1 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:35,641 Amen. Yes, they do. I love it when we have a beautiful song, but 2 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:37,561 I love it even more when the person 3 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:40,721 singing the song lives it. And I'm 4 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:42,121 not saying it's just because she's 5 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:46,497 my wife. Maybe I am, but I don't know 6 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:51,065 a godlier woman that just emulates 7 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:54,537 the Lord Jesus Christ in her life. Kindest 8 00:00:30,219 --> 00:00:57,065 person I know. Say it before she 9 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:00,361 comes back in kind. I'm telling you, 10 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:02,009 she won't talk bad about anybody 11 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:05,289 in this room. She just won't. She just 12 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:09,069 won't. She just. She's teaching. 13 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:11,505 She's teaching Spanish. She doesn't speak 14 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:13,777 Spanish, but she's teaching it. But 15 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:15,593 it's okay. It's videos, right? So 16 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:16,889 she's monitoring, but she's learning 17 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:18,833 along the way. I heard somebody came 18 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:20,313 in the office the other day, and 19 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:22,197 Miss Tanya was in there, and I was 20 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:23,517 in my office, so I could hear what 21 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:24,341 they were talking about. I don't 22 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:25,405 remember who it was, but somebody 23 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:27,005 said something about, she can give them 24 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:30,797 demerits. And Miss Tanya said it 25 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:32,581 would take an act of Congress for 26 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:36,021 her to give them a demerit. And it's 27 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:38,849 true. She gives merits, not demerits. 28 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:43,809 She's just that way. All right, well, 29 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:47,829 we have outlines, of course. I believe 30 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:49,117 in outlines. I had a notebook for 31 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:50,301 everybody, but let's do outlines. 32 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:52,077 If you didn't already have an outline, we've 33 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:53,261 got a couple of guys in the back 34 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:54,881 that are waiting to hand them out. 35 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:57,553 I've got one. It's the simple outline, 36 00:00:30,219 --> 00:01:59,801 the simple outline of the plan of 37 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:01,961 salvation. And then we have three 38 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:04,441 or four pages together. If you need 39 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:06,897 one, hold your hand up, and they'll 40 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:09,169 make sure you get one. Does anybody 41 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:13,489 need one? Brother Jance needs one 42 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:17,649 of each. All right, I think I got 43 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:21,701 plenty this time. I think I made 44 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:27,909 about 120 copies, so this is good. 45 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:29,645 All right, I'm going to go over the 46 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:32,045 simple outline of the plan of salvation. 47 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:33,125 First of all, we're going to spend 48 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:35,013 about five or ten minutes on that. 49 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:37,269 And I know this is probably old hat 50 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:39,613 to some of you, and to others it 51 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:42,845 may not be, as I said before. Now, 52 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:44,101 for those of you who may not know 53 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:45,669 what we're doing in here, we're actually 54 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:47,877 taking what was going to be the Heritage 55 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:50,299 Baptist Bible Institute on Tuesday 56 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:52,067 nights in the other room for ten 57 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:54,331 weeks. Pastor asked me to go ahead 58 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:57,051 and teach this particular series 59 00:00:30,219 --> 00:02:59,755 of lessons to the entire Wednesday night 60 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:02,779 service on evangelism, personal evangelism, 61 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:04,683 on soul winning. Now, as I said, 62 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:07,387 some of you probably already know how 63 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:10,083 to lead someone to Christ. But I know 64 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:14,011 that. I know that just from speaking, 65 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:16,091 from years of experience in the ministry. 66 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:17,491 I promise you, I just know this. 67 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:19,867 And I'm not judging anybody, because 68 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:23,235 there are a multitude of reasons most christians 69 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:24,947 do not know how to lead someone to 70 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:26,995 Christ. Most christians do not take 71 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:30,531 the time to witness to others. And 72 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:31,971 again, I don't know who does and 73 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:33,947 who doesn't. I mean, I know a few 74 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:36,219 in here who do, but I don't know 75 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:38,843 who doesn't. Because you live your own 76 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:40,227 life. You've got your own sphere 77 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:43,931 of influence, and perhaps you do, but 78 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:46,583 for those who don't, or maybe those 79 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:49,207 who do, can learn. I'm ever the student. 80 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:51,151 I'm always looking to learn more 81 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:52,551 from somebody who knows more about 82 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:54,087 it than I do. I don't think I own a 83 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:56,455 corner on the knowledge of winning 84 00:00:30,219 --> 00:03:58,831 people to Jesus Christ. And so I 85 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:01,639 hope to help you. Okay. As I said 86 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:04,287 last week, before I even went to 87 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:11,695 Bible college, I was in immersed 88 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:16,599 in a church that was extremely militant 89 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:19,255 and not in a bad way, but militant. Very 90 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:21,175 aggressive. Not in a bad way, but 91 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:23,559 very aggressive in its soul winning. 92 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:25,159 Just. That was all. It was just soul 93 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:26,279 winning. Soul winning. Soul winning. 94 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:27,887 And that's not a bad thing. That's where 95 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:29,455 I learned it. However, I didn't know 96 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:31,015 anything about sowing. I didn't know 97 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:33,039 how to do it. And so the pastor just 98 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:34,711 gave me a little gospel tract. And 99 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:36,545 he said, just read the tract. Just 100 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:38,049 follow the track. There was a five 101 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:41,937 simple steps, five. Five things that 102 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:43,161 a person needed to know in order 103 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:45,149 to get to heaven. And that's how I started. 104 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:47,945 Now, over the years, obviously, we 105 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:50,585 built on that. We've added illustrations 106 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:53,273 to that. We've added verses to that. 107 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:56,641 We've changed some verses. And if 108 00:00:30,219 --> 00:04:59,937 you continue to do this using a tract 109 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:02,065 or whatever, you will eventually 110 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:05,641 have your own presentation. And I say that, 111 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:07,961 and we'll talk more about that later. 112 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:10,697 But this is the simple plan of salvation 113 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:13,529 that I use. This is the bones, and we'll 114 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:15,217 hang meat on it along as we go. I'm 115 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:17,185 gonna go over this every week. There 116 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:18,681 are some verses here that you ought 117 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:21,073 to memorize. You don't have to memorize 118 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:23,121 all the ones that I use, but there 119 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:24,841 are some that every person ought 120 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:27,025 to memorize. You ought to memorize Romans 121 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:29,721 310, Romans 323. You ought to memorize 122 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:32,419 Romans chapter five. Romans 623. 123 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:35,147 Romans 1013. Those are the ones you 124 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:36,755 ought to memorize. Have five or six 125 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:38,963 of them memorizing. And if you'll 126 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:42,363 use those, you can win someone to Jesus 127 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:45,099 Christ with those. And then you'll 128 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:46,971 add to them as you go. You will, you'll 129 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:50,275 just build on that. One of the reasons 130 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:52,395 I like to memorize it is because 131 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:53,771 a couple of reasons. Number one, you 132 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:55,283 might be somewhere where you don't 133 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:58,391 have your Bible, and you just get 134 00:00:30,219 --> 00:05:59,999 the opportunity to start telling 135 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:01,927 somebody about Jesus, and they want 136 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:03,319 to know Bible. And besides that, 137 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:05,847 it's the word of God that is the power 138 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:07,711 to save people, to salvage. Right. It's 139 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:09,311 the gospel that has the power to 140 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:11,791 save, not my presentation. And so 141 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:13,351 we need to know the word of God, 142 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:14,655 hide it away in our heart and use 143 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:17,023 it. And the other reason is many 144 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:18,727 times if I'm sitting at the table 145 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:21,399 with someone or if I'm at their door, 146 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:23,431 I will take my New Testament and 147 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:25,485 I will turn it around and I'll let 148 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:27,869 them read it while I'm quoting it. 149 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:30,773 And it just helps. It just really 150 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:32,729 does. They can read along with me. 151 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:38,661 One reason I do that is I just want 152 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:40,317 them to see it. I want them to see 153 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:41,597 it sometimes. I'll ask them to read 154 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:43,717 it. Now, you gotta be, you have to 155 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:45,237 be careful how you do that, because 156 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:46,901 the best way to do it honestly, and this 157 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:48,373 isn't a trick. It's just to help 158 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:51,181 you and them. I will ask them, I will 159 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:52,653 say, can you see this well enough 160 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:54,549 to read? Do you wear glasses or contacts? 