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I've already mentioned this 
message to you last week, I 

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think it was, but I could not 
get away from going to it in 

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depth. 
And so I am, but I want to start

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off in Matthew chapter 15. 
We'll start in verse one. 

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It's very important say this 
with me, say I desire to know 

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truth. 
God is truth, His Word is truth,

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and I receive his word and not 
another. 

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Now this is important because 
it's very important for us to 

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see God's Word as truth. 
All right, Jesus said I am not a

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the way, the truth and the life,
no other way to the Father. 

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So he's not a way, he's not a 
truth. 

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It's not his truth, your truth. 
They're all truth. 

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So just pick a truth and it's 
not his life and you can have 

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life another way. 
No, there's only one way, only 

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one. 
And again, that is not narrow 

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minded, although that is narrow 
and I'm glad it's narrow because

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broad or wide is the gateway 
that leads to death and 

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destruction, but narrow is the 
way that leads to life. 

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So it's not narrow minded. 
What it is is God was so 

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strategic. 
He's like, I know in a fallen 

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state, there's going to seem 
like a lot of ways and it will 

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be confusing. 
So you know what? 

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I'm just going to show the way. 
Get rid of confusion. 

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Get rid of confusion. 
This is it. 

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This is the only way. 
So in essence, he said, let me 

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just erase this idea. 
That way you do not have to go 

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around trying to figure that. 
I'm just going to tell you the 

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straight and narrow. 
It's easily identifiable. 

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I mean, again, if you were to 
walk into a maze, the purpose of

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a maze is to get you to turn and
you don't know where you're 

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going. 
You have to figure it out. 

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But if you went into a maze, 
let's say hypothetically you, 

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you got to the entrance, you 
could go this way and you know 

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there's going to be some curves.
You can, you can't see the end. 

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You could go this way. 
Same thing. 

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But then if? 
You're standing at the end. 

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You see the end, a straight 
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Now which way you going to go? 
Unfortunately, some are turning 

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to the right and some are 
turning to the left because they

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want the challenge. 
Well, there's no challenge to 

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die. 
Amen. 

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Wisdom says go straight through 
Hallelujah. 

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Amen. 
And so that what you don't 

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realize is those mazes never 
actually end where you are 

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looking in the straight line. 
They keep you in the maze. 

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I said they keep you in the 
maze. 

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Well one of the ways that you 
get in a maze is based upon 

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Matthew chapter 15 starting in 
verse one. 

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It says it this way. 
Matthew 15 verse one it says 

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then some of the Pharisees and 
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Jerusalem and said, why do your 
disciples break the traditions 

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of the elders? 
For they do not wash their hands

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when they eat bread. 
Keep this up. 

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I need you to understand this 
verse. 

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This is saying the majority of 
the religious world has accepted

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this statement as a truth and we
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this is how God functions. 
Yet you do something that we who

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all of us religious groups have 
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God, and your disciples are not 
following it. 

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In essence, Jesus was the 
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And in our society there can be 
a majority of a belief that 

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could not be a belief but be a 
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He goes on to say, and he 
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do you yourselves transgress the
commandment of God for the sake 

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of your tradition? 
In essence, I'm glad that you 

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have a majority consensus that 
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I'm here to tell you it's not 
what God's saying and this is 

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the command. 
In essence, you worked so hard 

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to try to get people in a 
position that's away from God's 

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command, and I'm just here to 
show God's command. 

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He goes on to say again, why do 
you transgress the commandment 

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of God for the sake of your 
tradition? 

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What I want to speak on today 
has developed a tradition and it

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is the IT is the foundational 
most elementary truth in 

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Scripture. 
Yet by the majority, it really 

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is a tradition and not a truth 
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Hallelujah, Amen. 
Now I need my, you know, people 

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who've been here a while that 
understand Scripture to help 

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this process. 
Do not get caught up in just 

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your eyes gazing, OK? 
Because when we say a few 

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things, some people are going to
be like, huh? 

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And you need to go, Yep, all 
right, because you're wiser than

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this. 
But we're going to let the 

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Scripture take care of itself. 
All right? 

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This is not a personal opinion. 
In order for me, well, let me 

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just jump into it. 
Let me just give you what it is.

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This foundational truth is that 
we, most religions are saying, 

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most churches are saying, and 
that is you must be born again. 

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That is true. 
The question is, is are you born

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again? 
That's the question. 

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Because what they consider the 
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you it is the fifth step in 
salvation because there are four

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things that have to take place 
and it happens in the unseen 

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before the scene of a confession
that Jesus is Lord for you to be

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saved. 
Are you hearing me all right, So

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what we would consider the first
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and that is you must confess 
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Well, we know the Scripture, 
Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 

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10. 
It says this that if you confess

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with your mouth, Jesus says Lord
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God raised him from the dead, 
you will be four with a heart, a

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person what believes resulting 
in and with the mouth he 

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confesses resulting in and man, 
we're out and about trying to 

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tell people, look, you need to 
make Jesus word of your life. 

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You need to get right. 
He's paid the price. 

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It doesn't matter what you've 
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Just just call on the name of 
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And we're trying to do this 
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even in play. 
It goes on to say down in verse 

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13. 
For whoever will call on the 

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name of the Lord will be saved. 
Now the word Lord is not even a 

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religious word. 
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It's actually a direct result of
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Jesus is the King. 
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He took on our sin so that we 
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He became everything, the 
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to have life. 
Because again, God made man to 

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have dominion and to rule like 
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But Adam fell from dominion, not
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He lost a Kingdom, not a 
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And as a result of that, Jesus 
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He lost sonship and position as 
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You have to acknowledge him as 
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In essence, you bow because it's
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And again, we are in the United 
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We are in a constitutional 
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elects its officials. 
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elections. 
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We can't vote Jesus out of 
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Jesus was in power before Adam 
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He stayed in power after Adam 
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He became a man so he could get 
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so that man could have that 
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He's king and he's the King of 
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Who are those kings we are? 
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say we're confessing Him as 
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will, our intent to Him. 
Yet tradition tells us all we 

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have to do is call on the name 
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But is that all we did? 
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It goes on to tell us, though, 
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2nd Corinthians 517 let's us 
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Christ, if it's a conditional 
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So not everyone is in Christ. 
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Christ may not be in Christ. 
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If therefore, if anyone is in 
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The old things what passed away,
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I do not live an old life in a 
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I do not live an old life as a 
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So here's the problem. 
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confessing Christ as Lord to be 
saved and that's all that's 

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required, then what's the 
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verses 21 to 23? 
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23. 
Not everyone who says to me, 

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Lord, Lord will enter the 
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but he who does the will of my 
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enter, many will say to me on 
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Lord, Lord, didn't we prophecy 
in your name and in your name 

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cast out demons and in your name
perform miracles? 

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But and then I will declare 
Jesus is talking. 

