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real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth equip the saints and impact our culture Christianity is not being a

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member of a church Christianity is not being part of some group it's not some

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label you slap on your t-shirt or the back of your car window true Christianity

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is something that is lacking in America today it's lacking in the world today

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and that is you and I determining to be an authentic follower of Jesus Christ

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you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast

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today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us

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listen now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack Kibs

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the book of Romans unlike any other book in the New Testament in fact it may be

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unlike any other book in the entire Bible and that is the fact that it is

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such a technical treaty on doctrine that is unparalleled in scripture in fact

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many believe just in literary work alone that the book of Romans written by Paul

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the Apostle is something that is of such high shelf character and quality that

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there's nothing even in the secular realm that rivals it I've been told that

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the book of Romans has been used in schools of law because Paul the Apostle

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brings forth his argument of justification and righteousness by faith alone

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that he presents it so powerfully and so clearly that it's a way of arguing

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a legal case well be that as it may the fact of the matter is the argument

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that the book of Romans does give us is that we are a people that is the

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follower of Jesus Christ what Jesus said is the born again believer that we as a

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people we are someone who have been justified by faith that means that we look

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solely 100% to the finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross and in other

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words our salvation and our relationship is solely based upon the merits of

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Jesus Christ this separates those that are religious from those who have a

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relationship with God this separates those from the cults of the world that

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have a works centered salvation attempt I have to throw the word in their

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attempt because that's all it is versus an intimate relationship with God and

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so the book of Romans opens up with this tremendous statement to you and I

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regarding us being called saints isn't that amazing we are called to be saints in

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fact in the actual Greek scripture it is we who are called saints not called to

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be that's in the English version the Greek is more powerful we that is God

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calls us saints how can this possibly be friends I know that that sounds hard

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and impossible for us because you and I frankly we have been victimized by

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traditionalism traditionalism by that I mean this that maybe it's some

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particular church that says this is how a saint is made saintly this is how

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someone is declared godly by these various merits that they must perform if

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they just keep so many of these rules if they do so many of these acts if they

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perform so many miracles then they are now qualified for the consideration of

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sainthood my dear friend I want you to know that the book of Romans for that

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matter the entire Bible knows nothing about that those are human inventions God

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says if you trust and believe in my son Jesus what he's done at the cross I

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call you saint and the word saint means one who is listen positionally declared

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righteous by God that's a saint and positionally matters it's God who moves you

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and I from the realm of being sinners from the realm of being lost from the realm

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of being an outcast from God from the kingdom of God from heaven it's God who

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says I see that you're trusting my son Jesus and what he's done at the cross I

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see that and so I am now declaring you to be a saint you are now washed in the

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blood of my son Christ Jesus you are now taken from the position of being lost

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and I put you in a position of being my child it's positioning the book of

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Romans is all about God positioning his children in his righteousness listen

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real quick kids love the dress up you'll see a little junior walking around in

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his dad's cowboy boots he'll have his dad's work gloves he might even have

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his dad's hat on and it's pretty cute because you see this three-year-old kid

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walking around trying to talk like dad trying to act like dad because he's

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wearing dad's clothes or your little princess at home might mimic the same

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thing regarding mom you know it's awesome about that in their minds

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positionally they are mom they are dad in their minds they're dressed for the

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occasion and they act like it well God says to you and I I want you to be

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dressed in my son Jesus put on the Lord Jesus Christ and walk like it talk

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like it live like it friends listen this is the key to our Christian success to

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recognize that positionally we are in Christ and we don't have to strive we

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don't have to push and labor to obtain anything we walk in the position of who

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Christ is in his righteousness not our own we've got his boots on we've got

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his hat on we've got his wrapping on and we walk around this world talking

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acting and being like Jesus why because we get to that's what we do that's

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what it means to be a follower of Jesus and positionally that's what it is to

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be a Christian well if a man cannot be saved by his efforts his merits if someone

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has no chance of getting into heaven by their good deeds or good works and how

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does somebody get into heaven that's the greatest question that I think anyone

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could ask for their entire life in fact beyond their entire life even

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eternity itself the fact of the matter is the scriptures teach us that by the

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works of the law shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God if man could

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be declared righteous by the good deeds or the keeping of the law I mean let's

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be specific keeping the ten commandments then why would God tell Moses that in

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the day that Israel sins and breaks the ten commandments that they would have

