WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.000 Good morning one, joining us live. If you're watching and or listening later, 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:06.719 we love you equally. Yeah, I saw the breaking news. I 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:12.160 saw that the Supreme Court said that the state of Texas could enforce you know, 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.800 not being invaded by legal immigrants. And then the Appeals Court said, 5 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.039 now you have to let that continue to happen. So we're live. We 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:23.800 can respond to breaking news that way that happened yesterday. But there is this 7 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:29.600 news that's not changing. It's not going to change until judgment Day. That 8 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.520 is that there is salvation available for you through the blood of Jesus Christ. 9 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.520 Reason I wanted to talk about this today is most of you know this. 10 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.399 Most of you know this, some of you have not made the decision to 11 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.640 respond to it. The reason I wanted to talk about it is at a 12 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:49.320 fascinating discussion last week with a couple of younger guys who were well pretty responsible 13 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:53.320 for helping to build the Daily Wire into what it's become. And I mean, 14 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.920 there's a whole bunch of people working on They're hardly claiming to be the 15 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.520 ones who built it, but they have great insight into what's going on into 16 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:06.280 the youtubes. And I was shocked at how many young people, particularly young 17 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:11.879 men, are becoming Christian curious for saying now they're Christian. I saw the 18 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.120 other day that there's once again another celebrities come out and spoke in the Lord's 19 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.400 name. And my wife told me that there's a young woman who had sex 20 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:25.159 on film for money and she now says she's a Christian. And of course 21 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:30.359 we feel great joy at that, obviously, and we live in a world 22 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:37.159 where Satan has very cleverly said, sure, be a Christian, absolutely absolutely, 23 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.879 here's how you can be a Christian and still serve me. Well, 24 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:47.640 of course you can't actually be a Christian serving Christ. But these young people 25 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:53.400 who are looking into this are investigating this in a world where Satan has provided 26 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:00.480 so much distraction and distortion about what being a Christian actually means. It's not 27 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.879 the easy thing people think it is. Redemption's easy. It's a free gift. 28 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.240 You can take it. The Lord offers it, you can't earn it. 29 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:13.000 But there's more to it. Satan doesn't want us to think about that. 30 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.199 We're going to talk about this with the help of some images of House. 31 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.560 The Lord Jesus is viewed, or i should say marketed these days and 32 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:28.199 images that people don't want to see him ass but they're also accurate. We'll 33 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.080 talk about this with the help of renewed dot Healthcare, and of course we 34 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:39.520 do this only through the province of the good grace of God Almighty. The 35 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:46.439 Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. 36 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:54.840 No from the high mountains of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile 37 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:08.560 cod Herman. Today is a day the Lord has made in these are the 38 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:14.280 time so which God is to Sadam we shall live. It was pretty cool 39 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.360 to hear from guys in there. I'm guessing maybe mid thirties, the data 40 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:28.039 on how many young men in the YouTube world are seeking Jesus or are professing 41 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:35.639 Christianity, and it reminds me very much of my quest in a different way. 42 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.520 We didn't have YouTube, or we didn't have social media at the time, 43 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:45.479 but my quest to become a Christian started as an intellectual thing and as 44 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:47.520 a dear friend. Here's a brother of mine and I don't see him enough, 45 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.840 and it really hurts to not see him more often. His name is 46 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.599 Matthew, and we became best friends in eighth grade, and I think we 47 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:01.879 became brothers probably ninth grade. I've told you about his family, Unbelievably Jesus 48 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:08.919 focused Catholic people who started my walk to the Lord. Garing. Karen and 49 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:13.000 I considered them god parents, and they've been kind of to consider me sort 50 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:18.279 of an adopted son. And I had that love, but I didn't connect 51 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:25.040 it to Jesus. They were just a loving family. They were different because 52 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:29.600 they were smarter, they had a better family, because they made more money. 53 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.600 They just happened to be really good people. It didn't occur to me 54 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:41.120 that I was seeing the face of God through them. When I became brothers 55 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.920 with Matthew, I knew something was different about him, but I never connected 56 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.480 it to well, yeah, it's your Holy spiritracy. Yeah, God has 57 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:59.000 gifted with intelligence and humor and great skill as a musician, and a loyalty, 58 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.279 gentility, curiosity, so many of the traits I find attractive in human 59 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:10.839 beings, and I never really understood. Yeah, but what you're seeing is 60 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.800 the Holy Spirit. You can give them all the credit you like, but 61 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:19.639 they didn't design themselves. They also made the decision as a family unit to 62 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:28.000 follow Jesus. So when I began to investigate faith. I started at the 63 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.600 intellectual level. So Matthew suggested I read C. S. Lewis, and 64 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.079 I did, and some other books and I did, and the deconstructionists and 65 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.360 I did, people who are arguing against the faith, and I did to 66 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.519 have this bounce approach to it. I remember when I bought my first Bible, 67 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.160 I felt great. It was an Oxford antitated Bible. I still have 68 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:51.000 it. I remember carrying it back to my office through downtown Seattle and beginning 69 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:56.879 to read that and study it. But I was studying it. I wasn't 70 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:02.560 attempting to know God. I was attempting to study him as if my intellect 71 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:10.600 