WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 God wants you to be at rest. 2 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:06.000 He wants you to know that you are saved. 3 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.100 John wrote these things I write unto you that you may know, 4 00:00:10.100 --> 00:00:11.800 not that you would hope so. 5 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.900 I don't have hope so salvation. 6 00:00:13.900 --> 00:00:16.100 I have no so salvation. 7 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.000 He says, ice things I write to you that you would know 8 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.900 that you have eternal life. 9 00:00:20.900 --> 00:00:22.400 I know that I have so much. 10 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:23.500 Well, how do you know? 11 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:26.200 Because Jesus said so. 12 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:28.600 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 13 00:00:28.700 --> 00:00:30.200 Thanks for joining us today, 14 00:00:30.200 --> 00:00:32.000 as we look into God's Word 15 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.600 and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 16 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.000 If you want to connect with City Light Church, 17 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.500 feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 18 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:44.800 that's citylightnyc.com. 19 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:46.900 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team 20 00:00:46.900 --> 00:00:49.400 believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 21 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:52.600 is already working in our hearts and minds. 22 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.500 As you listen to today's teaching, 23 00:00:54.500 --> 00:00:57.500 remember that you are deeply loved by God. 24 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.900 That you are surrounded by His grace 25 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:02.900 and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 26 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:07.600 Praise God. 27 00:01:09.300 --> 00:01:11.500 See, that's where everybody was. 28 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:14.900 They were waiting to come to the second service. 29 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:16.500 And we went somewhere in worship. 30 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:18.900 When you have a chunk of people, 31 00:01:18.900 --> 00:01:20.800 you gotta have a cluster. 32 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:21.600 You got to. 33 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:25.300 I know, Jesus said we're two or three. 34 00:01:25.300 --> 00:01:28.100 Now that's nice, that's like the minimum though. 35 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:29.700 But in the up room, there wasn't two or three. 36 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:32.000 There was a cluster and the wine is in the clusters. 37 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:33.600 You gotta do a cluster. 38 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:35.300 We're missing a few folks this morning 39 00:01:35.300 --> 00:01:39.500 because we got robbed of an hour, right? 40 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:41.300 And so here you are. 41 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:42.900 Now in second service. 42 00:01:43.900 --> 00:01:46.100 Isn't it amazing how you can go to bed 43 00:01:46.100 --> 00:01:49.000 four or five hours after your regular bedtime, 44 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.500 wake up the next day, typically, totally fine. 45 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:56.000 But daylight savings time, we're all wiped out 46 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.600 because they took it from us. 47 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:01.600 See, if I go to bed four hours after my bedtime, 48 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:02.900 that's my choice. 49 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:05.000 My mind and body are prepared. 50 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.200 But now, what happened? 51 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:10.000 I love that song. 52 00:02:11.700 --> 00:02:13.500 I love that song. 53 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:16.000 We were stuck in St. Andrews, many of you don't know. 54 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.700 We have that second location just around the corner 55 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:21.400 that we still keep. 56 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.500 Life groups meet there and we do other things there. 57 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:25.500 But we were stuck there. 58 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:29.300 And we couldn't, we were already wall-to-wall people. 59 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:32.300 The reason we were stuck is because spaces in New York City, 60 00:02:32.300 --> 00:02:33.800 they're not a dime a dozen. 61 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.100 They're not plentiful. 62 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:39.000 And I was looking for spaces one day. 63 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.400 Maurice, you and I, we went out and we just drove around 64 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.100 all of the story of looking for spaces. 65 00:02:44.100 --> 00:02:47.600 And so an old gym, so nothing fit. 66 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:50.700 You know, any space that's large enough to hold hundreds of people, 67 00:02:50.700 --> 00:02:53.300 they have pillars and columns. 68 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:56.200 And it was kind of a defeating time with, 69 00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:00.700 went back into my car, and I turned on my car 70 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:02.700 and this song came on. 71 00:03:02.700 --> 00:03:04.700 And it's exactly how we were feeling, 72 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:06.700 walking around these walls. 73 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:12.100 Over and over again, I thought they'd never fall. 74 00:03:12.100 --> 00:03:13.800 It's like, Lord, you're growing our church, 75 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.300 you're blessing us, but we're in a little house 76 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:18.300 on the prairie church with one bathroom, 77 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:19.800 no air conditioning. 78 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.300 Please provide something. 79 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:26.300 Within five seconds, we were roaring laughing in the car. 80 00:03:26.300 --> 00:03:28.400 I was laugh crying, cry laughing, 81 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:29.900 the anointing all over me. 82 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:33.300 That was 2017 or early, 83 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:35.500 I just know several months later, 84 00:03:35.500 --> 00:03:38.600 the door opened up for this place, amen. 85 00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:41.100 And then, you know, we were too small for this place 86 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:42.900 and then the Lord filled it up. 87 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:46.000 And now I'm at that place where I'm going again, Lord. 88 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.900 I'm walking around these walls. 89 00:03:48.900 --> 00:03:51.900 In my emotions, I thought they'd never fall, 90 00:03:51.900 --> 00:03:55.400 but you, oh God, you're faithful. 91 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.800 Faithful always, hallelujah. 92 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:04.000 Welcome to those of you joining us online. 93 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.700 I want to jump in with a bit of a different kind 94 00:04:07.700 --> 00:04:09.700 of message this morning. 95 00:04:10.900 --> 00:04:13.700 Different, but very important. 96 00:04:13.700 --> 00:04:17.500 I think of myself as an encourager and a teacher. 97 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:22.300 But you know, Paul, he echoed this sentiment several times, 98 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:25.000 very clearly and specifically in Colossians 1, 99 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.500 he said, teaching every man and warning every man. 100 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:32.400 So within teaching, within encouraging, 101 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:35.900 there has to be some warning salt and pepper there. 102 00:04:35.900 --> 00:04:37.000 Amen. 103 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.900 The Bible says if a father doesn't correct or train his child, 104 00:04:41.900 --> 00:04:44.300 he actually despises and hates this child. 105 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:47.700 And if I as a pastor never, ever warned anyone, 106 00:04:48.700 --> 00:04:51.200 I would be held guilty, amen. 107 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:52.200 I'd be liable. 108 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:54.600 I need to biblically, I mean, some preachers, 109 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:55.900 here's the whole part of them. 110 00:04:55.900 --> 00:04:57.000 They only rely on warnings. 111 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.000 Everything is you better not. 112 00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:03.000 But there was a healthy warning, amen. 113 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.200 I had to announce that because with my opening scripture, 114 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:09.400 you're going to wonder where are we going with this today. 115 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:12.700 Mark chapter three verses 28 to 30. 116 00:05:13.700 --> 00:05:17.100 Truly, I say to you, this is Jesus speaking. 117 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:21.100 All sins will be forgiven the children of man. 118 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:26.600 And whatever blasphemies they utter, that's good news, isn't it? 119 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.600 And that's the gospel. 