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I'm not talking. 
This is not my words. 

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Jesus says, then I will declare 
to them, I never knew you depart

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from me, you who? 
What's that word practice? 

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What's that word? 
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Lawlessness. 
Lawlessness is simply doing 

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something contrary than what God
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That's lawlessness because if 
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than what the King has said, 
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It's called lawlessness. 
But here's the thing, are you 

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practicing it? 
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accidentally, you know, every 
once in a while doing something 

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God's not told you. 
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forgive me, I should not have 
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I'm talking about your living 
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Jesus is Lord. 
Like you never left the life you

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just said you didn't want to be 
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And Jesus saying the mere 
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not save you alone. 
It is not just a word without 

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being enforced from something in
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There must be something in the 
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And Romans chapter 10 does let 
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It gives us this insight. 
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for with the heart a person 
believes confession does not 

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make, does not bring salvation. 
It must start first in an unseen

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place. 
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must take place in the unseen 
for this confession to actually 

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have roots so that you become a 
new creature and put away the 

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old way for good. 
For good, I said for good. 

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Amen. 
So we then can learn this from 

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the day Jesus was crucified. 
Really, that day is the greatest

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example of salvation. 
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Jesus's blood, I'm talking about
the conversation that occurred 

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at the cross. 
Because Romans does not go into 

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the detail. 
It doesn't give us the detail. 

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Even Acts on the day of 
Pentecost alludes to some things

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but doesn't give us the details.
But Luke gives us the details of

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four steps that occur in the 
heart before a confession is 

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made. 
Now I preached this in 7 minutes

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at Saint Paul AME. 
It deserved way more than 7 

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minutes and you're going to get 
way more, at least 7 * 7 at 

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least. 
Luke chapter 23 starting in 

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verse 39 to 43. 
Let's bring the account. 

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It says and one of the criminals
hanging there was blaspheming 

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him saying are you not the 
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Meaning are you the king? 
Are you this king? 

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Are you the anointed one that's 
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his Kingdom that has no end. 
He goes on to say save yourself 

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and us. 
Now let me just stop there for a

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moment. 
Please leave the scripture up. 

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This criminal hates Christ but 
wants self preservation. 

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This criminal has no desire to 
bow to him. 

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Now he's saying, are you the 
Christ? 

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Are you the one that's supposed 
to be called Lord? 

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In essence, I'll believe it if 
you save yourself and me. 

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Now this is no place where I 
want to bow to you. 

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I'm not submitting myself. 
I just don't want to die. 

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Here. 
Like this? 

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Are you hearing me now? 
The reason this is a problem is 

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because in today's society, 
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church, is that we have glossed 
over the heart of man to get to 

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a quick confession. 
And what we're doing is we're 

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telling this criminal, I hate 
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I don't want to go to church. 
I don't want to be under pastor 

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or five fold ministry. 
I don't want to have to be told 

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when to go and do this. 
And you know, I just want to go 

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to heaven when I die. 
That's what the criminal on the 

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other side sounds like. 
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It's not about going to church. 
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I mean, you don't even know what
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say that anyway. 
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listen, all that matters is that
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the heart instead of you need to
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Why? 
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Because listen, there's a way 
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in the end lies death. 
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Everyone outside the Kingdom is 
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that's right to be with God, yet
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want to do. 
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that account, so much so that 
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tradition. 
Well, now, you know, be careful.

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They said that they they're 
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OK, so I'll just take you at 
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Well, is that what the Bible 
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Because Jesus said there's 
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But here's the problem. 
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to do what I say. 
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A natural that is evidence that 
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That's evidence that he's Lord. 
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calling on the Christ for self 
preservation because what are we

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saying? 
There's nothing you can do to 

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earn it, deserve it, right? 
You can't do it yourself, so 

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just accept it that way. 
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right now doesn't matter because
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I'll take that, you mean I can 
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to do anyway. 
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And what that seems right sounds
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It is not what it says at all. 
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Kingdom of God a tradition. 
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sure if those that are 
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because here's one of the things
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that doesn't know Jesus at all, 
that they are being deceived and

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we can name religions right now.
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particular religion that I won't
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But a person was in it and they 
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with God when I died the whole 
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to me. 
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it only, it's going to be 
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This is why we say don't take my
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You go into the scripture 
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So This is why I'm going to use 
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Are you hearing me? 
Hallelujah. 

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OK, verse 40. 
But the other answered, rebuking

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him. 
The other wasn't. 

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You tell them I know how you 
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I can identify with you right 
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But I can identify. 
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carnal Christians running around
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with one another and the hurts 
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And the other answer rebuking 
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fear God since you are under the
same sentence of condemnation 

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Jesus? 
And we indeed are suffering 

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justly, for we are receiving 
what we deserve for what we have

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done. 
But this man has done nothing 

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wrong. 
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Remember Me when you come into 
your Kingdom. 

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And Jesus said to that thief or 
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today you shall be with me in 
paradise. 

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How can you know that you know 
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I'm telling you what I'm 
appreciate that you can know 

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that you will be with him, no 
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great day or a day when the 
trumpet sounds, you would hear 

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something like I just didn't 
know you because you were just 

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doing what seemed right to you. 
Even with my scripture, the 

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reason why Jesus rebukes the 
religious, He says you've 

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developed a tradition around my 
word so that you could live 

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life, which seems right to you. 
And we've got to be honest. 

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When we come into this place 
right here, we have to ask 

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ourselves, am I wanting to hear 
what allows me to do what I want

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to do? 
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wants to tell me? 
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require me to have to change my 
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with what he's doing. 
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immediate pride that 
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domain of darkness into the 
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a person would recognize that 
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Jesus. 
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to be Lord, God forbid you tell 
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something different now in this 
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Oh, don't tell me. 
Don't judge me. 

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What you've done is you've 
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going to be right now here, well
over here in the domain of 

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darkness. 
You're right was wrong. 

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Hopefully you realize that. 
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if they realize. 
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running into the same problem. 
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In India there are so many gods,
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Some are huge, some are small, 
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They are everywhere. 
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if I minister that Jesus Christ 
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grave, His blood has forgiven 
them of their sin. 

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Who wants to receive Jesus for 
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Everyone will raise their hand 
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Why? 
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little figurine that you can 
find of a Jesus and purchase it 

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and put it in their house and 
put Jesus with every other God. 

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In essence, I'm covered. 
Look at all of them. 

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How in the world can I not go? 
I am following them all. 

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But what we have to say is you 
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You can't serve him and them. 
You can't keep them. 

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We have a whole history book of 
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Keeping other gods and the 
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I am the only God that's your 
man made, made-up gods. 

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I mean, you think I'm going to 
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will that you've construed or 
made-up from that God that 

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you're Sir Fine, you won't That 
God let him deliver you then. 

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No, he's the only one. 
I mean, when did we lose 

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emphatic, absolute truth? 
This is not social media 

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opinion. 
It's not open for opinion. 

