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and didn't bring it tonight. 
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really worried about is 70 books
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bring it every week. 
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I don't know if you need to set 
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phone or something to, to try to
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going to be going through this. 
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we're going to have different 
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I'll try to mention it on 
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So you don't have to bring the 
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you if you have an iPad or some 
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to wayoflife.org and, and buy 
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It's cheap. 
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and you just didn't do it, then 
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But I would encourage you #1 put
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If you have a pen, I would do it
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because there's going to be 50 
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and you know, you're going to 
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And so put your name in it if 
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take some notes in it right in 
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that, but I, you know, underline
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idea to bring a highlighter if 
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different things here. 
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how this is going to go. 
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the institute class. 
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some of this. 
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start at the beginning here and,
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go to the table of contents, 
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year discipleship course and I'm
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to get through one lesson at a 
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But I'll stop and we'll have a 
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I want you to understand this. 
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It is a Bible study. 
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institute class. 
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your hand and ask if, if, and 
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going to get to that later, 
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possibility that that will be 
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And I will get to it later. 
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address it when we get to it. 
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the whole purpose of this, it's 
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steps of, of Christianity, if 
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and a lot of you have been in 
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terms, you've, you've probably 
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an explanation of some of these 
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possible with these things. 
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through it and explain it. 
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read the Bible verses out loud. 
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just have a microphone that will
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maybe just get one person from 
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And that way, you know, and 
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you don't have to. 
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you know, I'll ask maybe who 
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to do it a little bit more like 
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What happens to us at salvation.
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you that are actually going 
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but the first steps for new 
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filling in the blanks and the 
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and this, these are just a long 
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somebody take you through these 
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that are just, you know, 
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you've got the foundation and 
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established, these are all 
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steps in your Christian life, 
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church, the Bible, studying the 
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These things are, I mean, and 
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going to be a few months before 
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things are kind of in, in order 
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trying to get to the attic. 
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floor and jump into the attic, 
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You've got to take the steps to 
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is where you're trying to get, 
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why anybody wants to get in the 
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get there and you've got to 
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of the, at the basic level to 
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complicated or maybe a little 
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can't be here on a Wednesday 
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and watch it, or at the very 
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you're not missing some of these
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of review. 
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from the, the, the, the previous
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knowing God's will, I mean, 
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are important, important things.
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these things, then how would you
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God's will? 
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that's leading you and not just 
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right? 
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thing that you feel like you're 
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that thing, or just something 
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that talent later on, right? 
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know his will. 
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us. 
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Bible that give us those things,
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Great Commission. 
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all of those are wrong. 
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which ones are good and which 
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you through that. 
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mindset and that is basically 
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of God, right? 
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important things, important 
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the steps to get to the point 
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think some of these things and 
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Listen, I don't have any problem
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If you're interested in tongues 
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Go read it. 
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you to read it ahead of time. 
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know about what the Bible has to
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there in church yet. 
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If you're interested in it, read
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That's what I'm saying. 
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walking up a giant staircase and
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when you get to the end of it. 
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life if you're going to grow, if
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perfect, doesn't mean that 
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It just means that you're mature
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God very plainly says in in 
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get from the point where he 
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with milk anymore. 
He can feed us with meat because

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And so that's that's the whole 
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started off as an institute 
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these things to you so that as 
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And that's still the goal of 
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As you learn these things, the 
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learn them well enough that you 
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somebody else. 
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finish this up, we should have a
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could lead somebody to Christ 
and then go disciple that 

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person. 
And honestly, that's the best 

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way for discipleship to happen 
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But in this case, we have a lot 
of people who have been saved 

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fairly recently. 
We have a lot of people who have

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expressed a desire for 
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never had anybody disciple them.
So that's why I've decided to do

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It'll, it'll kind of give 
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things a refresher course. 
It'll help the people who have 

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never been through it to have a 
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And hopefully by the time we get
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take this book and go teach it 
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That's the purpose of it, right?
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that we should be able to get to
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That's the goal that you should 
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If, if, if you, if all you are 
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whole point, right? 
Be a sponge. 

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Soak up all that information. 
Get everything you can from the 

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word of God, but do it with the 
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some point and giving everything
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can help them disciples. 
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go ahead and turn to Acts 
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There will be a few passages 
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you to turn to. 
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that you wait and and get one of
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there. 
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and you know it's not, then it's
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else. 
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maybe or make sure I understand 
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grab one of these microphones on
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with you guys in the front there
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we'll kind of pass them back. 
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somebody is getting ready to 
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Don't need to pick up your 
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of the pastor. 
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So let's look at this, these 
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repentance. 
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necessary foundational steps. 
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understand this yourself, to 
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repentance and faith. 
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faith, then it's not salvation 
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necessary for salvation. 
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is repentance, right? 
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mindset and we're going to talk 
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A lot of people have the mindset
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go from unbelief to belief. 
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Not according to the Bible. 
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Acts chapter 20 and verse 21, 
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also to the Greeks. 
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toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 
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salvation. 
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try to, I'm going to try to keep
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I'm going to, I'm just going to,
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different things. 
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have a digital copy of it, but 
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to make sure that I point some 
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the New Testament. 
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couple of those tonight. 
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3, one and two, if you'd turn 
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have you read Luke 13 three. 
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read Acts 1730. 
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it? 
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here, the next one we'll get to 
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Ephesians 2, eight through 10. 
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It was preached by John the 
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Days, John the Baptist, 
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Judea, and saying, Repent ye, 
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hand. 
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Christ preached it. 
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I tell you your name. 
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ignorance God winked at, but now
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repentance and now here we're 
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this is a command to repent. 
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only Christ himself, but Peter, 
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repentance is. 
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repentance and faith. 
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All right, That's that's an 
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What what what is not repentance
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repentance is not. 
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changing your life. 
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in that spot and some of some of
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recently about your own 
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questions about it. 
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to that. 
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changes in my life. 
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went to Alcoholics Anonymous, 
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celebrating his recovery. 
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recovery and not not drinking 
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drinking? 
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somebody who is, you know, 
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pornography or, you know, drugs 
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that guy is now saved because he
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No, and that's exactly now there
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mean that there was salvation. 
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somebody's life, but works 
change does not mean that you 

