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The Bible Speaks Live! | Hot Topic Tuesday: Very Straight Talk On This Great Salvation (part 3) · The Bible Speaks Live!

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to The Bible Speaks Live, this is our Hot
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  Speaker 1: Topic Tuesday. Tonight we are continuing in our series we've
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  Speaker 1: begun a couple of weeks ago entitled For Believers Only,
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  Speaker 1: Very Straight Talk on This Great Salvation. Amen. We want to,
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  Speaker 1: as we get into this series, begin to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the different facets of this great salvation that has been
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  Speaker 1: entrusted to us, given to us by God's grace. We
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  Speaker 1: want to get into it. What are the different pieces?
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  Speaker 1: What are the dynamics of it? How does one get saved? Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about all of those different
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  Speaker 1: components as we move along in this series. And tonight
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  Speaker 1: we're going to begin talking just about some of those things.
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  Speaker 1: What are the components involved in our salvations? And so
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  Speaker 1: once again, we invite you to stay with us as
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  Speaker 1: we get into it. The waters may get a little
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  Speaker 1: murky as we get into the weeds. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why I say that, but that'll become clear as
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  Speaker 1: we get into it. But we are glad that you
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  Speaker 1: could join us, whether you're watching us live on the replay,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to have you. We ask that you share
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  Speaker 1: this page out and others also may be a part
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  Speaker 1: of this particular study. Amen. We believe that this is
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  Speaker 1: the this is the direction at this point in time
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord would have us to go in this
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  Speaker 1: ministry as we begin to talk about these important subjects,
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  Speaker 1: our great salvation. Amen. We've spoken about it over the years.
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  Speaker 1: We've spoken about this great salvation many times, but not
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  Speaker 1: quite in this way, not quite as comprehensive as we
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  Speaker 1: are doing now. And once again, when I say comprehensive,
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  Speaker 1: there's still a limitation on that because There is no
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  Speaker 1: way that we can be all comprehensive when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to this great salvation because we have not been given.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know everything. And we're not going to try
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  Speaker 1: to pretend that we know everything. But as we get
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  Speaker 1: into it, it'll become clear that this salvation that we have,
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason why the Holy Spirit calls it great. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is just that. So once again, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. for joining us and for being a part
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  Speaker 1: of this particular study. Amen. We call it study. You
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  Speaker 1: may call it a lesson. Whatever it is, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: deem it to be, we pray that you are blessed
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  Speaker 1: by it and you'll be able to carry something away
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  Speaker 1: with you. Maybe you will learn something that you did
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  Speaker 1: not know. Maybe you will be educated in some aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you will be inspired in another aspect. But whatever
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  Speaker 1: the case is, we pray that somehow you are blessed
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  Speaker 1: by the word of God, because it's the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the word of God. Amen. All about
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Amen. So once again, that is
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  Speaker 1: the most important. That is what is most important about
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  Speaker 1: this study. It's bringing the word of God together, enabling
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  Speaker 1: us to have a better understanding of this great salvation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So once again, thank you so much for uh, joining
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  Speaker 1: us and for being a part. Uh, you can go
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  Speaker 1: to our YouTube channel, which is that's where ministries where
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  Speaker 1: we are streaming live. You can also go to our, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Facebook ministry page, which is that's where ministries were also
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  Speaker 1: streaming live there, uh, at this particular time. Amen. Uh, already.
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to pray and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get right into the word of God. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: say at the outset that we do invite your questions
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  Speaker 1: and comments as we move along. Um, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of information that you're going to see.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't intend to, as the slides come up,
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  Speaker 1: and we're trying to be more interactive in this way,
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  Speaker 1: as the slides come up, we're not trying to read
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  Speaker 1: every word. We will get everything that is on the slide,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm definitely not reading word for word. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: you can read word for word, take it as it comes.
