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Speaker 1: Fight the good fight of faith, Lay hold on eternal life,

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Speaker 1: whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good

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Speaker 1: profession before my witnesses Verse Timothy six twelve. My Father

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Speaker 1: and my God, Please help me to renew my spirit

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Speaker 1: and keep my eyes fixed on you to day. Please

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Speaker 1: help me to fight against any adversity and opposition so

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Speaker 1: that I can remain confident in You. I will undoubtedly

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Speaker 1: face many obstacles and lose my focus. Please help divert

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Speaker 1: my attention back to You when these circumstances arise. Fill

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Speaker 1: my mind and body with your power so that I

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Speaker 1: can fight against any negative feelings that try to deter

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Speaker 1: me away from You. Allow my words to speak your

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Speaker 1: truth despite the situations unfolding around me, so that I

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Speaker 1: may walk in victorious peace. Amen. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible

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Speaker 1: message from our feature pastor, stay tuned to pray dot

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Speaker 1: COM's Sunday service.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that up to eighty to ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of those making a decision to follow Christ will fall

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: Yes, It's true. Did you know that Jesus used a

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Speaker 2: principle to reach the lost that was also used by

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Speaker 2: the Apostle Paul and Stephen and Timothy, also Charles Spurgeon,

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Speaker 2: John Wesley, George Whitfield, and other great preachers of the past,

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Speaker 2: that has been almost entirely forgotten about by the church today.

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Speaker 2: Don't let anything stop you from listening to this incredible teaching.

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Speaker 3: Me. As I beget to travel, I had access to

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Speaker 3: chuld growth records and found to my horror that something

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Speaker 3: like eighty to ninety percent of those making a decision

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Speaker 3: for Christ or falling away from the faith that is,

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Speaker 3: modern evangelism, with its methods, was creating something like eighty

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Speaker 3: to ninety of what we commonly call backsliders for every

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Speaker 3: hundred decisions for Christ. Let me make it more real

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Speaker 3: for you. In nineteen ninety one, in the first year

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Speaker 3: of the Decade of Harvest, a major denomination in the

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Speaker 3: major denomination of eleven and a half thousand churches was

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Speaker 3: which means they couldn't account for two hundred and eighty

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Speaker 3: and something I discovered way back in the seventies or

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Speaker 3: late seventies who greatly concerned me. I began to study

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Speaker 3: the Book of Romans intently and specifically the Gospel proclamation

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Speaker 3: of men like Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney Whitfield, Luther, others

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Speaker 3: modern methods. I began teaching that principle. Was eventually invited

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Speaker 3: Church of the US. Things were quiet for the first

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Speaker 3: who had seen the teaching on video, and he flew

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Speaker 3: Wilkinson called from New York called from his car. He

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Speaker 3: to this teaching, which is called Hell's best kept secret.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says in Psalm nineteen, verse seven, the law

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Speaker 3: James says, convinced of the law as a transgressor, the

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Speaker 3: Now we know the wats of the things the law says.

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Speaker 3: In Galatians three twenty four. Wherefore, the Law was our

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Speaker 3: other words, Jesus will improve your flight. So the sinner

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Speaker 3: we should be warning the passengers they're going to have

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Speaker 3: know that men are present and men need to be

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Speaker 3: told things twice. Men need to be told things twice.

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Speaker 3: This can be backed up biblically. When God speaks to

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Speaker 3: men in the Bible, he uses the name twice Abraham, Abraham, Saul, Saul, Moses, Moses, Samuel, Samuel,

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Speaker 3: because men need to be told things twice, women once.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how many times I've sat in a pew,

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Speaker 3: preacher said I Luke ten twenty five. I turn to

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Speaker 3: my wife and say, what do you say? She's a

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Speaker 3: Sluke ten twenty five. I said, thank you, dear, help mate.

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Speaker 3: That's why God created women, because men could not handle

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Speaker 3: it on their own. The whole thing is men lose things,

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Speaker 3: women find things. Where's the keys? Love hanging on your nose? Dear?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how he ties home in

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Speaker 3: a cabin. There's no honey here, Honey, she says, here

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Speaker 3: is here, dear? Where would man be without woman? Still

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Speaker 3: in the garden of Eden, Eve found the tree. Adam

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Speaker 3: didn't really know what was going on. In fact, if

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Speaker 3: you look at the creation of woman. To create woman,

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Speaker 3: the Bible says God put man into a deep sleep,

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Speaker 3: and scripture doesn't say if it came out of it.

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Speaker 3: In Luke ten twenty five, we see a certain lawyer

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Speaker 3: stood up and tempted Jesus. This is not an attorney,

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Speaker 3: but a professing expert in God's law stood up and

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Speaker 3: he said to Jesus, how can I get ever lasting life? Now?

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Speaker 3: What did Jesus do? He gave him law? Why? Because

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Speaker 3: he was proud, arrogant, self righteous. Here we have a

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Speaker 3: professing expert in God's law tempting the son of God.

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Speaker 3: The spirit of his question was, and what do you

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Speaker 3: think We've got to do to get ever lasting life?

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Speaker 3: Said Jesus gave him law. He says, what is written

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Speaker 3: in the law. What is your reading of it? And

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Speaker 3: he says, ah, you shall love the Lord, your gobbled,

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Speaker 3: your heart, mind's soul, and strength, love your neighbors, yourself.

