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Can You Lose Your Salvation? · Heart Check Podcast

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If you've been hearing a lot lately these debates and
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arguments about once saved, always save, or if we've put our
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faith in Jesus, is there a possibility we can lose our
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salvation? And you keep hearing all these
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videos that make you question if you really are saved and you
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know Jesus or you've lost your walk with them.
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If you've been feeling a little bit confused or a little bit
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overwhelmed and you want to learn about what God's Word says
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about this, this episode's for you.
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Yo-yo, what's up, everybody? Welcome back to Heart Check
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podcast. I'm your host, Pastor Lowe's.
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And I love for you guys to join this heart check community even
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more intentionally. I love you guys, but I'm pumped
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because this has been a conversation that's been coming
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up a lot lately, especially just in my conversations with young
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adults in the local church. I just had a lunch with my
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little brother Jupe. I love you bro.
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And this question came up again and so I don't know if you've
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been. On the Internet as of late, but
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a lot of the conversation that's been happening in the Christian
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content world is once saved, always saved.
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This conversation of salvation. Can I lose my salvation if I put
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my faith in Jesus? How do I know that Jesus has me
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forever? Or if I'm living a certain way,
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or I'm in sin, does that mean that I've lost my salvation?
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This is a huge thing and this is the work of Satan that this
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conversation is something that's making people question their
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salvation, really question Jesus, question God, their walk
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with him, their faith and him. And so I thought this is
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something I 100% need to dive into, need to talk about.
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Let God's word bring truth to light because this is something
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that I am praying for others because this could get people
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off of the path of following Jesus.
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This could have people discouraged in the spirit.
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This could have. People maybe?
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Saying, man, what's the point of trying to follow Jesus?
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What's the point of putting faith in because I can just lose
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my relationship with him that if I'm struggling or that maybe I'm
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in sin and I'm, you know, not walking with him faithfully or
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I'm not doing things that man maybe I don't.
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Really know Jesus, Maybe Jesus doesn't know me.
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Maybe I'm not really saved. Man.
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I want to speak into the heart of that right there because hear
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me clearly. That is not from God, That is
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not of God. And if anyone is saying that,
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that is not from Him. In his word and in his truth and
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for those right now snicker and going yeah, alright, no man, it
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is you this in there we going to go through God's word.
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We go let God's word speak, We going to let him tell us the
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truth about one say voice, say that can we lose our salvation?
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And so first I want to go into the the passage, the chapter
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that people are referring to that is kind of causing a lot of
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this debate on the Internet world that no, look, this
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passage right here is saying that we can lose our salvation,
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but we're going to unpack it. We're going to read context.
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As I've talked about Great Lakes Christian College, my amazing
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professors over and over beat it over our heads over and over
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again. You got to read context.
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You got to know who the audience is that the writer was writing
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to. We got to know the time.
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Period. Who this was meant for?
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What they're speaking about Who? Who they're talking to because
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remember, the Bible wasn't written to us, but it was
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written for us to understand God, to be more like Him, to
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follow him, to know his teachings and commands so we can
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we. Got to be careful to not input
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ourselves or input our time period or read it from our 2026
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American lens that I'm in. We need to read context, read
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the verses before the verses, read the whole story, know the
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whole book, know the point of why it was written, who they
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were talking to, who it was for, etcetera, etcetera.
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So if you want to follow along with me, we're going to be in
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Hebrews chapter 6 and we're going to read verses one through
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6 and we're going to then dive into this whole topic of why
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this has sparked a debate in the Christian contact world that no
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people can lose their salvation. Look, it says it right here, but
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you'll get into it. All right, Yo, thanks for being
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with me. I'm excited about this.
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I'm like, yo, this is going to be fun.
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So Hebrews 6 chapter 1, verse through verse 6 and I'm reading
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the NLT if people are wondering New living translation.
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That's why I like to read through and teach through.
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So verse one says, so let us stop going over the basic
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teachings about Christ again and again.
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Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding.
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Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental
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importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith
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in God the the writer in Hebrews, which again is the
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debate did did Paul write Hebrews?
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Some people believe Apollo's wrote Hebrews.
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We don't really know who the author of Hebrews is, but the
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author in Hebrews is saying like man, we're having to talk about
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things. That's basic Christianity again,
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with people who should be mature in their faith, that were
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presented the gospel message and put their faith in Jesus a long
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time. Ago.
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And now we're having to talk again about things that you
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should already understand. Or it reminds me of Paul's
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letter. Which is why I think Paul wrote
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Hebrews. It reminds me of Paul's letter
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in First Corinthians chapter 2 where he's saying, like, I'm
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having to talk to you guys about not quarreling, fighting with
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each other. Like that's for new believers,
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man, like young immature believers who are still on milk,
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not food. They can't even get to the
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substance of God and, and get deep in his word because they're
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still fighting with each other. They're still, they're still
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gossiping about one another. Like man, that is stuff for
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people who are new to the faith. And same here, the author of
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Hebrews is saying, like man, we are still talking about like
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fundamental basic things because you guys still aren't getting
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it. And so he goes on to say in
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verse two, you don't need further instruction about
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baptisms, the laying of hands, the resurrection of the dead and
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eternal judgment. And so, God willing, we will
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move toward, to further understanding.
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It's like, guys, I'm we're still having to talk about, we're
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still arguing about like baptism and the laying of hands, the
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resurrection of the dead, the internal judgement.
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Like we're still arguing through these things.
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And, and hear me clearly in Hebrews, this author speaking
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specifically towards Jewish Christians.
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They're still arguing about things that are from the Old
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Testament or things through what we would know as the religion of
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Judaism that this, this the struggle of is Jesus who he says
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he is? Was he the Messiah?
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Is he the anointed? 1 They're still debating these
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further instructions that have already been given to them by
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these followers of Jesus, the followers of the way, as they
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were called, the ones who knew Jesus and followed Jesus, that
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they're arguing about baptism in the laying of the hands, the
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resurrection, the dead, like what's really going to happen?
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Because if you didn't know this, even specifically towards the
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resurrection of the dead, Old Testament theology would have
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believed that you, you know, die.