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It's. 
Actually not open for debate, 

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though you can debate it if you.
Want so the first. 

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Thing that you have to do step 
one in the heart that gets you 

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to Step 5 to confess Christ as 
Lord is that you must fear God. 

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If a person does not have the 
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them to salvation. 
Say Amen. 

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Anyway, Ecclesiastes chapter 8 
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Ecclesiastes got this right. 
Look what it says. 

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Although a Sinner does evil 100 
times and many length lengthens 

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his life, still I know that it 
will be well for those who fear 

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God, who fear him openly. 
Verse 13 But it will not be well

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for the evil man, and he will 
not lengthen his days like a 

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shadow, because he does not fear
God. 

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Now I could preach on the fear 
of God the rest of the year. 

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And this is something that 
doesn't even resonate in most 

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churches anymore is the fear of 
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Do you understand you can stand 
in the presence? 

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Of God without fear. 
And justify everything you're 

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doing. 
That's what the one criminal 

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was. 
Come on, take yourself down. 

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Come on, stay. 
Look, I want to be. 

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I don't want to die like this. 
You don't want to die like this.

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Look, let's just get off this 
cross. 

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If you're the guy, get down. 
Let's go. 

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Let's leave. 
Because again, I'm not following

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you. 
I just don't want to die. 

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And there's many people that I 
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I'm not following you. 
I just don't want to go to hell.

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I don't want to go to hell. 
I mean, who wants to go to the 

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Lake of fire? 
Nobody in her right mind wants 

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to go to the lake of fire and be
tormented forever. 

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So if Jesus is the way out, 
great, Let me take that, put it 

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here in my pocket, and I'll live
life the best way I can know. 

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It. 
That on that day I'm gonna pull 

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right out here in my pocket. 
Remember. 

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Remember when I? 
Said come into my heart and save

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me and he's like, let me go 
check the records. 

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The fear of the Lord. 
Look what it says. 

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Also in Ecclesiastes 12, he ends
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It's powerful. 
He says the conclusion when all 

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has been heard is fear God and 
keep his commandments, because 

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this applies to every person, 
for God will bring every act to 

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judgment, everything which is 
hidden, whether it is good or 

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evil. 
And I hear it right now by the 

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religious. 
Well, that's the old covenant. 

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No, that's just. 
Written in our. 

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History books it's not under old
covenant. 

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Those truths are applicable 
today for. 

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Even in the, even in the new. 
Testament Peter says that Jesus 

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Christ is the judge of the 
living and the dead. 

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It says in Paul's writings to 
the Church, we all as believers 

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will stand before the judgment 
seat. 

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Of Christ. 
And those that have never called

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on his name, that have died 
without him as Lord, the grave 

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will give up the dead, and they 
will go to the great white 

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throne, where they will be 
judged, and then later cast into

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the Lake of fire. 
So this Ecclesiastes is a 

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revelation beyond. 
This dispensation. 

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Every person. 
That's why I have coined this 

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pray phrase, because God is not 
making you do anything because 

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God's not controlling you. 
God wants you to want him. 

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He wants you to want to serve 
Him. 

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He wants you to want life. 
He wants you to willfully 

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submit, and that's why I say you
can do. 

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God will let you do whatever you
want to do, but He will hold you

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accountable to whatever you do. 
And there's nothing you're doing

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he's not taking in account. 
Do you understand our modern day

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salvation is fellowship without 
responsibility? 

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Everybody wants to have 
fellowship with the Lord, yet no

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responsibility to Him. 
And that's why they don't come 

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to church anymore, why they want
to fellowship with you without 

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having to be in church. 
We want fellowship without 

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accountability and 
responsibility. 

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It's the new. 
Trend You can get what you want.

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You know what you get what you 
want. 

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You can listen to whatever you 
want to listen to, whomever you 

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want to listen to, whenever you 
want to listen to and it seems 

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right to you. 
Don't tell me that I can't have 

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a relationship with God. 
I'm not telling you. 

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I'm telling you what he says. 
Where is the fear of the Lord? 

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I said, Where is the fear of the
Lord? 

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Where is the fear of the Lord? 
Because if you don't have the 

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fear of the Lord, then the next 
step can't even get in play, 

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because those who do not have 
the fear of the Lord will 

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continually do evil. 
Although in their eyes they 

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think it's right. 
In fact, Ezekiel, I believe it 

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was prophesied, he said now 
there's coming a day that what 

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they call good, they'll call 
what's good according to God, 

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evil, and they'll call what's 
evil according to God good. 

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And we're in that land today. 
We're in that global set mindset

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right now. 
The second thing is that when 

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you develop the fear of God, 
then the next thing #2 that the 

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criminal can teach us. 
You're learning from prison 

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today, really from the one about
to be executed. 

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All right, You, you, you have 
to. 

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And once you get the fear of 
God, then you will know that you

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are guilty of deserve judgment, 
guilty, guilty as charged. 

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Look, it's all through 
scripture. 

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In fact, the Father is so holy 
that a human cannot stand in His

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presence. 
The only one who? 

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Did was listen? 
Adam and Eve because they were 

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without sin at a time. 
Even Moses was in his glory, but

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not in the same as Adam and Eve.
Before the fall. 

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Before the fall. 
If you can, go to church and 

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feel no guilt for living wrong. 
Then you've moved to a place 

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that's teaching tradition. 
Now I'll tell you what those. 

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Traditional people will say 
after they leave that church 

453
00:33:54,610 --> 00:33:58,130
where guilt starts to show up. 
You know what I felt? 

454
00:33:58,130 --> 00:33:59,690
I felt condemned when I was 
there. 

455
00:34:00,090 --> 00:34:01,370
Guilt condemns. 
You. 

456
00:34:01,370 --> 00:34:03,730
Oh. 
Come on, put that passage back 

457
00:34:03,730 --> 00:34:06,290
up with a criminal. 
What did that criminal say to 

458
00:34:06,290 --> 00:34:07,050
them? 
To him? 

459
00:34:07,050 --> 00:34:09,010
He said. 
Do you not fear God? 

460
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,760
He said. 
Do you not fear God since you 

461
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,040
are under the same sentence of 
condemnation? 

462
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:23,600
The Holy Spirit will convict. 
You of sin, it's one of his 

463
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,880
assignments to convict the world
of their sin. 

464
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,880
When you are convicted of your 
sin, you know what a convict is.

465
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,080
They've been convicted of a 
crime. 

466
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,920
And when the Holy Ghost comes 
through by the Spirit and says. 

467
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,000
How are you? 
What are you living right now? 

468
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,080
This is not justifiable in front
of me. 

469
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,239
I this can't be in my presence. 
This is not in my family. 