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to offer up an animal sacrifice for their sins see friend the fact of the

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matter is that blood will always trump human performance meaning this in the

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economy of God there is no forgiveness of sins when you try to approach God

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based on merit because the moment you and I come to God with a failure a

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breach a discrepancy in our good deeds the Bible calls it sin you have no

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offering you have no way to reclaim yourself because once sin is performed or

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executed in our lives we are forever tainted now look that may sound strong and

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hard but you actually know that it's true because you and I know that from the

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earliest ages a child is preloaded as it were preset to disobedience kids are

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cute and kids are wonderful and it's a good thing they are because they're

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little rebels not only according to the Bible but according just to human

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psychology the human is a rebel we are the Bible teaches that we are a rebel

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against God we fight and kick against the authority we know that this is true

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we just want like you admit it but a little kid will rebel once he or she

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knows they are not allowed to cross the street or they can't go to houses

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down what do they do they go three houses down and they'll definitely cross the

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street once they know that there's a rule a law they gravitate to that rule to

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break it why is that the case it's who we are as soon as we're told you can do

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this you can do that you can do the other but you can't do this now in our

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minds that's all we're thinking about I'm not supposed to do that why am I

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not supposed to do that I can't stop thinking about that why because we have a

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sin nature and Christianity is the message that addresses the sin nature with

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all due affection and respect I say Buddhism doesn't offer the opportunity for

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us to reclaim ourselves Islam Judaism Mormonism go down the list listen

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denominationalism doesn't do it only a personal relationship with Jesus

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Christ is what allows you to as it were tap into the merits of Jesus Christ in

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fact the Bible puts it this way in first John chapter 1 that if we confess our

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sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins that's only found in

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Christianity Christianity is not being a member of a church Christianity is not

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being part of some group it's not some label you slap on your t-shirt or the

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back of your car window true Christianity is something that is lacking in

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America today it's lacking in the world today and that is you and I determining to

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be an authentic follower of Jesus Christ to be someone who says I'm gonna pick up

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this word and in this case I'm gonna pick up the book of Romans and I'm gonna

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read that it's God who calls me a saint it is God who has positioned me in the

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righteousness of Jesus Christ it is God who says the just shall live by faith

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what a what a declaration listen when Martin Luther the great Catholic

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reformer when he read that in the book of Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4 Paul the

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Apostle restates it in Romans chapter 1 that the just shall live by faith it

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blew Luther's mind in fact it blew the mind of the theologian Newell or John

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Knox blew his mind George Whitfield blew his mind John and Charles Wesley it

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blew their minds because they have been conditioned by their denominations or

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by their groups this is how you go to heaven this is what you must do and when

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they came to that scripture and they read especially from Paul the Apostle a

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man who knew all about works is the man who said wait a minute all of my

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disciplines in Judaism all of my legalism all of my efforts have turned out to

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be like Dung he used the word Dung it's fertilizer Isaiah the Hebrew prophet

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said filthy rags very graphic our righteousness is as filthy rags our good

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deeds is as fertilizer to God but the just shall live by faith meaning I come

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just as I am I come recognizing here's the by the way listen up here's the

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real stumbling block I come just as I am in need of the Savior I see that I'm a

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sinner I need God's forgiveness in my life I need to be forgiven I need a new

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life I need guilt and shame removed from me so that I can walk with God that is

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easily said only because listen God would have done the work in your life for

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you to even think that thought are you hearing me don't lose this in the

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weeds you are either going to think one of two things I don't need Jesus I

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don't need God I'm good I'm fine and you walk away in your self-righteousness

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lost and if you die in that condition you're lost for all time and eternity but

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if you think wait a minute I am guilty of lustful thoughts in jealous thoughts

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or I am guilty of pride or I want to be first thoughts I do I do realize I've

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got guilt and shame I did this and that I've got shame I've got guilt I need

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Christ if you begin to think that thought then guess what my friend God is

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working in your life and when he works in your life you need to listen because

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if anything I'm saying to you right now is starting to resonate with you it's

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because God the Holy Spirit is saying you need my son Jesus that means God is

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calling you I suggest strongly that you listen to what God is saying to you it

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could cost you your eternal life it could be your key to freedom and

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to liberty and to salvation so listen as we wrap this up the most important thing

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for you and I to realize and to understand is that faith is something that you

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and I exercise every day it's not mystical okay it's not something that is

