1 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,120 Well, I'm going to do what I promised that I'd do last week, 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,200 and we're going to do just a very, very short review, like 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:19,400 1/2 a page. That's it. 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:26,720 And we're talking about legal entry and Kingdom citizenship. 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,680 And I think it's going to be important for us to take a look 6 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,480 at several scriptures that help you understand how we are 7 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:39,880 supposed to get in and what we're supposed to do once we get 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,600 in because there's a lot of different thoughts out there. 9 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,760 Last week that I did talk about the fact that most people, they 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,720 go to church, if any type of evangelical church or a, a 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,760 denominational church, you know, everybody has their own altar 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,520 calls. We're hoping to get people in 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,440 the Kingdom. We don't you know, back in those 14 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,120 days I didn't know what the Kingdom was, but I knew that I 15 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,880 wanted to be saved because they painted some really wild 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:13,600 pictures of the hereafter and one of those was hotspot and I 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:14,960 didn't want to go to the hotspot. 18 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:20,160 And so when we take a look at you know, what does the Bible 19 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,520 say not traditions of men. How many times have we been over 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,680 with Apostle Earl? He said, you know, you have made 21 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,760 the word of God have no effect with your tradition. 22 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,480 And so we want to make sure that we clearly know tonight how we 23 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,720 enter into the Kingdom of God so that we can tell people how to 24 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,360 do it correctly and back it up by Scripture, not by the 25 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,720 opinions of men or the teachings of men. 26 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,560 We want to know. So in review, just quickly, we 27 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,760 need to remember that Adam and Eve fell and ushered in mankind 28 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,120 to sin and separation from God. Everybody remember that that's 29 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,320 that's basically the mess we got into, said the father. 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,160 Let us know though, in Galatians chapter 3 verse 15, that he's 31 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:10,240 got a he's got a plan to fix it. And in that plan he told, he 32 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,120 told Satan, all right, when they had fallen. 33 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,800 He told him, he said, I'll put an enmity between you and the 34 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,680 woman and between thy seed and her seed. 35 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,280 It shall bruise thy head. You shall bruise his heel and 36 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,080 we've got into detail and talking about that as far as how 37 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,160 long does it take to get over a heel hurt versus a head hurt, 38 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,360 right and that Satan won't recover. 39 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,280 Just to let you know and and you know from what Jesus put on him. 40 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,360 But we're going to we're going to go in tonight, you know, 41 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,000 talking about the entry into the Kingdom. 42 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,920 I want you to end your Bible and jot this down. 43 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:51,800 Isaiah chapter 40. This is where I want to start 44 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,680 because this is, you know, several, several, several 45 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:02,600 hundreds of years after God spoke that in the garden to Eve 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,680 and Adam, all right, and, and, and the cursings that went on 47 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,720 there. But when he spoke to that time 48 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,960 that he, he pronounced all the curses and the different things 49 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,960 that went with that. Several, several 100 years 50 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,080 later, we have Isaiah the prophet. 51 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,800 Speak something and listen to what he said in verse 3. 52 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,520 The voice of him that cry in the wilderness, prepare ye the way 53 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,520 of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our 54 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,200 God. All right, Now, scholars tell us 55 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,360 that between the last prophet, I don't know if the books are in 56 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,680 chronological order. When we talk about the major 57 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,840 prophets, you got Isaiah, Ezekiel, you, Daniel. 58 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,800 Those are the major prophets. They call them. 59 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,440 And then you get to Amos and you get to Hosea and you get to 60 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,440 these guys and they're called minor prophets. 61 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,760 Now, I'm not real sure which prophet, you know, if they did 62 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,360 it chronologically, but let's just say Malachi being he's the 63 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,960 last book. He was the last guy right 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:05,160 between Malachi and this prophecy all right, that Isaiah 65 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:11,560 gave that someone is coming to make a preparation for what the 66 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,200 Lord is sending in that remember the seed of the woman all right, 67 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:24,160 was 400 years, 400 years. There was no word in Israel. 68 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,560 There was no prophet that spoke for the Lord. 69 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:32,160 We have no record for 400 years of God saying anything, and all 70 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:37,600 of a sudden, you know that a man shows up on the scene and 71 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Matthew has the first account. And we're going to go over it 72 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,920 just briefly, but I want to let you know something, just a 73 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,960 little nugget. When we look at the four 74 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,520 gospels, and the four gospels have a record of several of the 75 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,120 things that we're going to talk about tonight. 76 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,480 But you need to note this about Matthew. 77 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,400 When Matthew writes, he places his emphasis as Jesus the King. 78 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,960 How he writes and how he describes Jesus is basically 79 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,880 telling us that Jesus is a king. Well, how do we know that? 80 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,960 Well, the second chapter we have the Magi from the East coming 81 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:24,760 and looking for who the king. So we get to see Jesus through 82 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:29,160 that lens of being a king. Mark, on the other hand, he 83 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,040 comes in and he shows us Jesus as a servant. 84 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,480 Luke shows us Jesus as a man. How is that? 85 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,840 Well, basically he gives the account all right, that he was 86 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:47,640 born in a Manger, you know, born in a cave and in a Manger put 87 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,800 and the angels and everything we're singing and gives that 88 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,560 whole account of the Christmas story in in that book. 89 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,320 And then the last book is John writing and putting emphasis in 90 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,800 getting us to understand that Jesus was God. 91 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:10,880 First verse in the beginning was the word and the word was with 92 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,440 God and word was God all right, so he's telling us he's letting 93 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:20,080 us know this is coming to pass now Isaiah that what we just 94 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,800 read in 40 verse 3 was fulfilled in Matthew chapter 3 verse one. 95 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,600 It says in those days, John the Baptist preaching in the 96 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,200 wilderness of Judea saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven 97 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,720 is at hand. And this is that what was spoken 98 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,760 by the prophet Isaiah saying a voice crying in the wilderness, 99 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,240 prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his path straight. 