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Amazing Facts | The Supreme Sacrifice | June 24, 2022
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- male announcer: This presentation is brought to you
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- by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.
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- Doug Batchelor: Can you imagine stepping into the line
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- of fire on a battlefield to save your enemy?
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- On November 12, 1944, German Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld
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- heard the desperate cries of a wounded American soldier who had
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- been shot down in the midst of a German minefield.
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- He ordered his men not to fire upon any rescuers,
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- but as time slipped by, no Allied medics
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- came to the aid of the injured man.
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- That's when Lengfeld decided to help the enemy soldier himself.
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- After organizing a rescue squad, he stepped out into the danger
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- to assist his enemy, but he never got very far.
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- He was injured by an exploding mine
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- and died several hours later.
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- In 1994, a group of American veterans erected
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- a memorial to honor his act of self-sacrifice.
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- It's always moving when we hear about people who
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- risked their lives to help a stranger in need.
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- But, you know, Jesus risked much more to save his enemies when he
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- came to this world, even knowing that he'd be hated, rejected,
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- and persecuted, and ultimately killed, did not hinder him.
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- Why? What was the motivation?
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- Join me now as we take a deeper look
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- at this transformational subject.
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- Doug: Tonight's presentation is among the most important, and
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- it's dealing with the subject of The Supreme Sacrifice.
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- You know, this is what we're going to do
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- tonight is we're going to spend some time beholding
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- the Lamb, and it is a prophetic theme.
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- Now, some people come to a seminar like this and say,
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- "Pastor Doug, I didn't come to talk about Jesus and salvation.
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- I want to understand prophecy.
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- I want to know about the beast and the
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- Antichrist and Armageddon and 666.
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- Let's study those things."
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- Well, you know, this is the theme of prophecy.
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- If you look in Revelation chapter 5, it talks about a Lamb
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- that had been slain that's in the midst of the throne.
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- And throughout the book of Revelation, Jesus is referred to
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- the Lamb and unless we know who that Lamb is,
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- you know, we are going to miss out on everything.
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- The purpose of all Bible prophecy is redemptive.
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- The purpose of all Bible prophecy is redemptive.
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- God's prophecies are not just to entertain
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- us that He can foretell the future.
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- The reason He has these prophecies
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- is so that we can be saved.
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- What good is it to you if you understand what the beast is and
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- 666 and the Antichrist and mark of the beast, and you even know
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- the date and the hour of Christ's coming,
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- if you're not saved, what good does that do you?
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- What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?
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- You might think, "Well, I just, you know,
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- I want this knowledge."
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- Well, the devil knows more than anybody
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- here, it's not going to save him.
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- What you ultimately need to know
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- is Jesus, a relationship with Him.
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- All the prophecies are pointing towards that.
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- So, we're not really being honest or fair with you if we're
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- just teaching Bible trivia and prophecy trivia, and we're not
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- talking about the central theme of prophecy, which is Christ.
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- Now, when you open the book of Revelation, who knows
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- what the first line in Revelation says?
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- The revelation of the Antichrist?
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- The revelation of the beast? The revelation of Armageddon?
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- Millennium? Secret rapture to witnesses?
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- They're all in the book, but
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- that's not what it's talking about.
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- It's the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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- And in the first chapter, Jesus appears,
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- and He's being revealed in these prophecies.
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- So tonight, we're going to be talking about what the
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- prophecies have to say about Jesus.
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- Is Jesus the only way to be saved
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- and importance of eternal life?
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- And what is salvation? First question.
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- "Why was it necessary for Jesus to die?"
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- You read in Romans chapter 3, verse 23,
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- "For all have sinned," everybody's sinned.
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- See, sin is deadly and it's contagious.
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- In fact, this planet has been pretty much quarantined
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- from the rest of the cosmos, the universe,
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- because we've got a deadly disease.
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- You can just see that sin hurts.
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- Sin hurts you, sin hurts your neighbor, sin hurts God, and sin
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- is selfishness, and it just basically self-destructs.
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- And the end result of sin is death.
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- The penalty for sin is death.
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- You might be thinking, "Well, then why aren't we
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- dead yet, since we've all sinned?"
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- Because through the sacrifice of Jesus, He not only bought the
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- opportunity for people to find everlasting life, but every
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- person has been provided with probationary time.
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- The Lord has bought us an extension
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- to make a different choice.
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- He's bought us probationary time to say,
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- "I don't want to live for myself.
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- I want to live for God." Penalty for sin is death.
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- You can see here also in Hebrews chapter 9, verse 22, "Without
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- the shedding of blood, there is no remission."
