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481 | Throwback - What if tonight your soul was required of you? · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Well, hello, everyone. This is Erica. And to introduce our show today,
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  I just have one question for you.
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  What would you say if someone asked of you, what if tonight your soul was required of you?
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  Join us today as Kim speaks to this issue coming out of Luke chapter 12.
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  Hello, and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And what a pleasure it is that you have chosen to spend the next few moments with us.
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  And we just ask that you would just open up your eyes and open up your heart
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  and just let the Lord of the universe speak to you. And most of all,
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  it is my prayer that you realize that He is that real and that He has a message
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  for you, and that message is distinctly yours.
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  And it's all about who you are, and it's all about how much He loves you.
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  So if you would, please, I'd like for you to pray with me. Our kind and most
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  gracious, dear Heavenly Father,
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  Lord, we just thank you for this and other opportunity to come before you.
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  We thank you that we know that your presence is real and that you're standing
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  with us this very moment.
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  We're thankful, dear Heavenly Father, that we can feel your hands around us
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  in your arms and that we can crawl up in your lap and that the cares of this
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  world can fall away as we cast them upon you because you care for us.
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  Lord, we're thankful that we can do all things through you which strengtheneth
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  us and that you gave us that promise in your word and that we know that wherever
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  we are, whatever we're doing, whoever we may be, that we are yours if we are
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  a child of yours and we have given our heart and our life to thee.
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  Lord, we pray that you would be with each of those who are listening to this broadcast.
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  We pray that you would help them to look deep within their heart and to come
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  up with the answer of what they're going to do with you, Jesus, our Savior.
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  Lord, we pray that you would help us as we look into your word and that we answer
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  that all-important question of what will we do if our soul was required of us tonight.
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  Lord, it is our prayer that each person who listens to this would absolutely make peace with you,
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  and that if you would call us into eternity this
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  very moment before this lesson is even finished that
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  we would see you face to face and that we would
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  meet with you and that all would be well with our soul lord watch
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  over us and protect us lead god and direct us and all these things we ask in
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  thy most precious and holy name we pray and all of god's people said amen the
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  question for us to look at is found in luke chapter 12 verses 16 through 21.
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  And the question goes like this. What if tonight your soul was required of thee?
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  What if at this moment in time you stepped into eternity?
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  The question is not whether or not you will spend eternity.
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  The question remains on where you would spend eternity.
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  You see, unfortunately for those of you who do not believe there is a God or
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  do not believe there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun,
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  it does not change the fact that there is a God and that there is a hell to
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  shun and a heaven to gain.
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  You see, it doesn't matter factually what you believe.
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  What matters is what's deep in your heart. And God has said that he is the way,
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  the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  And he has explained to us that every one of us is going to give account of ourselves to him.
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  And in the book of Revelations, he says that if your name is not found written
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  in the Lamb's book of life, it shall be cast into hell fire.
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  And the Bible from Genesis to Revelations is filled with his promises and his prophecies,
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  with the fulfillment of him, the
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  sacrificial lamb who paid your penalty for
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  your sins he paid a debt he didn't
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  owe that you could go to a place to be
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  with him because he loved you that much
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  and as we began to look in the new testament
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  we see the fulfillment of the prophecies that
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  the prophets of old in the old testament brought forth the
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  prophet isaiah explained to us that there would be the promised
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  messiah and then in the new testament we
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  see that jesus has come i for one
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  am so absolutely thrilled that i live on this side
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  of the cross i know that jesus paid
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  for my penalty of sins i know that jesus
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  lived and died a sinless life that i might go
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  to heaven the prophets they believed and
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  they believed even without the aid of the holy spirit indwelling in them at
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  all times we are so blessed to live in this day and age we are so blessed that
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  we have the holy word of god from beginning to end to explain to us exactly
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  what it means to walk with jesus christ.
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  And so when we are faced with the question, what would happen if tonight my soul was required of me?
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  I have the answer, my friend. For I made peace with my Savior a long time ago.
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  As a little girl, I realized that I was a sinner in need of a Savior.
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  I realized that because I was born into this world of sinner because of Adam's
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  race and the sin that man transgressed against God in the beginning of time,
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  that I could not make it into a place that was sinless and that I couldn't work
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  hard enough I couldn't be smart enough I couldn't be good enough there was nothing
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  I could do that I could make it into heaven on my own right,
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  but I realized the depravity of my soul and clinged to his saving grace.
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  I wrapped my heart around the promise that he said, that if you believe in me,
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  I have gone to prepare a place for you that where I am, you may be also.
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  And while I'm gone, I will give you the Holy Spirit to dwell inside of you,
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  to teach you and instruct you and to show you all things.
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  Because I created you in my image. and I want you to be with me.
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  But where I am, Kim, there is no sin.
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  Where I am, there is no death and there is no dying.
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  Kim, where I am, there's no sorrow, no sickness, and no pain.
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  And you can't dwell in that place unless you have been cleansed by my blood,
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  by the holy blood of God that washes away all your sins.