100 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:47,200 So we know that Isaiah was talking about John the Baptist, 101 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,760 that John the Baptist is going to come as a forerunner to let 102 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,760 us know. Now think about, we haven't had 103 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,680 a word for over 400 years and you read the account of John the 104 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,120 Baptist, you're going to find out that he looked a little 105 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:10,520 wild, ate a little crazy stuff. But when he came and said 106 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:15,960 everybody was drawn to him and that he began, you know, and he 107 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:21,160 tells us in the, in the the 11th verse, in chapter 3 of Matthew, 108 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,400 indeed, I baptize you with water under repentance, but he that 109 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,360 comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I'm not worthy to 110 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,480 bear. He shall baptize you with the 111 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,160 Holy Ghost and fire, whose fan is in his hand, and he will 112 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,920 thoroughly purge his floor and gather the weed into the garner, 113 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,240 but he will burn up the chaff with an unquenchable fire. 114 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,600 And they said, Then came Jesus unto John, to be baptized of 115 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,680 him. Now, I love this account because 116 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,520 I spent a lot of time not only studying it, but talking to the 117 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,720 Lord about Jesus baptism. And I'm going to share some of 118 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:55,840 those things with you. We're not. 119 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,760 I'm going to share with you what the the word says here, but 120 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,120 you'll see in a minute why it's so important for a believer, a 121 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,880 new citizen in the Kingdom of God, that they get baptized. 122 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,720 OK, but notice what he said. He said, but John forbade him. 123 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,680 In other words, Jesus came to be baptized, gets out there in the 124 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,440 water. John says, Nope, I shouldn't be 125 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,160 baptizing you, you, why are you coming to me? 126 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,760 In verse 14? He said, and Jesus answered and 127 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,120 said, and I want you to note this, listen to this very 128 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,360 carefully. Permit it to be so now, for thus 129 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,679 it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. 130 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,880 Then he permitted him. That's what the word suffered 131 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,559 means in the King James. All right in 16. 132 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,679 And Jesus, when he was baptized, he went straight up out of the 133 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,480 water, and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the 134 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,040 Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him, or 135 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,840 landing on him. Verse 17 And lo, a voice from 136 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,360 heaven saying, This is my beloved Son and whom I'm well 137 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,720 pleased. Now all four gospels record a 138 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,600 version of this. We're only going to look at one 139 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,400 more because there's something significant that I want us to 140 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,560 see in that. But Jesus, when he came, you 141 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:13,520 know, to earth, it says when he turned 30 years old, he was 142 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,080 ready to enter his ministry. If you look up, you'll find out 143 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,560 that 30 years of age is when the Levitical pride, the Levitical 144 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:25,680 tribe enrolled or put to work their young men. 145 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,280 So Jesus came at 30 years old and he's ready. 146 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,720 He's, he's, he's ready to start his father's business. 147 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:39,240 And it says the first act of obedience was water baptism. 148 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,760 And it says when he and he, he said, I need you to baptize me. 149 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:52,280 For thus it becomes us, or it is pleasing, pleasing for us to 150 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,000 feel all righteousness. I had to ask a question one 151 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,840 time. I said Jesus had to fulfill all 152 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,000 righteousness. I mean, wouldn't he like the guy 153 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,080 on the planet that was the only one righteous? 154 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,920 And yet he's telling John that this little act of baptism is 155 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:17,120 basically what we have to do to fulfill all righteousness. 156 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,320 And so I said, well, what was it that he, what was so significant 157 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,800 about that water baptism? And what I found out was if you 158 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,640 understand water baptism and at the close of the, the, the 159 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:35,240 message tonight, I'll, I'll give you what Jesus said about that. 160 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,080 But basically what it was saying was this, that when I go under 161 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:45,640 that water, I'm dying to myself. When I come up out of that 162 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:51,480 water, I am a person that is now going to be influenced and 163 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:56,720 controlled by someone else. So what he was telling the 164 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,920 father, he's telling his father, I'm not coming down here to do 165 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,760 my own thing. I came down here because you 166 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,800 sent me. And for me to show you, I want 167 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,440 to show you that I am taking the ritual of baptism and I am dying 168 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,360 to myself. And when I come up out of this 169 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,480 water, I'm going to be totally sold out to your will and 170 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,120 whatever you want from me. Now, I think that's interesting 171 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,960 because when he goes down to verse 17, he said, after you 172 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,160 come up out of the water, he said, a voice from heaven was 173 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,760 heard saying, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. 174 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,320 And I thought that was kind of funny because what had he done? 175 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:42,040 He hadn't healed anybody yet, hadn't done any miracles, but 176 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,280 yet that simple act of water baptism, the Father said, I am 177 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:52,920 well pleased. OK, so put that on pause and 178 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,000 let's move on. All right, just hang on to it 179 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:02,640 for a little bit. Now in Malachi chapter 3 and in 180 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:08,360 verse one, there's another message about John the Baptist. 181 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,000 Listen to this. Behold, I will send my 182 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,920 messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. 183 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,680 And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple, 184 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,640 even the messenger of the covenant whom you delight in, 185 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,600 Behold, he shall come, says the Lord of hosts. 186 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,320 So he says, a messenger. Now this is fulfilled in Mark's 187 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,120 Gospel chapter 1 verses one through 5. 188 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Notice what it says in the beginning of the gospel of Jesus 189 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,640 Christ, the Son of God, as it is written in the prophets. 190 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,400 Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, and he shall 191 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,960 prepare thy way before thee. That was that. 192 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,400 That's Malachi's version of it. And he said, then the boys, one 193 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,840 crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, 194 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,440 make his pastry. That was also what the very 195 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,280 first scripture we looked at in the 40th chapter of Isaiah. 