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You die and you were in this kind of like sleep stasis that
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you are, as Jesus talks about the rich man of Lazarus, The,
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the, the Lazarus is in Abraham's bosom, that he's in this place
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of comfort and peace. And then the rich man is in this
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outer darkness that he separated from God, but knowing where he's
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at. Theologians have used that story
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to describe what Old Testament theologians would believe Jewish
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people to believe that you die and you're just kind of like
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asleep. You're not anywhere, you're just
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asleep until the resurrection of the dead, where then we will
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face eternal judgment. But now we these Christians who
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have walked with Jesus as Paul talks about in his letters that
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you know, it's better to be it's better to be away from the body
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and and with the Lord and Spirit.
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You know in Philippians. He speaks about how we, you
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know, go to be with the Lord of Jesus, talks about how I'm going
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to prepare a place for you that there is this heavenly theology
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that's developed through Christ and his time and his teaching
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that we will be present with the Lord, that when we die, we're
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with him in this heavenly place. Do I know the do I know the full
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scope of what that means? No, but we have theology that's
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given that we put our faith in Jesus.
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When we leave our body here, our spirit will be with the Lord,
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but then our bodies are still buried.
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But then when Jesus comes back in the second coming, our bodies
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will be raised and united with our perfect spirits and perfect
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bodies now, and we will face that judgement again, those who
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are in Christ. There is now no condemnation for
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those who belong to Jesus because they have now eternal
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life with with God. The the.
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Earth that we know which other? Was an honest man I'm just going
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down a bunch of theologies. Listen there's a lot to unpack
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and I don't I'm not going on all these different rabbit trails.
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I just want to give you a full picture of this question that
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they're asking for these Jewish Christians goes back to their
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Jewish roots and what they had been taught and learned.
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So even that the earth that we know will be put back to
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perfection when when God first created the earth and it was
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perfect before sin. That will be what it will be
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again, that this will be the new, the new heaven, new
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heavens, a new earth, the earth will be be brought back to what
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God intended it to be. And this will be where we will
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dwell forever. This will be heaven, but
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perfect. And so they're asking these
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questions that right there I just gave you kind of a quick,
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you know, couple minute thing that the Christians had already
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explained. The followers of the way, the
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followers of Jesus had explained to these Jewish Christians about
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baptism, the lane of hands and the resurrection of the dead and
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eternal judgment. They've already given them this
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and what Jesus had taught them, and so they're thinking that
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they've moved on from this, but they're still stuck and asking
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all these questions about these things that as this writer of
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Hebrews is saying, like this is fundamental stuff that you're
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mature in your faith now. This shouldn't be things that
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are still tripping you up or still causing arguments or
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causing divisiveness amongst the church that now brothers and
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sisters are arguing or there's divide occurring in the body,
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which is of Satan that we are allowing to have.
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We're allowing Satan to have a. Foothold into the.
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Church, because you guys are arguing and debating about stuff
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that you shouldn't be debating and arguing about because that
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is for new believers, not ones who've been following Jesus for
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a while now. And so we go into verse 4.
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It says, For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those
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who were once enlightened, those who have experienced the good
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things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted
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the goodness of the Word of God and the power of the age to
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come, and who then turn away from God.
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It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance.
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By rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing Him
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to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.
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That's where we're going to end right there.
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We're going to sit there. So the author's saying you guys
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aren't believing these truths of God's Word, these truths of God,
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and you're thinking that you still need to do these things,
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add to the gospel message. And what's happening is as if
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you are rejecting Christ and now it's like you're nailing him to
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the crossover and over him that he's got to keep dying.
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What does that sound like to you guys?
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What do the Jewish. People do in the Old Testament
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before Christ came and was the substantiary sacrifice for us,
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that he took our sins onto himself and died the death that
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we deserve, that now through our faith in Him we have eternal
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life. What does that sound like in OT?
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The Jewish people, the Israelites, God's chosen people,
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every year had to bring their bring a sacrifice to to Israel.
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They had to go to the temple and they had to bring an animal.
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Usually it was like a sheep goat.
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They would literally input, they would put their sins onto the
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animal, now the animal represented them, and then they
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would kill. The.
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Animal and sacrifice them at the temple before God.
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That was representing the judgment of their sin, the wrath
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of God being being met by them putting their sin under this
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animal. It would take in a sense it
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would take symbolically their sin onto the animal, but then
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physically the animal would literally be killed to represent
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what sin does. The wages of sin are death as
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Scripture says. And so Old Testament, the Jewish
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people believe you have to put your sins onto an animal and
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this is something that had to continuously happen to be made
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right with God. But obviously, as we read all
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throughout the Old Testament, people continue to sin, people
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continue to be wicked, people continue to worship false gods
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and false idols and continue to be separated from God because of
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that. And so now as God is looking and
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he's been working now the story of redemption from Genesis all
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the way through revelation that can be found, that salvation can
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be found in Jesus and Christ alone.
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That Jesus is the lamb, Lamb as we talked about sheep lamb the
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the Lamb of God, that our sins were put onto the Lamb of God
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which is Christ Jesus the anointed 1 the Messiah.
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That Jesus died the death that you and I they deserve because
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their sin in our lives all have sinned and fought short in the
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glory of God. But that is finished.
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What was Jesus's words on the cross?
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It is finished that he completed it.
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He was the once and for all sacrifice for our sins.
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That now once we put our faith in Jesus, you are saved because
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he completed the work on the cross.
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That we don't have to do anything to earn our salvation.
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Ephesians 28 through 9. I love it because it reminds us
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of this. It says God saved you by his
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grace when you believed and you can't take credit for this.
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It is a gift from God. Hear this though, verse 9.
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Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so
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none of us can boast about it. God saved us by His grace when
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we believed. It's through faith.
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In Jesus that we are saved because of the work that he
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accomplished, that he took the key to death from Satan, that he
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beat death, He rose from the grave, He resurrected.
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That now through our faith in him we will also resurrect from
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the dead because of what Christ accomplished on the cross
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through his death and resurrection.
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It is a gift from God. We cannot earn it.