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Speaker 3: And Jesus said this do and you shall live. Minuscriture says,

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Speaker 3: but he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, who's

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Speaker 3: my neighbor. The Living Bible brings that more clearly the

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Speaker 3: effect of the law and the man, and said. The

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Speaker 3: man wanted to justify his lack of love for some

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Speaker 3: kinds of people, so he asked which neighbors. See, he

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Speaker 3: didn't mind Jews, but he didn't like Samaritans. So Jesus

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Speaker 3: then told him the story of what we call the

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Speaker 3: good Samaritan, who was not good at all, and loving

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Speaker 3: his neighbor as much as he loved himself. He merely

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Speaker 3: obeyed the basic requirements of God's law, and the effect

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Speaker 3: of the essence of the law, the spirituality of the law,

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Speaker 3: of what the law demands in truth, was that that

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Speaker 3: man's mouth was stopped. See he didn't love his neighbor

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Speaker 3: to that degree. The law was given to stop every

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Speaker 3: mouth and leave the whole world guilty before God. Similarly,

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Speaker 3: in Luke eighteen, verse eighteen, the rich young ruler came

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Speaker 3: to Jesus said, how can a get everlasting life? I mean,

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Speaker 3: how would most of us react if someone come up

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Speaker 3: and said, how can I get everlasting life? We'd say, oh,

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Speaker 3: quickly say this prayer before you change your mind. But

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Speaker 3: what did Jesus do with this potential convert He pointed

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Speaker 3: him to the law. He gave him five horizontal commandments,

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Speaker 3: commandments to do with his fellow men. And when he said, Ah,

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Speaker 3: have kept those from our youth, Jesus said, one thing

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Speaker 3: you lack, and he used the essence of the first

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Speaker 3: of the ten commandments. I am the Lord your God.

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Speaker 3: You shall have no other gods before me, to show

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Speaker 3: this man that his God was his money, and you

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Speaker 3: cannot serve God and mammon, Lord of the proud. Then

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Speaker 3: we see grace being given to the humble in the

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Speaker 3: case of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a leader of the Jews.

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Speaker 3: He was a teacher in Israel. Therefore he was thoroughly

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Speaker 3: versed in God's law. He was humble of heart because

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Speaker 3: he came to Jesus and acknowledged the deity of the

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Speaker 3: son of God, a leader in Israel. We know that

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Speaker 3: you've come from God. For no man can do these

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Speaker 3: miracles that you do unless God is with him. So

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Speaker 3: Jesus gave the sincere seeker of truth, through had a

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Speaker 3: humble heart and a knowledge of send via the law,

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Speaker 3: the good news of the fine being paid for him.

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Speaker 3: For God's soul loved the world that he gave his

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Speaker 3: only begotten son and it was not foolishness to Nicodemus,

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Speaker 3: but the power of God to salvation. Similarly, a case

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Speaker 3: of Nathaniel. Nathaniel was an Israel brought up under the law,

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Speaker 3: indeed not just in word, in whom there was no guile,

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Speaker 3: There was no deceitnous heart. Obviously, the Law was a

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Speaker 3: schoolmaster to bring this godly Jew to Christ. Similar were

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Speaker 3: the Jews on the Pentecost. They were devout Jews, godly Jews.

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Speaker 3: Therefore ate drank and slept God's law. Matthew Henry, the

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Speaker 3: Bible commentator, said, the reason they were gathered together on

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Speaker 3: the dad Pentecost was to celebrate the giving of God's

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Speaker 3: Law and Mount Sinai. So when Peter stood up to

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Speaker 3: preach to these godly Jews, he didn't preach wrath. Now

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Speaker 3: the law works wrath. They knew that. He didn't preach

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Speaker 3: righteousness or judgment. No, no, he just told them the

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Speaker 3: good news of the fine being paid for them. And

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Speaker 3: they were pricked in their heart and cried, men and brethren,

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Speaker 3: what should we do? The Law was a schoolmaster to

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Speaker 3: bring them to Christ. They might be justified through faith

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Speaker 3: in His blood. As the hymn writer said, by God's would,

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Speaker 3: at last my sin I learned. Then I trembled at

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Speaker 3: the law I'd spurned, till my guilty soul, imploring turned

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Speaker 3: to Calvary. First Timothy. Chapter one, verse eight says, but

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Speaker 3: we know that the law is good if it is

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Speaker 3: used lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed.

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Speaker 3: God's law is good if it's used lawfully for the

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Speaker 3: purpose for what it was designed. What was the law

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Speaker 3: designed for? Following verse tells us the law was not

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Speaker 3: made for a righteous man, but for sinners, and even

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Speaker 3: lests of sinners homosexuals fornicatus. If you want to bring

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Speaker 3: a homosexual to Christ, don't get into an argument with

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Speaker 3: him over his perversion. He's ready for you with boxing

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Speaker 3: gloves on. No, no, give him the Ten Commandments. The

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Speaker 3: law was made for homosexuals. Show him that he is

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Speaker 3: damned despite his perversion. If you want to bring a

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Speaker 3: Judah Christ, lay the way of the law upon him.