196 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:03,040 So both of them are basically given here and fulfilled here. 197 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,680 OK, he said John did baptize in the wilderness, and he preached 198 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:09,680 the baptism of repentance for the remission of sin. 199 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,520 And there went out unto him all the land of Judea and they of 200 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,040 Jerusalem, and they were all baptized of him in the river 201 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,240 Jordan confessing their sins. Now you understand this is pre 202 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,600 salvation. Jesus had not died on the cross, 203 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,320 had not risen from the dead yet. So John is preaching a message 204 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:33,080 where he goes in there and tells them in Luke chapter 3. 205 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,120 All right, jot it down. Luke chapter 3, verse three. 206 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,120 It said he came into all the country about Jordan preaching 207 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,040 the baptism of repentance and the remission of sin. 208 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,840 All right, he's he's he's saying prepare the way of the Lord, he 209 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,520 said, and he lets him know repent for the Kingdom of heaven 210 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,280 is at hand. He started that particular 211 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:58,240 message and he's saying, listen, you need to you need to repent 212 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,960 and you need to change the way that you're thinking. 213 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,360 And he's letting them know that the 1 is coming, that you all 214 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,680 been waiting for. It is the Messiah now. 215 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:14,480 They didn't know that the Messiah was going to come as a 216 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:20,520 little baby in Bethlehem in a Manger. 217 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,000 They had no idea. They thought he was coming as a 218 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,360 conquering king. That's all they hoped for. 219 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,040 That's all they wanted because they were under Roman rule and 220 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,320 jurisdiction. They thought that Jesus, or 221 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,000 whoever the Messiah was, was going to come and get them free 222 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,920 from that. That's all they thought about. 223 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,720 But Jesus had a different plan because of the Father. 224 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,200 The Father let him know. This is what you have to do to 225 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,720 be able to change the fallen state of man. 226 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,840 OK. Now in Luke 3, we have John the 227 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,840 Baptist. When he said that, he said he 228 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,520 was preaching baptism of repentance and the remission of 229 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,560 sin. Remember last week toward the 230 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,840 end, I talked to you about the word remission. 231 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,880 All right, And but I want to talk about repentance because 232 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:16,440 sometimes people get mixed up the difference between repenting 233 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:22,160 and feeling sorry. Repentance in the original 234 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,120 language, metatoneo in the Greek, that particular word 235 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,720 metanoeo is it's to think differently or to change the 236 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,280 mind. So what was John the Baptist 237 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,960 saying? He said, listen, the Kingdom of 238 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,640 heaven and you need to start thinking differently. 239 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,800 He was giving them an advance warning. 240 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,360 You're expecting the king, but he's not going to be a king. 241 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,840 He's going to live among you and he's going to perform miracles. 242 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,160 He's going to take care of you. All right. 243 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,520 Now when we look at the word, remission is same Greek word. 244 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,800 Last week we talked about freedom, pardon and deliverance. 245 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,480 But here's the the definition. It is a forgiveness or pardon of 246 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,520 sins, letting them go as if they'd never been committed 247 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,440 before. So he said remission of sin is 248 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,880 the key. All right, we want to be 249 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:18,360 forgiven and God says because of the fall of man being forgiven 250 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,800 is one of the things that God has designed into this program 251 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,480 that he created. But it's interesting if you go 252 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,360 to the the fourth verse in what we were talking about from the 253 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,600 3rd chapter of Luke, he said as is written in the book and the 254 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,640 words of Isaiah the prophet, the voice crying in the wilderness, 255 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,320 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his path straight. 256 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,960 Every valley shall be filled, every mountain and heel shall be 257 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,320 brought low. The cricket shall be made 258 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,760 straight in the rough ways shall be made smooth. 259 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,560 And notice verse 6 says, and all flesh shall see the salvation of 260 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,960 God. So he's letting them know Jesus 261 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,760 is coming to save you. Now they must have known what 262 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,480 they were going to get saved from, as we discussed last week, 263 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,880 because it said that they came to him confessing their sins. 264 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,280 So they must have known that there was something that 265 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,760 separated them. And it's kind of like, you know, 266 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,880 if people really believe that Jesus was coming back soon, I 267 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,440 think that we would see a uptick of people getting their self 268 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,280 straight if they really believed it. 269 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:31,600 OK, Now when when we take a look at salvation, I want you to get 270 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,240 this word because, you know, as I'd mentioned last week when I 271 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,880 was a kid, you know that the question was, hey, if you want 272 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,400 to be saved, you know, come down, confess all your sins as 273 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,120 Jesus, come into your heart and you'll be saved. 274 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,800 If we don't know the definition of the word saved, we 275 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,960 immediately are trained to believe that saved is escaping 276 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,880 hell. That is not what the word means. 277 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,680 You'll find it in the Greek as the word soteria, and it means 278 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,640 to rescue, to save, to deliver, to have health, preservation and 279 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,960 safety. Let me read them again. 280 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,160 So Tyria means to rescue, to save, to deliver, to have 281 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,680 health, preservation and safety. That doesn't sound like a free 282 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:22,080 ticket out of hell. That sounds more like I think 283 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:29,200 I'm going to need all of that stuff now, not in the future. 284 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:37,040 All right, now when we move on down to you know, John's account 285 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:42,640 in John chapter 1, remember he's talking to him about talking to 286 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:49,640 the people about him being the one that is coming. 287 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,600 And in John one, this is what he said. 288 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,600 The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him and said, 289 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,840 behold, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. 290 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:06,880 Now what is that referring to? That is referring to the 291 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:12,280 Passover lamb, the lamb that covers because that's what the 292 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,800 Passover was all about. Remember, they were in Egypt and 293 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,160 they're getting ready to be delivered. 