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The Grace Message with Dr. Andrew Farley | Andrew Farley - Gospel Zero (Part 2) | March 29, 2025
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- Dr. andrew farley: can you lose your salvation?
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- Will god ever give up on you?
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- Do you have to walk on eggshells with him?
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- Is he frustrated or angry with you?
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- In this new book, "gospel zero," we're talking about how safe and
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- Secure you are, and we're gonna talk about it today on "the
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- Grace message."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Dr. farley: and now that we've said no to moses because we're
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- Saying yes to jesus, let's talk about what it means to
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- Embrace grace.
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- So, the first thing we see in god's grace is that we're
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- Safe, okay?
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- We need to know as humans, as children of god, that
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- We're safe.
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- Hebrews chapter 6 shows us this.
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- It says that there are two unchangeable things, what are
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- These things?
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- God and god.
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- In this corner, the god of the universe hailing from all of
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- Eternity, a perfect promise keeper, he never messes up, he
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- Never ceases to be faithful.
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- And then in this corner, the god of the universe, always
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- Faithful, the perfect promise keeper.
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- So we got two perfect promise keepers, god and god, and by
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- These two unchangeable things, it says we have an anchor for
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- The soul.
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- Now, i'll ask you, in light of this anchor, what's keeping
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- You steady?
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- Is it your promises to god, or is it god's promises to god?
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- Now, that's a weird question, and i'll bet that you seldom get
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- Asked that question in church, right?
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- What's anchoring you, your promise to god or god's promise
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- To himself?
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- So you thought i was gonna say god's promise to you, uh-uh,
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- That's not what i asked.
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- I said, are you relying on god's promise to himself?
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- See, he's tricked you on this one, he took you out of
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- The equation.
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- It's not god's promise to you, it's not your promise to god, it
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- Is god's promise to himself, and by these two unchangeable
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- Things--you could even hear the glory, can't you?
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- You hear it?
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- The music of god's promises, wow.
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- God on one side and god on the other.
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- And this is what anchors us.
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- So, do you have confidence in god?
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- Oh, and by the way, do you have confidence in god?
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- Because if you got confidence in god and god, then you're
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- Pretty safe.
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- This is not about you, isn't that awesome?
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- Because so many people, when we start buying the lie that we can
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- Lose our salvation, right?
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- We start asking the question, what if i, what if i mess up
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- Real big?
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- Look, you already have.
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- What if i mess up frequently?
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- You already have.
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- Well, what if i commit the same sin--you already did.
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- So what if it's not about you?
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- What if it's about him and his promise to himself and suddenly
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- You're changeable, i'm changeable, we're changeable,
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- But in salvation, we have two unchangeable things.
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- You're not even in the equation.
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- And that is security in god's new covenant.
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- It's not about you and what you're doing, it's about him and
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- What he did and what he promised and it's about his faithfulness,
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- Even, the scripture says, even when we are faithless, he
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- Remains faithful.
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- He'll never let you go.
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- You're safe, you're secure, and in fact, here's the crazy thing,
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- He even likes you.
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- Whoa, i didn't see that one coming.
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- Religion didn't teach me that one.
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- Religion taught me the worse i feel coming out of a sermon, the
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- Better the sermon was, because it beat me up.
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- God convicted me today, i came out of that sermon,
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- "how was the message?"
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- "it was awesome." "well, how do you know?"
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- "'cause i feel horrible."
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- Oh, oh.
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- What about that part about the truth will set you free?
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- What about that part about the yoke is easy and the burden
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- Is light?
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- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, forgot about that.
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- The truth really is incredible.
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- As we talk about god's grace, we gotta, i mean we gotta talk
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- About how safe we are.
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- Because without safety, you got nothing, folks, i mean we can
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- Talk about how god is good and god is great and god is santa
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- Claus, you know, there's a million books on grace, you know
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- There's a million books on how god is good.
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- There's a million books on how god has grace for us.
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- Did you know that if you survey, i don't know, 100,000
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- Christians, ninety something percent of them are, "oh yeah, i
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- Believe in grace."
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- You've experienced this, right?
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- I believe in grace.