470
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,560
And then all of a sudden you 
feel condemned because he 

471
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,679
convicts. 
You we don't even want to use 

472
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:58,360
these terms in the traditional 
salvation churches today because

473
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,480
God forbid we offend you. 
You're already living an 

474
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,160
offended life. 
Your life is offensive to God. 

475
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,320
Your whole life is offensive to 
God because you're not living 

476
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:17,120
holy, because you don't get to 
pick how you get to live for 

477
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,320
him. 
You don't get the you do not get

478
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,080
to declare to the King of kings 
and the Lord of Lords, the 

479
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,680
creator of heaven enough. 
This is how I'm going to live. 

480
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,160
And you're going to have to 
accept it. 

481
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,160
It doesn't work like that. 
But when the fear of God comes 

482
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,560
in your life, you're like man 
now I'm talking pre born again. 

483
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:46,160
You're like I'm filthy rags. 
This is horrible. 

484
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,400
I am guilty. 
This is not looking for. 

485
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,800
A way out. 
You understand many people are 

486
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,520
guilty. 
We see it in every. 

487
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:04,240
Sector of society today, do you 
understand we would need no refs

488
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,840
if people self govern? 
And I even say this with anchor 

489
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:14,480
faith in a mural varsity league 
because if you bump a person on 

490
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,720
flag football too hard, you say 
you know what I was wrong. 

491
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,240
You should be able to self 
govern in righteousness. 

492
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,280
But what do we do? 
We want to get away with stuff 

493
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,680
so we can win. 
Even though we know. 

494
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:39,240
We're violating. 
Oh yeah, I'm preaching way 

495
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,720
better than you shout but that's
OK. 

496
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,200
I thought I at least have 5 
people stand up but that's fine.

497
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,960
Yeah, I mean, we're to kick over
sacred cows today. 

498
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,800
You understand, God's placing us
the ability to rightly judge. 

499
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:57,720
I mean, if the game's on the 
line and the ref misses the call

500
00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:03,800
and you know. 
Many will walk away with a 

501
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,480
trophy and in their heart they 
know he missed it. 

502
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,920
Well, that's just comes with the
game. 

503
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,200
But righteous and integrity is 
saying we lost. 

504
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,640
You were wrong. 
Come on, you all know it. 

505
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:19,480
Yeah, we all know it. 
It's theirs. 

506
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,960
How can we go out? 
How can we say we're champion 

507
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,480
knowing the only reason is 
because you missed the call? 

508
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,240
But it has seemed right to us. 
Well, you know, cuz it let me 

509
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,520
tell you. 
Let me tell you how this goes. 

510
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:40,920
Well, you know, they missed a 
couple on us too. 

511
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,600
Oh, you know, I'm preaching good
now. 

512
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,920
You know I'm preaching better 
than you're shouting. 

513
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,640
That's why you will allow 
lawlessness to manifest and see 

514
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,880
it as righteous. 
Because it's. 

515
00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,200
Only do me because of the way 
they treat it. 

516
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000
But Jesus is like I'm righteous 
all the time. 100% of the time. 

517
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,800
Never. 
Not now. 

518
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,800
Unfortunately, Jesus is not 
calling your games. 

519
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,280
Because he would never miss the 
call. 

520
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,560
But he is calling your life, and
he's never missing the call. 

521
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,880
Because Jesus goes beyond. 
Your words. 

522
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,600
He penetrates your heart inside 
you. 

523
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:32,120
He knows your motive. 
He knows why you slithered 

524
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:38,440
yourself down the aisle up to 
the altar to do a confession and

525
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,880
cry and ask God to forgive you. 
Much like Esau. 

526
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,800
Only because you're a guy in 
church trying to get in the 

527
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,480
pants of a girl that you've been
dating. 

528
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,920
And she says unless. 
You follow God and you're like, 

529
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,160
fine, so you slithered your way 
down. 

530
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,600
Same thing. 
People come into church to try 

531
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,760
to exploit the church in all 
kinds of ways, slithing yourself

532
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,800
all over the place. 
You're doing this outward, but 

533
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,440
God's like, I know why you. 
Just did that. 

534
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,680
Oh, let me write that one down. 
Oh, I got that. 

535
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,200
Oh yeah, no, I got it. 
It's in the book. 

536
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,520
It's in the books. 
It's in the books, See, we don't

537
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,800
think it's in the books, people.
It's in the books. 

538
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,840
It's in the books. 
Even for believers, it's in the 

539
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,280
books. 
Now I'm not saying the books 

540
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,680
God's caring for true believers 
is going to cause you to go into

541
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,040
the lake of fire, but I'm 
telling you it does hinder this 

542
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:56,200
reward system and that which is 
carrying over to an everlasting 

543
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,000
eternity beyond what we are 
currently living in. 

544
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,240
It's in the books. 
The only way you get it out of 

545
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:08,480
the books is by the blood. 
The blood is the great eraser. 

546
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,000
Whoa, I said. 
The blood is the great eraser, 

547
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:17,760
but you do not get the blood's 
erasing power by a word only. 

548
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:23,320
It must come with a heart deep 
conviction of I fear God. 

549
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,640
And anything I do outside of 
God, I'm guilty. 

550
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,720
I'm not making excuses here. 
I am. 

551
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,400
Come take me. 
I I willfully surrender. 

552
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,080
I mean, do you? 
Understand, if we could go into 

553
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,040
the spirit, I would venture to 
say, and I almost wish I would 

554
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,160
have had somebody. 
Now, Declan, you can help me. 

555
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,080
Come on, Declan, help me. 
Come on, Declan. 

556
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:57,160
Come on, Declan, Help me. 
Declan, won't you just come 

557
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,360
right here? 
Won't you, Alec, you're going to

558
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,480
get born again, OK. 
All right, Come. 

559
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,960
Sit down now. 
Declan, I'm Jesus. 

560
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,320
I'm going to come to you. 
Come. 

561
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,600
I'm going to come to you because
he comes to us. 

562
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,440
The Spirit comes to us and draws
us to Jesus. 

563
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,520
OK? 
I'm going to come to you to 

564
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,880
bring you to the altar, but do 
whatever you can do to resist, 

565
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,280
OK? 
All right. 

566
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:58,720
Wow, that's a very strong foot. 
Now we would call this resisting

567
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:08,640
arrest because when the POPO 
comes because you are guilty and

568
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:13,600
they come to arrest you and then
you resist the arrest. 

569
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:19,040
Problem is enough of them 
typically show up and you go to 

570
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,760
jail anyway. 
Are you hearing me? 

571
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,480
And I believe many in the 
spirits, this is what they look 

572
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,400
like when they come to give 
their lives to. 

573
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,240
Jesus, thank you Declan, you 
were amazing. 

574
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:42,480
We are resisting in the Spirit. 
In the outside we looking like 

575
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:51,680
calm cucumbers, but on the 
inside we're resisting arrest. 

