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Episode 57: What You Believe · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we give honor and praise and glory to your great name
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for this beautiful and wonderful and magnificent day that you have made. We thank
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you for this great salvation to which you have called us. We thank you
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for the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from all unrighteousness, all iniquity.
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Lord, we thank you that you have pardoned us. You have cast
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our sins into the sea of forgetfulness, never to bring them to our remembrance
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anymore. Thank you that our sins have been blotted out, our transgressions against
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you have been washed away because of your great love for us. Thank you,
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Lord, that it is by grace that we are saved through faith,
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that not of ourselves. It is your great gift, Amen, the gift
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of life. We give you praise, we give you glory, We give
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you honor today. Lord, help someone today to see and to knowing,
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to come to believe that you are the true in the living God, that
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you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Father. We
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honor you, we love you, we praise you, we bless you,
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We believe your report, and we stand on your promises this day in Jesus
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name, Amen and Amen. All right, God bless you again. Everyone.
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We welcome you once again to this another edition of In Time Revival Ministries
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US a broadcast and podcast. I'm your host, a Man, Pastor al
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Zachary, and today we are going to continue in our series, Amen,
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a man. Very important question that we are asking. Are you saved?
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A man? Are you saved? Amen? And today we are going to
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focus on this a man, very important aspect of this great salvation believing.
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Amen, what you believe? A man? What you believe? Amen?
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All right again, we welcome you, and we certainly thank God again as
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always for all of you who pray for and support the work of this ministry.
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with your prayers. Amen, those of you who are fighting the good fight
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of faith, this is a fight. We are in warfare. Amen.
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We're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, spiritual
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wickedness. That it is in the high places, as the Bible tells us,
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and we are to be equipped with the whole armor of God. A
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man in the word of God is one of our weapons. A man not
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to be used in a fashion a man to a man necessarily hammer someone with.
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But we are to speak the truth in love, and we are to
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live a man with the word of God in truth. It is also a
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defensive weapon, a man. It is a defensive weapon. And we need
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the word of God with us and in us a man more defensively, perhaps
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than offensively, the word of God, a man the word of the Living
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God. Man shall live not by bread alone, the Bible said, but
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by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. All right,
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to the word of the Lord. Today, we're going to begin in John
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chapter number three first, and again our focus today is on what you believe.
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What you believe, Amen. The Bible admonishes us to make are calling
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an election. Sure, every saved person is a believer. Let me state
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that again, every saved person is a believer. Not every believer, however,
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is saved because what the believer believes matters. What you believe about Jesus
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matters. Are you saved? Amen? Have you been set free by the
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truth of the Living God? Have you been set free by Jesus? Amen?
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We need to understand. This is why we've stressed this so far throughout
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this series, on this very important question, because to be saved biblically means
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that you have been delivered, that you have been rescued. Local salvation is
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not an operation of man. It is not by works of man. It
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is a gift of God. It is by the grace of God through faith,
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which is also a gift of God. A man. Faith comes the
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Bible says, by hearing by what the word of the God, of the
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Word of God. So faith comes to us as a gift also, But
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it comes to the word of God. God speaks, we hear, we
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believe, we obey a man. That is what God has ordained. And
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so Jesus, I want to take you to John chapter number three. I'm
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gonna pick this conversation up. A man midway in verse number twelve is having
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this conversation. Certainly most of you Bible readers are familiar with this with the
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man by the name of Nicodemus. And let's let's go to verse number twelve.
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A man again, what you believe? It's crucial, it matters,
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it's important a man Jesus speaks these words verse number twelve. If I have
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told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe?