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  Speaker 1: But we're trying to be more interactive with our studies.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where the Lord has me right now, being
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more interactive as we bring across these studies. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All righty. So we're going to pray and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get right to it. Lord, we bless you. We
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  Speaker 1: honor you. We thank you, Lord. Once again, you've given
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  Speaker 1: us another opportunity, Lord, to open up your word. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we know that your word will continue and always be
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  Speaker 1: a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we know that we can do nothing without you. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that you would guide us and lead us
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  Speaker 1: in the direction that you would have us to go. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to say anything that would be considered
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  Speaker 1: moving away from your word. Lord, we want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we are always aligned with your word. So Lord,
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  Speaker 1: have your way in us and through us as we
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  Speaker 1: speak your word. Lord, you be the teacher, Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Allow your Holy Spirit to come and say and do
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  Speaker 1: that which you would have us to, and be that
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  Speaker 1: which would have us to be and to know what
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  Speaker 1: you would have us to know and draw those who
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  Speaker 1: need to hear this particular word at this time to
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  Speaker 1: this place on the worldwide web. Lord, once again, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's live or whether it's on a replay, Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: pray that you would have your way. Lord, we ask
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  Speaker 1: for your presence even right now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is good. God is good. God is on the throne.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, we honor him, we bless him, and we
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  Speaker 1: thank him for We thank him for all that he
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  Speaker 1: is doing in us and all that he is doing
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  Speaker 1: as we gather around his word. The word of God
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  Speaker 1: is the only book you read. Remember these words. The
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  Speaker 1: word of God is the only book you read where
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  Speaker 1: the author is with you when you read it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That is so very powerful and so very true. Amen. Well,
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  Speaker 1: up to now, we've been talking about, up to now,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about this great salvation. The last time
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  Speaker 1: we got together, we were talking about reasons why we
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  Speaker 1: need salvation. We gave you eight powerful reasons why salvation
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  Speaker 1: is necessary at all. And we won't go over them
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  Speaker 1: again tonight here, but eight powerful reasons why we need salvation.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that we know the nature of our salvation,
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  Speaker 1: that is just how great it is and why we
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  Speaker 1: need it. Now, how do we get it? How does
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  Speaker 1: one become saved? How does one become born again? How
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  Speaker 1: does one become regenerated? Amen. How does it happen? And
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  Speaker 1: let me just make this statement right at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with a controversial statement. Number one, when I
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  Speaker 1: say controversial, all I simply mean is that everybody agrees.
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  Speaker 1: And once again, I'm getting ahead of myself, but that's okay. Also,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody believes the same thing as it pertains to
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  Speaker 1: our salvation. How do we get it? Okay. Not we, we,
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  Speaker 1: there is no, there is no strict consensus. Everybody believes
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  Speaker 1: all you got to do is trust in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Now shall be saved. Yeah. We, we, we know what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. Okay. But once again, different groups, different interpretations, uh, and, and,
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  Speaker 1: and individuals come away with what they come away with. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And that's just how it is. That's just how it is.
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  Speaker 1: And so let's get into the weeds as I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to refer to once again, as we get into the
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  Speaker 1: word of God here. Let's start with the very straight
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  Speaker 1: talk on this great salvation and just how is an
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  Speaker 1: individual saved? How does it happen? How does it happen?
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  Speaker 1: We know what it is and we know why it
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  Speaker 1: is necessary. How does it happen? How do we acquire?
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  Speaker 1: How do we receive this great salvation? Amen. That is
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  Speaker 1: the question on the table tonight. So, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: previously spoken about this great salvation, the nature of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to begin looking into how we receive
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation. This is where we're going to once
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  Speaker 1: again get into the weeds, but Once again, as I've
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  Speaker 1: already explained, there is one thing that you may not know.
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  Speaker 1: As to doctrine, as to doctrine, hear me well, as
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  Speaker 1: to doctrine, there are things that are just that. Non-essentials
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  Speaker 1: are non-essentials. Non-essential does not mean not important, not at all, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Non-essential does not mean non-important, but non-essential means, as we look,
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  Speaker 1: if believers do not agree on any one of the non-essentials,
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  Speaker 1: there should be no problem. Because why? Because they don't
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  Speaker 1: affect our salvation, okay? Your salvation does not leave or
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  Speaker 1: go or flip or turn on the basis of whether
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  Speaker 1: you believe A non-essential in this way, and someone else
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  Speaker 1: may believe a particular doctrine in another way. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: affect your salvation. There are differences of views. We simply
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  Speaker 1: must accept that there are differences of views in the
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ. There are differences of views. And that
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  Speaker 1: is as simple as it gets. Okay? In other words,
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  Speaker 1: non-essentials should not divide. Non-essentials should not divide. Do non-essentials divide? Yes. Okay? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they do. People divide, churches divide, believers divide from one another,
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  Speaker 1: split from one another over non-essentials, non-essentials, okay? That's why
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  Speaker 1: we have, basically, that's the reason why we have denominations
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  Speaker 1: because individuals, whoever they were from the past, they did
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  Speaker 1: not agree on non-essentials. And based on these non-essentials, they
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  Speaker 1: broke off from a group and began a new group
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  Speaker 1: around what they believe versus what someone else believes. And
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  Speaker 1: this is how denominations came into be. This is how
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  Speaker 1: it all happened. Such was not the case at the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning. Such was not the case in the early church.
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  Speaker 1: They all believed. of course, in Christ Jesus, who Jesus was.