120 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:32.600 That all of our sins, no matter how bad, how heinous, 121 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:37.100 they've been taken away by the finished work of Jesus. 122 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:39.400 It's good to remind themselves of that. 123 00:05:39.400 --> 00:05:41.400 Even when you read your Bible, right? 124 00:05:41.700 --> 00:05:44.700 You look at it and then you think a bunch of these authors, 125 00:05:44.700 --> 00:05:47.900 the Bible is 66 books, over 40 different authors, 126 00:05:47.900 --> 00:05:51.000 a bunch of them had committed murder. 127 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Some more than once. 128 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.300 From Moses to David, just off the top of my head, 129 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:58.300 Paul was a serial Christian killer. 130 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.200 And yet totally forgiven, totally redeemed. 131 00:06:02.200 --> 00:06:04.900 So nobody's beyond the blood of Jesus. 132 00:06:04.900 --> 00:06:06.600 Nobody's beyond forgiveness. 133 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.300 And that's the gospel. 134 00:06:08.300 --> 00:06:09.300 Good news. 135 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:10.900 In order for you to appreciate the good news, 136 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:12.700 you gotta know the bad news. 137 00:06:12.700 --> 00:06:15.900 The bad news is we've all been born under sin. 138 00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:17.400 We've all been born into this earth, 139 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:18.400 no matter what we do, 140 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:20.900 there's a verdict of guilty over our heads. 141 00:06:20.900 --> 00:06:24.700 And the Bible says we are in our hearts at enmity. 142 00:06:24.700 --> 00:06:26.500 We are at war with God. 143 00:06:26.500 --> 00:06:29.100 And the wrath of God abides on us. 144 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:31.000 Because we're all born into sin. 145 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.100 We like to compare ourselves to the worst person we know 146 00:06:34.100 --> 00:06:36.300 and kind of make ourselves feel better. 147 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:37.200 God doesn't do that. 148 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:38.800 He compares us to the best person. 149 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.200 He knows himself. 150 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:41.500 And we'll always fall short. 151 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:42.800 This is all the bad news. 152 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:47.400 The good news is is that God, he knew you weren't a bind. 153 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:51.500 So he came as a savior. 154 00:06:51.500 --> 00:06:53.000 And he came from heaven earth. 155 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.200 God was made flesh. 156 00:06:55.200 --> 00:06:56.700 He went to the cross. 157 00:06:56.700 --> 00:06:58.800 All of our sins, every single one, 158 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.600 past, present, and future, 159 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.500 that was placed upon Jesus. 160 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:05.300 And then the just wrath of God was hammered out. 161 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:09.000 Paul, holy justice was served. 162 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.300 Yet not for us, it was on Jesus. 163 00:07:11.300 --> 00:07:12.600 He took it in our place. 164 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:13.700 He was our great substitute. 165 00:07:13.700 --> 00:07:16.300 Isn't this, this is the good news, right? 166 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:18.300 So sin has been taken out of the way. 167 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:20.800 Yet we find Jesus saying 168 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:23.800 in the next verse, 169 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.500 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit 170 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:30.800 never has forgiveness. 171 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.100 But his guilty 172 00:07:33.100 --> 00:07:37.100 and this is a very scary term of an eternal sin. 173 00:07:38.100 --> 00:07:40.700 Terrifying, right? 174 00:07:42.900 --> 00:07:45.500 Terrifying that there could be a sin 175 00:07:45.500 --> 00:07:47.700 and here it's blaspheming the Holy Spirit 176 00:07:47.700 --> 00:07:49.700 that you can never ever get forgiveness from. 177 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:51.200 It's over, done. 178 00:07:51.900 --> 00:07:56.400 And I want to address this because the enemy, 179 00:07:56.400 --> 00:07:58.100 he actually loves this verse also 180 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:01.300 because he twists it, probably his favorite Bible verse. 181 00:08:02.500 --> 00:08:04.000 He twists it. 182 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.600 He twists it to torture Christians. 183 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:15.600 And I've just seen something in years of ministry 184 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.600 that there are actually a lot of Christians 185 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.600 who are tortured by this verse. 186 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:22.600 Like too many. 187 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.600 And the one doing the torturing is Satan, 188 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.600 whispering to them that they have committed 189 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:30.600 the unpardonable sin, that they're beyond redemption. 190 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:36.200 When I first became a Christian for the first like 10 years, 191 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.600 I did a lot of homeless ministry, 192 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.300 partly because I'm a very, very compassionate person, 193 00:08:42.300 --> 00:08:44.800 but mainly because no one else would listen to me. 194 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:47.800 And I had a captive audience. 195 00:08:47.800 --> 00:08:51.000 Me and my friends, we get sandwich bags, 196 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:52.500 little juice things, 197 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:54.900 and at least I got five minutes with you. 198 00:08:54.900 --> 00:08:57.400 You owe me that buddy, let's talk. 199 00:08:57.400 --> 00:08:59.000 And here's what I found over the years 200 00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:02.000 that a ridiculous amount, an insane amount, 201 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.100 a disproportionate amount of people I would encounter 202 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:08.300 thought they were guilty of the unpardonable sin. 203 00:09:09.300 --> 00:09:11.000 And I was out seeing that. 204 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.900 I read the story, another minister, he was writing 205 00:09:13.900 --> 00:09:16.900 and he said, in mental asylum, 206 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:20.300 there's actually a disproportionate amount of people 207 00:09:20.300 --> 00:09:23.300 who believe they've committed this sin. 208 00:09:24.100 --> 00:09:28.900 Because all of your sins have been forgiven, right? 209 00:09:28.900 --> 00:09:30.600 But if you don't understand this verse, 210 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.100 it leaves the door open, but there's one. 211 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:36.400 And Satan does not like you free from guilt 212 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:37.800 and shame and condemnation. 213 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:40.200 He likes that condemnation hanging over you. 214 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.400 And when you have faith in the blood of Jesus 215 00:09:42.400 --> 00:09:45.100 and you realize all your sins are gone, 216 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:47.000 but Satan can still say, what about this? 217 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:48.800 Maybe you did it on accident. 218 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:50.500 Maybe you did it in your mind. 219 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:53.000 Maybe you did it and you don't remember you did it. 220 00:09:53.400 --> 00:09:55.800 But to your surprise, you're going to show up to heaven 221 00:09:55.800 --> 00:09:58.400 and God, the judge is going to say, 222 00:10:00.400 --> 00:10:01.800 what a terrible thing, right? 223 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.600 So let's go into Hebrews chapter 6, say, men. 224 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.700 Salvation is the most important thing to me. 225 00:10:14.900 --> 00:10:17.700 Jesus is the most important person to me. 226 00:10:17.700 --> 00:10:20.400 Salvation is the most important thing. 227 00:10:20.400 --> 00:10:22.800 I believe we should treasure it 228 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:24.200 and we should understand it, right? 229 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.000 If it's the most important thing and it is, 230 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.900 we should know the parameters. 231 00:10:29.900 --> 00:10:31.300 We should know the rules of engagement. 232 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:33.300 We should know, for example, 233 00:10:33.300 --> 00:10:35.200 could I do anything to mess it up? 234 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:38.000 Could I lose my salvation? 235 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.000 If I can, how do I lose my salvation? 236 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.600 Because I really don't want to lose my salvation. 237 00:10:45.300 --> 00:10:46.300 Hallelujah. 238 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:49.800 I just use what I sense in my spirit. 239 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:51.600 Some people are going to get saved today. 