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saw that the Supreme Court said that the state of Texas could enforce you know,
not being invaded by legal immigrants. And then the Appeals Court said,
now you have to let that continue to happen. So we're live. We
can respond to breaking news that way that happened yesterday. But there is this
news that's not changing. It's not going to change until judgment Day. That
is that there is salvation available for you through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Reason I wanted to talk about this today is most of you know this.
Most of you know this, some of you have not made the decision to
respond to it. The reason I wanted to talk about it is at a
fascinating discussion last week with a couple of younger guys who were well pretty responsible
for helping to build the Daily Wire into what it's become. And I mean,
there's a whole bunch of people working on They're hardly claiming to be the
ones who built it, but they have great insight into what's going on into
the youtubes. And I was shocked at how many young people, particularly young
men, are becoming Christian curious for saying now they're Christian. I saw the
other day that there's once again another celebrities come out and spoke in the Lord's
name. And my wife told me that there's a young woman who had sex
on film for money and she now says she's a Christian. And of course
we feel great joy at that, obviously, and we live in a world
where Satan has very cleverly said, sure, be a Christian, absolutely absolutely,
here's how you can be a Christian and still serve me. Well,
of course you can't actually be a Christian serving Christ. But these young people
who are looking into this are investigating this in a world where Satan has provided
so much distraction and distortion about what being a Christian actually means. It's not
the easy thing people think it is. Redemption's easy. It's a free gift.
You can take it. The Lord offers it, you can't earn it.
But there's more to it. Satan doesn't want us to think about that.
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time so which God is to Sadam we shall live. It was pretty cool
to hear from guys in there. I'm guessing maybe mid thirties, the data
on how many young men in the YouTube world are seeking Jesus or are professing
Christianity, and it reminds me very much of my quest in a different way.
We didn't have YouTube, or we didn't have social media at the time,
but my quest to become a Christian started as an intellectual thing and as
a dear friend. Here's a brother of mine and I don't see him enough,
and it really hurts to not see him more often. His name is
Matthew, and we became best friends in eighth grade, and I think we
became brothers probably ninth grade. I've told you about his family, Unbelievably Jesus
focused Catholic people who started my walk to the Lord. Garing. Karen and
I considered them god parents, and they've been kind of to consider me sort
of an adopted son. And I had that love, but I didn't connect
it to Jesus. They were just a loving family. They were different because
they were smarter, they had a better family, because they made more money.
They just happened to be really good people. It didn't occur to me
that I was seeing the face of God through them. When I became brothers
with Matthew, I knew something was different about him, but I never connected
it to well, yeah, it's your Holy spiritracy. Yeah, God has
gifted with intelligence and humor and great skill as a musician, and a loyalty,
gentility, curiosity, so many of the traits I find attractive in human
beings, and I never really understood. Yeah, but what you're seeing is
the Holy Spirit. You can give them all the credit you like, but
they didn't design themselves. They also made the decision as a family unit to
follow Jesus. So when I began to investigate faith. I started at the
intellectual level. So Matthew suggested I read C. S. Lewis, and
I did, and some other books and I did, and the deconstructionists and
I did, people who are arguing against the faith, and I did to
have this bounce approach to it. I remember when I bought my first Bible,
I felt great. It was an Oxford antitated Bible. I still have
it. I remember carrying it back to my office through downtown Seattle and beginning
to read that and study it. But I was studying it. I wasn't
attempting to know God. I was attempting to study him as if my intellect
could lead me to understands a being that has existed for all time and always
will exist. So one of the biggest myths that's sent to young people about
the Christian faith is it's in a book. Yeah, the Bible is vital,
so long as you understand it's a love letter. It's a series of
love letters from a loving father who wants you back in the family. It's
not an well It is an instruction kit on how to deal with one another
and how to live. And it's an owner's manual for our bodies and our
minds and our relationships, all those things. But it's also a series of
love letters written by human hands inspired by God, a love letter directly to
you. And from time to time, your view of the Bible is going
to change. Your view of Scripture is going to change because your circumstances changed.
