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Good evening everyone, welcome to Anchor Baptist Church.

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It is time to go ahead and get started with our service.

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If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal, our first hymn is number 191.

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In my heart there rings a melody.

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Hymn number 191, 191.

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In my heart there rings a melody.

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191 let's sing it out all together.

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I have a song that Jesus gave me.

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It was sent from and above.

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There ever was a sweet...

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We just thank you again for this evening opportunity to gather together Lord

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We thank you for the salvations that were had this afternoon as well as I know a lot of good seeds

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Planted for multiple groups

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So I just pray that those

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Salvations would find a good church to get in and start serving you and that those seeds that were planted would

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Germinate and you would give that increase Lord for the evening service

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I pray that you'd continue to be with us to open our ears to the message and filled me with your boldness and

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Incline your ear to us as we continue to sing out praises unto you these things we pray

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in Jesus name. Amen. For our next hymn number 389. Hymn number 389 bring them in.

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389, 389, bring them in.

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389, let's sing it out all together.

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Hark!

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Did the shepherd's voice I hear, howl in the desert dark and

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drear, calling the sheep.

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gone

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the same as this morning as well. If you need a bulletin and you don't have one,

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raise your hand. Brother Theodore has extra copies of those. I know we ran out

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this morning. We did print more, so we have more if you'd like one. Of course, we

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have our Bible memory passage there on the front. Just be prudent and keep up

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with that.

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on the inside, top left service times,

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underneath that soul winning times.

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I believe there were a total of two salvations reported,

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yes, two salvations reported for the day,

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so that was great.

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I know our group didn't have any,

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but Brother Tristan was able to get,

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I mean, 90 or 95% of the way through with a little kid,

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and then the mom's like, come in,

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and the kid wanted to stay and listen.

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He's like, hold on, mom, hold on.

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She would not relent.

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She was like, right now.

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So, good seed planted.

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He was really interested.

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He was right there.

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I mean, right at the end.

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So just pray, if you would, that the kid would watch the video

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or that some other soul winner would go find him at some point

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and just land that plane.

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God give it the increase.

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Underneath that, we have our church stats.

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Of course, visitor card there and online giving

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on the top right.

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Won't go, obviously, through the prayer list on a Sunday,

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but I will make mention again to please be in prayer for pastor.

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He is home.

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Thanks for watching!

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now so I'm right right he's home I think he's trying to burn it out of his system

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because I think for lunch he had Dave's hot chicken so he's just trying to get

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that stuff gone but he's not well he's obviously not here so just pray for him

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that he would

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His health will be restored, it's rough.

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Something must be going around, who knows.

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But just be in prayer for him,

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that's where he is this evening.

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On the back, our upcoming events will go through.

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August 15th is our next marathon.

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Of course, that's gonna be two weeks from yesterday.

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So 13 days away is the marathon in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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Very close to the metro, not far at all.

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So definitely come join us for that.

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August 23rd is the next men's preaching night.

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September.

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19th will be a marathon for the Osage Indian area in Pawhuska.

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October 24th we'll be doing another trip to the Oar Family Farm.

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October 31st our Chile Cook Off, it's always a fun time.

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And November 7th we will be going back to Enid for another

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soul winning marathon. It was very receptive the last time we went so I'm really looking forward

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to that. Underneath the upcoming events of course is a sign up QR code there that I

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referenced this morning as well as details

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for the meetup and soul winning times at Frishoni.

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There's also a physical sign-up sheet. I know some folks have been having some issues with the online sign-up

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So if it doesn't work, there is a physical sign-up sheet aside from that. I have no other announcements

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We'll go to our third him this evening number

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413

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P. 413. Stand up, stand up for Jesus.

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413.

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Stand up, stand up for Jesus.

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Let's sing it out there all together.

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Stand up, stand up for Jesus.

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He's older than the cross.

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Turn if you would to 1 John chapter number 5.

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1 John chapter number 5.

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1 John 5,

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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,

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and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

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For whatsoever is born of God, overcomeeth the world.

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And this is the victory that overcomeeth the world, even our faith.

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Who is he that overcomeeth the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

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This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood.

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It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost,

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and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water,

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and the blood, and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God

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is greater. For this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on

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the Son of God hath the witness in himself.

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He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

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And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

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that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

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And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will,

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He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the

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petitions that we desired of Him. If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death,

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he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for then that sin not unto death."

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There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he shall pray for it.

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All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death.

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We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself,

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and that wicked one toucheth him not.

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And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

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And we know that the Son of God has come, and hath given us an understanding,

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that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son, Jesus Christ.

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This is the true God in eternal life.

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Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

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Let's pray to your Heavenly Father. I pray that you fill Brother Cameron with your Spirit.

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and I preach an edifying sermon for us.

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Amen. All right, we are in 1 John chapter number five this evening, and I want to look at a couple

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verses that are very familiar to soul winners.

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And just to give you kind of a heads up as to what my plan is for this message this evening

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is wherever you are in your soul winning sharpening, whether you're brand new, you're a silent

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partner, you've been doing it for a long time, I want to give you a ton of verses tonight

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on eternal security.

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And here's the reason why.

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Because the Bible teaches this concept, my sermon title is this, eternal security or

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no security.

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eternal security or no security.

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And you can have someone believe all the points of salvation,

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that it's by faith alone, that it's not of works,

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that it's in Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God,

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that He died for our sins, that He was buried,

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that He rose again.

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But if you think that you could lose it, you're not saved.

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So, eternal security is required belief for salvation.

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And I have heard many times, and I'm sure, I won't ask for a raise of hands, but I'm

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sure other soul winners here have gone out, have talked to people that say, oh, I go to

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XYZ Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.

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They start giving you great answers.

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Hey, it's faith alone.

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You can't earn it, blah, blah, blah.

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But then it's like, well, could you ever lose it?

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And they're like, well, yeah.

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You can't just live however you want.

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And here's the thing, it's not that they're mostly saved

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or something, they're just not saved.

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Because if you think you can lose your salvation,

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you are not saved.

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Now, this is a pretty contentious, controversial thing to say, I know, because I've heard folks

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say, oh, well, you're saying they have to believe exactly like you to be saved.

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No, no, no.

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I'm just saying that the Bible teaches, and we'll look at a couple of these tonight, that

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there are some dead stop requirements for believing when it comes to salvation.

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Here's another one.

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Brother Dan, Brother Tristan, and I today ran into a Muslim at a soul wedding.

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And you know what she wanted to tell me the whole time?

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Oh, we believe the same thing.

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We agree.

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I agree with the Bible.

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I believe on Jesus.

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Right? But you know what they deny?

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That Jesus is God.

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But she'll agree with everything else

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that I would have shown her.