could lead me to understands a being that has existed for all time and always 72 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:17.360 will exist. So one of the biggest myths that's sent to young people about 73 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.800 the Christian faith is it's in a book. Yeah, the Bible is vital, 74 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.920 so long as you understand it's a love letter. It's a series of 75 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:34.360 love letters from a loving father who wants you back in the family. It's 76 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:38.560 not an well It is an instruction kit on how to deal with one another 77 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.240 and how to live. And it's an owner's manual for our bodies and our 78 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:46.879 minds and our relationships, all those things. But it's also a series of 79 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.079 love letters written by human hands inspired by God, a love letter directly to 80 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:55.600 you. And from time to time, your view of the Bible is going 81 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.399 to change. Your view of Scripture is going to change because your circumstances changed. 82 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:05.000 Your life's are cumstances change. That's not a mistake. And that's many, 83 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:10.839 many thousands of pages sixty six books of the Bible. There are going 84 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:13.639 to be times while you read a proverb one day and it makes no sense 85 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:17.040 to you, and the next day it is crisp and clear and so meaningful 86 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.879 to you. But the first step in understanding this, if you're a young 87 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.800 person and you're investigating the Christian faith, is Jesus Christ wants to have a 88 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.839 relationship with you. He wants to walk with you, he wants to struggle 89 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:34.160 with you. He wants you to yoke yourself to him. And that's like 90 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:41.160 two farm animals oxen yoked together. He say, Hey, yoke yourself to 91 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.360 me. My burden is easy, My yoka is light. My yoke is 92 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:51.319 easy, My burden is light. Walk with me, let me carry give 93 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:58.120 it to me. That is the fundamental relationship that we have with the Lord 94 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:03.519 once we accept him, and that relationship grows closer over time. So I 95 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.639 want to get into the depths of this is a degree that I can I'm 96 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.000 not qualified to preach. I'm not a pastor. I went to a pastor 97 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.279 our residency. I'll probably screw some things up. I'll do my best, 98 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.639 and I hope that God works through me where I'm going to screw up and 99 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.680 save me from that. This is the world in which young people are exploring 100 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:28.160 the Lord Jesus. This is a video called who is My Neighbor? So 101 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:33.600 you can see its pictures of diverse people, many of them meth heads, 102 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.799 obviously crackheads. The one you don't notice, don't welcome, don't like someone 103 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.120 begging a street person on the street. Truly, that's true. And this 104 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.120 is the same group that put out the video saying he gets us. They 105 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.639 are our neighbors. And this is a true fact. And what the group 106 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:56.159 that's putting this out wants you to think is that the Lord Jesus looks at 107 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:03.080 them and says keep doing it. So fact number one to consider in relation 108 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:09.399 to Jesus is understand something that he hates sin. The Lord Jesus hates it. 109 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:15.879 God hates sin, and sin has the capability to divorce us from God 110 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.279 because if we sin and get really good at it, we cannot have partnership 111 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.559 with God. He cannot, in that holy sense, as a holy being, 112 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:30.600 stand to be around continuous living in sin. It's not that there's mistakes 113 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.919 that we can't make. We do make them. But Jesus and God are 114 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.519 not saying to someone who's on meth or stealing or in that video, if 115 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.399 you're on the video service, you saw the man dressed as a woman. 116 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.120 God is not saying continue that behavior. God is saying that sin will keep 117 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.720 you. I cannot be around it. It's not that he can't be around 118 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:56.759 people who have sinned. He's anxious to forgive, he's righteous to forgive. 119 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:03.360 He knows it's hard for us. Continuing to sin drives a wedge between you 120 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.960 and a holy God who cannot stand to be around it. They so want 121 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:13.240 to show this Jesus, the gentle Lamb, and this is definitely an aspect 122 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.840 of the Lord Jesus. This is the Jesus of the sexual left, because 123 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.879 that's the Jesus who says I love you no matter what. He does love 124 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.200 us no matter what. And a hack can't have you continue to do that. 125 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.399 I cannot we can leave that up place. I cannot continue to have 126 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:35.240 you continue to sin in this way, to practice this sin. It's because 127 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.720 he loves This is the lamb of God. This image, it's one of 128 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.519 the images of the Lamb of God. So the sexual left wants us to 129 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.360 see that little lamb, that little lamb was born that way. If that 130 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.679 little lamb went running to jump off a cliff, the good shepherd would stop 131 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.879 the lamb from jumping off the cliff. If there was a lion coming to 132 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:01.279 consume that little lamb, the good shepherd would step in and prevent the lion 133 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.360 from harming that little lamb. Satan is a roaring lion, and he seeks 134 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.200 to devour you, to destroy you, and to destroy your family. And 135 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:16.360 that same loving Jesus will when you give your life to him and you accept 136 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.600 him as Lord and savior and act that way, he will stand between you 137 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:22.320 and the roaring lion. He will arm you, he will equip you. 138 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:30.559 This is never discussed from the perspective of modernity. They would rather discuss things 139 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:37.399 like this This is from TikTok. This is called gentle parenting. So like 140 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:43.039 Jesus the gentle Lamb, the Lamb of God, gentle parenting is well kind 141 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.200 of let the kids do whatever they want. I want to teach you, 142 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.559 guys a trick that it was a total game changer for my