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got saved at Ephesians chapter 
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Ephesians chapter 2, verse eight
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For by grace you have been saved
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yourselves. 
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works, lest anyone should boast.
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created in Christ Jesus for good
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Which God? 
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shall walk in them. 
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is that we're not saved by our 
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the product of that. 
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through faith and that not of 
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It's a gift of God, not of 
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boast, right? 
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created in Christ Jesus unto 
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saved, but we should have good 
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There should be evidence of that
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So the life changing part of 
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It's not our part, but it should
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Repentance though, is not just 
changing your life. 

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Repentance also is not doing 
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A lot of Catholic Bibles 
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dependence, by the way. 
That's why it's so important 

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that you have the right version 
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It changes things. 
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you saw the difference in how 
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have different versions of the 
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You read in a Catholic Bible 
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That's very different. 
That's very different than 

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repentance right now commandeth 
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And I don't, I can't say that 
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but I'm just, I'm just putting 
this in the place because it 

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does say that right now 
commandeth all men everywhere to

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do penance. 
Well, that's all works, right? 

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And, and basically what they're 
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works and repentance is not 
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And so we're saying repentance 
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That involves confession to a 
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which is a priest for giving you
of your sins satisfaction. 

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Catholic penance is works, 
salvation, which the Bible, as 

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we just read in Ephesians 
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not of works, lest any man 
should boast, right. 

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I was, I was in, I spent a month
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went to one of the largest 
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huge, huge Catholic Church. 
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itself just a massive, massive 
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I mean, that the ceiling was so 
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mean, opulent. 
Everything was just, it was, it 

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was very beautiful. 
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of the church was a huge 
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like as big as all of this 
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And, and, and really, if 
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other side of the property, I 
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That's how big is it was all 
concrete and like little stones 

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and things like that. 
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is that there was people that 
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knees across the middle of that 
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several of them had bloody knees
from, from, you know, walking 

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across the courtyard on their 
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And of course, I knew what that 
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but we got to talking about it a
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And, and that's exactly what is 
it's penance. 

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Oh, you got to do something to 
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right? 
So go, you know what, what the, 

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what the Catholic priest will 
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Hail Marys and light a candle 
and that, that, that should take

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care of it, right? 
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really feel like you've sinned 
and you want to do something to 

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take care of that, then, you 
know, do something different. 

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But there's, there's all kinds 
of sects of the Catholic Church 

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that have different things that 
they say that, you know, that, 

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that, that, you know, obviously 
there's monasteries where, where

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they have vows of silence, where
they just, they don't speak 

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because they're, they're trying 
to punish themselves for 

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something they did in their past
life. 

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And you know, they, they, they, 
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walking up the steps on your 
knees and whipping yourself 

445
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,760
while you're doing it. 
You know, it's all things that I

446
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,360
can do to pay for my sins. 
Those are all works, right? 

447
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:24,080
And that's not repentance. 
Repentance is not doing penance.

448
00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,600
Repentance is not just remorse 
for your wrong actions. 

449
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,000
I do want to read this for us. 
If somebody can. 

450
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,560
Let's let's find somebody on 
this side. 

451
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,840
Second Corinthians Chapter 7 and
verse #10 for the mat. 

452
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,160
All right, let's get the 
microphone to him. 

453
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,040
And we're not going to read it 
yet, but just go ahead and turn 

454
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,360
there. 
Somebody on the 3rd row with 

455
00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:51,000
Frank, You want to read, let's 
read First Samuel 1524 when we 

456
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,040
get there. 
So this is this is important 

457
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,320
too, all right, because we have 
to understand that repentance is

458
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,720
not just being sorry or, or, you
know, remorse. 

459
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,120
And so the Bible tells us that 
men can be remorseful about 

460
00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:08,120
their actions without actually 
exhibiting A genuine repentance.

461
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,320
And it sounds like a slight 
difference and it may be a 

462
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,360
slight difference, but it's it's
very pronounced difference 

463
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,520
because Second Corinthians 
actually go ahead and read 2nd 

464
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,400
Corinthians 710. 
Second Corinthians 710 for godly

465
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,080
sorrow worketh repentance to 
salvation, not to be repented 

466
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,480
of, but the sorrow of the world 
worketh death, the sorrow of the

467
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,680
world. 
That is remorse, right? 

468
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,840
Sometimes it's sorry that you 
got caught. 

469
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,600
Sometimes it's sorry that you 
made somebody else feel bad. 

470
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,960
Sometimes it's sorry that you 
ruined somebody else's life 

471
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,960
because of your actions or 
whatever else. 

472
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960
That's very different right 
there. 

473
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,760
There are people who are sitting
in death row who are sorry that 

474
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,400
they killed people. 
Some of them are not, but 

475
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,960
there's some of them who are and
they've come to the point where 

476
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,440
they say, man, I can't believe 
that I was in that mindset where

477
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,080
I would actually just go kill 
somebody. 