240 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.400 Just what I said in the first 30 seconds, 241 00:10:55.400 --> 00:10:57.200 it's the first time you're hearing things like this. 242 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:02.700 Let me assure you and what most people in the Western world 243 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:05.500 believe most up until about five minutes ago 244 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:07.400 was there is a God, there is a heaven to gain 245 00:11:07.400 --> 00:11:08.400 and a hell to shun. 246 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:10.600 Yeah. 247 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.000 And I tell you the same. 248 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.100 Don't trust me, but trust the Lord 249 00:11:15.100 --> 00:11:17.100 who said it over and over again. 250 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.300 If there's no hell, why did Jesus come? 251 00:11:20.300 --> 00:11:21.900 It was bored. 252 00:11:21.900 --> 00:11:24.800 He needed some activities. 253 00:11:24.800 --> 00:11:29.600 No, he came as a savior to save you from hell, 254 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.300 from your sins, IE, and the consequences 255 00:11:32.300 --> 00:11:33.900 of your sins, eternal punishment. 256 00:11:35.140 --> 00:11:37.600 So in Hebrews six, oh wait, 257 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:38.800 before I get into Hebrews six, 258 00:11:38.800 --> 00:11:41.540 let me just say, let me tell you what I believe, 259 00:11:41.540 --> 00:11:42.700 what this church believes, 260 00:11:42.700 --> 00:11:45.800 and you decide for yourself when it comes to salvation. 261 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:49.600 You are saved, not by what you do, 262 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.800 it's what the Bible calls works, 263 00:11:51.800 --> 00:11:53.900 but you're saved by faith. 264 00:11:53.900 --> 00:11:57.400 So what that means is no amount of good activity 265 00:11:57.400 --> 00:12:00.000 can undo your past sins, right? 266 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.600 If you sold everything right now, 267 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.300 went to the poorest place in earth, 268 00:12:03.300 --> 00:12:05.300 served the poor there. 269 00:12:05.300 --> 00:12:06.600 If you did that for the rest of your life, 270 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:10.300 but didn't trust in Jesus for your righteousness, 271 00:12:10.300 --> 00:12:11.800 your hell bound. 272 00:12:11.800 --> 00:12:14.800 You can't do good things to earn salvation. 273 00:12:14.900 --> 00:12:18.300 But if you receive by faith and say, 274 00:12:18.300 --> 00:12:20.000 Lord, I can't do it on my own, 275 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.300 but I trust you, you've taken away all my sins, 276 00:12:22.300 --> 00:12:25.000 I believe in the finished work of the cross, 277 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.600 all of your sins are taken away 278 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.600 and you have eternal life, amen? 279 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.100 So if you can get saved by faith and you can, 280 00:12:32.100 --> 00:12:34.200 you can't get saved by works, 281 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.800 you can't lose your salvation by works. 282 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.100 You can lose your salvation by unfaith, 283 00:12:43.100 --> 00:12:46.700 by rejecting Jesus and stopping to believe. 284 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:48.100 That's what I believe. 285 00:12:48.100 --> 00:12:49.500 You wrestle with the scripture yourself 286 00:12:49.500 --> 00:12:52.200 and I understand there's a centuries-long argument 287 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.900 about this debate. 288 00:12:54.900 --> 00:12:56.300 There's been attention, if you will, 289 00:12:56.300 --> 00:12:58.100 for centuries and centuries, 290 00:12:58.100 --> 00:13:00.000 different groups have argued. 291 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:05.300 This is what the word to me is very clear about, to me. 292 00:13:05.300 --> 00:13:07.600 I know preachers let's say the Bible clearly says 293 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.700 and you're like, well, it's not that clear. 294 00:13:09.700 --> 00:13:11.900 Like in that particular one that you're saying, 295 00:13:12.700 --> 00:13:14.100 the Bible's clear and a lot of things, 296 00:13:14.100 --> 00:13:18.100 but when you say the Bible is clear, anyway. 297 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:21.100 Here we have Hebrews chapter six. 298 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:23.100 It is a warning letter 299 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.600 because the Hebrew Christians were the most persecuted Christians 300 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:30.500 and they were beat up, they were busted, 301 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:33.200 they were destitute, they were tired of being persecuted 302 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.100 and they were on the verge of rejecting Jesus 303 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:39.600 and rejecting their faith and going back to Judaism, 304 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:40.800 rejecting Christ. 305 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:44.000 And so the book, the letter of Hebrews, 306 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.600 it's an appeal to them to not forsake the Lord 307 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:47.800 and come back, okay? 308 00:13:49.800 --> 00:13:50.800 Let's begin. 309 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.800 You know, I was in the middle of the book of Hebrews, 310 00:13:55.800 --> 00:13:58.900 then I think Thanksgiving came and then Christmas came 311 00:13:58.900 --> 00:14:01.300 and then out here we are in March. 312 00:14:01.300 --> 00:14:03.300 And I'm still not sure if I'm gonna continue it, 313 00:14:03.300 --> 00:14:04.800 but I wanted to do Hebrews six 314 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:07.800 because of this very, very important topic 315 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:10.000 that shows up in Hebrews chapter six. 316 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.800 All right, therefore leaving the discussion 317 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:16.000 of the elementary principles of Christ, 318 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.300 let us go on to perfection, 319 00:14:18.300 --> 00:14:21.120 not laying again the foundation of repentance 320 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.520 from dead works and of faith toward God. 321 00:14:24.520 --> 00:14:27.600 And of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, 322 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.320 he's saying, you guys really need to like up your game 323 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.960 and I don't wanna lay the basics for you. 324 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.600 In fact, I'm not gonna lay the basics for you. 325 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:38.060 The way I'm gonna challenge you is I'm gonna, 326 00:14:38.060 --> 00:14:40.000 I'm instead of milk, I'm gonna be giving you meat 327 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.100 and you're gonna come up, something to learn from that. 328 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:45.500 Of laying on the hands of resurrection of the dead 329 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.160 and of eternal judgment. 330 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:51.800 And this we will do if God permits. 331 00:14:51.800 --> 00:14:56.640 Now to these people who are on the verge of not like, 332 00:14:56.640 --> 00:14:59.600 just getting a little lukewarm for a while, 333 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:01.400 getting distracted for a while. 334 00:15:01.400 --> 00:15:04.280 They've been lukewarm, they've been distracted. 335 00:15:04.280 --> 00:15:06.200 Now they wanna drop away from the faith. 336 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:11.200 He says it is impossible for those who are once enlightened 337 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:14.320 and have tasted the heavenly gift 338 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:18.200 and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit 339 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.760 and have tasted the good word of God 340 00:15:20.760 --> 00:15:23.840 and the powers of the age to come. 341 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:28.760 If they fall away to renew them again to repentance, 342 00:15:28.760 --> 00:15:32.440 so this is connected somehow to what Jesus was saying. 343 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:36.960 There is this sin that you can never ever get forgiveness from. 344 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:42.640 If they fall away to renew them again to repentance 345 00:15:42.640 --> 00:15:45.260 since they crucify again for themselves, 346 00:15:45.260 --> 00:15:50.080 the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. 347 00:15:53.520 --> 00:15:54.520 Terrifying. 348 00:15:56.760 --> 00:15:59.200 Not someone who was in the first service, all right? 349 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:00.720 Holy Spirit's watching. 350 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.360 Can't someone just shout out, what is this sin? 351 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.320 What is the sin that there's no forgiveness from? 352 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:09.720 You quiet. 353 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:10.720 You're quiet. 354 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:11.720 It's good. 355 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:19.480 He's got the right answer. 356 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.120 But give the others a chance, at least to bake a little bit. 357 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.960 Mr. Acacia Wood or whatever. 358 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:28.960 What was that? 359 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:32.720 What was that? 360 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.880 Once I asked about the wood and Noah's Ark, 361 00:16:34.880 --> 00:16:37.280 he was the first one to call out the correct wood 362 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:38.680 in the building of Noah's Ark. 363 00:16:38.680 --> 00:16:41.080 You're barred from calling out any more, Chris. 364 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.560 Just give others a chance. 365 00:16:43.560 --> 00:16:45.040 This guy will tell you how many gemstones 366 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:46.480 were in the high-prey South fit. 367 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.840 Someone shouted, I blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. 