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- The word "remission" means there is no
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- forgiveness without the shedding of blood.
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- The Bible tells us the life is in the blood,
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- and all creatures need blood.
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- Blood is what cleanses us.
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- I remember reading a few years ago, and it's also very relevant
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- today, when they had that Ebola outbreak there in Africa.
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- And, you know, COVID is very serious, but the survival rate
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- is a whole lot better than Ebola.
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- And some of you remember that there was this nurse William
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- Pooley, he contracted Ebola and nearly died, but he survived.
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- But because he survived, in his body, he had the antibodies that
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- were very rare because there were very few survivors.
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- And the antibodies were basically a life serum.
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- And he flew to other parts of the world to
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- give transfusions to save other people.
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- Who knows what the first miracle of Jesus was?
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- He turned the water to wine.
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- What's wine a symbol of in the Bible?
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- The blood, there at the Last Supper,
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- Jesus gave them the cup of grape juice.
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- He said, "Take, drink.
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- This is My blood that is shed for you
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- for the remission of sin."
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- Said, "Except you eat My flesh and drink My blood--" and He
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- doesn't literally want us drinking blood.
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- You all know that, no vampires here.
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- He's talking about having His life go in us.
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- What's the last thing that Jesus did before He died on the cross?
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- People offered Him sour wine on a sponge.
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- So, they're at the wedding feast, Jesus's
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- first miracle, He provides pure grape juice.
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- They said, "You've saved the best."
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- Then the last thing He does is He takes sour wine from man.
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- Jesus gave the human race a blood transfusion.
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- Basically, He took our badness and He gives us His goodness.
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- He made this great exchange with us.
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- You can read also in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse 3,
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- Christ died for the sins of the Jews?
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- He died for the sin of the whole world.
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- Did He only die for the sins of those who choose to believe in
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- Him, or did He die for everybody?
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- Christ died for our sins because He loved us, He took our place.
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- Now, sin is deadly. It killed him.
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- Sort of something like, if you can imagine if you will, a
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- family that lives on a beautiful island out in the Pacific where
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- it's tropical paradise, and they got an abundance of good food
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- and fruits and clean water, a family with ten children.
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- you know, it's like Robinson Crusoe with ten children.
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- They're all having a wonderful time, and the one of them,
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- for some inexplicable reason, contracts
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- a deadly, painful, fatal disease.
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- And the parents have to make a difficult decision
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- because it's extremely contagious.
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- They know if that child stays on the island, it'll infect all
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- the other children, and they love that child.
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- Wouldn't they be doing everything they could to find a
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- way to isolate that child and heal them if they could?
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- Put him on a raft, find some cure.
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- This is what God is faced with.
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- He had to pretty much separate us from the rest of the universe
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- because sin is deadly and it's contagious.
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- And Jesus said, "There's only one way, I will take their
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- penalty to meet the demands of justice.
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- I will take their weakness and their sin,
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- and I will give them My strength.
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- I will give them My purity. I will give them My power.
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- They will be new creatures."
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- You also read in 1 Peter 3, verse 18, "For Christ also
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- suffered once, the just for the unjust."
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- He is just. He never sinned.
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- He did not deserve it, but He died for you and me.
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- So, what is this great plan of salvation called?
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- It says in Revelation 14:6--I told you
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- this as a prophecy subject.
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- Having the everlasting gospel, this is our study tonight.
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- What is the everlasting gospel?
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- The word "gospel" means good news.
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- "Having the everlasting gospel to preach
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- to those who dwell on the earth."
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- You read in Revelation chapter 14 where this passage comes
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- from that in the last days just before Christ comes in chapter
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- 14, Jesus is pictured coming in the clouds to harvest the earth.
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- And just before He comes, there's pictured these angels
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- flying in heaven with these messages,
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- and they're giving them with a loud voice.
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- And one of those messages is this angel's got the everlasting
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- gospel to preach unto those who dwell upon the earth.
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- You know, this is being fulfilled tonight.
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- "Why did God make such a fantastic sacrifice for us?"
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- "For God so," what?
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- How many of you know this verse in John 3:16?
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- "For God so loved--" say it with me, would you?
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- "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten
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- Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
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- may not perish, but have everlasting life."
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- You know, that is such a wonderful verse.
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- I took off tonight before I came, I usually print out a
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- couple of notes, and I forgot, but I think I was
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- able to print this one thing on my phone
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- I want to share with you real quick.
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- Just about John 3:16, it's one of the greatest verses.
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- Listen to this. Just break it down for a second.