478
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,720
I can't believe I did that. 
I feel so bad for the family. 

479
00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:05,680
I feel so sick for my actions. 
I'm so, I'm so sorry that those 

480
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,440
people had to go through that, 
right? 

481
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,280
Does that does that mean that 
that guy saved because he's 

482
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,720
sorry for his actions? 
No, because it's not just 

483
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,760
remorse. 
It's not just being sorry for 

484
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,360
your actions. 
That's the sorrow of the world. 

485
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:18,440
And the Bible says the sorrow of
the world worketh death. 

486
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,760
So there are examples of this in
the Old Testament. 

487
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,800
There's example in the New 
Testament even. 

488
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,720
But King Saul is a perfect 
example in the Old Testament. 

489
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:33,960
He was sorry that he got caught,
but he didn't demonstrate true 

490
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,560
repentance. 
His actions didn't change. 

491
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,880
First Samuel chapter 15 and 
verse 24. 

492
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,960
And Saul said unto Samuel, I 
have sinned, for I have 

493
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,680
transgressed the commandment of 
the Lord in thy words, because I

494
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,920
feared the people and obeyed 
their voice. 

495
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,560
OK, but then what it said, What 
did Saul do right after that? 

496
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:03,840
You remember Charlie sinned 
again? 

497
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,120
Yes, but I'm saying like it's 
part of that whole story. 

498
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,000
What happened? 
Anybody remember? 

499
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,120
Yeah, honor me, right? 
I've sinned. 

500
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:13,760
I'm sorry, but don't make me 
look bad in front of the people,

501
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,840
right? 
Don't, don't, don't let them 

502
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,120
know that I know that I sinned, 
right? 

503
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:21,600
That's that's not repentance, 
right? 

504
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,920
If somebody, if you are truly 
sorry for your sin, you realize 

505
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,800
who you are before God and you 
know that your sin is what is 

506
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,240
sending you to hell. 
And you're not saying I know, I 

507
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,720
know I've done wrong, but but 
just don't tell anybody else. 

508
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:41,160
No, I mean you see, like John 
Newton and and Isaac Watts and 

509
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,720
and and the things that they 
wrote in the songs that would he

510
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,560
devote that sacred head for such
a worm as I right. 

511
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,920
That's that's what repentance 
brings you to not I know I did 

512
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,680
wrong, but but still make me 
look good in front of everybody 

513
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,680
else, right. 
That's not repentance. 

514
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,640
That's just being sorry for your
wrong actions. 

515
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,160
We have other examples. 
Judas is one right. 

516
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,080
Judas was so sorry for what he 
had done, or so remorseful over 

517
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,600
what he had done, that he 
actually went out and hung 

518
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,720
himself, right? 
Was Judas saved? 

519
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,800
No, he wasn't saved. 
He was sorry for his actions, 

520
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,760
but that was just remorse. 
It was just regret for his 

521
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,760
actions. 
Same thing with the the prodigal

522
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,800
son. 
We see a big difference in him 

523
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,360
though, right? 
He realized that his actions 

524
00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:30,880
brought him to the point where 
he was, but he did something 

525
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,880
about it. 
It brought him to the point of 

526
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,120
getting those things right. 
He he wasn't just remorseful 

527
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,720
about how he had lived and and 
because of the consequences that

528
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,800
now he's sitting in a hog 
through, you know, eating with 

529
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,440
the swine and, you know, no 
money left and everything else. 

530
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,040
He came to the place where he 
acknowledged first and foremost,

531
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,280
he said, I have sinned against 
thee. 

532
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,160
And that's exactly the point 
that we have to come to. 

533
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,720
We'll talk a little bit more 
about that in a little in a 

534
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,840
little bit. 
Excuse me, but repentance is not

535
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,000
reformation. 
Repentance is not penance. 

536
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,400
Repentance is not remorse for 
wrong actions. 

537
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,760
Repentance is not just believing
in Christ. 

538
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,000
And there's a there's a, there's
a faction out there that say 

539
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,840
that repentance is just 
synonymous with believing and 

540
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,000
that whole group of people is 
sending people to hell. 

541
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,920
It's not just belief, right? 
I can believe that there was a 

542
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,480
Jesus. 
I can believe that he did die in

543
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,200
the cross. 
I can believe that he did rise 

544
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,120
again from the dead. 
And that's no different than me 

545
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:33,680
believing in George Washington 
or Thomas Jefferson or the 

546
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,280
Declaration of Independence OR 
the Founding Fathers or any, 

547
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,640
anything. 
I mean, I can believe any story 

548
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,200
from history. 
I can believe the flood, right? 

549
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,960
I can believe different things, 
you know, different stories that

550
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,080
I've heard. 
I wasn't there when it happened.

551
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,360
So just believing his story is 
different than repentance, 

552
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,200
right? 
It's not just believing in 

553
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,280
Christ. 
And there's and again, a well 

554
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,760
known fundamental Baptist 
preacher defined it as turning 

555
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:01,680
from unbelief to belief. 
But if that's true, then why 

556
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,360
did? 
And this is an important part 

557
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,320
here. 
The Bible's preachers would not 

558
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,480
have preached repentance in 
addition to faith. 

559
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,800
If all it is is turning from 
unbelief to belief, then there 

560
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,240
would be a huge number of people
in this world, especially in 

561
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,960
America, who are saved, right? 
Think about how many people 

562
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,880
identify with Christianity. 
Think about how many people, if 

563
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,600
you were to ask them, say that 
they're a Christian. 