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That's very important, Jesus ask, how will you believe if I tell you
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heavenly things. No one has ascended to heaven, but he who came down
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from heaven, that is the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
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And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
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Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish,
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but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave
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his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but
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have everlasting life. For God did not send his son into the world world
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to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
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He who believes in him is not condemned. But he who does not believe
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a man is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the
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only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation. That the light
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has come into the world. And men love darkness rather than light because their
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deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light. Does not come
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to the light lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the
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truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they
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have been done in God. He I'm going to skip down a version number
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thirty six. He who believes in the Sun, in the sun has everlasting
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life, and he who does not believe the sun shall not see life,
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but the wrath of God abides on him. Amen. I believe these words
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of Jesus with this conversation that he had with this man Nicnemus. Amen a
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pretty straightforward. It should be a man easy to digest, simple to discern,
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and a man here and and and either believe or not believe. Believing
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in the Sun, that is Jesus also means believing the Sun. You can't
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believe in Jesus and not believe Jesus. In other words, if you say
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you believe in Jesus, then you also believe every word that he speaks.
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Again, the commandment from of old is that man is to live by every
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word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Everything that Jesus spoke to
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us is God himself speaking to us, for he is God incarnate, He
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is the Logos, he is the living Word, he is the Word made
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flesh. Amen. So if you believe in Jesus, you also believe Jesus.
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And the Bible tells us furthermore in the Gospel of John chapter number eight,
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Jesus, of course a man one about his ministry, dialoguing, a
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man speaking and teaching the people as well as his disciples. And listen to
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these words that he says in John chapter number eight. I'm going to pick
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it up at verse number thirty. The Bible say, as he spoke these
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words, Listen what the Bible says. Many believed in him. Then Jesus
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said to those Jews who believed him, watch this now, if you abide
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in my word, you are my disciples. Indeed, the King James version
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says, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples.
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Indeed, if you abide, if you continue, Amen, these are the
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true disciples. These are the words of Jesus. Y'all. Amen. Again,
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I'm not the judge. Amen. I'm not trying to amen, indict
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anyone. I'm not trying to certainly not trying to persuade anyone that they are
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not saved. But I listen, it is your responsibility. It's your personal
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responsibility, as the Bible says, to make your calling and election. Sure,
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Amen, if you believe what you say you believe, then you have
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a biblical salvation, not a lip service salvation. Jesus said, there are
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people that believe, but when they were put to the test. Amen,
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watch what the watch. I'm gonna show you what the Bibles. I'm just
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telling you what the Bible. Listen, this is very important. A man
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God lets there are a lot of people a man professing to be saved.
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And again I'm not the judge. I don't have anyone in mind. Amen,
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But amen, the true test amen of discipleship is not what we say.
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It is in our words and deeds. Also, again we're gonna see
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what the Bible, what the word of the Whether the Lord has to say
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about this. So Jesus said to those youths who believed him, if you
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abide in my word, if you continue in my word, live by my
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word, order your life, conduct yourself in my word. In my teaching,
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a man a disciple is a follower. That's what it means to be
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a disciple. Who are you following? You? See, we got a
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lot of church folk. We got a lot of church followers. We got
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a lot of pastor followers. We got a lot of preacher followers, followers,
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we got followers of men. A man Paul said, follow me as
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I follow Christ. Amen. Amen, are you following Jesus? Are you
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a true disciple? Are you abiding in him? Or are you just a
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church attendee? Those of you who are perhaps still continuing to forsake not the
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assembling of yourselves? Amen, God help us there. Amen, if you
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abody my word, you are my disciples. Indeed, and you shall listen
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what Jesus say is you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
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you free. So here you have Jesus in this dialogue John chapter number three,
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with a devoutly religious man named Nicodemus. This man was not just an
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ordinary Joe schmold not to put down the Joe Smole ordinary person. But this
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man was a Pharisee. He was highly educated, he was a member of
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the highest court, the Sanhedrin of the Jews. And Jesus in this dialogue
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not only challenges Nicodemus in his belief in his faith, Amen, but also
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anyone Amen on their on their on their profession, on their ability. If
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you will to believe the earthly or to rather want to believe the heavenly and
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not be able to grasp the earthly things, that's a problem, ladies and
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gem that's a that's a real problem. You don't believe the earthly things that
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Jesus teaches about. So he asked the question, how can you believe the
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heavenly things? This? This is, this is? This has always been
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remarkable to me. It's always been astonishing to me that people can have this
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remarkable faith. People who say they are believers believe that they are saving.