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Speaker 3: Let it prepare his heart for grace has happened on

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Speaker 3: the day of pencast. You want to bring a mauslem

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Speaker 3: to Christ, give them the law of Moses. They accept

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Speaker 3: Moses as a prophet, we'll give them the law of

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Speaker 3: Moses and strip them of the self righteousness and bring

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Speaker 3: them to the foot of a bloodstained cross. I heard

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Speaker 3: of a mauslem reading a book, How's best kept secret?

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Speaker 3: And God soundly saved them purely for reading of the book.

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Speaker 3: Why because the law of the Lord is perfect converting

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Speaker 3: the soul. Think of the woman caught in the act

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Speaker 3: of adultery, violation of the seventh Commandment. The law called

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Speaker 3: for her blood. She found herself between a rock and

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Speaker 3: a hard place. She had no avenue but to fling

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Speaker 3: herself at the feet of the Son of God for mercy.

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Speaker 3: And that is the function of God's law. Paul spoke

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Speaker 3: of being shut up under the law it condemns. You say, oh,

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Speaker 3: you can't condemn sinners, since they are already condemned John three,

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Speaker 3: verse seventeen. He that believes not is condemned already. All

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Speaker 3: the law does is show him himself in his true state.

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Speaker 3: Your table needs dusting in your living room, so you

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Speaker 3: dust it clean. All the dust is gone. Then you

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Speaker 3: draw back the curtains and let in the early morning sunlight.

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Speaker 3: What do you see on the table dust? What do

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Speaker 3: you see in the air dust? Did the light create

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Speaker 3: the dust? The light merely exposed the dust. And when

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Speaker 3: you and I take the time to draw back the

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Speaker 3: curtains of the Holy of Holies and the light of

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Speaker 3: God's Law shine upon the sinner's heart, all that happens

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Speaker 3: is that he sees himself in truth. The commandment is

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Speaker 3: a lamp and the Law is light. That's why Paul said,

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Speaker 3: by the Law is the knowledge of sin. That's why

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Speaker 3: he said by the commandment sin became exceedingly sinful. In

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Speaker 3: other words, the Law showed him thin in its true light. Now, normally,

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Speaker 3: at this stage of the teaching, I guess for the

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Speaker 3: ten commments one by one. But what I'll do is

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Speaker 3: share with you how I witness personally, because I think

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Speaker 3: it would have been more beneficial. Now. I'm a strong

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Speaker 3: believer in following the footsteps of Jesus. Never ever would

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Speaker 3: I approach someone and say Jesus loves you, totally unbiblical.

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Speaker 3: There's no precedent for that in scripture. Neither would I

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Speaker 3: go up to someone and say, I'd like to talk

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Speaker 3: to you about Jesus Christ. Why because if I want

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Speaker 3: to waken you from a deep sleep, I wouldn't use

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Speaker 3: a flashlight in your eyes. That would offend you, I'd

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Speaker 3: turn on and like to him very gently, First the natural,

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Speaker 3: then the spiritual. Why because the natural man receives not

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Speaker 3: the things of the spirit of God, neither can he

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Speaker 3: know them. A foolishness to him, because they spiritually understood

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Speaker 3: the president in scripture is given in John fourth. For

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Speaker 3: personal witness, we can see Jesus example with the woman

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Speaker 3: at the well. He started in the natural realm, swung

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Speaker 3: to the spiritual, bought conviction using the seventh Commandment, and

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Speaker 3: then revealed himself as the Messiah. When I meet someone,

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Speaker 3: I'll talk about the weather, I talk about sport, let

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Speaker 3: them feel a little bit of sanity, get to know them,

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Speaker 3: maybe joke here and there, and then deliberately swing from

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Speaker 3: the natural to the spiritual. Now, the way I do

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Speaker 3: this is that I use gospel tracks. We're a ministry

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Speaker 3: to the body of Christ. I printed millions and millions

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Speaker 3: of tracks, and our tracks are unusual. If you get

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Speaker 3: hold of them, what you'll have to do is have

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Speaker 3: a stack on you, because people chase you and ask

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Speaker 3: for more. Let me give you an example. This is

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Speaker 3: our optical illusion track, which looks bigger if you can

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Speaker 3: see does the pink look bigger. You see that for

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Speaker 3: those listening by tape that the same size. It's an

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Speaker 3: optical illusion. I say, it's actually a gospel track. Instructions

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Speaker 3: are on the back how to get saved at say

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Speaker 3: say you can keep that. He say, hey, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 3: This is me. Got another gift for you. Out of

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Speaker 3: my pocket. I get a pressed penny with the Ten

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Speaker 3: Commandments are we have a machine that does this. We

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Speaker 3: buy the pennies new from the bank, nice golden looking pennies,

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Speaker 3: and we feed them into this machine and it presses them.

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Speaker 3: We'll do your thumbnail if you want to hold still,

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Speaker 3: but oppresses some of the Ten Commandments. It's legal to

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Speaker 3: do this. This is considered artists not defacing a penny.

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Speaker 3: So I say, here's a gift. He says, well, what

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Speaker 3: is it as that's a penny with the ten commandments?

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Speaker 3: Aren't did it with my teeth? Do the eyes with

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Speaker 3: my eye? Teeth? But the ease are really difficult. Now.

