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Explaining the Gospel [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, Good morning family God, welcome back to the morning Devo.
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It's a new week, a new session, a new morning, a new
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day, brand new day. Amen. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not
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promised. Amen. But I always say that Jesus did it even a better
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thing than promising us tomorrow. He promises us eternal life. And it's in
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his word, in his Gospel, in the Good News of the Lord Jesus
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Christ. If you were approached by someone right now today, right and asks
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you what is the gospel? Would you know how to explain the gospel?
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Do you know how to really tell somebody about what the gospel is or who
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the gospel is about. Amen. That's no pressure, Amen, just think
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about it, because one day it's gonna be a time where you're gonna need
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to really share the gospel with somebody. I mean, after all, we're
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commissioned to do that. We have Holy Spirit God that will give us the
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words to say every single time that it needs to be said. Just test
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the mind audio, make sure that's good. And it's exciting to me that
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God gives us the tools, he gives us the words, He gives us
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the Holy Spirit, God who's in us working through us to speak on behalf
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of the Lord Jesus in a time where you're questioned about the gospel. So
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I'm calling this one on the morning devo explaining the gospel. It's going to
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be light. Can't be too heavy on these morning DeVos. Amen. First
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of all, for me, it's first thing in the morning right now.
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And for you a man, if you want to dive deeper, I always
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suggest you go into the scriptures for yourself. Amen. I'm here to help
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however I can, but I try to keep these morning DeVos like devoting some
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time very first part of the day. If you're watching live with me,
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you know what that means. But if you're not watching live and you listening
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to the replay, of watching the replay, Amen, My suggestions always to
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read the scriptures. Amen. If I go into a chapter, we're gonna
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be in Ephesians chapter number two, verses eight and nine. Ephesians chapter two,
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verses eight and nine. My suggestions shall always read the whole chapter,
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Amen, So that way you could get the full idea of read before where
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we're at and after where we're at. So, in other words, just
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read the whole chapter. You'll get a better idea. God is good.
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God bless you as well. Amen. Welcome back to the morning Devo.
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So explaining the gospel. And of course, when you explain the gospel,
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your default, just like my default, will always be John chapter three,
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verse number sixteen. And we're gonna read that on first before we go into
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Ephesians chapter number two, verses eight and nine, so we could put it
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all together. Kevin, God bless you man. Welcome back to the morning
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Devo's good to see my friend and my brother. God bless you so explaining
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the gospel here in the morning dev Well, if you have any questions,
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comments, concerns, or any pray requests, don't hesitate to leave it on
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the live chat. That's what we're here for. Amen. God is good.
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He will allow us to exchange ideas, communicate with one another with one
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another. Amen, And that way we could get this gospel going according to
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how He wants us to deliver the gospel. You know, when somebody asks
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you the question about the gospel, they're asking or for answers. They're looking
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for answers to questions, life questions. So it's important that we know something
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about something. Amen. Don't think that when someone asks you about the gospel.
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A lot of times they're not being like arrogant, they're not being like
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disrespectful any things. A lot of times people really want answers, you know
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what I mean, They really want answers to these questions. Amen, because
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they're looking for life answers. Amen. Well, God's love and man sin
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to me, that is the gospel. And I explained that later we're gonna
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be Inphesians chapter two, verses eight and nine. Amen. So let's go
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for it. If I don't see your name amen on the live on my
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end, Amen, there's a button in the details that if you press it,
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it gets permission for Facebook to reveal your name. So if I'm just
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seeing Facebook user, Amen, there's no direspect. I just can't see your
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name. Amen. So that's why I'll just say, you know, reach
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you, not by name because I can't see the name. Just in case.
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It is the best place to start in the Bible. Amen. Yeah,
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John, the Book of John. A lot of people recommend the Book
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of John to start reading that verse. It explains the love of God.