294 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,840 And God said, listen, you take a lamb without spot or blemish, 295 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,000 you take its blood, you put it on the doorpost and the head 296 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,520 head header, the header, hey, and, and put it on the other 297 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,240 side of the doorpost. And when the destroyer comes, he 298 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:38,440 will pass over you. So the Lamb's blood was what was 299 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,200 necessary to continue living. Good point. 300 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:50,360 So when when we see that, he said, when we see, behold the 301 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:53,800 Lamb of God. And then he said in verse 30, he 302 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,000 said, as it as is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which 303 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,840 will be performed before preferred before me. 304 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,840 For he was before me and I knew him not, but that he should make 305 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,080 manifest to Israel. Therefore I am come baptizing in 306 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,680 water. He was preparing the people all 307 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,960 right to get an understanding of this Messiah that was coming. 308 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,800 That's why he was the forerunner, all right. 309 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,240 That's why he was so important in the in, in, in everything, 310 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,840 because he was the prophet that let them know your Messiah is 311 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,080 coming. God's going to take care of the 312 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,720 problem Adam and Eve brought on us. 313 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,320 All right, now we get to and you know, and, and it's very 314 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,240 interesting. I like that. 315 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,120 The second chapter of John, there's a story of John the 316 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,840 Baptist and he's standing there with two of his disciples. 317 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,280 So there were men that wanted to follow John the Baptist because 318 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,120 he had a word from the Lord. So they wanted to hang with him. 319 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,560 And two of them were John and Andrew, Peter's brother. 320 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,360 And when he said, behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the 321 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,440 sin of the world, they left John. 322 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,960 And they were following Jesus a little ways behind. 323 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,840 Jesus turned around and looked at him and said, what are you 324 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:23,280 looking for? And they go, Rabbi, where do you 325 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,720 live? And Jesus, believe it or not, 326 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,640 said come and see. And he said they abode with him 327 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,840 all that night. And he said he went to he and, 328 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,080 and several times, you know, a lot of people have different 329 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,320 opinions on this. I, I believe that Jesus had his 330 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:44,200 own house, OK, Because many a times the scripture talks about 331 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,080 the house. The house was full. 332 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,720 They went to the house, to the house. 333 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,560 Some scholars tell us that he lived with Peter. 334 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,720 I think that's kind of funny because when he got to the house 335 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,880 with Andrew Peters brother, wouldn't he have said, oh, I 336 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,760 didn't know you were living with my brother? 337 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,880 It's kind of made sense to me. I'm thinking, you know, he would 338 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,280 have known that so Jesus had him over. 339 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:23,160 But Can you imagine being with Jesus for an overnight stay and 340 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,880 and begin to ask him questions? What was John talking about? 341 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,440 And Jesus, you know, giving reward. 342 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,520 Well, those two guys made it to the top 12. 343 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,200 And then, you know, I said Andrew went to Peter and said we 344 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,640 found the Messiah. So they must have been talking 345 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,280 about Messiah stuff that night. And he said we found the Messiah 346 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,880 and he goes, oh really? And then you know the course of 347 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,800 him choosing the 12 all right and do it. 348 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,880 But as they were traveling about the country and and he was Jesus 349 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,680 was ministering and training them and showing them what the 350 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,400 Kingdom of God is about. We have the only account in 351 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:07,600 Scripture in John chapter 3 that tells us about being born again. 352 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,400 Let's read the account and let me define some things for you 353 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,040 because this is Jesus apostle said it dozens and dozens of 354 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,440 times. He said sometime around two or 355 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,280 three in the morning, a ruler of the Jews came to Jesus by night, 356 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,720 not as to be seen with him and ask him questions. 357 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,560 Now listen to this. He said there was a man verse 358 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,720 one at verse verse three said there was a man of the Pharisees 359 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,920 named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 360 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,680 The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we 361 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,840 know that you are a teacher, come from God, for no man can do 362 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,480 these miracles that you were doing except God be with him. 363 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:54,360 That was one of the smartest guys in the whole ruler of the 364 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:59,600 Jews group. Think at what he just said. 365 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,680 No man can do the things that you're doing except God be with 366 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,320 you. Now notice what Jesus didn't 367 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,680 say. Thank you very much. 368 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,680 I'm finally glad somebody noticed he didn't say that. 369 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,680 Jesus right quick, all right, says Jesus answered and sent in 370 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,280 him. Verily, verily I say unto you, 371 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,160 except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. 372 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,720 So there was no time for compliments. 373 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,600 Jesus didn't take 1, he just knew what the guy was after and 374 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,880 he began to tell him you cannot enter the government nor the 375 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:43,720 Kingdom of God without being what is termed in Scripture born 376 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,720 again. All right, the word born in the 377 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,800 original language, it means to procreate with the emphasis. 378 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,920 Check this out, emphasis on the father. 379 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:07,800 Look it up. He said he's got to be born of 380 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,520 the Father, the father side and it and it goes on in parentheses 381 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:18,680 with with a small interest or reckoning of the woman. 382 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:23,320 But it said it's the procreation that a father is capable of. 383 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:30,400 The word again in the Greek, the word anthem, it means from above 384 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,080 something anew from the beginning. 385 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,920 So God is saying I got to get my people back to where they were 386 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:46,520 from the beginning. Remember, Adam did not fall from 387 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:54,000 heaven, he fell from dominion. So he's telling Nicodemus, 388 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,600 listen, you are going to have to understand what I'm saying about 389 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,600 this being born again. It is not something of the 390 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,400 earth, it is something in the spirit from heaven. 