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  Speaker 1: Now there were certain sects that were rising up. There
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  Speaker 1: were the Judaizers. Oh yeah, there were the Judaizers. And
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  Speaker 1: there were several other smaller groups that were also divisive,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing like what we have now. Nothing like what
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  Speaker 1: we have now. So non-essentials should not divide, but unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: non-essentials have divided, okay? But hear this one, if we
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  Speaker 1: do not agree, talk about the body of Christ, if
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  Speaker 1: we do not agree on essentials, on essentials, such as
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  Speaker 1: how we are saved, then that matters. That's really problematic. Yes, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: churches have divided, individuals have split from one another over non-essentials.
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  Speaker 1: They're still saved, you're still saved, and you're still saved.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's still saved, but They're not agreeing on certain things.
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  Speaker 1: But if you can't come together on how we are saved,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big problem. That's a big problem. If we
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  Speaker 1: cannot agree on the nature of salvation and how one
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  Speaker 1: is saved, this is highly problematic and quite troubling, to
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  Speaker 1: say the least. Very, very much so, okay? The fact is,
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  Speaker 1: once again, that's the doctrine, right? The fact is that
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  Speaker 1: the body of Christ is not in agreement, okay? The
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ, churches, Christianity is not in agreement as
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  Speaker 1: to how salvation happens. You might say, what? Yes, they are. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're not. No, no. And we will see that as
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  Speaker 1: we move along. Is it through repentance alone some say
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  Speaker 1: that salvation is fire if we don't repent you're not
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  Speaker 1: saved some say it's through faith alone it's faith in
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  Speaker 1: the lord jesus christ period that's it i get it
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  Speaker 1: don't don't i'm i'm not coming against i'm not coming
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  Speaker 1: against any one of these because i'm just simply saying
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  Speaker 1: what groups say it's through faith alone is it through
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  Speaker 1: both is it the repentance and faith Is there a
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  Speaker 1: sinner's prayer that is involved somewhere in this? Or is
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  Speaker 1: a sinner's prayer necessary at all to receive salvation? Now listen,
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  Speaker 1: surely the Lord does not, the Lord does not want
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  Speaker 1: us confused over this most important aspect of salvation, how
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  Speaker 1: we get it, okay? So let's first take a short
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  Speaker 1: look at the essential, I'm not gonna dig deep here,
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  Speaker 1: but I just want us to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the essentials and the non-essentials. First, let's look at the essentials, okay? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Bible, these are the, another one,
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  Speaker 1: when I talk about essentials, these are things that must
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  Speaker 1: be agreed upon. Everybody agrees on these things, okay? Everybody agrees, okay?
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  Speaker 1: the authority and inspiration of scripture, okay? The Bible is God-breathed.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is sufficient to guide all truth, okay? It
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  Speaker 1: is inerrant. There are no errors in it. It's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: That's a word that we would use. The theological words
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  Speaker 1: are that it is inerrant. It is without error. That's
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Not gonna look at the scripture verses,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the word of God. Everybody agrees that the
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  Speaker 1: word of God is the word of God, okay? The
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  Speaker 1: deity of Jesus Christ, okay? Jesus Christ is fully God
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  Speaker 1: and fully man. Everybody agrees on this, okay? Everybody agrees
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  Speaker 1: on this. As far as I know, never heard of
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  Speaker 1: a church that doesn't believe that Jesus was not God
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  Speaker 1: and man, okay? I have never heard of a church
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  Speaker 1: that way. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of it, okay? Salvation, and this is the one
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be talking about in this series.
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  Speaker 1: Salvation by grace through faith alone, okay? Justification by faith
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  Speaker 1: alone and not by works. Now, does everybody agree on
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  Speaker 1: it just that way? Everybody does not agree on it
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  Speaker 1: just quite that way. Not quite that way, okay? That's not, that's,
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  Speaker 1: even though that's, that's it. but everybody believes that it
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  Speaker 1: happens just like that, okay? The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of a church that said that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ didn't really rise from the dead, okay? Everybody agrees
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  Speaker 1: on that, okay? Everybody agrees that Jesus Christ rose again.
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  Speaker 1: The gospel, the gospel, okay? The message that Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: for all sinners and rose again for everlasting life, okay? Now,
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  Speaker 1: why is there a yellow highlight over the word all
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  Speaker 1: because not all, not all churches quote denominations believe that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ died for everyone. No, I know we read
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  Speaker 1: John 3, 16. It's very clear for God so loved
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  Speaker 1: the world that he gave his only begotten son that
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  Speaker 1: whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 1: But there are denominations that believe that Jesus Christ only
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  Speaker 1: died for those who actually will get saved, okay? He
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  Speaker 1: only died for, there are those who believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ only died for those who will actually get saved.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't die for the entirety of the world. He died,
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  Speaker 1: if you're saved, he died for you. If I'm saved,
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  Speaker 1: he died for me. If someone dies unsaved, that means
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ did not die for them because they
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  Speaker 1: died without him. That's what folk believe. That's what many believe.