161 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:56,245 Can you see that well enough to read 162 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:57,961 it? Because quite honestly, some 163 00:00:30,219 --> 00:06:59,265 people might not be able to read 164 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:00,905 very well and are very embarrassed 165 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:03,577 to read it. And you don't want to ask me 166 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:06,617 how I know that, right? And so it 167 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:07,961 just helps you. It helps them. So 168 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:09,273 anyway, that's just a little something 169 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:11,145 I'll throw out there for you. You 170 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:13,145 might not ask them to read it. Ask 171 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:15,313 them if they can see it well enough 172 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:17,625 to read it, and if they can, then have 173 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:21,017 them read it. Okay, so here we go. 174 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:22,537 Simple outline of the plan of salvation. 175 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:24,241 The question that we ultimately want 176 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:26,889 to arrive at is, if you died today, 177 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:28,941 are you 100% certain you would go 178 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:32,269 to heaven? Now, again, I start there, 179 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:33,637 but there are going to be a lot of 180 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:35,133 people that we talk to. They're not 181 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:37,173 interested in heaven. They're not 182 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:39,685 thinking about heaven. That is a 183 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:41,757 spiritual subject. And quite frankly, 184 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:43,981 I've talked with many people who 185 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:47,389 said I hadn't really thought about 186 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:50,021 it. I said, well, don't you concern 187 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:52,157 yourself with when you die? Not really. 188 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:53,685 I mean, there's a lot of people like 189 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:56,129 that, but this is the starting spot. 190 00:00:30,219 --> 00:07:59,417 And again, we're not trying to deal 191 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:02,549 tonight with atheists and agnostics. 192 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:05,401 We can deal with that at another time, 193 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:09,545 maybe in our apologetics class. But 194 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:12,009 what we're doing is we're teaching 195 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:14,769 you how to take a person who is interested, 196 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:17,081 or at least will listen to the gospel 197 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:19,057 all the way through to the end and how 198 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:21,001 to win them to Jesus Christ. And 199 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:22,993 so I asked them, I try to get to that 200 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:24,577 question, if you died today, are 201 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:26,441 you 100% certain you would go to 202 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:28,899 heaven? I try to always get to that 203 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:30,179 question, because it's not about 204 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:34,315 just inviting them to church. And sure, 205 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:35,475 we'd love for them to come to church, 206 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:37,227 but the Bible doesn't say, go out 207 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:39,999 and gather everybody under one roof. 208 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:46,675 What if you're in an airport? Maybe 209 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:48,239 they're on their way to Chicago. 210 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:50,907 They're never going to probably darken the 211 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:53,509 door of your church. But if the Holy 212 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:55,173 Spirit is speaking to your heart 213 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:57,973 to hand them a gospel tract, he probably 214 00:00:30,219 --> 00:08:59,253 wants you to talk to him, too. And 215 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:00,501 it'd be all right to win them to 216 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:02,197 Jesus Christ if they never had the 217 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:03,813 opportunity to come to your church. 218 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:07,157 Amen. So it's okay. But ask them 219 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:10,769 this question now. If they say yes, 220 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:13,765 I always, always, always follow that 221 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:15,149 up with, well, how can you be so 222 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:16,973 sure? What makes you so sure? What 223 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:18,807 do you base that on? I want to know 224 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:20,535 where they're coming from. Now, if 225 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:22,655 they are truly saved. If you ask 226 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:24,007 a person, if you died today, are you 227 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:25,615 100% sure you go to heaven? If they're 228 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:27,775 truly saved, they will answer right 229 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:29,439 away without hesitating. Oh, yeah, 230 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:31,631 absolutely. Yeah, I know I'm going 231 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:33,935 to heaven, no doubt in my mind, and 232 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:35,335 I'll still follow it up with, well, 233 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:37,095 how can you be so sure? And if they're 234 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:38,615 truly saved, they won't hesitate. 235 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:40,847 Well, because I accepted Christ as my savior, 236 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:42,719 or Jesus Christ died for my sins, 237 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:44,719 and I something to that effect, and you'll 238 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:46,535 know immediately they're saved. Now, 239 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:47,847 there are a lot of lost people who 240 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:51,445 will say yes as well. And when you 241 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:53,621 ask them that second part, that will 242 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:54,981 tell you whether they really are 243 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:57,133 or not, when you say if you died today 244 00:00:30,219 --> 00:09:58,701 or you're 100% sure that you're going 245 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:00,133 to heaven and it's a lost person, 246 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:03,101 and they say, yeah, I'm sure. Well, how 247 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:04,997 do you know that? How can you. What 248 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:06,485 do you base that on? How can you 249 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:10,797 be so sure? Well, because. Well, because 250 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:13,221 I just. I get. And they'll give you 251 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:17,559 a string of reasons why without one 252 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:20,431 time mentioning Jesus Christ. So 253 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:23,535 a lot of people will say yes, but some, 254 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:26,559 if they say no, then of course. First, 255 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:28,991 John 513. These are some verses that 256 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:30,231 you should have highlighted that 257 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:32,679 you should know. First, John 513. These 258 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:33,959 things have I written many times. 259 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:34,991 They'll say, well, no one can know. 260 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:36,759 Can anybody know for sure? First, 261 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:38,791 John 513, these things have I written 262 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:40,207 unto you that believe in the name of the 263 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:41,999 son of God, that you may know you 264 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:45,265 have eternal life. You can know. 265 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:48,425 You can know down in Corpus Christi, 266 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:50,321 there's a lot of Catholics there, and they 267 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:52,465 call that the sin of assumption. 268 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:55,153 If you say you know, they say, you can't know. 269 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:56,625 That's sin. That's a sin. That's 270 00:00:30,219 --> 00:10:58,641 the sin of assumption. You can't know 271 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:00,481 you're going to heaven. And I've 272 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:01,617 told them, I said, but if you read 273 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:03,273 it in the Bible, if the Bible said, 274 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:04,761 because I know that you believe the 275 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:06,521 Bible, I know you take this, the 276 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:09,001 word of God is the word of God, and 277 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:10,281 you believe that. So if you read 278 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:11,689 it in the word of God, would you believe 279 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:13,619 it? And many of them would say, yes, 280 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:15,235 but there's many of them that say, 281 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:16,131 well, I don't want to talk about 282 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:20,219 it, but if they say yes, then I turn 283 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:21,843 that Bible around and I show them. 284 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:23,851 First, John 513, these things have 285 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:25,147 I written unto you that believe in 286 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:26,315 the name of the son of God, that 287 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:30,059 you may know you have eternal life? First, 288 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:34,371 John 513. And then there are going, 289 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:35,699 continuing on with this, there are 290 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:37,835 three basic things the Bible teaches 291 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:39,629 that a person must believe in order 292 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:42,145 to know for sure that they are saved. 293 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:43,729 You don't have to give them these. 294 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:46,305 These are for you. The why, the who 295 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:48,569 and the how. I never even thought 296 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:50,105 about it like that until pastor brought 297 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:51,809 that to my mind. I never heard it put 298 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:53,345 like that. But that is very simple. 299 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:56,041 It's easy for you to remember if 300 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:57,297 you want to win someone to Christ, 301 00:00:30,219 --> 00:11:59,305 why I need to be saved, who can save 302 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:01,513 me, how I get saved, and if you want 303 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:02,841 to share it that way with them, that's 304 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:05,297 fine. But in order to answer those 305 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:07,881 questions, why do I need to be saved? 306 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:10,687 Why? Because all are sinners. All 307 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:12,047 right, this is your bare bones. I'm 308 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:13,015 just, I'm gonna run through this 309 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:14,959 now real quick, because all are sinners. 310 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:17,007 You need to memorize Romans 310 and Romans 311 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:20,959 333. 13. Memorize those. Memorize. 