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I didn't stay there for long.

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But they deny that Jesus is God.

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If you deny that Jesus is God, you're not saved.

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If you deny that salvation is by faith alone, you're not safe.

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And if you deny eternal security, you are not saved.

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Now as a soul winner, where's the best place in the Bible,

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or really if we're just kind of like wanting to understand this ourselves and solidify this,

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where's the best place in the Bible to go?

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First John chapter number five.

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Look down if you would at verse nine.

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We'll start in first, excuse me, verse nine of first John five.

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It says this, if we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater.

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For this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.

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He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.

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He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son."

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So let's pause for a moment. The Bible is telling us, look, here's God's record.

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You either believe it or you don't. If you don't believe this record, what you are doing is calling God a liar.

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Now this is not saying that people will stand there at the door and tell you, God's a liar.

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Okay, like verbally with their mouth.

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You have to have some discernment in that if you're rejecting God's Word, what you're doing is calling God a liar.

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And to reject eternal security, it is not simply 1 John chapter 5 that teaches you're calling God a liar.

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I'm going to go through plenty of scripture to prove that this evening, but this is the clearest place

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where I've run into people who believe, again, they've got like nine of the boxes out of ten checked.

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They think they could lose their salvation. They're not saved. And I just go straight to 1 John 5.

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and show them, hey look, you think you could lose it,

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you're saying it's not eternal,

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you're calling God a liar, you're not saved.

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And look, this is the easiest place to show someone

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for them to understand that and get saved.

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Because, end of verse 10, it says,

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because he believeth not the record.

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Well, what's the record?

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Verse 11, and this is the record

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that God hath given to us eternal life.

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This life is in his son he that hath the son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God

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Have not life these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know

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That you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God

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You know if someone believes they could lose their salvation or let me even say this if someone doesn't know if they could lose their salvation

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If they think you could lose it, they're definitely not saved.

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If you ask someone, do you think you could lose your salvation?

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They're like, I don't know.

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Immediate red flag that they're probably not saved.

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You need to ask good questions.

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Well, what if you commit a sin?

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What if you end your life in suicide or something?

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Sometimes people just heard a lot of bad preaching where it just takes you like asking that good question for them to go like

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No, you couldn't lose it. No where they'll start with an I don't know but then you kind of shore them up

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You solidify them the problem

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I see a lot of times soul winning is that people just don't ask good questions or they're not super thorough

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Because you show up. Hey, you know for sure if you die today you go to heaven. Yep

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What do you think it takes to get there? It's faith in Jesus Christ. He's our Savior

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Amen. Is there anything else you have to do?

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You have to do any works?

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Nope. It's faith alone.

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Amen. God bless you, brother.

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It's great to meet you.

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You've skipped a major piece, eternal security.

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Because I've had people tell me all those answers,

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and then inevitably I ask, could you lose it?

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Well, yeah.

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You can't just live however you want.

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Well, yeah, if you do insert sin.

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Well, yeah, if you go murder somebody.

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Now look.

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Could there be someone that is saved that says,

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well, yeah, you could lose it?

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This is the one time I've seen that,

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where someone's like, well, yeah,

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if you blaspheme the Holy Ghost.

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And I'm like, OK.

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But the Bible would say that a person's

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a person that never believes.

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I'm talking about someone who sincerely believes.

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Could they lose it?

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Oh, no, no, they can't.

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Like, OK, we're on the same page.

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People just say things differently because they've

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looked, not everyone goes to a great church.

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We have a great church here.

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Not everyone's hearing clear doctrine week after week.

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They've been in and out of all kinds of churches,

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or they're unchurched, or they've never been to a church,

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or they got saved when they were six,

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and then they never touched a church

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or the Bible for the rest of their life.

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People can say weird things.

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That's why as a soul winner, you have to be diligent.

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You have to do what the Bible calls diligent inquisition,

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ask good questions, to know what someone believes.

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I would always, always, always rather be way too thorough

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than not.

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not thorough enough and leave and someone's not saved

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and then I'm giving them some false sense of assurance

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when they don't even know for sure

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that they could never lose it.

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They think maybe they could lose it.

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The Bible is telling us here also

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that really sprung me into that tangent

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is it says that you may know that you have eternal life.

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You know, if someone tells you, I don't know,

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hey, do you know for sure that you're saved?

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I'm not sure.

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And then you ask a couple of questions.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, I've heard that before.

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It's always good to double down.

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Like, wait, you know, the Bible does

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say that we could know for sure.

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So I just want to ask you again, are you 100%

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sure that you'd go to heaven?

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Look, I'm looking for confidence.

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And here's how I talk to people.

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What's 2 plus 2?

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I'll ask them this all the time.

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4.

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You knew that, didn't you?

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Or you can ask them their name.

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What's your name?

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Do you know that? How do you know? They're like, I just know that. Can I ever convince you?

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I'll ask people this. Can I ever convince you that 2 plus 2 is 5?

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No. Now I could pressure you into saying it's something different. Can I ever convince you that your name is not your name?

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No, you could be pressured into lying, but you still believe the truth.

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That's the same thing when it comes to eternal security. Once you believe the right thing, you're safe forever.

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But if you don't believe it's eternal, you're not saved.

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It's the same first Corinthians 15 gives us again other things that people must believe to be saved that jesus is god

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Right that he died for our sins that he rose from the dead

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The bible teaches if we don't believe that he rose again, then our sins are not remitted you're dead in your sin

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So it's not that we're like adding on these that's the argument that gets levied

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Or you guys are adding on these other things that people like no no no the bible just teaches what belief is

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It's putting your faith in the right thing. It's not some guy named

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Jesus. It's not just that there is a name Jesus, it is who Jesus is, what was done,

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and what the gift is. To deny any part of that, you are calling God a liar and

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that extends even to eternal security. Belief in eternal security. Here's my

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first point. We'll just spring into this. Belief in eternal security is required

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for salvation. I don't know if I haven't made that clear already. Let's just make

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that a

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Clear point, because the Bible says in 1 John 5, 10,

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he that believeth on the Son of God

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hath the witness in himself,

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it's talking about the Holy Spirit,

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sealing us like in Ephesians chapter one,

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he that believeth not God have made him a liar

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because he believeth not the record that God gave of the Son.

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And this is the record that God

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hath given to us eternal life.

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Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter number one.

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1 Corinthians chapter number one.

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What are people denying when they deny eternal security?

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Well number one, they're denying that God is truthful.

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They're calling God a liar.

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1 John 5, right?

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You don't believe the record, you're calling God a liar.

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Okay, what else does this go against?

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The Bible teaches that salvation happens in a moment.

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It is not a process.

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Salvation happens in a moment. It is not a process.