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  Speaker 1: There was even a tract that was put out several
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  Speaker 1: years back by one particular group, and the tract was entitled,
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  Speaker 1: Does God Love You? Not God loves you, but the
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  Speaker 1: tract was entitled, Does God Love You? In other words,
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  Speaker 1: could it be that you are one of the ones
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus died for? Okay? Could it be that you
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  Speaker 1: are one of the ones that Jesus died for? Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And that's part of the whole, well, once again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get ahead of myself, but we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into that particular brand of theology, that particular brand of
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  Speaker 1: reformed theology a little bit as we move along. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: the gospel message that Jesus died for all is not
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  Speaker 1: accepted by everyone. I repeat, there are those who believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ died only for those who actually get
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  Speaker 1: saved or who have gotten saved. And I'll explain that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more in the coming weeks. Monotheism. One
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  Speaker 1: God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: does everyone believe? Oh, you're saying, we're talking about there's
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  Speaker 1: one God. So you're talking about the Trinity. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: triune God. Doesn't everybody, don't all denominations, agree that there
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  Speaker 1: is a Trinity? And the answer is no. No. There
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  Speaker 1: is at least one. And many believe that this particular
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  Speaker 1: one group or quote denomination is on the fringe because
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  Speaker 1: of what they believe. There's a Jesus only mindset that
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  Speaker 1: they adhere to. And they believe that there is no
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  Speaker 1: trinity there is no trinity and and many have many
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  Speaker 1: have coined this particular group uh this oneness group many
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  Speaker 1: have deemed them to be cultic i i'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: how cultic it is but i know that that particular
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  Speaker 1: group does not believe in a trinity and so these
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  Speaker 1: two points at least there may be a couple of
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  Speaker 1: others but these are the ones that we have focused
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  Speaker 1: on uh When it comes to believing the essentials, everybody
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  Speaker 1: doesn't believe that Jesus died for everyone and everybody does
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  Speaker 1: not believe that there is a Trinity, okay? Everybody doesn't
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  Speaker 1: believe that, okay? So what are the non-essentials, okay? Once again,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe something different concerning the non-essentials, you're still saved, okay?
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  Speaker 1: You're still saved, okay? And we can all still, we
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  Speaker 1: can all still get along, okay? Even if we don't
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  Speaker 1: agree on these things, all right? Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the non-essentials, eschatology, okay? And when we talk
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  Speaker 1: about eschatology, we're talking about the various views concerning the
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  Speaker 1: end times, okay? Okay, talking about the rapture, talking about
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  Speaker 1: the millennium, talking about these things. Everybody doesn't believe that
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a rapture, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: All Christians do not believe it. All denominations, I have
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  Speaker 1: to put denominations in there because unfortunately, that's the world
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  Speaker 1: that we live in. All denominations do not teach that
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  Speaker 1: there is going to be a rapture, okay? Churches that
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  Speaker 1: do preach a rapture, some preach a rapture that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Before the tribulation, some preach that a rapture
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  Speaker 1: is going to be in the middle of the tribulation.
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  Speaker 1: Some believe that it's at the end. Listen, well, beginning
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  Speaker 1: and middle, okay? Some preach, the domination believe that there
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  Speaker 1: is no millennium. There is no 1,000-year millennium, okay? We
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  Speaker 1: will go from this life into judgment and eternity. There
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  Speaker 1: is no seven-year tribulation, okay? none of those things that
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  Speaker 1: we read about from the book of Daniel and from
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  Speaker 1: the book of Revelation, when you put it all together,
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  Speaker 1: there are those who believe that none of that is true.
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  Speaker 1: None of that is true, okay? And what are you
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  Speaker 1: going to do? Do you take them and throw them away?
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  Speaker 1: They're not really Christian because they don't believe those things.
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  Speaker 1: That's not where I go. If they are saved, if
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  Speaker 1: they are born again, And they don't believe that there
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  Speaker 1: is a rapture or millennium or all those things, a
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  Speaker 1: seven year tribulation period. If they don't believe it and
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  Speaker 1: they're born again, they're born again. If I'm wrong, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong about all these things, I'm still saved. If
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  Speaker 1: they're wrong about those things, then they're still saved. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The most important fact is that we have Jesus. The
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  Speaker 1: most important fact is that we are born again. We
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  Speaker 1: are regenerated. We are We have the spirit of God
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  Speaker 1: in us, okay? That is what is more important than
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  Speaker 1: whether we agree on these non-essentials. Secondly, the creation views,
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  Speaker 1: a young earth versus the old earth. There are those
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  Speaker 1: who believe that the earth is about 6,000 to 7,000
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  Speaker 1: years old, and there are others who believe that the
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  Speaker 1: earth is millions of years old. There are those who
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  Speaker 1: believe in a gap theory, that there was a whole
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  Speaker 1: nother earth and civilization before the one that we have,
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  Speaker 1: based on some wording in Genesis chapter number one. And
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  Speaker 1: there are others who believe, no way, that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't say it, so it never happened. So
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, that's what we know and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we go with. But whatever you believe concerning the creation,
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  Speaker 1: if you're saved, you're saved. We can agree to disagree
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  Speaker 1: on that, okay? Bible translations, okay? Some people are King
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  Speaker 1: James only. OK, the Bible wasn't written in the King
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  Speaker 1: James in King James English. OK, the reason why we
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  Speaker 1: have different translations is because and why they read differently,
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  Speaker 1: because they use different manuscripts. That's why they read differently.