312 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:23,191 Actually, that should be 323. Romans 313 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:28,071 310 and 323. And then, so all are 314 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:30,695 sinners. But most of the time, people 315 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:32,287 are gonna. Most people don't have 316 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:33,815 a hard time admitting that they're 317 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:36,475 sinners. Most people will admit that. 318 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:38,107 But what we have to do is we have 319 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:39,995 to convince them that the sin that they've 320 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:42,915 committed is against God. We've sinned 321 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:44,811 against God. You have to take it 322 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:46,571 there and you have to explain the 323 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:48,139 difference between breaking man's 324 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:50,723 laws and breaking God's laws. And 325 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:53,139 I propose that you use the Ten Commandments 326 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:55,131 to do that. Use the law of God. I'm 327 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:56,371 not going to get into that now. I 328 00:00:30,219 --> 00:12:57,619 have some tracts I'm going to hand 329 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:00,331 out for you at another later date, 330 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:01,843 maybe next week. I'll give you those 331 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:04,413 gospel, those ten commandment tracts 332 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:07,157 and keep those. I used to use the 333 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:09,125 Ten Commandments stamped on a penny. 334 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:10,485 I would give those away, and people 335 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:12,085 thought that was very, very novel, 336 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:14,781 and no one refused it. Everyone would 337 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:16,669 take that, and I can't find those 338 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:20,205 anymore. But we need them to understand 339 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:21,901 that they have sinned against God. 340 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:25,205 Use the law. The word of God will 341 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:27,765 convict them. And at the end they 342 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:29,469 will say, I will say, if you were 343 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:31,101 stood here and you had to, if you 344 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:32,581 died today and you stood before God 345 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:34,129 and you were judged by his laws, 346 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:34,897 because that's what he's going to 347 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:36,313 judge you by, would you be innocent 348 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:40,825 or guilty? They will say, I'd be guilty. 349 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:42,937 I don't have to tell them they're guilty. 350 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:45,585 You use the law of God, they'll admit 351 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:47,785 that they're guilty. Okay, so thou 352 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:49,417 shall not bear false witness. Have 353 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:50,985 you ever told a lie? Everybody's 354 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:53,049 going to say, yes, they've told a lie. Thou 355 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:55,049 shalt not steal. Have you ever stolen 356 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:57,641 anything? Most everybody will admit 357 00:00:30,219 --> 00:13:59,065 to stealing. However, they'll only 358 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:01,731 admit to stealing as a child. You've 359 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:02,987 heard me say that before. I'm telling 360 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:04,043 you, you talk to them. Most of them 361 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:06,275 will say, well, only as a kid. It's 362 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:08,159 amazing we have no adult thieves. 363 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:11,395 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord 364 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:12,971 thy God in vain. Most of them have 365 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:14,947 done that, and they'll admit it. 366 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:16,251 Honor your father and mother. Oh, 367 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:17,827 yeah, I always honor my father and 368 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:19,243 my mother. I always honor my parents. 369 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:21,155 Really? You just admitted to being 370 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:23,539 a lying, thieving individual who uses 371 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:25,155 God's name in vain. Does that honor 372 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:28,621 your parents? And honestly, they'll 373 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:30,661 think about that. No, I guess not. 374 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:32,237 Now, here's where I usually stop. 375 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:33,597 There's no need to go on over all 376 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:35,317 of them. I'll stop right there and 377 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:36,709 I'll say, look, we've only gone over 378 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:38,165 four. You're swinging a thousand. 379 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:39,845 You're batting a thousand. You're four for 380 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:43,357 four at that point. That's when I 381 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:44,645 ask him if you stood before God. 382 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:47,341 Now and he judged you by his law, would 383 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:50,149 you be innocent or guilty? And most 384 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:51,981 of the time, they'll see, if they 385 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:53,461 let you get this far, they'll admit 386 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:56,057 it. I'm guilty. And that's where 387 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:58,609 you go to the next one. There's a. Because 388 00:00:30,219 --> 00:14:59,985 they have to understand that sin 389 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:02,825 is against God. This is not. You didn't 390 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:06,425 just run a stop sign. You didn't 391 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:09,385 run a stop sign. That's not the laws we're 392 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:11,785 talking about. We're talking about 393 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:13,481 sinning against a holy God. There 394 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:14,761 is a penalty. Number three. There's 395 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:17,857 a penalty for our sin. Romans 623. 396 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:19,569 Y'all need to remember that verse. 397 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:21,629 Memorize it. Memorize that verse. 398 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:23,561 You see, if we were doing this in our 399 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:25,561 class, it'd be a much smaller area 400 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:27,201 where we're down to 20, and we'd 401 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:29,309 be repeating these verses over and over. 402 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:31,881 For the wages of sin is death. Romans 403 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:34,801 623 a. The first part is where you'd 404 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:36,305 use this, for the wages of sin is 405 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:37,897 death. Now, the second part is. But 406 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:39,625 the gift of God is eternal life through 407 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:41,273 Jesus Christ our Lord. But we want 408 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:43,321 to do the first part right now. At 409 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:45,513 this point in my gospel presentation, 410 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:48,559 I just want them to see that there's a penalty 411 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:50,751 for the wages of sin is death. Romans 412 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:53,175 623. Now, you can add on to that. 413 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:54,783 I have other verses there that I use. 414 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:56,415 Romans chapter 20, verse eleven through 415 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:58,303 15, I show them that there are two 416 00:00:30,219 --> 00:15:59,791 deaths. And I ask them, did you know 417 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:02,079 that there are two deaths? I've never 418 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:04,099 had anybody say, yeah, I knew that 419 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:08,791 almost 100% will say, nah, I didn't 420 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:11,335 know that. Then you can show them 421 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:13,407 the death of the soul, death of the 422 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:15,679 body. And I ask him, Hebrews 927. 423 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:17,535 It is appointed unto man once to die, 424 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:18,871 but after this, the judgment. So 425 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:20,711 I ask him, I say, so, if the body dies, 426 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:22,687 if you die and the body goes into. 427 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:25,695 If you're cremated or you're lost, you're 428 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:27,087 lost in the ocean, you burn up in 429 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:29,231 a fire, or if you're put in the ground, 430 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:30,711 what happens to you after several 431 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:32,871 months? And they will well, it decomposes. 432 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:34,719 Okay, well, if your body decomposes, 433 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:40,881 then what goes to judgment? 100% of the 434 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:43,241 time, no matter how many times I've 435 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:44,561 asked that question, and I promise 436 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:48,401 you, I've asked it thousands, thousands 437 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:51,057 of times. No matter how many times I 438 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:52,825 ask that question, they will always 439 00:00:30,219 --> 00:16:56,109 answer, well, my soul or my spirit 440 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:00,193 every single time. It's amazing, 441 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:01,481 because they don't even have to go to church, 442 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:03,161 and they know. They know. They're 443 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:06,677 an eternal being. They know it. And 444 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:09,357 so you can use that. The second question 445 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:11,373 is, who can save me? Number four. 446 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:13,101 Jesus Christ paid the debt that I 447 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:15,677 owed when I broke his laws. And we 448 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:16,829 see that in Romans chapter five, 449 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:19,677 verse eight. And then. But God commendeth 450 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:20,941 his love toward us in that while 451 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:22,805 we were yet sinners, Christ died for 452 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:24,485 us. And in Romans 623, the second 453 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:26,769 part, the wages of sin is death, 454 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:29,569 but the gift of God is eternal life. 455 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:32,629 And then how do I get saved? Believe 456 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:34,085 in your heart and confess with your 457 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:35,901 mouth. Romans ten, nine. If thou 458 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:37,201 shalt believe in thine heart and 459 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:38,489 confess with thy mouth that Jesus 460 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:41,609 Christ rose from that I'm butchering 461 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:44,145 that. Now if thou shalt confess with thy 462 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:45,241 mouth and believe in thine heart 463 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:46,689 that God hath raised thee from the dead, 464 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:48,193 thou shalt be saved. I'm not saying 465 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:49,681 that, right. I'm missing it. But 466 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:51,297 anyway, memorize those verses. We're 467 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:53,393 going to go back over it again each 468 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:55,665 night. Memorize those verses. Those 469 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:57,601 are the ones you'll need. That if 470 00:00:30,219 --> 00:17:59,189 thou shalt believe in thine heart. 471 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:01,849 If thou shalt confess. I'm butchering 472 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:03,501 in that. I'm going to open it. I can't 473 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:04,757 believe. I don't have. I have it 474 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:06,861 memorized, I promise. But you're 475 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:09,853 scaring me. Romans chapter ten, verse 476 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:11,157 nine. That if thou shalt confess 477 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:13,621 with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt 478 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:15,133 believe in thine heart that God hath 479 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:16,581 raised him from the dead. Thou shalt 480 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:19,565 be saved. Don't leave off the resurrection. 