Your life's are cumstances change. That's not a mistake. And that's many,
many thousands of pages sixty six books of the Bible. There are going
to be times while you read a proverb one day and it makes no sense
to you, and the next day it is crisp and clear and so meaningful
to you. But the first step in understanding this, if you're a young
person and you're investigating the Christian faith, is Jesus Christ wants to have a
relationship with you. He wants to walk with you, he wants to struggle
with you. He wants you to yoke yourself to him. And that's like
two farm animals oxen yoked together. He say, Hey, yoke yourself to
me. My burden is easy, My yoka is light. My yoke is
easy, My burden is light. Walk with me, let me carry give
it to me. That is the fundamental relationship that we have with the Lord
once we accept him, and that relationship grows closer over time. So I
want to get into the depths of this is a degree that I can I'm
not qualified to preach. I'm not a pastor. I went to a pastor
our residency. I'll probably screw some things up. I'll do my best,
and I hope that God works through me where I'm going to screw up and
save me from that. This is the world in which young people are exploring
the Lord Jesus. This is a video called who is My Neighbor? So
you can see its pictures of diverse people, many of them meth heads,
obviously crackheads. The one you don't notice, don't welcome, don't like someone
begging a street person on the street. Truly, that's true. And this
is the same group that put out the video saying he gets us. They
are our neighbors. And this is a true fact. And what the group
that's putting this out wants you to think is that the Lord Jesus looks at
them and says keep doing it. So fact number one to consider in relation
to Jesus is understand something that he hates sin. The Lord Jesus hates it.
God hates sin, and sin has the capability to divorce us from God
because if we sin and get really good at it, we cannot have partnership
with God. He cannot, in that holy sense, as a holy being,
stand to be around continuous living in sin. It's not that there's mistakes
that we can't make. We do make them. But Jesus and God are
not saying to someone who's on meth or stealing or in that video, if
you're on the video service, you saw the man dressed as a woman.
God is not saying continue that behavior. God is saying that sin will keep
you. I cannot be around it. It's not that he can't be around
people who have sinned. He's anxious to forgive, he's righteous to forgive.
He knows it's hard for us. Continuing to sin drives a wedge between you
and a holy God who cannot stand to be around it. They so want
to show this Jesus, the gentle Lamb, and this is definitely an aspect
of the Lord Jesus. This is the Jesus of the sexual left, because
that's the Jesus who says I love you no matter what. He does love
us no matter what. And a hack can't have you continue to do that.
I cannot we can leave that up place. I cannot continue to have
you continue to sin in this way, to practice this sin. It's because
he loves This is the lamb of God. This image, it's one of
the images of the Lamb of God. So the sexual left wants us to
see that little lamb, that little lamb was born that way. If that
little lamb went running to jump off a cliff, the good shepherd would stop
the lamb from jumping off the cliff. If there was a lion coming to
consume that little lamb, the good shepherd would step in and prevent the lion
from harming that little lamb. Satan is a roaring lion, and he seeks
to devour you, to destroy you, and to destroy your family. And
that same loving Jesus will when you give your life to him and you accept
him as Lord and savior and act that way, he will stand between you
and the roaring lion. He will arm you, he will equip you.
This is never discussed from the perspective of modernity. They would rather discuss things
like this This is from TikTok. This is called gentle parenting. So like
Jesus the gentle Lamb, the Lamb of God, gentle parenting is well kind
of let the kids do whatever they want. I want to teach you,
guys a trick that it was a total game changer for my parenting. And
I want to give you a real life adult scenario because I think it'll help
you better understand why this is such a big deal. The other day,
my husband was working in the garage and I was inside working on some important
things for work. All of a sudden, he came in the house and
he said, I need your help right now in the garage. Well,
I was in the middle of something, so this immediately frustrated me. I
took a deep breath and I said, can you give me two to three
minutes? And it dawned on me when Peyton is in the middle of something
that she actually enjoys, and I say, come on, it's time to
go, or come on, it's bedtime, or come on, it's nap
time, it's time to eat. You need to stop what you're doing right
this very second. Come do what mommy is telling you to do. Oh
wonder if she gets frustrated. I don't like it when somebody does that to
me as an adult. So here's our trick. We use a timer.
If she's in the middle of something and we need to transition, I'll go
in and say, Peyton, I can see that you're having fun right now.
I'm going to set a timer for five minutes, and whenever this goes
off, we're going to do bathtime or whatever activity you need to transition to.
