Amen. How destructive.
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It is, and I've talked about it. It's again about sin being that
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enemy, one of our enemies, our chief, chief among our enemies.
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Amen, Sin, it is what caused death. Sin is what brought on
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death. Sin is your enemy. Sin wants to get the mastery over you.
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Sin wants to rule over you. Amen. And save people. The
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Bible teachers have convictions about sin. Amen, And then save people are seeking
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to please God. Save people are seeking to please God. Again, we
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sin, we fall short, Amen, but we are seeking to please him.
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We repent, We run boldly, come boldly to the throne of grace
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to obtain mercy, the Bible says, and to find grace. Amen.
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He said, My grace is sufficient for you. Find grace to help us
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in this time of need. So we are seeking to please God. And
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say. People desire to be more and more like Jesus. That's who we
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are. To be conformed, He predestined us, the Bible says, to
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be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ his son. So our desire,
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Amen, is to be more and more like Jesus marked the perfect man.
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And behold the upright the end of that man, the Bible says, is
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peace. Amen. Our eyes as we run this race, the Bible says,
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our eyes are upon Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of
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our faith, the forerunner, the one who went before us. So our
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desire is to be more and more like him. Amen. We want to
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finish like he did. We want to love like he did. We want
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to sacrifice like he did. Amen. We want to give like he did.
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Amen, we want to Amen, foregive like he did. Amen.
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Be merciful like he was. Merciful, be faithful like he was faithful.
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All of the attributes, the amen, things that Jesus demonstrated for us.
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Amen, we want to be more and more like him every day. Amen.
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Save. People also want to be with Jesus. Certainly, if Jesus
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is in you, you also have that desire, that longing to be with
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him. He'd already made the promise that where I am there you may be
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also even soul. Calm, Lord Jesus, them that look for him,
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them that look for him, He's coming back for his people. See at
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stake is the eternal destiny of your soul. Are you saved? Are you
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saved? Understand what is at stake? The eternal destiny of your soul.
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Your soul is eternal and it is precious. The redemption of your soul is
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precious. What can a man give Jesus is asking its change for his soul.
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Nothing. The precious price of the blood of Jesus was paid to redeem
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loss souls. Ultimately, ladies and gentlemen, God is saving men for his
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glory. And whether you are saved or not, whether you are saved in
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the end or not, Amen, God still is going to be glorified.
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And please don't misunderstand that God will not Amen, give his glory to any
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other. It's not going to go anywhere else. It belongs to him.
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God will be glorified, but he saves us Amen for his glory, and
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we are going to be glorified with him. Roman chapter number eight. Amen,
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So we ultimately really Amen. Please understand that God is saving you for
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his glory, but He is also saving you from his wrath. Amen.
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We are saved from the wrath of God. Amen, saving us for his
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glory, but He is also saving us from his wrath. Are you saved?
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Are you saved today? Are you saved? I pray to day If
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you are not saved, Amen, that you will be saved, be saved
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to day. Come, Jesus said, all you are laboring, have a
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laden. I will give you rest. Come. Come, come buy without
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money without price. Amen. Hold everyone who thirst, come, he says,
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Come to me, and I will give you rest. Amen. Are
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you saved today? Are you saved? Amen? Jesus came to seek and
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to save that which was lost. Come to him. Amen, repent and
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be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ. He
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will fill you with this holy ghost and power and the anointing a man,
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and he will keep you. He will seal you until the day of redemption.
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Father, help someone today, Amen, to come to that blessed assurance,
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to come to the foot of cavalry, to be saved and delivered and
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set free, so that you will be glorified in all that they say and
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do. In Jesus name, we thank you now in advance. A man
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and a man