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Amen. And in the Book of John, of course, we have the
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famous chapter chapter three, verse sixteen. Well, I'm gonna read it out
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an amplified amen when we start it all up right. So, Father God,
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thank you so much. I thank you today that you are explaining the
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Gospel to us through your word, through your disciples, and through by way
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of your Holy Spirit. I pray Lod God, that you will reveal the
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answer to every question that is needed to be answered today for every single individual,
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whatever that question is, LogD, you know an answer to those questions
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personally, individually, collectively, corporately. You know all the answers because you
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are the answer. You are the yes and the amen in our lives and
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the lives of the whole entire world. Whosoever calls on the name of the
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Lord your word says, will be saved. I thank you, Lord God,
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for your love, your grace, your mercy, the power to believe,
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in the power to pray. I pray Lord God, that you will
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continue giving us a hedge of protection in this world that is full of evil,
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deception that is being rued by demonic influence, that is being rued by
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the devil himself, the system of this world or God, guide us guard
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us through. Let us go with kindness to one another, speak in kindness
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to one another. And reach people with this gospel message by way of your
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anointed Holy Spirit that's in us and working through us. I pray, Lord
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God, that you will be able to explain this gospel this morning today,
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so we can understand and be more confident in explaining the gospel to somebody else
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today, that we will be continually commissioned to go and make disciples and baptizing
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people. In the name of the Father's Son and the Holy Spirit. So
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I speak life, I thank you for my family, my friends. Amen.
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Thank you for my granddaughter that is free from pneumonia in Jesus' name,
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and for my grandchildren, my son and his soon to be wife for the
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time it is recording. Amen, for my family individually, my whole entire
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bloodline. Amen. I pray hope, faith, love. I pray the
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gospel message will penetrate the hearts of every single person and that's connected and that
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will connect later. And I's connected now, them and their families represented on
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the other side of the screen and on the other side of Mike. In
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the powerful name of Jesus, we give you thanks, glory and honor and
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Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Kevin says there are two streams. One
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on one stream, I'm a Facebook user. On this one, my name
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is revealed, Amen, so you might you might be on my Bible Studies
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page and on my personal page. It's on the Cellar Radio page, streaming
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all over. So I don't know. That's a good question. I don't
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know if you could reveal your name on all the streams. If not,
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thank you for seeing that your name shows up on one part and your name
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does and another. Okay, Kevin, thank you so much for that.
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As a matter of fact, that's a question that I should be able to
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answer if you could see your name on all the streams. So thank you.
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So let's take a minute to share this out. After we share this
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out, when we come back on the other side of it, this minute,
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we'll be explaining the gospel through the Word. I'll be right back amen.
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Amen, we're back. So let's see what the Word has for us
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today. Amen. And like I promise, I'm going to read John chapter
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three, verse sixteen and go a little bit further, amen, because I
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know a lot of people know John three sixteen, but I'm going to read
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it, excuse me, out of the amplified version. So where we could
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expand the word a little bit so you can see the in betweens and what
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the word is expressing. That's why I like the amplified Bible. It gives
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you more of an expression of what the word means. Amen in the word
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is saying, which is important to me. The expression of the word.
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So as I know the Bible, and when I narrow it down to kind
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of like a definition of explaining the Gospel, I see God's love and man's
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sin, and there's a separation between God's loves, God's love and man's sin.
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And there's a bridge that needs to be built to make things back right
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with the Lord Jesus, through Jesus, that we make it right. Thank
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you for sharing, Kevin Man. I'm always grateful that you share it towards
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your ministry. Amen, praise God. So let's do this. Before we
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to John chapter three, verse number sixteen. I'm gonna be a little bit
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further than that, but we'll start from John chapter three, verse sixteen.