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  Speaker 1: And the argument is that the more the more manuscripts
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  Speaker 1: that have been found and unearthed, they they reveal some
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  Speaker 1: different things or or different things that may not be
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  Speaker 1: in the King James version that we adhere to. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: if you read a King James Version or a New
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  Speaker 1: King James Version or an NIV or an NLT and
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  Speaker 1: you are born again, you're born again. You're born again.
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  Speaker 1: You're born again, okay? So Bible translation preferences, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a word-for-word translation or a thought-for-thought, we won't get into
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  Speaker 1: all of that, but whatever it is, whatever Bible you read,
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  Speaker 1: it's important. I will say that. The Bible that you
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  Speaker 1: read is important. You don't want a Bible that's going
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  Speaker 1: to water down the word of God. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: a Bible that's going to take phrases and words out.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want that. Okay? And the King James Version
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  Speaker 1: does not do that. So anyway, but if you're saved,
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  Speaker 1: you're saved. Okay? We should not part ways as brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters because you read one version and I read another. No,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: we are still brothers and sisters in Christ, okay? Church governance, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Some churches believe that it's about elders and some believe
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  Speaker 1: it's more congregational, sacramental practices concerning communion, how it is
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  Speaker 1: served and what they mean. Are they emblems? Are they symbols?
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  Speaker 1: There's a such thing as consubstantiation and consubstantiation means that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' body and blood are with the elements, with the elements. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we don't definitely subscribe to transubstantiation. That's a Catholic doctrine
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  Speaker 1: and we are not Catholic at all. Catholic is not
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  Speaker 1: a Christian denomination and we do not subscribe to transubstantiation,
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  Speaker 1: which they believe that the emblems of the broken body
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  Speaker 1: and the broken blood, that the wafer becomes his body,
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  Speaker 1: and the wine actually becomes his blood. No, we don't,
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  Speaker 1: we don't agree with that, but the Lutheran view and,
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  Speaker 1: and other denomination believe that his body and blood are, are,
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  Speaker 1: are with, are with those elements. And once again, whatever
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  Speaker 1: view you have, uh, aside from the transubstantiation, uh, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you need to throw that one out. Um, but people
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  Speaker 1: believe differently. People, different denomination believe differently. Okay. Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: mode of baptism, okay? Whether you sprinkle or whether you immerse, okay?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Now we know that biblically, biblically, and I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to make an argument for this, but it has to
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  Speaker 1: be said that biblically, the proper way to baptize is
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  Speaker 1: through immersion. The word baptize means to immerse. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the word means, okay? We don't believe in aspersion, which is,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's sprinkling. We don't know, that's pouring. There's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: pouring and then there's sprinkling. But baptism, the word baptized
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: means to submerge, to go under and to come back up.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the, we believe that's the proper way. But
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  Speaker 1: if you are in a church that sprinkles, if you
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  Speaker 1: are in a church that pours, aside from the Catholic church, well,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say that's not true baptism. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're born again, you're born again. Okay? If you are
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  Speaker 1: born again, you are born again. Okay? Okay? Whether you
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  Speaker 1: are baptized or not and how you are baptized does
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  Speaker 1: not affect your salvation. If you have the indwelling spirit
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  Speaker 1: within you, then you are saved. Whether somebody submerged you,
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  Speaker 1: poured water on your head, or sprinkled, you are born
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  Speaker 1: again if you are born again. It's not going to change.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to change your status as a child
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  Speaker 1: of God. Oh, you didn't get baptized. You didn't get submerged.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So you're not really saved anymore. No, that doesn't happen. Okay.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: If you're saved, you're saved. Worship style. There's liturgical, contemporary instruments,
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  Speaker 1: music types. There are denominations that do not have music
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  Speaker 1: in the church at all because they believe that music
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  Speaker 1: in the church is worldly. They have no music at all.
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  Speaker 1: And you can see how sometimes music can excite the senses.