368 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:52.960 Yes, but what kind of blasphemy? 369 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.200 It is specifically rejecting Jesus. 370 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.920 The reason there is no forgiveness 371 00:16:58.920 --> 00:17:01.720 is because when you reject Jesus, 372 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.720 what can you do after you've rejected Him? 373 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.880 There's no more space for you to do anything else. 374 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.640 Now to clarify this, because it's important for all of us 375 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:11.720 to be on the same page here 376 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.040 because there are people who are tortured about this. 377 00:17:14.040 --> 00:17:15.080 They're tortured. 378 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:17.120 You may meet them. 379 00:17:17.120 --> 00:17:18.560 You yourself may be one. 380 00:17:18.560 --> 00:17:20.440 And I know there are some here. 381 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:22.280 I know, I've been doing this a while. 382 00:17:22.280 --> 00:17:25.800 I've seen people that when you give an altar call, 383 00:17:25.800 --> 00:17:28.240 they keep answering the altar call over 384 00:17:28.280 --> 00:17:31.480 and over Christians answering the altar call over and over. 385 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:33.000 That is not God's best for you 386 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.720 to keep quote unquote getting saved on a Sunday. 387 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.720 That's actually a torturous state to be in. 388 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.560 God wants you to be at rest. 389 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:45.360 He wants you to know that you are saved. 390 00:17:46.320 --> 00:17:50.400 John wrote, these things I write unto you that you may know, 391 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.120 not that you would hope so. 392 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:54.280 I don't have hope so salvation. 393 00:17:54.280 --> 00:17:56.480 I have no so salvation. 394 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.320 He says, I, things I write to you that you would know 395 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:01.360 that you have eternal life. 396 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:04.040 I know that I'm holding a microphone in my hand. 397 00:18:04.040 --> 00:18:06.640 I know that I'm leaning on a table right now. 398 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:07.480 How do I know? 399 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:08.320 I know. 400 00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:09.600 I know that I have so much. 401 00:18:09.600 --> 00:18:10.680 Well, how do you know? 402 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.840 Because Jesus said so. 403 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:15.200 The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth 404 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.160 to Lord Jesus and believe in your heart 405 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:18.640 that God has raised him from the dead, 406 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.320 you shall be saved. 407 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:21.280 Oh, I did that. 408 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:23.120 I know I have salvation. 409 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:24.800 Amen. 410 00:18:24.800 --> 00:18:27.440 And I will not allow devils of doubt 411 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:29.080 and unbelief to torment me. 412 00:18:29.080 --> 00:18:31.480 So if that's you, we're gonna break the back of that thing 413 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.640 today and you can enjoy the rest of God, the peace of God. 414 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.320 That's when Christianity actually works 415 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:42.120 when you're resting in Jesus and you know that even though 416 00:18:42.120 --> 00:18:46.360 you're not, you're not experientially perfect 417 00:18:46.360 --> 00:18:48.760 but he has perfected you. 418 00:18:48.760 --> 00:18:49.840 Hallelujah. 419 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:52.960 You know what, before we go to Hebrews, please, 420 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:54.800 let's just go to that one verse in Colossians, 421 00:18:54.800 --> 00:18:59.800 Colossians 1, because it sets up Hebrews 6 better. 422 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:05.400 It's important to stay in the faith 423 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.520 and not forsake Jesus. 424 00:19:07.520 --> 00:19:12.080 Colossians 1, 21 and you who are once alienated, 425 00:19:12.080 --> 00:19:13.240 that's all of us by the way. 426 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:15.200 We never like to think of ourselves that way 427 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.040 but we were alienated from God and enemies of God 428 00:19:19.040 --> 00:19:21.440 in our mind by wicked works. 429 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:25.600 Yet now he has reconciled, here's some good encouraging news, 430 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:29.200 he's reconciled us in the body of his flesh 431 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:32.320 through death 432 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.480 to present you. 433 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.800 Oh yeah, holy, that's you. 434 00:19:40.800 --> 00:19:42.600 And some of you, it's about to be you. 435 00:19:42.600 --> 00:19:44.280 You're gonna get saved by the end of this service. 436 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:49.680 Hey, to present you holy and blameless 437 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.840 and above reproach, above shame in his sight. 438 00:19:53.840 --> 00:19:55.040 Isn't that good news? 439 00:19:56.760 --> 00:20:00.520 And then though this conditional if, 440 00:20:00.520 --> 00:20:02.960 if you continue to go to church, 441 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.040 if you pray two hours a day, no, thank God it's not that. 442 00:20:07.040 --> 00:20:10.960 Thank God your relationship with the Lord, you work out, right? 443 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:14.680 There isn't these legalistic works related stipulations 444 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:17.520 but you have to stay in the faith. 445 00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:19.320 You gotta keep believing. 446 00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:20.600 What is staying in the faith? 447 00:20:20.600 --> 00:20:24.160 The best I can liken it to is holding on to Jesus' hand. 448 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:25.720 I have experienced a lot. 449 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:27.360 I'm gonna be 50 years old next year. 450 00:20:27.360 --> 00:20:29.040 I got some mileage on me now, right? 451 00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:30.960 I've experienced a lot of my life. 452 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.200 There are times pastoring nearly a quarter of a century. 453 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:35.280 There are times in my life. 454 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:40.280 I got so hit as a pastor, so hit, so discouraged, 455 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:43.040 so hurt that all I could do, 456 00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:45.120 and I still have to get up and praise the Lord. 457 00:20:46.120 --> 00:20:49.920 I was not very satisfied with my Christian walk, 458 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.240 my Christian life, let alone what my walk in life 459 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.520 should be like as a minister in these dry, tough seasons. 460 00:20:56.520 --> 00:20:58.120 What did I do? 461 00:20:58.120 --> 00:21:00.240 At least I just kept holding his hand. 462 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:01.840 And even that was like, you know that's 463 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:03.320 when your kids just throws you their hand up 464 00:21:03.320 --> 00:21:05.120 and you kind of do all the heavy lifting? 465 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:06.400 At least I did that. 466 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.520 And that's all he asks. 467 00:21:08.520 --> 00:21:10.520 Continue in the faith. 468 00:21:10.520 --> 00:21:13.600 Sometimes life slaps you, but they head, all right, fine. 469 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:16.680 But keep holding his hand. 470 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.200 The good hand of the wonderful shepherd. 471 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.040 Amen. 472 00:21:21.320 --> 00:21:23.400 If you continue, that's important. 473 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:24.840 You gotta continue. 474 00:21:24.840 --> 00:21:26.880 That's by the way why I believe. 475 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.680 Yeah, we're gonna get to losing your salvation, 476 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:30.840 but it's not something that just happens. 477 00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:32.800 And it's not something that's easy to do. 478 00:21:32.800 --> 00:21:33.640 And it's... 479 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.400 If you're wondering, have I lost my salvation? 480 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:41.600 You probably haven't. 481 00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:46.440 People who commit apostasy, they don't care anymore. 482 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:49.680 Lucifer isn't going around pacing the skies 483 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:51.760 as the prince of the powers of they are wondering, 484 00:21:51.760 --> 00:21:54.200 I wonder if I can, you know, say sorry to God 485 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:55.680 and we can pass this whole thing up. 486 00:21:57.480 --> 00:21:59.320 When you've committed apostasy, 487 00:21:59.320 --> 00:22:02.600 when you've rejected Jesus after having known him, 488 00:22:02.600 --> 00:22:05.920 you become deranged, completely reprobate. 489 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:07.320 You don't even wanna go back. 490 00:22:07.320 --> 00:22:09.640 I hope this is helping somebody. 