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Grace is something we get that we don't deserve, that God gives
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us salvation through his Son. When we put faith in him that we
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don't do anything, we can't boast about it.
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We can't say, man, I did all these good things to get myself
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to heaven. No, Jesus is the one who paved
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the way. Jesus said I am the way, the
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truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father
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except through me. Faith in Him that we don't need
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to do things to try to make it happen, but Jesus already
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accomplished it for us. We just put our faith in his
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accomplished work that he finished on the cross.
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And so now we have right here you are rejecting the Son of God
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because it's like you're trying to nail him to the cross over
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and over and over again 'cause you're trying to say it's not
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enough. The Jewish Christians that this
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author's. Writing to they keep trying to
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preach this false gospel that is Jesus plus something and we all
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know it's Jesus plus nothing. That is the gospel message.
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Jesus plus nothing gives us everything.
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It's faith in Jesus that we receive eternal life, that we
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are saved. It's by his works.
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Not our own. And so we have the Jewish people
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who are falling into this category of these Jewish
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Christians are thinking that there's more that needs to
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happen, that they need to still do something in order to really
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receive eternal life. But it's interesting because I
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know the part that's tripping people up is verse 4 says, for
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it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were
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once enlightened, those who have experienced the good things of
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heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the
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goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come.
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So people who are saying, well, look though, Pastor Los, it's
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saying that these people were saved, that they were once
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aligned, that they even shared in the Holy Spirit.
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Again, who receives the Holy Spirit?
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Only those who have put their faith in Jesus a a follower of
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Christ, a disciple of Christ. They have received the Holy
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Spirit because of their faith in him.
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So they're saying, how could someone receive the Holy Spirit
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and not and, and be saved? And then it's kind of saying
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here that they could lose the Holy Spirit, that they could
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lose their salvation. So I want to touch on something
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because I know that that could be what it seemed when you read
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at the surface or people who are online trying to say that you
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can lose your salvation, they're touching on.
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You'll see, look, it says it right here that people could
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lose their salvation. First you need to recognize this
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is speaking about repentance. Repentance is what guys we
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talked about this last episode turning you're going on a path
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that's away from that's not how God calls you live his standard
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of living that he gives to us. You're walking on that path
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that's disobeying God's standard and call for a life.
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But then you turn back to God and you follow him that you
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acknowledge your sin and that you repent of it and turn back
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to God and follow Jesus. There is all of us are called
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even those who are saved are called to repent and that's a
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daily thing that we do in our sanctification process.
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We repent of our sin when we're going away that we know is not
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God. It's calling us to go not the
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way of God. We turn back to God and follow
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him. But we have to see this.
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People are using the word salvation, that people, they're,
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they look, they lost their salvation.
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The word salvation's not used here.
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It's the word repentance. So still others think that this
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penalty deals with only, only with the reward, not with
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salvation itself. They stress the idea that it
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says repentance is impossible, not salvation.
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Therefore, these are Christians of low commitment and experience
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who risk a loss of all heavenly reward saved only by, as screw
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says, the skin of their teeth. Or I would like to touch on
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guys, if you have not read First Corinthians chapter 3.
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This is something I always go to in this conversation of can you
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lose your salvation? Paul talks about this and let's
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start in let's start in verse 10.
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So First Corinthians chapter 3, verse 10.
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This is another thing to speak towards.
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Again, remember in Hebrews it says repentance that they they
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can't repent of it. It's not doesn't use the word
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salvation and let me use this and then we're going to go more
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into, so give me a little bit. We're going to keep pulling this
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layer by layer. So first Corinthians chapter 3,
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verse 10, it says because of God's grace to me, I have laid
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the foundation like an expert builder.
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This is Paul speaking to the church in Corinth.
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Now other builders are building on it, but whoever is building
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on this foundation that's been laid must be very careful.
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Listen to Paul's heeding warning to the Christians, for no one
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can lay any foundation other than the one we already have.
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Jesus Christ. Again, it's Jesus, not you, not
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your works, not how to earn it. It's he's already earned it.
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He's the foundation. He's the rock we stand upon.
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And then verse 12 says this, anyone who builds on that
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foundation may use a variety of materials.
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So he kind of gives these two options of people who have put
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their faith in Jesus. So these are followers of Jesus,
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these are Christians, these are there's a people not building
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their foundation, their life, their decisions, the things they
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think, the things they do, the things they say.
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This is people building their life upon that foundation, which
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is Christ. And so he says anyone who builds
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on that foundation, which is Jesus may have, may use a
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variety of materials. So he's using these as an
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analogy. And so an example he says is
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gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay or straw.
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But then he says on verse 13, think about those materials,
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gold, silver, jewels. That's one, one person.
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And then here's the other person, wood, hay or straw.
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Remember those two? So anyone who builds on the
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foundation of Jesus, there's two, there's two people, people
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who are building on gold, silver and jewels, and people who are
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building on wood, hay and straw. And then verse 13 says this, but
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on the judgement day, fire will reveal what kind of work each
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builder has done. So on judgement day, remember
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one of the things they're arguing about in Hebrews chapter
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6 is the resurrection of the dead and the eternal judgement.
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So Paul says on judgement Day, fire will reveal what each
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worker has done. Verse 13, the fire will show if
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a person's work has any value. If the work survives, that
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builder will receive a reward. This is something we'll talk
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about a lot in the in the church.
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There is scripture that points to there is crowns in heaven as
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the as in a revelation. It speaks about the disciples
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laying their crowns before, before the Lamb of God, before
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Jesus and praising him. There is crowns.
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There's a reward to those in heaven.
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This isn't a reward that we have earned or worked for like in the
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sense of what we talk about salvation.
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You can't work to earn your salvation.
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This is more speaking about how did you live as a follower of
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Jesus on this earth? Were you someone who put your
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faith in Jesus and just constantly struggled with sin
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and lived selfishly and chose your wants and your desires?
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Did you build your house on wood, hair, straw or did man?
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Did you receive Jesus and you went and told everybody about
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it? That you that the seed of faith
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that grew in you now multiplied to others, that you reached
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people for Christ, that you died, you denied yourself, you
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picked up your cross and you followed Jesus faithfully on
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this earth. You built your life on the
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foundation of Christ that looked like gold, silver and jewels.