391 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,160 All right. Now Nicodemus, he immediately 392 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,320 goes into the natural and he said, how can a man be born 393 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,600 again when he's old? Can he enter the second time in 394 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,520 his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answers again and says, 395 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,440 verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water in 396 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,880 the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 397 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,640 Now how many times have we heard the apostle tell us we can't be 398 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,880 smuggled in? Have we heard that? 399 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,600 So the legal way of entry into the Kingdom of God is this 400 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,040 little process called born again. 401 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,880 Now there's two thoughts to the scripture that I just read. 402 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,920 Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot 403 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,960 enter into the Kingdom of God. 2 lines of thought. 404 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:02,480 One of them, water symbolizes OK, natural birth. 405 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,360 OK, we all know what is it called an amniotic fluid. 406 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,840 And and you know, when woman's getting ready to give birth, 407 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,440 the, the, the big thing we're waking on is the water breaking, 408 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,400 right? And then doctors tell us within 409 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,000 is it 72 hours, something like that. 410 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Within 72 hours that baby's coming all right. 411 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:31,080 So when take a look at the fact that it could mean that. 412 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,520 But the the thing that I probably go with a second 413 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,320 thought a little easier because it's obvious that if you were 414 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:46,280 born into the earth, all right that you would if you let's put 415 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,360 it this way, if you were not born into the earth, you don't 416 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,160 have to worry about being born of the spirit. 417 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,880 So the fact we're all here let's us know OK, if we were born in 418 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,880 water and it is natural birth. And I can tell you where they 419 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,560 get that because in verse 6 verse he said what is flesh is 420 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,120 flesh and what is spirit is spirit. 421 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,560 But the second thought though is this is that the water is 422 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:15,040 symbolizing the word of God. Now I've got 3 references to the 423 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,520 word of God being symbolized by water. 424 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,680 The first one is John chapter 4 verse 14. 425 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,840 Jot it down. But whatsoever drink. 426 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,280 But whosoever drinketh of this water that I give, shall never 427 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,680 thirst, but the water that I give him will be in him as a 428 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,760 well of water springing up unto everlasting life. 429 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,440 The second verse is James chapter one verse 18. 430 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:52,000 It says of his own will he begat he begat he us with a word of 431 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,960 truth. In other words, the Father and 432 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:02,880 the Son birthed into us by the word of truth that we should be 433 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:09,720 a a kind of firstfruits of his creatures and first Peter 123 434 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,400 says being born again, not of corruptible seed, but 435 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:19,720 incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth 436 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,520 forever. So those two thoughts, but 437 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,920 here's the thing Jesus said is by the water and by the Spirit 438 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,000 is this new birth and Jesus told Nicodemus in verse 7. 439 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,040 Do not marvel because I tell you, you must be born again. 440 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,800 Now, again, this is the only place that we have a record of 441 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,280 Jesus using the words born again in talking to anybody. 442 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,520 And we've also learned that when Jesus initiated a conversation 443 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:54,560 with anybody or any group or any multitude on the planet, he 444 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,400 always talked about the Kingdom of God. 445 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,720 Now, the Kingdom of God is mentioned over 90 times in the 446 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:12,520 New Testament, letting us know that there was an emphasis that 447 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,640 Jesus wanted us to know concerning the government versus 448 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,400 a religion. He didn't come to give us a 449 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160 religion. What is a religion? 450 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,880 We've heard the definition before is man's attempt to reach 451 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,280 God. That's a religion. 452 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:38,680 God is letting us know His Kingdom is here so that we can 453 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,560 be reached by Him. He wants to reach us. 454 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:50,120 He came to give Jesus for us. All right, so let me explain in 455 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,200 as much detail as I can on how this new birth Jesus talked 456 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,400 about happens because you cannot get in to the Kingdom. 457 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,480 That's what he told Nicodemus. You must be born again. 458 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,480 If you're not born again, you don't get in. 459 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,880 But we need to really know what born again is and how it is 460 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,680 accomplished through Scripture. So what I give you from this 461 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,360 point on is going to be worthy of your meditation and 462 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,720 memorization because sometimes you may be talking to somebody. 463 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,880 And if you got it on your phone now, that's good, but you still 464 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,680 need to know where it's at. OK Romans chapter 10. 465 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:44,560 Verses 9 and 10 listen, you've heard these scriptures dozens 466 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,800 and dozens and dozens of time, He said. 467 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:53,120 If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe 468 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,760 in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you 469 00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,120 shall be saved. So let's talk for a minute 470 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:07,640 because do you remember the two things that I said constitute a 471 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:14,160 covenant? Anybody I know some of you look 472 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:22,040 in the last week's notes. Hey, hey, number one, blessing 473 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,440 #2 cursing are part of a covenant. 474 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,840 They are done with your mouth. You're not thinking about 475 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,920 blessing, You're not thinking about cursing. 476 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,440 You are speaking blessing and cursing with your mouth. 477 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,280 You remember that, OK, When we look at the word confess in the 478 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:50,120 New Testament and we look at it here, it is the Greek word homo 479 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:56,960 logeo. Listen to the definition. 480 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:03,800 To speak the same thing that has already been spoken. 481 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,800 To speak the same thing that has already been spoken. 482 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:18,760 It's not coming up with something to say. 483 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:24,080 It is referring to what has already been said. 484 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,920 And when you speak that a better translation in there, it says 485 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,920 you know if you confess you should, that if you will confess 486 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:39,280 Jesus as Lord is a better translation than confess with 487 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,600 your mouth the Lord Jesus. You confess you with your mouth. 488 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:49,640 Jesus is Lord. The Greek word for the word Lord 489 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:55,920 is the word kurios. KURIOS listen to the definition 490 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:05,720 Supreme in control, master. And whenever this word was 491 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,960 spoken, it always denoted ownership. 