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Again, I'm not questioning anyone's salvation. Your salvation is between you and Jesus.
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Amen, believe that they are saved, believe that they're going to go
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to heaven, be in heaven with Jesus, eternal life. They believe in
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what the Bible describes as an astonishing, miraculous transformation and transition that is going
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to take place in the future, the rapture of the Church, hey man,
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that the Word of God tells us is going to happen in a moment,
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in the twinkling of an eye. Again, this is referred to as
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the rapture of the Church, the rapture of the saints, taking away,
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the snatching away from this earth of the people of God. A lot of
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people talking about being saved and say they believe and they're going to heaven.
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Well, how are you going to get there? How are you going to
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get there? Jesus? And no one, no one has ascended up to
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heaven. You haven't seen, You don't know a man. The Bible gives
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us some descriptions, particularly in the Book of Revelation, very descriptive of what
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it's going to be like for us. Amen. And Jesus told us in
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the same Gospel of John, chapter number fourteen that he was going to prepare
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a place for us. And he said, in my Father's house of many
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mansions, and where I am there there you may be also. You're going
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to be with me that's what he said. Now again, remarkable faith of
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people to believe that they are going to be transformed, that they're going to
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transition from this earth. They've never been there, No one has ever ascended
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there. Amen, you believe that you are going to transition to the afterworld,
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to the heavenly, to where God is, to the throne of God,
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to the place of the Throne, that you're gonna have that robe of
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righteousness, that you're going to have that crown of life, that you're going
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to have joy everlasting, no more tears, no more sorrow, no more
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pain. That's the heavenly. You believe that, you believe that the dead
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in Christ are going to be resurrected, and then those of us, the
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Bible says, who are alive and remaining at this transformative earth shattering event,
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we're going to join them. We're going to meet up with them, the
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risen saints who are already gone on Amen, in death, they're going to
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be resurrected from the dead, and then we're gonna meet with them those of
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us who are alive in the remaining at the time of the rapture. This
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is the Biblical description of what's going to take place. We're gonna meet the
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Lord in the air, the Bible says, and we're going to forever be
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with him. Now, how is it that a person of faith claiming to
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be a believer can believe that Jesus Christ is coming back to do such a
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spectacular thing, but they do not believe what he has spoken in the earthly
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realm. Come on, Church, somebody helped me. Jesus help me,
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Jesus help me. Jesus, Come on church, Come on church. Amen.
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Do you really believe what Jesus has spoken? Amen? And by the
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way, there's so much emphasis, a lot of emphasis on And by the
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way, everybody's going to heaven now, you know, everybody's going to he
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Amen. Don't matter how they've lived, no matter what they've done, what
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they've not done. Amen, what what can ever kind of profession of faith
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they have, you know, whatever kind of religion or whatever they've follow,
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everybody is going to heaven. Now. You know, we just got universal
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salvation for everybody. But that's not biblical. And again, I'm not here
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to condemn anybody. Jesus said, this is the condemnation that light has come
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into the world. That you prefer the darkness, whether than like, you
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won't come to him, you won't believe on him, you won't believe in
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him. Every re saved person, I'm gonna say it again, every saved
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person is a believer. But however, not every believer is saved, because
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what the believer believes matters. What you believe about Jesus matters. Amen.
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They are many a religious people who say they believe, say that Jesus is
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their Lord and savior, say that they have a relationship with him, say
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that they are born again believers, say that they follow Jesus. They say
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they are Christians. But again, it is not just what we say with
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our lips, people of God, but it is what we truly believe in
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our hearts, and what we truly believe in our hearts will be manifested in
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our walk of faith. All kinds of people in churches, but not all
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of them are in the church. They're in churches, their names are on
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church rules. Amen. They make a profession of faith, a profession of
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believing. But the Bible says, I'm again, I'm in the word,
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y'all. This is not my opinion. I'm in the word. The Bible
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says. But in works, they deny him, being abominable and disobedient.
