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Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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For the Christian that is alive and well and possessed by the Holy Spirit, there is no

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downtime in our world.

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You and I, we have been deployed into a godless, Christless age to tell everyone we can about

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the love of God and the forgiveness that's in Jesus Christ.

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The question is, do you believe in Him?

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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 life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes.

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And that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibs.

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When asked the question, heaven will you be going there?

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The answer should be number one in your note taken is yes.

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You need to be able to say yes to this and this is the reason why, yes because you believe

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in Him.

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Church, will you mark that down?

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I want to hit this and I want to hit it hard for this reason.

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It is absolutely, overwhelmingly assured that the man or woman boy or girl who believes

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on and in the Lord Jesus Christ, they're going to go to heaven.

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But we need to understand what believe or believing really means.

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The Bible tells us in Acts chapter 16, verse 31, the Bible says, so they said, believe

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on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household, then they spoke

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the word of the Lord to Him.

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That's the jailer in that famous moment where Paul and Silas and the ministry team were

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gathered together.

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You know the story.

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There were singing songs of praise while they're shackled in stocks at midnight, an earthquake

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hit.

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I think it was an angel quake by the way.

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It was an earthquake.

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I think an angel did all that because of what happens later.

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But the fact of the matter is that one of the jailkeepers were terrified as to what was

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going on and his basic expression was, I need to be saved.

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And the Bible responses believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But today you and I live in a world that just thinks that belief is just something where

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we assign a level of attention to something that we all believe in.

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We believe in this.

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We believe in that.

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I know I believe in Jesus.

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But it's more than that.

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It's not difficult.

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It's not rocket science.

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Listen, the belief that God expects from you who are going to heaven is a belief that

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is so precious that a child can believe in God.

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In fact, the Bible makes it clear that God is, I think, most encouraged by the belief

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or faith of a child.

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Jesus said in Matthew's Gospel, we need to become like little children before we can

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enter the kingdom of God.

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Belief, believing.

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The word means this and you might care to make note of it.

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It means to entrust, it means to commit.

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It means to believe in such a way that your belief is to depend upon.

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So when we say I believe in Jesus Christ, listen, are you going to go to heaven?

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Yes, why is that true?

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Because you depend upon Jesus.

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That's the believer.

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That's the one that's going to be going to heaven.

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If you've called upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you understand that he has

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Lord save your God, he's Messiah, he died in the cross, he rose again from the dead.

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If Christ has become, I have to underline the word become.

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If Christ has become your passion, because that's how it really is.

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The more you fall in love with somebody, the more they become your focal point of your

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passion, of your attention.

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That's good.

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That's the way it's supposed to be all the best when it comes to God.

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All the best when it comes to Jesus to love Him.

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We'll talk more about this in a moment, but what does it mean to believe in Him?

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The reason why you're going to go to heaven is because you trust Him.

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When you hear the things that are going on around the world and when you hear how you're

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not hearing things that are going on around the world because it's being kept from you,

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it raises a level of anxiety that raises a level of threat to your peace and for your safety

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and all of a sudden what we as a culture, in the first amendment type of culture, we

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are threatened by that.

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Americans have more to lose than any other nation on earth right now.

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That that that make, encroach upon you and bring fear, wait a minute.

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You're going to heaven and because you're going to heaven, you've trusted in Jesus Christ,

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you believe Him and what He has done in your life.

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You can entrust your future today to Him.

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He will take care of you.

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Listen, you may or may not doubt that.

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We may or may not doubt that from time to time.

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We all have our moments and our seasons of faith and the challenge of faith, every single

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one of them.

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We all go through this, all of us go through this.

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People don't think that you having doubt this morning is because you're not a Christian.

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That is not true.

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Every human, the greatest saints of God, I love reading them, have gone through horrific

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battles of doubt.

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George Whitfield, the Wesley's, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Finney, John the Baptist,

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great seasons of doubt.

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Listen, you've got to have belief in Christ before you can suffer seasons of doubt.

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In that order, cheer up.

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Don't lose heart.

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Heaven, will you be going there?

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The answer is absolutely yes if you're believing in Jesus Christ, but we want to make sure

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that we are truly believing Him.

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There's a firm warning in the Bible about belief only is what I would say, belief only.

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You suggest, didn't you just say a moment ago from the book of Acts, believe in the Lord

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Jesus?

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You shall be saved.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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That is true.

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But there's a belief only danger.

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What do you mean to believe is where you begin?

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And when you really begin by believing in Jesus Christ, that belief takes you somewhere.

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Never think for a moment that just because I accepted Christ on Monday night, just before

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9 p.m.

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June 20th, 1977, Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, Greg Laurie preaching the gospel, Revelation

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chapter 20, Keith Green doing the worship that night, just because I came to believe in

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Christ that night.