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- This is John 3:16, "For God, (the greatest Giver), so loved,
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- (the greatest motive), the world, (the greatest number),
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- that He gave, (the greatest act), His only Son, (the
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- greatest gift), that whosoever, (the greatest invitation),
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- believes in Him, (the greatest opportunity),
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- should not perish, (the greatest deliverance),
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- but have eternal life, (the greatest joy)."
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- This verse is so jam-packed, volcanic,
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- explosive with promise.
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- That's why it's many people's favorite verse.
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- He so loved us.
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- "What must I do to benefit from Jesus's sacrificial sacrifice?"
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- The Bible tells us some things that happened.
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- First of all, you got to believe.
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- That almost sounds too good to be true.
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- All things are possible to those who believe.
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- Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.
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- And it starts with simple faith.
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- Now, I mean, once you do believe, you're going to see
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- changes, but it starts with belief.
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- "If" is a two-letter word, but it's
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- a very dangerous word for Jesus.
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- When Jesus died, He was executed between two thieves.
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- Both thieves were asking for deliverance.
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- One of them said, "If you are the Christ,
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- save Yourself and save us."
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- He figured that Jesus would put Himself first.
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- The other thief said, "Lord, remember
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- me when You come into Your paradise."
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- No doubt he says, "You are the Lord,
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- and I believe you've got a Kingdom.
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- Remember me when you've come into Your Kingdom."
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- And Jesus said to him, "Verily I say to you today,
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- you will be with Me in Paradise."
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- Said, "Verily I say to you today,
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- you will be with Me in Paradise."
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- What a wonderful promise.
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- Now, did that thief do a lot of good works
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- and make donations and philanthropic work?
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- And, you know, did he cook at the church every week?
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- Did he do any good deeds that earned his salvation?
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- Or did he simply reach out, pray, and believe?
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- Doug: Don't go anywhere, friends.
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- In just a moment, we're going to return
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- with the rest of today's presentation.
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- No doubt you've often heard that Jesus died for your sins and
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- that He paid an enormous price to save you from sin and death.
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- It sounds important, but how does that affect your
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- Well, let's return to today's presentation and learn some more
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- amazing facts from the Word of God.
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- Doug: First of all, Acts chapter 3, verse 19,
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- you can also read this in Acts chapter 2.
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- The first word is, what's it say up there on the screen?
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- "Repent therefore, be converted, that
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- your sins might be blotted out."
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- When you look to Jesus in faith and you accept Him,
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- then tell Him you're sorry for your sins.
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- And this is the second part of that.
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- "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
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- just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
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- from," a little bit of unrighteousness.
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- I didn't know if you were reading that
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- with me, but oh, yeah, it does.
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- It says, "All unrighteousness."
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- "You mean after my life of sin, I can tell the Lord I'm sorry
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- for my sins and repent of my sins and confess, and He says
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- He will cleanse me from all unrighteousness?"
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- That's right, in the Bible, you've
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- got adulterers, adulteresses, murderers,
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- thieves that are forgiven by God.
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- Paul said, "And such were some
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- of you, but you've been cleansed.
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- You've been forgiven.
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- You've been washed because of Jesus."
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- He completely transforms you, but it says you need to repent.
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- Now, repentance means a genuine sorrow for sin
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- where you're willing to turn away from it.
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- There's a lot of Christians that sort
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- of teach a shallow idea of repentance.
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- They'll have a church service, and they'll say, "If you'd like
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- to accept Jesus and have eternal life, you know,
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- raise your hand, say this prayer.
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- Yes, Jesus, I accept You," and go home, and they kind
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- of pretty much continue living their life.
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- Repentance is where you have a sorrow for your sin and you
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- genuinely want to be made different.
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- You want to be delivered from your sin.
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- A lot of people have different addictions.
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- You don't want to just be forgiven and
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- continue with your addiction.
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- You want to be saved from your sin, right?
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- What does the Bible say to Mary?
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- Jesus said--or the angel said to Mary, "You'll call His name
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- Jesus because He will save people from their sin."
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- He wants to transform you and save you from your sin.
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- Sin is your problem. So, we repent.
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- Now, if--after the program, I try to,
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- you know, I take off my microphone.
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- I go back, and I try to greet the people that are coming.
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- And if on my way to the back door, I run into you, and I
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- knock you down and throw you to the floor, and your stuff
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- scattered everywhere and I say, "Excuse me,"
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- and I keep going, that's probably not right.
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- I ought to stop and, you know, help you up
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- and apologize, be a little more thorough.