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1 Corinthians 1 verse 18. Let me flip the page here.

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The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 1 verse 18,

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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness,

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but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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Now, did you know if you have a modern version of the Bible, it does not say, unto us which

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are saved.

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It says, unto us which are being saved.

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But that's not what the Bible says.

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The Bible says, unto us which are saved.

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Why?

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We're not being saved.

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I am saved.

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Because it's a moment, not a process.

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Turn to John chapter number six.

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John chapter number six. Okay, so if eternal security is not true or if someone can deny eternal security and still be saved

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Then they don't have to believe first Corinthians 1 18 that we are saved

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See, I'm not believe it's not just a well just first John 5. I had a lady tell me recently

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Outsole winning I think I was with brother Dan

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We were out soul winning and a lady told me when I brought up first John 5, she was a

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Methodist, she was not saved.

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And she was like, oh, you're proof texting.

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And I was bewildered at that statement.

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I just said, yes, I am.

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This is my proof text.

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I have to go home and look up that that is like a form of derision that's like a pejorative

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that people say you're proof texting.

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And they literally just mean it like, oh, you're just proving what you believe from the Bible.

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Yes, I am a Christian. Is that not what we do?

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Look, this was a real person. This was not like an online Twitter bozo.

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This was a real... I knocked at their door. She came out. She wanted to give me...

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Sounded right at first. If I remember correctly, it sounded pretty right.

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until I got to eternal security.

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Well, that's where us Methodists and you Baptists disagree.

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No, let me help you.

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It's not where Methodists and Baptists disagree,

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although it is.

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It's not where, oh, you and I see different.

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It's where you disagree with this.

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It's where God gave the record and you called him a liar.

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And here's my proof text, 1 John 5.

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I'm going to proof text a lot this evening, actually.

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Here's another proof text, 1 Corinthians 1, 18.

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unto us which are saved.

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It is the power of God.

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Why?

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Because the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,

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neither can he know them because they're foolishness unto him.

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You cannot explain truths from the Bible to an unsaved person.

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Obviously, you could teach them carnal truths,

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you can give them pointers.

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Drinking is bad, right?

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Don't cheat on your spouse.

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Get saved like the bare bones.

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But look, you're not going to be able to explain like we did this morning

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that like,

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Absalom's rebellion on David and Judah

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bringing David back into Israel is a picture of the Jews and the Gentiles.

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They're not going to get this.

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And that's not even really that hard of a concept, but they just aren't going to understand

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the deep things of God because they're not saved.

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And look, this verse would make no sense if it was being saved.

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Because then, couldn't you just say that's anybody?

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Is it like the process?

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Well, he's in the process right now of getting saved.

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Well, how saved is he?

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Not.

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It's not a process. You are or you are not.

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Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ or have you not?

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There are no classes that we have to take.

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There is no confirmation that we have to go through.

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You believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you're saying,

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well, you're making it too simple.

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You're proof texting.

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You're boiling it down to a moment.

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OK, well, John chapter number six, Jesus boiled it down to a moment too.

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So if you're going to accuse me of boiling it down to a single moment,

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you have to levy that same accusation against Jesus Christ.

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Look at verse 47.

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The Bible says in John 6, 47,

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and verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me.

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half everlasting life.

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Let me help you with the word half.

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That is a present tense word.

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It does not say will receive.

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It does not say in the future you're going to get that.

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Now look, obviously in the future we are going to die

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and receive a better inheritance.

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But when it comes to salvation, it's our spirit that is quickened.

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The flesh profiteth nothing. Life is in the spirit.

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And once you believe on Christ, you have present-ents at that moment.

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everlasting life.

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So again, eternal security is required for salvation.

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Why? Because you pulled one verse out of 1 John 5?

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No, because if you don't believe the record,

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1 John 5 says you're a liar, you're calling God a liar,

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and you are a liar because you're just wrong.

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God's true.

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Let God be true and every man a liar.

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So that actually was true, even though I technically misspoke

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there, I'm still right.

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And salvation is a moment that happens in one time

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in the twinkling of an eye, not a process.

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.

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Because if it were a process, you could not say, I am saved.

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You'd have to say, well, I'm being saved.

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I'm working on it.

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And look, isn't this what people tell us all the time?

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Hey, I'm working on it.

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I'm doing the best I can.

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I'm really giving.

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This is my pet peeve, and I know what people mean by this.

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You got to be careful with what people say.

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Have some nuance.

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You got to have nuance, folks.

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Please have nuance.

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It kills me when people don't.

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But people say, I gave my life to Christ.

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Now look.

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That's a horrible way to phrase that, in my opinion, but some people could say that and

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mean they believed on Christ.

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I just always like to kind of like give them a fun jab.

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I'm like, now when you say that, you realize though, it's Jesus Christ gave his life for

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us though.

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Like it's not us giving our life, because other people will say that and mean like I

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turned over a new leaf.

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I repented of my sins.

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I started going to church.

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I decided to feel sorry for my sin.

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That's not, they're not saved if they believe that.

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But if they just mean like, oh I gave my life to Christ,

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no like I gave it, I let go.

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I'm trusting only in Christ.

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Okay fine.

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You gotta ask questions.

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You gotta find out what people mean.

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One of the worst things that you can do as a soul winner

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is just not ask questions.

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or not try to find out.

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And I think people are so nervous that you're like,

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I'm gonna say the wrong thing.

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Look, you're having a conversation with another person

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that's a real person like you are,

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but let me help you out.

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You're saved and you have the truth on your side.

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Statistically, they are not,

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and they do not have the truth on their side.

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You don't have to be scared.

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What if they yell at me?

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They will.

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Yea, and all that will of Godly and Christ Jesus

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shall suffer persecution.

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Get ready. What if they call the cops? They will. Ask them if they're safe. Usually they don't like that.

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Why am I scared? We're not doing anything wrong, but you have to be ready.

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You can't just be like, oh, I'm going to give up because there's a little bit of resistance, or I just don't understand what they mean.

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Ask what they mean. If you don't know what someone believes, how in the world are you going to show them the truth?

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You don't even know what they actually believe.

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At least some of these people, they don't even know what they believe.

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Jesus tells the woman at the well, you know not what you believe.

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Sometimes you gotta say that to people. It's like, look, the nicest way I can tell you this is,

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I don't even think you know what you believe.

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But here's the good thing. Being saved is super easy. Happens in a moment. Can I show you?

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But you have to figure out what they believe.

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What if we just knock every door and immediately go, hello, I'd like to show you the Bible.

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Romans 3... No, no, no, no, you're asking questions.

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You're trying to figure out what they believe.