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Speaker 3: What I'm doing is I am putting out a feeler

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Speaker 3: to see if he's open to spiritual things. If he

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Speaker 3: says ten commandments, thanks a lot, is not open. But

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Speaker 3: the usual reaction is ten commandents. Hey, thanks, appreciate this.

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Speaker 3: I said, Ah, you think you've kept the ten commandment?

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Speaker 3: Says noyeh, pretty much. He said, let's go through them.

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Speaker 3: You ever told a lie? He zah, yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 3: wanted to. So what does that make you? He is

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Speaker 3: a sinner? I said no, no, specifically, what does it

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Speaker 3: make you? He said? Well, man, I'm not a liar?

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Speaker 3: So I say, how many lies? Then? Do you have

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Speaker 3: to tell to be a liar? Ten? And a bell

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Speaker 3: rings and pull across your forehead? Is that sure? You

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Speaker 3: tell one liar makes you a liar? He says, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I guess you're right. So have you ever stolen something?

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Speaker 3: He says no, Say come on, you've just admitted to

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Speaker 3: me you're a liar. Has he ever stolen something? You have?

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Speaker 3: It small? He says, year. So what does that make you?

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Speaker 3: Says a thief? So Jesus said, if you look at

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Speaker 3: a woman and last after he commit adultery with her

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Speaker 3: in your heart? Ever done that? He says, yeah, plenty

638
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Speaker 3: of times. He said, from your own admission, you're a lying, thieving,

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Speaker 3: adulter at heart, and you have to face God on

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Speaker 3: judgment day. And women, he looked at three of the

641
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Speaker 3: ten commandments. There's another seven with your cannonet's pointed edge.

642
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Speaker 3: Ever used God's name in vain? Yeah, I've been trying

643
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Speaker 3: to stop. You know what you're doing. Instead of using

644
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Speaker 3: a folly of filth word beginning with S to express disgust,

645
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Speaker 3: you're using God's name in its place. That's called blasphemy.

646
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Speaker 3: And the Bible says, every idle word a man speaks,

647
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Speaker 3: you've given account the rat on the day of judgment.

648
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Speaker 3: The law will not hold him guiltless who takes his

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Speaker 3: name in vain. Bible says, if you hate someone, you

650
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Speaker 3: are a murderer. And a wonderful thing about God's law

651
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Speaker 3: is a God has taken the time to write it

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Speaker 3: upon our heart Romans two, verse fifteen, which show the

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Speaker 3: work of the law written in their hearts. The conscience

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Speaker 3: bearing witness. Now conscience means with knowledge, connors with science

655
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Speaker 3: is knowledge conscience. So when he lies, LUs fornicates, blasphemes,

656
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Speaker 3: commits adultery, he does it with knowledge that it's wrong.

657
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Speaker 3: God has given light to every man. The Holy Spirit

658
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Speaker 3: convicts him of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Sin which is

659
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Speaker 3: transgression of the law, righteousness which is of the law.

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Speaker 3: Judgment which is by the law. His conscience accuses him,

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Speaker 3: the work of the law written on his heart, and

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Speaker 3: the law condemns him. So I say, so, if God

663
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Speaker 3: judges you by this standard on the day of judgment,

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Speaker 3: you're going to be innocent guilty. He says guilty. I say, well,

665
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Speaker 3: do you think you're go to heaven or hell? And

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Speaker 3: the usual answer is heaven, product of the modern gospel.

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Speaker 3: I say, why do you feel like that is because

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Speaker 3: you think God is good and you'll overlook your sins.

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Speaker 3: He sa, that's it, He'll overlook my sins. I said,

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Speaker 3: we'll try that in the court of law. You've committed rape, murder,

671
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Speaker 3: drug pushing, very serious crimes. The judge says, you're guilty.

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Speaker 3: All the evidence is here. Have you anything to say

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Speaker 3: before I pass sentence? And you say yes, judge like

674
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Speaker 3: to say, I believe you're a good man and you'll

675
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Speaker 3: overlook my crimes. The judge would probably say you're right

676
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Speaker 3: about one thing. I am a good man, and because

677
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Speaker 3: of my goodness, I'm going to see that justice is done.

678
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: Because of my goodness, I'm going to see that you're punished.

679
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Speaker 3: And the very thing that sinners are hoping will save them.

680
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Speaker 3: On the day of judgment, the goodness of God will

681
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Speaker 3: be the very thing that will condemn them. Because of

682
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Speaker 3: God is good, he must by nature punish murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, fornicators, blasphemous.

683
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Speaker 3: God is going to punish sin wherever it's found. So

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Speaker 3: with this knowledge, he's now able to understand. He now

685
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Speaker 3: has light that a sinner is primarily vertical, that he

686
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Speaker 3: has sinned against Heaven, that he has violated God's law,

687
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Speaker 3: and he has angered God, and the wrath of God

688
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 3: abides upon her. You can now see these weighed in

689
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Speaker 3: the balance of eternal justice and found wanting. You can

690
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 3: now understand the need for a sacrifice. Christ redeemed us

691
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Speaker 3: from the curse of the law being made a curse

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Speaker 3: for us. God commanded his love toward us, and that

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Speaker 3: while we yet sinners, Christ died for us. We broke

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Speaker 3: the law. He paid the fine. It's as simple as that.

