Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Twice Saved

April 20, 2025 | S25:E16

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Twice Saved | April 20, 2025

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Tony evans: so jesus proclaimed victory on saturday
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Based on his death on friday
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So that he could be your ongoing deliverer
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Based on sunday so that he can reverse the curse,
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Change the situation.
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And i know there's somebody here who can testify,
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"i had wandered from god,
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And i needed him to rescue me out of this problem,
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And he jumped into my problem,
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And he turned that thing around."
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Tony: well, on behalf of myself
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And all of "the urban alternative" family,
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We wanna wish you a very happy and blessed resurrection sunday.
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You know, easter is a time to celebrate the greatest event
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In human history:
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Jesus christ rising from the dead.
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Did you know? he is risen.
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And that's what we're gonna be talking about--
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The resurrection of christ.
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We want to experience how the risen christ
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And why his resurrection matters to us.
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God bless you as you celebrate jesus, who is alive.
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Tony: when it comes to this weekend,
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A lot of people don't get the point.
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They recognize it. they give homage to it.
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But they miss the point.
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And so i want to take our moments here today
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To review the point,
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And i wanna talk to you about being twice saved.
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Now, the word "saved" in the bible,
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As in our normal human discussion,
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Means to be delivered, or rescued,
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From something or somebody.
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You say, "somebody saved me." they delivered you.
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They rescued you from a difficult, dangerous,
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Or disastrous situation
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For which you have been extricated.
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So you have been saved.
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In the bible the word "saved" is used of three realities.
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Now, we typically use it about one reality,
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But it is thrice used in the bible,
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Applied to three different realities.
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You don't know which reality it's being applied to
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Until you see the context in which the word was used.
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And sometimes, because we're so used to using the word
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In one way,
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We only use it in reference to that one thing,
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When it is used in the bible about three things.
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The first way that the word "saved" is used
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Is relative to our eternal destiny,
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Where you will spend eternity.
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The third way in which the word "saved"
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Is used, it is talking about the glorification
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That a believer receives in heaven.
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The second way in between the two--
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Justification and glorification--
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Is historical transformation.
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So it's used in three ways.
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When you use the first one, you get the third one.
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But when you use the first one,
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You may or may not get the second one.
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Everybody who gets justified, the first one, gets glorified.
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But everybody who gets justified,
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Who gets glorified,
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Does not equally become sanctified.
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The first and third refer to heaven.
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The second refers to history.
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The first and third refer to eternity.
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The second one refers to time.
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Since the first equals the third--
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Because the third is guaranteed by the first--
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If you understand the first,
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We don't have to spend a lot of time on the third
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Because the third comes out of the first,
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But we need to clarify the second.
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So i wanna know how many times have you been saved.
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Now, to understand in more detail
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What i am referring to when i say "twice saved"--
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In the book of romans chapter 5,
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The apostle paul talks about the first and second salvation.
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Now, he talks about all three in the book,
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But in this passage i wanna make sure
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You are saved once and saved twice.
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Verse 6 says, "for while we were still helpless,
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At the right time christ died for the ungodly.
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For one would hardly die for a righteous man,
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Though perhaps for the good man
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Some would dare even to die.
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But god demonstrated his own love toward us
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In that while we were yet sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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If you went to the doctor and he said, "you have cancer,"
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And then said, "take two aspirin and get some rest,"
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I'm sure you would agree
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He's not taking your situation seriously.
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If some burglars were breaking into your home
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And you called the police
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And their response was "boys will be boys,"
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I'm sure you would concur
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That they're not taking your situation seriously.
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It is unfortunate today
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That people do not take seriously
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The offense of sin to a holy god,
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That they will throw out statements god understands.
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He knows i'm human.
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But paul says that our condition apart from god is helpless.
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He says, "while we were still helpless,
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That while we were yet sinners."
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You see, what you have to understand about god
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Is that he cannot compromise his perfection
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With imperfection.