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And everyone asks the questions a little bit differently, but look, you should ask someone

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– this is now turning into like a soul-willing seminar – but look, this is really good

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tips for soul-willing, okay, if I say so myself.

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This will help you because so many people, so many Baptist churches that go out and preach

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the gospel are really not thorough when it comes to eternal security.

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Let me tell you how many people on the bus ministry, I'm not going to name churches because I like these churches and they're good churches,

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but let me tell you how many bus ministry people I've gotten saved that are on the bus ministry of other good,

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Baptist churches in the area that have heard all my points up to eternal security.

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And they're like, wow, I never heard that before. And I'm like, wow, you were not saved.

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But I believed everything else right. But not this.

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I mean, imagine if I told you I believed everything except that Jesus was God.

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I just don't believe that he's God.

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Realize none of us would have a problem saying well, then you're not saved you're denying

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Well, I believe everything except that he died for my sins. Well, then you're not saved

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I believe everything except that he didn't rise again. I don't believe that he rose again

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Well, then you're not saved but then when it comes to eternal security boy people will fight you on this

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Oh, they're not saved just because they don't believe there. Yes. That's it. What's what I'm saying. Yes. They're calling God a liar

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Yes, they're not believing the record

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Yes, they're saying that salvation is a process.

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If they deny that salvation is in a moment, then what they are saying is it must be a

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process because those are the only two options.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, John 6, 47, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

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Turn to John chapter number one.

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You know, the Bible teaches you cannot be unborn.

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Like, unless you're talking about a child that's literally just not been born yet,

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but a person that has been born, you're not going to unborn yourself. You can die,

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you could take your own life, someone could take your life, but you're not ever unborn.

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You don't go from being born to not being born.

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John 1, 12, the Bible says this,

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John chapter 1, verse 12,

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but as many as received him,

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to them gave he power to become the sons of God,

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even to them that believe on his name,

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which were born, not of blood,

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nor of the will of the flesh,

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nor the will of man, but of God.

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The Bible teaches that salvation,

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is eternal, that that happens in a moment,

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and that that moment is referred to as being born again,

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which virtually everyone misunderstands out in the world

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what born again means, because they'll tell you it's baptism,

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they'll tell you it's when you started, turn a new leaf.

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Even save people just kind of get wrong on the definition of that because they've heard bad preaching being born again is

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Talking about when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you're saved now. Why is it born again?

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Turn to John chapter number three

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John chapter number three, of course, very famous passage of scripture.

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Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night.

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And I'll just tell you my personal belief.

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I don't think Nicodemus is genuine.

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He's a Pharisee.

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He's coming to Jesus by night.

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And the questions that Nicodemus asks are just really.

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Weird contentious questions and honestly the last you see Nicodemus three times the last time you see him

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He's bringing all these alms and ointment to the cross and I think by personal interpretation of that is that Nicodemus is still

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Even after Christ has died. He's still just trying to bring his works to the cross like he never really got it

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Now, if I'm wrong and I run into Nicodemus in heaven, I'll apologize for that, but I'm

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just saying that I don't get the feeling that he's a genuine guy when you see the questions

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that Nicodemus asks.

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John chapter 3 verse 5, the Bible says, Jesus answered in verse 5, verily, verily, I say

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unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom

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of God.

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Notice in verse 6, that which is born of the flesh is flesh.

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And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

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Marble knot that I said unto thee, you must be born again.

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For a second time, I'm just going to kind of skip Nicodemus's

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back and forth.

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It doesn't matter for the sermon this evening.

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But notice, all the false prophets, unsafe people,

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and even safe people get looped into this like, oh, born again.

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That's like water baptism.

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Or something.

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It's like, no, because verse 6 literally says, that which is of the flesh, that which is

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born of the flesh is flesh.

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And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

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You know why it's born again?

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Because the only people getting saved are people that have been born once.

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I was born of my mother.

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And here's how it's of the water and the Spirit.

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You don't want a woman, a pregnant woman, right before she gives birth, her water breaks.

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Children are born in a gush of water. That's being born of the water

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Okay, then you have being born of the spirit

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Also, it says

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What's born of the flesh is flesh and what's born of the spirit is spirit, okay?

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So then if this was talking about baptism which none of us here believe because then you would be unsaved

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Then that would be your flesh that gets baptized. It's not your spirit that gets baptized at the moment that you're dunked underwater

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It's a spiritual birth.

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Okay, we can never, and Nicodemus even really gets that right, this right because he asks,

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can I go back into my mother's womb?

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The answer is no.

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The answer is no, Nicodemus, you can't, physically.

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And guess what?

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I can also not spiritually be unborn either, because it's a moment and it's eternal.

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Again, you have eternal security, folks, or you have no security.

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Because if you don't believe eternal security, you're not safe.

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If you don't believe eternal security, then you're saying,

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well, I could be unborn then.

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What are you doing? You're denying reality.

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You're just denying a truth of life that people are never unborn.

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There's never once ever been a person that has unborned themselves.

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you would have to deny that reality to deny eternal security.

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Verse 16, John chapter 3,

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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,

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that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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The context here is still eternal security.

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I'm not pulling these verses out of context.

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This is the context, is how long we're saved for.

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It's forever.

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If you deny that you're saved for...

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you are not saved. Now let me help you with this. I can't believe this is actually an argument.

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Everlasting lasts forever.

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Everlasting and eternal are not two different things.

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I have heard Ruckham and I say,

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words that are different are not the same.

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Yeah, obviously word like the and ant.

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Those are two different words.

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They're both three letters.

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They're not the same word.

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We agree.

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But everlasting and eternal,

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they mean the exact same thing.

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But there are two different ways

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that you could say the same thing.

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Okay?

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John chapter number five,

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turn over if you would.

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Everlasting.

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last forever.

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I can't tell you how many times I've asked someone to throw it.

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How long is everlasting?

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Well, everlasting means

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God will

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always keep it for us

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but we can walk away from it

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but God still has it

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if we come back

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because it's everlasting in

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God's possession but it

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we can't, it's just like that's confusing.

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It's everlasting because once you have it you never lose it.

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It's everlasting because once you're saved, you're always saved.

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And look, don't glaze over this evening and think,

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I've heard these verses, I've heard this before,

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because you're going to run into someone else soul-warning sometime.

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That's not going to agree with you.

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And you have one verse that you can go to, 1 John 5, that's great.

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You have a lot of verses that you can take notes and listen to someone

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and understand where to go to help them that oppress themselves.

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That's even better.

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Okay, I know obviously that we all know eternal security in this building.

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If not, you're going to...

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to know it by the end of the sermon, I guarantee you that, and then you can get saved.

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But look, we don't only need to know these things for our admonition and for our edification,

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but because we are ambassadors for Christ, we're going forth every week, if not multiple

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times a week you should be, right?