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Was that how you live? Was that your work?
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And so Paul says if the work survives, that builder will
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receive a reward. There is a reward for those who
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were faithful servants. Did Jesus looked at them and
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said, well done, my good and faithful servant, that man you.
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Live this life to really glorify me.
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Everything. Even though you had suffering,
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even though you went through hard times, even though you
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still had trouble. Because Jesus told us that there
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will be trouble in this world. But take heart.
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Have overcome this road when you lived a life of hope and joy and
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peace and and worked for the Kingdom that you loved God with
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all your heart, mind, soul and strength and you loved your
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neighbor as yourself when you lived a life that reflect Jesus.
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Your work will be shown when that fire on Judgment Day is
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laid to your foundation. The work, if the work survives,
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because the work was built on Christ and it looked like gold
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and silver and jewels. And what happens when fire is
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laid to to the materials of gold and silver and jewels?
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When it's laid to that it's refined.
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Man, you step back and you can see your reflection in it,
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'cause it's so beautiful and it's so pure.
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Fire to those materials makes it pure and perfect.
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And he says for that you will receive a reward.
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But then verse 15. But if the work is burned up,
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the builder will suffer great loss.
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Listen here. Listen here.
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But what does it say to follow it?
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So listen, Paul says. So your, your work could be
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burned up. You, you would hay and straw
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people. Yeah, you knew Jesus.
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You put your faith in Jesus, but you built your life on wood, hay
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and straw. That you were really selfish.
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That you just stayed living in sin.
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That you never truly surrendered all of you.
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That you, you kind of loved God, but you kind of gave him half of
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your life, not all of your life. That you did believe in him,
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that you did put your faith in him, but you didn't faithfully
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follow him. You still lived in sin.
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You still were selfish. You did not deny yourself.
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You did not pick up your cross, you did not follow him
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faithfully in this life, but you did believe in him but listen to
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what Paul says. But if the work is burned up,
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the builder will suffer great loss.
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Like man, you didn't live that life to the full that Jesus had
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for you spiritually and and you built your life on you had the
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foundation of Christ cause your faith, but the foundation then
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you built on was wood Hain straw.
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And what happens when fire gets put to wood, hay and straw?
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It's burned up. Your foundation doesn't stand
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very long as Jesus uses the other analogy of the person who
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built their house on rock and the person who built their house
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on sand that when the waves came and the the wind blew, one house
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crumbled, but the other house stayed strong.
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That you see those believers in your life and you look at them
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and you go, man, how are they going through what they're going
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through? And they still love Jesus.
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They still follow him faithfully, that they still have
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hope and faith in Jesus when they just went through what they
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went through, that they are in this such a horrible
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circumstance that they got no money, that they're living
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paycheck to paycheck, that they just lost a loved one.
26:36
They just went through a death of their life.
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They just got this sickness or this cancer that they just got
26:41
this diagnosis from the doctor and they're still praising
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Jesus. Do you know what that means?
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That's a person who built their house on rock and that rock is
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Christ. That's the foundation they build
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upon gold, silver and jewels. But the person who then goes
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through trouble in this world and then decides to, to run from
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God to to blame God, to say God, I don't want you anymore to say
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like, no, you are not you are not good.
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You are not working in this. You've you forsake me again,
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guys, and hear me clearly when I use this as an example, I'm not
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saying we can have moments of anger or God or questioning or
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feeling like God. Why is this happening?
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That's all throughout Scripture. Job did it, Habakkuk did it,
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people who were who were people of God, they struggled with
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things in this world. But does your struggle take you
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farther from God or take you nearer to him?
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Because Scripture also says the Lord is near to the broken
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hearted, that he saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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He is faithful. Again, as I say this to people,
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stop questioning God's character when it's your character in
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question, when you're the one running from God, when you're
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the one blaming him, when you're the one now feeling why you
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don't have this hope and pieces because you've forgotten the one
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who gives it to you. That you've built your life on
27:50
wood, hay and straw. That you built your life on that
27:52
job. You built your life on that
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friend. You built that life, your life
27:56
on that relationship. You built your life on these
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temporary. Things so now when they
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crumbled, maybe you built your life on having that dream home.
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And now when that literal home got hit by a tornado and you
28:09
feel like life is terrible and you have no more hope in this
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life, it's because you started to build your foundation.
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On that literal home, rather than the foundation that it
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should have been built on, which is Jesus Christ.
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Your life needs to be built on Christ, not on worldly things,
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which is wood, hay and straw. And so sorry yo, I had to get
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into it. Apologies.
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Forgive me, forgive me. This gets me passionate.
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But now let's get back to it. So Paul says in in verse 15, but
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if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss.
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But then he finishes with this. Listen to me, my people who
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think you can lose your salvation, but you can't.
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The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping
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through a wall of flames. So I like to use this as a
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imagery to this judgment day risen, joined together with our
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spirits made perfect. As it says, we'll have perfect
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bodies. Whoa.
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No more aches, no more pains. I wake up in the morning.
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My back is tight right now sitting here.
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Oh Lord Jesus, no more pain, no more suffering, no more sorrow
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as it will be in the new heavens and the new earth.
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He says you're in judgment day before God.
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God lays this. It says if God's holding this
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big old flamethrower and you're standing on this platform, which
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was your life, which is what you built your life on, and some of
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us are gonna be standing on our platforms.
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God's gonna turn on that flamethrower and bring it
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towards and, and, and mow it over our platforms.
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Some of us, we'll literally see our platform, the work, the way
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we lived for Christ. It will be refined and it will
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be strong and the builder will receive a reward cause the work
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survives. Their life was built on Christ.
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But then for the other person, that flame's gonna hit and
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they're gonna crumble down to the ground real fast because
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that platform that, that their life that was built on, what
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they're standing on was built on wood, hand straw.
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It was built on temporary things.
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It was built on things outside of God.
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And then when that flame hits, yeah, they will suffer great
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loss. What does that great loss mean?
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I don't know what that means in heavenly terms.
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I know, God knows. But there will be great loss for
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them. There will not be that reward.