564
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,680
Think about how many people, 
when you ask them, say they 

565
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,440
believe in Jesus. 
There's a huge, huge part of the

566
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,960
world that believes in Jesus, 
right? 

567
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,320
Especially in America. 
I mean, that would probably be 

568
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,680
75% of people in America would 
be saved. 

569
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,960
That number is probably getting 
a little bit lower than it used 

570
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,680
to be. 
Maybe not 75, but still a high 

571
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,840
percentage of people who would 
say that they believe the story,

572
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,600
right? 
That's why they go to church on 

573
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,040
Christmas and Easter, because 
they believe the story, right? 

574
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,760
Does that mean that all of those
are saved? 

575
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,400
Well, there's a reason that the 
Bible says broad is the way that

576
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,840
leadeth to destruction. 
And many there be which go in 

577
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,480
there at straight is the gate 
and narrow is the way that 

578
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,840
leadeth to life. 
And few there be that find it 

579
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,200
Few there be that find it 
because it's not just a change 

580
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,200
from unbelief to belief. 
And and what's happened is 

581
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,600
that's given rise to a very, 
very dangerous philosophy of 

582
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,040
what's called quick prayerism. 
123 Pray after me. 

583
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,560
You're saved. 
You're on your way to heaven. 

584
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,200
Don't you ever let anybody else 
tell you you're not you've 

585
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,520
accepted Christ as your savior. 
Now you're going to heaven, 

586
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,960
right? 
That's that's a very, very 

587
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,440
dangerous philosophy. 
And if you haven't seen it yet, 

588
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,200
we just brother Spencer Smith 
just produced a video called 

589
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:53,600
Disclosure and it goes back and 
exposes that exact philosophy. 

590
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,640
So many people, so many people 
that have prayed at prayer that 

591
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,200
have no idea what repentance is,
that have no idea what salvation

592
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,760
is. 
And what happens with the people

593
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,480
who are genuinely seeking is 
5/10/15 years down the road, 

594
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,480
they still don't know if 
they're, they're saved. 

595
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,680
They're trying to act like a 
Christian, they're trying to 

596
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,480
live like a Christian, they're 
trying to do Christian things, 

597
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,880
but they've never been saved. 
And so they're so frustrated in 

598
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,320
their life. 
They're so confused because they

599
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,600
don't know what happened to 
them, right. 

600
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,960
And it's because of that. 
Pray this prayer you want, do 

601
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,200
you want to go to heaven, don't 
you? 

602
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,080
Well, of course I do. 
All right. 

603
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,080
Well, hey, God's made that way 
to heaven. 

604
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,040
Very simple. 
Jesus died on the cross to pay 

605
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,600
for your sins. 
And not only that, but they put 

606
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,600
him in a grave and he rose again
three days later. 

607
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,440
You believe that, don't you? 
Well, of course I do. 

608
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,080
Well, all the Bible says is that
you have to accept Christ as 

609
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,800
your Savior. 
Just confess with your mouth and

610
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,840
believe in your heart that God 
has raised him from the dead and

611
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,520
thou shalt be saved. 
You want to go to heaven, don't 

612
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,320
you? 
Yes. 

613
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,360
All right. 
Well, here's all you got to say.

614
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,040
You can repeat after me. 
I'll. 

615
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,760
I'll tell you what to say. 
Repeat these words. 

616
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,560
OK? 
Did you mean that in your heart?

617
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,320
Yes, I meant that in my heart. 
OK, well, you're saved, you're 

618
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:07,040
on your way to heaven, and I can
in 3 minutes lead somebody to 

619
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:12,720
Christ and they can walk away as
as unsaved as they were 5 

620
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,400
minutes before you got there 
because they have no idea what 

621
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,680
they just did. 
Turning from unbelief to belief 

622
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,120
is not salvation. 
It's part of it. 

623
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,440
It's part of it because faith is
a necessary part of salvation, 

624
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,040
but it's repentance and faith. 
And and that's why we're saying 

625
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,480
it's not just believing in 
Christ. 

626
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,200
And I'll tell you what what 
happens. 

627
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:38,000
And I've seen this, I've seen it
with my own eyes, these big 

628
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,120
churches that that that promote 
this. 

629
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,560
It's always been called easy 
believism. 

630
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360
I don't like the term easy 
believism because it is easy to 

631
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,600
believe. 
It's quick prayer ISM if I can 

632
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,240
get you to pray this prayer real
quick, right? 

633
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,880
And and what they try to do is 
they try to trick the person 

634
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,920
into it's almost like a like a 
like like I'm a salesman and if 

635
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,320
I can trick you into buying 
salvation, then I can mark that 

636
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,280
down as a as another number. 
And and one of the most 

637
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,120
dangerous things that was ever 
done is, is soul winning 

638
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,880
contests. 
How many people did you lead to 

639
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,400
Christ? 
Oh, you won. 

640
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,040
You get this prize for leading 
the most people to Christ. 

641
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,360
What do you think's going to 
happen? 

642
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,040
Right? 
Do you think it's going to be a 

643
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,760
genuine salvation? 
Do you think that people are 

644
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,400
going to be careful and make 
sure that people understand it 

645
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,600
before they just lead them in 
this prayer? 

646
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,880
No, they want to mark them down 
as a number, throw them in the 

647
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,320
tank and get them baptized and 
move on to the next one. 

648
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,000
Because I'm trying to win a 
prize here, right? 

649
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,240
That's why it's so dangerous to 
do those kind of things. 

