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and he's saying you ought to be aware of this as a master of israel verse 11
Verily verily I say to thee we speak that we do know
And testify that we have seen and you receive not our witness
If I have told you earthly things and you believe not how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
And what jesus is saying is that you know what if you can't understand an earthly example about something just a basic thing
How are you going to understand the spiritual and the idea is that sometimes we use examples to help explain spiritual concepts
Right, for example, if you were to talk about the trinity
It's a bit of a confusing concept
Using an example can be helpful to people understanding it like we have a body soul and spirit
Just as there's god the father god the son god the holy ghost, right?
So oftentimes we use examples and of course the example that's being given here that he's specifically talking about
Is the spiritual birth and he's saying there's a physical birth and if you understand those basic things it's going to help you understand
This spiritual birth, okay
Now turn to second kings chapter 19
second kings 19
Now I do want you to realize that when we give examples
It doesn't mean that the examples are 100 perfect
Right for example
I remember exactly when I was spiritually born again. I remember the exact moment now
It's not necessarily the case for everybody because some people learn a little bit here and a little bit there and sometimes they can be
Confused when they crossed over in their understanding on belief because they've heard things they thought they got saved
But then they were hearing false doctrine. They're not really sure for me
I know very very clearly when I got saved. I knew I was on my way to hell and I got saved
I knew I was saved
But here's the thing. I remember my spiritual birth. I do not remember being physically born
Right and I was curious I looked it up online and supposedly some people say they remember being physically born, but I think that
Right lahatayo ai nag sinu aling and that's just one of their lives
Right, I mean because I don't think anyone actually remembers they say supposedly if you go through a lot of trauma in the womb
Then maybe you can remember being physically born
I don't remember anything before the age of five. So I have that I I have a lot of trouble believing that
And look i'm not saying you're a liar if if you tell me after the service. Hey, I remember when I was born
I remember where I was
But I don't know. I just I don't remember being physically born
So what i'm saying is this, you know, sometimes the examples can break down
Right because most of us probably remember exactly when we got saved or at least around the time period but you don't remember
Anything from the age of zero or one or two or three probably?
Right
So it's just an example. It doesn't mean it's a hundred percent perfect, but there are five points of very
similar things with the physical and the spiritual birth that I want to show you here today and the reason why i'm explaining this
Is because this is an example that can be used for soul winning
Right. John 3 is our big passage our big chapter
On salvation and belief in the famous chapter that everybody knows right and in the midst of this chapter
Being born again receiving everlasting life
That is when you're born again, right? That's when you get the spiritual birth. You are born into god's family, right?
So it's something that you can use out soul winning point number one when it comes to a physical birth
The bible teaches that a child a baby
Comes to the birth notice what it says in second kings 19 verse 3
And they said on to him thus saith hezekiah this day is a day of trouble and a rebuke and blasphemy
For the children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth
And what the bible tells us in second kings 19 verse 3 that when it comes to a birth actually taking place
It's the baby
That initiates that process
That's what the bible teaches now. It's probably two years ago
I preached a sermon on pregnancy a long time ago and I explained this and I read a passage
From you know an article that talked about that
This is something they've learned and you know the medical industry or the science industry really in the last 20 years
Understanding this idea of a physical birth better, but the bible
The baby signals to the mom i'm ready
Okay, that is what the bible teaches in second kings 19 verse 3 now go to matthew 11
matthew 11
You say how is that similar to the spiritual birth
Well for somebody to be saved what happens is they come on to jesus?