parenting. And 143 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.039 I want to give you a real life adult scenario because I think it'll help 144 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.399 you better understand why this is such a big deal. The other day, 145 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.360 my husband was working in the garage and I was inside working on some important 146 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.000 things for work. All of a sudden, he came in the house and 147 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:58.720 he said, I need your help right now in the garage. Well, 148 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.639 I was in the middle of something, so this immediately frustrated me. I 149 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.799 took a deep breath and I said, can you give me two to three 150 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.720 minutes? And it dawned on me when Peyton is in the middle of something 151 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.039 that she actually enjoys, and I say, come on, it's time to 152 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.440 go, or come on, it's bedtime, or come on, it's nap 153 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.799 time, it's time to eat. You need to stop what you're doing right 154 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.240 this very second. Come do what mommy is telling you to do. Oh 155 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.039 wonder if she gets frustrated. I don't like it when somebody does that to 156 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.879 me as an adult. So here's our trick. We use a timer. 157 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.399 If she's in the middle of something and we need to transition, I'll go 158 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.600 in and say, Peyton, I can see that you're having fun right now. 159 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.399 I'm going to set a timer for five minutes, and whenever this goes 160 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.519 off, we're going to do bathtime or whatever activity you need to transition to. 161 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.639 Trust me, total game changer. It's not a bad approach. Here's 162 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.919 something that I've done with my kids from the beginning that helps to set us 163 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.879 up for less tantrums. Okay, I don't take things from them unless they 164 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.960 like pick them a knife, which hasn't happened. So let's say you have 165 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.320 a new crawler and they wiggle their way all the way over to a little 166 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.519 fuzz on the carpet. You don't want them to eat it, but when 167 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.440 they reach for it, don't just snatch it away from them. They worked 168 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.879 hard to get there, and even though they can't express it, if you 169 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.440 take that without getting them even the satisfaction of being able to pick it up 170 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.399 and say I did this, they're gonna start feeling possessive of things because they 171 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.840 don't want them to be taken away. So let them grab it and then 172 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.480 say something like oh, thank you, and then gently take it out of 173 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.879 their hand. As they get older, you can say, oh, yucky, 174 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.240 help me put this in the garbage, and then help them by carrying 175 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.639 them or walk them over to the garbage and let them put it in there. 176 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.200 This instills trust that just because you see that they have something, you're 177 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.639 not going to take it, and it translates into toys, and it also 178 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.919 translates into sharing with older siblings. So this is this approach called gentle parenting, 179 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.879 and in those two cases they're not horribly extreme. What they morph into 180 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.919 in gentle parenting is anarchy. In the first instance, setting the timer great 181 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.120 is set the timer what one. The timer goes off and the kid says 182 00:13:52.159 --> 00:14:00.000 no, gentle parenting becomes anarchy. There's plenty of instances that this is gentle 183 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:07.679 parenting. The process of understanding God the Father for parents, and this I 184 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:16.120 missed is us being under the evident guidance of God, the evident control of 185 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:22.600 God. Following his rules is key for these relationships because unlike gentle parenting, 186 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.759 there are things God says you need to do. Now, you need to 187 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.120 accept my son. Now you need to impress my word upon your kids. 188 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:37.159 Now you need to act like a change being. If you've accepted the Lord 189 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.120 Jesus. Now you need to seek to have less sin in your life, 190 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.519 to not sin the same way. You need to seek to grow closer to 191 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.039 Me. And here's how to do it. Time with my word, time 192 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.480 with my people, time with people who hold you to accounts. Time and 193 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:58.759 worship, actual worship. What sold to young people is Christianity is hey, 194 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.000 I read some books, man some church, and man, I believe. 195 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:07.360 And that's great that you believe. That is not the full kit. That 196 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.840 shouldn't come as a surprise to us when Jesus is marketed as this sort of 197 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:15.480 millennial all thumbs up, all thumbs up to everything you want to do. 198 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:22.320 In this image, the thumbs up is implied for everything. Well, just 199 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.720 like a parent cannot give a thumbs up to everything. Jesus will let us 200 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:31.279 make mistakes, so let us pick up the fuzz on the carpet. He'll 201 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.960 even let us eat it. But then he's there to say, how'd it 202 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.000 work? Now? It was my way better his way? Is better. 203 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:48.120 What what's sold to young people is that's Jesus loving your behaviors. He can 204 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.360 love you and not love your behaviors. This next image is the one that 205 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:58.919 no one on the sexual left wants to admit is true that young people who 206 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.600 are investigating the Lord Jesus, they are not finding this. This is Jesus 207 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:11.399 coming as judge, as king, to come back and make decisions. There 208 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.879 are people who will spend etrinity in hell. There are people who will spend 209 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:18.840 the Trinity and the New Heaven and the New Earth with Jesus the lamb in 210 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:23.000 an environment where there is no sin. There can't be because of the way 211 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:27.879 God has set up the rules and the way He's making us holier by the 212 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.200 process of working with him. That's how we become holy as we work with 213 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.799 him. You've ever gotten to know someone better than actually working side by side 214 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:42.120 with them on a hard project. This is how God wants to work with 215 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:48.320 us. There are some issues that are so serious that they're called salvation issues. 