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If I would have walked away after going forward and never picked up the Bible again and

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never had a passion or desire to know the one I claim to have fallen in love with that

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moment, then my belief would have been void and with no effect.

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Are you with me?

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It would have been nothing.

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To believe is the first step of a journey called sanctification where God brings you all

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the way through until you breathe your last breath or you hear a trumpet blast.

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For the Christian that is alive and well and possessed by the Holy Spirit, there is no

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downtime in our world.

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You and I, we have been deployed into a godless, Christless age to tell everyone we can about

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the love of God and the forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ.

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The question is, do you believe in Him?

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James tells us this strong warning, James chapter 2 verse 19.

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He says, you believe that there is one God?

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You do well.

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Even the demons believe and tremble.

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Satan believes in Jesus Christ, but Satan doesn't believe in Jesus Christ to save him.

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It knows of Jesus' authority, but he doesn't bow the knee.

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That will happen later.

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I think according to the Bible, you and I are going to watch Satan bow his knee.

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That's going to be a great day.

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That's going to be a great day.

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So number one church, yes, yes, you're going to go to heaven if the fact that you believe

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in Him as you are.

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So yes, you believe because He's come to you.

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I want you to write that down.

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He has come to you.

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Pastor Jack, I do believe in Jesus.

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Yes, that is true because He has come to you.

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The Bible tells us in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 9, but the Lord is long suffering toward

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us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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This is awesome, people.

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The fact that you're going to go to heaven is based upon the foundational truth that Christ

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has come to you.

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He's the one that reached out to you.

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Number one for this reason.

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He is not willing that you should perish, but that you should come to the knowledge of

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everlasting life.

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By the way, that's His desire for all people.

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We talked about that last week in a small degree.

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The fact is this church that believing in Him is based upon this act of repentance.

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You see, people will say, I believe in Jesus, but there's been no change in their life.

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Why?

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They never repented.

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They're like the devils.

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The devils believe in Jesus.

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In fact, they're not, no, I take that back.

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They're not like the devils who believe.

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That's not even fair to the devils, demons, to say that, okay, the reason why.

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The word, I read a moment ago in James, this is that the devil or demons or Satan believes

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and trembles.

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Do you know what the word tremble is?

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The word tremble in the Greek is where we get our word goose flesh.

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Goose skin.

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You say goose skin.

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Yeah, I know.

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We don't really think like that.

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But have you ever seen a naked turkey?

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Exactly.

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When you pluck that turkey, wait, we don't pluck turkey.

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Somebody else plucks them.

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When we go down to the store and bring them home and unwrap them from the plastic and

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you run your hand over the breast or the skin of the turkey.

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Have you noticed that?

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Is it all lumpy?

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That's what the Bible says in the book of James when Satan thinks about God.

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His skin goes, he gets goose skin, people don't do that.

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People are brazen.

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They don't believe in God.

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They mock God.

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We read a moment ago how there's a generation of people as we approach the end.

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They'll be mockers of God.

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They don't get goose flesh and yet hell has a respect for Christ like the godless of

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this world do not.

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Oh, but you who believe in Him, you're going to heaven.

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You who believe in Him, He's going to see to it.

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Listen, you don't hear this very often because most often you need to commit your life

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to Christ, you need to commit your life, I get it.

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The reason why that's true is because He has first committed Himself to you.

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Think of that.

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And that's true because He has come to you.

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Now what's some of you to think, stop and think right now, how that happened in your

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life, how did He come to you, refresh your memory, go back, slow down, rethink, go back

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to the ancient paths, retrace them in the early days of how Christ spoke to you.

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Where were you?

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What did He say?

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What were you thinking?

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When you began to awaken to His stimulating overtures to you, as He began to draw you,

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Jesus said, nobody comes to the Father.

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It's interesting, by the way, it's referenced really in two ways of Scripture.

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Jesus said, nobody comes to me and must the Father draws them to me.

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And Jesus also mentions that nobody can come to me and must the Spirit of God is at work

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in their lives.

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I kind of like to look at it this way.

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God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, working in the world, working in your life to bring

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you to the one who saves you.

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The Bible says there's one mediator, go between.

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There's one negotiator between man, that's us and God.

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And that is the mediator, Christ Jesus.

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He's pulling.

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I like to think of it this way.

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He's got a lost humanity, right?

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And represented by the work of the Holy Spirit on this hand, it's the Holy Spirit convicting

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people, which is almost illegal today.

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Think of it.

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You say, I thought we were going to be talking about future things, this is exactly what

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we're doing.

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That's why we're taking this as a whole series.

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Because salvation is the greatest prophetic doctrine of the Bible.