695
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Speaker 3: And if a man will repent, if a woman will

696
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Speaker 3: repent and put their faith in Jesus, God will remit

697
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Speaker 3: their sin so that on the day of judgment, when

698
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Speaker 3: their court case comes up, God can say, your case

699
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Speaker 3: is dismissed through lack of evidence Christ redeemed us from

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Speaker 3: the curse of the law being made a curse for us,

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Speaker 3: and therefore exercise repentance towards God faith to it. The

702
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Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ put his hand in a plow and

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Speaker 3: not look back, because he's fit for the kingdom. That

704
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 3: word fit means ready for use. The soil of his

705
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: heart has been turned that he might receive the ingrafted

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Speaker 3: word which is able to save the soul. Now, I

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Speaker 3: haven't got time to share these quotes with you, but

708
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Speaker 3: they're in literature. These men, I'm sure you recognize their names.

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Speaker 3: John Wycliffe, he said, this is the Bible translator, said,

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Speaker 3: the highest service to which a man may attain on

711
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 3: earth is to preach the law of God. Why because

712
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 3: it'll drive sinners to faith in the Savior to everlasting life.

713
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Speaker 3: Martin Luther said, the first duty of the gospel preacher

714
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Speaker 3: is to declare God's law and show the nature of sin.

715
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Speaker 3: In fact, as we read these quotes, these men are

716
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Speaker 3: so they have so much conviction you can feel their

717
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 3: teeth grit. They say things like, if you do not

718
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 3: use the law in gospel proclamation, you will fill the

719
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Speaker 3: church with false converts. Stony ground hearers who will receive

720
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Speaker 3: the Word with joy and gladness. Listen, what Martin Luther said,

721
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Speaker 3: is it Satan, the god of all dissension, stirs up

722
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Speaker 3: daily new sects, the last of all, which are all others.

723
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Speaker 3: I should never have foreseen or once suspected. He's raised

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Speaker 3: up a sect such as teach that men should not

725
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Speaker 3: be terrified by the law, but generally exhorted by the

726
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Speaker 3: preaching of the grace of Christ. So what's Luther saying.

727
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Speaker 3: He's saying, Listen, guys, there's a demonic Satanic sectors just

728
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 3: risen up man. I never ever would have believed this

729
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Speaker 3: could happen. He's raised up a sex such as teach

730
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Speaker 3: that men should not be terrified by the law, but

731
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Speaker 3: gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ,

732
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Speaker 3: which perfectly sums up most of evangelism. Matthew Henry John

733
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Speaker 3: Wesley said to a friend of writing to a young evangelist,

734
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Speaker 3: he said, preach ninety percent law and ten percent grace.

735
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Speaker 3: And you say, ninety percent law ten percent grace. Pretty heavy?

736
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Speaker 3: Couldn't it be fifty to fifty? Think of it like this.

737
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Speaker 3: I'm a doctor, you're a patient. You have a terminal disease.

738
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Speaker 3: I have a cure, but it's absolutely essential that you

739
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: are totally committed to this cure. If you're not one

740
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: hundred percent committed, it will not work. How am I

741
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Speaker 3: going to handle it? Probably like this. Come in here,

742
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 3: sit down, have some very serious news for you. You

743
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 3: have a terminal disease. I see you begin to shake.

744
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 3: I think to myself, good, he's beginning to see the

745
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Speaker 3: seriousness of the situation. I bring out charts, I bring

746
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 3: out X rays. I show you the poison seeping through

747
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: your system. I speak to you for ten whole minutes

748
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Speaker 3: about this terrible disease. How long then do you think

749
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Speaker 3: I'm going to have to talk about the cure? Not

750
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Speaker 3: long at all. When he's sitting there trembling, after tenants,

751
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: I say, by the way, here's the cure. You go to.

752
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 3: Your knowledge of the disease, and a terrific consequence has

753
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: made you desire the cure. You see, before I was

754
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 3: a Christian, I had as much desire for righteousness as

755
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 3: a four year old boy has for the word bath.

756
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 3: What's the point? See, Jesus said, a blessed of those

757
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 3: who hunger and thirst after righteousness. How many non Christians.

758
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 3: Do you know who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness?

759
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 3: The Bible says there's none that seeks after God. Since

760
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: they love the darkness, they hate the light. Neither will

761
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 3: they come to the light least their needs be exposed.

762
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 3: The only thing they'd drink in is iniquity like water.

763
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 3: But the night I was confronted with the spiritual nature

764
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 3: of God's law and understood that God requires truth in

765
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 3: the inward parts that he saw my thought life, and

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Speaker 3: considered lust to be the same as adultery, hatred, the

767
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 3: same as murder. I began to say, I can see

768
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Speaker 3: I'm condemned. What must I do to be made right?

769
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: I began to thirst for righteousness. The law puts salt

770
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Speaker 3: on my tongue. It was a schoolmaster to bring me

771
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Speaker 3: to Christ. Charles Spurgeon said, they will never accept grace

772
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 3: until they tremble before a just and holy law. Dearl Moody,

773
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Speaker 3: John Bunyan, John Newton who wrote Amazing Grace, and if

774
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Speaker 3: any one had a grip on grace, it was Newton.