576
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,520
We don't want our lives 
submitted, committed, where 

577
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,360
we're cleaning out the garbage, 
cleaning out the mess, cleaning 

578
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,560
out the bad relationships, 
cleaning out the formal way of 

579
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,000
living. 
No, we want to say, you better 

580
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,040
remember I didn't have to do 
nothing to get here, so sure 

581
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,800
don't require me to do something
after. 

582
00:43:22,310 --> 00:43:26,630
Hallelujah. 
Second Peter chapter 3, verse 

583
00:43:26,630 --> 00:43:29,310
seven. 
I may have to take this into 

584
00:43:29,310 --> 00:43:30,750
next week. 
It's getting so good. 

585
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:38,270
Second, Peter 37 says this, but 
by his word, the present 

586
00:43:38,270 --> 00:43:39,910
heavens. 
And. 

587
00:43:39,910 --> 00:43:42,710
Earth are being reserved for 
fire. 

588
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,800
Kept for the day of. 
Judgment and destruction of 

589
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:54,760
ungodly men. 
It is not an entire. 

590
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,360
Truth. 
When we tell people today God's 

591
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:08,480
not mad at you, God is storing 
up wrath for the ungodly. 

592
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,360
Just because God's not 
demonstrating his wrath towards 

593
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,720
you now doesn't mean he's like, 
well, I hate that happened. 

594
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,840
Well, really don't like they did
that. 

595
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,760
Who not really excited about 
that? 

596
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,200
You think, well, why would he 
get upset? 

597
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,160
Why? 
Because he sends Thaddeus by you

598
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,360
to tell you, hey, you know, 
there's another way of living. 

599
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,720
And then you hear it and you're 
confronted with it. 

600
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:41,280
And then God gets behind those 
words and talks to your heart 

601
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,520
and you're like, no, I'm not 
going to do any. 

602
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,520
And you harden your heart and 
you go out and he goes. 

603
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,560
And then he sends a doctor 
fatigue by and pays your 

604
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,280
mortgage because he's kind to 
you, because it's the kindness 

605
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,800
of God that leads you to 
repentance. 

606
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:56,880
And then he demonstrates 
himself. 

607
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,280
You know, when Nick comes by and
lays hands on you and you get 

608
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,520
healed, but then you still snub 
your nose at him. 

609
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:12,200
He's like. 
Storing up wrath now, as long as

610
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:18,200
you're here, every opportunity 
could be because it will be in 

611
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,000
God. 
'S book, he'll be able to say, 

612
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,480
oh, let me as if it was going 
down there. 

613
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:28,240
I'll show you all the ways I 
demonstrated my love towards you

614
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,560
so that you wouldn't be where 
you're at today. 

615
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,160
But they said you weren't going 
to be mad at me. 

616
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:45,040
Well, they lied. 
Come on. 

617
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:50,360
See, kindness is not acceptance.
Kindness is to bring you to 

618
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,640
repentance and let me help you 
out. 

619
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,520
Believers, some people you know 
that are like, man, they don't 

620
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,040
deserve it. 
You're right, we didn't deserve 

621
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:58,880
it. 
They don't deserve it. 

622
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,200
But be kind when God tells you 
to be kind because it's the 

623
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,640
kindness of God that leads them 
to repentance. 

624
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,360
Revelations Oh, I like this 
book. 

625
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,640
Revelations 212 says it this 
way. 

626
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,720
And I saw the. 
Dead great and small, standing 

627
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:19,760
before the throne. 
Thrones are in kingdoms, not 

628
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,480
religions and the books were 
opened. 

629
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:30,680
Listen, we are in a Kingdom. 
God does not fail to keep his 

630
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:36,040
word In our modern day religions
about Jesus, you would think he 

631
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,880
may not do it. 
It just depends on any given 

632
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,040
day. 
But in the Kingdom that does not

633
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,560
occur. 
He said, then another. 

634
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,720
Book was open, which was the 
Book of Life, which is the book 

635
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:51,200
of Life. 
And the dead were judged by what

636
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:58,320
was written in the books 
according to what they had done,

637
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,160
according to what they had done.
Jump down to verse 15. 

638
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,600
And if anyone's name was not 
found in the Book of Life, he 

639
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,240
was thrown into the lake of 
fire. 

640
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,480
Now if we read this in its full 
account, it would be Great White

641
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,520
Throne. 
The dead has come up who's never

642
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,520
confessed Jesus totally been in 
rebellion to him and living life

643
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,800
what seems right to them. 
He'll pull out the book called 

644
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,800
the Lamb's Book of Life. 
He'll look. 

645
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,560
For their name, ah, this is the 
citizenship of heaven. 

646
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,880
Just as when you're born 
anywhere naturally, here your 

647
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,640
name is written in that nation 
that you are citizen. 

648
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,000
The Lamb's Book of Life is our. 
Citizens Registry. 

649
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,560
It's your. 
It's your birth certificate in 

650
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,720
the spirit. 
He'll look names not there 

651
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:47,280
close. 
Then he'll pull out books. 

652
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:54,120
It says why books 'cause he has 
recorded everything you've ever 

653
00:47:54,120 --> 00:48:01,520
done and he will judge you 
justly because of it. 

654
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:08,320
On September 3rd, 1973, did you 
or did you not? 

655
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Oh, but now, Lord, you know, I 
said, oh, let me go into your 

656
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,800
heart. 
Let's turn that on and He'll 

657
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:22,880
wire that hidden speaker within 
your spirit, OK? 

658
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,600
Sure, honey, we'll do that. 
I hate her. 

659
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,800
God, I hate her so much. 
I hate she did that to me. 

660
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,200
I hate she's doing that. 
Oh, I can't wait to get back to 

661
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:32,000
her. 
I can't wait. 

662
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,800
This is just going to. 
I'm going to find a way. 

663
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:38,400
And that's all being recorded, 
all being transcribed. 

664
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,840
Oh, you went on the trip with 
your wife? 

665
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,040
But you hated it. 
The charges you didn't you love 

666
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,280
your lot, your wife like Christ 
loved the church. 

667
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480
Oh, did I not give her stuff? 
Did not. 

668
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,840
Oh, let me let's open up your 
hearts recording. 

669
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,360
I hate that she's taking my 
money and stealing all the time 

670
00:48:58,360 --> 00:48:59,480
and doing what she wants to do 
with it. 

671
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:05,080
I can't believe she OK. 
See, we think this is fairy. 

672
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:05,520
Tale. 
Why? 

673
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:12,800
Because it seems better to us to
justify our secrets, but the 

674
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,520
fear of the Lord won't let you 
have secrets. 

675
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:21,560
Even what you speak inside, 
you'll go, oh, I shouldn't do 

676
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,960
that. 
When you hear the have the fear 

677
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,120
of the Lord and you start to 
speak those things inside, 

678
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,800
you'll say, I am not going to 
release that. 