481 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:21,661 Do not leave off the resurrection. 482 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:23,541 Most of the tracts that you'll find that 483 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:25,005 have a gospel presentation on them. 484 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:27,709 Leave off the resurrection. You have 485 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:30,145 to talk about the resurrection. You 486 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:31,705 have to. You can't leave it off. 487 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:34,353 And then verse ten. For with the heart, 488 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:35,745 man believes unto righteousness. 489 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:38,881 And with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 490 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:40,961 Memorize those two verses. All right, 491 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:43,001 let's go ahead and turn then in your 492 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:46,785 outline to page ten. We're looking 493 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:50,249 at man's condition. This is section 494 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:56,627 two of our outline. Man's condition. Again, 495 00:00:30,219 --> 00:18:57,867 I'll be sticking with my outline 496 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:01,787 pretty close as time is the ruler tonight, 497 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:04,027 it is tempting to take a lost person's 498 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:07,107 rejection of Christ personally. If 499 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:09,139 we are not spirit filled when engaging 500 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:11,259 the lost, we can even respond in 501 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:14,419 kind to those who are venomous, hateful, 502 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:16,475 critical, sarcastic and threatening 503 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:19,051 or violent. When a soul winner has a 504 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:21,157 biblical understanding of Mandev, 505 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:24,145 God's crown jewel of creation, and what 506 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:27,081 he lost in the fall, it gives him or 507 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:28,977 her a deeper, more compassionate 508 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:31,113 understanding of the lost man's need, 509 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:33,785 the scope of his ignorance, the depth 510 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:36,025 of his depravity, and the reason 511 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:39,073 for his resistance. And I'm telling you, 512 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:41,769 if you don't, if you just mark chapter 513 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:44,193 16, the Bible tells us at the end 514 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:46,881 of that chapter that the disciples 515 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:50,611 were in unbelief. And we're told in verse, 516 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:52,395 chapter 16, verse 15, the Bible says 517 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:55,011 that God, Jesus, upbraided them in 518 00:00:30,219 --> 00:19:58,051 their unbelief, and then he told 519 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:01,747 them to go out and witness. And so 520 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:03,467 we don't have to wait until we're 521 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:05,027 spiritual to go out and witness. 522 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:07,443 It's just the right thing to do. If you 523 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:08,411 have the opportunity, it doesn't 524 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:09,851 matter if you're in a bad mood or not. If 525 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:11,915 God puts somebody in your path who 526 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:13,531 needs the Lord, if they come to you 527 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:14,859 and they start talking about man, 528 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:19,781 I just. I know you go to church. What's 529 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:21,469 so special about it? I mean, boy, 530 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:23,445 God's opening that door. Doesn't 531 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:26,021 matter if you're in a bad mood or not. And 532 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:31,333 so it helps if when you do go out 533 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:32,997 knocking doors or. And even when 534 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:35,329 you're going to do these door hangers, 535 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:37,365 you might get the opportunity. Somebody 536 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:38,757 may be standing on their porch, they 537 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:40,701 may be in the garage. Remember, we're 538 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:42,417 trying to win people, not doors. 539 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:45,505 So if you have someone who's there, a living 540 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:48,209 person, a body, go ahead and give 541 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:49,745 them the door hanger. Don't just 542 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:51,553 hang it on their door and pass them. 543 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:53,017 Give it to them, and you might have 544 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:54,753 an opportunity to talk to them about 545 00:00:30,219 --> 00:20:58,601 Jesus Christ. And so if you can go 546 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:02,069 with a spirit filled understanding 547 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:05,001 their condition as a lost man, I promise 548 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:06,561 you, it will help you to understand them 549 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:07,817 better. And then if they're venomous, 550 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:10,141 if they're mean, if they're ugly, you 551 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:12,045 won't take it personally. You'll 552 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:15,581 have an understanding of why they're responding 553 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:16,677 the way they are. So that's what 554 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:17,885 we're going to look into. So let's 555 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:22,141 look, then, at man in the image of 556 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:24,245 God. Man is made. In the image of 557 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:26,837 God. He is created. This is the created 558 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:29,269 stage. What is man? He's tripartite. 559 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:31,645 Or if you want to say it another way, trichotomy. 560 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:33,789 He's a trichotomy. He's a three part 561 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:36,029 God made us in the image of himself. 562 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:38,141 Genesis two seven. The Lord God formed 563 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:40,125 man of the dust of the ground and 564 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:41,765 breathed into his nostrils the breath 565 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:44,029 of life, and man became a living 566 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:45,509 soul. All right, fill these in. Number 567 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:48,221 one, he was a body first. He was of the 568 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:50,213 dust of the ground. The Lord God 569 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:52,317 formed man of the dust of the ground. 570 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:56,517 That's his body. Number two, he breathed 571 00:00:30,219 --> 00:21:59,429 into his nostrils the breath of life. 572 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:02,089 That's the spirit. Breathe. Noustos 573 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:05,461 spirit. He breathed into his nostrils. 574 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:07,849 Now, I put out here created spirit. 575 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:12,511 God is not created, but the spirit that 576 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:16,975 he gave Adam upon his creation was 577 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:19,287 created spirit for Adam. Because, 578 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:21,631 look, God doesn't die. God doesn't die. 579 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:24,335 Amen. God is eternal. And we'll see 580 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:25,871 here in just a little bit. When man 581 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:29,559 sinned, his spirit died. So when 582 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:33,255 God regenerates us, he gives us, he gives 583 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:36,283 us uncreated spirit. His spirit. 584 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:39,507 Okay, so God gave him a spirit. He breathed 585 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:40,883 into his nostrils. And then number 586 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:45,707 three, a soul. He says he, he breathed 587 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:47,195 into his nostrils the breath of life, 588 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:49,555 and man became a living soul. Now, 589 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:50,923 what is the soul? It's the mind, 590 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:53,283 the will and the emotions. That's your 591 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:54,731 intellect, your volition and your 592 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:57,243 affections. Your soul is the vehicle 593 00:00:30,219 --> 00:22:59,195 of your, of your body. I mean, I'm sorry. 594 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:00,547 Your body is the vehicle of your 595 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:03,375 soul. Your soul is what makes you 596 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:05,087 you. That's your personality. That's 597 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:06,935 your disposition. That's everything. 598 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:09,455 That's you. All right. Letter B. He was 599 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:11,023 made in the image of God, not only 600 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:13,459 tripartite, but for his purpose, 601 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:18,415 for God's purpose. Now, in the seventies, 602 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:23,295 there was a popular group going throughout 603 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:26,495 the campuses of America and thank 604 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:28,723 God for anybody that will try to reach 605 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:30,827 university students, college students, 606 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:32,307 with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 607 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:33,707 Anybody remember what the name of 608 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:37,699 that group was? Campus crusade. A 609 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:39,907 lot of people got saved in campus 610 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:45,875 crusade, and I don't. And there was 611 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:47,987 a, there was a, there was some faulty 612 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:49,515 theology in that, not necessarily 613 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:51,555 in their gospel presentation. That was fine. 614 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:52,907 Lots of people got saved. Now, I'm 615 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:55,445 not faulting that, but there was 616 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:57,117 something that they said in the very 617 00:00:30,219 --> 00:23:59,109 beginning of their gospel booklet 618 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:03,757 that just isn't necessarily true, and 619 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:05,157 it's not something that you would 620 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:08,429 use to try to win a lost person to Jesus 621 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:09,981 Christ. Does anybody remember what 622 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:16,925 it said? God loves you and does anybody 623 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:20,557 remember? God loves you and has a 624 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:23,685 wonderful plan for your life. That 625 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:27,349 was their opening phrase. God loves 626 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:29,325 you and has a wonderful plan for 627 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:32,805 your life. Well, that's faulty. It's 628 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:35,053 faulty because that's not going to 629 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:37,341 be true for everybody. I mean, no 630 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:40,373 one's, not everybody's. Philippians, 631 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:42,637 chapter one, verse 29, says, it is given 632 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:44,485 unto you not only to believe in his name, 633 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:47,531 but also to suffer for his sake. 634 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:49,979 There are some people that God's 635 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:55,875 plan is for them to suffer. Now, we first 636 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:57,819 world individuals, we can't grasp 637 00:00:30,219 --> 00:24:59,171 that, and we think that's cruel, 638 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:00,843 that's mean. I wouldn't want to. 639 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:04,363 But you know what? There's. The majority 640 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:06,611 of Christianity in the world tonight 641 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:10,739 is living in abject poverty. We are 642 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:12,427 not the majority of christians in 643 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:14,825 the world. We are the majority of 644 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:16,889 spoiled christians in the world. 