492 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:18,760 So when you come to God and you know how it happens, sometimes 493 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,560 pastor or Apostle Earl will get up here and give a great 494 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,080 message. And and I know that somebody's 495 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,760 probably being touched. They're reflecting on their own 496 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,719 lives. They're wondering, man, I just, 497 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,320 you know, I don't even really know what he's talking about, 498 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,199 but it's moving me to think there's something more about God 499 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,400 than I really know. For for believers that are not 500 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,639 walking very close to God, every message ought to be a convictor. 501 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,679 You know you're not as close as you need to be, but when he says 502 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:59,200 in here that you will speak the same thing as what Jesus has 503 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:05,640 been declared Lord, you find that in Philippians chapter 2. 504 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:10,840 All right, verses 9 through 11 said God has given him a name 505 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,960 which is above every name. At the name of Jesus, every knee 506 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,280 will bow, every tongue will confess he is Lord. 507 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,960 There'll be two times it happens, one right now while 508 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,360 you're still alive, being deceived that you're alive 509 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,040 because you're breathing and your hearts are beaten. 510 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,560 And another time will be at the White Throne Judgment where you 511 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,000 will bow before him and you say you are Lord. 512 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,880 It's a good idea to take the first opportunity, right? 513 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:51,640 But when he says that you're making Jesus Lord, you confess 514 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,360 him. You speak the same thing as been 515 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,680 declared, You are Lord. But here's where it comes to the 516 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,480 new birth part. You are my Lord. 517 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:16,480 And when you say that you are creating because how does God 518 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:25,600 create with his words? We are made in his image and his 519 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,800 likeness. So the things that you speak out 520 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:39,160 of your mouth also create. So when we say Jesus, you are my 521 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:45,400 Lord, I'm coming into agreement with the entire universe of who 522 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,120 Jesus is. You are my Lord. 523 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:53,680 You have just spoken the new creation into your life. 524 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,280 Now it's interesting because he goes on to say, and you shall 525 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,120 believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, 526 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,360 all right? And he and he said, and you will 527 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,400 be saved as we end up that verse, the word, the word 528 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,880 believe is is great word. It is the Greek word pistuo. 529 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,600 It comes from pistus, which means faith. 530 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,800 But pistuo is the verb of faith, all right. 531 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:29,400 It means to be persuaded of, to be convicted of and put total 532 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,160 trust in the person that's talking to you. 533 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,600 So we know that once we come into alignment with Jesus as 534 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,400 Lord and the problem that we have in America is that we say 535 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:55,640 nobody owns us, but cover to cover, you're going to find out 536 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:03,200 that the Bible is full of the master servant relationship. 537 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,080 Now he goes on to call us kids, but you know, there's something 538 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:17,680 about my kids, grown kids and then the not so grown kids that 539 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:23,280 I have more of than I had kids. It's 8 versus 2. 540 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:32,000 And when you think about those little people and they, you 541 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,760 know, come into your presence and you need to have help done 542 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,320 in something and they volunteer to help. 543 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,320 There are their sons and daughters. 544 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,320 But don't we love it when they want to help us with something? 545 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,800 See, that's the relationship that we want with the father is 546 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,440 that we don't serve him because he's a taskmaster. 547 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,160 And yes, he is called our owner. He is our owner. 548 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,800 Why? By right of creation he invented 549 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:10,880 us, so we are his by right of creation and all he's looking 550 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,720 for us is to come into agreement and get that new birth in 551 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:18,040 operation in our life and come and serve with Him. 552 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:26,120 Jesus let us know, he said. Listen, in the 20 chapter, verse 553 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,640 28, I believe in Matthew, he talks to the disciples. 554 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,760 They were arguing with each other who's going to be the 555 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,560 greatest? And he said a little child in 556 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,840 front of him and one, one account and said, you know, you 557 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,520 got to be like this little child and think about kids. 558 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,320 If they if, if they've been raised properly and they've had 559 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,520 a good environment and you know, they haven't been talked down to 560 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,440 their whole life, they will help you do anything. 561 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,080 Melanie tells a story about a little boy that came in and, you 562 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:02,240 know, he in a little class in, in Sunday morning and he had, he 563 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,600 had a one in a biker wallet with a chain on it. 564 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,560 And he's five years old, right. And you know, I don't know, you 565 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,160 know, what did you say his hair was like, do you have bandana on 566 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,000 or something? He had tattoos on. 567 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,920 They weren't real, you know, and he was just, you know, he was 568 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,400 just real bad. He's five years old and he is 569 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,720 really bad. And one day, you know, we were 570 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,760 trying to figure out what to do with him because he's a little 571 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,960 bit of troublemaker. And he was from, you know, a 572 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,840 part of our town that we bust children in to share the love of 573 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,040 Jesus. And the thing that changed his 574 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:41,560 life was not only asked him when he got there one day if he'd 575 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:48,160 help her. And it was like, yeah, And he 576 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,800 would help her set up the chairs and help her get out the snacks 577 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,720 and help her get all the different things going. 578 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,920 And he just came every week just willing and wanting to serve. 579 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,200 Think about that. You know, I know some adults 580 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:07,560 hadn't figured it out. Jesus said that if you're going 581 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,880 to get in, you're going to have to come as a little child. 582 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,760 Why is it little children believe everything you say? 583 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:20,120 There isn't no questioning. And then when, you know, we ask 584 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,320 them, hey, can you help us do this? 585 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,880 Oh, yeah. You know, the grandkids, 586 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,160 different things. This week's been an interesting 587 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:33,160 week. There's not a pastor closer than 588 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:40,040 about 1500 miles to this church. They're on a retreat this week, 589 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:47,960 which they deserve. And so we get the honor and the 590 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,760 privilege to watch four of our grandchildren. 591 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,760 Now I know why I loved homeschooling so much. 592 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,880 You know, you can do homeschooling in pajamas. 