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- And yet a solid half of them, literally half of christians
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- Believe they can lose their salvation.
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- So make that jive.
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- Oh, i believe in god's grace, but i believe i can lose
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- My salvation.
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- Well then you don't believe in god's grace, because now your
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- Salvation is built on something other than god's grace.
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- It's that simple.
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- Our heavenly father wants us to know safety in him, and scaring
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- Christians is not ministry.
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- And the ministry of god's spirit is never to scare you but to
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- Build you up in christ.
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- If you leave scared of god as a believer, something's wrong.
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- The heavenly father does not want you to be scared of him,
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- Our father doesn't want you to be quaking in your boots about
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- Your relationship, he wants you to know that you're holy and
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- Righteous and blameless and good with him, not because you're
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- Such a swell guy and did a bunch of great stuff but because of
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- What he did.
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- And so we see that we're safe.
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- Here's one that really trips people up, hebrews 10:26.
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- We probably get asked this about 25 times a year minimum.
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- "if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of
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- The truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins."
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- [gasping]
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- No longer a sacrifice?
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- Did the blood of jesus run out?
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- [gasping]
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- Do we have no hope?
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- Did we sin one too many times?
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- You sinned 741 times and god's grace was only good for 740, you
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- Exhausted the blood of jesus, the grace of god ran out on you.
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- That's how many interpret this passage, but here's a
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- News flash.
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- There's only one kind of sin, in the book of hebrews for ten
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- Chapters, there's only one kind of sin, you know what it is?
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- It's not a gentile sin, you know what i mean by a gentile sin?
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- You know, the pagans that are, you know, roasting pigs on fire
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- With a little apple in the mouth, you know, and they have
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- Dancing around to get a good crop.
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- The pagans, you know, up in the mountains, i'm talking about
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- Like, you know, it eventually became the norse gods that they
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- Were worshiping and, the pagans, i mean their sins, let me tell
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- You about their sins: lying, cheating, stealing, killing.
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- You wanna know the hebrew sin?
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- Unbelief, the hebrew sin, unbelief in jesus.
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- You know, the only sin mentioned for ten chapters, unbelief.
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- So when you get to hebrews chapter 10, and he says, if we
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- Keep on sinning after what?
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- After getting the knowledge of the truth--let me ask you,
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- What do you do with knowledge?
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- If somebody gives you knowledge or somebody shares a truth with
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- You, what are your two choices?
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- Accept it or reject it, believe it or don't believe it.
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- And that is what the author of hebrews is saying.
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- He's saying if we go on sinning willfully, you look back to
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- Hebrews 3 and 4, you know what it says?
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- It says they were, they had an evil, unbelieving heart and they
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- Wouldn't enter the promised land.
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- They were sinning against god, how?
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- With an unbelieving heart they wouldn't enter the
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- Promised land.
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- It was a symbol of not getting saved, it was a symbol of
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- Rejecting god's message and not getting saved, and that's what
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- The hebrew author is saying.
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- Don't be like your forefathers.
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- Hey, hebrews, don't be like great granddaddy.
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- You remember great great great granddaddy sitting back there
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- In the wilderness and he wouldn't enter
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- The promised land?
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- Look, if we have good news preached to us and if any one of
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- Us says, "no thanks, i'm not interested,
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- I don't wanna believe in that."
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- Then guess what, you're not gonna find
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- A sacrifice anywhere else.
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- Oh, you're going to the temple?
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- It ain't there.
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- Oh, you're going to the blood of bulls and goats?
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- It ain't there.
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- You're not gonna find forgiveness or sacrifice that
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- Pleases god anywhere else except in christ.
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- So if we get the message of jesus preached to us and we say
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- No thanks, guess what?
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- You got a problem, there's no other solution.
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- You rejected the one and only, well, where are you gonna go?
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- Where are you gonna go?
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- That's the point of hebrews.
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- So if you're following me, is this a christian
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- Losing their salvation?
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- Or is this a hebrew being warned: hey, today, if you hear
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- His voice, don't harden your heart, don't be like the
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- Forefathers who rejected the message of god.