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In a great house like the Church, the Bible says, in a great
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house, they're of all kinds of vessels. Psalm to honor and Psalm to
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dishonor. And everyone who names the name of Christ, the Bible says,
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is to depart from iniquity. Amen. The Lord knows them that are his.
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That's what the Bible says. The Scripture teaches this, The Lord knows
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them that are his. We have all kinds of people, Amen. Again,
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professing the faith, professing to be Christians, professing to be saved,
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professing to be believers. But really they're only really boils down to a real
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true believer, and the rest are unbelievers. Amen. You have never believers,
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Then you have temporary believers. Now the never believers, they don't they
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just never believed anything, period. Then you have the temporary believers. The
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Bible describes these. By the way, in this parable of the sore,
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I invite you to read that. It's in a couple of the gospels.
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I believe Jesus goes out as the sore, and he souls the seed which
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is the word of God, and it falls a man is is here is
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available a man. But you have those who never believe. And then you
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have those who temporary believe a man. They abide for a while, and
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then they get carried away. And then you have the care of this life
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believer. They're there for a while, but then the Bible says they get
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choked by the cares of this life. And then, of course there is
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the true fruit bearing believer, Amen, the true fruit bearing believer. But
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I want to show you in the Word of God also that there is this,
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this, this other I call it, I call it, I call
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it my own agenda believer. There's a there's this this group of folk that
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are my own agenda believe. And these people are operating in churches by the
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way they're they're going along with the program as it were. And Jesus did
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not come Amen, to build a church of a man pretenders, a church
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of a man of professors of the faith. Amen. Jesus came a man
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seeking a man, true worshipers, true believers. Amen. That's what he
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said. God is spirit. They that worship him must worship in spirit and
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the truth. The Father seeketh such to worship him. Amen, in spirit
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and in truth. Amen. The truth Jesus says is what makes us free.
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Amen. John chapter number six. Jesus, Amen, let me set
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the framework for this, if you will. Jesus has been working miracles in
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signs and wonders, and one of the miracles that he had performed, of
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course, was the feeding of the multitude with the fishes and the loaves,
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with the multiplying the fish, multiplying the loaves. This is nothing spectacular,
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if you will for Jesus to do. I mean, he did it in
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the Old Testament. Amen. He fed the multitude of the Jews when they
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came out of Egypt. Amen, in the wilderness. Amen. Forty years,
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ladies and gentlemen, forty years He provided for them, Amen. As
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they wandered around in what unbelief. They didn't believe, even though they were
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participating in all of the miraculous a man workings of the holy ghosts, Amen,
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the spirit of the Living God, the Angel of the Lord himself in
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their presence, working miracles, giving them water out of the rock, their
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clothing and shoes a man never wore out. Amen. And again he provided
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substance for them every single day. Amen. And yet they did not believe.
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You see, people want to see signs and wonders. Amen, But
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are you willing to believe? Do you believe? Amen? Do you believe
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the one who is the miracle worker, the one who speaks. And so
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these people were following. You had a lot of people following Jesus. Jesus
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had multitudes had cross These people were crossing over bodies of water to get to
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Jesus. Amen. We we are we we we we want matt Rabbi,
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when did you When did you leave? When did you get? Over a
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year? We were looking for you, Amen. But they had their own
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agenda. Again, this is what Jesus said, Jesus exposes. See when
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when when Jesus starts speaking the hard things, the tough things, Amen,
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that's when there there's a true division of the true believer, the one who
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is in it a man for the sake of the truth, for the love
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of Jesus, for the love of the Kingdom, for the love of the
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ministry, for the love of souls. Amen, for the sake of a
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man of the cross, a man of you know, an appreciation and gratitude
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for what Jesus has done for them. Amen. This is this is the
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dividing line. A man, those who are true believers and those who are
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professing believers. There is a line the ladies and gentlemen, that the true
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believer doesn't crossover and cross back into unbelief. And there is a line where
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the professing believer can't crossover, because again they have their own agenda so that
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they can. They're only gonna go so far. So in essence, their
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so called believing is not a true belief. Amen. And so we're gonna
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see here as this is. I'm gonna give you two examples. The first
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one is in the Gospel of John, chapter number six, where again Jesus
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is teaching, has been teaching, and he has put forth this saying which
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they did not understand. He said, except you eat the flesh of the
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Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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Jesus of course, is referring to his sacrifice, his body that would be
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broken, his blood that would be shed. Amen. If you a man,
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don't believe in the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus,
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the atonement Amen, the necessity amen of his men coming down to a man
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shed his blood without the shed in blood. The Bible says there is no
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remission of if you don't believe what Jesus came to do. Again, a
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lot of people pick up a lot of the teachings of Jesus, the sayings
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of Jesus. They talk about Jesus, then they want to focus on what
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he did a man in feeding people, clothing people, and healing people and
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all they're doing. But when it comes to the tough things, the sacrificial
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things, the taking up the cross, talk, denying yourself stuff, amen,
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that's what Jesus said, Amen, and not looking back, putting your
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hands to not looking back. When Jesus started talking all of these and teaching
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all of these kinds of things, oh man, the crowds begin to thin
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out. So Jesus teaches about eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood,
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and the people didn't understand what it was that Jesus was talking about.