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Every single week, preaching the gospel, we should know this doctrine.

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We should be able to explain this doctrine not from one location, but as many as it takes

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for someone to understand and get saved.

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This is important stuff.

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Look, if it wasn't that important, why does God have it over and over?

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All my notes tonight are about salvation being eternal.

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If we only needed one verse and we could shut our Bibles and go home, why did God give us

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a Bible full of verses on this?

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I'm here to preach the whole counsel of God and that's what I'm going to do.

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Everlasting last forever. John chapter 5 verse 24 says this very very I say unto you he that heareth my word and

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Believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life now

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Let's help with how long that lasts keep reading and shall not come into condemnation

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But is passed from death unto life

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The Bible teaches that once someone is saved it is not possible for them to ever enter into a state of condemnation

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from a spiritual aspect

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This verse helps people out soul winning because they'll say,

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well, what if I don't feel sorry?

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Or what if I go commit this sin?

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And I'm like, well, two things.

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One, you're focusing on the eye.

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What if I do this and I do that?

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See what you're focusing on?

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You're focusing on you.

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You need to stop focusing on you and focus only on Christ,

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because that's what's going to save you.

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Two, John 5.24 says, when you believe

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you have everlasting life, here's what that means.

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Shall not come into condemnation.

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Use what you have to do when you're soul winning.

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It is not reading the Bible to someone, it is expounding the word of God.

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Okay?

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It's not just...

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The Ethiopian eunuch had Isaiah.

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He needed Philip to read it to him and to explain it.

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So here's what you do.

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Everlasting life.

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It says you shall not come into condemnation.

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I love just asking people questions.

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OK, look, if God's word...

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Hey, I believe the Bible.

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Do you believe the Bible?

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People were all...

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Yeah, for sure.

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OK, well, if we just read God's word, you and I just read that.

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It says you shall not come into condemnation.

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Then is God true or is he just messing with us?

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Nope, God's true.

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Yep, I'd agree with that.

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He's true.

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Okay, so if he says we're not gonna come into condemnation, then what could we do to make

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God break that promise?

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And you know what?

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Nine times out of ten, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, they'll tell you nothing.

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Right.

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So could we do anything?

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to go back into condemnation once we're saved.

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No, look, you're helping them understand that.

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You cannot, you have to walk people through things logically,

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such as reading them a verse,

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it's not just leaving them a track,

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like a chick track or something,

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and then walking away.

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We're here to preach the gospel.

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We're ambassadors for Christ.

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To deny eternal security denies that everlasting

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lasts forever, it's another denial of reality.

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You see how many times you're making God a liar when you deny eternal security for salvation?

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Turn to John chapter number 11.

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Of course, the book of John, you'd be hard pressed to go like a single page in John without

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finding eternal security on that page.

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Time would fail me to go through every single reference.

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John chapter 11.

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We'll start looking here at verse 21.

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But here's this point.

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Once you're saved, not only shall you not come into condemnation, once you're saved,

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you will never die.

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You know, I referenced earlier asking AI what it thought about certain things, because it

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hates taking hard stances on stuff.

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Oh, I think you're wrong.

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So I asked AI, I was like, hey, the Bible says once you believe, you'll never die.

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What do you think?

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Well, I wouldn't word it that way because people will physically die.

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Like wow, you don't think everyone already knows that?

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It's so funny what media and what the internet will try to like, just sow a little bit of

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doubt in God's word.

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Well, look, the Bible says you'll never die if you believe.

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John 11 verse 21 says, then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother

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had not died.

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But I know that even now whatsoever that will ask of God, God will give it to you.

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Jesus saith unto her, thy brother shall rise again.

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The resurrection is another important point here.

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Let's keep reading though.

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Martha, in verse 24, saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection

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at the last day.

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Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection in the life.

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He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

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And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

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But hold on, the verse did not end there.

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Notice what Jesus follows it up.

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He capstones this with a question, believe-thou this.

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You need to be asking people out soul-willing if they believe in eternal security because

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it was important enough for the Lord Jesus Christ to ask after he explained it.

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And look, Martha understands, hey, yeah, I understand He'll rise again.

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I believe in the resurrection.

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But then Jesus is like, whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.

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Believe is now this.

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You need to be asking people when you're out soul wanting to, do you believe that?

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What do you think about that?

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What's your stance on that?

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Hey, this is what the Bible says.

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What do you think?

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You would think that people would be like, yeah, yeah, the Bible says that I agree.

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It's not the case all the time.

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They're like, well.

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And then they insert whatever they've heard.

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OK, well, let's take that back.

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You say this.

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The Bible says something else.

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Who's right?

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Because the Bible says that God be true and every man a liar.

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And if you're denying eternal security,

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you're calling God a liar.

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If you're denying eternal security,

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you're saying, oh, you could die.

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Then we go back to everlasting is not forever. We go back to salvation is not a moment. It's a process

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We go back to you get unborn. You see how all these are connected together

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Do you see how much denial of reality a person would have to have to deny eternal security?

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This is why when you deny it, you're not saved because you're not believing the record and the record is

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Consistent John chapter 10 turned back just a page or it may be on the same page for you there

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John chapter 10 will look at verse 27

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says John 10 27, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give unto them

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eternal life that's the same as everlasting and they shall never perish neither shall any man

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pluck them out of my hand and I love when people try to argue this verse with me at the door well

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someone else can't pluck me out of the hand but I could remove myself okay it also just says they'll

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never perish.

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So can you make yourself perish? No! People will look for anywhere in the Bible to argue with the Bible.

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Why? Because they're not saved. Because they're prideful. Because they're resisting truth.

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But this is consistent. This is the record, folks, that God gave of His Son that salvation is eternal.

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Ephesians chapter number one.

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Hey, here's one thing I know for sure.

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You're not going to have any shortage of verses next time you go out talking about eternal

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security.

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Ephesians chapter number one.

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We'll look at verse 12.

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The Bible teaches this.

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Once you're saved, you are sealed until the resurrection.

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To deny eternal security, you would have to deny the work and the purpose, one of the

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main purposes of the Holy Spirit of God, to deny eternal security.

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Ephesians 1 verse 12 says this, that we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted

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in Christ.

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in whom you also trusted, verse 13, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel

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of your salvation, in whom after also that you believed, you were sealed, how?

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With that Holy Spirit of promise, for how long?

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Verse 14, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchase possession

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and to the praise of His glory.

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Look, when you believe, you are sealed.