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- Today, if you hear his voice, enter the promised land, put
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- Your trust in jesus, and you'll never be disappointed.
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- And so, the truth always sets us free, there's not a verse in the
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- New testament that should freak you out, there's not a verse in
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- The new testament that should erode your confidence, the
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- Father wants us to know that we're safe with him.
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- He wants us to know we're safe.
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- We talk about salvation, and here's the bottom line.
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- I mean, as far as us being condemned, or quaking in our
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- Boots, or being afraid, remember romans 6, "the wages of sin is
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- Death, but the free gift of god is eternal life in christ
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- Our lord."
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- So i want you to be an accountant for a minute, okay?
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- You got accounts payable, accounts receivable, you got two
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- Columns basically, you've done this, maybe you've done it with
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- Your household budget, maybe you've done it in life at some
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- Point, but i mean this is simple mathematics, it doesn't take an
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- Accounting degree.
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- The wages of sin is death, that's what we owe, that's what
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- We need to pay.
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- Then jesus died, the wages of sin is death, and jesus died, so
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- How many wages are left?
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- None, there are no more wages.
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- That's why jesus died.
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- He could have taken a slap on the wrist, he took death.
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- He could have taken, you know, six weeks of being out
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- Of fellowship.
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- No, he took death because the wages of sin is death, and
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- That's what you and i deserve, but jesus took it all and we
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- Sing this stuff.
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- He took it all, all to him, he did it all, all to him we owe.
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- Well, you'll never pay him back, that's a joke.
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- I mean, that line in the song is a joke unless you've got an
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- Innocent perfect life to pay him back with, all to him we owe.
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- No, you don't owe god 'cause he canceled the debt.
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- You couldn't pay him back and he doesn't expect that.
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- How about you thank him rather than trying to pay him back.
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- We put it this way, picture christ on the cross, receipt in
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- Hand, securely saying i've got this one.
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- Yet here we are fretting over a bill that's already been
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- Settled, past, present, future sins taken away.
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- Let that sink in before you start hyperventilating over your
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- Spiritual debt repayment.
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- There you are trying to do the dishes, and the bill's
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- Been paid.
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- You're offering to go out back and clean up the trash at the
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- Dumpster, and the bill's been paid.
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- You get guilty and nervous about paying him back.
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- We even have sermons about this, don't we?
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- We've heard them in our lives, here it goes.
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- "he's done so much for you," you know what's coming next.
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- "because he's done so much for you," long pause to make you
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- Feel guilty, "what are you doing for him?" you see?
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- So it's tit for tat.
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- It's a payoff, it's a debt, it's what you owe.
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- You gotta give back because he gave so much.
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- The scriptures don't talk that way.
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- They say he owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
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- Here's a crazy notion: god doesn't need you, but he
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- Wants you.
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- God doesn't need you, he's god, hello, he's god.
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- He owns everything, he's the creator of all, he puts
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- Everything together, god doesn't need you, but he's invited you
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- In because he wants you.
- 00:13:22.038 --> 00:13:25.008
- So, jesus put it this way, is backwards to me.
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- I mean, jesus is there with his disciples and he's washing their
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- Feet, and you know what we think?
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- We think, well, gosh, i better get out there and wash a bunch
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- Of feet.
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- 'cause you know, that's what jesus did, and that's the number
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- One application.
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- When we hear sermons about foot washing, what's the number one
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- Application that we christians make?
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- Well, you know, jesus served people, so you better get out
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- There and serve.
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- Have you been washing feet lately?
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- 'cause you don't smell like it.
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- You know what the real application of that is?
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- You have to let jesus serve you.
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- What?
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- Yeah, that's what the disciples were freaked
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- Out about.
- 00:14:12.188 --> 00:14:13.590
- Because he was the master and he was washing their feet, not
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- Vice versa.
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- And so are you letting jesus serve you through the cross and
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- The resurrection?
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- Are you letting jesus and his finished work serve you, or are
- 00:14:27.370 --> 00:14:32.475
- You trying to serve him when you need to let him serve you?
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- So let that sink in before you start hyperventilating over your
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- Debt payment.
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- All right, how about this one?