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And Jesus had to tell them. Listen verse number sixty three of John,
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chapter number six. It is the spirit who gives life. That's why it's
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so important that you have the Holy Spirit, ladies and gentlemen. We'll get
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to that in just a minute. Also, he said, it is the
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spirit who gives life. The flesh prophets. Nothing. Listen what Jesus says.
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The word that I speak to you are spirit. He was speaking to
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them in spiritual terms. But again, the natural man does not receive the
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things of the God, neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually
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discerned. That this is why we need the Holy Spirit to open our understanding.
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Peter and the disciples did not really have the revelation of who Jesus was
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until it was revealed to him by the Spirit. By Amen, the spirit
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of the Living God, flesh and blood. Jesus said, did not reveal
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this to you, Peter? Who do men say that I am old?
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He's your time? Say you're this, and some say you're that. Peter
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spoke up and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the Living
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God. Amen. And so when Jesus is speaking, Amen, he's speaking
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the words of life. He is the word of life. Amen. The
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words that I speak to you are spirit, he says life. But there
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are listen what Jesus says. There are some of you who do not believe.
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Now Jesus is talking to people who are following him. A supposed follower
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is a supposed disciple. These are people who are following Jesus. But listen
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what he says. There are some of you who do not believe. In
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other words, you're not a true believer. This is what the Bible says
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verse sixty four. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were, who
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did not believe, and who would betray him verse sixty five. And he
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said, therefore, I have said to you that no one can come to
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me unless it has been granted to him by my father. Listen, listen,
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watch what happens when Jesus starts speaking these hard sayings. These are people
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that are supposally follow him, people that are believers, disciples verse sixty six.
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When Jesus finish with these heart and difficult sayings, watch what happens verse
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sixty six, John chapter six. From that time many of his disciples went
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back and walked with him no more. From that time, many of his
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disciples went back and walked with Jesus no more. They left. They said,
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this is See they couldn't cross that line. See that I can.
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I believe up until a certain point. I believe as long as the blessings
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good. I believe, as long as the prosperity is there. I believe,
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as long as the waters are calm and still, and my body is
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healthy, and my mind is not troubled, I believe, as long as
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I can rest and and there's no persecution, and there's no tribulation, and
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there's no trouble, I believe, as long as all of the good and
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perfect gifts. Ah. From my perception, it's just raining down on me.
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I believe. Ah. From that time, Look what Look what happens.
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Amen. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked with
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Jesus. No more so Jesus Verse sixty seven, the Bible says said to
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the twelve, do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter,
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thank you, Jesus answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
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You have the words of eternal life. Also listen what he says. Also
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we have come to believe. That's where it, ladies and gentlemen, And
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please understand this. This is a process. Faith is built. Faith is
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Amen is grow is a thing that grows with us. We move from faith
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to faith. Amen. No one a man gets it all at one time.