491 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:11.760 All right, for the three people, the rest, 492 00:22:11.760 --> 00:22:13.600 you're just gonna have to tag along 493 00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:15.640 for the three people that this is for now. 494 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:16.680 It's helping you. 495 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.840 If indeed you continue in the faith, 496 00:22:18.840 --> 00:22:22.720 ground it instead fast and are not moved away 497 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.520 from the hope of the gospel which you heard, 498 00:22:25.520 --> 00:22:28.320 which was preached to every creature under heaven, 499 00:22:28.320 --> 00:22:31.200 which I, Paul, became a minister. 500 00:22:32.120 --> 00:22:32.960 Amen. 501 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:38.160 So you have to just continue in the faith. 502 00:22:39.120 --> 00:22:41.160 You know that term fallen from grace? 503 00:22:42.760 --> 00:22:46.400 Whenever minister falls, newspapers, media outlets, 504 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:48.600 that's the first, oh, so and so fell from grace. 505 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:49.800 So and so fell from grace. 506 00:22:50.840 --> 00:22:53.000 That's the only context I've actually ever heard. 507 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.360 It used in, except when I went to Guatemala, 508 00:22:55.360 --> 00:22:57.720 you know, we go often for the last 15 years, 509 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.080 our missions project in the bag Guatemala 510 00:23:00.080 --> 00:23:01.840 and the missionary there, Mike McComb, 511 00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:04.080 there's a lot of drunkenness there. 512 00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:06.120 The direct descendants of the Maya, 513 00:23:06.120 --> 00:23:07.880 these shield people, just genetically, 514 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:09.160 they can't handle their liquor. 515 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:14.160 They don't have an enzyme to metabolize it, right? 516 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:17.680 And so you'll see drunken people just sleeping 517 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.520 in the mud, in the streets, like everywhere, you know, 518 00:23:20.520 --> 00:23:23.600 you just walk five minutes off, there's somebody. 519 00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:25.320 And Mike McComb, the missionary there said, 520 00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:26.400 you know, if they're Christian, 521 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:27.520 the Christians there will just go, 522 00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:29.800 oh, he's fallen from grace. 523 00:23:29.800 --> 00:23:31.040 That term fallen from grace. 524 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:33.080 How many of you heard that term? 525 00:23:33.080 --> 00:23:33.920 All right. 526 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:39.000 When you look into the Bible, which I highly encourage, 527 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:44.720 get your theology, get your worldview from the Bible 528 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:46.520 and not from what people say, 529 00:23:46.520 --> 00:23:50.320 that phrase is used only once, fallen from grace. 530 00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:54.120 And Paul actually uses it for the Galatians. 531 00:23:54.120 --> 00:23:57.080 When they took their eyes off of the finished cross 532 00:23:57.080 --> 00:23:59.200 and started trusting in their own works, 533 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:01.280 he says you are fallen from grace. 534 00:24:01.280 --> 00:24:04.160 Not when you go fall back into sin. 535 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:06.920 I'm not belittling sin, but I do want to bring 536 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.880 this scriptural accuracy. 537 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.960 That drunk guy in the mud is not fallen from grace. 538 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:14.800 He's still just a breath away from Jesus. 539 00:24:14.800 --> 00:24:16.800 He didn't fall from grace. 540 00:24:16.800 --> 00:24:18.840 All he has to do is look to Jesus. 541 00:24:20.040 --> 00:24:21.920 Jesus hasn't left him. 542 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:23.800 Jesus is still with him. 543 00:24:23.800 --> 00:24:25.840 He doesn't have to get resaved. 544 00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:29.240 And he's just put his eyes on the Lord and walk with him 545 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:30.840 and yield and surrender. 546 00:24:30.840 --> 00:24:33.400 And you know what, he may fall again. 547 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:34.560 And then you get back up again. 548 00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:35.400 He may fall again. 549 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:36.240 Back up again. 550 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:37.080 Amen. 551 00:24:38.040 --> 00:24:39.040 Hallelujah. 552 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.040 All right, let's get back to Hebrews 6. 553 00:24:44.040 --> 00:24:44.840 I think where, 554 00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:50.680 go back one verse. 555 00:24:55.800 --> 00:24:58.600 Kenneth Hagen, just keep it on that verse, please. 556 00:24:58.600 --> 00:24:59.680 Because this is frightening. 557 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:05.680 Kenneth Hagen tells the story of Jesus coming to him, 558 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:08.960 giving him a vision. 559 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:10.240 If you've been coming 10 plus years, 560 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:13.440 how many times have I preached another minister's vision? 561 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:17.360 Exactly zero times, except this one by Kenneth Hagen. 562 00:25:17.360 --> 00:25:18.840 I preach from the Word of God. 563 00:25:18.840 --> 00:25:19.760 This is a man I love. 564 00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:20.800 This is a man I respect. 565 00:25:20.800 --> 00:25:22.760 And frankly, this is a man whose ministry 566 00:25:22.760 --> 00:25:25.080 birthed more international ministries 567 00:25:25.080 --> 00:25:28.120 than any other modern figure in the last 300 years 568 00:25:28.120 --> 00:25:29.200 that I know. 569 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.040 And so I trust this. 570 00:25:31.040 --> 00:25:32.560 And it's not just that I trust it, 571 00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:35.560 is that it aligns with the Word of God. 572 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:37.280 And he says, the Lord Jesus appeared to him. 573 00:25:37.280 --> 00:25:39.000 He was a prophet, a real prophet of God. 574 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:41.840 Not a Facebook prophet, not a parking lot prophet, 575 00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:44.560 but a real prophet with the goods to back it up. 576 00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:46.880 Jesus took him into a vision. 577 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:47.920 And he saw a couple. 578 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:50.120 A couple he had met only once before. 579 00:25:50.120 --> 00:25:52.080 Husband and wife couple. 580 00:25:52.080 --> 00:25:54.480 And they were both together in ministry. 581 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:56.240 And he says in that vision, 582 00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:01.240 he saw a demon, like a little implyc creature. 583 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.320 Land on the woman's shoulder. 584 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:08.080 And whisper to her, you are so beautiful. 585 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:09.760 You are so talented. 586 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:14.560 You have been cheated in this life. 587 00:26:14.560 --> 00:26:16.360 And she immediately recognized that 588 00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:18.040 as the voice of the enemy. 589 00:26:18.040 --> 00:26:20.080 And you know, a lot of people say Satan is tempting me. 590 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:22.360 But sometimes they mean literally Satan. 591 00:26:22.360 --> 00:26:23.960 Like literally Satan. 592 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:25.840 Like these Satan. 593 00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:28.440 Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies. 594 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:29.280 No. 595 00:26:32.520 --> 00:26:33.920 That's termed the enemy or Satan. 596 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:38.040 Just means, yeah, Satan and his kingdom and his hordes. 597 00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:41.480 And you know, for most of us, Satan doesn't have to come. 598 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.360 He just sends a little two foot, little imp in his place. 599 00:26:44.360 --> 00:26:45.520 It's enough of a challenge. 600 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.560 Land on her shoulder. 601 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.760 Land on her. 602 00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:53.880 Land on her shoulder. 603 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:54.720 He attempts her. 604 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.880 She immediately recognizes it as the voice of the enemy. 605 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.600 And she says, I rebuke you in Jesus name. 606 00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:01.360 This demon falls from her shoulder. 607 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:03.800 And in the vision, he actually says, 608 00:27:03.800 --> 00:27:07.600 I saw that devil squeal and run out of the church. 609 00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:08.440 Woo. 610 00:27:10.120 --> 00:27:12.440 Then in the vision, a little time passes. 611 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:14.320 She's brushing her hair in the mirror. 612 00:27:15.320 --> 00:27:18.520 Saying demon lands on her shoulder and says, 613 00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:20.720 you're so beautiful, you're so talented. 614 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.560 And just starts provoking her, irritating her. 615 00:27:23.560 --> 00:27:27.320 You've been cheated in this life. 616 00:27:27.320 --> 00:27:28.880 She rebukes the enemy again. 