216 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:55.240 There are things that you as a Christian must accept, and I'll probably 217 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:56.399 screw some of these up, and I'll do my very very best, but 218 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.679 it's better than what's being marketed to people on Youtubebe to young people that the 219 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.319 act of being a Christian is to say, I'm a Christian. I believe 220 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:11.400 God exists, I believe in Jesus and such and maybe even a devil. 221 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:18.599 Maybe you have to believe in both, because Jesus spoke of the devil. 222 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.119 As C. S. Lewis said, Jesus either is exactly what he said 223 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.279 he is the Son of God, the Messiah, part of the Triune God, 224 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:36.200 or may as well be posted egg choose. This is something that people 225 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.240 who are investigating Christianity, young people on YouTube, they're being lied about, 226 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:45.640 lied to about. You have to choose. Is Jesus exactly who he said 227 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:51.599 he was, exactly who he said he was or not. And if he's 228 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:56.680 exactly who he said he was, then everything he said is true. Everything 229 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:04.960 he said is true. Being the only way to the Father in the salvation 230 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:11.240 issues, young people are being kept away from one of the key and most 231 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:17.640 important issues. Listen to this yogi talk. Jesus is just talking about the 232 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:23.240 yoga of devotion, nothing else, because one thing that's his way. He's 233 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:32.160 dimensional. He's just talking about one dimension of approaching the ultimate. He's just 234 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:38.319 saying just follow me, it'll happen. It is devotion. Christian is also 235 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:42.960 saying the same things. He's saying, I am the way. I think 236 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:52.039 Jesus said something like you can only know my father through me. But I 237 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.839 think he went further somewhere else and said me and my Father are one. 238 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.640 But in that part of the world, I think such a thing was total 239 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:06.960 sacrilege. Anybody claiming that me and my father are won means that I am 240 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.839 God. Such a claim will immediately bring that penalty that part of the world. 241 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.559 And yet it did bring the death penalty. Jesus knew exactly what it 242 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:21.079 would bring. He said, it will bring that. So let's start at 243 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.799 the very beginning. And this is what people are not getting, young people 244 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:29.559 who are seeking to understand Christianity or even calling themselves Christians. Let's start here 245 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:34.160 in Genesis Genesis one, verses three through five, and God said, let 246 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.759 there be light. There was light. God saw the light was good, 247 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.440 and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, 248 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:47.319 and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was 249 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:52.960 morning in the first day. So the God that this guy wants to compare 250 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:59.599 Christiana to he started things off this way. He foresaw throughout the Bible speaks 251 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.960 for of the coming of the Lord Jesus. In fact, if you dig 252 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.960 a little further into Genesis, you get to this the beginning. In the 253 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.400 beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless 254 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.519 and empty, darkness over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of 255 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:21.440 God was hovering over the waters. The what oh, the spirit of God 256 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.079 was hovering over the waters. So God created the earth and the spirit of 257 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:32.640 God was hovering over the waters. The Christian were probably the yogi who wants 258 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:37.160 to say, yeah, but Christian and all these other paths, they didn't 259 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.920 do this, or maybe they did. You choose. The Bible states this 260 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:45.480 very very clearly, that there's one God that did all these things. So 261 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:51.359 being a Christian is to accept these facts. Period. You could say, 262 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:52.559 well, no, some of this is allegory. No, that's not what 263 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:57.799 the Bible says. The Bible does not say it's allegory. You're being told 264 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:03.000 that pick could choose the stories from the Boby you like, the teachings you 265 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:04.680 like, that's not what Jesus said. That's not what it says in the 266 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.240 Book of revelation as it wraps up. Don't add to or subtract from. 267 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:14.920 This makes a very similar claim in our very similar order in deuterotomy. I 268 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.720 believe in John. Now, this is in the New Testament John chapter one, 269 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.920 verses one through five. Remember what we just talked about in Genesis, 270 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.880 the spirit of God. Remember that God spoke the world into existence. He 271 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.319 said, let there be light. In the beginning was the Word. The 272 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.799 Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God 273 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:38.839 in the beginning. Through him, all things were made. Without him, 274 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:41.680 nothing that has been made, nothing was made. That has been made. 275 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:47.119 In him was life, and that life was the light of mankind, of 276 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.079 all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not 277 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:53.640 overcome it. John is talking about the Lord Jesus being there at the very 278 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:59.519 beginning. We just write about God and the Spirit of God, and Jesus 279 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.960 was there at the very beginning. So you have to believe these things. 280 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.039 Well, but John's just a dude. No, John's not just a dude. 281 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.880 John is a guy who walked with the Lord Jesus on earth, side 282 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.880 by side, who worked next to him, who struggled with him, who 283 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:22.519 became friends with him who was given knowledge immediately poured into him personally by the 284 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:27.359 Lord Jesus, and then through the Holy Spirit. You have to believe these 285 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:33.400 things or you're not a Christian. You can dabble in it, but you're 286 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.640 denying God. If you don't believe these things, you're denying his word. 287 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:38.640 That puts a wedge between you and him, and enough wedges and you can't 288 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:45.079 see him anymore or hear his voice anymore. In John chapter fourteen, verse 289 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.400 twenty five through twenty seven, all this I've spoken while still with you. 290 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.759 This is the Lord Jesus speaking. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, 291 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:55.079 whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and 292 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.279 remind you of everything I've said to you. Peace I leave with you, 293 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.200 My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the 294 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.480 world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be 295 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:08.279 afraid. That's the Lord Jesus making mention of the Spirit of God, the 296 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:14.880 Holy Spirit. So as a Christian, when you accept the Lord Jesus, 297 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.640 you are welcoming into your body the Holy spirits who dwell within you, the 298 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:23.000 actual Kingdom of Heaven within you. You have to believe these things. To 299 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.599 not believe them is to drive wedges between you and the Lord and to deny 300 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.039 him. No, there's more than one God. No, sorry, you're 301 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:34.160 out. That is a salvation issue. There's not more than one God. 302 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.759 Jesus Christ is his son. And Jesus did say there's one way. There's 303 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.559 one way. Despite what Oprah Winfrey wants to talk about from time to time, 304 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:47.519 this is an old clip to be a fair to her. I don't 305 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:52.359 know that she's changed. She's a little sick. You know, is one 306 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.680 way and only one way, and that is Jesus. Couldn't possibly be only 307 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:03.839 one Jesus. Are there many paths to get to the one God? Well, 308 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.359 I believe opened it there. I believe that Jesus is the way to 309 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.519 the one God. But I believe the many past to Jesus. Do you 310 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.039 not hear that from a battle? I believe that Jesus is a path for 311 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:21.200 God, that there are many paths to Jesus. Where are the other paths 312 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:26.039 to forget to Jesus? Somebody help me? Do you know what you don't 313 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:32.039 know? Do you know I didn't want to stop from the book. Do 314 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.920 I as been scared on record on opera. I believe that Jesus because you 315 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.200 know that I did said Jesus is not they will attack him because of polity. 316 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:44.079 I said about homosexology, which you say on the peat again, he 317 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:47.000 said, let me talk to it in a nice way, because I let 318 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:49.680 me know, do like Opra Monrad was, Jesus come in you anyway to 319 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.400 go, So let me not go a prast. So let me do like 320 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:57.119 a Pato the pastor ride denial of Christ. If any man preach any other 321 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:03.799 gospel, even if it's an angel, the Bible says, let them be 322 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.359 a curse. You don't know how Jesus would reveal himself to somebody, so 323 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.559 I'm not into excluding people. Jesus can reveal himself to him. I don't 324 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:17.440 know how anybody. So they got true for rebellion depth my body through his 325 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:23.720 love they got, and you got. So let's pause and just think about 326 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.880 this. Yeah, the act of being in Islam can show you evil. 327 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.599 The Lord Jesus could come to you. First of all, people only get 328 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.440 to come to the Lord Jesus because the Father calls them. Father says, 329 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:45.319 these are the ones I want. But darkness cannot partner with light. Jesus 330 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:52.920 is not in partnership with Mohammed or Krishna. They're not partners. Many paths 331 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.240 to the Lord Jesus. Yeah, there's many ways that people come to faith, 332 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.920 but all of them start by the Father calling you to himself. That's 333 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:07.680 how it starts. Joel Olstein saying there are many pasts to Jesus is sort 334 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.079 of a way to dodge what Jesus very very clearly said, which is so 335 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.559 vital to understand, and it is truly a salvation issue. It goes to 336 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:19.960 the very heart and fact of salvation issues. When we speak of heart, 337 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:25.519 we often think about, right the moral implications of hearts, and that's all 338 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:29.440 very very true. Heart, mind, soul. You were created body, 339 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:32.680 mind and soul as one unit boom, created by God. Just like that. 340 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.480 You were created with working parts. That man, what we've done to 341 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:42.200 our working parts. 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God wants 375 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:04.039 a loving relationship with you, and he is very very clear Joel Olstein very 376 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:11.400 clear. Jesus said, he's the Messiah. He died for our sins. 377 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.039 Only through him can we get to the Father. In John chapter fourteen, 378 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:19.000 verse six, verses six and seven, Jesus answered, I am. They 379 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.799 asked him, where is you going? Where are you going? How come 380 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.039 we can't follow? Where's the map? And Jesus said, look, guys, 381 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.279 I am the Way and the truth and the life. No one comes 382 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.720 to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will 383 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.880 know my Father as well from now on. You do know him and have 384 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:42.880 seen him. To be a Christian is to understand. That is the path. 385 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.000 To understand that the Father calls you to himself through the Lord Jesus. 