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And this is huge because this is what the world doesn't understand. This is
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what I didn't understand before Jesus saved my life, rescued me, and changed
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my mind and changed my heart. Amen. John three, verse number sixteen
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very popular. Listen to what it says in the amplified version. For God
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so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that he even gave his one and
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only begotten son, that whoever believes and trust in Him as Savior shall not
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perish, but have eternal life. So the first part we see right here
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the gospel message. When you want to explain the gospel message, it's a
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it's a love thing. God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that
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he even gave his one and only begotten son, Jesus. That whoever whoever
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this whole thing about, oh, it is only for the Catholics, for
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the Pentecostal, is only for the Baptists. I used to really think that,
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I said, Okay, I know the story about Jesus, but he
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didn't die for me. He died for them. And man, you ever
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had that thought before Christ, I had all these weird thoughts. I think
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about it weird now because I'm born again this is two thousand and one.
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But I was being honest with myself. I was like, yeah, that
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message and that person Jesus, he ain't for me. He died for them,
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not for me. I could never make the connection in my brain,
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and I think in the world today they can't. It's just too good.
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They can't make the connection for themselves either. I mean, do you blame
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people for not making the connection and making it seem that it's only for everybody
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else accept them. I was at that place, honestly, I really thought
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that this gospel was not for me. I thought it was for them,
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for the other people, the goodie two shoes I used to call them.
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All Right, okay, now you see that right that whoever believes and trust
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in him Jesus shall not perish but have eternal life. And this is where
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people stop and they don't keep on going. That's why my suggestion is what
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ladies and gentlemen read the whole chapter, verse seventeen, and this is all
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and red. It's meaning that Jesus is saying this, for God did not
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send the sun into the world, and this is what people think to judge
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and condemn the world. All Jesus came to judge and condemn us. Remember
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heard somebody say that. I used to say that before I got saved.
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But God did not send the Sun into the world to judge and condemn the
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world, that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world. But
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that the world might be saved through Him, not saved through through Muhammad,
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not saved through Buddha, not saved through Joseph Smith, not saved through mister
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Russell, No saved through him. Jesus, the Christ, the Lord,
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very exclusive. Amen. So when you explain the gospel, inevitably you're gonna
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go through Jesus to explain the gospel. There's no other way to explain this
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gospel. It's good news. Now there's other gospels out there, and I'm
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trying to communicate that with some friends and people who see Jesus in a different
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light. It's a different gospel going on around there in the world. Amen.
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A lot of different gospels, but this is the gospel that's found in
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the Holy Scriptures, though inspired word of God. Amen. And I bet
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my life on it, not bet like in gambling, but I put my
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life in these scriptures. Amen, be true. And just because I believe
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something is true doesn't make it true. What makes something true is where the
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evident evidence of it leads. Amen. And the evidence of the scriptures leads
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to this Lord, this Savior, this Jesus, this Christ, this Messiah.
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Amen, that he's the savior of the world. Think about it.
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Explaining the gospel, all right, So that's always foundational, at least for
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me. What does the gospel mean? Sam Well, God soul loved the
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world that he gave. It's only begond son that whoever believes and puts their
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trust in Him, and puts their faith in Him, shall not perish,
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but have eternal life. A great foundational springboard to get into this conversation,
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and people want answers to a lot of questions. Amen, that don't put
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pressure on yourself. Though. We're not here to convince anybody, nor do
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we have the power to convince anybody that this Jesus is the savior. Amen,
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the God Man, because that's the work of the Holy Ghost, the
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Holy Spirit, God who's in us. He the Holy Spirit will do the
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convincing and the convicting. Amen. You ever met a person that wants to
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argue about the gospel Jesus not being God. They want to argue and argue
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and argue. I learned from the late Great Rabbit Zach Riots that people want
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to argue, they want to throw dirt, and then you throw dirt back
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at them, you'll just start losing ground. And He's to always say,
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when you lose ground, you're going to find your feet firmly in mid air.
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We're going to be your feet firmly found in mid air nowhere, Amen,
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So no pressure on you, no pressure on me. If there's people
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who want to debate the scriptures, the professional people that call apolog the apologists,
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not like you're apologizing, but they know how to contend for the faith.