617 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:32.120 Immediately, the enemy is silenced for a while. 618 00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:34.200 You know when Satan tempted Jesus, 619 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:37.440 it says that the devil left him for a season. 620 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.240 Then leave him forever for a season. 621 00:27:40.520 --> 00:27:45.280 Vision fast forwards just a few days into the future. 622 00:27:45.280 --> 00:27:48.320 Same evil spirit comes upon her shoulder. 623 00:27:48.320 --> 00:27:51.520 Says, you're so beautiful, you're so talented. 624 00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:53.840 You've been cheated in this life. 625 00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:56.120 This time, she doesn't rebuke it. 626 00:27:57.120 --> 00:28:01.040 She just entertains the thought a little bit like, yeah. 627 00:28:01.040 --> 00:28:04.720 Life didn't turn out, how I wanted, how I hoped. 628 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.480 And I kind of do feel like I've been cheated 629 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:09.080 and I am very beautiful and talented. 630 00:28:10.040 --> 00:28:12.000 He said, in that moment in the vision, 631 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:16.000 he saw her like a glass mannequin. 632 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:21.000 And a dark black dot appears inside her skull 633 00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:25.920 about the size of a quarter. 634 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:28.280 And now Jesus is explaining the vision. 635 00:28:28.280 --> 00:28:33.280 He said she was oppressed with this harassing temptation. 636 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.760 She was doing fine until there was a part of her 637 00:28:38.760 --> 00:28:41.760 that she just wanted to be tempted a little bit. 638 00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:43.360 She liked it. 639 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:44.920 I know you don't, can't relate to that, 640 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:45.880 but there are people. 641 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.360 Sometimes they just, they just liked, 642 00:28:48.360 --> 00:28:50.800 they don't tell themselves ever gonna act on the temptation, 643 00:28:50.800 --> 00:28:53.320 but you just kinda wanna let your mind wander a little bit 644 00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:55.640 and you kinda like the temptation, you think about it. 645 00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:59.800 And when she partnered with that temptation, 646 00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:02.040 when she allowed it in, all of a sudden, 647 00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:05.680 it's not that she was oppressed from the outside in, 648 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:08.240 now that dark circle formed inside of her mind 649 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.320 and she became obsessed. 650 00:29:11.320 --> 00:29:15.320 Before possession, after oppression is obsession. 651 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.960 People get obsessed. 652 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:19.760 She was obsessed now with this. 653 00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:21.640 She kept thinking about it over and over again. 654 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:24.120 Well, what you think about, you bring about. 655 00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:27.080 And as she received this thought, 656 00:29:27.080 --> 00:29:29.520 she divorced her husband, left him, 657 00:29:29.520 --> 00:29:34.720 ended up chasing the world for her fame and her fortune 658 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.280 and slept with many men. 659 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:39.440 In the vision, fast forwards a little bit more 660 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:42.000 and kind of taken, says he's standing outside of a hotel 661 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.640 and sees a well-renowned minister, 662 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:47.920 come out of a car and head into the hotel room 663 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.800 and he was on a mission to bring this woman back to the Lord. 664 00:29:50.800 --> 00:29:53.080 News had spread about, because both her and her husband 665 00:29:53.080 --> 00:29:56.240 were in ministry, news had spread how she had left him. 666 00:29:57.280 --> 00:29:59.160 And he wanted to give her another chance 667 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.040 and confront her and draw her back to Jesus. 668 00:30:02.040 --> 00:30:03.360 He says in the vision, he sees him, 669 00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:06.280 take the elevator, go up, knock on the door, 670 00:30:06.280 --> 00:30:07.600 the door opens. 671 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.680 And on the other side is a scantily clad woman 672 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:16.680 and the minister begins to appeal to her, come back to Jesus. 673 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.800 He's still here waiting for, he loves, 674 00:30:19.800 --> 00:30:23.240 he's forgiven you, everything already come back to him 675 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:25.240 and she looked at him and said, 676 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.960 I don't want to have anything to do with you 677 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:31.080 or your damn Jesus and she slammed the door. 678 00:30:32.080 --> 00:30:34.960 At that moment, everything changed. 679 00:30:35.040 --> 00:30:38.040 In the vision, that dark dot, 680 00:30:38.040 --> 00:30:41.520 that symbolized the obsession, 681 00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:44.600 it now went down into her spirit 682 00:30:44.600 --> 00:30:47.360 and she had committed the unpardonable sin. 683 00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:50.440 She had renounced Jesus. 684 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:55.440 In first John, he says there is a sin that leads to death. 685 00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.920 When someone is in this kind of sin, 686 00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:01.600 he says, I don't even say that you should pray for them. 687 00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:03.040 That's in the Bible. 688 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:03.960 Don't even pray for them. 689 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:04.800 That's a good question. 690 00:31:04.800 --> 00:31:06.160 What is the sin that leads to death 691 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.880 where the Bible says, don't even pray for them? 692 00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:11.800 Well, it's this sin. 693 00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:12.960 Because you can't pray for somebody 694 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:16.080 who they can't even come back to the Lord. 695 00:31:16.080 --> 00:31:18.840 Now, this is good news, happy Sunday. 696 00:31:18.840 --> 00:31:19.880 Everything's gonna be all right. 697 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:21.880 We're gonna get somewhere with this. 698 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:27.360 There are qualifications to be able to commit this sin. 699 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:30.480 Rewind, I think, to verse four. 700 00:31:34.600 --> 00:31:37.240 So that you can see that you have not, 701 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.720 I mean, if you're here right now, you're not. 702 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:43.520 You haven't. 703 00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:48.680 If you're wondering, have I ever committed their sin? 704 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:50.600 Just ask yourself is Satan going wondering, 705 00:31:50.600 --> 00:31:51.880 have I ever heard God's feelings? 706 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:53.520 Have I ever offended him? 707 00:31:53.520 --> 00:31:55.280 Maybe I wasn't aware. 708 00:31:55.280 --> 00:31:56.960 I mean, how was I supposed to know? 709 00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.320 Stealing some of his glory, he'd have a problem with that. 710 00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:00.640 I don't know. 711 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.120 No, he doesn't think like that. 712 00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:07.120 By the way, that story of the minister who said there's a lot, 713 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.560 there's a disproportionate amount of people 714 00:32:11.560 --> 00:32:13.960 in mental institutions who think 715 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.400 that they've committed the unpardonable sin. 716 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.920 Those are two categories of people. 717 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:22.360 One, sincere Christians, but they have a legalistic, 718 00:32:22.360 --> 00:32:25.400 religious spirit, and they allow themselves to be tortured. 719 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.280 They never did commit the unpardonable sin, 720 00:32:27.280 --> 00:32:29.120 but they think they have it, they drove them crazy. 721 00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:30.320 That's some of them. 722 00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:31.600 And there's category number two, 723 00:32:31.600 --> 00:32:34.640 people who actually have committed the unpardonable sin. 724 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:37.760 And what's left of a Christian after that? 725 00:32:37.760 --> 00:32:42.760 Nothing, just a whole, avoid. 726 00:32:43.560 --> 00:32:45.600 They're not in their right mind ever again. 727 00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:52.560 For it is impossible, so here he lists the criteria 728 00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:55.320 for people to commit the unpardonable sin. 729 00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:56.400 As I'm preaching, I said, 730 00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:00.000 realize there's not a normal Sunday morning message. 731 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:01.800 We used to have Friday nights where I would preach 732 00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:02.920 the weird stuff. 