775
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 3: He said that the correct understanding of the harmony between

776
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 3: law and grace is to preserve one's self from being

777
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: entangled by errors on the right hand and on the left.

778
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Speaker 3: Charles Phiney said, evermore, the law must prepare the way

779
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Speaker 3: for the Gospel. He said, to overlook this and instructing

780
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 3: souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the

781
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 3: introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to

782
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: fill the church with false converts saints. The first thing

783
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Speaker 3: David Wilkeson said to me when he called me on

784
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Speaker 3: his car phone was I thought I was the only

785
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Speaker 3: one who didn't believe in follow up. Now I believe

786
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 3: in feeding a new convert. I believe in nurturing him.

787
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 3: I believe in descipling him biblical and most necessary. But

788
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 3: I don't believe in following him. I can't find it

789
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Speaker 3: in scripture that Ethiopian Eunich was left without follow up.

790
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 3: How could he survive? All he had was God and

791
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 3: the scriptures. You see, it's my understanding. You know what

792
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 3: follow up? Now, let me explain follow up for those

793
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 3: of you who don't know. Follow up is when we

794
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 3: get decisions, either through crusades or local church, and we

795
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 3: take laborers from the harvest fields, who are few as

796
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 3: it is, and give them this disheartening task of running

797
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 3: after these decisions to make sure they're going on with God.

798
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 3: What it is is a sad admission to the amount

799
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Speaker 3: of confidence we have in the power of our message

800
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Speaker 3: and in the keeping power of God. If God has

801
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: saved them, God will keep them. They're born of God.

802
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 3: They'll never die. If He's begun a good work in them,

803
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 3: he'll complete it to that day. If he's the author

804
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 3: of their faith, he'll be the finish of their faith.

805
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 3: He's able to save to the outlast them that come

806
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 3: to God by him. He's able to keep them from falling,

807
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Speaker 3: present them faultless. Before the presence was glory with exceeding joy. Jesus,

808
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 3: that no one will pluck you from my Father's hand.

809
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: See the problem is, Saints. Lazarus is four days dead.

810
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: We can run on the tomb, we can pull him out,

811
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Speaker 3: we can prop him up, we can open his eyes,

812
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: but he stinketh. He needs to hear the voice of

813
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 3: the Son of God, and the sinner there's four days

814
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 3: dead in his sins. We can run up and say

815
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 3: say this prayer. Still, he needs to hear the voice

816
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 3: of the Son of God or there is no life

817
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 3: in him. And the things that primes. The sinner's here

818
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: to hear the voice of the Son of God is

819
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Speaker 3: the law. It's a schoolmaster to bring him to Christ,

820
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Speaker 3: that he might be justified through faith saints. The law works,

821
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Speaker 3: It converts the soul, that makes a person a new

822
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: creature in Christ, that all things pass away. Behold, all

823
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Speaker 3: things have become new. So find yourself a sinner, an

824
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: experiment on him. But as you do so, remember this

825
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 3: one anecdote. You're sitting on a plane. You're suffering your coffee,

826
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Speaker 3: you're biting your cookie, you're watching a movie. It's a

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00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 3: good flight, very pleasurable, and suddenly you hear, this is

828
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 3: your captain speaking of an announcement to make because the

829
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: tail section has just formed this plane you're about to

830
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 3: crash as a twenty five thousand foot drop. There's a

831
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Speaker 3: parachute under your seat. We appreciate it if you put

832
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Speaker 3: it on. Thank you for your attention, and thank you

833
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 3: for flying with this airline. You say, what twenty one

834
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Speaker 3: thousand feet man, I'm I glad to be in this parachute.

835
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Speaker 3: You look next to the guy next to his biting

836
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Speaker 3: his cookie, supping his coffee, watching the movie. You say,

837
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 3: excuse me, did you hit a captain put the parachute on,

838
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 3: turns to you and says, I really don't think the captain

839
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Speaker 3: means besides him, quiet appis and thanks. Don't turn Tomans

840
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Speaker 3: and see a zeal and say, oh, please put the

841
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Speaker 3: parachute on. It'll be better than the movie. But that

842
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense. If you tell him somehow the parachute

843
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 3: is going to improve his flight, he's going to put

844
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: it on for a wrong motive. If you wanted to

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Speaker 3: put it on and keep it on, tell him about

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Speaker 3: the jump. Excuse me, ignore the captain. If you wish

847
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Speaker 3: jump without a parachute. Splat, he says, I'm sorry, I

848
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Speaker 3: beg your pardon. I said, if you jump without a parachute,

849
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Speaker 3: law of gravity on the ground, he says, oh, who

850
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Speaker 3: knows me? I see what you're saying. Thank you very much.

851
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Speaker 3: And as long as that man knows, as long as

852
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Speaker 3: he has knowledge, he has to pass through the door

853
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Speaker 3: and face the consequences of breaking the law of gravity.