That's what the bible teaches. In fact, it uses that exact same terminology
matthew 11 verse 28
Matthew 11 verse 28
It says come on to me
All ye that are laid all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest
So what the bible says is for the unsaved person to be saved
Come on to me, right? We sing that song in the hymnal, you know, come on to me
I will give you rest
It's based on this passage of somebody receiving salvation and the bible teaches that they choose to come
They come
Now look this destroys this idea of calvinism where basically god
Initiates that process and basically pushes people or forces them that is not what the bible teaches
See when a person gets saved they come on to jesus. They make that choice
But it's the exact same thing with a physical birth the bible says the child comes to the birth
Right now go to john chapter 6. John 6. John 6
Now look realize this I don't I don't claim to be an expert on a physical birth taking place, you know
i'm, just giving you basic things from the bible, but the reality is that
Honestly the experts that are out there that study this stuff and do it for a living
They don't know everything that takes place either when it comes to a physical birth
Right. This is something they've learned in the last 20 years where they're like actually we're finding out the child actually
Because they this used to be this big debate
Is it the mom or the baby that initiates the birth? And what they found out is it's actually
The baby that initiates the process the baby lets the mom know i'm ready and then the mom
Brings forth the baby. That's what the bible teaches, right?
As I said, i'm not an expert on this and I want you to realize obviously when it comes to a physical birth
There can be exceptions there can be problems and we understand that i'm not preaching on all that stuff
I'm, not preaching on pregnancy here today. I've already done that once that's enough in my entire
Career of the ministry I think to preach on pregnancy
But what the bible teaches is that the baby comes to the birth and here's the thing spiritually speaking. It is the same way
John 6 verse 37
All that the father giveth to me giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out. So once again him that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out
Look when you got saved
You made a choice
It wasn't forced by god. It wasn't this unconditional election you made a choice
A soul winner tried to give you the gospel and you chose to listen didn't you
And then they gave you the gospel and you decided to believe
Right. It wasn't forced by god. You made that choice you came to jesus. That's what the bible teaches
right
Go to revelation 22 revelation 22
Revelation 22
Now I often or actually pretty much always explain the spiritual birth when i'm explaining the gospel and i'll explain why later on in the sermon
I don't explain this point though because I think it's not really
Super applicable to the gospel when you're getting somebody saved
But i'm just kind of showing you that there's a lot of things that are very similar between the physical and spiritual birth
This is applicable if you're talking to a calvinist pastor and you know
They're not getting basic verses from the bible, but that's not really preaching the gospel
Revelation 22 verse 17 and the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come
And let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely
That's where he get the song in the hymnal whosoever will may come
Right whosoever will in our hymnal and that's based on this verse and it goes back to this idea
That people when they get saved they come on to jesus. They make that free will choice
Okay, go to isaiah 37 isaiah chapter 37 isaiah 37
Now here's the thing the bible teaches that the baby comes to the birth
But the bible also teaches that the mom does all of the work for the baby to be born
See the baby signals to the mom that you know what i've come to the birth i'm ready
But what the bible teaches is it's the mom that actually does the work for that baby to actually be born isaiah 37 verse 3
And they said on to him thus saith hezekiah this day is a day of trouble and a rebuke and a blasphemy
For the children are come to the birth and notice this
And there is not strength to bring
forth
What takes place according to the word of god is that the child comes to the birth inside the womb?
The child signals it's ready to go and then the mom
Brings forth that child. She must have the strength to bring forth. It's not the baby that does the work
Right and look if you've been you know, whether you're a man or a woman here
I mean if you're a man and you've been to your wife's, you know giving birth if you've been there
Which I have for both of our children, you know, the person doing the work is your wife
It's not the baby
Right, the mom is the one who does the work and the mom goes through the pain
The mom goes through the effort and look sometimes labor can take many many hours
And if it's really difficult actually can take even more than 24 hours, which can be actually very dangerous in those sorts of situations
But even on a best case scenario generally it's going to take at least a little bit of time now
Krista bell on the other hand, I mean that she came out very quickly, right?
It was like less than an hour of labor
So that's always the best case scenario
But generally when a baby is brought forth the mom puts in a lot of effort
And a lot of work and there's a lot of pain involved in a baby being brought forth, but it's the mom that does the work
Not the baby, right?