645 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:18,745 We are not the majority of christians. 646 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:21,217 The majority of christians are living 647 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:24,977 in poverty. And many of them, they know 648 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:27,513 nothing but a life of suffering once 649 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:30,017 they got saved. But the thing is, 650 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:33,673 once we are saved, like Peter said, 651 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:37,833 we count it joy to be able to suffer 652 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:42,221 shame for his sake. They counted 653 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:44,389 it joy. They counted it a blessing. 654 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:47,197 And when you, those of you who have been on 655 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:48,661 the mission field, those of you who've 656 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:50,341 gone with us, those of you who've 657 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:52,173 gone on your own, you've gone to third 658 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:54,649 world countries, how does it not 659 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:57,805 humble you? How does it not make 660 00:00:30,219 --> 00:25:59,669 you come home and look at all that you 661 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:03,493 have and say, oh, my soul, I am so 662 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:06,819 blessed. I have so, God is so good 663 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:09,355 to me. And then we go there and we 664 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:13,291 realize they are happy. We were at 665 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:15,603 Brother coach Church in Guatemala, 666 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:17,043 and that's the only one I have to talk 667 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:18,307 about, brother. I've only ever been 668 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:21,779 to one missions trip. And the way 669 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:24,131 they, they were poor. I mean, they 670 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:27,187 were poor. They didn't have very 671 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:30,387 much, those people, but, boy, you 672 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:32,185 should have heard them. Singhead. 673 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:33,997 Oh, my goodness. Wasn't that something, 674 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:35,765 Brother Scott, brother Johnson, wasn't that 675 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:38,037 something? That was amazing. It just, 676 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:39,933 I still got the video. It was just 677 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:41,773 amazing just to listen to them sing 678 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:43,965 and see the joy and the servants 679 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:47,373 that they were, they just wanted to help 680 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:48,853 anyway. It's amazing. I don't know 681 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:54,029 how I got off on that. So to say 682 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:55,677 to every. What if you're. What if you're 683 00:00:30,219 --> 00:26:59,535 in a prison ministry? Everywhere 684 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:02,111 that I've pastored, I've been in the jail ministry. 685 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:03,623 I've gone to county jails all over. 686 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:05,119 Everywhere. Everywhere I've pastored, 687 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:07,687 I had a county jail ministry. Go in 688 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:08,887 there and tell them, God loves you 689 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:10,215 and has a wonderful plan for your 690 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:11,287 life. And they're on their way to 691 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:15,767 Huntsville. They're fixing to go 692 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:17,887 to Beeville to spend the next 25 693 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:23,551 years. Some of them are lifers. They're 694 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:24,455 going to spend the rest of their 695 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:26,151 life in the penitentiary. Now they need 696 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:27,943 to get saved. Yeah, but can you really 697 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:29,627 say God has a wonderful plan for 698 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:32,227 your life? I mean, we might understand 699 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:33,931 that in one way, but try to get them 700 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:36,571 to get that and so that was kind 701 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:41,435 of a faulty plan. And then those, there 702 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:42,875 might be people that you're witnessing 703 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:45,683 to who just went through some horrific 704 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:48,699 trial, some horrific tragedy in their 705 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:51,947 life, and then for us to come to 706 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:53,203 their door and say, God loves you 707 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:54,619 and has a wonderful plan for your 708 00:00:30,219 --> 00:27:59,161 life. Romans 828 says, and we know 709 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:00,865 that all things work together for 710 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:02,345 good to them that love God, to them 711 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:03,545 who are the called according to his 712 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:05,429 purpose. We know that, don't we? 713 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:07,985 But I want to tell you something 714 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:11,909 that's not always even comforting for christians. 715 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:15,417 It's just not. I led a young family 716 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:17,385 to the Lord and they had a little girl, 717 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:19,105 and then eventually they had a little 718 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:20,481 boy. And when that little boy was 719 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:22,439 about three years old, or two or 720 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:24,983 two or three years old, he got really 721 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:28,463 sick. Really sick. And he had heart 722 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:30,671 issues with his heart, and he ended 723 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:33,431 up being on life support. And they 724 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:35,135 had to make the very, very. Can you 725 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:37,699 imagine? They had to make the decision 726 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:40,979 to take him off of life support. 727 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:44,063 And I was there in the hospital just before 728 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:47,383 they did that. I was with them. And 729 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:49,845 I. That mother told me, she said, 730 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:52,781 brother James, if one more person 731 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:54,573 comes to me and says, all things 732 00:00:30,219 --> 00:28:57,125 work together for good, she said, I think 733 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:00,077 I'm going to throw up. I mean, you 734 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:06,141 can get that. I get that. And I was 735 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:08,957 a Christian. So sometimes, you know, 736 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:11,877 not every verse works. Just have 737 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:15,515 to be wise. Amen. I. But we know. We 738 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:18,019 know that he saved. He created every 739 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:20,483 single person for his purpose. Ephesians 740 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:22,611 1311. Blessed be the God. Listen 741 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:23,747 to this. Let's read this together. Look 742 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:25,371 at it there. Blessed be the God and 743 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:26,851 father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 744 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:28,899 who hath blessed us with all spiritual 745 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:30,371 blessings in heavenly places, in 746 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:32,739 Christ according as he hath chosen 747 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:34,691 us in him before the foundation of the 748 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:37,035 world, that we should be holy and 749 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:38,923 without blame, before him in love. 750 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:40,235 Now that sounds like his purpose 751 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:42,605 to me. He saved us, that we should be holy 752 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:44,517 and without blame. Verse five. Having 753 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:46,565 predestinated us unto the adoption 754 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:48,205 of children, Pastor just talked about 755 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:50,901 that. By Jesus Christ to himself. 756 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:53,165 To himself according to the what the 757 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:55,805 good pleasure of his will, to the 758 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:57,453 praise of the glory of his grace, 759 00:00:30,219 --> 00:29:59,357 wherein he hath made us accepted. 760 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:02,005 How? In the beloved. That's the only way 761 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:03,829 in the beloved. We're accepted only 762 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:07,013 in the beloved, in whom we have redemption 763 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:08,405 through his blood, the forgiveness 764 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:10,987 of sins, according to the riches of what his 765 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:14,179 grace, wherein he hath abounded toward 766 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:16,323 us in all wisdom and prudence, having 767 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:17,971 made known unto us the mystery of 768 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:20,651 his will, according to his good pleasure 769 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:22,959 which he hath purposed in himself. 770 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:26,067 Oh, my goodness. Brethren, if we really, 771 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:27,539 truly believe what the word of God 772 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:29,171 says, we'd stop living so much for 773 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:31,227 ourselves and stop and start acting, 774 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:33,067 asking God, what would you like for 775 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:37,419 me to do today, Father? Master, Lord, 776 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:40,311 you saved me for your purpose. Am 777 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:44,579 I living for you? Is my life designed 778 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:46,895 for your purpose? Is it designed 779 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:49,583 around you? Or have I orchestrated it around 780 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:55,039 me and my own purpose? God created 781 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:57,303 us for himself, for his purpose. And 782 00:00:30,219 --> 00:30:59,967 then letter C. For his pleasure. 