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  Speaker 1: Music in the church can excite the carnal man and
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  Speaker 1: bring out a part of you that does not need
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to be a part of our worship and praise. Music
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  Speaker 1: can do that. So our music must be tempered. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we must make sure that whatever music that is playing
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  Speaker 1: in our particular churches that doesn't draw us or bring
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  Speaker 1: us into carnality because then we have a problem. But
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: every church is different. Some churches are more silent. Some
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: churches are more ramped up. But we need to always
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  Speaker 1: remain true to the Spirit of God. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: to drive the Spirit of God out of our church
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  Speaker 1: through carnality if we get too hyped and too excited, okay? Okay,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the gifts of the Spirit, okay? Tongues and prophecy and healing,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Listen. everybody in this world is not ever
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  Speaker 1: going to speak in tongues. There are millions of Christians,
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  Speaker 1: millions of bona fide, guaranteed 100% Christian people who have
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  Speaker 1: never spoken in tongues and will never speak in tongues.
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  Speaker 1: And I speak as one who believes in speaking in tongues,
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  Speaker 1: who has spoken in tongues, who speaks in tongues from
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: time to time. Everybody's not going to do it. No
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  Speaker 1: matter what you say and no matter what you do,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Some people are never going to, quote, experience it. Some
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  Speaker 1: people are never going to have that particular dynamic as
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  Speaker 1: a part of their life. Why? Because they simply don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. They simply don't agree with it, okay? And
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  Speaker 1: nothing that we say is going to change anybody's thinking
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  Speaker 1: on it. So we have to agree to disagree on this, okay?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Pentecostals and charismatics do not rule the Christian world. If
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  Speaker 1: everybody's not like us, we do not cast them out.
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  Speaker 1: There is no caste system in Christianity. So we must
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  Speaker 1: be mindful of that. So tongues, all the gifts of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, prophecy, there are groups that totally put that
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  Speaker 1: out of their, what they believe. They do not believe
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  Speaker 1: those things. And I can say that's fine. And it's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not fine as far as I'm concerned, but If they're
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  Speaker 1: born again, if they're saved, what can I say? What
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  Speaker 1: can I say? Okay? I'm sure, I am sure, well,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: let me put it this way. I don't believe, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that we're going to be in heaven speaking
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  Speaker 1: in tongues. Okay? That's something that's for here for now,
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  Speaker 1: if that's what you believe. I don't believe that we're
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: going to be in heaven prophesying. Okay? Okay? There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be no need for healing in heaven. Everybody's going
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to be whole. Everybody's going to be healthy. Those things
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  Speaker 1: are relegated for this earth life that we are living
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  Speaker 1: in because we are living in a cursed world right now.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So tongues and prophecy and all those things, we just
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  Speaker 1: have to agree to disagree. Everybody is not going to
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  Speaker 1: come together. These are non-essentials, but if we're all born again,
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  Speaker 1: we can all walk together if we don't agree on
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: these things. Amen? So there's a little taste of the
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  Speaker 1: essentials and the non-essentials. So now, what are some of
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  Speaker 1: the views on how we are actually saved? All right.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Some teach, some teach that salvation is only through faith.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously we read from Ephesians chapter two, verses eight
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  Speaker 1: and nine. For by grace are you saved through faith
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  Speaker 1: And that not of yourself, it is the gift of God,
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  Speaker 1: not of work, lest anyone should boast. This is, we're
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  Speaker 1: saved by grace through faith. That's obvious from this verse.
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  Speaker 1: Acts 16, 31. And they said, believe on the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Faith is the noun and believing there is, is the verb, okay?
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Faith is the, is what we, is, faith is the noun.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just repeat myself here. Faith is the noun
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  Speaker 1: and believing is the action, okay? These verses demonstrate the
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  Speaker 1: promise of salvation to those who believe, demonstrating the primacy
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  Speaker 1: of faith, all right? Some teach, That salvation is only
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  Speaker 1: through repentance. Okay, what do you do with, what do
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  Speaker 1: you do with a verse like Acts 3.19 that says,
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  Speaker 1: repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may
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  Speaker 1: be blotted out. When the times of refreshment shall come
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: from the presence of the Lord. And Luke 13.3, I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: tell you nay, this is Jesus speaking, except ye repent,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall all likewise perish. So here, it seems to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: say that repentance is the key. It's repentance. Is it faith? Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But is it repentance also? Read what it says, okay? Next,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: some teach that salvation is through water baptism. Yes, yes, yes,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: we know. It's called, those who believe this, it's called
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  Speaker 1: baptismal regeneration. baptismal regeneration, which teach that unless you are
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: water baptized, you are not born again. Okay, that's what
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: they believe. Unless you are water baptized. Okay, let's look
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  Speaker 1: at some of the scriptures that would seem to say this.