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- If on the way to the door, I bumped your elbow with my elbow,
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- I just say, "Excuse me," I go on my way.
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- The degree of offense dictates how much you apologize.
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- See what I'm saying?
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- So, when we say, "Thank you for salvation, Jesus,"
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- and we just walk away, we don't have a
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- concept of what He suffered for our sin.
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- Part of being a Christian, and not just
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- repentance, it's what you call restoration.
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- It teaches that in the Bible too, but you
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- don't hear too many sermons about that.
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- It's being a new creature, righting wrongs.
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- And you know what?
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- You do that--if you can put that list on the bed and kneel by it
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- and say, "Lord, you promised to cleanse me from all
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- unrighteousness, thank You for cleansing me."
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- And believe and throw that list away.
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- Don't anyone--press the delete button.
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- Don't let anyone get that list.
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- And you're going to feel such relief and
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- peace in your life when you do that.
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- "What is this wonderful conversion experience called?"
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- You can read about it there in John 3, verse 7.
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- "You must be--" what did Jesus say to Nicodemus?
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- "You must be born again."
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- What's He talking about when He said, "You must be born again"?
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- It's talking about you become a new person.
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- You get a new beginning.
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- And when you come to Jesus, you get a new start where all of the
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- sins and the mistakes of the past are washed away.
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- Like an innocent baby, you come forth into a new world, and you
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- are adopted into the family of God.
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- God now calls you His son, His daughter,
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- and He will watch over you.
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- It's like, for me, one of the greatest miracles is
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- metamorphosis, how you see this worm turn
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- into this elegant, winged creature.
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- What a transformation.
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- That's what happens in conversion,
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- you become a new creature.
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- He changes you.
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- Old things are passed away, all things become new,
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- and you get the innocence of a little baby.
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- "Who enters the heart of a Christian,
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- of each born-again Christian?"
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- The Bible says, "The Spirit of truth, but you know Him, for He
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- dwells with you and He will be in you."
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- Notice again, the emphasis on He.
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- The Holy Spirit will be in you.
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- And every day, I pray for the Holy Spirit.
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- All the time, many times through the day before the program I'm
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- saying, "God, I want Your Spirit to be in me."
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- Because He will lead you, He'll guide you, He'll give you
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- wisdom, He'll give you sensitivity about what to say,
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- how to treat people, how to be like Jesus.
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- The Bible calls it being Spirit led.
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- And in the same way, I believe in the last days, God wants to
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- baptize His people in the Holy Spirit.
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- And I think you're going to see the same kind of outpouring of
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- the Spirit and the miracles that you see in the book of Acts.
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- I think that's going to happen again
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- before the Second Coming, don't you?
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- Well, how's that going to happen?
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- You know how the disciples received the
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- Holy Spirit in Pentecostal power?
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- Is they spent ten days together praying,
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- confessing their faults, forgiving each other.
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- And when their hearts were empty, then God could fill them.
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- God wants to fill you with His love, His joy, His abundance.
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- But unfortunately, our hearts are so full of the
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- world, there's no room for anything else.
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- When you humble yourself before God, He will fill
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- you with the Spirit and He will lift you up.
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- "When Jesus lives in my heart through
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- the Holy Spirit, what will I do?"
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- How are things different?
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- "Both to will and to do of His good pleasure."
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- And that's Philippians 2:13.
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- We are going to be daily wanting to
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- seek out what God wants us to do.
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- We're going to be sensitive to God's leading.
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- You're going to start seeing the most
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- amazing miracles happen in your life.
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- When I was a baby Christian, I think I needed a little extra
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- encouragement because I was very cynical.
- 00:19:32.987 --> 00:19:39.126
- Like John, I'm from New York City, and they got so many
- 00:19:39.126 --> 00:19:41.562
- schemes there and con artists that when I started reading the
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- Bible, I just--I didn't want to be taken in.
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- So, when I was praying, I believed, but the Lord had to
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- just give me some, some encouragement.
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- And I saw so many miracles happen that proved to me that
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- God is real, and He'll do this for you.
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- So, pray for His leading and His will
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- to show you what to do, and He will.
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- You know, we sing that theme song each night,
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- "Help me to know Your will, Lord."
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- The greatest battle is not just knowing God's will,
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- it's to have a willingness to do His will.
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- "Why should I be confident that my new-birth
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- experience will be successful?"
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- Answer, "He who has begun a good work in you will
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- complete it until the day of Jesus Christ."
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- This is Philippians 1, verse 6.
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- You know, there's so many people that think that, you know, "I
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- started out, but I'm not seeing much progress.