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Not until you screw up not until something happens not until you backslide not until you xyz you're sealed

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Until the redemption of the purchase possession folks. That's when we go to heaven. That's when we get our new body

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That's when we get our mansion in heaven referring to that body

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That's when we meet the Lord in the air if you're around that time or whether you come back with them to meet those that are

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Still alive that remain that's the

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redemption to deny internal security, again, you'd have to say the Holy Spirit is not doing

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this job that God promised, we are not sealed, and that there is no redemption of the purchased

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possession.

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Because this is telling us what the purpose of the Holy Spirit is.

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You can't just attack like one piece of it and leave the rest.

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Does that make sense?

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I cannot attack the deity of Christ and then claim that I believe the Trinity.

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You just attacked the Trinity you cannot then say I can't attack the Holy Spirit of God and then say I still believe the Trinity

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I still believe you know no no you don't you can't attack God the Father and the truth of God the Father

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You can't believe in oneness and then still be saved believe the Trinity or whatever. That's not possible. You cannot deny

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the office the job the purpose of the Holy Spirit

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and then still try to claim, well, but I'm saved.

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I believe the right thing.

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No, you don't.

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You don't believe the right thing.

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You don't know what you believe.

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Or maybe you do know what you believe, and it's wrong.

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Turn to Acts chapter number 10.

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This is a great verse for Pentecostals,

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because look, every single false religion,

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they're going to attack the same thing,

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whether they pretend to be Christian,

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whether they admit that they're not Christian.

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They all attack the same thing, the gospel.

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You know, false religions don't have a problem with the moral teachings of the Bible.

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They have a problem with the gospel.

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Because what's unique to Christianity is salvation by faith alone, that it's in Jesus Christ,

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that He is the Son of God, God the Son, that He died for our sins,

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that it's none of our works, and that once you're saved, you're saved forever.

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One of those aspects

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or all of those aspects,

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or what false religions want to attack.

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It's not that they're like,

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well, I just have a different moral guide.

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No, no, no. You just hate the gospel.

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You just disagree with the gospel.

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Acts chapter 10 verse 43, the Bible says this, to him give all the prophets witness that

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through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

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Look, here's a great one for, oh, you can't just live however you want.

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This is what Stacy Shiflett, who pretends to be a Baptist, pretends to be saved, says,

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quote, you can't have Jesus and your sin too.

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That's what Stacey Shipwood gets up and says to shouts of amen to men standing up doing this with their Bibles as he says that in the audience.

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Let me help you out. You're not saved. And if you agree with that statement, you're not saved. Why?

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Look, to a degree, he's right. You can't have Jesus and your sin too because your sins are remitted the moment you believe.

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Unto him give all the prophets witness that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

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This is great for the Church of Christ, which is what I grew up believing that you had to be baptized

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to receive remission of sins, which is how they interpret Acts 2.38, which is not what it says.

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It does not say to get baptized so that you receive remission of sins. Acts chapter 10 says,

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when you believe you're going to receive, you shall receive remission of sins.

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Well, you can't have Jesus and your sin too.

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Why?

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Because Stacey Shiflett is the same guy that gets up and says, now repentance looks like

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this.

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That's repentance.

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And that's exactly what he does in his sermon.

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Again, just people shouting, amen.

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What's he saying?

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You've got to turn over a new leaf.

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You've got to feel sorry for your sin.

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You've got to do the works.

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But then he'll get up and say, it's not of works.

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Look, this is why you have to not be a simple person.

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If you just knock someone's door, oh yeah, it's not of works.

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Salvation is by faith alone.

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It's just believing on Jesus Christ.

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That's all it's going to save us.

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Amen.

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That's great.

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Look, you would be deceived by Stacey Shiflett, too.

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You got to ask.

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You got to dig deep, because people

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are really good at repeating things

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that they don't believe.

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I mean, did we not literally look this morning at all those Israelites who were like,

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we have ten parts in David, and then like three seconds later they're like,

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we have nothing to do with David. What's up, Sheba?

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It's like, people will just say things, whether they want to fit in, they've heard it,

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they think it's the right answer. How about this? You're a stranger knocking on their door,

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and maybe they've heard this before, and they're just kind of repeating things to you to get you to go away.

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It's okay to ask someone a question.

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It's okay to confront someone.

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What we do is confrontational soul winning.

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You need to bring the confrontational part back.

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Hey, what do you mean by that?

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Now, here's what I'm not saying.

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Be a jerk.

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Don't.

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Like, what do you think?

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Well, you know, yeah, it's by faith alone.

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Okay, do you think that it's by faith

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with our good works that we have to go to heaven?

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Do you think we could just believe

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and it doesn't matter how we live at all

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in the context of going to heaven?

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That's a great question because people, here's another one.

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Just ask, do you believe once you're saved you're always saved?

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Because that is a bad word to a lot of religions.

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And that is a, that's a good kill shot because, oh no, no, no, no, no.

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I don't believe once saved always saved. I don't believe that.

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Oh, okay, well you're not saved. Let me help you.

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And you don't have to be that direct. Start a little easier than that, okay?

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But you could get to the point where you're like, look,

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you don't believe the record, you're calling out a liar.

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And I've told people this to their face.

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You don't believe the record.

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You're calling God a liar.

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I'm not saying that you are actively right now

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with your mouth saying, God, you're lying.

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But here's what the Bible says.

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You're calling God a liar.

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And look, I'm not saying that to get a one up on someone.

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I've said that to someone this year.

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I was an old man this year that I said that to.

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And he responded, so what are you trying to do?

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Tell me that I'm not saved?

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And I said, that's exactly what I'm trying to tell you,

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that you're not saved.

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And he said, well, then show me.

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and I showed him and he got saved.

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Look, sometimes it just takes a little bit of boldness

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because people don't know what they don't know.

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And if they've been in church their whole life

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and they've never heard of eternal security

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and you're the first person coming to them with that,

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understand that they may be a little like,

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well, I haven't heard this before.

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But then you're just like, hey, look, man,

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let's just walk through it logically, though.

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Jesus died, here's a question I'd like to ask,

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Jesus died for how many of our sins?

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Some of them or all of them?

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All of them.

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Was it just yesterdays or todays or tomorrows?

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It's all of them.

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Okay, so did he die for all my sins?

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Yeah, okay.

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So think about this.

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If Jesus died, this is how I talk to people, that's holding me.

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If Jesus died for all of our sins, which I agreed with and you disagreed with, then how

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many sins did he leave for us to pay for?

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And here's the other thing you have to do is get comfortable with silence.

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Ask them the question and wait.

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You don't have to answer every question for them.

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They're getting saved, not you.

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It's fishing.

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Let the fish bite the hook.

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I'll make you fishers of men.

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I'm not just making up a weird anecdote.

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How many sins did he leave for us?

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Just wait and watch and people will think.

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None, exactly.

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Exactly right, none that we have to pay for.