733 00:33:04.360 --> 00:33:06.280 But I need you all to get this. 734 00:33:06.280 --> 00:33:09.400 Some of you need to get peace and assurance of salvation, 735 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.000 and you need to know the rules. 736 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.480 You need to know how this whole thing works. 737 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:13.680 Amen. 738 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:16.800 For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened. 739 00:33:16.800 --> 00:33:18.000 So here are the categories. 740 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.080 Number one, we're talking about Christians 741 00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:22.920 who are enlightened, what does enlightened mean? 742 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.720 That your eyes were opened to your need for a savior, 743 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:28.600 that you were convicted of your sin, 744 00:33:28.600 --> 00:33:31.200 and you realize, I have sin, 745 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.200 and I can't do a thing about it myself. 746 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:34.800 I need a savior, I need Jesus. 747 00:33:34.800 --> 00:33:36.080 That's enlightenment. 748 00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:39.040 And have tasted the heavenly gift. 749 00:33:39.040 --> 00:33:40.240 What is the heavenly gift? 750 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.080 In the vision Jesus himself said, 751 00:33:42.080 --> 00:33:45.280 I am the heavenly gift, salvation. 752 00:33:45.280 --> 00:33:49.440 So your eyes were opened and you were saved, all right? 753 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:54.200 Three, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit. 754 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.880 That means you were according to Acts chapter two, 755 00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:59.080 baptized in the Holy Spirit. 756 00:33:59.080 --> 00:34:03.160 Are you seeing that this is not a newbie to the faith? 757 00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:05.080 This is not an immature believer. 758 00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:10.240 Immature, emotional newbie believers 759 00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:12.800 have screamed at God, screamed at the Holy Spirit, 760 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:14.160 said terrible things to the Holy Spirit, 761 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:16.960 and then wonder, oh, can I ever be forgiven of it? 762 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:18.400 Yes, because the Lord knows, 763 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.680 you were temporarily very, very stupid. 764 00:34:20.680 --> 00:34:24.120 And He's going to cut you some slack 765 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.840 and have tasted the heavenly gift 766 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:29.840 and become partakers of the Holy Spirit. 767 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:33.800 So number one, your eyes were opened, 768 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.400 you saw your need for a savior, 769 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:36.840 then you got saved, number two, 770 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.120 number three, you were baptized in the Holy Spirit 771 00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:42.840 and have tasted the good word of God. 772 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:46.080 That means that you are not biblically illiterate. 773 00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:48.960 You know the scriptures, you know the word. 774 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.560 And then number five, and the powers, 775 00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:57.560 not verse five, point five, and the powers of the age to come. 776 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.080 What are the powers of age to come? 777 00:35:00.080 --> 00:35:02.280 The gifts of the Holy Spirit, 778 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:05.040 discernment, discerning of spirits, 779 00:35:05.040 --> 00:35:06.320 word of knowledge, word of wisdom, 780 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.800 working miracles, the gift of faith. 781 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.160 So it pains the picture of somebody 782 00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:14.920 who's been serving the Lord intimately a long time 783 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.880 and really, really like that woman in the story. 784 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:19.880 She was in ministry with her husband. 785 00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:22.040 And in that vision, the Lord said, 786 00:35:22.040 --> 00:35:24.720 if she would have slept with a hundred men, 787 00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:27.200 and then he said, with hundreds and hundreds of men, 788 00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:29.840 I would have forgiven her everything, 789 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:33.160 but it was when she rejected me. 790 00:35:35.600 --> 00:35:38.960 That now she was too far gone. 791 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.960 And it's not just that she can come back to the Lord, 792 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.200 the real problem is she doesn't want to. 793 00:35:45.200 --> 00:35:47.200 She made it, she doesn't want to, 794 00:35:47.200 --> 00:35:49.040 and she never will want to. 795 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:51.840 Hallelujah. 796 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.840 Hallelujah. 797 00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:56.080 Hallelujah. 798 00:35:56.080 --> 00:35:57.520 Let's go to Hebrews chapter 10. 799 00:35:57.520 --> 00:35:59.480 I'm gonna ask the worship team to come on up. 800 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:05.200 Hebrews chapter 10. 801 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.080 So I'm preaching this this morning for several reasons. 802 00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:14.760 One, I believe, I've helped some people 803 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.760 who secretly or times you've thought. 804 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.000 Anybody want to be bold and said, 805 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:20.520 I thought I committed a sin? 806 00:36:21.560 --> 00:36:23.480 Wow, yeah, let me see your hands. 807 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:25.080 Look at that, thank you. 808 00:36:25.080 --> 00:36:27.120 No, now raise your hands if you thought 809 00:36:27.120 --> 00:36:30.840 you committed a sin of black all across the room. 810 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:31.680 That's wonderful. 811 00:36:31.680 --> 00:36:34.280 First of all, I commend you on your honesty. 812 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.800 I'll ask a survey like, 813 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:37.640 hey, how many of you are gonna be a part of a life group 814 00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:39.680 and nobody raised their hand and life groups are full? 815 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:41.880 I ask like this most intimate personal question 816 00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:43.480 and people like, yeah, that was me. 817 00:36:44.520 --> 00:36:45.840 Church is funny. 818 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.840 Well, I'm glad that you know now that you have not. 819 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:55.200 You haven't. 820 00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:58.920 Blast for me against the Holy Spirit 821 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:02.240 is being a mature Christian 822 00:37:02.240 --> 00:37:07.240 and then consciously, intentionally rejecting Jesus. 823 00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:12.480 It's not an easy thing to do. 824 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.280 Most of us, we won't even be tempted with that. 825 00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:17.960 But I preach this also because I don't know 826 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.160 what the future holds 10, 15 years from now. 827 00:37:21.160 --> 00:37:24.080 Could be illegal to be a Christian, we don't know. 828 00:37:24.080 --> 00:37:27.240 And then we have, we need to have a deeper resolve 829 00:37:27.240 --> 00:37:28.880 that we'll never ever forsake the faith. 830 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.520 And at the end of the day, we don't have power 831 00:37:30.520 --> 00:37:31.960 to keep ourselves. 832 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.080 I'll never see me prancing up here and going, 833 00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:35.680 I'll never deny him. 834 00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:37.960 I will never, you know who did that, Peter? 835 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:39.800 Lord, I'll never deny you 836 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:42.800 and then did it the same night three times. 837 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.120 So I'm not gonna, Lord, you know me, Mr. Faithful. 838 00:37:46.120 --> 00:37:47.720 I'm gonna say, Lord, 839 00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:50.880 you know, for too much emphasis is on me, 840 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:51.880 I'm gonna botch it up. 841 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.800 Lord, I trust in you for your saving power 842 00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:55.960 and your keeping power. 843 00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:57.600 You're gonna keep me uncompromised. 844 00:37:57.600 --> 00:37:59.080 You're gonna keep me strong. 845 00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:01.120 You're gonna keep me on the straight and narrow. 846 00:38:02.120 --> 00:38:05.040 And here's what he says, anyone who has rejected, 847 00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:07.480 Moses' law dies without mercy 848 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.400 and the testimony of two or three witnesses, 849 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:14.240 just showing you that there is this place, 850 00:38:14.240 --> 00:38:17.160 someone can lose their salvation, but it's uncommon. 