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The work will not survive. The work is burned up because
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their lives were lived half in for Christ. 1/2 hearted faith.
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But the builder will be saved. It doesn't say they've lost
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their salvation. It doesn't mean they're still
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not going to answer heaven. They will still be in heaven the
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the builder will be saved. But like someone who's who's
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going like this after God puts the flamethrower to him, they're
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trying to pat off the flames off their body that they're that
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they're crawling into heaven. But they are in heaven, they are
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saved. Why is this though, Pastor Rose?
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Why is that though? Why is it that here's this other
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person on their side who man really lived for Christ, that
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was faithful that, you know, gave them everything, that
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continued to serve God and gave them all gave, gave God all of
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their heart. They're entering into heaven
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with this other person who's basically patting off the flames
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from the flamethrower. Like, how's that?
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How are they still saved? Well, number one, guys, we have
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to remember, and I love this guy's Holy Spirit.
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Thank you. That just reminded me of this
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story. If you've ever heard the the
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parable, I'm trying to pull it up right now because the Holy
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Spirit just brought this even to me while I was talking to you
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guys. When you talk about it, Jesus
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gives this parable of the of the workers.
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And so in Matthew, let me pull it up Matthew 20 verse verses
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one through 16. He talks about Jesus.
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I'm I'm gonna kind of paraphrase.
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I just wanted to pull it up on here on my computer just so I
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had it in front of me because I was thinking about this, because
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if you're asking that question, like, doesn't that seem kind of
32:12
unfair? Maybe you are asking that.
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Maybe that's I mean, that's a genuine question to ask that
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man. So there's people who just put
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their faith in Jesus and then like live how they want that.
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They just basically, you know, believe in God, but they don't
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really follow God faithfully. They're just going to be in
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heaven with me when man like I was denying myself, you know,
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again, who's who's who's this kind of sound like James and
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John. Hey, Jesus, who's going to have
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a a better standing in heaven as the sons of Thunder come to
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Jesus and even bring mother with them.
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Like you know which one of my which one of us is going to be
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like more elevated? Who's going to be closer to you?
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They're worried they're. Thinking in human.
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Ways we do this all the time guys, I am I am guilty of this.
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We we think human like and again, God doesn't think God
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doesn't like us. God is ways are above our ways.
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His thoughts are above our thoughts.
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So like, but it's also OK if you're asking this question that
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well, man. So like these people will be
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basically, you know, barely getting into heaven and those
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people have reward and they've built their life on Christ.
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But I want to use this Jesus touches on this to the disciples
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and he answers this for us in the parable of the vineyard
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workers. It says for the Kingdom of
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heaven is like landowner is like the landowner who went out early
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one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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He agreed to pay them the normal daily wage and send them out to
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work. So the story goes on like this
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at 9:00 in the morning, he was passing through marketplace and
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and Jesus finds these workers and so he hires them for the day
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because back in that time period, that'd be very normal.
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People would look for daily work.
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There wasn't like, oh, I got this career and I have this
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salary. People were looking for work to
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make money to, to be able to buy food to eat daily.
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They didn't know if they were going to have a job that day.
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They didn't even know if they're going to have food to eat that
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day. And so this, this would be
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normal in, in this time period. And so Jesus is using this
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analogy for people who would get it.
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So you know, here's this landowner who's got work to be
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done in his vineyard and he goes out and finds worker for each
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day. So he, he goes and hires these
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people who he finds. So he hires them, he tells them
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to come work and telling them he would pay them whatever was
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right at the end of the day. So he's gonna pay each worker at
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the end of the day. So then Jesus goes and it
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explains that he finds all these workers and it's interesting
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because there's workers who show up at different time periods
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throughout the day to work. And so he gives that he, it says
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then the evening he told the foreman to call the workers in.
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So some people came like right when the shift started, some
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people came a little bit later after shift, some people came a
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little bit later, some people came a little later, Some people
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showed up to the shift. Like it'd be like, Hey, I need
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you to come work 9:00 to 5:00 in my vineyard.
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You know, and some people came at 9, some people came at 11,
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some people came at 12:30, some people came at one, some people
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came 2345, you know, right before the shift is over, let's
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say that. And so it says that evening the
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vineyard landowner said, you know, she tells this foreman,
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call the workers in and pay them beginning with the last workers
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first. When those hired at 5:00 were
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paid, each received. Listen to this guys, Jesus
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trying. To teach us something.
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About our hearts. When those hired at 5:00 were
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paid, each of them received a full day's wage.
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When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed that
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they would receive more. So Jesus is saying this, this
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vineyard landowner brings in the people who basically were not
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there long, did not work a lot. And he's like, all right, here's
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your full day's wage. And so now all of a sudden,
35:32
other people are standing there waiting to get called up.
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They've been there since 9:00 AM, maybe 850.
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You know, you know, on time is late and early is on time.
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They're the people that were early and on time and they're
35:43
waiting. They're going all right.
35:44
Well, he gave him, you know, gave him this much.
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I'm assuming we're going to get more because that dude clearly
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showed up just an hour before the shift was over and he just
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got a full day's wage. So it says when those hired
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first came to get their pay in verse 10, they assumed they
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would receive more, but they too were paid a day's wage.
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When they received their pay, they protested the owner.
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They were like, bro what? We've been here since 8:30.
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We were. We were earliest on time.
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My dog, we weren't even here right at 9:00 AM.
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We showed up right before the ship.
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We were here from the beginning, from the jump.
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They protested the owner. Those people worked only one
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hour. And yet you've.
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Paid them just as much as you as paid as much as you paid us to
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work all day in the scorching heat again for them.
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This is justified to be a little upset about like man, we should
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get more. They should get less because
36:42
we've been it kind of sounds similar to the prodigal son
36:44
story as well, right? The Big Brother looking at the
36:46
little brother returning back and his dad's throwing a feast
36:50
and he's like, bro, this dude went and just had wild living
36:53
that he lived however he wanted that he literally has been in
36:57
sin and he took, he took his inheritance and blew it on wild
37:01
living and, and prostitutes and drinking and, and partying.