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Because once we believe,

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how many of our sins are paid for?

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Some of them are all.

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All.

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So once we believe, what could we ever do to be unsaved, to lose our salvation?

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If we paid for all of our future sins, could we ever be unsaved?

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No.

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Boom.

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Now look what you've done.

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You've shown them the Bible, and you've helped them get there by expounding it to them, by

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explaining it to them.

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The problem is that people don't want to confront people on them being wrong.

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Or the problem is, and I understand this, you want, you'll get over this.

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You want to think everyone is saved.

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And you want just the human mind, like my mind,

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a saved person's mind, is just like,

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when I got saved, I was in my mid-20s,

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my mid to late 20s, and I was like,

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oh, everyone's gonna wanna hear this.

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It's so easy.

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Who doesn't wanna hear this?

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And it's like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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Like the music, I'm like, wow, okay.

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Virtually nobody wants to hear this

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because there are few that be saved.

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Why?

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Not because it's hard, but because it's a humbling experience to accept salvation because

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someone truly has to stop trusting in themselves at all.

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And they truly have to, look, if you think that your salvation's not eternal, what you're

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doing is you've not fully let go to trust in Christ, you're holding on to something,

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you're not saved.

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And it's humbling to someone, it makes them humble themselves, and you tell them, you're

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not saved.

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Because you think you could lose it. You're not only trusting in Jesus. I had a lady today a Muslim lady today

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That's just arguing with me and Dan repeated it. We're leaving like I'm sorry and she's like and she's not mean

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She's like no no we believe the same thing. I believe Jesus as we're leaving and I'm like no you don't

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You believe that he's real. She's like all right. He's a messenger. I'm like no no he's God. She's like yeah same thing

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I'm like no it's not

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It's not the same thing.

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It's like, well yeah, I believe it's faith alone.

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You could lose it.

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We believe the same.

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No, you don't believe the same thing.

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You're not saved.

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You're sealed under the resurrection.

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Your sins are remitted.

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Once you're saved, you'll never die.

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Everlasting lasts forever.

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It's in a moment.

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It's the record.

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It's not just in 1 John 5 that you're making God a liar.

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It's in the entire Bible that you're making God a liar.

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First show on five is just telling us.

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how the severity of what you're doing.

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You're denying the record.

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1 Peter chapter number one, if you would.

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1 Peter chapter number one.

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Look, it's important that we continually sharpen ourselves on what the Bible says.

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We're continually getting better and better and better and better at soul winning, that

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you memorize more and more and more scripture, that you have more and more places to turn.

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Why?

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Not because you have to show someone all of these verses.

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Please do not show them 500 verses on eternal security when you go so ... because you can.

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Look at it in zeal. I understand this. Let me show you all the verses

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I get that but look the truth is the truth is the truth you show it to them from one location

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You show it to him from a second. They deny it you show them a second time

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They deny it and heretic after the first and second admonition

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reject

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Because they're subverted of themselves

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Now look, be ready to show them, be polite.

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I've spent, and look, if they're genuinely getting it,

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I'll spend an hour at a door,

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I'll spend an hour and a half at a door

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to explain something that someone's not fighting me on,

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but the moment someone's trying to fight you on something,

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that's when first, second admonition, reject.

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You're not gonna win them over.

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I've wasted so much time thinking

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if I just show them one more verse,

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and so I understand it.

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Understand I want people to be saved is that not why all those go so many because we want them to be sick

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It's so easy because we also were unsaved

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Like I did not grow up from a child being saved and understanding this I had to learn this all when I was in my adulthood

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from someone very

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Confrontationally telling me that I was wrong and that's what I needed and I appreciated it so much and

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That's what we want other people to get but you're not gonna win by just slamming your Bible against the person's face repeatedly

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They have to choose to believe.

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It is up to them to believe.

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It is up to us to present the truth.

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But here is the truth.

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If you don't believe in eternal security, you are not saved.

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It is up to you to present that truth.

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It's not up to them to agree.

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It's not up to them to just like, yep, you're exactly right.

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They will fight you on this.

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Not physically, hopefully.

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But they will fight with you verbally.

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And look, I'm not here to get in an argument.

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I will, but we shouldn't.

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I'm not here to do that.

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I'm here to just prove what the Word of God says.

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I'm an ambassador for Christ.

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This is my mission, the Gospel, plain and simple.

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You've heard of 1 Peter chapter 1, I think, right?

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1 Peter 1, look if you would at verse 3.

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1 Peter 1 verse 3 says this, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which

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according to His abundant mercy have begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not

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away reserved in heaven for you.

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Boy, that sounds great.

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Notice verse 5, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready

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to be revealed in the last time.

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You know if you deny eternal security what you're denying, you are denying that God has

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the power to keep you through faith.

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You're just saying, that's not true.

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Uninheritance in verse 4, incorruptible and undefiled.

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Now I think that's duly applicable.

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One is that rust and moth do not corrupt our rewards in heaven.

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They can't do that.

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But here is another incorruptible inheritance is that the moment you believe you're sealed

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with the Holy Spirit, that can never be taken from you.

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You can't corrupt that.

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I have that inheritance no matter what happens to deny eternal security.

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You're denying the power of God.

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I'll get through this last point quickly.

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We'll start to land the plane this evening.

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Let's just bring it home.

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There are so many places in the Bible that I could go.

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Here's the last point.

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you

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If you don't have eternal security, you have no security.

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It is not, I might.

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It is not, they don't believe eternal security.

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But man, I think they could be saved.

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I think they really might actually be saved.

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They just need, they just don't get that part yet.

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You have eternal security, or you do not have eternal security.

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You have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ or you have not.

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John three, 18, he that believe it is not condemned, he that believe it not is

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condemned already because he believe it not on the Son of God.

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Right.

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I'm paraphrasing that because he believed it not.

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Right.

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First Corinthians chapter 15 turn, if you would, I alluded to this here.

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First Corinthians 15, by the way.

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is a great place to go to.

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If anyone ever questions you,

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on like, genuinely,

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if they're a troll, ignore them.

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But if someone's genuinely like,

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what is the gospel?

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I don't understand. I'm not going to go through these verses, but if you look, we'll just start with verse 1,

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and then I'm going to skip ahead to where we're at, show you where this is if you want to highlight it or note it down.

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1st Corinthians 15 verse 1 says this,

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Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also

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ye have received, and wherein ye stand, verse 2, by which also ye are saved, if ye keep

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in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

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then Paul is going to go on to explain exactly what the Gospel is through like, really through

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like verse 6.

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Also if you want like, he gives the additional proofs.

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If you're ever looking for like, hey, where do we know for sure that there were other

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eyewitness testimonies of the resurrection of Christ?