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- I want God to finish what He started in my life."
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- The Bible promises God is the author
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- and the finisher of your faith.
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- He will finish what He starts in your life, if you ask Him.
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- He who begun a good work in you will perform it.
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- Jesus is not a quitter. Some people get discouraged.
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- They say, "You know, I came to Jesus, but I had no idea that
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- there was going to be problems afterward."
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- I think pastors do a disservice to people when we make it sound
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- like you come to the altar and you accept Jesus, and it's going
- 00:21:04.745 --> 00:21:07.648
- to be a bed of roses and a bowl of cherries from there on.
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- When the children of Israel escaped the
- 00:21:11.185 --> 00:21:13.054
- slavery of Egypt, did all of their problems end?
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- They crossed the Red Sea, you can call that baptism.
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- Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10, that's like baptism.
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- They're no longer in the territory of Egypt.
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- They're beginning their journey into the Promised Land.
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- And they rejoiced for a little while,
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- but then they were attacked by the Amalekites.
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- God gave them victory if they went and fought with
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- Joshua, and Joshua led them to victory.
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- They ran out of bread. They got hungry.
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- They murmured and complained,
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- and God gave them bread from heaven.
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- They ran out of water. They got thirsty.
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- God gave them water.
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- They just had challenge after challenge
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- to test their faith along the way.
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- And they're wandering, "Why don't we just go
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- directly from Egypt to the Promised Land?"
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- They did a lot of wandering, you know why?
- 00:21:54.562 --> 00:21:56.497
- They had to go through what you call sanctification.
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- They went through a process of learning to trust God.
- 00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:01.969
- Now, it says in Isaiah, "Learn to do good."
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- Once you come to the Lord, you have to, sort of, unlearn
- 00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:09.410
- everything you learned in the school of the devil, and you've
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- got to learn now what it means to follow the Lord.
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- Do not be discouraged if you fall down a
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- few times in your early walk with Christ.
- 00:22:16.851 --> 00:22:19.687
- "How will true conversion change a person's life?"
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- So, when you have come to the Lord and you've experienced
- 00:22:23.157 --> 00:22:25.359
- genuine conversion, what happens?
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- A says, "By this all will know that you are My disciples,
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- if you have love for one another."
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- You know, some people say, "Oh, you know,
- 00:22:34.602 --> 00:22:35.936
- I don't want to go to church.
- 00:22:35.936 --> 00:22:37.271
- There's some hypocrites in church."
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- Well, that's the best environment to learn love in.
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- The disciples, did they argue among themselves?
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- The Bible says they did. Do families sometimes argue?
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- If you say, "Lord, give me love," do you think He's just
- 00:22:52.953 --> 00:22:55.055
- going to give you some pink package in the mail and love's
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- going to spill all over you with little sparkle
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- fairy dust and you can love everybody?
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- No, He's going to put unlovable people around you,
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- and you're going to learn how to love.
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- But once you learn those people, the
- 00:23:08.002 --> 00:23:09.336
- lovable people are really easy, right?
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- But He's going to teach you to love.
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- And how did the Bible say that everybody
- 00:23:15.976 --> 00:23:18.379
- is going to know we're His disciples?
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- By our love for one another, by our love for one another.
- 00:23:19.780 --> 00:23:23.784
- "If anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation."
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- People should see a transformation in your life.
- 00:23:27.488 --> 00:23:31.559
- My old family and the kids that I used to go to
- 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:34.428
- school with, they see Doug Batchelor now, and
- 00:23:34.428 --> 00:23:36.897
- they say, "Doug became a preacher?
- 00:23:36.897 --> 00:23:39.900
- A pastor?" And I was Jewish.
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- "A Christian?"
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- I re-connected with some of my friends on Facebook,
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- and they just, they see a change.
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- And I say, "What God did for me, He'll do for you.
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- I was miserable then. I'm happy now."
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- You become a new creature, a new creation.
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- Answer C, "We keep His commandments
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- and do those things that are pleasing in His sight."
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- We--you know, God's law is not that complicated.
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- People like to argue about, you know, what
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- the law of God is and what God wants.
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- It's like Mark Twain said, "It's not the mysteries
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- You're going to think, "Oh, how am I going to get through this?"
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- Keep in mind, God will never ever ask you to do something
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- In every command of God is inherent the
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- power to obey what He is commanding.
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- Answer D, "And do not be conformed to the world, but be
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- transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you might prove
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- what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
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- You are transformed. Your mind has changed.
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- And then the Bible says, "You will be witnesses to Me."
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