386 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:55.839 It's like an introduction. These are things you must believe to be a Christian 387 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.720 and must act upon. We cannot earn grace. Once we're say right, 388 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.960 we want to respond, and some of the ways we know that we've truly 389 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:07.319 been saved. This by how response is driven in us, what we're driven 390 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:12.160 to do. When you're changed by God, you're driven to act in different 391 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:18.480 ways. Again. In Acts chapter two twenty through twenty two through twenty five, 392 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:23.319 here's Peter Okay, apostle Peter. Now you must understand the context here. 393 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.160 They knew the Lord was tortured. He was beaten and whipped. That 394 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.240 beating was so severe his ribs were probably showing through his back. That's what 395 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:38.079 the scourging did to him. He went on that cross for three hours, 396 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.880 and God poured out on him the cup of wrath that have been saved up 397 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.039 for us. This is why the Lord Jesus said, I don't want to 398 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.799 drink from this cup. This is the major reality that people who are now 399 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:55.440 dabbling with are investigating coming to Christ. You must understand the depth of this, 400 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.720 this act for you. And this is Peter, and he's speaking in 401 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.759 front of about five thousand maybe more people. This is at something after Pentecost, 402 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.319 they were given the Holy spirits. This was Peter's first sermon, public 403 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:14.920 sermon. Peter's speaking here in front of the same people who tortured Jesus Christ 404 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.920 to death. Okay, he is right now, a guy who had run 405 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.640 away, he'd hid, he denied Jesus. Oh, I don't know any 406 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.640 guide him. Jesus. What are you talking about. I've never been to 407 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.759 Nazareth. Noah, the dudes insane. Ah never been there who Jesus. 408 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:33.559 You mean Jesus the Gardener. No, I don't. But somehow he's brave 409 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.920 enough to do this in front of probably the very soldiers who carried out that 410 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.000 death, definitely in front of the very bosses, the religious technocrats, bureaucrats. 411 00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.920 And Peter spoke, fellow Israelites, listen to this, Jesus, if 412 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.440 Natherras was a man accredited to God, by God, to you by miracles, 413 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.880 wonders and signs which God did among you through him, as you yourselves 414 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.519 know, this man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreign 415 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.319 knowledge, and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to 416 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.559 death by kneeling to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, 417 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:09.920 fring him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to 418 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.519 keep his hold on him. He speaks these words knowing full well that that 419 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:21.720 could bring him to the same fate well, and ultimately it did. Peter 420 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.519 was crucified, and the tradition in the church is that he was crucified upside 421 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.240 down, but not before he had to watch his wife be tortured and crucified. 422 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.920 That's what the tradition of the church tells us these vital salvation beliefs. 423 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:37.240 You must believe that Jesus Christ died for you. You must believe that it 424 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:43.240 was a personal decision on your behalf. The depth of this relationship is what 425 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:47.240 we're seeking to describe here. Imagine if your father, your own personal father, 426 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:51.079 did this for you. If you'd been sentenced to prison and a beating, 427 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.079 and your dad stepped up and said, no, no, I'll do 428 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.079 it, No take me, you'd weep, no Dad, No, yes, 429 00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:59.680 I'm doing it for you. They cannot do this to you, son. 430 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.440 That's what Jesus did. In Matthew chapter sixteen, Verses thirteen through twenty, 431 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.640 Peter declares Jesus is the Messiah. When Jesus came to the region of 432 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:13.599 Cascernia, Philippine, he asked his disciples, who do people say? The 433 00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:17.000 Son of Man is the reply? Some say John the Baptist, other say 434 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:21.680 Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets, which was a big 435 00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:24.759 deal to say one of the prophets. They've been without prophets in Israel for 436 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.680 a long time. But what about you, Jesus asked, who do you 437 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.640 say? I am? Simon Peter answered, you're the Messiah, the son 438 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.079 of the Living God. And Jesus replied, blessed are you, Simon of 439 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.039 Jonah. For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but 440 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:43.880 by my Father in Heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter. 441 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:45.799 And on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades 442 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.920 will not overcome it. And I will give you the keys to the Kingdom 443 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.119 of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever 444 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.319 you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Then he ordered his disciples 445 00:33:55.319 --> 00:34:00.000 to not tell anyone yet that he was the Messiah. Jesus is the Messiah. 446 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.160 He did die for our sins. He is the Way, the Truth, 447 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.720 and the Life. And this is something that Christians have to believe, 448 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:12.679 or you're not yet there. Now. Peter had to develop his faith. 449 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:17.039 His faith was tested and he failed multiple times. It is not possible for 450 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.119 human beings to never have doubt. That's just how we're made. That's part 451 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:27.280 of a brokenness. One of the key elements of Christianity that we're not good 452 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:31.639 at saying is it doesn't solve everything. Becoming a Christian will not alleviate your 453 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:37.199 pain here that it will not You will face troubles in this world, but 454 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.400 you'll be armed and equipped in ways that you're not now. Prosperity Gospel get 455 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:47.679 that gets that part all wrong. We must accept Jesus and be born of 456 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:53.199 the spirit rather than the flesh. John three, verses one through nine. 457 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:58.519 Now there was a pharisee. This is a teacher of the law. The 458 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.719 pharisee a man named Nicodemus, who is a member of the Jewish ruling council. 