Trust me, total game changer. It's not a bad approach. Here's
something that I've done with my kids from the beginning that helps to set us
up for less tantrums. Okay, I don't take things from them unless they
like pick them a knife, which hasn't happened. So let's say you have
a new crawler and they wiggle their way all the way over to a little
fuzz on the carpet. You don't want them to eat it, but when
they reach for it, don't just snatch it away from them. They worked
hard to get there, and even though they can't express it, if you
take that without getting them even the satisfaction of being able to pick it up
and say I did this, they're gonna start feeling possessive of things because they
don't want them to be taken away. So let them grab it and then
say something like oh, thank you, and then gently take it out of
their hand. As they get older, you can say, oh, yucky,
help me put this in the garbage, and then help them by carrying
them or walk them over to the garbage and let them put it in there.
This instills trust that just because you see that they have something, you're
not going to take it, and it translates into toys, and it also
translates into sharing with older siblings. So this is this approach called gentle parenting,
and in those two cases they're not horribly extreme. What they morph into
in gentle parenting is anarchy. In the first instance, setting the timer great
is set the timer what one. The timer goes off and the kid says
no, gentle parenting becomes anarchy. There's plenty of instances that this is gentle
parenting. The process of understanding God the Father for parents, and this I
missed is us being under the evident guidance of God, the evident control of
God. Following his rules is key for these relationships because unlike gentle parenting,
there are things God says you need to do. Now, you need to
accept my son. Now you need to impress my word upon your kids.
Now you need to act like a change being. If you've accepted the Lord
Jesus. Now you need to seek to have less sin in your life,
to not sin the same way. You need to seek to grow closer to
Me. And here's how to do it. Time with my word, time
with my people, time with people who hold you to accounts. Time and
worship, actual worship. What sold to young people is Christianity is hey,
I read some books, man some church, and man, I believe.
And that's great that you believe. That is not the full kit. That
shouldn't come as a surprise to us when Jesus is marketed as this sort of
millennial all thumbs up, all thumbs up to everything you want to do.
In this image, the thumbs up is implied for everything. Well, just
like a parent cannot give a thumbs up to everything. Jesus will let us
make mistakes, so let us pick up the fuzz on the carpet. He'll
even let us eat it. But then he's there to say, how'd it
work? Now? It was my way better his way? Is better.
What what's sold to young people is that's Jesus loving your behaviors. He can
love you and not love your behaviors. This next image is the one that
no one on the sexual left wants to admit is true that young people who
are investigating the Lord Jesus, they are not finding this. This is Jesus
coming as judge, as king, to come back and make decisions. There
are people who will spend etrinity in hell. There are people who will spend
the Trinity and the New Heaven and the New Earth with Jesus the lamb in
an environment where there is no sin. There can't be because of the way
God has set up the rules and the way He's making us holier by the
process of working with him. That's how we become holy as we work with
him. You've ever gotten to know someone better than actually working side by side
with them on a hard project. This is how God wants to work with
us. There are some issues that are so serious that they're called salvation issues.
There are things that you as a Christian must accept, and I'll probably
screw some of these up, and I'll do my very very best, but
it's better than what's being marketed to people on Youtubebe to young people that the
act of being a Christian is to say, I'm a Christian. I believe
God exists, I believe in Jesus and such and maybe even a devil.
Maybe you have to believe in both, because Jesus spoke of the devil.
As C. S. Lewis said, Jesus either is exactly what he said
he is the Son of God, the Messiah, part of the Triune God,
or may as well be posted egg choose. This is something that people
who are investigating Christianity, young people on YouTube, they're being lied about,
lied to about. You have to choose. Is Jesus exactly who he said
he was, exactly who he said he was or not. And if he's
exactly who he said he was, then everything he said is true. Everything
he said is true. Being the only way to the Father in the salvation
issues, young people are being kept away from one of the key and most
important issues. Listen to this yogi talk. Jesus is just talking about the
yoga of devotion, nothing else, because one thing that's his way. He's
dimensional. He's just talking about one dimension of approaching the ultimate. He's just
saying just follow me, it'll happen. It is devotion. Christian is also
saying the same things. He's saying, I am the way. I think
Jesus said something like you can only know my father through me. But I
think he went further somewhere else and said me and my Father are one.