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Isaiah chapter 9, in fact, you're going to recognize this.

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Isaiah chapter 9 verse 2, this is awesome.

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Isaiah chapter 9 verse 2, the Bible says, the people who walked in darkness have seen a

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great light.

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Those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them, a light has shined.

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Have you ever heard that before?

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You probably didn't recognize Isaiah 9 too.

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Next verse you guys, this is the reason why you recognized the hearing of it.

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You didn't recognize the scripture reference.

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This is what you recognized, Matthew 4.12.

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Now when Jesus heard that John, that's John the Baptist, had been put in prison, Jesus

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departed to Galilee.

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And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, see a Galilee.

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In the region of Zebulin, in Napoli, you don't care about that unless you're Jewish friends.

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Those two locations just got your Jewish attention.

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By the way, Matthew, anybody remember Matthew's last name?

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Matthew Levi, he's a Jew.

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I encouraged a friend of mine the other day.

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I said, you need to read the New Testament.

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He said, I'm not going to read a Gentile book.

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I said, did you know what you're written by a bunch of Jews?

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I did.

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Verse 14, that it might be fulfilled which is spoken of by Isaiah the prophet.

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Say in the land of Zebulin, in the land of Napoli, by the way of the sea, beyond the

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Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light,

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and upon those who sat in the region of the shadow of death light is done.

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From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, what did he say?

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Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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That's believing.

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Listen, when the Holy Spirit has spoken to you, Christian, and you've sensed, so did

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you.

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The next time you do something wrong, unplanned or planned, you do something wrong.

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You will hear him speak.

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I don't know if God ever talks to me.

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If you do something wrong, think something wrong, do you not hear him speak?

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Yes, he does.

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Every Christian should say, I hear him speak.

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What you really want to do is be able to say, I read the Bible a lot, God speaks to me

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from the Word.

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I don't get in trouble much, but when I do, boy, do I hear him speak.

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What you don't want to do is walk around as a Christian and say, God spoke to me today.

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He spoke to me twice today.

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He spoke to me five times today.

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What are you doing?

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Oh, he's faithful to convict.

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He's faithful to speak.

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All of God's kids.

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The Bible says, God will never discipline a child that's not his own.

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He only disciplines his own kids.

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You don't spank your neighbor's kids.

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You go to jail.

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I mean, you want to.

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The little creep is messing things up.

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That's what you can do is say, go home.

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Depart from me, you worker of iniquity.

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You can't spank it.

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You can't spank kids that are not yours.

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I see a pastor.

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I don't know if you should say spank.

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Discipline then.

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The Bible says, nothing, it's what's another story.

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That's a whole another day.

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God disciplines his kids because he loves them.

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If you don't love your kid, it's it's lived out because you don't correct them.

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You just leave the little rats to do whatever they want.

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Nobody wants them around because you've raised up a little maniac, right, because they've

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been lived to himself.

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The Bible says, you leave.

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There's nothing to do with this message.

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This is just side note.

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That if you don't discipline your child in love for crying out loud.

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If you love them, you're going to tell them, don't do that again.

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You're going to wind up in jail someday.

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You teach them.

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Listen.

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If you don't do that, the Bible says that kid will grow up and be a reproach to his mother.

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You know, dads have a hard time.

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It's like, you know what?

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That rotten kid turned out to be a piece of junk.

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Men are just, the moms, no matter what, the moms, they just weep from the inside out.

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It's a heartbreak and I don't know how I went down that, but it's, but it repentance is

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required if we're really going to believe.

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And that's why many of you, many of us, we get the sting of the Holy Spirit because

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listen, he calls us to repentance because we are his kids.

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There are those who are becoming God's children because they are going to repent of their sins,

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God knows who they are.

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And there are us who are in the family that when we sin, the Bible tells us if we confess

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our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all

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and righteousness.

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What's that all about?

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God will convict you and I to maintain fellowship with us.

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If we don't repent as a believer to our Heavenly Father, then we're still in the family.

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God doesn't believe in abortion.

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You're not losing your salvation.

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He just won't talk to you.

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Can you imagine if your little kid came up and said after slapping the dog and burning

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his bicycle or something and then he comes up, he's quarantined to his room.

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You go to your room.

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They're all day.

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You're in trouble.

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And then the kid comes out, coming down the hallway and the kid walks up.

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Remember, he's under the sentence of you're in trouble.

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But he comes and says, Mom, Dad, I know it's supposed to be in my room, but can I talk

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to you about what I want for Christmas?

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You know what Mom and Dad are going to do?

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They're going to say, no, I'm not talking to you.

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Get back to your room.

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This is the key that keeps or restores or brings them out fellowship with God.

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It's got to happen.

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