679
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,880
That will not honor God. 
No. 

680
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,000
What? 
What does your word say? 

681
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,000
It is written. 
Let me say that instead. 

682
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,240
Are you hearing me? 
Thank you Jesus. 

683
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,480
So thank you Jesus. 
Thank you Jesus. 

684
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:50,680
So so far we've seen according 
to this criminal that before you

685
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,400
can get to a place where the 
Lord's going to say today you'll

686
00:49:54,400 --> 00:50:00,320
be with me, you have to 1st fear
God. 

687
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:05,120
I'm going to be honest with you.
I hope today you're questioning 

688
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:11,360
the day you asked him now, 
because I would hate for you to 

689
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,080
keep going through life thinking
that because you came down one 

690
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:25,440
time trying to avoid the lake of
fire, you're good when you may 

691
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:30,880
have deceived yourself. 
You are because the minute. 

692
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,040
The fear of. 
God, you'll say. 

693
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,120
Guilty as charged. 
I'm not fighting it. 

694
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,960
You turn yourself in. 
You turn yourself in. 

695
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,640
You willfully submit. 
You don't. 

696
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,680
Fight it. 
I mean, people going to come 

697
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,640
down. 
I mean, I've they'll come down 

698
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,600
and then you never see them 
again. 

699
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,080
You'll pray for them in a place 
of business. 

700
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,320
You know they're not going to 
church. 

701
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,360
Because they were lost and then 
you say. 

702
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:05,720
You need to come to church with 
me. 

703
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:13,200
Never see them again. 
Do they even fear God? 

704
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,760
Or are they just sorry they're 
called? 

705
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:24,920
Or is going to try to figure out
a better way to do it. 

706
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:31,520
So maybe next time they're not. 
And we judged the actual 

707
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,240
convicts. 
PCI last night. 

708
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:39,560
We went in there and ministered.
Our team did. 25 people were 

709
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,160
there and 25 people are there 
are guilty as charged. 

710
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,840
And some of them are repeat 
offenders. 

711
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:50,600
They think when they get out, 
they can do it a different way 

712
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,640
without being caught because 
they've never really changed 

713
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:58,840
from what they were doing. 
And yet believers are doing the 

714
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,160
same thing. 
You know how we know? 

715
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:06,520
Because they'll come to this 
church, then it surfed, so then 

716
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,240
they leave this one and go to 
another one. 

717
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,880
But then it surfaces because 
eventually somebody shows up to 

718
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,800
preach that and then they go to 
another one until they land in 

719
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,320
the one that doesn't even preach
about it. 

720
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:18,200
And the fear that God's not 
there. 

721
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:22,200
And then everybody else is doing
the same crimes against the 

722
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:28,200
throne, all. 
Right. 

723
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,560
I got 2 minutes to 12. 
I got two more points I could 

724
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:39,600
close or we could go. 
All right, let's drive on then. 

725
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,160
All right. 
You all right with that, Zach? 

726
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,040
Is that OK? 
Looks like I'm fine. 

727
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:44,920
I'm a little. 
Hungry. 

728
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:51,720
But that's OK, I can hold it. 
The third thing that has to 

729
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,320
happen that the criminal taught 
us is that you must acknowledge 

730
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:04,280
your wrongdoing and repent. 
He said do you not fear God? 

731
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:11,600
We're here and sentenced and 
condemned rightly. 

732
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,080
He says put that verse passes 
back up. 

733
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,760
He said we. 
Are only getting what we have 

734
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:23,760
done, which means he's 
acknowledging I know what I did 

735
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:28,920
and all indication is since 
Barabbas was the one released, 

736
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,240
most likely these two thieves 
were a part of Barabbas's 

737
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:39,240
rebellion and instead of 
Barabbas being the one in the 

738
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:44,480
middle, the ringleader of this 
rebellion, they put Jesus as the

739
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,960
substitute. 
But the two on the side, 

740
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,200
scholars believe, most likely 
were a part of his. 

741
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:56,040
Which means the criminal could 
say, I know what you've done, I 

742
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:00,160
was there. 
You can't lie to me and tell me 

743
00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:03,120
it didn't happen. 
It happened. 

744
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,640
I was there. 
And you and I on this thing. 

745
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:15,840
Is because we deserve to be on 
this thing so you have to 

746
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:20,960
acknowledge it's not enough to 
fear God and feel guilty. 

747
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:28,600
Then you have to start taking 
personal responsibility and say 

748
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:37,080
I am wrong and there's nothing 
that's happened in life that I 

749
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:42,680
can justify this because here's 
the thing, no matter what's 

750
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:43,960
ever. 
Been done to you? 

751
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,480
Prior to knowing Christ, you 
were trying to figure it out and

752
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:51,640
you never actually asked God how
to overcome. 

753
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:59,560
He wasn't in your relationship. 
God has a way of delivering the 

754
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,480
righteous from all their 
trouble. 

755
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:07,880
Hallelujah. 
But we were poor. 

756
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:12,160
We didn't have anything, you 
know, I had to steal how to feed

757
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,280
my babies. 
But see with the Lord, the Lord 

758
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,680
can cause your food that you 
have what little bit you have in

759
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,160
a cupboard to multiply till the 
next time you're paid. 

760
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,520
Because he's done that for a 
widow woman that didn't have any

761
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,680
food for their kids and there 
wasn't even anything to steal. 

762
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:40,960
Jesus is not limited in 
resource, and His way is always 

763
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,880
a way of life. 
Not resulting in doing something

764
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:55,170
wrong, justifying it as right. 
So you have. 

765
00:55:55,170 --> 00:55:57,970
To acknowledge I'm wrong. 
I'm making no excuse. 

766
00:56:00,050 --> 00:56:04,170
I make no excuse and I made no 
excuse. 

767
00:56:05,970 --> 00:56:09,890
None. 
I'm this, I'm that. 

768
00:56:09,930 --> 00:56:12,450
I did that, I did this, I did 
that. 

769
00:56:12,810 --> 00:56:16,880
I couldn't name them all, but I 
knew I was in the category of it

770
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,040
all. 
And what I didn't know, I said 

771
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:24,840
something. 
Ezekiel, look at this chapter 18

772
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,560
verses 3032. 
Therefore I will judge you, O 

773
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,200
House of Israel. 
Each according to his conduct. 

774
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,440
Declare the Lord God, repent and
turn away from all your 

775
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:41,080
transgression, so that iniquity 
may not become a stumbling block

776
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,600
to you. 
Castaway from you all your 

777
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,960
transgression which you have 
committed, and make yourself a 

778
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:52,680
new heart and a new spirit. 
For why will you die, O House of

779
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,560
Israel? 
For I have no pleasure in the 

780
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,760
death of anyone who dies, 
declares the Lord. 