Now turn in your bible
to john 16 john 16
john 16
John chapter 16
John 16
Now I think that's pretty obvious that the mom does the work, you know when a birth takes place
But I often ask people this question when i'm going soul-winning to help them understand, you know spiritual salvation and i'll ask them
You know who does the work and sometimes they'll stop to think about it
Sometimes they say the baby and then all of a sudden you say the mom like oh, yeah
Yeah, you know the mom does the work because they've never really stopped to think about it
But this is what the bible very clearly teaches with the physical birth
Which obviously we know and it's going to be the same thing with the spiritual birth
John 16 verse 21 a woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come
And the indication is the baby comes to birth and now it's the mom's turn to do the work to bring forth that child
She goes through the pain she goes through the effort
But as soon as she is delivered to the child
She remember no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world and look this verse has proven true
If you've ever seen your wife give birth before right afterwards right after the work right after the pain
There's joy that overcomes her right? This is what the bible teaches as well. Go to john chapter 6 john 6
john 6
You say what does this have to do with spiritual birth well
When we got saved we came to that spiritual birth
We made a decision to listen to the gospel and when we heard the gospel we made a decision we were going to believe
But here's the thing
We didn't do the work to be brought forth
We came to the birth
But it's not our works that get us to heaven
Right now in the analogy i'm giving you
It's jesus christ who basically was the one who brought us forth
He's the one who did the work just as a mom brings forth we spiritually were just that baby being brought forth
We came to the birth, but it's not our work that actually brought us forth. It was the work of jesus christ
This is what it says in john 6 verse 28. John 6 verse 28
Then said they unto him what shall we do that we might work the works of god
Jesus answered and said to them
This is the work of god that you believe on him whom he hath sent
So it's not our works it is the work of god and our responsibility is to just choose to believe it
It's not our works that actually get us saved though. Go to ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians 2. Ephesians chapter 2
Look I understand, you know as i'm assuming everybody in this room is saved and obviously you understand salvation, right?
You know these basic things
But this is something for us to understand because we also love to go soul winning at our church
Right, and here's the thing when you're explaining
I mean, I I personally think explaining the father-son relationship is really helpful to people to understand eternal security
Especially and if you use this example
This can be something that can help you some of these things that i'm sharing with you here tonight
Ephesians 2 verses 8 9
For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god
Not of works lest any man should boast so we get saved but it's not our works that get us saved
But make no mistake about it. We did come to the birth. We made that free will choice, right?
It's not this unconditional election where god chooses
To make you go to the birth
We made the choice to come to the birth, but it's not our work that actually brings us forth
It is the work of jesus christ go to philippians chapter 2 philippians chapter 2
Philippians 2
Philippians chapter 2
In verse number five let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus who being in the form of god
Thought it not robbery to be equal with god
But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men
And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross now
Here obviously is a famous passage where jesus christ. He humbled himself. He died
He paid for sins what I want you to understand is that all of us were saved because we wanted to be saved
Right, we were ready. I mean, but here's the thing if jesus had never died on the cross, even though we came to the birth
There was nobody that could actually bring us forth
Nobody had the strength to live a perfect life
Nobody had the strength to die and pay for our sins. We wanted to be saved and look before I got saved
I wanted to be saved for a couple years
And what I mean by that is I was scared. I was going to hell for two years before I got saved
And it was on my mind all the time. I was like, I hope i'm good enough
I hope i'm good enough
I mean I was coming to the birth
Right, but the the problem was, you know, you're not you don't only just need jesus
You also need a soul winner, which we'll look at in a second, right?