851 00:38:17.160 --> 00:38:19.400 And it's not something anybody should be thinking 852 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:21.360 about too much, rather think about Jesus 853 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.760 and his forgiveness and the glorious life 854 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:25.600 he's working out in you right now 855 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:27.600 and his kingdom come to earth. 856 00:38:27.600 --> 00:38:31.040 Of how much worse punishment do you suppose? 857 00:38:31.040 --> 00:38:32.400 Will he be thought worthy 858 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.320 who has trampled the Son of God under foot? 859 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.640 Counted the blood of the covenant 860 00:38:38.640 --> 00:38:42.000 by which he was sanctified, a common thing, 861 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.560 and insulted the spirit of grace, he's warning the Hebrews 862 00:38:45.560 --> 00:38:48.680 and he's telling him what happens when you reject Jesus. 863 00:38:48.680 --> 00:38:51.760 Number one, I wanna give people an opportunity today 864 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.080 to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. 865 00:38:55.520 --> 00:38:58.440 We're having baptisms coming up, may the third. 866 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.120 I believe it's gonna be one of our biggest, 867 00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:01.960 most anointed, best baptisms. 868 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:03.280 I feel it in my spirit. 869 00:39:04.120 --> 00:39:07.240 I'd like every head bowed, every eye closed. 870 00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:11.600 If you're here, you're under the sound of my voice 871 00:39:11.600 --> 00:39:16.600 and you're not 100% certain that you're saved, 872 00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.840 that your sins are forgiven, that you're heaven bound. 873 00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:24.280 I wanna say a prayer with you and for you. 874 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:26.720 I'm not gonna ask you to get up out of your seat, 875 00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:28.400 but I'm gonna ask that you lift up your hand 876 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.600 and acknowledge your need for a Savior. 877 00:39:30.640 --> 00:39:32.000 I'm the count of three. 878 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.240 If you were to die tonight, God forbid, 879 00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:36.360 but if you were, do you know for certain 880 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:38.480 that you'd spend eternity with heaven? 881 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.280 You can know and I wanna help you get there with a prayer. 882 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:44.200 The count of three, you lift your hand up. 883 00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:48.560 One, two, in Jesus name three, let me see your hands. 884 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:50.800 If you need Jesus, if you need forgiveness, thank you. 885 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:52.000 Keep it up. 886 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.360 Head bowed, eyes closed, every hand up. 887 00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:59.000 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 888 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:00.800 Thank you, keep those hands up. 889 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:05.040 Thank you, Jesus, over 20 hands up, thank you Lord. 890 00:40:05.040 --> 00:40:08.520 Thank you Lord for glorious Sunday of harvest. 891 00:40:08.520 --> 00:40:11.640 All right, now I want you to put your hands down. 892 00:40:12.600 --> 00:40:13.880 Look up at me. 893 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.560 We're gonna say a prayer together. 894 00:40:15.560 --> 00:40:18.520 We're all gonna pray it out loud, all right. 895 00:40:18.520 --> 00:40:21.320 But those who raise your hands, I want you to be extra loud. 896 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.000 Cause often when I do this, 897 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.640 the other Christians are saying it out loud 898 00:40:25.640 --> 00:40:26.840 and the person who raised their hands 899 00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:31.080 really needs to say it, it's kind of like muttering it. 900 00:40:31.080 --> 00:40:33.480 We're not saying it, say it with your whole chest. 901 00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:34.320 You ready? 902 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:35.480 We're all gonna say it. 903 00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.080 Dear Lord Jesus, I believe in you. 904 00:40:40.080 --> 00:40:45.080 I believe you died on the cross in my place. 905 00:40:45.080 --> 00:40:47.320 I repent of my sins. 906 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:49.480 I receive eternal life. 907 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.480 I believe in the finished work of the cross. 908 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:55.280 Thank you Jesus. 909 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:59.800 By faith, I believe I've been born again. 910 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:01.880 I am sin-free. 911 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:03.880 I'm a friend of God. 912 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:06.360 And I'll spend eternity with you in heaven. 913 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:11.640 In Jesus name, amen. 914 00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:13.520 Yeah, let's rejoice. 915 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:17.960 Oh yeah. 916 00:41:19.560 --> 00:41:22.120 Those of you who raised your hands, 917 00:41:22.120 --> 00:41:23.560 you don't have to do this alone. 918 00:41:23.560 --> 00:41:24.960 We got life groups. 919 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:26.480 We got a great staff. 920 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:30.200 We've got everything to help you in your walk with the Lord. 921 00:41:30.200 --> 00:41:31.840 Take that connection card. 922 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.960 Don't even talk about connection cards, I didn't. 923 00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:38.000 Can I see one of those? 924 00:41:39.040 --> 00:41:40.040 Thank you, hun. 925 00:41:41.040 --> 00:41:45.640 The, I was excited to preach about the unforgivable sin 926 00:41:45.640 --> 00:41:49.880 so much that I forgot. 927 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.560 If you're a guest, fill these out, 928 00:41:53.560 --> 00:41:56.200 but this is the number one way to communicate with us. 929 00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:58.440 If you wanna get baptized, 930 00:41:58.440 --> 00:41:59.800 if you wanna be a part of a life group, 931 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:01.440 if you wanna serve, if you have questions 932 00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:03.440 you need answered, whatever you need, 933 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:04.840 this is step one. 934 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.520 And so if you just got saved, fill one of these out. 935 00:42:07.520 --> 00:42:10.480 Grab a couple of those booklets in the foyer. 936 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:12.120 You say, what, but I'm not gonna tell you the title 937 00:42:12.120 --> 00:42:13.040 because you'll forget anyway. 938 00:42:13.040 --> 00:42:15.200 Just go to the front and say, give me the booklets. 939 00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.560 Then make a decision to get baptized. 940 00:42:19.560 --> 00:42:21.280 And then the best advice I can give you 941 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.320 is talk to God every day. 942 00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.040 That's what helped me in the beginning. 943 00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:27.360 The guy who led me to the Lord, he wasn't a minister, 944 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:28.960 but he said, it's like picking up the phone 945 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:30.200 and talking to your best friend. 946 00:42:30.200 --> 00:42:32.080 Do it for a few minutes every day. 947 00:42:32.080 --> 00:42:33.160 Best advice I got. 948 00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:35.200 I haven't stopped talking to him on the phone. 949 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:38.560 Read the Gospel of Mark. 950 00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:41.160 It's only 16 chapters long. 951 00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:42.400 If you read two chapters a day, 952 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.680 it takes about seven, eight minutes. 953 00:42:44.680 --> 00:42:46.200 You read two chapters a day and eight days 954 00:42:46.200 --> 00:42:48.840 you'll be done with a whole gospel. 955 00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:51.280 And you'll actually be in the top 1% of the world 956 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:54.720 for his Bible reading, having read one gospel. 957 00:42:55.720 --> 00:42:58.440 Put you ahead, amen, unfortunately, but that's what it is. 958 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.920 This is the City Light Church podcast. 959 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:04.240 If you've missed any part of today's message 960 00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:05.800 or if you would like to find out more 961 00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.720 about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, 962 00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:11.600 visit us at citylightnyc.com. 963 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:14.800 That's citylightnyc.com. 964 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.240 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 965 00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:20.640 We would love to connect with you. 966 00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:23.240 We pray that you have been encouraged today. 967 00:43:23.240 --> 00:43:26.240 That you have been reminded how much God loves you. 968 00:43:26.240 --> 00:43:29.120 And that you are surrounded by grace. 969 00:43:29.120 --> 00:43:30.480 Thank you for listening. 970 00:43:30.480 --> 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