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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture.

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God is saying to you, yeah, you need me.

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Why?

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Because I've loved you with an everlasting love.

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You, friend, listen, you run out on that, you're running out on the greatest

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lover of your soul, the Elever No.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.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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Then 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 Hibbs.

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The Bible says in Ephesians 1, verse 3 says,

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God didn't make up a redemption plan after Adam and Eve fumbled at the one yard line.

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He already had the plan before there was ever a creation.

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Listen to this.

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Maybe we've got this quote.

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I love this.

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This is from Dr. Donald Gray Barnhouse.

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Our lives are not the haphazard results of the moving of blind chance nor the throwing

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down of cosmic dice.

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All that comes to pass in our lives is according to the perfect eternal plan of the all wise,

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all powerful, all loving father.

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The fact that a man has been chosen according to God's eternal purpose immediately surrounds

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him with the protection or the protective care of the Holy Spirit.

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Nothing can touch the man unless it has passed through the approved process of the will

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of God.

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No situation that comes to you can overpower you in Christ.

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You have to take a picture of that.

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That is awesome and very true.

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God's purpose for your life will not be twisted, it will not be thwarted, Christian.

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Can we say it this way?

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Before you were ever born before Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury ever existed.

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God had his plan for your life.

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We have now just been arriving at it.

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Some of you are arriving at this eternal truth today.

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Right now, God's got a plan for your life and he's had it forever.

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How long?

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How long is it forever?

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I can't even say the word forever, right?

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Longer than forever because we're so puny, we can only think like this.

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Like that, on a line, God is eternal.

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You cannot explain that to me.

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All we know is that there's no time there.

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So when did God think this up?

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He always had you in his thought.

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Well, listen, do you understand something we're arriving at, things?

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We're arriving.

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He already knew, oh my goodness, listen, if you're not a Christian, become one today.

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Seriously, God knows exactly the future.

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He knows exactly what's going to happen.

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You don't, you think you do, especially if you're young, you really think you do.

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You don't.

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That's part of being deceived as a young person.

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But as you move forward, why not become a follower of Jesus knowing this, that whatever

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he's got for me, it's good, and it's for a purpose.

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And so when I arrive at it, when I come to that moment, I can have great peace knowing

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this is all according to the plan of God.

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Come and follow me, or his words.

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Isaiah chapter 54, verse 17 says,

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Think of that for a moment.

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No weapon formed against me will prosper.

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You know where my mind goes immediately with that?

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I warned you guys a couple of weeks ago that there's all kinds of six to ten, six to ten

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false social media sites regarding me created every week, fake.

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We have a company now that works to try to destroy this stuff.

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It's so bad now that we just, listen, we just got done writing a book and it took a year

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and a half to write because it's written by writing.

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And what did we just find out?

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We just found out that AI wrote the book in a couple of days and they are imposters out

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there being sold right now with my name on it and my face on it from me and it's not

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me.

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And it's AI.

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And now we've discovered that there are messages where I am speaking to you and it's not me.

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I'm not saying what is, I mean, it's saying something that I never said.

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It's, listen, this is how the enemy works.

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It's so bad that my thoughts are we're going to pull the social media plug completely.

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That's what I would do.

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But then there'd be millions of people who are saying, hey, we're not, hey, what happened

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to the messages?

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We're watching from Tokyo, what's the deal?

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So we're torn.

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Think about it.

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Listen, I'm going to say it publicly, I'm going to say it again, I say it all the time,

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it says it on my social media, I will never ask to meet with you.

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That was not me inviting you to meet you in Glendale at Starbucks.

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That was probably a murderer, a stalker.

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And I will never ask you for money.

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And people said, I can't believe Jack's doing this.

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You don't know Jack.

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I will never ask.

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So just be careful.

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We live in these very deceptive days.

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No weapon formed against you shall prosper.

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Every tongue which rises up against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

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This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from me, says

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God.

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Isn't that awesome?

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It's not of us.

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We're just following him.

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You ever seen a little kid walking behind his dad, he feels all really big and protected.

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He's walking behind his dad and little kids walking along.

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He couldn't protect himself if he had to.

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But he can't see that, all he can see is his dad.

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That's us.

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We're looking at our dad and we're protected under his shadow.