But it's like, you know what? We came to the birth
We wanted to be saved, but we can't bring ourselves forth because we don't have that strength
We can't live a perfect life now go to glations four. Let me show this to you glations chapter four
glations four
So
Glations chapter four
Because when it comes to the process of us being born and this can be where some of the analogy breaks down because of the fact
Just as a mom goes through the pain and effort to bring forth a child
It was jesus christ who went through the pain and effort to bring forth the child
However, the reality is we do need one other person involved for a spiritual birth to take place
Now generally with a physical birth you're going to have a midwife or a doctor or whatever
But it's not always required right there can be exceptions to that
you know there are cases of babies being born and no one really, you know helped deliver that baby the baby just
You know came the mom brought forth a child and you know
The the baby was born there are no exceptions when it comes to spiritual salvation
There must be a soul winner
To bring forth a child right spiritually speaking
There's nobody who ever gets saved without a soul winner preaching the gospel to them. The bible is very consistent
Obviously i've preached on that many many times
But I want to show you specifically where it talks about the word birth and bringing forth someone spiritually glations 4 verse 11
And paul says i'm afraid of you lest i've bestowed upon you labor in vain
And what paul's saying is basically i'm worried I put in all this effort
All this work
All of this labor and I don't even know if you're saved
Right, and the reason why he's questioning their salvation is not because they're drinking
It's not because they quit the church
It's not because they're smoking
It's because their salvation is getting very confusing with works
Right, you've got these false people coming in and basically preaching false doctrine
And now they're kind of wondering do we keep the old testament laws and paul's saying I don't even know if you're saved
It's like I saw many of you get saved. I preached to you. I went solely with you, but now she's in labor
Right. She goes through the process of labor and she's laboring to bring forth that child
She's putting in the effort to bring forth that child and it's the same thing
We see with travail there in verse 19. Now what paul's saying in verse 19 is this
Number one if you're not saved, I literally have to just preach the gospel again to you
And give birth to you so to speak
if you are saved
You apparently know nothing about the bible and i've got to put put in all this effort to teach you the basic things of the bible
Right, so he's saying either way whether you're saved or not
I've got to go through all this effort to basically teach you the bible again, right?
Then he says this in verse 20
I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for I stand in doubt of you
Tell me ye that desire to be under the law. Do ye not hear the law? He's saying, you know those of you
That are trying to mix these works back in with salvation
Do you not even understand what you're doing and what you're saying? Like why would you want to do that?
Right now turn your bible to john 3 john 3
john 3
So point number one when it comes to both a physical and spiritual birth the child comes to the birth
Inside the womb the baby signals the mom i'm ready to go
right
Spiritually speaking an unsafe person they come they make that choice to listen to the gospel a soul winner obviously
Asks the question. Would you like to listen?
But they make that choice if they're going to listen
And when they hear the gospel they make that choice if they're going to believe
Right. So the child comes to the birth
However, it's the mom that puts in the effort to bring forth that child not the baby
When it comes to spiritually speaking, it's jesus christ that went through the pain and the effort
So it's not our works. It's not what we do but jesus christ that did the work for us
Point number three
You're only born one time
right
Physically speaking how many times you born?
One time even nicodemus understood this right? John 3 verse 4
Nicodemus saith unto him. How can a man be born when he is old thinking of physically being born?
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Good point nicodemus
You're right. You're only physically born
One time right? I mean he got it half right. He understood that at least, you know, you're only how can he be born a second time?
Right, you're only born physically one time and then of course jesus brings us to the spiritual birth
And of course, you're only spiritually born
one time
Right. Look at john 3 verse 36. Let me turn there myself. John 3 verse 36
And receiving the spiritual birth is the moment you receive everlasting light you are born into god's family you receive everlasting life
That's the moment. You're spiritually born notice what it says in
John 3 verse 36
He that believeth on the son hath everlasting life
So look if you believe on jesus today
You have everlasting life
Hath is a makalumang word to say, you know present tense have or has everlasting life
And so, you know, I ask this when I go soul winning, you know, when do you receive everlasting life?
You know naon or pagnamata, right? It's not at your death
It's the moment you believe
Right, it's the moment you put your trust on jesus christ because it says hath present tense everlasting life, right?