650
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,640
But we have to understand that 
repentance is not just believing

651
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,240
in Christ. 
The reason why verses like John 

652
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,480
316 and Acts 1631 don't mention 
repentance is that true saving 

653
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,440
faith includes repentance, and 
true repentance includes faith. 

654
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,920
Repentance and faith are 
sometimes spoken of in Scripture

655
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,640
as, as being both necessary for 
salvation. 

656
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,520
And, and, and that's one of the 
one of the biggest arguments 

657
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:09,120
that these quick prayer ISM 
philosophies or, or repentance 

658
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,880
is just turning from unbelief to
belief. 

659
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,480
Well, you read out, you read 
through the entire book of John 

660
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,360
and not one time does the word 
repentance mentioned in the book

661
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,719
of, of John. 
No, it's not. 

662
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,520
But you know what? 
There's more than one book in 

663
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,000
the Bible, right? 
John is not the only book in the

664
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,960
Bible. 
And every one of them, Matthew, 

665
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,880
Mark, Luke and John all had a 
different focus. 

666
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,080
They all had different things 
that they were focusing on. 

667
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,280
And John's aspect was the idea 
of faith. 

668
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,080
Well, you didn't mention that 
sixty other times in the New 

669
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,560
Testament, repentance is 
mentioned while you just single 

670
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,719
out the book of John and say, 
well, you know, John 316, the 

671
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,360
most well known verse in the 
Bible that talks, that gives us 

672
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,199
the gospel, that entire book 
doesn't even mention repentance.

673
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,000
No, but a lot of the other books
do and they're mentioned 

674
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,880
together with faith. 
So it's it's not just believing 

675
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,960
in Christ. 
It's not just having this faith.

676
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:09,360
Turn over to Matthew, Chapter 7.
I just, I just mentioned this 

677
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,520
verse, but I want you to see 
this because this may be a good 

678
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:23,690
place for you to write it down. 
And I'm going to end, I'm going 

679
00:35:23,690 --> 00:35:26,210
to end with this section here so
it doesn't get too late. 

680
00:35:27,210 --> 00:35:32,890
But Matthew Chapter 7 and verse 
#13 enter ye in this is, this is

681
00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:34,650
Jesus in the Sermon on the 
Mount. 

682
00:35:35,890 --> 00:35:39,930
And obviously the the whole 
focus of the Sermon on the Mount

683
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:43,880
was the heart, right? 
You have heard that it has been 

684
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,240
said you have to do this. 
But I'm telling you what's in 

685
00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,880
the heart, right? 
And we see that many, many 

686
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,720
times. 
But he says in verse #13 enter 

687
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:58,240
ye in at the straight gate. 
For wide is the gate, and broad 

688
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,040
is the way that leadeth to 
destruction. 

689
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,600
And many there be which go in 
there at because straight is the

690
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:09,080
gate, and narrow is the way 
which leadeth unto life, and few

691
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,200
there be that find it. 
Verse 15 Beware of false 

692
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,720
prophets which come to you in 
sheep's clothing, but inwardly 

693
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:20,640
they are ravening wolves. 
You shall know them by their 

694
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:26,000
fruits. 
Verse 21 Not everyone that saith

695
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,400
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the Kingdom of heaven, but 

696
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,440
he that do at the will of my 
Father, which is in heaven. 

697
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,440
Now when you think about this, 
OK, if you're saying Lord, Lord,

698
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,760
do you think you believe in 
Jesus? 

699
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,000
Yeah, you're even calling on 
him. 

700
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,280
Lord, Lord, Lord, right. 
Not everybody that saith, not 

701
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,920
everyone that saith unto me, 
Lord, Lord shall enter into the 

702
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,000
Kingdom of heaven, but he that 
doeth the will of my Father, 

703
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,200
which is in heaven, many will 
say to me in that day. 

704
00:36:53,320 --> 00:37:00,560
Many will say to me in that day.
You think about this, a huge 

705
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:06,160
percentage of the so-called 
Christians in America are not 

706
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,200
saved. 
I think even in a lot of good 

707
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,000
churches, independent Baptist 
churches, I think that a lot of 

708
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,920
the people that are sitting in 
the pews are not safe because 

709
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,680
they've been LED there by a 
quick prayer. 

710
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,320
They've been LED there by 
somebody who was just trying to 

711
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,400
to lead somebody to Christ so 
they could say they led somebody

712
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,240
to Christ. 
And I'm listen, I'm saying we 

713
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:28,560
ought to be well, that ought to 
make us want to evangelize more,

714
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,280
not less. 
I'm not, I'm not giving us a 

715
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,400
pass. 
I'm saying we ought to do more 

716
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,200
when it comes to evangelism. 
And we, we have to be more 

717
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,040
thorough when it comes to 
evangelism. 

718
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,880
But he says many will say to me 
in that day, Lord, Lord, that's 

719
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,680
obvious belief. 
Lord, Lord, have we not 

720
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:51,320
prophesied in thy name? 
That's believing him for more 

721
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,760
than what most people would 
believe him for, right? 

722
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,320
Prophesying in his name and in 
thy name have cast out devils, 

723
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,280
man, When's the last time you 
tried to cast out devils in the 

724
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,480
name of Jesus, right? 
That that's, that's somebody 

725
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,400
who's on a, on a, on another 
level when it comes to believing

726
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,560
in what Christ can do. 
So here they're prophesying in 

727
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,880
his name, here they're casting 
out devils in thy name. 