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It's incredible.

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He's awesome.

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The second thing is this church, his heaven is increasing in us.

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It's increasing.

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Every day that you wake up and live as a believer, heaven is increasing inside of you.

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Didn't Jesus say, see Jack, this is really weird to say, excuse me, Jesus said it.

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He said the kingdom of heaven is inside of you.

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If you're a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, where's the Holy Spirit?

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But inside of you, that's, I always have to control myself when I think about the indwelling

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of the Holy Spirit.

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Who would have thought of such a thing?

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For thousands of years, no pagans ever thought that they could offer up a God or gods that

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would say, hey guess what?

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We'll live inside of you.

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Jesus comes along and says, I'm going to leave you.

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I'm leaving.

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Don't worry, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit and he's going to live inside of every

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believer inside of you.

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He's going to set up camp inside of you.

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And if he does that, you'll know it because he'll begin to work from the inside out and

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he'll do his amazing work and the kingdom increasing within you.

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You think more of the kingdom, you want to do for the kingdom, you want to serve the

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kingdom.

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What is it that you'd have me to do?

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So here we go, this is awesome.

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This is how it increases.

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How do I grow?

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What should I expect?

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What's happening?

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Is God really going to finish his work with me?

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Oh yeah, he has still.

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Not because he has still, he has still because he wanted to.

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Watch this.

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Verse 29, for whom he forenew?

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Wow.

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Circle the word forenew, you're going to want to remember this.

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He also predestined, circle the word predestined.

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To be conformed to the image of his son, this is the result that he might be the first

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born among many brethren.

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Because Jesus Christ is the first one resurrected from the dead to live forever, the son of God,

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his power is able to conform us into his resurrected image and how can we be sure of that?

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Because God's foreknowledge based upon predestination is what starts the whole ball rolling.

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Watch this.

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What, you have to watch.

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Never, ever in the Bible is there ever the term predestination applied to the damned

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or to the condemned or to those in hell, not once.

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There'll be those who will tell you that it does.

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It does not.

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All predestination is based on foreknowledge and it's all in the positive.

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Are you hearing me?

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It doesn't speak to the predestination of those who are inheriting hell.

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It doesn't say, I'm not saying people don't go to hell, they go to hell.

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But it's not by the basis of God saying, any, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, you'll get

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to go to heaven and you don't go.

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Nope.

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The foreknowledge of God is not stuff that he learned a long time ago and thereby predestined

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people.

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Are you hearing me?

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This is deep stuff.

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Hang on.

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I'm sure I can articulate it right because God is eternal and there is no time and because

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he is God, he cannot learn anything.

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He knows everything.

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In fact, in deep theology, the nature of God is known as the decree of God.

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It's a functionality of God's person, decree with a sea, decree.

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And it means that God knows all things that do happen and he knows the results of things

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that never did happen.

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Does that fry your brain a little bit?

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So watch this.

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When you think, oh God picked me because I'm good, wrong, oh God is just throwing cosmic

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dice.

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Too bad you don't get to go with us wrong.

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God who cannot learn who's eternal, his foreknowledge is, he knows the exact decision

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that you would make if you heard the gospel.

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What's our note to it?

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Before time ever began in this physical world?

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Listen, he's known it as long as he has been God and how long has that been?

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And we can hardly define forever again.

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So watch this.

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Here you are in the 21st century and in all of eternity past God's foreknowledge knew

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that when the gospel was presented to you, you would say yes.

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He knew that.

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He didn't learn it.

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He knew it.

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Based on that, watch this, follow.

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Based on that, God gave you the ability to say yes or to see the truth.

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Who gets the praise, who gets the adoration, who gets the glory, God, who provided the

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way of salvation, God did.

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But if the gospel message comes to you and you reject it because God made you a free

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moral agency, you can choose.

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He built that into you.

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You choose.

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I'll give you choice.

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You choose.

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If you reject it, then who's responsible for rejecting it?

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You are.

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So in heaven, we're all going to be going like this.

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Thank you, God, forgiveness here.

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And people who are in hell are hating themselves for never listening, for never accepting.

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God doesn't learn anything.

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He knows how it's going to be in advance.

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He doesn't bend your arm.

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He knows.