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- Philippians chapter 2, verse 12 and 13.
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- "work out your salvation," uh-oh,
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- "with fear," uh-oh, "and trembling; for it is god who is
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- At work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure."
- 00:14:59.069 --> 00:15:04.140
- All right what what's this about?
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- Is this about work for your salvation?
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- No, it's work out your salvation.
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- This is beautiful.
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- This is christ in you.
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- Look at what god worked in you.
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- What's in there?
- 00:15:17.854 --> 00:15:19.322
- Who's in you, right?
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- Work out what he's worked in.
- 00:15:22.892 --> 00:15:25.095
- Now what about the fear and trembling?
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- I mean, 'cause really, that could get me.
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- I mean, i could go, "whoa, i mean, am i
- 00:15:28.365 --> 00:15:30.066
- Supposed to be scared of god then?"
- 00:15:30.066 --> 00:15:31.401
- 'cause i know he's not the author of fear.
- 00:15:31.401 --> 00:15:35.305
- You know, his perfect love casts out fear, so i know scripture.
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- I know i'm not supposed to be afraid.
- 00:15:40.076 --> 00:15:42.045
- So what does this mean?
- 00:15:42.045 --> 00:15:43.380
- Well, paul uses the same verbiage when he's talking to
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- Other people, the corinthians, i believe, he says, "i was with
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- You in fear and trembling."
- 00:15:49.386 --> 00:15:51.921
- Meaning awe and respect.
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- I knew god was at work in me and it's incredible, like, you know,
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- Our family, we love to look at the stars.
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- Gavin's studying astronomy in university soon.
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- We love to look up at the stars and marvel at the majesty of all
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- That's up there, and you talk about wastefulness.
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- I mean, what a waste, it's all out there, and it's beautiful,
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- And god just wasted his talent on it 'cause you can't see it
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- Unless you have the right instruments.
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- What a waste. what's god saying?
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- I got plenty to spare.
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- I got plenty of creativity to spare.
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- I've got artistic license to go at it.
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- And you look out in the distance for millions and billions of
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- Miles, and oh my goodness, it's there.
- 00:16:40.170 --> 00:16:44.741
- Well, what is paul saying?
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- He's not looking up, he's not looking up at the stars in this
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- Moment, he's looking in, and he's saying god has worked in me
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- Something majestic, something beautiful, something that
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- Deserves reverence and awe.
- 00:16:59.355 --> 00:17:01.724
- You might even hear him asking, are you kidding me?
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- The god of the universe, creator of everything, resides right
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- Here, local phone call, not long distance, right here.
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- I've got a go-to place at the core of my being, jesus
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- Lives here.
- 00:17:16.506 --> 00:17:17.874
- I remember being three feet tall, firing up prayers to
- 00:17:17.874 --> 00:17:20.610
- Heaven, you know, at the foot of my bed, lord, give me a new
- 00:17:20.610 --> 00:17:23.413
- Bike, right?
- 00:17:23.413 --> 00:17:25.915
- And i thought he was way up there, and if somebody had come
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- Along and tap me on the shoulder and said, "he's in here.
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- Oh, he's up there, but he's in here," and this might be a
- 00:17:33.890 --> 00:17:36.826
- Little bit important to know, that he's in here.
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- The god who created everything is local and you can live
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- From him.
- 00:17:44.934 --> 00:17:46.302
- He could have given you a ticket to heaven in a book, he could
- 00:17:46.302 --> 00:17:48.571
- Have given you the bible and a little admit one stub that says
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- You're going to heaven.
- 00:17:52.342 --> 00:17:53.676
- He gave you his life.
- 00:17:53.676 --> 00:17:56.312
- He gave you his life for a reason.
- 00:17:56.312 --> 00:17:59.616
- Now, we gotta talk about something, it's a little
- 00:17:59.616 --> 00:18:01.684
- Uncomfortable, isn't it?
- 00:18:01.684 --> 00:18:03.419
- We got famous, well-known communicators of grace who were
- 00:18:03.419 --> 00:18:07.056
- Talking about lordship and they're saying stuff like,
- 00:18:07.056 --> 00:18:10.326
- "well, it's great that you're saved, but have you truly made
- 00:18:10.326 --> 00:18:15.064
- Him lord of your life?"