Then it says this and he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of god abideth on
So here's the thing. There's two types of people
Those that believe on the sun
And those that don't believe on the sun
Those that believe on the sun
They have everlasting life not complicated those that do not believe on the sun
shall not see life
meaning
They have never had everlasting life
See you don't have a situation of someone who used to believe
And now he doesn't believe
But he has everlasting life that doesn't exist
Because when you believe on jesus christ, you are in dwell with the spirit of god inside of you the spirit of truth
So when you believe on jesus, you're saved you have everlasting life and you will believe forever
Now i'm not saying you can never have doubts
But here's the thing if somebody says they believe
And we think they're saved and then they become a muslim five years from now. They were never saved
Somebody says well, you know what i'm saying? They believe and then all of a sudden they become a hindu one day
They were never saved
Right
They just end up believing in a hardcore work salvation not gray area not where they can get confused
But they become like a hardcore, you know, like inc or jehovah's witness
Never saved right because what the bible says is he that believeth not the sun shall not see life. He never had life
It's not that he was brought forth and received his spiritual birth
He never had it
right
So what that shows you is that you're spiritually born one time
Because it's not that you can believe and get everlasting life and then all of a sudden well, you don't believe you don't have the life
Now you get the life again
Right. Well, I stopped believing I lost it or I committed a sin. Wait, i'm gonna get it back again. It doesn't work that way
right
The spiritual birth takes place one time
Just like the physical birth takes place one time and let me just say this using this example
Soul-winning it really resonates with people. Oh that makes a lot of sense, right? You're only physically born one time
There's a reason why I believe jesus used that example in academia is because it's a good example to help people understand, right?
Now turn your bible to hebrews 12 hebrews 12 hebrews 12
Hebrews chapter 12
So point number one
When it comes to a physical birth the baby comes to the birth signals the mom i'm ready to go
And look obviously as I said, you know what there there can be i'm not an expert on a baby being born
And there can be exceptions because things can go wrong. I'm not preaching on all those things here tonight
Okay, just the basic idea is the baby comes to the birth and signals the mom
I'm ready to go and even that's what they would say in the medical industry what they've learned the last 20 years, right?
A baby comes to the birth
Just like spiritually we come to the birth
But the baby comes the birth, but it doesn't do the work to be brought forth
Right. It just signals i'm ready, right?
Spiritually speaking we come to the birth, but it was the work of jesus christ. It's not our work, right?
Point number three or point number two. Well point number three. Yes. You're only born one time right physically
You're born one time obviously same thing spiritually and you know when you think of this not that we're talking about salvation
You know, we're talking about everlasting life specifically even though it's basically the same thing
But you know when people say you can be saved and then lose it and saved and lose it
How are you ever saved?
That doesn't make any sense
The idea of being saved is you are saved from going to hell to pay for your own sins
So, I don't know what they think save means like, oh you're saved from a sinful life. No, no
No, we're talking about being saved from hell
All right, what must I do to be saved from hell I don't want to die and go to hell forever if you're saved now
But then you end up in hell you were never saved. That doesn't make any sense, right? So the idea of being saved is just
It's done. You can't lose it automatically just by the concept of that word being saved
You know, you could never end up going to hell but same thing with everlasting life. Obviously everlasting means it lasts forever
So if it lasts forever
And hell is ikalawan kamataiyan, then how could you ever end up going to hell if you have everlasting life?
Now the moment you believe doesn't make any sense, right? You're only spiritually born once I know we believe this
We believe in eternal security around here, but point number four
Another thing about the physical birth is this
That your parents punish you when you do wrong
Right, you're born into a family and your parents will punish you as you act up
Right notice what it says in hebrews 12 verse 5
And you have forgotten the exhortation with speak which which speaketh unto you as unto children
My son despised not thou the chasing in the lord nor faint when thou rebuked of him
For whom the lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth
And this is the indication that spiritually god will punish his children when they act up
I mean we we know where the bible says whatsoever man soweth
That shall he also reap
Now of course being saved god promised us everlasting life, so we're not going to end up in hell
So what god does is he punishes us here?