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If a human doctor has to get rid of all bacteria
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In order to save the life of a parent,
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What makes it unclear that a perfect god
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Has to get rid of imperfection in order to heal sinful mankind?
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God cannot dumb down his standards
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Just because he loves us.
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Let me say that again:
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God can't change his protocol just because he loves us.
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Verse 8 says, "but god demonstrated his love toward us
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In that while we were yet sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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Here's how you know whether somebody loves you:
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The price they're willing to pay for you.
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God loved sinful mankind so much
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That he was willing to pick up the full tab.
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Now, god only has three options, given his perfection.
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The first option is to condemn us.
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The scripture is clear: "all have sinned and fallen short
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Of the glory of god," romans 6:23,
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"that there is none righteous, no not one."
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So god cannot dumb down his standard to rescue us,
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To save us.
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The other option is to compromise his righteousness,
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To say, "let's skip it."
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But the problem with that is
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If he compromises his just reaction
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To unrighteousness,
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Then he is compromising his character;
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And if he compromises his character,
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He is no longer god.
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So he would be living in a self-contradictory environment,
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Which means there would be an explosion of the universe
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Because he would no longer be him to compromise his standard.
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So he could condemn us, he could compromise,
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Or he can make us righteous.
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What god did on the cross on good friday was come up with
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A plan whereby that god could show his love
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Without compromising his character in order to--
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Here is the technical word--
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Impute righteousness to sinful men.
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On good friday, imputation took place.
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Now, let me change it and say it another way:
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God changed your credit score.
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In order to rescue us from eternal judgment,
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He needed for everybody to have a perfect credit score.
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The problem is we're imperfect people.
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So our credit score is not sufficient
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To warrant heaven.
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So he's gotta change our score. but he can't make up a number.
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He just can't say, "you have a perfect credit score."
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It has to be a perfect credit score.
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Enter his process of salvation, the first salvation,
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To change your score through imputation.
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How did he do that?
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2 corinthians 5:21 puts it this way:
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"he who knew no sin became sin for us
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That we might become the righteousness of god
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In him."
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For 33 years, jesus christ lived a perfect life on earth.
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He had a perfect credit score.
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He never sinned in thought, in word, or in deed--
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Or as he said,
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"i've come to fulfill all righteousness."
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He is the sinless son of god.
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He who knew no sin-- perfect score.
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On the cross on good friday,
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Jesus christ took the sins of the whole world
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And took it upon himself,
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And god judged him as though you were on the cross.
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He was what we call in theology our substitute.
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He took our place.
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On the cross, jesus christ paid for the sins of the whole world.
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So god says this: "anybody who comes to christ,
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God will take the credit score of jesus
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And place it on their account."
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I stand before you with a perfect credit score,
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Not because i'm a perfect person
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But because i have a perfect credit.
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God has credited the perfection of jesus christ to my account
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So that when god looks at my righteousness account,
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He sees the score of jesus
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That's been credited to my account
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Because i place not faith in me; i place faith in him.
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And because god has transferred the credit from him to me,
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I stand before god as though i were him.
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It is the transfer of credit.
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Here is where a lot of people are confused:
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They're trying to build their own credit score.
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The passage says, "while we were helpless."
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In other words, we could not improve our own score,
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Not with a holy god.
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Now, you can improve it with your neighbor.
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You can improve it with the folk you work with,
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But not to a holy god who demands perfection.
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He must have a perfect credit score.
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So if you're trying to make heaven your home,
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You're in for a big disappointment
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Because no matter how much better
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You are this year than you were last year,
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Unless you are perfect,
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You do not qualify before a perfect god.
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So to participate in the first salvation,
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Which guarantees your heavenly glorification,
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Means that you have to come to jesus christ
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Apart from works, apart from trying to earn it,
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Apart from trying to deserve it.
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Unless you can be perfect,
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You do not qualify for the demands of a holy god.
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And a lot of people are confused because they think they can earn
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Eternal salvation.
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It cannot be earned.