783 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:02,959 For his pleasure. Revelation four, verse 784 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:04,975 eleven. Thou art worthy, O Lord, 785 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:07,109 to receive glory and honor and power, 786 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:09,001 for thou hast created all things and 787 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:11,537 for thy pleasure. They are and were 788 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:14,829 created. And that's us. That's us. 789 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:17,049 Genesis three eight. And they heard 790 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:19,025 the voice of the Lord God walking 791 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:20,529 in the garden in the cool of the day. 792 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:22,385 Adam and Eve. He created them to 793 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:24,545 fellowship with him. That was, he 794 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:27,009 created them for himself so that 795 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:28,569 they could have fellowship with him, 796 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:29,881 and he could have fellowship with 797 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:32,649 them. And one day soon. One day soon, 798 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:34,763 and I believe it is soon, we're going 799 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:37,723 to enjoy that again. Uninterrupted, 800 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:41,179 unmolested fellowship with God. Amen. First 801 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:43,515 Peter one four says, it's an inheritance 802 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:46,187 incorruptible and undefiled, and 803 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:48,155 that fadeth not a way reserved in 804 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:49,611 heaven for you. And I'm looking forward 805 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:52,083 to that day. And even so, come Lord 806 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:54,559 Jesus and all God's people said, 807 00:00:30,219 --> 00:31:58,691 I'm ready, brother. Get up a load of 808 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:00,875 pumpkins tonight. I'll jump on. I'm 809 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:05,355 ready to go. Let the world have this 810 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:08,091 mess. I'm ready to go. All right, 811 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:09,203 number two, we got to move along 812 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:13,667 here. Fallen from a perfect, sinless 813 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:15,219 state. This is the condition of man. 814 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:17,643 He was made perfect. He was made 815 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:19,979 in the image of God, created for God's 816 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:22,059 purpose, created for God's pleasure. 817 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:27,477 But he fell from a perfect, sinless state. 818 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:29,337 Now, that's the corrupted stage. 819 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:32,041 First he was created, now he's corrupted. 820 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:33,769 And let's just read through here. Genesis 821 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:35,025 three. Let's read through this one 822 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:36,297 through seven. And then verse 22 823 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:38,913 and 23. Now, the serpent was more 824 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:40,337 subtle than any beast of the field 825 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:41,777 which the Lord God had made. And 826 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:43,937 he said unto the woman, yea, hath God 827 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:46,081 said, ye shall not eat of every tree 828 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:48,065 of the garden? And the woman said 829 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:49,377 unto the serpent, we may eat of the 830 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:50,465 fruit of the trees of the garden, 831 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:51,681 but of the fruit of the tree which is 832 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:53,361 in the midst of the garden. God hath 833 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:54,785 said, ye shall not eat of it, neither 834 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:57,557 shall ye touch it. Lest ye die. And 835 00:00:30,219 --> 00:32:58,925 the serpent said unto them, ye shall 836 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:02,685 not surely die. For God doth know 837 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:04,181 that in the day ye eat thereof, then 838 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:05,821 your eyes shall be open and you shall 839 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:08,129 be as gods, knowing good and evil. 840 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:12,301 Well, he is slick. And when the woman 841 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:14,373 saw that the tree was good for food, 842 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:15,829 and that it was pleasant to the eyes 843 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:17,301 and a tree to be desired to make 844 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:19,461 one wise, she took of the fruit thereof 845 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:21,709 and did eat, and gave also unto her husband 846 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:23,895 with her. And he did eat, and the 847 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:25,247 eyes of them both were open, and 848 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:27,231 they knew that they were naked. And 849 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:28,711 they sewed fig leaves together and 850 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:30,815 made themselves apron. Verse 22. 851 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:32,935 And the Lord God said, behold, the 852 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:34,799 man is become as one of us to know 853 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:37,015 good and evil. And now, lest he put 854 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:38,607 forth his hand and take also of the 855 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:40,975 tree of life and eat and live forever. 856 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:43,599 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth 857 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:45,191 from the garden of Eden to till the 858 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:46,779 ground from whence he was taken. 859 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:50,151 So letter a man's spirit. At that moment, 860 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:53,375 man's spirit died. That spirit that 861 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:54,975 God gave him. In the very beginning 862 00:00:30,219 --> 00:33:56,607 when he created him, he breathed into 863 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:01,271 his nostrils the breath of life. He breathed 864 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:03,047 into his nostrils. That spirit that 865 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:04,623 he gave him. He formed him out of 866 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:06,735 the dust. There's his body. He breathed 867 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:08,607 into his nostrils. There's his spirit. 868 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:10,535 He became a living soul. That's his 869 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:12,551 mind, will and emotion. But now, 870 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:15,087 since he sinned against God, that 871 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:17,545 spirit part of him died. And we'll 872 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:18,585 get to that. I'm going to explain 873 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:20,105 that in just a moment. But look at Genesis 874 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:22,857 216 17. The Lord God commanded the 875 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:24,361 man, saying, of every tree of the 876 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:26,417 garden, thou mayest freely eat, but 877 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:27,617 of the tree of the knowledge of good 878 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:29,273 and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. 879 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:31,145 For in the day that thou eatest thereof, 880 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:33,625 thou shalt surely die. Did he die 881 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:38,873 that day? How? We know? Spiritually, 882 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:43,789 yes. But did he physically die that day? 883 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:47,662 Death set in. The process of death 884 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:52,502 began, the curse set in. But the 885 00:00:30,219 --> 00:34:55,998 thing that died was his spirit. That 886 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:00,806 was the thing that died. Ephesians, 887 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:02,614 chapter two, verse one tells us. 888 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:04,774 I mean, he died, he died, that spirit 889 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:06,846 died. Verse one says, and you go 890 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:07,830 ahead. I've got it there written 891 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:09,956 out for you. And you hath he quickened, 892 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:12,688 which means made alive. You hath ye quickened 893 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:18,728 who were dead. You were dead in trespasses 894 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:21,928 and sins wherein in time past you 895 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:23,400 walked according to the course of 896 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:25,368 this world, according to the prince 897 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:26,984 of the power of the air, the spirit 898 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:29,344 that now works in the children of disobedience, 899 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:33,360 among whom also we all had our conversation 900 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:35,566 in time past, in the lusts of our 901 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:38,187 flesh, fulfilling the desires of 902 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:40,995 the flesh and of the mind, and were 903 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:42,859 by nature the children of wrath, 904 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:46,403 even as others. But God, who is rich in 905 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:48,395 mercy for his great love, wherewith 906 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:51,475 he loved us even when we were dead in 907 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:54,227 sins, hath quickened us together 908 00:00:30,219 --> 00:35:58,159 with Christ. For by grace are you saved. 909 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:03,107 We were dead because I can say we were 910 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:04,675 right. We can identify with this. 911 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:06,619 He says, you hath quickened who were. 912 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:08,491 If you're saved in here tonight, if 913 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:10,155 you accepted Christ as your savior, 914 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:13,059 if you have received Christ, God, he 915 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:15,027 regenerated. That spirit he gave 916 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:17,747 you of his spirit, he regenerated. He 917 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:19,235 quickened your spirit, and he put 918 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:21,755 his spirit in you. Uncreated spirit. 919 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:23,779 His spirit. That's why it's going 920 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:25,835 to live forever. If it was created, 921 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:27,235 it would die again. But it's not. It's 922 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:29,115 uncreated. It's his spirit, and it's 923 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:31,947 going to live forever. Now, we were 924 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:33,539 dead according to the word of God. 925 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:35,039 Now, here's what you need to understand. 926 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:38,623 99.9% of the doors that you're going 927 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:41,271 to knock, 99.9% of the people that 928 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:42,391 you're going to approach about the 929 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:49,391 gospel are dead. You think about 930 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:50,951 the most wicked thing you've ever done 931 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:53,019 in your life, and we've got the, 932 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:56,575 you know, we've got a whole scale here, 933 00:00:30,219 --> 00:36:59,015 the whole spectrum. We've got some 934 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:01,309 who've never done any, hardly anything. 935 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:03,129 And then there's some of you. You're 936 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:04,985 glad it's only you and God who knows 937 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:08,241 what you did. So you think about 938 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:12,649 the most wicked thing that you did. That's 939 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:15,281 exactly what they're doing. Hopefully 940 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:16,785 we don't do that anymore because we 941 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:18,185 were dead and we're alive now. We're 942 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:19,785 not dead anymore. God quickened our 943 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:22,201 spirit, but we were dead. Everybody 944 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:23,465 that we talked to out there, they are 945 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:25,441 dead. So that means, according to 946 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:27,875 Ephesians, chapter two, verse two, 947 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:29,771 wherein in time past you walked according. 948 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:31,811 They are walking according to the 949 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:34,867 course of this world. They are walking 950 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:36,579 according to the prince of the power 951 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:38,919 of the air. Who is. Who? Who is that? 952 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:41,755 The prince of the power of the air. 953 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:44,283 They are walking according to his 954 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:47,139 craft and his guide and his path. 955 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:49,003 The spirit that now works in the children 956 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:51,195 among whom we had our conversation 957 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:53,483 in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, 958 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:55,755 they are living in the lust of their flesh. 