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So if somebody wants to go in that lane, I always recommend the
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people that I know that are professionals at it. Amen, say they could
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go for in that way. A lot of people want to debate. Y'all
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see her, God bless you, greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Here evangelists, you're seeing Hanef from Pakistan. Welcome you see it from Pakistan.
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God bless you, and welcome to the morning. DeVos. Good to
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see. So let me get this ready on the screen. To that way,
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we could go ahead and see what the Word is saying here for those
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who are just listening, No worries, no problem. I'm gonna read a
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word for word explaining the Gospel on the morning DEVO today. Amen. And
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the scripture that we're gonna be in as Ephesians chapter number two, verses eight
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and nine, the Bible says, for it is by grace we're explaining the
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gospel right, and this is what it is. It is by grace that's
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God's remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ, who's drawing people to the
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Lord, God's grace by way of his spirit. That you have been saved,
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actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life through faith. One am I
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saved from sam You're saved from the wrath of God, the wrath of God,
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because of the grace of God. You're saved. You're actually delivered from
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judgment and given eternal life, eternal life, forever life through faith. And
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this salvation is not of yourselves, not through your own effort. Nothing we
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could do, ladies and gentlemen, to get this salvation. We can't set
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this up for ourselves. We can't do x y Z, we can't get
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into a kind of religion that makes us right with God. None of that.
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It's by grace. We're saved through faith. And this salvation is not
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of yourselves, not through your own effort, but it is the undeserved gracious
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gift of God, not as a result of your works nor your attempts to
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keep the law. So that no one, no one, me, you,
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no one will be able to boast or take credit in any way for
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his salvation. You explaining the gospel, make sure you know that it's not
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about you, It's not about me. It's not what we could do for
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God. Is what God did for us. It's not about what we need
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to do to gain favor with God. It's all about what God did to
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give us this grace and this salvation. It's not that we find God,
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is that God found us. We were lost. God was never lost.
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It's not that we love Jesus, is that Jesus loved us first and demonstrated
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his own love that even while we were sinners and backslidders and haters of God,
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He's still on top despite it all, He still died for us.
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This is next level. This is the gospel. Amen explaining the gospel means
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that we humble ourselves and we make sure we let everybody we know let them
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know. Listen, I didn't do this on my own. This is a
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remarkable compassion and favor from Christ. This remarkable grace drew me and drew you.
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If you're saved to Christ, the kindness of God led me to repent.
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It wasn't the shouting, the arguing, the point thing, the judgment,
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none of that. Those people that are calling everybody out and sending everybody
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to a hell that don't belong to them, but they're sending people to a
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place where they don't even belong themselves, or they don't even have the right
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to put people in. Those people, those preachers like that fire and brimstone
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and people are going to L've never seen maybe you have, but I've never
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seen anybody come to the feet of Jesus through those type of ministries. Aymen,
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through judgment. As a matter of fact, Jesus himself we read it.
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For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and to
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condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. So
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you hear somebody out there shouting you're going to hell for sin. They're not
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preaching the gospel. They're preaching the result of sin, and sin itself is
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not demonstrating God's love. People won't know they need salvation until they understand what
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God did to free us from sin. So if you start with sin,
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you're and in death. But if you don't explain the gospel, people are
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gonna think, oh, I'm dead because I'm in sin, but they don't
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know the good news about the Lord, how God himself took care of the
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sin debt, that we no longer have to live in sin, but we
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could live in eternal life with Him with Jesus because of what he did,
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not about anything we did. It's all about what the Lord did. Right
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the morning, sister Joy and I see you. Good morning, Welcome back
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to the morning, Devo. Good morning. So when you explain the gospel,
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please you could start the foundation is John three sixteen. In my opinion,
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I believe John three sixteen shares and explains the gospel foundational right. And
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as a matter of fact, you could take John chapter three to make it
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even easier on yourself. When you're explaining the gospel, you'll be like I'm
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glad you asked me to explain the gospel to you. Let's go to John
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chapter three and literally, ladies and gentlemen, read the whole chapter. I
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promise you you'll be like amazed at how God's work can transform a heart,
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can transform a mind. Amen, just by reading the scriptures through experience.