- 00:18:15.064 --> 00:18:17.667
- "it's great that you have prayed a prayer, but is he truly
- 00:18:17.667 --> 00:18:22.572
- Reigning in your life and have you made him lord?"
- 00:18:22.572 --> 00:18:25.575
- We get calls all the time on the radio broadcast.
- 00:18:25.575 --> 00:18:28.545
- People are scared.
- 00:18:28.545 --> 00:18:29.946
- They're scared, "maybe i didn't pray it right, maybe i didn't
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- Say it right, maybe i didn't do it right, did i use the word
- 00:18:32.949 --> 00:18:36.119
- Lord when i ask him in my life?
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- Did i miss a word?
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- Does it not count?
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- Was god not impressed with my dedication and my commitment and
- 00:18:41.758 --> 00:18:46.796
- My sold-outedness?
- 00:18:46.796 --> 00:18:49.165
- Was i not sold out enough?"
- 00:18:49.165 --> 00:18:51.601
- And so this false teaching of lordship salvation goes a little
- 00:18:51.601 --> 00:18:55.805
- Something like this.
- 00:18:55.805 --> 00:18:57.140
- "you might have looked to him as savior, but did you look to him
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- As lord?
- 00:19:00.743 --> 00:19:02.111
- Did you make him lord?
- 00:19:02.111 --> 00:19:03.680
- Now pardon me, but it seems like we ought to hit the pause button
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- And look at the obvious.
- 00:19:07.116 --> 00:19:09.152
- The obvious being, who did you call upon?
- 00:19:09.152 --> 00:19:12.889
- And what did you think he was gonna do when you said, lord
- 00:19:12.889 --> 00:19:16.259
- Jesus christ or jesus christ or christ, save me.
- 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:20.630
- You assumed something.
- 00:19:20.630 --> 00:19:22.165
- You assumed he has the authority to save you, he has the power to
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- Save you, that kinda sounds like you believe he's lord.
- 00:19:26.636 --> 00:19:32.175
- And so this idea that we make him lord, no, he is lord of all,
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- We don't make him anything.
- 00:19:37.513 --> 00:19:39.649
- But when we call upon him to be saved, we are assuming he has
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- The authority and power to do so and we don't have to analyze our
- 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.757
- Every word and analyze our every attitude to see if we did
- 00:19:47.757 --> 00:19:51.761
- It right.
- 00:19:51.761 --> 00:19:53.529
- We receive the spirit by hearing with faith,
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- Galatians says.
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- Did you hear the gospel?
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- Did you put your faith in it?
- 00:20:00.036 --> 00:20:01.604
- Bam, there you have it.
- 00:20:01.604 --> 00:20:02.939
- Not rocket science, not neuroscience, not complicated.
- 00:20:02.939 --> 00:20:08.244
- So we see right here in acts chapter 2, it says, "therefore
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- Let all the house of israel know for certain that god has made
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- Him both lord and christ--this jesus whom you crucified."
- 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:23.259
- So who made him lord?
- 00:20:23.259 --> 00:20:25.328
- God set up the plan.
- 00:20:25.328 --> 00:20:27.463
- The plan was that jesus would be declared lord, that jesus is
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- Messiah and christ, he's the one, and it was predestined, and
- 00:20:31.668 --> 00:20:36.372
- You don't make him lord, he's lord.
- 00:20:36.372 --> 00:20:39.409
- God's plan was that.
- 00:20:39.409 --> 00:20:42.111
- Here's another one, philippians 2, "so that at the name of jesus
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- Every knee will bow,"
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- You know this one, "of those
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- Who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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- And that every tongue will confess that jesus christ is
- 00:20:51.554 --> 00:20:54.757
- Lord, to the glory of god the father."
- 00:20:54.757 --> 00:20:57.093
- Every tongue, not just somebody trying to get to be a christian,
- 00:20:57.093 --> 00:21:00.563
- They're gonna recognize reality at the end of the age, whether
- 00:21:00.563 --> 00:21:04.500
- They like it or not.