And if it's a small sin
It's a small punishment
It's a big sin big punishment. However, spiritually you're perfect the moment you believe
So the punishment is going to be here whether it's big or small
So there's no sin whether it be murder or suicide or whatever that's going to make you lose your salvation
Because god promised you everlasting life and look when you see those verses on everlasting life. I miss the part about
Everlasting life as long as you stay in church your whole life
Everlasting life as long as you don't commit a big sin one day
right
Everlasting life, which is obviously spiritual
Right spiritual
As long as you don't commit suicide which only kills the body the bible doesn't say that
The bible says it's everlasting life and realize that god is all-knowing. He says whosoever believe in
And look god knows the future and he says regardless of what you do in the future if you believe now
I will give you everlasting life
Look god being all-knowing if suicide sends you to hell then he would say, you know what?
I'll give you everlasting life as long as you don't do this and this and this but that's not what it says
It says it's everlasting life
But what the bible says here in hebrews 12 is that god will punish you
So if you act up you're going to get a punishment here on earth
Verse number seven if he endured chastening god dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father?
chasteneth not and the bible says here that look just common sense
A child is going to be punished by their parents when they act up
right
Look when I was growing up, I got spanked about 25 times a day, probably
Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration. But I know I got spanked a lot more than my sister. That's for sure
Okay, and look when I acted up I got spanked. That's the way it worked
Right and look when you're raising kids, you know
You have the responsibility of being their friend but also their father or their friend and their mother
And I would love to just be the friend to my kids
but sometimes kids are
foolishness is bound in the heart of a child the bible says
And so your responsibility as a parent is not just to be a friend of your child, but also punish them when they act up
Right. So
Here's the thing
Spiritually when you believe on jesus christ you are born into god's family
But if you break his rules he's going to punish you and you know what that makes perfect sense to me because when my kids
Break my rules
Guess what?
I punish them
Right same thing as god does to us
Okay
Point number one
When it comes to a physical birth the baby comes to the birth same thing spiritually you choose to come to the birth point
Number two the baby does not do the work to be brought forth
Just as we do not do the work for ourselves to be brought forth spiritually and get saved
Point number three, you're only born one time physically
Same thing spiritually. It's only
One time now if you never get born spiritually
Then you end up in hell
Right. I'm not saying everybody gets born one time. You've got to decide to be born
Right and a lot of people choose not to get the spiritual birth. They don't believe they don't come to the birth
They don't believe it. They don't want to hear it or whatever
Then okay, then you're not going to be brought forth because you've got to come to that birth
But it only happens one time you don't get spiritually born twice. It's one time point number four
Your parents punish you when you do wrong
And god punishes you when you do wrong when you are his child now, here's the other thing to think about
If my kids act up I punish them
If your kids act up i'm not going to punish them
They're not my kids
And see sometimes unsaved people do things and they get away with their sin
They're not getting away with it though
Because every sin they pay for they're going to pay for it in hell and the more they send the more they're going to pay
For it now many times they reap what they sow here on earth as well. Basically their sin catches up to them
Right. I mean every drug dealer ends up getting murdered by the age of 30, right?
This is the way it works, right? Your sin is going to catch up to you
I mean there's going to be consequences for it, but here's the thing
I mean, I don't physically punish someone else's kids because they're not my kids
Same thing spiritually speaking sometimes people that are unsaved and do bad things
God doesn't necessarily punish them immediately like he would do you
But here's the thing that punishment is not something to be upset about because it shows that god actually loves us
That's what the bible is saying here in hebrew. Chapter 12 and point number five is this
Physically your parents are always your parents
Spiritually god is always your father which we're talking about everlasting life that you cannot lose your salvation
After you get born into god's family, it says in hebrews 12 verse 8
But if he be without chastisement where of all our partakers
Saying spiritually speaking if you don't have any punishment or of all our partakers then are ye bastards
And not sons. What is a bastard? It's a child without a father
Without a father
Where the bible's saying it's a strong word for that
Okay, and the bible's saying that spiritually if you never get punished by god when you do wrong
You must not be saved
Right now look the punishment might be a long time down the road
For example king david committed adultery with bahshiba and a year goes by because a baby's born so approximately a year
right
But he eventually really paid for that sin
So here's the thing, I mean if you're a safe person and you go out and murder someone nothing bad ever happens to you
Right. You just live your life
20 years down the road. You're just you you you're you're nobody ever finds out
God never punishes you nothing bad ever happens to you. Well, then you're obviously not saved
Because god is not going to allow his child to get away with cold-blooded murder that he saw now, obviously there's self-defense
That's not what i'm talking about. I'm saying if you actually killed somebody
In cold blood you're going to pay for it, right?