959 00:00:30,219 --> 00:37:57,747 They are fulfilling the desires of 960 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:00,625 the flesh and of the mind, everything 961 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:05,289 they can think. There's so much wickedness 962 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:06,921 going on behind these doors, we don't 963 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:13,681 even know they are broken from the 964 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:15,665 state that God made them in. They're 965 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:18,753 broken completely. Their mind is 966 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:21,349 broken. Their affections are broken. 967 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:26,457 Colossians 213 says, and you being 968 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:29,293 dead in your sin and the uncircumcision 969 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:31,109 of your heart, hath he quickened together 970 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:32,557 with him, having forgiven you all 971 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:34,845 your trespasses, I'm saved. But their 972 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:36,489 trespasses haven't been forgiven. 973 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:42,885 Letter B. Man's innate ability to communicate 974 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:46,589 with God is gone. When that spirit died, 975 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:49,149 the innate ability to communicate 976 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:51,917 with God is gone. Isaiah, chapter one. Let's 977 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:53,077 go ahead and I didn't write that 978 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:54,013 one in there, so I'm going to go ahead 979 00:00:30,219 --> 00:38:55,415 and turn to that one right quick. 980 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:04,243 Isaiah, chapter one. This is when 981 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:06,227 we said Isaiah, chapter one, verse 15. 982 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:10,635 He says, and and when ye spread forth 983 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:12,363 your hands, I will hide mine eyes 984 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:13,931 from you. Yea, when you make many 985 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:17,139 prayers, I will not hear. Your hands 986 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:19,891 are full of blood. Isaiah 59 and 987 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:21,701 verse one and two. That one you're 988 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:23,725 probably more familiar with. Isaiah 989 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:26,293 59. Behold, the Lord's hand is not 990 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:28,469 shortened, that it cannot save, neither 991 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:30,365 his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 992 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:32,621 But your iniquities have separated 993 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:34,909 between you and your God and your 994 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:38,453 sins. And your sins have hid his 995 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:42,165 face from you. That he will not hear. 996 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:44,925 He will not hear the prayers of the 997 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:47,735 lost. He doesn't hear the prayers 998 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:50,383 of the lost. They're dead. They don't 999 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:52,415 have that spirit to communicate with 1000 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:54,319 God. That innate ability to communicate 1001 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:56,239 with God. Now let's look at our outline. 1002 00:00:30,219 --> 00:39:58,991 The part of the man that fellowshiped 1003 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:00,607 and walked and talked with God in the 1004 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:02,999 garden is now rendered dead. It can 1005 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:04,863 no longer communicate with God. The 1006 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:07,151 spirit of man is how God communicates 1007 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:09,511 to man. That's how he communicates to 1008 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:10,967 us, is by the spirit that he gave 1009 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:14,745 us. That's why envision this. You've 1010 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:16,305 seen it all the time in cartoons. 1011 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:19,025 You've seen it all the time. The devil on 1012 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:21,029 one shoulder, the angel on the other. 1013 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:24,625 Brother, there's so much truth to 1014 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:26,985 that. There is so much truth to that. 1015 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:28,537 You know it. You experience it all 1016 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:29,985 the time. That's what Paul was talking 1017 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:31,145 about when he said, man, the things 1018 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:34,881 I want to do, I don't do. And every 1019 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:36,749 time I want to do good, evil's present. 1020 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:39,531 That's because this guy over here 1021 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:41,451 is telling you, do right, do right. 1022 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:42,563 No, that's the left hand. Let's do the 1023 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:43,827 right hand. This guy over here is 1024 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:45,355 telling you, do right, do right. 1025 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:46,571 Here's the, here's the right thing 1026 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:49,355 to do. But then this guy over here is 1027 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:52,039 saying, man, but this tastes so good. 1028 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:55,959 This over this. This feels so good. 1029 00:00:30,219 --> 00:40:58,579 Think about the pleasure you'll get 1030 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:01,639 from this. This will make you money. 1031 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:04,411 Just, this is where you need to be. 1032 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:06,675 No, this is what's right. And you 1033 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:10,195 got a decision to make. Now, as a 1034 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:14,899 child of God, we've got this to draw 1035 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:17,283 from. Fortunately, we can make this 1036 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:19,339 decision. We can draw from this because 1037 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:21,499 we have the spirit of God. But they 1038 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:26,187 don't. They don't. And so because 1039 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:29,475 they don't, they don't have, their mind, 1040 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:32,187 doesn't have that spiritual information 1041 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:34,787 to draw from. So, in fact, I wrote it 1042 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:36,115 down here. Let's look at it. The 1043 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:37,435 spirit of man. I'm in the middle. 1044 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:39,599 Let me start that over. That paragraph. 1045 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:41,351 The part of man that fellowshiped and 1046 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:42,647 walked and talked with God in the 1047 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:44,735 garden is now rendered dead. It can 1048 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:46,919 no longer communicate with God. The 1049 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:48,807 spirit of man is how God communicates 1050 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:50,887 to man. God does not communicate to 1051 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:52,055 man through his soul, but through 1052 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:55,511 his spirit. Man has the choice then to 1053 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:57,175 either receive from God the things 1054 00:00:30,219 --> 00:41:59,191 of the spirit or from the flesh the 1055 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:01,079 things of the world. That's us. We 1056 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:04,375 have that without the spirit. Next 1057 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:07,247 paragraph. Without the spirit being 1058 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:09,975 alive to the things of God, then 1059 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:12,739 the mind has nothing truly to consider, 1060 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:15,579 nothing truly spiritual to consider. 1061 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:18,231 So the soul, that is, the mind, the 1062 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:20,567 will and the emotions, live completely 1063 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:22,639 dependent upon the flesh and the 1064 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:26,855 world in which the body lives. So 1065 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:30,623 society, so it draws its completely 1066 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:33,461 upon the flesh and the world. In other 1067 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:35,445 words, society, culture, laws, or 1068 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:38,453 lack thereof. That's what the mind 1069 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:43,061 pulls from, without the spirit. That's 1070 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:45,029 why he's talking about here in Ephesians 1071 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:46,397 chapter two, you walked according 1072 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:48,293 to the course of this world, according to 1073 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:49,889 the prince of the power of the air. 1074 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:52,269 You didn't have the spirit of God 1075 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:56,229 over here within you to give you 1076 00:00:30,219 --> 00:42:59,771 good spiritual information. So the 1077 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:01,451 fact is, the majority of mankind 1078 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:03,839 exists in this state from birth to death. 1079 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:08,187 The majority of mankind exists in this 1080 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:11,331 state without this guy over here 1081 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:15,387 to feed him good stuff, spiritual stuff 1082 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:18,515 from God, he lives without that. 1083 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:21,267 And so most of his life he's following 1084 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:25,749 this side. That doesn't mean that there's 1085 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:27,973 not good moral choices that he makes, 1086 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:28,877 because there are, there's a lot 1087 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:31,045 of good moral people out there. But 1088 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:33,329 unfortunately, good moral people, 1089 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:40,717 sometimes they go to hell because 1090 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:44,229 they live in a country that has a christian 1091 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:46,581 heritage. And the laws that we have 1092 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:50,087 in our country were made according 1093 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:54,111 to the word of God. And for the most part, 1094 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:56,655 good christian men created those 1095 00:00:30,219 --> 00:43:59,591 two corinthians four, verse three and 1096 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:01,659 four says, if our gospel be hid, 1097 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:04,767 it is hid to them that are lost in whom 1098 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:06,951 the God of this world hath blinded 1099 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:09,463 the minds of them which believe not, 1100 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:11,391 lest the light of the glorious gospel 1101 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:12,711 of Christ, which is the image of 1102 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:14,929 God, should shine unto them. Brother 1103 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:17,825 Stone, you just said that God only 1104 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:18,801 communicates to them through the 1105 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:23,865 spirit. But it says here that Satan 1106 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:29,233 is blinding the mind. This is why 1107 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:33,073 we knock doors. This is why we print 1108 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:36,385 tracks. This is why we do events. 