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None of us get it all at one time. Amen. That's why
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you have to walk in the faith. That's why you have to stand in
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the faith a man. Believe what you know already a man, and your
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faith can be built. Amen. But it starts with basic, simple Amen.
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Amen. Biblical things that must be believed first in the beginning. For
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example, God created the heavens and the earth. If you don't believe the
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God is the creator. Amen, you can I believe, really literally,
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you cannot believe anything else in the Bible. It starts right there. There
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are basic, fundamental, foundational things that you must come to believe. Now
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there are people. Again, I'm not saying that people have to believe that
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first before they are saved. But when you come to the faith, Amen,
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you believe the word of God. Now there are some things that we
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may not understand that, some things that are gonna be harder to believe than
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others. But you grow in your faith, you grow in your trust,
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you grow in your confidence, you grow in your belief in God. Amen.
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In who He is, Amen, in who Jesus is Lord, to
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whom shall we go. You have the words of eternal life, and we
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have come to believe. You see, there's a lot of things that the
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typle didn't believe at first. Amen. But they grew in their faith.
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Boy, and by the time, Oh, my God, when they received
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the Holy Ghost, who did Jesus breathe on him and said, receive ye
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the Holy When they received the Holy Ghost, and after they had seen the
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resurrected Jesus, Oh, there was no stopping them. Oh, there was
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no stopping him. Oh. Boy, did they believe it. Boy,
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did they believe. They believed to the I mean martyrdom of their very lives.
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Amen, we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ,
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the son of the Living God. Now what you have here a man
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again, is my own agenda. Believers, they left off from following Jesus.
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These are people who have been following Jesus. But Jesus revealed the true
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motives, their true agenda, the real reason why they were following him.
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Read it in the text. Jesus said to them, you are following me
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for the fishes and the loaves, free lunch, free supper. You are
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following me, amen, because you got to eat, you got fed.
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Amen, labor not, Jesus told them for that which perishes. That's when
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he began with again the heart sings the difficult things. And when he gets
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to the difficult, the heart stuff. People don't want, you know,
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they want as long as there's joy and praise and worship and the feel goodness.
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But then when the heart sings, the tough stuff comes. You know,
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people got joy, juice jumping around in the churches, you know.
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And but but when the tough stuff comes, you talk about forgiveness, loving
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your enemies, enduring hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, praying for your
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enemies, forgiving those that despitefully use you. When you talk about the tough
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things, Amen, fasting, laboring in prayer. Amen. When Jesus spoke
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the hard sayings which demanded change of heart, which which demanded conformity, Amen,
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obedience to the word of God, then the my own agenda believers departed
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and walked no more with Jesus. Amen. Now I'm gonna give you another
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example of my own agenda believer. This is a person who, according to
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the tast of the scriptures. Amen, what's a believer? Watch what happens?
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This is the Acts chapter number eight. Amen. Philip, the evangelists,
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after the persecution of the Saints, went down to Samaria. Jesus had
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already told them to go into all the parts, onto all the world,
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into all the parts, on different places that he named for them to preach
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the gospel. But they were amen, concentrated there in Jerusalem, and the
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Lord sent persecution which scattered them. Amen, God will will be done by
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the way. And so Philip, one of the Seven, the Bible says,
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went down to Samaria, and he preached the gospel there, and people
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were being healed, people were being delivered, Amen, people were being set
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free. Amen. There was, the Bible says, great joy in that
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city. But look at verse number nine, chapter number eight, the Book
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of the Acts. The Bible tells us, but there was a certain man
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called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of
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Samaria, claiming that he was someone great to whom they all gave heed,
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from the least to the greatest, saying, this man is the great power
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of God. And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries
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for a long time. But when they believed, listen, what happens.
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This is why we got to go preach the gospel. Is the power of
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the Gospel. Oh, this is what the apostle Paul was talking about,
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and he said, I mean, I'm not ashamed of the gospel a man.