781
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:08,080
Before repent and live. 
So living cannot come before 

782
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:16,520
repenting, and you cannot repent
until you acknowledge you're 

783
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:22,960
wrong. 
No more justification. 

784
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,520
I'm wrong? 
And I repent. 

785
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,080
Repent is not even a religious 
word. 

786
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:31,800
We know it means just change 
your thinking. 

787
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,360
You need to change your thing. 
You need to quit thinking that 

788
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,440
these things you're doing is OK 
with God. 

789
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,120
They are not. 
And it required the blood of 

790
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,520
Jesus because of those things. 
And so just acknowledge they are

791
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,720
not and say, Lord forgive me. 
And I am going to start thinking

792
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,880
your thoughts your way so that 
I'm not over here doing wrong. 

793
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:57,000
Stuff. 
Acts 2620. 

794
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,080
The latter part. 
Acts 2620. 

795
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,040
Just the latter part of that 
verse says this, that they 

796
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:08,000
should repent and turn to God. 
Here it is performing deeds 

797
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:14,360
appropriate to repentance. 
You will not find in Scripture. 

798
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:21,040
You will not find in scripture 
that you can ask Jesus to be 

799
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,160
Lord of your life. 
And have no corresponding 

800
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:33,600
actions. 
You cannot that salvation does 

801
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:39,080
not exist. 
Even John before Jesus started 

802
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,240
preaching said repent for the 
Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

803
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,880
Then when the. 
Pharisees, the religious, the 

804
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:49,760
ones who say we have the word of
God, we teach the word of God, 

805
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,600
we are the ones who instruct the
word of God. 

806
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,200
He looks at them and says, why 
don't you live a life in keeping

807
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,320
with repentance? 
How come I see no fruit from the

808
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,800
things you're saying? 
In fact, Jesus even rebuked 

809
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,080
them. 
He says yeah, they're out there 

810
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,760
touting my words. 
Things that I've written through

811
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,480
Moses, the Law, and the 
prophets. 

812
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,200
You need to do what they say, 
but do not do what they do 

813
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:23,160
because their deeds are not in 
keeping with their words. 

814
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:29,120
And do we think that Jesus is 
fooled with a modern day 

815
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,000
salvation of coming down and 
asking God to come in our heart,

816
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:39,480
save us, say he's Lord by mouth 
only and never had the fear of 

817
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:44,800
God, never felt guilty for the 
life we LED prior. 

818
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,120
Profound guilt, guilt so much 
that we know we are really 

819
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:54,240
punishable forever. 
And then and having that 

820
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,480
acknowledgement, I'm not even 
going to make an excuse. 

821
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:02,840
I won't do it. 
I am going to change and I'm 

822
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:07,040
going to let him change me and 
when I get up I am not going to 

823
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,480
be the same person and I will 
not let anyone change me. 

824
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,680
Back. 
I'm not going to make an excuse.

825
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:19,720
I am going to go 100% all in 
following God. 

826
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,440
You know, it's amazing how many 
people even now, and I do 

827
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,120
believe obviously once they 
watch things online, are going 

828
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:32,280
to really resist this teaching. 
And it's only because you want 

829
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:38,160
God at your thoughts, not His. 
And here's the thing, and I get 

830
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:39,840
it. 
Listen, do you? 

831
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,640
Really think this is new. 
Everyone on the planet thinks 

832
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,600
they're good enough at some 
point. 

833
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:48,960
We all thought we were good 
enough. 

834
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,160
That's why the Bible says 
there's a way that seems right 

835
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,520
to a man. 
In fact, a whole dispensation 

836
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:59,560
was around when men live based 
upon what they thought was 

837
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:04,560
right. 
And that time period was the 

838
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:10,400
time just before Noah and when 
God said man thinks he's right 

839
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,560
and there's enough evidence of 
me and I've left enough about me

840
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,240
down there that people knew the 
sacrifice. 

841
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,120
People knew that I was the 
creator of heaven and earth. 

842
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,160
People understood that I'm going
to let them live and see if they

843
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,520
can figure it out all by this. 
Can they be right by themselves 

844
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:30,120
that the Lord steps out, looks 
over, He says I regret I. 

845
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,280
Even made man. 
That's what the society will 

846
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:37,920
look like because your right is 
so right to you, it actually 

847
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,040
will lift you up in pride to the
Father you actually have. 

848
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,640
He is the devil and he is a liar
and he was lifted up in pride 

849
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:48,560
because he thought my way is 
better than God's way, but his 

850
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:52,880
way is better. 
Are you hearing me? 

851
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:59,920
His way is life #4 these all 
have to occur in your heart 

852
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:03,400
before you can confess. 
This is true salvation. 

853
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,240
This is a real relationship with
God. 

854
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,680
How can you say you have a 
relationship with God and have 

855
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:15,400
no, no guilt, shame, no remorse 
for anything you've done? 

856
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,880
How can you say you've been in 
the presence of God yet you 

857
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,480
could say you're born again, but
live life and do things that you

858
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,800
know are outside his word. 
Now, if you're like, well, I 

859
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,640
really don't know. 
Well, why don't you know? 

860
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,640
Well, because I don't read. 
Well, why don't you read? 

861
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,000
Well, I don't have time. 
Well, is that OK with God? 

862
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,360
I mean, we could go down this 
road forever, right? 

863
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,680
Because now it's OK. 
God doesn't really care that you

864
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,360
read his word. 
I mean, he says seek. 

865
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,600
He didn't say last. 
When you're in trouble on Easter

866
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:59,080
Sunday. 
Come on, help me. 

867
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:00,080
Reverend Randy. 
Right. 

868
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,760
It's not once a month, twice a 
year, you know, Christmas and 

869
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:13,120
Easter, here we go. 
It's not that now I hear, I hear

870
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,520
the ones that seem right. 
I just can't believe he's saying

871
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:16,800
stuff like this. 
Wow. 

872
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:18,840
You know, that seems so 
judgmental. 

873
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,120
I'm not judging. 
I'm just preaching the word. 

874
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:25,920
And the word does not allow, 
does not accommodate for this 

875
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:30,640
kind of silly thinking. 
That's worldly thinking, trying 

876
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:38,560
to get in the church. 
Oh man, thank you, Jesus. 

877
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:44,080
So #4 the last one is this. 
Let's put that scripture back up

878
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:46,560
with a criminal. 
He's teaching us so many things 

879
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,200
today because this guy really 
got born again. 

880
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,520
How do we know? 
Because Jesus told him. 

881
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:57,800
This is not subjective, so if 
there's ever been an example of 

882
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:02,120
how you know you will be with 
him, this is the example. 

883
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:10,920
Do you not fear God? 
We deserve this. 

884
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:15,200
Judgment. 
We are wrong and we are not 

885
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,240
making an excuse. 
And I don't know about you. 

886
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,280
In fact, apparently I know about
you. 

887
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:22,120
You. 
Just stay on your side. 