But in that part of the world, I think such a thing was total
sacrilege. Anybody claiming that me and my father are won means that I am
God. Such a claim will immediately bring that penalty that part of the world.
And yet it did bring the death penalty. Jesus knew exactly what it
would bring. He said, it will bring that. So let's start at
the very beginning. And this is what people are not getting, young people
who are seeking to understand Christianity or even calling themselves Christians. Let's start here
in Genesis Genesis one, verses three through five, and God said, let
there be light. There was light. God saw the light was good,
and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day,
and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was
morning in the first day. So the God that this guy wants to compare
Christiana to he started things off this way. He foresaw throughout the Bible speaks
for of the coming of the Lord Jesus. In fact, if you dig
a little further into Genesis, you get to this the beginning. In the
beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless
and empty, darkness over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of
God was hovering over the waters. The what oh, the spirit of God
was hovering over the waters. So God created the earth and the spirit of
God was hovering over the waters. The Christian were probably the yogi who wants
to say, yeah, but Christian and all these other paths, they didn't
do this, or maybe they did. You choose. The Bible states this
very very clearly, that there's one God that did all these things. So
being a Christian is to accept these facts. Period. You could say,
well, no, some of this is allegory. No, that's not what
the Bible says. The Bible does not say it's allegory. You're being told
that pick could choose the stories from the Boby you like, the teachings you
like, that's not what Jesus said. That's not what it says in the
Book of revelation as it wraps up. Don't add to or subtract from.
This makes a very similar claim in our very similar order in deuterotomy. I
believe in John. Now, this is in the New Testament John chapter one,
verses one through five. Remember what we just talked about in Genesis,
the spirit of God. Remember that God spoke the world into existence. He
said, let there be light. In the beginning was the Word. The
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God
in the beginning. Through him, all things were made. Without him,
nothing that has been made, nothing was made. That has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of mankind, of
all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome it. John is talking about the Lord Jesus being there at the very
beginning. We just write about God and the Spirit of God, and Jesus
was there at the very beginning. So you have to believe these things.
Well, but John's just a dude. No, John's not just a dude.
John is a guy who walked with the Lord Jesus on earth, side
by side, who worked next to him, who struggled with him, who
became friends with him who was given knowledge immediately poured into him personally by the
Lord Jesus, and then through the Holy Spirit. You have to believe these
things or you're not a Christian. You can dabble in it, but you're
denying God. If you don't believe these things, you're denying his word.
That puts a wedge between you and him, and enough wedges and you can't
see him anymore or hear his voice anymore. In John chapter fourteen, verse
twenty five through twenty seven, all this I've spoken while still with you.
This is the Lord Jesus speaking. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and
remind you of everything I've said to you. Peace I leave with you,
My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be
afraid. That's the Lord Jesus making mention of the Spirit of God, the
Holy Spirit. So as a Christian, when you accept the Lord Jesus,
you are welcoming into your body the Holy spirits who dwell within you, the
actual Kingdom of Heaven within you. You have to believe these things. To
not believe them is to drive wedges between you and the Lord and to deny
him. No, there's more than one God. No, sorry, you're
out. That is a salvation issue. There's not more than one God.
Jesus Christ is his son. And Jesus did say there's one way. There's
one way. Despite what Oprah Winfrey wants to talk about from time to time,
this is an old clip to be a fair to her. I don't
know that she's changed. She's a little sick. You know, is one
way and only one way, and that is Jesus. Couldn't possibly be only
one Jesus. Are there many paths to get to the one God? Well,
I believe opened it there. I believe that Jesus is the way to
the one God. But I believe the many past to Jesus. Do you
not hear that from a battle? I believe that Jesus is a path for
God, that there are many paths to Jesus. Where are the other paths
to forget to Jesus? Somebody help me? Do you know what you don't
know? Do you know I didn't want to stop from the book. Do
I as been scared on record on opera. I believe that Jesus because you
know that I did said Jesus is not they will attack him because of polity.
I said about homosexology, which you say on the peat again, he
said, let me talk to it in a nice way, because I let
me know, do like Opra Monrad was, Jesus come in you anyway to
go, So let me not go a prast. So let me do like
a Pato the pastor ride denial of Christ. If any man preach any other
gospel, even if it's an angel, the Bible says, let them be
a curse. You don't know how Jesus would reveal himself to somebody, so
I'm not into excluding people. Jesus can reveal himself to him. I don't
know how anybody. So they got true for rebellion depth my body through his
love they got, and you got. So let's pause and just think about
this. Yeah, the act of being in Islam can show you evil.