728
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,200
Done many wonderful works. 
This is somebody who's doing it 

729
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,160
all in the name of Jesus. 
Do you think they believe in 

730
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,920
Jesus Absolutely. 
They believe in Jesus because 

731
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,960
we're doing all of this in your 
name. 

732
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,880
And then while I profess unto 
them, I never knew you depart 

733
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,240
from me ye that work iniquity. 
And that's why I say what, what 

734
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:43,920
what's happening in in a lot of 
places is that people are 

735
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,160
believing in Christ and praying 
a prayer and being pronounced 

736
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,920
saved. 
And they've never come to 

737
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,720
repentance in Christ. 
And then they start doing 

738
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,880
Christian things. 
They start getting involved in 

739
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,520
church. 
They start getting involved in 

740
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,200
the ministries. 
They start looking and acting 

741
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,400
and dressing like a Christian 
because this is what they're 

742
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,000
being told they need to do. 
And they start going to church 

743
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,200
every week and they start 
carrying their Bible and they 

744
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,160
start doing all the things that 
Christians should do. 

745
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,760
But they're not saved to the 
point where they are even up in 

746
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,960
the front leading people in 
prophesying in Jesus name and 

747
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,080
casting out devils and doing all
of these wonderful works in 

748
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Jesus name. 
He's going to say, I don't even 

749
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,760
know who you are. 
Depart from me, you cursed. 

750
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:40,400
Imagine how difficult that's 
going to be for those people who

751
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,360
think that they're saved because
there's a belief in Christ. 

752
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,640
Or I'm telling you, this is a 
dangerous, dangerous, dangerous 

753
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,120
thing about what's happening 
right now. 

754
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,320
I think it's great, you know, 
Charlie Kurt, I believe that he 

755
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,760
was a Christian and I believe 
that he, he genuinely preached, 

756
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,800
if you, if you want to call it 
that, the gospel, right? 

757
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,960
But what's happening is this 
return to church is not, it's 

758
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,720
not, it's not Christianity, it's
not, it's not salvation. 

759
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,280
And what's happening is they're 
returning to these churches who 

760
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:17,360
are so weak on this that they're
not getting the genuine gospel. 

761
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,840
And they're returning to an 
emotionalism and they're 

762
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,760
returning to and, and they have 
a desire. 

763
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,160
They have a desire, but they're 
not being LED. 

764
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,160
They're being LED in a wrong 
direction. 

765
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,640
And many of these people are 
going to make a false profession

766
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,840
of faith. 
And they might even turn their 

767
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,560
life around. 
They might even start doing 

768
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,840
different things with their 
life. 

769
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,320
They might even start, you know,
becoming conservatives and all, 

770
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,520
who knows what else, right? 
And I've seen so many posts in 

771
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,160
the last, the last week or so. 
I haven't read my Bible in 10 

772
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,200
years, but I read my Bible today
and I went to church today and 

773
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,320
I've even, I'm even getting 
baptized today. 

774
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,800
That's not salvation. 
It's not salvation. 

775
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,360
It's a desire, but it's not 
salvation. 

776
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,440
And they're being LED in a wrong
direction by so many of these 

777
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,680
churches who are preaching 
faith. 

778
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,040
And that's it. 
It's repentance and faith and 

779
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,880
repentance is absolutely 
necessary for salvation. 

780
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,680
That's why many will say to me 
in that day, Lord, Lord, have we

781
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,040
not prophesied in thy name and a
nine name cast out devils and a 

782
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,720
nine name done many wonderful 
works and then while I profess 

783
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:24,400
into them. 
I never knew you depart from me 

784
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,080
ye that work iniquity. 
You never repented, never 

785
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,960
repented as part of your faith. 
And there's so many other verses

786
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,320
if you look at page 12 the top 
of page 12 there. 

787
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,000
And this might be a good little 
study for you to do I we just 

788
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,160
don't have time to read through 
all these verses tonight. 

789
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:45,520
But salvation is referred to as 
coming to repentance with no 

790
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,440
mention of faith. 
OK, well, what about John? 

791
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,560
John doesn't mention repentance 
at all. 

792
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,800
OK, well here's a whole list. 
Matthew 913, Matthew 1120 and 

793
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,760
21. 
Matthew 2132, Mark 14, Mark 217,

794
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,880
Mark 612, Luke 15, Seven. 
Luke 2447, Acts 238, Three 

795
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,400
Nineteen 53111182620 Second 
Corinthians 710, First 

796
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,880
Thessalonians 19, Second Timothy
225, Second Peter 39. 

797
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,240
All of those are passages that 
mention repentance without 

798
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:20,760
mentioning faith. 
So what about that? 

799
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,600
What about somebody who says 
it's all about repentance and 

800
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,080
there's no faith involved, 
right? 

801
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,400
Well, you could easily say that 
because if you're going to use 

802
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,200
that argument that repentance is
not mentioned in John and it's 

803
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,640
all about faith, then what about
all these that only mention 

804
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,040
repentance and not faith? 
Would you agree with the person 

805
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,080
who says that? 
Well, no, because it's faith. 

806
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:43,160
OK, Well, you have to agree that
it's repentance and faith 

807
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,720
because both of them are all the
way throughout the New 

808
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:48,960
Testament. 
You've got to have both other 

809
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,720
passages like John 316, Acts 
1631, salvation is referred to 

810
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,000
as believing and repentance is 
not mentioned. 

811
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,320
But this is, and this is one of 
the things that we're going to 

812
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:00,960
learn as we get through this 
later on. 