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I'm telling you through experience. I used to bring teenagers to my home and
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we used to do I think it was on Thursdays. I want to say
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it was Thursdays. I used to go to my basement. It started with
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like it started. It started with a lot of teens right off the back,
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just because I was I knew a lot of teens. And I used
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to you know, we used to have something to eat, pray and get
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into a word a Bible study. Right. One day, this is I'm
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not even exaggerating. One day I heard the Lord tell me, listen,
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I don't want you to do a Bible study today. I just want you
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to read my word. And I was like, oh, just reading the
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Word in front of a bunch of teenagers, that's not going to get their
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attention. There has to be some kind of hook, you know. There
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has to be something you know that they got to be involved in and holy
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spirit. Guy said, just read my word. So I said, okay,
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Lord, this is where you have to trust God. Right, So
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I just opened the Book of Romans, started from chapter one, and I
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said, listen, we're not going to do a Bible study today. We're
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going to just read the Word. And you could see people like like oh
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man, like, we're not going to get the illustrations. I gonna do
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role playing. We're not going to, you know, get the questions and
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answers. And I promise you just reading the Book of Romans, they were
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reading word. I was, you know, everyone had to read something out
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of the Book of Romans. And I saw deliverance. Teens were crying to
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begin delivered from things, saved, repenting, giving it life, holy to
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God, giving it like oh man, just by reading the Word. That's
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part of the power of God's Word. The Word of God transforms us,
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renews us, restore us, restores us, gets us right back right with
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God. The gospel when you explain it, you're really just reading the Word.
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Use testimony, your own testimony too when you're explaining the gospel. But
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if you want the foundation, just go to John chapter three, read the
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whole thing, or you could go to the famous chapter, I mean the
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famous verse John chapter three, verse sixteen. You can't miss the first of
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all, is the Lord speaking, Amen, and he's telling us what he
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did for this world for us, Amen, that what he did allowed us
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to be saved. It's a decision to make, that we have to make.
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That. I'm so glad that I made. I decided to put my
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whole faith and trust in Jesus, not into another God, not into an
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idol, not into a minister or a ministry, Not into myself. Amen.
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I was trusting myself way too long at that point, Amen. And
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I was relying on myself way too much at that point until one day I
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called on God to change my life. Literally, That's what my whole prayer
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was. I was drunken high when I made that prayer way back in two
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thousand and one. I said, I'm tired of this gospel that everybody's trying
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to explain to me that I'm not understanding. I need. I know they're
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changed. I was like, God, want you come and change me?
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What about me? Is this about favoritism? And God has no favorites.
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I just didn't know all of that, I just was being honest with this
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God that I didn't trust in, that I didn't have faith in, that
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I didn't really believe in. So I said, listen, I don't have
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nothing to lose here. First of all, I was shouting out at my
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studio. My oldest brother was in the next room going through something himself with
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his children at the time. So I was like, I ain't got to
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learn to lose. I'm gonna call upon this God to change my life.
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And I'm so glad I did that, because guess what, ladies and gentlemen,
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he answered that prayer. He showed up in my life, literally showed
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up in my life and changed my life. Then when I started reading the
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scriptures afterward, I realized what I did. I did what the scripture says
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to do. Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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I didn't know that scripture. Amen, I've seen it later on after I
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was saved born again, Because then when you're born again, you got to
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read the Word to stay in a good place with the Lord. To understand
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what you're explaining, you need to read about study what you're trying to explain.
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So when it comes to explain to the Gospel. We got heat I
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call it the sauce Amen. And we got a foundational scripture. Amen.
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And we have scriptures all through the New Testament. We could even use old
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Covenant scriptures, a book of Isaiah that prophesies the coming Messiah. You could
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use Genesis because in Genesis the Gospels. In Genesis in chapter three, it
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was a need for a redemption. It was a need for a redeemer.