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mysterious in the sense that what goes on in the realm of faith is as a practice

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we use all the time and and so allow me to put it to you this way by faith

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you grab your car keys and you turn your ignition over and you do it so

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often that you don't think for a moment is this going to work is the key

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gonna fit is this car gonna start you assume based upon reliability based upon

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practice based upon familiarity this is going to happen in a word it becomes

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second nature right when you get on an airplane and you sit down and you put

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your seat belt on you expect that seat belt to keep you in your seat during

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times of takeoff and landing during times of turbulence and that's what it's

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intended for but you never analyze it you might have the first time that you

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ever flew in an airplane but you became accustomed to what it does and the

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same is true for example driving look here in Southern California thank God

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people still stay in their lanes on the freeway or on the highway those lanes

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that are dotted with white lines keep everything in order and you don't expect

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pandemonium when you get on the roadway here there are things assumed and there

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are rules to keep and there are laws that keep you safe and you obey those

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because therefore you're good and you do them because it's faith this is how we

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drive so friend listen don't think for a moment that you are not a person of

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faith you are a per you are in fact a person of faith I can say great faith so

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let me ask you this do you have faith in God now all of a sudden we have a little

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bit of a pause we get a little nervous about that but why why because I want to

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submit you the evidence that's all around me right now the evidence of the

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breeze I feel blowing the evidence of the birds here chirping and singing life

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happening all of these things speak of an invisible God the sun rose this

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morning it's gonna set tonight how do I know faith faith so let's take it to the

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ultimate conclusion if there's enough evidence for you and I to be practicing

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faith every day to the point that we don't even think about it anymore because

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it's second nature when we look around at this created universe and we come to

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the conclusion this is good the sun is good the breeze is good the birds are

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good this moment is good where's it coming from where do these things come from

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and if I stop and think for a moment why am I living why do I have the

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consciousness of what is good and what is bad I know what is acceptable and

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what is not acceptable I know what makes sense and what doesn't make sense how

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do I know that because according to the Bible God says I have written these

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things in you by my spirit so I want to conclude with this Paul the Apostle

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said in the book of Romans chapter one that I am not ashamed of the gospel of

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Christ because it is the power of God unto salvation is there evidence for

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that is there evidence that I should believe that when Paul the Apostle said

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I'm not ashamed of the gospel I am not intimidated by others who criticize it I

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am not in any way a canceled cultured fearful Paul is saying nobody can

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cancel truth I am not ashamed of the gospel why Paul why because it is the

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power of God unto salvation friends listen so so beautifully God wants you

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today to put your faith in his son Jesus Christ just like you put your faith

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in so many other things for those things to serve their purpose I sat at this

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table I didn't even think about it I expected it to hold me up and God wants you

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to have your faith in Jesus this way you don't have to worry about how you don't

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have to worry about sin you don't have to worry about what happens when you die

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because the gospel of Jesus Christ is all powerful to save you not only in

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that moment but right now right now and so I want to ask you this will you

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pray with me right now will you pray with me right now to receive this gospel of

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God listen let's pray dear Lord I ask you in Jesus name that you would open up

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my eyes to the gospel truth of Jesus Christ I come to you God not wanting any

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religion I don't want any hierarchy I don't want any politics I don't want any

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churchy entity I want to know Christ and I want to give him my life because I

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today confess that Jesus died on the cross for my sins he rose again from the

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grave just as the Bible says and I place my life into his hands right now and so

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God save me wash me clean make me your child I pray in Jesus name friend if you've

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prayed that prayer we want to know about it so listen we want you to go to Jack

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Kim's calm and from there there's all kinds of resources but listen in getting

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ahold of us we're going to send you a Bible and why do you need a Bible well

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again the book of Romans chapter 10 verse 17 says faith comes by hearing hearing

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the word of God the more you read the Bible the greater your faith becomes there's

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no other way to increase your faith than to ingest the Bible and we want to

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send you a Bible we want to get you connected with great Bible teaching

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are you really buying a car online on auto trader right now really at a

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playground yeah really look at these listings from dealers wow your search

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gonna really get that specific really and you just put in your info and

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bone cars in your budget mom needs a second honey you can really have a

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delivered really or I can pick it up with the dealership one-sack sweetie mommy's

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buying a car I think kid is walking up the slide

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hi all again really auto trader buyer car online really