The Lord Jesus could come to you. First of all, people only get
to come to the Lord Jesus because the Father calls them. Father says,
these are the ones I want. But darkness cannot partner with light. Jesus
is not in partnership with Mohammed or Krishna. They're not partners. Many paths
to the Lord Jesus. Yeah, there's many ways that people come to faith,
but all of them start by the Father calling you to himself. That's
how it starts. Joel Olstein saying there are many pasts to Jesus is sort
of a way to dodge what Jesus very very clearly said, which is so
vital to understand, and it is truly a salvation issue. It goes to
the very heart and fact of salvation issues. When we speak of heart,
we often think about, right the moral implications of hearts, and that's all
very very true. Heart, mind, soul. You were created body,
mind and soul as one unit boom, created by God. Just like that.
You were created with working parts. That man, what we've done to
our working parts. I do wonder in heaven how much how much conversation God's
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very container that stores the Holy Spirit within you. That is the temple of
your body. The body is a temple. This is something that young people
are also not really aware of. How don't mean to say that you're not
when I'm talking about young people. I'm talking about these people who think God,
praise God are now beginning to investigate Christianity, but so many of them
are doing it at the head level, not the heart level. God wants
a loving relationship with you, and he is very very clear Joel Olstein very
clear. Jesus said, he's the Messiah. He died for our sins.
Only through him can we get to the Father. In John chapter fourteen,
verse six, verses six and seven, Jesus answered, I am. They
asked him, where is you going? Where are you going? How come
we can't follow? Where's the map? And Jesus said, look, guys,
I am the Way and the truth and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will
know my Father as well from now on. You do know him and have
seen him. To be a Christian is to understand. That is the path.
To understand that the Father calls you to himself through the Lord Jesus.
It's like an introduction. These are things you must believe to be a Christian
and must act upon. We cannot earn grace. Once we're say right,
we want to respond, and some of the ways we know that we've truly
been saved. This by how response is driven in us, what we're driven
to do. When you're changed by God, you're driven to act in different
ways. Again. In Acts chapter two twenty through twenty two through twenty five,
here's Peter Okay, apostle Peter. Now you must understand the context here.
They knew the Lord was tortured. He was beaten and whipped. That
beating was so severe his ribs were probably showing through his back. That's what
the scourging did to him. He went on that cross for three hours,
and God poured out on him the cup of wrath that have been saved up
for us. This is why the Lord Jesus said, I don't want to
drink from this cup. This is the major reality that people who are now
dabbling with are investigating coming to Christ. You must understand the depth of this,
this act for you. And this is Peter, and he's speaking in
front of about five thousand maybe more people. This is at something after Pentecost,
they were given the Holy spirits. This was Peter's first sermon, public
sermon. Peter's speaking here in front of the same people who tortured Jesus Christ
to death. Okay, he is right now, a guy who had run
away, he'd hid, he denied Jesus. Oh, I don't know any
guide him. Jesus. What are you talking about. I've never been to
Nazareth. Noah, the dudes insane. Ah never been there who Jesus.
You mean Jesus the Gardener. No, I don't. But somehow he's brave
enough to do this in front of probably the very soldiers who carried out that
death, definitely in front of the very bosses, the religious technocrats, bureaucrats.
And Peter spoke, fellow Israelites, listen to this, Jesus, if
Natherras was a man accredited to God, by God, to you by miracles,
wonders and signs which God did among you through him, as you yourselves
know, this man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreign
knowledge, and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to
death by kneeling to the cross. But God raised him from the dead,
fring him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to
keep his hold on him. He speaks these words knowing full well that that
could bring him to the same fate well, and ultimately it did. Peter
was crucified, and the tradition in the church is that he was crucified upside
down, but not before he had to watch his wife be tortured and crucified.
That's what the tradition of the church tells us these vital salvation beliefs.
You must believe that Jesus Christ died for you. You must believe that it
was a personal decision on your behalf. The depth of this relationship is what
we're seeking to describe here. Imagine if your father, your own personal father,
did this for you. If you'd been sentenced to prison and a beating,
and your dad stepped up and said, no, no, I'll do
it, No take me, you'd weep, no Dad, No, yes,
I'm doing it for you. They cannot do this to you, son.