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  And I want you to be with me.
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  So, Kim, I've come and prepared a place. And I have left the holy splendor of
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  heaven, where I was king of kings and lord of lords.
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  Beauty beyond compare, where sin doesn't enter.
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  And I took on the form of mortal man, that you might see me as I am,
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  that you might have confidence in me, that you might have faith in me,
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  that you might understand exactly who I was, that you would believe that when
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  you come to me that you could give me your troubles,
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  you could give me your trials, you could give me your problems,
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  and I not only would understand,
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  I would also know exactly how you feel.
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  But more importantly, Kim can take care of you.
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  I can supply your every need, and I can make it so that you have the strength,
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  to do all that I've ever asked you to do.
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  And my riches, Kim, they don't run dry. And I want you to come to this place called heaven.
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  So, Kim, that sin debt, it's bigger than you can pay.
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  You can't get enough money. You can't work hard enough.
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  Because, you see, the only thing that pays a sin debt is sinless,
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  spotless, sacrificial blood.
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  And Kim, I came that you might have life more abundantly.
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  And I took your sins upon me, and I bore them to the old rugged cross.
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  And Kim, if you'll believe in me, if you'll but understand that I loved you
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  so much that I stretched out and I shed my blood some 2,000 years ago on an old rugged cross.
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  And when I was on the cross, Kim, you were on my mind.
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  And I knew that there would come a day when you would come to the realization
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  that you had a sin debt you couldn't pay and that you needed to go to a home
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  not made with hands eternal into the heavens.
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  And I knew that you would need something to pay that sin debt.
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  And I walked the road to Calvary in your stead.
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  And I shed my blood, the only payment of sin that would suffice the debt, for you.
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  And as a little girl, I didn't understand all of that as well as I understand it now.
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  And my mind can't comprehend that love.
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  But my heart knows the peace that passes all understanding.
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  The joy unspeakable and full of glory that comes with a relationship that is
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  personal and unique with the God of the universe and the Savior of the world.
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  I know what it's like to walk hand in hand day by day with the God of the universe.
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  And because he called my name.
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  And if you're listening to this lesson right now and there's something in your
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  heart, that is beginning to wonder, is she saying something that's true?
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  Or, oh, how I'd love to have that kind of peace.
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  That's no accident, my friend.
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  That's the Holy Spirit of God drawing your heart to the simple truth of his
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  perfect plan of salvation.
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  Oh, my friends, if your soul was required of you tonight, where would you spend eternity?
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  In Luke chapter 12, verses 16 through 21, he says, And he spake a parable unto
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  them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully.
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  And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do? Because I have no room
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  where to bestow my fruits.
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  And he said, This will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater.
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  And there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
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  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years.
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  Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
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  But God, what a phrase.
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  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be acquired of thee.
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  Then whose shall those
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  things be which thou hast provided so is
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  he that layeth up treasure for himself and is.
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  Not rich toward god this is
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  a very common place that we
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  find ourselves in today this is a
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  man who has spent his entire life nearly
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  probably all of his energy probably all
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  of his focus and all of his talent
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  into amassing earthly things
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  he has placed all of his faith and.
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  All of his trust in the possessions that
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  he owns and he's taken great pride
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  in how he thinks he's provided for himself he's taken
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  great pride in believing he needs nothing
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  or no one within the sound
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  of my voice no doubt there are
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  people who are thinking those thoughts
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  you see that's one of the biggest tricks
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  of the devil that's how he deceives
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  you and the bible says be not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever man
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  soweth that shall also reap and he also says
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  that the devil walketh about like a roaring lion seeking whom he
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  may devour and that's what he's done to
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  this man and this man thinks i don't
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  need god i don't need anything and he's
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  become so caught up in himself that he even destroys what he has to hold the
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  current amount of goods and he's building even greater and he's attained a massive
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  amount of worldly stuff and then jesus says Thank you.
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  Who's it going to be when you step out? You see, there's nothing wrong with making a good living.
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  There's nothing wrong with being successful.
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  What the problem comes in is when we think that our success makes us something.
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  When we begin to place our trust and our faith in the things of this world and in ourselves.
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  Because the Bible is plain that we are nothing without God.
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  And any of you who've just
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  looked at the news just for a
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  few moments within the last few months will see
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  that you can have lots of stuff today and nothing in just moments natural disasters
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  financial markets going down the things of this world are not anchored in anything
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  that will last But praise be to the God,
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  to the Lord of Lords, to my Savior divine.
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  My anchor holds because it's in the mighty power of Jesus Christ.
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  I am nothing on my own, but in him I can do all things.
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  The things that I own, I have just been lent by Jesus to be used for him in his service.
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  I don't have to worry about it because it's all in his hands.
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  Because he said, I'll never leave you, and I won't forsake you.
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  The God of the universe has said, you've got to place your faith in me.
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  And oh, what a return. You don't have an investment plan that can touch the
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  increase that investing in Jesus with your heart and your soul and your life will bring to you.