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And right now, for us, we're arriving at God's plans based on foreknowledge.

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Never mention the word predestination without first mentioning foreknowledge.

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You got that?

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Very important.

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Because there'll be those who will seek the bamboozle you and to get that turned around.

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Don't fall for it.

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But seriously, Jeremiah 31, Jeremiah 31, this might make more sense.

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You read this verse a lot, but not makes more sense, perhaps.

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The Lord has appeared of old to me saying, yes, I have loved you with a what?

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How long is that?

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Therefore with loving kindness, I've drawn you.

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God is saying to you, yeah, you need me.

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You don't need a church.

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You don't need an organization.

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You don't need a membership card.

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God is saying, I am drawn you.

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I'm drawing you to me.

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I want you to come to me.

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Why?

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Because I've loved you with an everlasting love.

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You, friend, listen, you run out on that.

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You're running out on the greatest lover of your soul, the elever, no.

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And God is saying, you come to me and you would say, nope, that's on you.

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That's terrible.

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Why would you do that?

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You shouldn't do that.

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John chapter 1, I love this.

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John chapter 1, verse 43, this is going to get me fired up.

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I ask for your forgiveness in advance.

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The following day, Jesus, Yeshua, wants you to go to Galilee and he found Philip and

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said to him, follow me.

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Now Philip was from Bethesda, the city of Andrew and Peter.

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Philip found Nathaniel, don't you love Philip, he's all over the place.

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He said to him, excuse me, listen, we have found him who Moses in the law and also the

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prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph, suffer there.

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First century Jews who knew their Old Testament better than Jews today, that when they met

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Jesus, what was their response?

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This is the guy Moses talked about, he's the one the prophets spoke about, translation.

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This is the guy the Old Testament's all about.

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He's the one.

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And Nathaniel said to him, can anything good come out of Nazareth?

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Sorry.

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Philip said to him, come and see.

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So watch this, Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said of him, this is Jesus speaking

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behold in Israelite, indeed in whom there is no deceit, really.

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That's awesome.

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Nathaniel said to him, watch, how do you know me?

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Jesus answered and said to him, before Philip called you when you were under the fig tree,

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I saw you.

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This gets to be really, I think, incredibly romantic for the soul.

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Nathaniel answered and said to him, rabbi, you are the son of God.

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You are the king of Israel.

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Jesus answered and said to him, because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree.

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Do you believe?

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You will see greater things than these, watch this.

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And he said to him, most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter, you shall see heaven open

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and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man.

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Why?

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What in the world is going on here?

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Jesus quotes an Old Testament event where Jacob lays down to take a rest and he has a

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vision and Jacob sees a ladder that extends into heaven.

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And from heaven, angels are ascending and descending regarding the ministry of the Messiah.

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Translation?

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Nathaniel, welcome aboard.

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I love that.

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Heaven is calling to us.

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Heaven is calling.

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All the time.

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Moreover, whom he predestined, these he also called.

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Is God calling you?

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Is God inviting you into his family?

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Listen, have you ever...

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Listen, we're almost done.

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Have you ever thought for a moment that you would love to have your sins forgiven?

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Have you ever thought for a moment you'd like to start life all over again?

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What if all that can be washed away now today without it being put in the headlines or called

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out?

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And in the other way, where God says, give it to me now and I'll risk you from it before

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it pulls you down.

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You have sinned against me, the Almighty God, I'm eternal, I'm God and I'm pure and perfect.

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But listen, between you and I, there's sin and I went to the cross to remove that sin

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factor from your life.

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And here's the thing.

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If you hear me calling out to you, you are receiving from me my invitation, except it.

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Receive it.

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And to whom we are called, these he also justified, justified.

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Great meaning of a word, it means to reveal, to show righteousness, to declare righteousness,

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to announce someone's acquittal or being vindicated, but the best way to remember justified means

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just if I'd never sinned.

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That's what it means.

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That looks at you and says, I look at you now just as if you have never sinned.

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He does this.

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One man, born of a virgin, lives his life, sent from God, dies on the cross, according

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to the Scriptures, resurrected from the dead, turns out to be the eternal God made incarnate.

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Made in flesh, the Bible says.

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For you and I, ten here in heaven in eternity.