888
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,440
But for me? 
I'm changing my thinking. 

889
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,880
This guy is the Christ. 
I don't need to see any other 

890
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,240
evidence. 
I don't need him to come down. 

891
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:32,920
He doesn't have to prove 
anything. 

892
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,200
His words and actions are 
enough. 

893
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,400
I was just like you, a 
blasphemer. 

894
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:39,400
I was yelling at him while we 
were coming. 

895
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,600
I was yelling at him when he was
getting put on. 

896
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,840
I was yelling at him when I was 
being put on. 

897
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,320
But now I see his response. 
I see his. 

898
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:49,120
Demeanor. 
I'm in his presence, I'm around 

899
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:51,720
his atmosphere. 
And I realized that. 

900
01:04:51,720 --> 01:05:01,400
My God, man, God is real and I'm
guilty and I'm wrong in the 

901
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:12,280
audacity of you to talk to the. 
King like that I repent because.

902
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:19,240
He's goes on to say he says. 
We indeed are suffering justly, 

903
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,280
for we receive what we've done. 
But this man has done nothing 

904
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,160
wrong. 
This is righteousness. 

905
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:38,120
I am by absolute righteousness, 
absolute justice, absolute 

906
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:43,320
holiness, absolute truth. 
I'm by absolute life. 

907
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:55,480
And so I'm asking, you know, I'm
going to, I'm not going to ask 

908
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:58,640
this Roman centurion down here. 
I'm not going to ask him to pull

909
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:02,200
pilot up here. 
I'm going to look to the one who

910
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:07,360
actually has the ability to 
determine life for me. 

911
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:14,480
Jesus, when you enter into your 
Kingdom, will you Remember Me? 

912
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:22,440
Because when he acknowledges his
Kingdom, he acknowledges his 

913
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:28,040
kingship. 
He says when you Jesus Remember 

914
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:33,880
Me, when you, when you, that's 
you come into your who's his 

915
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:39,200
Kingdom, King's dominion. 
Since you're the king, you're 

916
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,480
the Christ, you're the king. 
Will you Remember Me? 

917
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,920
Because I want you to be my 
king. 

918
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,760
2nd Corinthians 521 says He made
him who knew no sin to be sent 

919
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:07,680
on our behalf, so that we might 
become the righteousness of God 

920
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,200
in him. 
The last verse is this Isaiah 

921
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,160
4524. 
It says this. 

922
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:19,440
And they will say to me, only in
the Lord are righteousness and 

923
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:22,680
strength. 
Men will come to him, and all 

924
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:26,960
who are angry at him will be put
to shame. 

925
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:37,400
Once we acknowledge the fear of 
God, it will produce in us a 

926
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,120
guilt that is we're unable to 
bear. 

927
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,080
And we will know we are rightly 
condemned. 

928
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:53,720
And then because of that, we'll 
recognize my own actions have 

929
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:55,880
done this. 
I can blame no one. 

930
01:07:56,920 --> 01:07:59,400
I'm guilty as charged, and I'm 
wrong. 

931
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:04,640
I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 
But I'm going to change. 

932
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,000
I want to repent. 
I want to be different. 

933
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:13,640
I don't want this anymore. 
And what I hear is that he took 

934
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,240
on me so I could take on him. 
Hallelujah. 

935
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:23,000
Which means if His righteousness
allowed him to live as a man in 

936
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,880
the earth, anointed of the Holy 
Ghost, and not sin until He took

937
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:32,720
it on at the cross, then if I 
yield my life to Him, then I can

938
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,240
take on His righteousness. 
I'll be a new creature in 

939
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,920
Christ. 
My spirit will be like His 

940
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,120
spirit. 
Then He will give me his spirit 

941
01:08:41,399 --> 01:08:44,120
to come and bear witness with my
spirit that I'm a child of God. 

942
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,080
Then He will endue me with that 
spirit so that I have power from

943
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,359
on high. 
And that same anointing that 

944
01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:54,279
came on Him will come on me in a
measure that then by me 

945
01:08:54,359 --> 01:08:57,439
following the leading of the 
Spirit, as He followed the 

946
01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,560
leading of the Spirit while in 
the earth, then I can be 

947
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:05,120
victorious, dominate every 
circumstance. 

948
01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:09,720
No longer will I be under the 
law of sin and death, but I'll 

949
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:11,800
be under the law of the Spirit 
of life. 

950
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:12,840
In. 
Christ Jesus. 

951
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,840
And it was not unrighteousness 
that I did on my own, but it was

952
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:19,920
His righteousness that I clothed
myself with. 

953
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:24,000
And how can I walk around and 
act like and live unrighteous 

954
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:28,960
when I am His righteousness? 
How in the world could I not 

955
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:33,240
live a life in keeping with? 
This repentance that I have. 

956
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,720
Because I'm a whole new species 
of being and this new person 

957
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:46,479
would never for eternity. 
Be looking for an opportunity to

958
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:50,920
live in lawlessness and 
rebellion and doing things 

959
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:56,680
contrary to the Kingdom, because
when this occurs then we confess

960
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:04,160
Jesus. 
Your Lord, your Lord, I believe.

961
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:10,400
And that person cannot get up 
from their knees. 

962
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:16,840
Or from that prayer. 
And be the same person, that 

963
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:18,840
person. 
You don't have to beg to be in 

964
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,000
church. 
You don't have to beg to be 

965
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,400
discipled. 
You don't have to beg to want to

966
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,760
live righteous. 
You don't have to beg to quit. 

967
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,800
Weights and sins that ensnare 
their life. 

968
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:34,280
You don't have to beg them to 
let go of things that God starts

969
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:36,520
to reveal. 
Those are encumbrances. 

970
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,720
They'll mess you up. 
They'll they won't let you have 

971
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:41,400
the quality of life that you are
now I'm trying to release the 

972
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:44,280
real you get out of that stuff 
and that person like get rid of 

973
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:45,280
it. 
Lord, thank you for showing. 

974
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,240
It oh, I'm so thankful, dad, 
that you showed me that I'm want

975
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:49,960
that done. 
I don't want to do that anymore.

976
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,520
I don't have to do that. 
In fact, my spirit doesn't 

977
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:55,120
because I'm alive unto you. 
I get to do you. 

978
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:56,800
I get to follow you. 
I. 

979
01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:59,400
Nobody has to beg me, plead with
me. 

980
01:10:59,480 --> 01:11:02,280
I mean, I love God. 
I want to do your word. 

981
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,800
I want to do your word. 
I want to yield to you. 

982
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,080
I want to praise you. 
I want to pray. 

983
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,440
I want to read your word. 
I want to be involved. 

984
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:13,400
I want to tell others about you.
I'm not hiding out, waiting 

985
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,320
until I die. 
I want the world to know I'm 

986
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:25,000
alive with Him. 
That is true salvation and the 

987
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:25,680
others.