- 00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:06.336
- You know, it's not even god's fault, it just so happens that
- 00:21:06.336 --> 00:21:09.505
- God is god.
- 00:21:09.505 --> 00:21:10.840
- It just so happens that jesus is lord, it's a fact, and at the
- 00:21:10.840 --> 00:21:14.110
- End of the age, all of humanity will recognize this reality.
- 00:21:14.110 --> 00:21:18.214
- We're not making him lord, we're simply recognizing he is lord.
- 00:21:18.214 --> 00:21:22.719
- You're saved by grace through faith.
- 00:21:22.719 --> 00:21:25.521
- Ephesians 2, a very familiar passage, "for by grace you've
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- Been saved through faith; it is not of yourselves, it is a gift
- 00:21:28.858 --> 00:21:32.628
- Of god; not as a result of works, so that nobody can brag."
- 00:21:32.628 --> 00:21:36.966
- "look how i made him lord.
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- Look how much i submitted.
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- Look how much i surrendered.
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- Look how much i gave up for him.
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- Look at the martyr i am.
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- Look what i gave up for lent.
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- Look at what i, look at what i."
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- As if i make a sacrifice and then he's happy.
- 00:21:57.220 --> 00:22:02.358
- You know what sacrifice god really wants from us?
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- He calls it, he turns everything upside down, he calls it a
- 00:22:05.395 --> 00:22:08.431
- Living sacrifice, not a dead one.
- 00:22:08.431 --> 00:22:11.300
- He doesn't want you to kill anything.
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- It's a living sacrifice of saying here's my body today,
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- Enjoy living in and through me.
- 00:22:17.340 --> 00:22:21.444
- That is not hurtful, that's exciting.
- 00:22:21.444 --> 00:22:25.081
- That's that whoa moment all over again.
- 00:22:25.081 --> 00:22:29.552
- And so it's not about what we give to god, it's about what god
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- Gave to us, the gift of god, not as a result of works.
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- All right, we'll finish with this, just a few words in the
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- Remaining four or five minutes here, predestination.
- 00:22:40.596 --> 00:22:43.699
- Uh-oh, can you do, i mean, can you even do predestination in
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- Four minutes?
- 00:22:47.336 --> 00:22:48.738
- I mean, has anybody in the history of christianity ever
- 00:22:48.738 --> 00:22:52.141
- Talked about predestin--and i'm wasting minutes now even as i'm
- 00:22:52.141 --> 00:22:56.012
- Setting this up.
- 00:22:56.012 --> 00:22:57.346
- I mean, is this even possible?
- 00:22:57.346 --> 00:22:59.048
- Well, let me tell you this.
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- Predestination as paul saw it, isn't god playing eeny, meeny,
- 00:23:01.217 --> 00:23:07.256
- Miny, moe, with humanity.
- 00:23:07.256 --> 00:23:09.158
- Nope, this is about an all-access pass for anyone:
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- Jews, gentiles, left handed people,
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- Even those who can't whistle.
- 00:23:15.765 --> 00:23:18.267
- This is a wide open invitation for anyone and everyone to call
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- Upon jesus.
- 00:23:24.073 --> 00:23:25.408
- Now, look at this, we see it from scripture, romans 9, that
- 00:23:25.408 --> 00:23:28.211
- Famous passage, predestination is
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- That the gentiles are included.
- 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:33.583
- Look at romans 9, "even us, whom he also called, not from among
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- Jews only, but also from among gentiles.
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- As he says also in hosea, 'i will call those who were not my
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- People, "my people."'"
- 00:23:45.528 --> 00:23:47.029
- So what's the point? whom is god's grace for?
- 00:23:47.029 --> 00:23:51.868
- It's not just for you but not you, and you but not you, and
- 00:23:51.868 --> 00:23:54.670
- You but not you, no, god's grace is for anyone and everyone that
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- Will call upon him.
- 00:23:59.642 --> 00:24:01.043
- Yes, there was a secret plan, yes it was veiled, yes the old
- 00:24:01.043 --> 00:24:05.681
- Testament people didn't see it.