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It is the power of God into salvation to everyone that believes. And
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so the Bible says, when they believed Philip, as he preached the things
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concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and
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women were baptized. They have it. That's what that's what the churches is
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about. A man going and making disciples of all nations. Thisten what happens,
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Watch what happens? Then, the Bible tells us. Simon himself also
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believed. Simon the sorcerer, Simon the witch doctor, Simon the voodoo worker.
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He also believed. And when he was baptized, he continued with Philip
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and was amazed seeing the miracles and signed which were done. Now Here plainly
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written in the text. Here is a man who was a supposed believer.
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The Bible says he also believed. Not only did he supposedly believe, Look
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what else happened. The Bible says, he was baptized, And that wasn't
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all. The Bible says. He also followed Philip as Philip went about the
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ministry. But ladies and gentlemen. Was he a true believer? You see
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you got again all kinds of folks who say they are believers, who will
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follow? Who will who will be in the church singing the choirs, a
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man on the praise team, a man serving different capacities of ministry. Even
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the preachers themselves, many of them, Amen, following supposedly in the faith.
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But are you a true believer? Was this man Simon saved? See
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a lot of people say, I believe, I believe in they I'm saved,
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I'm saved. I believe, I believe I'm saved. I'm saving.
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I believe. Here's a man who is a believer. Here's a man,
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a man who was following. Here's a man who was a man baptized.
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Was he saved? Are you saved? As the question, ladies and gentlemen,
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that is the question are used. Not are you a professor? Not
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are you in the church attending the church? Amen, serving in the church?
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Are you saved? Are you truly saved? The Bible says, look
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at verse fourteen, Acts, chapter number eight. When the apostles who at
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Jerusalem heard that Samary had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and
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John to them who, when they had calmed down, prayed for them that
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they might receive the Holy Spirit. Oh, my God, do you have
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the holy ghosts? Amen? For as yet, listen what happened He had
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fallen. He had fallen upon none of them. That's the Holy Spirit.
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They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they
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that Peter and John, the apostles, laid their hands on them, and
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they received the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna get to that in just a minute.
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When Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostle's hands the Holy
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Spirit was given, he offered them money. Up Old, here comes that
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true agenda. Here it is the motive the see a lot of folks in
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the church. Are you? Are you truly in it for the right reason.
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When Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles hands, the
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Holy Spirit was given, the Bible says he offered them money, saying,
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give me this power also that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the
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Holy Spirit. Peter's response to him verse twenty, Your money perished with you
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because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money there are
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a lot of people today. I think they can buy their way into the
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kingdom. They can bribe God. Amen, No you can't. Amen,
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Peter says, you have neither part nor portion. Listen, this is a
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man who believed. Supposedly, this is a man who was baptized. We
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know he was baptized, as the Bible says he was baptized. Now again,
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only God knows the heart. A lot of people get baptized. But
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are you a true believer all Jesus, hep us, Oh help us,
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Jesus, help us, Jesus help us. Oh happus Jesus. Amen.
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Peter says to this man, you have neither part nor portion in this matter,
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for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Man believe
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the man baptized. The man was following Philip around in the ministry, but
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his heart was not right in the sight of God. So what does Peter
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say to this man? Repent? A lot of people professing they never repented.
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A lot of people say they believe never repented. A lot of people
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who say that they are disciples that were baptized. They never repented, and
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that's why they don't have the Holy ghost. Repent therefore of this your wickedness,
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and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
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For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness, and you are bound
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up in iniquity. This man had his own agenda, and it was revealed.
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Amen. There's nothing hidden, the Bible says, that will not be
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revealed. There's nothing in the dark that won't be brought to the light.
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Jesus says these words. And Luke, Chapter six, verse forty six,
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why do you call me lord lord and do not the things that I say?
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Amen? Why do you call me lord and doing other things? I
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say? Whoever comes to me, here's my sayings, and them see there's
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obedience. Oh, it's just as simple as that, y'all. He says,
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I will show you whom he is like the man who comes to me,
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the man who obeys my word. A man man shall not live by
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bread alone, but by every word. Or your follower of Jesus, then
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you are a doer of his word. You are a doer of his commandments.