854
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Speaker 3: There's no way you're going to get that parachute off

855
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Speaker 3: his back, because there's very life depends on it. Now,

856
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: if you'll go around, you find there are plenty of

857
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Speaker 3: passages enjoying the flight. They're enjoying the pleasures of sin

858
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Speaker 3: for a seas. Gods, excuse me, did you hear the

859
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 3: command from the captain of our salvation? Put on the

860
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Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ. Detern it and says, oh, I really

861
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Speaker 3: don't think God means that God is love. Besides, I'm

862
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Speaker 3: quite happy as I am. Thanks. Don't turn to them,

863
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 3: and sincere is zeal without knowledge, and say, please, put

864
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Speaker 3: on the Lord Jesus Christ, who give you love, joy,

865
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 3: peace fulfillment, last and happiness. God check victory heart and

866
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Speaker 3: if God can feel you hear her marriage problem, drug problem,

867
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Speaker 3: alcohol problem. Just give your heart to Jesus. No, you'll

868
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Speaker 3: give him a wrong motive for his commandment. Instead, say oh, God,

869
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Speaker 3: give me courage and tell him about the jump to say, hey,

870
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Speaker 3: it's appointed a man wants to die. If you die

871
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Speaker 3: and your sins, God will be forced to give you justice,

872
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 3: and his judgment is going to be so thorough every

873
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 3: idle word a man speaks, you've given accountter of in

874
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Speaker 3: the day of judgment. If you've lusted, you've committed adultery,

875
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Speaker 3: if you've hated someone, you've committed murder, And Jesus warned

876
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 3: that justice will be so thorough the fist of eternal

877
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Speaker 3: wrath will come upon you, and Ah grind you to powder.

878
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: God bless I saints. I'm not talking about hell fire preaching.

879
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 3: Hell Fire preaching will produce fear filled converts. Using God's

880
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 3: law will produce tear filled converts. This one comes because

881
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 3: why he wants to escape the fires of hell. But

882
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 3: in his heart he thinks God is harsh and unjust

883
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 3: because the law hasn't been used to show him the

884
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 3: exceeding sinful nature of sin. He doesn't see hell as

885
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 3: being as just dessert that he deserves. Hell. Therefore he

886
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 3: doesn't understand mercy or grace. Therefore he lacks gratitude to

887
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 3: God for his mercy, and gratitude is the prime motivation

888
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 3: for evangelism. There'll we know zeal and the heart of

889
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 3: a false convert to evangelize. But this one comes knowing

890
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 3: he has sinned against Heaven. The God's eyes in every

891
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: place beholding the evil and the good, and God has

892
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 3: seen darkness as though a pure light. He's seen his thought,

893
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 3: life of God and his holiness. On the day of

894
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 3: Wrath made manifest all the secret sins of his heart,

895
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 3: all the deeds done in darkness, he made man of

896
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 3: all his evidence of his guilt. God could pick him

897
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 3: up as an unclean thing and cast him to hell

898
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 3: and do that which is just. But instead of giving

899
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Speaker 3: him justice, He's given him mercy. He's commanded his love

900
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 3: toward him that while he's here to send a Christ

901
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 3: died from He falls on his knees before that blood's

902
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 3: dain cross and says, Oh God, if you do that

903
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 3: for me, I'll do anything for you. I'd delight to

904
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Speaker 3: do your will. Oh my God, your law has written

905
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Speaker 3: upon my heart. And like the man who knew he

906
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 3: had to pass through the door and face the consequences

907
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Speaker 3: of breaking the law of gravity, would never take his

908
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Speaker 3: parachute off because his very life depended on it. So

909
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Speaker 3: he who comes to the Savior, knowing he has to

910
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Speaker 3: face a holy God on the day of wrath, would

911
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 3: never forsake the righteousness of God in Christ because his

912
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Speaker 3: very life depends on it. Let me see if I

913
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Speaker 3: can coregulate this teaching us which wrought to a close.

914
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Speaker 3: I was in the store some time ago, and the

915
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Speaker 3: owner of the store was serving a customer and using

916
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Speaker 3: God's name and blasphemy now, if somebody used my wife's

917
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 3: name and blasphemy, I'll be extremely offended if they use

918
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Speaker 3: her name as a curse word in that sense. But

919
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Speaker 3: this guy was using God, God's name as a curse

920
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 3: word when God had given them life, his eyes, the

921
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 3: ability to think, his children, his food, every pleasure has

922
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 3: ever had given him by the goodness of God. And

923
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 3: he's using God's name as a curse word and indignantly

924
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 3: between him and his customer. I leaned and said, excuse me,

925
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 3: is this a religious meeting? The guy says, what h

926
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Speaker 3: l ol No. I said, yes, it is, because now

927
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 3: you're talking about how let me get you one of

928
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,479
Speaker 3: my books. So I went out of my car. Sorry,

929
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 3: I went out to my car er and he got

930
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 3: a book that I've written called God Doesn't Believe in

931
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 3: Atheists Proof the Atheist doesn't Exist. And it's a book

932
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Speaker 3: which uses logic, humor, reason and rationalism to prove the

933
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Speaker 3: existence of God, which you can do in two minutes

934
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Speaker 3: without the use of faith. It's a very simple thing

935
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Speaker 3: to conclusively, absolutely prove God's existence, and it proves also

936
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Speaker 3: that the atheist doesn't exist. In fact, let me show

937
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Speaker 3: you a bumper sticket National Atheist Day, April the first.