That's what Jesus did. In Matthew chapter sixteen, Verses thirteen through twenty,
Peter declares Jesus is the Messiah. When Jesus came to the region of
Cascernia, Philippine, he asked his disciples, who do people say? The
Son of Man is the reply? Some say John the Baptist, other say
Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets, which was a big
deal to say one of the prophets. They've been without prophets in Israel for
a long time. But what about you, Jesus asked, who do you
say? I am? Simon Peter answered, you're the Messiah, the son
of the Living God. And Jesus replied, blessed are you, Simon of
Jonah. For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but
by my Father in Heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter.
And on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades
will not overcome it. And I will give you the keys to the Kingdom
of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever
you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Then he ordered his disciples
to not tell anyone yet that he was the Messiah. Jesus is the Messiah.
He did die for our sins. He is the Way, the Truth,
and the Life. And this is something that Christians have to believe,
or you're not yet there. Now. Peter had to develop his faith.
His faith was tested and he failed multiple times. It is not possible for
human beings to never have doubt. That's just how we're made. That's part
of a brokenness. One of the key elements of Christianity that we're not good
at saying is it doesn't solve everything. Becoming a Christian will not alleviate your
pain here that it will not You will face troubles in this world, but
you'll be armed and equipped in ways that you're not now. Prosperity Gospel get
that gets that part all wrong. We must accept Jesus and be born of
the spirit rather than the flesh. John three, verses one through nine.
Now there was a pharisee. This is a teacher of the law. The
pharisee a man named Nicodemus, who is a member of the Jewish ruling council.
He came to Jesus at night. Secretly, he came and said,
Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who's come from God, for
no one could perform the signs you're doing if God was not with him.
Jesus replied, very truly, I tell you, no one can see the
Kingdom of God unless they're born again. The Kademus asked, how can they
be born when they're old. Surely they cannot enter a second time into their
mother's womb to be born. Jesus said, very truly, I tell you,
no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they're born of the water
and the spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth
to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying you must be born
again. The wind blows wherever it pleases you. Hear it sound, you
cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is
with everyone born of the Spirit. We were born all of us of mothers.
Sorry sexual left mothers are adult human females, not men. Men cannot
do this. In that birth, we were given the gift of life.
In this we're given the opportunity for a new life to be born of the
Spirit, the Holy Spirit in us, so that we can become more and
more holy, and closer and closer and closer to God. And the fact
is, when you accept this, the Holy Spirit dwells within you, and
blaspheming the Holy Spirit is a grievous and in fact unforgivable sin. I can't
tell you I know what it is to blasphem the Holy Spirit. I know,
I'm very careful about it. Matthew Chapter twelve, verses thirty one through
thirty two. And so I tell you every kind of sin and slander can
be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who
speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who
speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or
in the age to come. That seems to me to be an indicator that's
once you've been saved, if you make a decision to blasphem the Holy Spirit,
you can screw it all up and not be forgiven. That's controversial.
I know there's people who believe once saved, always saved. I would actually
say this, once saved, why take the chance. Furthermore, once you
love Jesus, why disappoint him that way? The biggest probably most well,
the second most controversial thing I think for young people. First most controversial is
men leading the household. The young women I know hate that and it's wildly
misunderstood, and we've addressed it. Here's one that no one wants to talk
about, and that is the fact that Satan is an actual being who seeks
to destroy you and keep you from God forever. One Peter eight. Be
alert and sober of mind. Your enemy. The devil prows like a roaring
lion, looking for someone to devour you. As a Christian, are duty
bound to believe in Satan. Jesus spoke about Satan. He spoke about the
enemy. He talked about the time in the desert. Why do you think
the apostles knew the time in the desert happened. They weren't there with him,
he told them, And the apostles weren't of Satan as a being set
on seeking to destroy you through deception, depression and distraction, distortion because he
hates you, because he hates your body, because he hates that we were
given bodies, because he hates it we were made in God's image. For
young people examining Christianity, lots of people are reluctant to believe that Satan is
a real thing. Oh, the guy with the weird horns I see on
Halloween. That's one way if you want to look at him that way.