37:04
And now he comes back and you just welcome him back and throw
37:07
him a party and, and say, my son is returned.
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Like, bro, I've been here serving, I've been in this my
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family's home. I've been taking care of the
37:14
cattle. I've been doing all this work
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and, and he's upset with his father.
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Like how does he get a feast thrown when I've been the
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faithful son, man, it's like Jesus is trying to prove a point
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to us and we're so concerned about, well, we've done this and
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that. Why do they get that and we
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don't get this? And I I love this.
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Jesus says he answered one of them.
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Friend, I haven't been unfair. Didn't you agree to work all day
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for the usual wage? Take your money and go.
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I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
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Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money?
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Who's this landowner representing God?
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Should you be jealous? Because I'm kind to others?
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So those who are last now will be first then as Jesus finishes
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in verse 16 as he's telling this story.
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So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are
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first will be last. He leaves the 99 for the one
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heaven celebrates when the one returns, repents, puts their
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faith in Jesus, no matter when, no matter how.
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It's God he gets to do. He gets to do as he pleases.
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As Psalm says. He's God.
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So if you're sitting here where are, let me, let me say this
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though, guys, even this conversation that it's happened
38:40
all throughout the Internet, the fact is you are not God.
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I am not God. If God says they're saved,
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they're saved because of his completed work, because of what
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he done, because it's his money, 'cause it's his life, 'cause he
38:55
created you and he created me, He is over us.
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You're sitting here arguing with other finite human beings when
39:04
we have an infinite God who does as he pleases the the world is
39:09
his footstool. Come on man, He is God.
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And so if he's saying they're saved because of their faith in
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me, they're saved. That even if their foundation
39:21
was burned up, they're saved. And let me bring it to my first
39:24
main point in this conversation, as I looked at my my little
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brother Jupe, and he asked me this question.
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Number one, do you believe that God is omnipotent?
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Meaning is he all? Powerful.
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Do you believe the God that we worship?
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Yahweh. Who created the heavens and the
39:40
earth? Who created everything we can
39:43
see and touch. He created you and me, our
39:45
intricate bodies and how they function all the way to the
39:48
plants on the ground. That the food sources that we
39:51
have, that the sun's not close enough, that we burn up not far
39:54
enough, that we freeze these incredible things of this world
39:58
that He created all of it. Number one of you believe in
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that and believe in Him. Is, is he not power enough,
40:06
powerful enough to to keep our salvation?
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Because what you're trying to say is we've put our faith in
40:13
God, but God can lose us. God can actually lose our souls.
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What? That's literally speaking
40:21
against the God we believe in, that he is all powerful, that if
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he's got us, we are good to go. Huh.
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This makes me think about a this makes you think about a passage
40:31
where Jesus touches on this. Where is my, this is the one I
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bring up if I want to have a simple quick conversation on.
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Hey, Pastor Lois, is it one save, always save or can we lose
40:40
our salvation? I just shoot straight to John 10
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and John 10 says this Jesus was asked Jesus.
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It says it was winter and Jesus was in Jerusalem.
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They're there for Hanukkah, the festival of dedication.
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And he was in the temple walking through a section and these
40:54
people surrounded Jesus and they asked him as people asked him
40:57
questions. How long in verse 24 of the book
41:01
of John, verse 24, chapter 10, sorry, I want to give that to
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you guys. The people surrounded him and
41:08
asked how long are you going to keep us in suspense?
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If you are the Messiah, the anointed one, tell us plainly.
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Verse 25. Jesus replied, I have already
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told you and you don't believe me.
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The proof is the work I do in my Father's name.
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The proof is in the pudding, you know.
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Sorry, that's my added. That's the Pastor Lo's message
41:27
version, verse 26. But you don't believe me because
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you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice.
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I know them and they follow me. Verse 28.
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I give them eternal life and they will never perish.
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No one can snatch them away from me.
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Guys, listen, this is Jesus's words.
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I give them eternal life and they will never perish.
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Romans 81 There is now no condemnation for those who
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belong to who to Christ Jesus Jesus says I give them eternal
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life, they will never perish. And no one.
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Nobody. Not even yourself.
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Can snatch them away from me, for my father has given them to
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me, and he is more powerful than anyone else.
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No one can snatch them from the Father's hand.
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Verse 30 The Father and I. Are one.
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Give God some praise if you're listening to this right now,
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that because your faith in Jesus and what he has done, what God
42:38
has done through sending his Son to die a death that we deserve
42:41
for our sins that separated us from God, that that he
42:45
resurrected 3 days later. And now, when we put our faith
42:48
in Christ, we have been placed in the Father's hand, in no one,
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no body, no thing can take us from Him.
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Why? Because He is more powerful than
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anyone else. Because He created everything
43:05
else. He is God.
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Man Live Today in that truth. My brothers and sisters in
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Christ. That you have a God who is more
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powerful than any situation, any doubt, any struggle, any pain,
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anything you're in. He is more powerful than
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anything. Saying ain't got nothing.
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Saying ain't no saying ain't no opposition.
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He OP, he is straight OP. He ain't doing nothing.
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He ain't got no authority or strength or power over God.
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And guess what? The same power that raised
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Christ from the dead lives in you, my brothers and sisters,
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lives in us. If we put our faith in Jesus so
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nothing and nobody can snatch us from the Father's hand, there
43:54
ain't no losing salvation because we didn't earn the
43:58
salvation Christ did He. Did the work?
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Not us. Our salvation is not dependent
44:04
on our strength. It's dependent on the one who's
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more powerful than anyone else. Do you hear me?
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Do you clock that? That is biblical truth.
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That is God's truth that is over our lives because it's from His
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word. Stop getting caught up in these
44:23
false theologies guys. I got a episode 2 episodes ago
44:26
talking about this. There's too much false theology
44:29
out here. And we got to be in our word.
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We got to read God's truth. We got to know it.
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We got to we got to meditate on it.
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We got to study it. We got to know it.
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We got to put our faith in Jesus and trust in Him.
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And so we're not done yet. We're not done yet.
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Stick with me. I got one more point I want to
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make because people still might be feeling like, yeah, but you
44:50
saying all this stuff, it sounds good.