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  You can't imagine the rewards of being a faithful servant.
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  But you see, you're deceived.
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  Because you're laying your treasures up on earth. In Matthew 6,
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  19 through 20, he says, lay not up yourselves treasures up on earth where moth
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  and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal.
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  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth
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  corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
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  Some of you are counting on your works to get to heaven.
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  And you say, oh, look at all I've done and I've given to the poor and I give
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  to the ministries and I do all these things.
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  And look at me how wonderful i am but yet
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  you haven't humbled yourselves before
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  an almighty god and really realize that all
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  that you are and all that you have and
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  all that you ever will be is because
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  of him who loved you and died
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  for you and you'll spend your whole life working
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  yourself to the bone trying to get
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  yourself cleaned up and good so that
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  you can walk through the pearly gates when in
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  reality he says i am the way and the truth and the life and
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  no man cometh unto the father but by me and he says for by grace are you saved
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  and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should
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  boast for by grace are you saved and through faith in Ephesians 2.8.9.
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  And he even says that it's not of yourselves. It's all about him and his finished work on Calvary.
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  Oh, my friends, it's such a shame because it's so simple. It's a free gift.
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  He did all the work. He paid the price.
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  And he wrapped his gift in his abundant love. and he decorated it with his amazing
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  grace and he hands it out with incredible mercy.
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  How can you neglect so great a salvation?
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  My friends, it isn't of works. Don't lay your treasures up here on earth where
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  it's gonna just float away.
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  Don't work yourself to death thinking that you can make yourself good enough.
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  Because no matter how much you clean up the outside of a dirty cup,
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  if there's mold and grime inside of it, you're not going to drink out of it.
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  And so it is with your life.
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  No matter how clean you clean yourself up on the outside,
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  if you've not allowed the precious blood of Jesus to flow over you and through you,
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  and you have not bowed your head in repentance to him,
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  and you've not acknowledged that he is savior and
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  ask him to come and live in your heart and to cleanse you from all
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  unrighteousness you're not going to get into heaven and when your soul is required
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  of you whether it be today tonight tomorrow this afternoon this morning you're
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  going to find yourself in hell a place never intended for human inhabitants
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  but for the devil and his angels.
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  Oh, my friend, there is a day of reckoning.
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  In Romans 14, 12, he says, so then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
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  And there is a place when you're going to walk into the pearly gates,
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  and he's going to say, depart from me.
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  I never knew you, you workers of iniquity.
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  And no matter how good you've been, you can't get in to that sinless,
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  perfect place, bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus.
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  My friends, you don't have to go there.
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  You can give your heart to Jesus Christ this very moment.
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  You can fall out with sin and fall in love with Jesus as you realize that he
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  paid the price, as you realize that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
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  as you acknowledge that, but he commended his love toward you,
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  that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for you.
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  As you claim, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not
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  perish but have everlasting life and
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  as you realize that he says to lay
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  up your treasures in heaven you see
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  even so faith if it hath not works is dead being
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  alone yea a man say thou hast faith
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  and i have works show me thy faith without
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  thy works and i will show thee my faith by my works
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  salvation is free to all and you
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  can't work your way into heaven but the
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  god of the universe will change you completely second corinthians
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  5 17 says that behold old things are passed away and
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  all things are become new and you're a new creature
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  in christ jesus and your want tos change he doesn't
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  say that you go out and change your life and then come to
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  him he says i'll come to you exactly where you are and i will reach down and
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  bring you to where i am and by my precious blood i will change you completely
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  and that love that swells up within you and that holy spirit that indwells in
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  you will change you from the inside out.
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  And then you're going to change the things you do and the things you say.
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  Because your works are going to be laying up treasures in heaven where rust
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  and moth did not corrupt.
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  And all he requires is a childlike faith that humbles themselves and says, God, I'm a sinner.
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  And I can't make it to heaven on my own.
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  But I ask you, the holy lamb of God, who sacrificed for me and paid my sin debt
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  to forgive me of all my sins.
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  And to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
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  And from this moment on, Lord, I want to serve you.
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  I want a personal relationship with you. I want to be with you.
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  And I want the Holy Spirit to dwell in me.
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  And Lord, I want the peace that passes all understanding and joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  And in this moment on, I want to walk in steps that lead to the abundant life
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  that you have promised for me. Lord, I'm a sinner.
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  And save my soul my friends i
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  know that it seems so simple but he said that he come that all might have life
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  and have it more abundantly and he said that he wishes that none should perish
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  but that all should come to repentance
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  so as you read this passage in luke chapter 12 verses 16 through 21,
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  and he says if your soul would be required of you tonight i pray that you could
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  answer it I would be with you, Jesus, and that you have made that decision to follow him.
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  Thank you for joining us in today's podcast. You can visit the show notes for
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  quotes from today's podcast and scripture references.
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  We pray today has been a blessing and we encourage you to reach out to us through
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  She stands out like sunshine on an endless sky of gray.
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  Music.