813
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,200
Part of studying the Scripture 
is comparing Scripture with 

814
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,000
Scripture, right? 
Peter said, repent and be 

815
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,840
baptized, everyone of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the 

816
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,880
remission of sins. 
Very clearly Peter's preaching 

817
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,080
that you have to be baptized in 
order to be saved, right? 

818
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,560
Well, no, if you take that 
verse, yes, but you have to take

819
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,480
that verse in context of the 
passage. 

820
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,040
You have to take the passage in 
context of the book and you have

821
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,280
to take the book in context of 
the entire Bible. 

822
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:31,840
And you compare Scripture with 
Scripture. 

823
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:37,760
Scripture doesn't, doesn't, 
doesn't comprehend is not the 

824
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,760
word. 
I'm trying to think of what is 

825
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,120
it contradict? 
It doesn't contradict itself, 

826
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,240
right? 
So compare Scripture with 

827
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:45,080
Scripture. 
What does the Bible say about 

828
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,760
the Bible? 
What does the Bible say about 

829
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,400
this passage, right? 
That's a principle of studying 

830
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:50,920
God's Word. 
And you have to do that. 

831
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,920
If you isolate Scripture, then 
you can make it say anything you

832
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,040
want to say. 
And that's why you come up with 

833
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,040
all these weird doctrines, 
right? 

834
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,880
That's why you come up with all 
the doctrines that separate the 

835
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,280
denominations because they took 
one verse, they took it out of 

836
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,720
context. 
They made it say something that 

837
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:07,720
it was never meant to say 
because they didn't look at it 

838
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:10,240
in the context of that passage, 
and they didn't look at it in 

839
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:12,840
the context of the rest of the 
Bible, and they came up with 

840
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,720
this doctrine that separated 
them out. 

841
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:18,160
So the true meaning of faith, 
this is important here. 

842
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,760
This is your your second 
paragraph on page 12. 

843
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,120
The first full paragraph, the 
true meaning of faith must be 

844
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,000
explained and emphasized. 
The common way that faith or 

845
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,920
belief is defined by people 
today involves a mere mental 

846
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,360
consent to something such as I 
believe that George Washington 

847
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,320
was America's first president, 
or I believe that Jesus was the 

848
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:39,960
Son of God and came to die on 
the cross. 

849
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,800
That's not what the Bible means 
by saving faith. 

850
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,200
Saving faith is a faith that 
issues from a heart that's 

851
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,600
convinced of its own fallen 
condition and has stopped making

852
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,200
excuses and hiding in self 
righteousness. 

853
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,120
Saving faith issues from a heart
that is convinced that Christ is

854
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,240
the only Lord and Savior and 
that reaches out to Christ in 

855
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:03,960
personal trust. 
Saving faith issues from a 

856
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,640
surrendered heart, which is the 
very essence of repentance. 

857
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,880
That alone and that, that and 
that alone is saving faith. 

858
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,320
And when we're dealing with 
people's souls, we must be 

859
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,240
careful to explain the meaning 
of the terms of the gospel as 

860
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,720
opposed to hastily running 
through some little Romans Rd. 

861
00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:23,600
plan and then trying to get the 
person to pray a sinner's prayer

862
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,200
before he knows what he's doing.
And I'm telling you, if you 

863
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,480
haven't been involved in this, 
and then maybe you don't know 

864
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,720
exactly what I'm talking about, 
but there's a lot of people who 

865
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,760
are trying to convince somebody 
to be saved and convince them to

866
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,920
pray this little prayer so they 
can go to heaven before they 

867
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,560
even know what is happening. 
I've seen it with my own eyes. 

868
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,520
I remember this like it was 
yesterday. 

869
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:48,040
I was in college and this was 20
years ago, 25 years ago probably

870
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,880
by now. 
And we're walking down the 

871
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,120
street and, and, and we were, we
were visiting some kids on our 

872
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,120
bus route and we were out. 
It was decent. 

873
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,960
It was, it was spring and we're 
walking down the street and we 

874
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:01,640
were knocking doors. 
We were talking to people and 

875
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,960
trying to invite them to church 
and, you know, where you have 

876
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,520
the opportunity to try to give 
them the gospel. 

877
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,120
But there was a park that we 
always used to play basketball 

878
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,480
in. 
A bunch of the neighborhood kids

879
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,720
would go down there and play 
basketball. 

880
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,960
And so we'd go play with them 
and then, you know, try to get 

881
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,440
them to ride the bus with us on 
Sunday. 

882
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,040
And we were kind of making our 
way down toward the park, 

883
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,680
knocking doors on the street. 
And we saw the kids playing 

884
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,880
basketball. 
And there was a was an older guy

885
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,720
that was, if I had to guess, he 
was probably late 50s, early 

886
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:30,480
60s, sitting on a little park 
bench right there and a church 

887
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,520
that was in that area. 
Whenever they would have a big 

888
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,360
push for a couple weeks, they 
would go into the same area that

889
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,200
we would visit every week. 
And they would just try to get 

890
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,000
as many of those kids to come as
possible. 

891
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,080
And then they had their soul 
winning contest. 

892
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,000
And so all the teenagers were 
out there trying to win souls to

893
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,680
Christ because they were in a 
contest and they were trying to 

894
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,080
see how many people they could 
win. 

895
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,560
And this kid, I would say that 
he was early teens, walked up to

896
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,440
this guy who was sitting on the 
park bench. 

897
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,760
And I'm, I'm not, I'm not 
exaggerating. 

898
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,880
Within 3 minutes, we saw this 
guy bow his head and this kid 

899
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,640
gave him a little piece of 
paper. 

900
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,240
I'm not exactly even sure what 
it was. 