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But again. It's still said.
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It's impossible to bring these people back to repentance.
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So clearly these people had the Holy Spirit in them.
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So they were believers. So they lost their they lost
45:02
their salvation. I was and hey, that's that's
45:06
great to still ask that question.
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Do you guys remember in Scripture, what's the one sin?
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That is the unforgivable sin. What's the one sin?
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That's the unforgivable sin? It is blasphemy in the Holy
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Spirit. Let's read.
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Let's read that. Matthew really quick though.
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Matthew chapter. Oh, sorry, not Matthew.
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Where am I going at, man? Apologies, yo, you know my
45:35
brain. It is Matthew, but it's Matthew
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chapter 12. Boop.
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I was already in Matthew. Matthew chapter 12, verses 31
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through 32 read like this. This is Jesus speaking, so we
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should listen. It's red letters.
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We listen up. Verse 31 in Matthew 12 says
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this. So I tell you, every sin and
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blasphemy, every sin, every sin, every blasphemy can be forgiven.
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So all those things can be forgiven except blasphemy
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against the Holy Spirit, which will be never forgiven.
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Anyone who? And let me guys just read the
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word. Let the word speak.
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So the question, well, what's that mean, Carlos?
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What's that mean, Pesos? What's it mean to blasphemy
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against the Holy Spirit? And why are you bringing this up
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in regards to Hebrews six? Well, let's go out to tell us
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verse 32. Anyone who speaks against the
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Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the
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Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world
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or in the world to come. What does it mean to blasphemy
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the Holy Spirit? Blasphemy in the Holy Spirit is
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a deliberate, persistent and final rejection of the Holy
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Spirit's testimony about Jesus Christ.
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It is blaspheming the truth of God revealed in His Son Jesus
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that has been given to us. You are rejecting Jesus.
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And why would that? Never be forgiven huh John 14-6
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Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life.
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No one can come to the Father except through me.
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There is no salvation outside of Christ the Anointed 1 The
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Messiah Jesus revealed in scripture who was fully God and
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fully man first. John in his letter he's speaking
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towards false prophets who are. Trying to say Jesus wasn't fully
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man, he was only spirit and he's and John saying uh, uh, uh, uh,
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no Sir, he we touched his wounds, we walked with him.
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He was fully man and he was also fully God.
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And if you don't believe that you are not saved if you don't
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have faith in Christ of Scripture, the one that the
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apostles walked with that as. Luke starts his gospel in
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chapter 1. I have wrote all these accurate
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accounts so you can be certain of what you believe.
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That we have scripture from the eyewitness accounts of people
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who walked with Jesus physically as Thomas doubting Thomas
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touches the wounds of his hand and says you are the Christ when
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he finally doubting Thomas believes and puts his faith in
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who Jesus is. But Jesus says you believe
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because you've seen. Me.
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But man, blessed are those who believe and have not seen me.
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You are blessed, brothers and sisters, if you believe in
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Christ and you've never seen him physically.
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And so when we read in Hebrews, it's impossible to be bring back
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these people. Why?
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Because they're blasphemy in the Holy Spirit.
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They're not believing Jesus to be who Jesus is.
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These Jewish Christians are rejecting the truth of Christ,
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and so now there is no repentance that will bring them
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back because what they're rejecting is their only way to
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salvation. That is what is occurring here.
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These Jewish believers were trying to nail.
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Remember guys, it's given to us right here.
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The author says you're trying to kill Jesus over and over again,
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but Jesus says it is finished. That's what we've already taught
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you guys. We've taught you the gospel
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truth, and you keep. Trying to add.
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To it and now you are rejecting blasphemy in the Holy Spirit
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cause the Holy Spirit are revealed.
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You shared in the Holy Spirit, you tasted the goodness of the
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word and of God and the power of the age to come.
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And now you're rejecting it because you are rejecting the
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message that was given, the life changing message of the gospel
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of Jesus. Christ 'cause you're rejecting
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Him, you aren't putting your faith in Jesus and He is the
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only way to salvation. That is what is happening here,
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guys. It's not about, Oh well, they
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were struggling with sin or they were in sin and they couldn't be
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brought back. They lost their salvation.
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No, no, no, they are literally blaspheming the only way to
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receive salvation, which is through faith in Christ the
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Anointed. 1 the Messiah, the one who came, lived a perfect life
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for them, died a death for our sins, and rose from the grave
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three days later. They're rejecting that truth and
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they're trying to nail them to the cross over and over again.
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It is blasphemy in the Holy Spirit.
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We need to know who Jesus is. You need to be in your Word.
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And so I want to kind of touch and I, I highlighted this even
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to give it a little bit more of a substance.
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You know, I love this quote from a commentary.
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It says this. This difficult passage is best
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understood in the context. Of Hebrews 6 one through 2,
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which we've already read the writer to the Hebrews means that
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if they retreat back to Judaism, all the religious repentance as
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the Pharisees were very good at being religious, doing the right
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things, but they were getting it all wrong because they didn't
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have faith in the one who actually saves their souls.
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And so this this commentary saying they're trying to retreat
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back to Judaism. They're trying to retreat back
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to Old Testament law that we got to do these things.
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We still need to sacrifice the lamb.
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We got to put our sins out. No, no, no, no, Jesus already
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died on the cross for your sins once and for all.
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It's just faith in him. And so they're trying to retreat
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back, as the commentary author says, back to Judaism.
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All the religious repentance in the in the world will do them no
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good. Their religious repentance isn't
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going to save them, which is what the word is being used
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here. It is impossible to bring back
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to repentance those who have been enlightened.
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It's impossible because they're trying to return back through
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religious repentance, retreating from distinctive Christianity
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into the safe ideas and customs of their former religious
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experience. Is to forsake Jesus and to
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essentially crucify him again. These Jewish Christians were
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trying to go back to what they knew and what they believed
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before Christ. Trying to crucify him over and
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over again. And the author is writing and
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saying you are literally blasphemy in the Holy Spirit.
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You are you. You are not going to have
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salvation 'cause you are not believing in the Christ.
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This is especially true as he finishes in the commentary.