459 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:05.199 He came to Jesus at night. Secretly, he came and said, 460 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.519 Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who's come from God, for 461 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.199 no one could perform the signs you're doing if God was not with him. 462 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.159 Jesus replied, very truly, I tell you, no one can see the 463 00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:17.840 Kingdom of God unless they're born again. The Kademus asked, how can they 464 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.360 be born when they're old. Surely they cannot enter a second time into their 465 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.039 mother's womb to be born. Jesus said, very truly, I tell you, 466 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:29.000 no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they're born of the water 467 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:31.800 and the spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth 468 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.440 to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying you must be born 469 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.639 again. The wind blows wherever it pleases you. Hear it sound, you 470 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:44.159 cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is 471 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:49.599 with everyone born of the Spirit. We were born all of us of mothers. 472 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:54.000 Sorry sexual left mothers are adult human females, not men. Men cannot 473 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.960 do this. In that birth, we were given the gift of life. 474 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.480 In this we're given the opportunity for a new life to be born of the 475 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:07.159 Spirit, the Holy Spirit in us, so that we can become more and 476 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:10.679 more holy, and closer and closer and closer to God. And the fact 477 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:16.880 is, when you accept this, the Holy Spirit dwells within you, and 478 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:23.280 blaspheming the Holy Spirit is a grievous and in fact unforgivable sin. I can't 479 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.760 tell you I know what it is to blasphem the Holy Spirit. I know, 480 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.880 I'm very careful about it. Matthew Chapter twelve, verses thirty one through 481 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.599 thirty two. And so I tell you every kind of sin and slander can 482 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:38.760 be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who 483 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:43.440 speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who 484 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.440 speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or 485 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:53.440 in the age to come. That seems to me to be an indicator that's 486 00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:58.360 once you've been saved, if you make a decision to blasphem the Holy Spirit, 487 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:02.039 you can screw it all up and not be forgiven. That's controversial. 488 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:07.199 I know there's people who believe once saved, always saved. I would actually 489 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.039 say this, once saved, why take the chance. Furthermore, once you 490 00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:19.760 love Jesus, why disappoint him that way? The biggest probably most well, 491 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.239 the second most controversial thing I think for young people. First most controversial is 492 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:29.000 men leading the household. The young women I know hate that and it's wildly 493 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:34.440 misunderstood, and we've addressed it. Here's one that no one wants to talk 494 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:38.440 about, and that is the fact that Satan is an actual being who seeks 495 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:44.880 to destroy you and keep you from God forever. One Peter eight. Be 496 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:49.760 alert and sober of mind. Your enemy. The devil prows like a roaring 497 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:55.400 lion, looking for someone to devour you. As a Christian, are duty 498 00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:01.320 bound to believe in Satan. Jesus spoke about Satan. He spoke about the 499 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.800 enemy. He talked about the time in the desert. Why do you think 500 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:07.679 the apostles knew the time in the desert happened. They weren't there with him, 501 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:16.000 he told them, And the apostles weren't of Satan as a being set 502 00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:23.679 on seeking to destroy you through deception, depression and distraction, distortion because he 503 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.840 hates you, because he hates your body, because he hates that we were 504 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:32.000 given bodies, because he hates it we were made in God's image. For 505 00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:37.519 young people examining Christianity, lots of people are reluctant to believe that Satan is 506 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.000 a real thing. Oh, the guy with the weird horns I see on 507 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.119 Halloween. That's one way if you want to look at him that way. 508 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.960 Another way to look at him is a fallen angel who's very very good at 509 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:51.960 separating you from God. He's corrupt. See the problem I think in our 510 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.360 society is things have become so corrupt that it's hard for us sometimes to even 511 00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.800 hear the word corruption and react appropriately. Corruption should make recoil, It should 512 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:04.480 make us run away, Like I don't want to be around anything corrupt. 513 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:08.079 Just look at our financial system. It's wildly corrupt. Our money is fake, 514 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:14.119 it doesn't mean anything. It's utterly fake. We've talked about this, 515 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:19.199 but now there's an opportunity for you to have an interactive conversation with Zach Abram. 516 00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.360 Zach is doing one of his famous free live webinars coming up Thursday, 517 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:28.400 March twenty eighth. This is free, but they do sell out because there's 518 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:31.280 a limited room in this. Zach's going to talk about the global unrest, 519 00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:37.320 the rising cost of living, and this market volatility and how they apply risk 520 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.400 management techniques so that your retirement is not destroyed or put off for ten years, 521 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.920 meaning maybe never. When you join this free live webinar, Zach will 522 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.760 also talk about the performance of the Bord Capital Management Fund to date, what 523 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:54.199 it looks like coming up to see their performances in person, and Zach always 524 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:59.239 leaves time for question because at heart, Zach is a teacher. So do 525 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.119 this to learn more and sign up for the free live webinar. Go to 526 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:06.000 Know Your Risk Radio dot Com. Again, space is limited. Happens nearly 527 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.639 every time people want to come and register. On the last day they don't 528 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:13.679 get in. Go to Know Your Risk radio dot com. That's know Know 529 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.239 Your Risk Radio dot com to register. Investment advisory services are offered through Truck 530 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:23.000 Financial LLC and SEC Registered Investment Advisor, and investments involve risk. Past performance 531 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:30.559 is not necessarily indicative of future results. The decision to not follow Jesus Christ's 532 00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:36.800 doesn't just involve risk. It involves a promise. It's a promise all of 533 00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:42.079 us will face. It's a promise communicated in ways that people don't want to 534 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:46.199 read. And it has to do with the Book of Revelation. In Book 535 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.760 of Revelation, chapter twenty, verses eleven through fifteen, this is the same 536 00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.280 John who said God in the beginning the word is with God. The word 537 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:59.559 was God. This is him writing from a prison island. And John says, 538 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.559 then I saw it was edited into a dream and went into the spiritual 539 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.679 Roman was revealed to him many things as used to happen with the prophets. 