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That's why you say, why do you call me lord Lord? You
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make this profession. You say that you're a believer, but you do not
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do the things that I say, that I have taught, that I have
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spoken. The man that does them, he is like a man building a
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house who dug deep, laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood
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rolls, the stream beat vehemently against that house and could not shake it,
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for it was founded on the rock. Ladies and gentlemen, that rockets Jesus.
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That's for the one who believes and who obeys Jesus. But he who
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heard the same word, the same teaching, the same words that proceeded out
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of the mouth of God, he who heard and did nothing, he doesn't
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obey. Amen. It's like a man who built a house on the earth
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without a foundation against which the stream beat vehemently. That's the same storms.
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That's the same wind, that's the same hurricane. That's the same aman,
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troubled trials, tribulation man, that's one of a woman a few days,
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but the same stuff. The Bible says. Immediately it fell, and the
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ruin of that house was great. Every saved person, ladies and gentlemen,
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the Church of the Living God, every saved person is a belief. However,
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not every believer so called is saved, because what the believer believes matters.
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What you believe matters, and what you believe about Jesus especially matters.
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Do you believe that he is the Christ, that he is the Savior,
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that he is the way, the truthful, He's the only way. You
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can't have Jesus and and this and that. A lot of people want to,
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you know, combine and mestions cover all of my bases. Let me
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just combine all everything. He's just a little bit of this and a little
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bit of that. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no no no. Let me get very quickly to this
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this, this, this thing about the Holy Ghost. Because the Bible tells
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us the Romans eight nine, if any man have not the spirit of the
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Lord Jesus Christ, he is not of his acts. Chapter number nineteen.
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The Bible says it happened while Apolos was at Corinth that Paul, having as
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who the Upper Regions, came to Ephesus, and finding some disciples, he
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said to them, listen, very important question. Did you receive the Holy
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Spirit when you believed? The king Jane version said, have you received the
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Holy Ghost since you believed? Do you have the Holy Spirit? Do you
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have the spirit of the Living God? In you. So, they said
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to him, we have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy
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Spirit. Now, these, of course were men who have been separated.
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Amen after Amen, the preaching of John, the teaching of John. They
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believed the preaching and teaching of John. And they a man, were not
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there evidently during the ministry of Jesus, had not heard of the Holy Spirit,
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perhaps being poured out since the day of Pentecost. But they were disciples
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walking in the teachings of John. Again, Paul asked the question, have
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you received the holy ghosts? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe?
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So, we're not even heard of the Holy Spirit? And he said
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unto them into what then, were you baptizing? They said, into John's
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baptism. Then Paul said, John indeed baptize with a baptism of repentance,
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saying to the people that they should believe. Listen, believe on him who
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would come after him, that is, on Christ, Jesus. The Bible
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says, when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the
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Lord Jesus. Baptism, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God is
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in the name of Jesus Christ. For the remission of sins in Him,
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in Him, in his name only. Amen. He's the Savior, He's
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the redeemer. Amen. Neither is that salvation in any other. Amen.
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So we baptize in the name of Jesus Christ. The Bible says that they
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should believe on him who would come after him, that is, on Christ
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Jesus. And when they heard this, the Bible says, they were baptized
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in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands
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on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues
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and propheside. Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believe? What you
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believe is very important. Again, everyone who is saved is a true believer.
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Everyone who is saved is in Christ Jesus. Everyone who is in Christ
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Jesus has the Holy Spirit. Now the Church of Jesus Christ again, it's
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operating with the mission of going into all the world preaching the Gospel to every
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creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved. He that believes
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not these are the words of Jesus shall be condemned, and these signs shall
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follow. Them that believe what the true believer believes matters, and the true
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believer believes in Jesus, believes the teachings of Jesus, and the true believer
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follows on in the doctrine of Christ Jesus as a true disciple disciple of Jesus,
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Have you received the Holy coast? Because he who does not have the
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spirit Romans eight nine of the Lord Jesus Christ does not belong to him.
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Are you saved?