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The fall of men fell, and there was a need for somebody to make
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things back right. And I created the need for the Messiah, Jesus,
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the Christ, the Anointed Sun, the only begotten Son. And Ephesians chapter
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two, verses eight and nine. We saw it right. We see the
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grace of God, the mercy of God. We see that we're saved.
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We're delivered from judgment of God, and God gives us eternal life. Without
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God saving us, we are still bound to sin, and sin equals death.
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And it's all because Jesus did it for us. And then we have
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faith and trust in Him. And this salvation, this explanation of the Gospel.
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Amen. This salvation is not is not of ourselves, not through our
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own effort. So take the pressure off yourself. Listen. I want everybody
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to be saved, trust me. I want my whole family to be saved.
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But I can't pull that pressure on me. All I could do is
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lift my life life out loud in front of people and represent the Kingdom well,
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represent the Lord well. Amen. And wherever I miss or whatever I
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make mistakes at that's not on God. That's on me. And it's because
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it's not about my efforts that people come to the Lord. It's about what
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God has already done. And people decide whether or not they believe in what
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God did for them or not. No pressure. Like I said, people
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want to debate, I'll send them to the ministries that I know that are
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professionals at debating about the Word of God, the Gospel, all of that,
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and they're good Amen. And sometimes intellectuals they don't really care about these
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type of sessions. They want proof evidence, they want scriptures on it,
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they want historical evidence, they want archaeological findings, they want to make sure
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that the scriptures are reliable. And you know, whatever their thing is about
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the creeds or what happened in Nicea, ever Constantine and all that, they
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want explanations. They want answers, and I know people that go that route,
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and they give you the answers, and at that point it's up to
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them to decide whether that's true or not for them in your own life.
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Like I said earlier, I didn't think this message was for me. I
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didn't think the Gospel was for me. I always always thought it was for
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the people who were in church or were they were part of religion. You
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would come to me with the Gospel. I said, no, I'm not
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into religion. When people used to look at me strange, just like now
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I understand that I look at people strange when they call me religious. I
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was like, I'm not talking about religion at all. I'm talking about a
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relationship with Christ, Jesus the Savior. What religion is that? Amen?
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Oh then you said you were a Christian. No, you call me a
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Christian. That Christians would call Christians first by people who called us Christians.
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Jesus never called us Christians. God never called us Christians. Amen, But
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that's what people called us. We follow Christ. So if you want to
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call Christianity religion, you can. And unfortunately, the American Gospel, the
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American Christianity is not, in my opinion, is not a good representation of
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this gospel that we've read in Ephesians chapter number two, Versus eight and nine.
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Not a good look at all in my opinion, and men so bottom
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line, the safest way to explain the gospel is to read the word.
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You will never fail, you will never falter. Go to John chapter three.
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You can read the whole chapter, or you can start from verse sixteen
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and keep on reading, and you will see that the word of God when
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you speak it out, when you speak it over someone, over yourself,
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over someone, they'll get the explanation of the gospel by way of Holy Spirit
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God, by way of his word. It's undeserved. Grace is undeserved.
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Amen. We can't do nothing for this salvation a gift of God. It's
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a gift He gave it to us. Amen, not as a result of
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your works or my works, nor your attempts or my attempts to keep the
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law. My goodness, people are still trying to keep the law. Are
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you kidding me? You break one, you break them all. Jesus is
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the only one that did not break the law. So that no one will
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be able to boast or take credit in any way, for his salvation belongs
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to Jesus. Amen, So real quick in the nutshell, you can explain
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the gospel through Ephesians chapter number two, Verses eight and nine and John chapter
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three, verse sixteen. Go for it, amen, read it out,
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study it, Amen, or you'll be able to explain the gospel. That's
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just a short way of explaining the gospel. I hope it helps you,
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Amen. I know it helps me. Amen. And I'll bless you all.
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Thank you so much for hanging out with me. I'm out of time.
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I'm over time now. But God bless you all. God keep you
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all, and remember always that God is good. Peace.