938
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Speaker 3: So I gave him this book. And two months later,

939
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Speaker 3: when I gave i'm ano book, I've written a book

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Speaker 3: called My Friends Are Dying, a book which is a

941
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Speaker 3: true and gripping story about the ministry of the Gospel,

942
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Speaker 3: and the most mirror murderous portion of Los Angeles, a

943
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Speaker 3: book which also uses humor in its presentation. Gave him

944
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 3: those books and he called me and told me that

945
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 3: what had happened. He told me his wife keep giving

946
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Speaker 3: him filthy looks, because there he was reading a book

947
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Speaker 3: called My Friends are Dying and laughing every two minutes.

948
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 3: But he's cleaning out his room and he picked up

949
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 3: God doesn't leave an atheist. He that ah, and he

950
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Speaker 3: opened it up and read the first page, and then

951
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Speaker 3: he read the whole book, turned it in sixty pages.

952
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Speaker 3: He said it was weird because I hate reading. Then

953
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Speaker 3: he read My Friends are Dying. Gave his life to Christ,

954
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Speaker 3: brought himself a Bible, came round to say hi and

955
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Speaker 3: told me, after two days of being a Christian, and

956
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Speaker 3: his Bible is already up to what he called the

957
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Speaker 3: Book of Levititis. And I guess he is going to

958
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Speaker 3: read Palms and then job. But up until his commitment,

959
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 3: the man was a practicing which the law of the

960
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: Lord is perfect, converting the soul. And says, O, God

961
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Speaker 3: looked down upon me is for many years I have

962
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 3: preached as I fought off the enemy of the feather

963
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 3: duster of modern evangelism, this is God said, what are

964
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 3: you doing weapons of war? For? Are not channel that

965
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Speaker 3: mighty through God to the pulling down a strongholds? Here

966
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Speaker 3: are ten great cannons. And as I lined up the

967
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Speaker 3: ten cannons of God's law, no longer had sent a

968
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Speaker 3: scarf and mock know their faces went pale. They lifted

969
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Speaker 3: their hands and said, I surrender all order Jesus, A

970
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Speaker 3: footy give came across to the winning side, never to

971
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 3: become deserted. Such converts become soul miners, not pure warmers, laborers,

972
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 3: not layabouts, assets not liabilities for the local church. And now, saints,

973
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: with every head raised and every eye open and no

974
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Speaker 3: music playing, let me challenge you as to the validity

975
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 3: of your salvation. Mom evangelism says, never question your salvation.

976
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 3: The Bible says the exact opposite. It says, examine yourself

977
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 3: and see if you're in the faith better now than

978
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 3: on the day of judgment. The Bible says, make your

979
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,959
Speaker 3: calling elections sure, and some of you know that something

980
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 3: is radically wrong in your Christian walk. You lose your

981
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 3: peace and joy when the flight kids bumpy. There is

982
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 3: a lack of zeal to evangelize. You never fell on

983
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 3: your face before a mighty garden, said I've sinned against

984
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 3: you of God, have mercy upon me. You've never lad

985
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 3: to Jesus Christ and his blood for cleansing and desperation,

986
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 3: crying out, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And

987
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,479
Speaker 3: there's a lack of gratitude. There's not a burning zeal

988
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 3: for the lost. You can't see you're on fire for God.

989
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 3: In fact, you're in danger of being one of the

990
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 3: ones that are called luke warman. We spewed out of

991
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 3: the mouth of Christ. On the day of judgment, when

992
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 3: multitudes will cry out to Jesus, Lord Lord, if they

993
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 3: depart from me, your worker of iniquity, lawlessness, I never

994
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 3: knew no regard to the divine law. The Bible says

995
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Speaker 3: that everyone that names the name of Christ depart from

996
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Speaker 3: iniquity lawlessness. So today you need to readjust a motive

997
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 3: for your commitment. Friend, don't let your pride stop you.

998
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Speaker 3: I would like to pray for you, or remain up here,

999
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Speaker 3: you remain in your seat if you'd like to be

1000
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 3: including this Prayer'd like you to slip up your hand.

1001
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 3: But remember this. If you say, well, I should put

1002
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 3: my hand out, what will people think that's pride? You

1003
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 3: prefer the praises of men to the praises of God.

1004
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 3: Everyone who is proud of heart is an abomination to

1005
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 3: the Lord. God resists of proud, gives grace to the humble.

1006
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Speaker 3: So humble yourself for the mighty hand of God. He'll

1007
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Speaker 3: exalt you in due time. Call it a recommittal, call

1008
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 3: it a committal, but whatever you call it, make your

1009
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Speaker 3: calling an election. Sure. Thank you for taking the time

1010
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Speaker 3: to listen to Hell's Best Kept Secret. Experience has shown

1011
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Speaker 3: us that the enemy hates this teaching, and it won't

1012
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Speaker 3: be long until the truths that you've just heard are

1013
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Speaker 3: taken from your mind. So you may like to listen

1014
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Speaker 3: to it again. Hell's Best Kept Secret is the first

1015
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1048
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1049
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1050
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1051
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1052
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1053
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Speaker 3: that are listening that know you. We pray for this

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Speaker 3: dying world that you'll give us wisdom, help us to

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Speaker 3: use the tools you've given us the weapons that are

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Speaker 3: not carnal but mighty through God, to the pulling down

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Speaker 3: a strongholds. Help us to reach this world while there's

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Speaker 3: still time. In Jesus name, we pray Amen.