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"by grace are you saved through faith,
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Not according to works so that no one will boast."
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Ephesians 2:8 and 9 says-- he said,
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"in order to give you eternal salvation,
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I have to pick up the tab."
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So if you come to christ and accept his death
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As your personal substitute, he will forgive all of your sins
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And he will grant you eternal life.
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So the first thing you need to do
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Is to come to jesus christ,
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Acknowledging that you are a sinner,
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That you need a savior,
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And that jesus christ is that savior,
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And "i accept him and him alone as my rescuer,"
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Because to be saved is to be rescued
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From eternal judgment.
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What about if you're already on your way to heaven?
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What about if you're already saved,
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In the traditional use of the word?
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Notice something that's often missed,
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Missed, read over, bypassed.
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Because he says, in verse 9, much more.
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Let me hear you say, "much more."
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Much more means on top of all that.
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Now, he already said in verse 8,
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"god demonstrated love toward us and that while we were sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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He deals with the death of christ,
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In verses 6 through 8.
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But now in verse 9, he says,
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"much more, having now been justified
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By his blood."
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Oh, wait a minute, having been justified,
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Saved, in number one, having become a christian,
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Having accepted christ.
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You're now on your way to heaven.
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The word "justified" means to be acquitted.
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It's when god says, "not guilty."
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It's when god says, "you've been pardoned.
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You've been imputed.
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On top of that, in addition to that,
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I wanna save you again."
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Twice saved.
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You know i'm talking about twice saved
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Because he says we shall be saved
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From the wrath of god through him.
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Watch this.
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Verse 10, "for if while we were enemies,
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Before we became christians,
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We were reconciled to god through the death of his son.
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Much more"-- there's our two words again--
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"having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
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That's the resurrection.
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He says you're justified by his death,
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But you're saved by his life.
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Hm, we just went from friday to sunday
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'cause we are justified by his death,
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But he says we are saved.
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The word "saved" to people who already justified
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By his resurrected life-- this is the second salvation.
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This is the salvation that he offers to believers.
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The first one he offers to sinners
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So that they become believers.
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The second one he offers to believers
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Related to their life in history,
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Your day-to-day life
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While you are on your way to glory.
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Remember, to be saved means to be delivered,
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To be rescued.
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What does he save believers from
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Once they become christians?
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He says, "i saved you from his wrath."
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"oh, wait a minute, wait a minute,
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Wait a minute.
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I know it could be a little confusing.
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Wait a minute.
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I thought i was saved from his wrath
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When i got-- when i accepted christ.
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I'm going to heaven."
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Oh, yes, you're absolutely right.
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You are saved from eternal wrath.
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He's not talking about eternal wrath;
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He's talking about historical wrath.
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Now, time will not allow me to go into--
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All the idiosyncrasies of this.
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When you have a chance, read romans chapter 1.
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Beginning with verse 18, he says,
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"the wrath of god has been revealed from heaven
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Against all unrighteousness," present tense.
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He's not talking about hell. he's not talking about gehenna.
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He's not talking about the lake of fire.
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He says, "the wrath of god has been revealed
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Against all unrighteousness."
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So he in romans 1, the same book,
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Is talking about a present wrath.
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Most of the time, we think about eternal wrath,
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Not present wrath.
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So let me explain present wrath
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So that you know how he wants to save you a second time.
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Present wrath is what we call the passive wrath of god.
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The active wrath of god is like sodom and gomorrah.
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He came down from heaven, and he burned the cities up.
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That's when he does it directly. he opened up the earth.
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Korah and his family were judged.
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The flood, when he let it rain 40 days and 40 nights--
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That's the act of wrath of god.
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He does it himself.
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He brings it. boom!
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The death of jesus christ on the cross
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Provided salvation from eternal wrath,
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But the passive wrath of god in history still operates.
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In romans 1, verse 24, 26, and 28,
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It says these words in all three of those verses:
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"and god gave them over.
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And god gave them over.