593 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,440 I'm not kidding. I, I changed in just two days. 594 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,400 Get them to school yesterday. We get a phone call. 595 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,520 They're texting people in Colorado. 596 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,160 Andy's come in with the wrong shoes on. 597 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,040 She's seven years old. You mean to tell me she's got 598 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,160 shoes on the wrong feet still? I mean, we got a 5050 chance of 599 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,840 getting this right. They go, no, it it's the wrong 600 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,440 color. She's wearing some white 601 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,160 something rather. And I, I just, I let kids go, 602 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:46,680 man, get them in the car. Let's get going this morning. 603 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:56,040 Now I said if I get a call today that somebody's missing a belt, 604 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,320 if I get a call today and somebody ain't got the right 605 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,640 color socks on, you're going to get a beaten. 606 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:12,880 Somebody in this family is going to get a beaten now. 607 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,680 They thought it was hilarious. OK, I was serious. 608 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:30,760 So we have a problem in America today that we don't believe like 609 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,880 we should. I can tell them kids anything 610 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,400 every morning. You know, I don't want to get up 611 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:40,400 either. But we kind of this time around 612 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,640 decided to do a system. You know, it's like you're 613 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,320 putting your clothes out before you go to bed. 614 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,920 All right, we're packing your lunches. 615 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:49,480 We're getting everything ready to go. 616 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,000 All you have to do is grab and go. 617 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,360 I'll be waiting for you in the car. 618 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:04,540 But you know, before we get out, I, we do a devotion and I'm 619 00:44:04,540 --> 00:44:07,900 telling the Bible story and they're sitting there listening 620 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:10,020 just, and you know what? They believe every word I say. 621 00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:13,080 I can make up a fairy tale and they believe he's in the Bible 622 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,440 if I said so. That's why we got to be 623 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,280 cautious, make sure we know what our Bible stories are. 624 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:21,960 You know, they like the cartoons. 625 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,760 I don't like a lot of cartoons because they do weird stuff on 626 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,520 them. Cartoons that ain't quite 627 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,120 biblical, right? But we want to make sure that 628 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,320 we're people. I want to make sure that we 629 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,360 under understand how important it is to believe. 630 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:42,720 Now the reason I said pistuo is a verb, it's continual and that 631 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:48,480 we've got to continue to hear, believe and obey. 632 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,120 Now in verse 10 of Romans 10/9 and 10 it says for with the 633 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,040 heart man believes unto righteousness and mouth 634 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,600 confession, same word is made unto salvation. 635 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,800 So what kind of salvation are we trying to get? 636 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,360 The same one I described just a minute ago. 637 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,600 So Tyria in the Greek, OK, it's based about health and safety, 638 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,880 everything we need here, not to keep us out of hell there or to 639 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,680 get us to heaven here up here. OK. 640 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:27,800 Now, one of the saddest things that we have to deal with is 641 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,440 that when somebody comes down front and don't we always have, 642 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,000 we have two counselors here, 2 counselors here. 643 00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:40,200 When people come down to them, all right, we try to instruct 644 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,840 them when they, when, when they let us know what they're there 645 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,720 for, OK, if baptism, Holy Spirit, rededication or I just 646 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,040 need to be born again, All right. 647 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,960 When they come, we're trying to let them know how the Kingdom 648 00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,000 works, that it is not a conversion experience as much as 649 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:09,560 an enrollment experience. One thing I just hate is that 650 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,840 when somebody comes down, they heard a great message. 651 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,920 We've had a great message, we've had great worship, we've had an 652 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,280 experience with God and they come down, they want to make 653 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,600 that decision and we never see them again. 654 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,400 Man, that that can't be. I visited with, you know, 655 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,520 different counselors. I oversaw the counseling 656 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:36,360 ministry in Oklahoma is part of the ministry of helps and I, I 657 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,280 challenge the people in the next service. 658 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:46,520 I said, I will meet you at the door where the greeters are and 659 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,920 then tell them what time I'll be there and what time you need to 660 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,480 be here. And I will take them to a class 661 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,600 because we're enrolling them. And this is, you know, the thing 662 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,600 we, we really need to understand. 663 00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,880 And let's go to Matthew 28 because when Jesus talked to us 664 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:06,760 about being born again and that conversion experience and we 665 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:11,840 speak it into existence, into our lives, we have a brand new 666 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,360 spirit alive unto God. It's not a rebuilt spirit. 667 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,880 It is a brand new spirit. There's one translator that said 668 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,760 a species of being that has never before existed. 669 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,160 We are brand new. We're not patched up. 670 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,360 You know, we're not our, you know what they call a 671 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:35,840 remanufactured all right, We are totally a brand new. 672 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,200 We speak into existence that brand new spirit on the inside, 673 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,160 but in Matthew chapter 28 in verse 19, he says go therefore 674 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,000 and teach all nations. The word teaching the Greek is 675 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:55,560 the word Matthew 2O and it means to enroll pupils or students. 676 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:03,560 It's not make converts, converts or conversions of all nations. 677 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:08,280 He said, You going to make students or pupils of mine of 678 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,680 all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, 679 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,880 and the Holy Ghost. If you'll remember when you go 680 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:21,320 under the water and you come up out of that water, you are 681 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:27,320 telling the Father that I am no longer here to live my own will. 682 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:36,360 I'm only here to say and to do whatever you tell me to say and 683 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,880 to do. That was Jesus life. 684 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,360 He gave us the perfect example of what a person that is born 685 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,400 again should look like. He didn't have to get born again 686 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:51,760 because He was perfect, but He made himself a sacrifice for us 687 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,440 that He could bring us into that same realm that He's in, and 688 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,960 that is one that is totally obedient to the Father. 689 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,440 And so he lets us know, He said in the name of the Father, the 690 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,120 Son, the Holy Ghost. Verse 20, teaching them to 691 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,240 observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I'm 692 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:10,240 with you always, even to the end of the world. 