- 00:24:05.681 --> 00:24:08.284
- But it's not eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
- 00:24:08.284 --> 00:24:10.520
- It's not individual selection, that's not what
- 00:24:10.520 --> 00:24:13.623
- Predestination is.
- 00:24:13.623 --> 00:24:15.157
- Predestination was god kicked back with a beautiful plan and
- 00:24:15.157 --> 00:24:19.762
- He says, "i'll call a people who are not my people, 'my people.'
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- I'm gonna reach out to the gentiles.
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- When the son of man is lifted up, i'm gonna draw all
- 00:24:26.402 --> 00:24:29.772
- People unto myself, not just the jews."
- 00:24:29.772 --> 00:24:34.176
- Predestination is not individuals, it's about the jews
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- And the gentiles being all invited.
- 00:24:39.415 --> 00:24:42.051
- You know the parable.
- 00:24:42.051 --> 00:24:43.386
- What did jesus say in the parable?
- 00:24:43.386 --> 00:24:45.054
- There was a wedding feast and people were invited but they
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- Didn't show up.
- 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.160
- And so what is the host say to his servants?
- 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:54.530
- He says, "well, nobody's shown up, how about you go out into
- 00:24:54.530 --> 00:24:58.534
- The streets and invite anybody that you see."
- 00:24:58.534 --> 00:25:03.272
- So who is it that doesn't show up at first?
- 00:25:03.272 --> 00:25:05.575
- It's the jews, they reject the gospel.
- 00:25:05.575 --> 00:25:09.045
- Who is it that then gets invited, go out into
- 00:25:09.045 --> 00:25:11.647
- The streets?
- 00:25:11.647 --> 00:25:12.982
- It's those dirty rotten gentiles like you and me.
- 00:25:12.982 --> 00:25:16.252
- We all get invited, whoever calls upon the name of the lord.
- 00:25:16.252 --> 00:25:20.990
- Wow, god's grace is for anyone.
- 00:25:20.990 --> 00:25:26.696
- "simeon has related how god first concerned himself about
- 00:25:26.696 --> 00:25:31.300
- Taking from among the gentiles a people for his name."
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- Wow, we'll finish with this.
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- Imagine it, if you will, predestination as a
- 00:25:38.274 --> 00:25:41.544
- Reality show.
- 00:25:41.544 --> 00:25:43.312
- This season on "survivor: heaven's gates," who will
- 00:25:43.312 --> 00:25:47.183
- Survive the salvation showdown?
- 00:25:47.183 --> 00:25:50.152
- Will it be team elect or team reject?
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- Stay tuned as god's mysterious choices unfold.
- 00:25:53.956 --> 00:25:59.061
- Is that the gospel?
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- That god mysteriously chose some, and i
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- Get to be the chosen and they don't have a chance?
- 00:26:04.533 --> 00:26:07.570
- Oh, that's tempting to believe from a selfish viewpoint.
- 00:26:07.570 --> 00:26:11.474
- But the gospel is about god's love, extended to the planet,
- 00:26:11.474 --> 00:26:16.245
- The four corners of the earth, so to speak.
- 00:26:16.245 --> 00:26:18.981
- God has blasted his love and grace, and the salvation offer
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- Is for whosoever wills.
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- Whoever will call on the lord will be saved.
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- Dr. farley: well, i hope you enjoyed today's program.
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- Have you ever been told that you need to get right with god, you
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- Know, get right and stay right or you'll fall out of his will
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- Or fall out of fellowship?
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- That sounds like a whole lot of work.
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- Well, what's the cure for all of that?
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- To know your completeness, your wholeness in jesus, and to live
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- From a place of rest.
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- That's why i'm so excited about our brand-new resource, it's
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- Called, "already enough: resting in the sufficiency of christ,"
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- Make sure to request your copy when you support "the grace
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- Message" this month.
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- It's a beautiful reminder from paul's letter to the colossians
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- About what it means to be enough in jesus.
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- No more begging, pleading, hoping, or waiting for something
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- New to come your way, resting in all that jesus has done.
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- Request your copy of "already enough" this month, and thank
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- You for your support.
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- ♪♪♪
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