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  Speaker 1: Acts 22, 16. And now why tarryest thou? Arise and
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  Speaker 1: be baptized. And hear what it says. Wash away thy sins.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: calling on the name of the Lord. Okay? Now, I'm
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: not going to get into the logistics of this particular verse,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: but let me just say that this verse does not
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: say what it seems to be saying. Okay? I just
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: read it. I just read it. Arise and be baptized
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  Speaker 1: and wash away your sins. Okay? But as it is
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in the original, it's... Flipped around, okay? Calling on the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: name of the Lord to wash away your sins and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be baptized. That's how it is in the original, okay?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So apart from that, John 3, 5, Jesus is speaking here.
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  Speaker 1: Verily I say unto you, unto thee, except a man
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: enter into the kingdom of God. So what is Jesus
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: talking about? This is Jesus. What is he saying? Is
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Jesus saying that you gotta be born of water, born
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: again of water? He doesn't say born again of water, okay?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Born of water and of the spirit. He also made
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: these same statements to Nicodemus that we are born, we
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: are born. Let me go to the scripture. Let me
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: go to, so I don't misread it. Let me go
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  Speaker 1: to John chapter number three and let's look at this
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  Speaker 1: very well-known discourse. that Jesus had. I'm in John 3
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  Speaker 1: and chapter number 3. John 3, 3, starting in verse
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  Speaker 1: number 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I say unto thee, except a man be born again,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: he cannot see the kingdom of God. That's what we
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: just read. Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: be born when he is old? Can he enter the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: second time into his mother's womb and be born? Obviously,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: if you hear somebody say that you need to be
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: born again, And you never heard that phrase before. What
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: are you going to think? What he said was not
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: foolish or stupid. Okay. It was not. He didn't know
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: what Jesus was talking about. He means got to be
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: born again. I got to go back up inside my mother.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said. He's thinking, he's thinking out of
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the box. That's what it sounds like to him. Verse
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  Speaker 1: number five, verily, verily I say unto thee, except a
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  Speaker 1: man be born of water and of the spirit, he
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: born of the flesh, It's flesh. And that which is
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: born of the spirit is spirit. We're born of water
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  Speaker 1: when we are born from our mother's womb. That's why
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: he said that which is born of flesh is flesh.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Okay?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Being born of water is not being born of water baptism.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. We go to Romans. I didn't include
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  Speaker 1: this verse, but let me go to Romans. The book
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: of Romans chapter number six, where it says in verse
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: number three, know ye not that so many of us
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Those who believe in baptismal regeneration also would use this
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  Speaker 1: verse to say, yes, we gotta be baptized into Jesus.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: That's talking about water baptism. No, it is not. It
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: is not talking about being baptized into water. We are
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  Speaker 1: baptized into Jesus when we are born again. When we
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: are born again, when the spirit of God enters into
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: our life, after we receive him by faith, by grace
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: through faith, as we just read from Ephesians, we are
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: baptized into Christ, fully submerged into Christ. That is what
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it's talking about here. It's not talking about water baptism
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  Speaker 1: at all, okay? When we are baptized into Jesus Christ,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: we were baptized into his death. Therefore, we are buried
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: with him by baptism into death that like as Christ
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  Speaker 1: was raised up from the dead by the glory of
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  Speaker 1: the Father, even so we also should walk in newness
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: of life. And so once again, the picture is that
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: we were buried with Christ in baptism and we were
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  Speaker 1: raised together in new life. Now, this is what happens
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: when we do get baptized in water. Water baptism is
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: an outward show of what has happened to us spiritually, okay? Buried,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: raised again in new life. That's what water baptism signifies. Okay?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: It's an illustration. But in no way, shape, or form
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: should we believe that water baptism has anything to do
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: with your becoming saved. Because it does not save. You
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: go in the waters of baptism. The only thing that
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: happens is you get wet. You come up wet, okay?
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  Speaker 1: That's it, okay? Nothing, there is no spiritual transaction that
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: takes place when you go in that water. Not at all, okay?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the next slide. Some believe, some believe
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  Speaker 1: that salvation is through good works and keeping the law. Yes,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: there are those who still cling to the law. There
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: are those who still cling to the law, that somehow
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the law makes us righteous. Somehow the law is something
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  Speaker 1: that is still required by God in order to solidify
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: our salvation. No, no. The law of Moses is consistently
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: portrayed as the covenant and teaching given to Israel which
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: cannot alone provide salvation. Salvation was and is through Jesus Christ, okay?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: As the law points to him and reveals sin, but
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: cannot save apart from him. Yet, yet, yet, yet. Many
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: believe and teach that law plays a role in our righteousness.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: It does not. It does not, okay? So get the law,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you know, Run to Jesus and leave Moses alone. As
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  Speaker 1: far as it pertains to the law. Run to Jesus
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and leave Moses alone. Okay? Moses didn't die for you.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: There's nothing in the law that can make you righteous. Okay?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: What the law does is reveal our sinfulness. The law
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: reveals our sinfulness. The gospel reveals God's grace. Okay, we
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: read in the book of John that the law came
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: through Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: So how can you have law and grace at the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: same time? You cannot, you cannot. Galatians chapter two, Galatians
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  Speaker 1: chapter two and verse number 20 and 21 make this
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear. Okay, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: the life which I now live in the flesh, I
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: live by the faith of the son of God who
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: loved me and gave himself for me. I do not
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: frustrate or push aside, set aside. That's what that word
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: frustrate means. I do not frustrate the grace of God.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: dead in vain. The Bible says that Christ is the
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: end of the law. The Bible says that the law
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: is a ministry of death. The Bible says that the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: law is a ministry of condemnation. At the same time,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the law is good because it shows us what God expects.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: The law is good because it does, it did what
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: it set out to do. God did not create something
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: that was flawed. The law was not flawed at all.