901
00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:10,400
And he walked away. 
So we went up, I was, I was 

902
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,600
actually with Pastor Whitaker. 
We were visiting together that 

903
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,320
day. 
And we went up to this guy and, 

904
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:16,960
and said, Hey, what, what was 
that all about? 

905
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,280
What, what, what was that? 
And we, we had an idea. 

906
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:24,040
And he said, I just got saved. 
And Pastor Whitaker said, you 

907
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,280
just got saved. 
That's great. 

908
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,160
He said so. 
So do you know what repentance 

909
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,720
is? 
Guy didn't have any idea what he

910
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:33,840
was talking about. 
He said, well, let me ask you 

911
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,480
this. 
He said, do you drink? 

912
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,440
Well, yeah. 
He said, so you're, you're 

913
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,640
you're ready to give that up for
the sake of, of, of, of 

914
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,640
following Christ. 
Well, no, I can't give up my 

915
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,960
drinking. 
And he asked him a couple other 

916
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,920
things. 
And this guy, well, no, no, I 

917
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,160
can't do that. 
I mean, that that's, that's been

918
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,360
a part of my life, my whole 
life. 

919
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,160
Can't do that. 
Pastor Whitaker looked at the 

920
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,080
guy and he said you didn't get 
saved. 

921
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:02,720
And, and that's what they need 
is somebody to tell them that if

922
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,400
you're not willing, now you 
don't have to stop sinning in 

923
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,480
order to be saved. 
But repentance is being so sorry

924
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,800
that you're willing and ready to
stop and you're asking God to 

925
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,240
help you stop. 
Something ought to be different 

926
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,160
about you when you accept Christ
as your Savior. 

927
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,960
And it takes longer than 3 
minutes to share the gospel with

928
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,280
somebody where they can 
understand it and where they 

929
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,600
know exactly what repentance and
faith is. 

930
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,360
And, and it, it takes many 
times, it takes more than an 

931
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:34,120
hour to get somebody to 
understand you're a Sinner and 

932
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,920
your sin is what is sending you 
to hell. 

933
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,400
And if you didn't sin, Christ 
never would have had to die. 

934
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,240
If you didn't sin there, there 
would be no need for him to die 

935
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:45,240
in the cross. 
It's your sin that that is 

936
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:48,280
causing you to need salvation. 
It's not just that you want to 

937
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,800
go to heaven. 
I mean, heaven is a wonderful 

938
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:57,280
byproduct of salvation. 
That's just, that's just one of 

939
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,120
the wonderful things that you 
get when you accept Christ as 

940
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,680
your Savior. 
The most amazing thing about 

941
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,280
salvation is that your sins are 
forgiven and that you don't have

942
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,800
to live under the bondage of 
that sin anymore. 

943
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,480
That's the wonderful thing about
salvation. 

944
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,640
And yet how many people say, do 
you want to go to heaven when 

945
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,920
you die? 
Then here's what you need to do.

946
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,760
Believe in Christ, pray this 
prayer, and you can go to heaven

947
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,480
when you die. 
It's like you're trying to sell 

948
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,600
them a wonderful insurance 
policy or a nice vacation or 

949
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,200
something, right? 
It's no different. 

950
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,960
They have to come to the 
understanding that their sin is 

951
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:38,360
horrific before a holy God and 
that without their sin there 

952
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,240
would be no need for a Savior. 
I'm not just trying to sell them

953
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:46,960
heaven, not just trying to scare
them to stay out of hell. 

954
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,680
What they have to understand and
what what we all must understand

955
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,720
is that my sin is horrific 
before a holy God and something 

956
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:59,200
has to be done about that sin. 
That's where we start to get 

957
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,800
into the idea of what repentance
is. 

958
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,240
So we'll save it for next week. 
We talked about what it's not 

959
00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:08,200
repentance is not reformation, 
it's not changing your life, 

960
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,320
it's not doing penance, it's not
remorse for your wrong actions. 

961
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,080
It's not just believing in 
Christ. 

962
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,000
So what is it? 
What is it? 

963
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,920
We'll talk about that next week.
All right, let's pray. 

964
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,640
We'll end with that tonight. 
We'll be finished. 

965
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,560
Father, again, we thank you so 
much for your goodness to us. 

966
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,240
We thank you for an opportunity 
we've had to study through some 

967
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,680
of these things. 
And I got, I pray that this 

968
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,120
study would be helpful to us. 
I pray that you'd help us as we 

969
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,720
go through it, that we'd 
understand it, especially when 

970
00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:36,840
it comes to this idea of 
repentance and faith. 

971
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,840
I pray that you'd help us to to 
be to be very, very concerned 

972
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,120
about genuine conversions, 
genuine salvation, not just 

973
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,840
getting somebody to pray a 
prayer, not just getting 

974
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,560
somebody to the point where 
they're willing to mentally 

975
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,360
ascent or maybe even the sorrow 
of the world where they're sorry

976
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,680
for the things that they've 
done. 

977
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,640
Got to pray that you'd help us 
to get people to genuine 

978
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,120
repentance and that we'd 
understand this so that we can 

979
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:06,200
lead more people to Christ. 
Got to thank you that you died 

980
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,160
on the cross to save me from my 
sins. 

981
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,360
And I know that there's many 
other people in the room here 

982
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,280
tonight that would say the the 
very same thing. 

983
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,320
We're thankful for that. 
God. 

984
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,880
May you help us to be better 
witnesses for you because of it.

985
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,160
Thank you again for all you do 
for us in Jesus name, Amen.