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And god gave them over," okay?
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This is called divine abandonment.
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This is when god abandons us to the consequences of our sin.
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Just 'cause you saved don't mean you don't have consequences.
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Just 'cause you saved and on your way to heaven
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Don't mean you can't mess up your life on earth.
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Just 'cause you're on your way to heaven
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Doesn't mean that you cannot ruin
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Your historical life.
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The bible is full of messed-up christians,
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People who are on their way to heaven
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But who are not doing too good in history.
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The wrath of god in romans 1
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Is god's wrath where he allows us to have
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The consequences of our rebellion.
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He says, "god gave them over.
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He released them to the consequences
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Of their abandoning him," and he calls that his wrath.
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The passive wrath of god is his built-in abandonment,
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Not of his love relationship but of his intimate fellowship
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Even with his own children.
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But i have good news:
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He still wants to save you, much more, on top of that.
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I had a much-more situation.
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I was eating at some restaurant, and i asked for the check,
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The bill.
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The waiter came over to me and said,
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"your meal has been paid for.
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One of the people here
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Said they were a member of your church,
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And they paid for your meal."
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So whenever y'all see me in a restaurant...
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"they paid for your meal."
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So then i said, "boy, that's nice.
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I wish i knew who they were so i could thank them."
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And then i said, "well, let me give you a tip."
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He said, "no, no, no.
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Much more than paying for your meal,
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They told me not to let you give the tip,
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And they gave me a very generous tip."
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So i got my meal paid for, and my tip was covered.
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I then go out to get my car,
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And the restaurant was one of those places
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Where you had to pay for the valet.
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And so i went to pay the valet, and the valet guy said,
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"your car has already been covered."
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They paid the valet for the car. that's called much, much more.
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They paid for the car. i went to give 'em a tip.
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They said, "no, no, they told me not let you tip us.
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And they gave me a generous tip."
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On the cross jesus paid for your meal,
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But he says, "twice," much more.
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On top of your eternal destiny, he's saying, "by his life,
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His resurrected life.
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On friday he died. on sunday he arose."
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Okay, but you need to know about saturday.
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He didn't skip saturday because the scripture tells us
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That, on saturday, he went to hell
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And proclaimed victory, okay?
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On saturday, he went to hell and told satan,
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"you lose; we win."
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He proclaimed defeat in hell,
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Which is why he could lead all the souls of saints
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To heaven at his resurrection,
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Which is why the bible says something
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Many christians don't know.
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When jesus rose from the dead,
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It says a group rose with him and walked the earth with him
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To demonstrate the power of his resurrection on earth.
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So jesus proclaimed victory on saturday
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Based on his death on friday
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So that he could be your ongoing deliverer
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Based on sunday.
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So guess what?
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That means your addiction doesn't have the last say.
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Your rebellion doesn't have the last say.
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The consequences don't have the last say
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Because he can deliver for believers
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After you've been saved, number one,
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To deliver you in salvation, number two.
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He can do that for you when you are walking with him.
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So you go to him for forgiveness,
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And then you walk with him for deliverance
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So that he can reverse the curse,
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Change the situation.
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And i know there's somebody here who can testify,
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"i had wandered from god,
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And i needed him to rescue me out of this problem,
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Rescue me out of this difficulty,
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And he jumped into my pain, jumped into my problem,
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Jumped into my rebellion, jumped into my circumstance,
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And he turned that thing around."
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I'm here to tell you
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He not only wants to save you for heaven,
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He wants to save you on the trip to heaven.
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And he can turn your midnight into dancing.
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He can turn yesterday's defeat into victory
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If you will decide to walk with the savior,
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Who saved you for free,
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Because he wants to deliver you much more.
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So heaven is one thing, but you're not there yet.
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He wants to walk with you on earth.
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So you give him all you've got
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Because he's earned the right to be the boss.
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♪♪♪
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Tony Evans - Twice Saved

April 20, 2025 | S25:E16

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