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  Speaker 1: There was just nothing in it that could make you righteous.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it was meant to be. The
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: law was meant as a school teacher, as the Bible
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: says in Galatians, it was meant as a tutor, a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: school teacher, to lead people to Christ. But we can't
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: hold on to the law and think that we are
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: being righteous when we are doing it or think that
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: somehow the law has anything to do with our salvation. No,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: it does not. It does not, okay? Finally, there are actually,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and I included this because I've come across this a
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: little bit, some believe that salvation is through church membership
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: or what is known as joining the church. Many church
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: traditions see joining a church through the right hand of
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: fellowship sufficient for signifying a person's recognition as part of
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: a body of believers. This practice serves to promote a
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: false sense of security for many. In other words, you
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  Speaker 1: come forward. Sometimes the pastor will give an invitation. Who
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  Speaker 1: wants to join the church? I've seen this. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in churches that have done this. Who wants to join
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  Speaker 1: the church? And someone gets up and comes and shakes
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  Speaker 1: the pastor's hand. And that is seen as now you
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  Speaker 1: are included. Now you are part of this church. And
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  Speaker 1: that person goes away thinking, I'm good. I'm in. I'm okay. Nah.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, that is obviously not a way to salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. Okay? Alrighty. We're going to stop right here,
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  Speaker 1: but let me just leave this right here. There are
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  Speaker 1: four primary elements involved in our coming to new life
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. Okay? And they are deeply interconnected and two-woven
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  Speaker 1: with one another. These elements are conviction, Faith, repentance, and confession.
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  Speaker 1: And when we come together next time, we're gonna begin
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  Speaker 1: defining each one, okay? Conviction, faith, repentance, and confession. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna define and look at their role in salvation the
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  Speaker 1: next time that we come together, amen? So that'll be
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  Speaker 1: the end of this particular session. We pray that you've
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  Speaker 1: learned something. We pray that something you can take away
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  Speaker 1: from this particular study. God bless you, Kian. I see you,
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  Speaker 1: my man. God bless you, Deanna. Also, God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you all for joining us. Don't forget to
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  Speaker 1: share this out if you don't mind, to share it
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  Speaker 1: out that others also may be blessed by the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. We do see you. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining us on YouTube. We see you and God bless
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  Speaker 1: you too. Amen. God is good. God is on the throne.
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  Speaker 1: We just honor him and we thank him for what
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  Speaker 1: he is doing. You can catch me on this, myself
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  Speaker 1: and Juliana. We will be together on Friday at one
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  Speaker 1: o'clock p.m. Eastern Standard Time as we continue our brand
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  Speaker 1: new study in the book of John, the gospel of John.
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  Speaker 1: We're still in the first chapter and I believe we
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  Speaker 1: are just about, well, we are still in chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure what verse, but we're in chapter number one.
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  Speaker 1: So join us. there once again on Friday if you can.
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  Speaker 1: And once again, that's 1 o'clock p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
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  Speaker 1: And so that'll be it, everyone. We know that these
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  Speaker 1: studies are meant to educate, to inspire, and to awaken.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's important that we understand truth, that we
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  Speaker 1: not be sidetracked, and that we not be deceived. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that these particular studies will help us in
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  Speaker 1: that direction. Amen. So we thank you for joining us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All righty. If there are no questions or comments, I
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  Speaker 1: always say that at the end of my lessons when
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  Speaker 1: I'm teaching at church. If there are no questions or
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  Speaker 1: comments or suggestions, we are going to leave it right there.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody for joining us and for
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  Speaker 1: being a part, and we'll be back again next week.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to pick up right here where
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  Speaker 1: we have left off. Amen. So until the next time
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  Speaker 1: we meet, we'll see you next time. Have a good
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  Speaker 1: rest of your week and God bless you.