If you commit big sins
And never get punished and years go by
It's like well that person was obviously not saved
Now here's the thing. I'm not going to look at somebody else's salvation and say well, you know
I don't know because I don't even know what people are going through anyway
Because you could be dealing with repercussions in your personal life for a major sin
And I wouldn't even necessarily know about that what the bible says is that if you never get any punishment from god
When you commit major sins
Then you must not even be saved now. I know for myself personally that even if I do things on a small level
Sometimes I feel like god's judging me
Sometimes things happen in my life and i'm just like god i'm really sorry. I think you're punishing me right now
Please forgive me
right
Because obviously if my kids act up i'm going to punish them
same way with god
Because just as a parent loves their children god loves his children you know part of that love is actually discipline
It's not the fun part
The fun part is playing with your child
It's the fun part is not spanking your child, right?
The fun part is not punishing your child
But it is part of the love process because it takes time and effort to discipline your children
It's not an easy thing to do, right?
And so just as parents will punish their kids but they will always still be their parent same thing with god
Right now here's the thing in an earthly sense. Physically a parent might choose to disown their child
But regardless of if they do that it doesn't change the fact that biologically
Genetically
The parents are still the parents
Nothing's changed in that
Nothing can happen where biologically all of a sudden you're somebody else's child
Right now you might get raised by somebody else but biologically genetically the parents are still the parents
Nothing can change that when you get born into god's family. You are god's child
Nothing can ever change that
Now on another thing to realize is that if you get born into somebody else's family
meaning the devils
Nothing can ever change that either
Because your father will always be your father
You're born into this world
Basically just a sinner that needs to be saved
But you know what you can decide to go either route and some people become a child of the devil. It's forever
You become a child of god. It's forever as well once saved always saved
Five points here tonight. Number one
You must come to the birth to be saved and it's the same thing physically a baby comes the birth point
Number two, the baby does not do the work to be brought forth
Spiritually, we don't do the work to get ourselves saved. Nobody gets saved on their own
Not a single person in this world
Point number three. You're only physically born once spiritually. You're only born once as well point number four
When you do wrong your parents punish you
Physically speaking or at least they should
Right now it's it's in hebrews
It's kind of a given it's saying that every parent's going to punish their child
But obviously in today's world things are changing very rapidly, but the bible's saying that should be the case, right?
And spiritually god will punish you if you break his rules
But physically your parents will always be your parents just as when you get born into god's family
God will always be your father. Let's close in the word of prayer dear heavenly father
Thank you for allowing us to be in your house this evening and getting to see this sermon
Help us to be able to understand this and apply this to our lives and you know
I believe everyone in this room is saved
But help us to be able to understand understand this as it can help us as we explain the gospel to people
Or if people have questions about these things god, we pray this in jesus name. Amen
Thank you
For our last song, please open your windows to two one two two hundred twelve. Oh happy day. Oh happy day
Oh happy day
On the first oh happy day
That takes my choice
Happy day happy day
Sing
That sings my
Happy day happy day when he just watched my sins away
He taught me how to watch and play
And every short thing every day
Happy day happy day
when jesus
I see
Oh
Me
Happy day
Let me just watch my sins away
Wait
When jesus
Happy day
My
Let us close up in prayer your father. Thank you for the service
Thank you for all the words that you have heard and please will help us to remember this and that also
Many people will know how easy this really to get born and to get safe
And that this teaching will be spread all over we discount we and also all over the world
and that we remember this and let us always be confident and
Thank you so much that we really are saved and
Help us
Also to live a life that we don't need to be chastised so much. But also since we're all sinners
Let us not be so sad when we have problems and struggles in our life
And let us really understand that everything works out for good to those who love you and we pray in jesus name. Amen
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