540 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:13.639 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. 541 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:15.679 The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place 542 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.840 for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before 543 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.119 the throne, and books were open. Another book was open, which is 544 00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.760 the Book of Life. The dead were judged according what they had done as 545 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.320 recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, 546 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.079 and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them. Each 547 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.400 person was judged according to what they'd done. Then Death and Hades were thrown 548 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:42.360 into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 549 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.360 Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into 550 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:52.400 the lake of fire. So let's read that again, just verse fifteen. 551 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.119 Some people whose names were not in the Book of Life are thrown into the 552 00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:05.000 lake of Fire's some what it says all of us will be in the books 553 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.880 that record our sins, all of us because all of us fall short of 554 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:13.760 the glory of God, and all of us will face judgment. And you're 555 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:20.679 an eternal being. There's a theory called eliminationism. The eliminationist theory is to 556 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.159 get out of jail free card when you're dead. You're dead. He might 557 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:27.280 go to hell for a little while, but then God's going to have mercy 558 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:32.400 and your existence. Scripture doesn't support it. Big question for a lot of 559 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:38.440 people, including myself, is how far along am I in having genuine saving 560 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:43.920 faith. I don't agree with everything John MacArthur does. In fact, some 561 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:45.599 of the things he's done been very, very frustrating, But I think he's 562 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.760 a great, great scholar of the Bible. In the show notes today, 563 00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.119 I'm leaving for you something that comes in the back of one of his study 564 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:58.800 Bibles, and it's so well backed up by scripture. These are some things 565 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:04.519 that indicate the state of your faith, Things that neither prove nor disprove one's 566 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.400 faith. Now listen to this. None of these things mean that you are 567 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:10.960 a Christian in his mind. They do not prove your faith. Visible morality, 568 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:17.079 sure you can be moral and not serve the Lord Jesus. Intellectual knowledge, 569 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:23.960 religious involvement, active ministry, conviction of sin, assurances the time of 570 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.599 decision. None of these things, in his mind, means that you are 571 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:34.480 an active Christian who's had full saving grace. Things that do authenticate that in 572 00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.440 his mind. Love for God. Do you want to hurt the people you 573 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:42.280 love? Do you want to be separated from them from a long time? 574 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:49.159 Do you feel better when you're with them? Repentance from sin meaning true sorrow 575 00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:55.760 when you sin because it hurt a loving God, genuine humility, recognizing that 576 00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:00.719 all you have is through the glory of God, Devotion to God's glory, 577 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:07.519 continuous prayer. This doesn't necessarily mean being always on your knees. For the 578 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.320 past three or four weeks, I've been in continuous prayer, invoking God's words 579 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:16.039 to help my minds not go to negative places. It's been remarkable. Continuous 580 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:21.000 prayers, a continuous conversation with God, help me Jesus, selfless love, 581 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.559 separation from the world, being in it but not of it. Spiritual growth, 582 00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.920 obedient living, hunger for God's word. That's a hard one for me. 583 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:32.440 I just admit it. Sometimes I don't want to read the Bible. 584 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:37.000 Sometimes I'm too busy. I got shows to do. Baby. How does 585 00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:42.800 it feel when your kids don't want anything to do with you? Doesn't feel 586 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.199 good. So when we love God, we develop a hunger for his word 587 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:52.599 and then transformation of life. Your life will be transformed if you have the 588 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:59.480 pure, true, saving grace of faith. That's how John MacArthur describes it. 589 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.039 I hope this is helpful for young people in your life who are experiencing 590 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:08.840 now a calling in their hearts for something greater than themselves. Because the enemy 591 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.559 loves to say, sure, be a Christian, pick up a book, 592 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:16.559 say you believe in Jesus. Look, you're saved, but you don't really 593 00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:21.119 need to change what you're doing. After all, Jesus loves you. He 594 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:25.119 made you that way, so go embrace your sin because you're forgiven. It's 595 00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:30.920 one of the biggest deceptions and cruelties in the world that that's being imparted to 596 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:35.639 young people. For the parts I screwed up. I hope you'll forgive me 597 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.519 for the parts that I got right. God did that. Thank you, 598 00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.960 Father, God, for your word and for who you are, and for 599 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.719 loving us so much that you go to these links to bring us back into 600 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.079 the family. This is the Todd hermersheaw Please go be well, be strong, 601 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:53.519 be kind, and make a decision. A decision to not decide is 602 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:54.159 a decision.