Another way to look at him is a fallen angel who's very very good at
separating you from God. He's corrupt. See the problem I think in our
society is things have become so corrupt that it's hard for us sometimes to even
hear the word corruption and react appropriately. Corruption should make recoil, It should
make us run away, Like I don't want to be around anything corrupt.
Just look at our financial system. It's wildly corrupt. Our money is fake,
it doesn't mean anything. It's utterly fake. We've talked about this,
but now there's an opportunity for you to have an interactive conversation with Zach Abram.
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is not necessarily indicative of future results. The decision to not follow Jesus Christ's
doesn't just involve risk. It involves a promise. It's a promise all of
us will face. It's a promise communicated in ways that people don't want to
read. And it has to do with the Book of Revelation. In Book
of Revelation, chapter twenty, verses eleven through fifteen, this is the same
John who said God in the beginning the word is with God. The word
was God. This is him writing from a prison island. And John says,
then I saw it was edited into a dream and went into the spiritual
Roman was revealed to him many things as used to happen with the prophets.
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.
The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place
for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before
the throne, and books were open. Another book was open, which is
the Book of Life. The dead were judged according what they had done as
recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it,
and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them. Each
person was judged according to what they'd done. Then Death and Hades were thrown
into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into
the lake of fire. So let's read that again, just verse fifteen.
Some people whose names were not in the Book of Life are thrown into the
lake of Fire's some what it says all of us will be in the books
that record our sins, all of us because all of us fall short of
the glory of God, and all of us will face judgment. And you're
an eternal being. There's a theory called eliminationism. The eliminationist theory is to
get out of jail free card when you're dead. You're dead. He might
go to hell for a little while, but then God's going to have mercy
and your existence. Scripture doesn't support it. Big question for a lot of
people, including myself, is how far along am I in having genuine saving
faith. I don't agree with everything John MacArthur does. In fact, some
of the things he's done been very, very frustrating, But I think he's
a great, great scholar of the Bible. In the show notes today,
I'm leaving for you something that comes in the back of one of his study
Bibles, and it's so well backed up by scripture. These are some things
that indicate the state of your faith, Things that neither prove nor disprove one's
faith. Now listen to this. None of these things mean that you are
a Christian in his mind. They do not prove your faith. Visible morality,
sure you can be moral and not serve the Lord Jesus. Intellectual knowledge,
religious involvement, active ministry, conviction of sin, assurances the time of
decision. None of these things, in his mind, means that you are
an active Christian who's had full saving grace. Things that do authenticate that in
his mind. Love for God. Do you want to hurt the people you
love? Do you want to be separated from them from a long time?
Do you feel better when you're with them? Repentance from sin meaning true sorrow
when you sin because it hurt a loving God, genuine humility, recognizing that
all you have is through the glory of God, Devotion to God's glory,
continuous prayer. This doesn't necessarily mean being always on your knees. For the
past three or four weeks, I've been in continuous prayer, invoking God's words
to help my minds not go to negative places. It's been remarkable. Continuous
prayers, a continuous conversation with God, help me Jesus, selfless love,
separation from the world, being in it but not of it. Spiritual growth,
obedient living, hunger for God's word. That's a hard one for me.
I just admit it. Sometimes I don't want to read the Bible.
Sometimes I'm too busy. I got shows to do. Baby. How does
it feel when your kids don't want anything to do with you? Doesn't feel
good. So when we love God, we develop a hunger for his word
and then transformation of life. Your life will be transformed if you have the
pure, true, saving grace of faith. That's how John MacArthur describes it.
I hope this is helpful for young people in your life who are experiencing
now a calling in their hearts for something greater than themselves. Because the enemy
loves to say, sure, be a Christian, pick up a book,
say you believe in Jesus. Look, you're saved, but you don't really
need to change what you're doing. After all, Jesus loves you. He
made you that way, so go embrace your sin because you're forgiven. It's
one of the biggest deceptions and cruelties in the world that that's being imparted to
young people. For the parts I screwed up. I hope you'll forgive me
for the parts that I got right. God did that. Thank you,
Father, God, for your word and for who you are, and for
loving us so much that you go to these links to bring us back into
the family. This is the Todd hermersheaw Please go be well, be strong,
be kind, and make a decision. A decision to not decide is
a decision.