693 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,440 Amen. Well, notice what he said. 694 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:14,920 He said teaching them to observe. 695 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,560 That's a totally different word in the Greek. 696 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:22,240 It is the word did ask a loss. Did ask a loss. 697 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:28,440 It's spelled just like it sound DIDASKLOS and I one time in a 698 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,400 class that I was teaching and I brought I wrote it up on the 699 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,920 board and I erased the S and put AT there. 700 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,160 I said, because if you want to be a teacher of the word of God, 701 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,280 you had better be somebody that did ask a lot of questions. 702 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,360 True. So when we talk about how 703 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:56,560 important understanding what it is we are to enroll students and 704 00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,360 I love and I don't have it in my notes. 705 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:06,320 Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 he lets us know that 706 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:12,720 everyone in Christ that has come into Christ is a new creation, a 707 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:14,880 new creature, old things are passed away. 708 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,800 Behold, all things are new, next verse says, and all those new 709 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:24,480 things are of God who has reconciled himself to us and let 710 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,960 us know, hey, listen, we have a new life that we can live in 711 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,920 him, but it's got to be totally surrendered. 712 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:36,240 All right, so I was looking today online and and it's 713 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:37,920 amazing. They knew I was wrapping up. 714 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:46,600 You guys are phenom. I looked up today US citizenship 715 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:53,800 eligibility requirements. There was only four of them. 716 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,920 You want to know what the first one was? 717 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,520 Residency. You must have a permanent 718 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:06,760 resident or a green card for at least five years if you're going 719 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,240 to be a citizen or be eligible to become a citizen. 720 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,280 And I just changed that from residency. 721 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:21,480 Residency to find a church. Know what the next one is 722 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:28,280 Physical presence. You must have lived within the 723 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,840 United States for at least half of the five years or three years 724 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,280 if your spouse is AUS citizen immediately prior to your filing 725 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,360 citizenship, citizenship application. 726 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,080 And I put up there under physical presence. 727 00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:54,320 I put show up and participate in your church #3 good moral 728 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:59,080 character. Wow. 729 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:06,560 I put up there next to it. Get in His Word and find out 730 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:14,120 what lifestyle pleases the Lord. Guess where you're not going to 731 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:22,480 find that out at the bar. Had somebody the other day say, 732 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,640 you know, well, I heard that speaking in tongues is of the 733 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,440 devil. And I said, you know what's 734 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,840 funny about that? My former pastor said, you know 735 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,440 what? When I was living for the devil, 736 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,920 I was living for the devil. And he said, and I went to a lot 737 00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:44,640 of bars and I never heard one person speaking tongues in that 738 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:49,080 bar. And I knew there was a lot of 739 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,640 people of the devil in there, and not one of them ever spoken 740 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:55,360 to him. I said that was good man. 741 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,040 I'll never forget that as long as I live, all right. 742 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,240 But I thought it was funny because under this particular 1. 743 00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:03,440 He said you must be a person of a good moral character. 744 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,800 During the five years or three years. 745 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,040 If you're a spouse to AUS citizen proceeding your 746 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,880 citizenship application. If you're concerned about your 747 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,920 criminal record potentially impacting your eligibility for 748 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,040 US citizenship, it's recommended to seek advice of a licensed 749 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:20,320 immigration attorney. A criminal record can have a 750 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,720 significant effect on your ability to obtain citizenship. 751 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,120 You know just it's the world man. 752 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,680 But here's #4 it's a good one. Oath of allegiance. 753 00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:41,880 When you confess Jesus as Lord, you are making a verbal 754 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:47,200 covenant. You are performing an oath of 755 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:52,360 allegiance to another government called the Kingdom of God. 756 00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,880 You no longer have a right to live the way you want. 757 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,800 You have to live by the governing authority of the 758 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:09,240 Kingdom of God. Believe me, the book is full of 759 00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,920 right and wrong ways to handle situations. 760 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,560 Just listen to Jesus, He'll guide you. 761 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,880 You get filled with the Holy Spirit, He'll guide you based 762 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:23,080 upon what he hears Jesus tell you, all right? 763 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,400 He'll guide you because he hears Jesus and he's going to tell 764 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,680 you, all right. But I think if the oath to the 765 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:34,800 allegiance to the United States, renouncing any prior allegiances 766 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:41,760 to foreign states, when you confess Jesus is Lord, you are 767 00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:49,680 now making a verbal covenant and an oath to the Lord Jesus and 768 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,840 you're turning your back on every other lifestyle you've 769 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,920 ever come in contact with. Does that make sense? 770 00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:58,720 Anybody get anything out of that? 771 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,480 Amen. All right, let's, let's, let's 772 00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,560 find out if anybody needs to respond tonight. 773 00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,600 Father, I thank you and praise you for your word. 774 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,120 Your word's so clear. It gives us such good 775 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,800 illustration of understanding. You know, you may be here 776 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,320 tonight and you'd say, Reverend Randy, I, I've, I have never, 777 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:19,840 you know, committed my life to Christ. 778 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,000 I have never made him Lord. I've never confessed him as 779 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,520 Lord. I'm not even ever been baptized. 780 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,520 Those are steps that you'll need to take. 781 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,320 But you want to make sure that you've done what is needed to be 782 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,800 done by the confession of your mouth as Jesus is Lord and come 783 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,360 to the place where he is put his name here to be able to 784 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,480 understand how and what is required of you to live that new 785 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:46,800 life. Is there anybody that'd say 786 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,120 Randy need to be born again? Anybody. 787 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:50,760 I'm looking. I don't. 788 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,040 I don't really beg people. I just said it. 789 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:57,760 You know, we talked about the exit ramp last week, right? 790 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,760 Everybody's on the same Rd. They're headed for the same 791 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,480 destination. It's total separation from God 792 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,600 forever. You shouldn't have to beg people 793 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,800 to get off that road. Take the exit. 794 00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,000 The blood of Jesus. Amen.