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This is especially true for these ancient Christians from a
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Jewish background, since the religious customs they took up
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again likely included animal sacrifice for atonement of sin,
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denying the total work of Jesus for them on the cross.
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And I love how he says this. There is a necessary distinction
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between falling and falling away.
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Falling away is more than falling into sin, it is actually
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departing from Jesus himself, for a righteous man may fall 7
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times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.
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The differences between a Peter and a Judas if you depart.
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From Jesus fall away. There is no hope.
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This message to the Christians who felt like giving up was
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clear. If you don't continue on with
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Jesus, don't suppose you will find Selby Felt Sabeb.
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Don't suppose you will find salvation by just going on with
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ideas and experience that Christianity and Judaism share.
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If you aren't saved in Jesus, you aren't saved at all.
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There is no salvation in a safe common ground that is not
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distinctively Christian, as the commentary says.
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So if someone's falling away, we must understand why he or she
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can't repent. It is because they don't want
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to. It's not as if God prohibits
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their repentance, since repentance itself is a work of
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God. Romans 24.
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The kindness of God leads us to repentance.
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The desire to repent is evidence that he or she has not truly
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fallen away. I love this.
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He he finishes this, he says the idea is not that if you fall
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away, you can't ever come back to Jesus.
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Instead, the idea is if you turn your back on Jesus, don't expect
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to find salvation anywhere else, especially in the practice of
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religion apart from the fullness of Jesus.
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So this is what was happening. This is what the author of
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Hebrews was writing to Jewish Christians.
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He's saying this, there is no other way to salvation outside
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of faith in Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth and the
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life. No one can come to the Father
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except through him, as we repeat it again in this episode.
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So when we read this in those Hebrews, it's speaking towards
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these believers who trying to turn back to old religious ways
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that they're trying to find their salvation through their
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own works, through atonement of sins, through an animal
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sacrifice. They are questioning, as the
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Hebrews author says in those first verses says let's stop
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talking about basic teachings. You guys already taught these
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truths and you keep struggling to believe the foundational
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truths that we've already passed on to you.
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And so to, to wrap all this up guys, to bring it all back
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together, my prayer and hope for you is that number one, you
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understand that the God you worship is more powerful than
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anyone else. That when you've put your faith
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in Jesus, his completed work on the cross, you are saved, as
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Romans 10/9 says. For it is confessing with your
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mouth that Jesus is Lord, and it is by believing in your heart
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that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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It's through faith in him. Remember Ephesians 28 through 9
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by His works. We boast in His works, not our
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own. We can't earn this.
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And so #1 your God is more powerful than anyone else.
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That when you are in His hand, no one and nothing can snatch
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you from Him. You are sealed in the book of
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life. And so when you read this, when
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we read this in Hebrews, it is sad.
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It is a warning for us that there is people who don't know
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Jesus, the, the biblical Jesus, the Christ, the anointed one,
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the one who came and died for their sins and rose from the
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grave three days later. That if they don't understand
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these truths of Jesus, there is no salvation outside of him.
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As we read those passages, you know Matthew 25 where it says
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Jesus, Jesus, you know, our Lord, Lord and he would say,
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depart from me. I do not know you.
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There is people who don't know Jesus the Christ, but I hope you
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know that this is a point of contention.
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And this is what this is what Satan does.
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He twists God's word to try to get us off of His truth, his
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biblical truth that's been revealed to us.
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He tries to he tries to twist God's word and tries to get us
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to question his truth. And I want you to hear today
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that the truth is if you put your faith in Jesus, the one who
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lived a perfect life that you cannot live, that died a death
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that you deserve for your sins, and then three days later rose
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from the grave. That he was fully man, fully God
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that it was God sent in flesh, that it was a manual God with
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us. If you don't study the Word and
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get to know who Jesus is, to feast on your daily bread, to
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really run after Christ and know Him, you can easily be swayed by
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these false theologies, these false teachers and prophets that
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are teaching things that are not biblical, not of God, and not
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from His Word. You need to start to study His
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Word. You need to start to be so
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intentional to spend time with Jesus, to be with him, to
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withdraw in prayer, to be in the Word daily, to start to seek out
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His truth so you are not just blown by every wind of doctrine,
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that every teacher that sounds good draws you away from God's
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truth. And so that's my encouragement.
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If you're #1 God is more powerful than anyone else #2 you
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need to understand that this is the truth of God, that you that
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has been revealed in His word, that you need to know who Jesus
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is because there is no salvation outside of him.
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As we read over and over again, as was repeated to us, that
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these people were trying to find salvation outside of Christ.
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And there is no salvation outside of Jesus.
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He is the only way, the only truth and the only life.
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And my prayer is you start to cling to that truth over your
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life. I love you guys.
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I hope this episode blessed you. I hope it encourage you.
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I hope it equipped you when you are able to take what first John
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tells us to, to test the spirits, to test what's being
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said up against God's word and his truth.
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That when you start to hear things on the Internet, when
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you're scrolling, that the Holy Spirit and you start to bring up
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God's word in your heart and you're like, no, no, no, no,
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that does not line up with God. That is not from his word.
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That is not truth. That you can stand firm upon the
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upon the foundation that is him. That you don't build your life
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on wood, hay and straw. That you build your life on
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gold, silver and jewels. That you are refined and you are
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made pure and that you look more like Jesus in this life.
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I love you guys. I'm so thankful for you.
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Let me pray so you can get up out of here.
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Heavenly Father, we thank you for who you are.
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Heavenly Father, we glorify you and your truth.
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And I pray, God, that you remind us who we are in you and who you
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are through US, God, that the power that raised Jesus from the
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dead now lives in us, and we start to utilize that power for
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your glory. Lord Jesus, fill us with your
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truth. Help us have an insatiable
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appetite for your word that we feast on a daily, that we seek
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out your truth, that we start to stand firm on a foundation
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that's built upon you. Jesus, I love you.
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Thank you so much for saving us, God, but not just saving us, but
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now equipping us to tell others about the salvation that we
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found in you, Jesus. Jesus thank you for being the
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only way, the truth and the life and we pray all this in your
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powerful and mighty name, Jesus name Amen.
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I love y'all. God bless.