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Currently it's 15 for seven through nine.

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Anyway, that's a great place to go if you ever have someone I've had someone ask you before genuinely what's the gospel?

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Like what I've heard this phrase, but like what is that?

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If you don't know this, you're kind of like,

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you can still say, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,

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and thou shalt be saved.

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That's exactly right.

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That's true.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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You could explain them that.

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But I like this because you're like, hey,

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this is what Paul said it is.

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This is what I believe.

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This is what the Bible indicates is the gospel.

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And what is it?

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The death, burial, resurrection.

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You're going to go through all the points

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and be able to explain it to them from there.

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Jump ahead, woo, jump ahead if you would, to verse 12,

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though, in 1 Corinthians 15.

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And you know how I said earlier, like if you deny,

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it's not just 1 John 5.

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If you're denying internal security,

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you're also denying all these other things.

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I'm not the only one that made that application.

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I'm actually kind of taking inspiration from this, from Paul.

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Because here's what Paul says about the resurrection

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of the dead, which again,

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you

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You would have to believe that you're eternally secure to believe that the dead are going to

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resurrect one day. Otherwise, how could you believe confidently in the resurrection of the dead if

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you don't know for sure that you'll be resurrected? See how the logic connects here? We'll just prove

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it from the Bible, verse 12. Paul says this, now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,

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how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? That's like what

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I want to ask people. Hey, if God says over and over that it's eternally secure,

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how are you saying that you don't know for sure that you're going to heaven?

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Verse 13, but if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen.

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And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

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Yea, and we're found false witnesses of God, because we've testified of God that he raised

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up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

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I love Paul walking through logically, because I do this with people that are out-soul-wining.

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And this is good.

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Paul's doing this because it helps people understand.

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Hey, you've said this, you've made XYZ claim, let's just logically walk it through.

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Okay, if this, then this, right?

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Or then that's what Paul's doing here.

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Verse 16, for if the dead rise not, then is Christ, or excuse me, then is not Christ raised.

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And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins.

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Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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If in this life only we have hope in Christ.

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We are of all men most miserable.

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Now what's the direct context that he's bringing up, the resurrection of the dead?

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But think also about the application here for eternal security.

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Paul says in verse 19, if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we're of all men

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most miserable.

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So the people that are like, well, yeah.

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God will keep it for us forever, but we could walk away, but then we have to walk back to

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God for God to give us that salvation back so that we return to His good.

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Okay, well if it's only in this life that I have hope that I could like turn back to

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Him, then I'm of all men most miserable.

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But you know what I have? I have a hope that exceeds this life. I have a hope that goes

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beyond this life. I have a hope that every just faith of anything else I could ever have in this

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world pales in comparison to because I know that I'm saved. Why? Because I'm saved forever.

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Turn back if you would to 1 John chapter 5 will end this evening. I hope you understand

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why this is an important doctrine.

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I hope you understand why we preach the whole counsel of God.

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Not because, wow, we're going to learn all these new truths that we've never heard before.

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You know, that was like the Athenians.

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They just want to hear, tell, and hear some new thing.

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You know, the Bible is timeless truths that we need to keep searching to understand, to

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establish ourselves so that we can be better Christians internally and so that we can be

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better ambassadors for Christ to others.

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First John 5 verse 10, the Bible says, He that believeth on the Son of God hath to witness

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in himself.

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he that believeth not God hath made him a liar?

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because he believeth not the record that God gave him the Son.

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And this, excuse me, this is the record that God has given to us eternal life,

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and this life is in his Son. What's the application this evening?

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One, if you don't believe this, or you weren't sure about this, you were not saved.

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and you are not saved until you believe this part of the gospel.

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Now that's not only true for us internally, but it's also true for those that we preach

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to out soul winning.

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A person can believe every other aspect of the gospel, but if they deny eternal security,

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they are not saved.

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It's really a big stumbling block.

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I think it's really a problem of soul winners being not thorough.

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And I'm not talking about this church.

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So I don't think anybody here has a problem covering internal security.

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But again, I run into people from Baptist churches all the time that just don't have this down.

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They're like, yeah, I'm on the bus route for XYZ Church.

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OK, yeah, it's faith alone.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, you could lose it.

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Like, boy, that bus ministry is not doing a lot.

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And you know what? I'm not against the bus ministry.

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I hope we have one one day.

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I think that'd be great.

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But here's what I am for the ministry.

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How about the Ministry of Reconciliation before we get the bus?

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How about before we pick you up for a month, two months, six months, a year?

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Like someone on the bus just goes like,

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Hey, do you know for sure that if you die today you go to heaven?

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Oh, that's so awkward.

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How about when visitors show up you ask them if they're saved?

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Oh, that's so awkward.

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What's more awkward?

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Approaching of it? That's awkward. I get it.

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I'm not an extroverted guy. I have to force myself to be extroverted.

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Okay? I'm an introvert. I don't want to talk.

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I have to force myself to go talk to a visitor,

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hey, do you know for sure, what's more awkward,

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that or dying, that person going to hell,

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and then just forever thinking like,

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man, that guy showed up, that lady showed up,

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and nobody ever asked, that guy showed up, nobody ever asked.

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I knocked that guy's door,

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and I really didn't ask good questions.

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That would be more awkward for me

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than to just kind of stumble over my words and ask the question,

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I have the truth on my side, I'm saved.

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What am I afraid of?

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What are you afraid of?

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And if you're not soul winning, what are you afraid of?

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I fear God.

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If you're not soul winning, you don't fear God.

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Look, if someone denies eternal security, they have no security.

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They're denying that salvation's in a moment.

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They're denying that being born is final, that you could be unborn.

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They're saying everlasting doesn't last forever.

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They're saying that you could still spiritually die, even though Jesus says you can't.

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They're denying that we're sealed with the Holy Spirit, which is just one of the Holy

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Spirit's jobs.

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They're saying our future sins are not remitted in direct contradiction to Acts chapter 10,

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verse 43.

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They're saying God does not have the power to keep our salvation, as He promised in 1

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Peter chapter number 1.

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They're denying the biblical account of salvation and therefore have no security.

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Folks, there's only two options, saved or unsaved.

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Eternal security.

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or no security. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I just thank you for your Word and your truths. Lord,

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we thank you for the salvation that you've given us, that we don't take it for granted,

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that even though it was in one moment, it's something that we have with us forever. I

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pray that you would just embolden us and give us the wisdom to be able to convey this accurately

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and thoroughly to those we preach the Gospel to. These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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For our last hymn at this point, we'll turn to our last song.

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7.

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Hymn number 207207. Only a sinner.

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207207, only a sinner.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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We're singing it out all together.

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Nah.

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Not have I got ten, but what I've received.