1109 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:39,817 This is why we invite our lost friends 1110 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:41,657 to church to hear the gospel. Because 1111 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:44,041 Romans 116 says, I am not ashamed 1112 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:45,921 of the gospel of Christ, for it is the 1113 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:48,749 power of God unto salvation to them 1114 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:51,877 who believe. What we are doing in 1115 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:54,125 putting out tracks and putting out 1116 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:56,045 door hangers and sharing the gospel 1117 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:57,413 and going door to door, what are 1118 00:00:30,219 --> 00:44:59,517 we doing? We're giving the Holy Spirit 1119 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:01,469 something to work with. I can't save 1120 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:04,077 them. I can't convict their heart. 1121 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:07,981 But the word of God is the tool of the 1122 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:09,341 Holy Spirit. It's the sword of the 1123 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:11,117 Spirit. We give the Holy Spirit something 1124 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:13,229 to work with. John, chapter six, 1125 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:15,553 verse 44, says, Jesus said, no man 1126 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:17,177 can come to me except the father 1127 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:20,025 which hath sent me. Draw him. How is he 1128 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:22,801 drawn? We're giving him the word 1129 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:24,625 of God. And the Holy Spirit of God is 1130 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:26,305 working on his mind. And now he can 1131 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:27,721 make a decision because he's got 1132 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:29,361 the word of God, and the Holy Spirit 1133 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:30,865 is drawing him, and the Holy Spirit 1134 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:33,025 can draw us other ways. God can draw 1135 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:36,149 us through circumstances in life. 1136 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:40,521 And sometimes, like me, I grew up in 1137 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:42,369 Tennessee, not going to church, except 1138 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:45,125 sometimes the church bus would come 1139 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:47,269 by the house and my mom would say, 1140 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:48,637 and my dad would say, get on the 1141 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:49,789 church bus. You're going to church. 1142 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:50,733 They want to get rid of us for a 1143 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:52,861 couple hours. So for a few years 1144 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:54,453 there, while I was a little kid, 1145 00:00:30,219 --> 00:45:59,461 I heard preaching. It wasn't true preaching. 1146 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:02,389 It was church Christ. But they taught 1147 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:03,797 out of the King James Bible. I went 1148 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:06,037 to Sunday school, and the fact of 1149 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:07,901 the matter is, there was enough seed 1150 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:10,497 planted in me that God could use 1151 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:12,393 that. And that could be the same 1152 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:15,313 for you, because first Peter, chapter 1153 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:17,633 one, verse 23, says, being born again, 1154 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:21,105 how not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible 1155 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:23,521 by the word of God, which liveth 1156 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:26,281 and abideth forever. This is why Satan 1157 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:28,353 works so hard at two things. Number 1158 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:30,169 one, keeping the mind of the lost 1159 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:33,945 blind. And then number two, keeping 1160 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:36,809 the saved, complacent, apathetic, comfortable, 1161 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:40,825 and self centered. That's what Satan 1162 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:42,625 works hardest at. He doesn't want 1163 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:46,249 us to share the gospel. He doesn't want 1164 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:47,913 them to be able to make a spiritual 1165 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:53,401 decision. For many individuals, there's 1166 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:54,985 a vacuum in their heart, and this 1167 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:56,537 is not a God created vacuum. And I've 1168 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:58,193 heard many people say, that's a God 1169 00:00:30,219 --> 00:46:59,385 created hole in our heart. No, it's 1170 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:01,337 not God created. It's sin created. 1171 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:04,195 God didn't create that hole. Sin created 1172 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:06,395 that hole. Sin created that vacuum 1173 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:08,475 in the heart. It's a sin created vacuum. 1174 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:10,675 Many know, or at least sense that 1175 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:12,147 there is more to life than what they 1176 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:13,691 are presently experiencing. But they 1177 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:15,355 don't know that what or who they 1178 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:20,251 need is God. Their innate ability 1179 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:23,211 to communicate with God is gone. And 1180 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:27,379 so the mind must be externally stimulated 1181 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:31,849 to think. Hence I gospel, hence soul 1182 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:34,481 winning, hence passing out tracks, 1183 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:37,873 hence radio gospel, hence television. 1184 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:40,209 All the tools, hence Facebook. All the 1185 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:41,921 tools that we have at our disposal, 1186 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:43,569 we should use them to get the gospel 1187 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:45,793 out there so that the Holy Spirit can 1188 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:47,289 stimulate the mind and give them 1189 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:50,209 something spiritual to make a decision 1190 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:54,545 about. Letter C. I think I'm done, 1191 00:00:30,219 --> 00:47:59,085 aren't I? Yep. I'll finish this. 1192 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:00,197 You can read the rest because this is 1193 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:02,421 the last blank letter C. Because 1194 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:04,709 man's spirit is dead. He is totally and 1195 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:10,169 completely depraved. Completely depraved. 1196 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:12,525 And we don't like to think about 1197 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:13,693 that. But that's because you and 1198 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:15,037 I are saved. I'm telling you. But before 1199 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:16,765 we were saved, romans chapter three, 1200 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:18,157 verse ten through 18, said, as it 1201 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:19,325 is written, there's none. Listen 1202 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:21,489 to the Bible. There's none righteous, 1203 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:23,853 no, not one. There's none that. Understand? 1204 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:26,021 There's none that seek after God. How many 1205 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:27,141 times have you heard somebody say, 1206 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:28,821 well, when I found God, or I was 1207 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:30,421 searching for. No, you weren't. And 1208 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:32,569 you didn't find God. He found you 1209 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:34,365 and you weren't searching for him. 1210 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:35,661 How do I know that? Because the Bible 1211 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:37,357 says, there's none that seek after 1212 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:39,437 God. And I just believe what the 1213 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:41,189 Bible says, there's none that seek 1214 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:42,789 after God. We weren't looking for 1215 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:45,685 him. Only the. Only we can say that, 1216 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:47,653 because what we really mean is God 1217 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:50,535 was drawing me. And I realize that 1218 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:53,015 now. It took me a long time, but 1219 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:56,087 I realize now that when I told my roommate 1220 00:00:30,219 --> 00:48:59,255 back yonder years ago, when I said, 1221 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:01,039 and his name was Jimmy, I said, hey, 1222 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:02,655 jimmy, man, we need to start going. 1223 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:04,007 We need to stop living like this. We 1224 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:06,583 need to go to church. And he told 1225 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:08,071 me, he said, you find one, we'll 1226 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:10,015 go. Now you know what was happening. 1227 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:13,807 Why would I even think that way I didn't understand 1228 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:16,223 salvation. I didn't. I just knew 1229 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:18,151 that I needed something more. And 1230 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:20,087 I just kind of knew it was God. But 1231 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:21,895 I didn't really know how to go about 1232 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:25,039 it. That was God drawing me. God 1233 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:26,991 was drawing me and he was orchestrating 1234 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:28,735 things in my life. And he brought 1235 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:32,679 me to a point of decision after a bad wreck 1236 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:34,639 where I should have died or at least 1237 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:36,495 been killed. I mean, at least been 1238 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:40,099 badly injured and never got a scratch. 1239 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:42,729 I'm telling you, it's amazing. Anyway, 1240 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:44,345 look what he says. They are all verse 1241 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:45,793 twelve. They are all gone out of 1242 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:47,273 the way. They are together become 1243 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:49,465 unprofitable. There's none that doeth 1244 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:51,617 good. No, not one. Their throat is 1245 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:53,537 an open sepulcher with their tongues 1246 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:55,433 they have used deceit. The poison 1247 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:58,129 of Asps is under their lips, whose mouth 1248 00:00:30,219 --> 00:49:59,897 is full of cursing and bitterness. 1249 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:02,625 Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction 1250 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:04,297 and misery are in their ways and 1251 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:05,825 the way of peace have they not known 1252 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:08,221 there is no fear of God before their 1253 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:10,389 eyes? You know what I'm reading? 1254 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:13,965 I'm reading your neighbor. I'm talking 1255 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:15,645 about the guy you stand next to every 1256 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:19,129 day at work, the condition of man. 1257 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:21,917 And there's other stuff here and 1258 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:23,405 I may go ahead and. Yeah, I'll probably 1259 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:25,781 read the rest of it later when we 1260 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:26,965 finish up. I'll give you this, so 1261 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:28,189 bring this with you and we'll finish 1262 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:29,557 this up next week. But here's what 1263 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:32,929 I want us to understand. Man is broken. 1264 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:35,539 The condition of man is horrific. 1265 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:38,959 We think, oh, that's such a nice family 1266 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:40,951 over there. You don't know what goes 1267 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:42,791 on in their mind. You don't know 1268 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:44,619 what goes on behind closed doors. 1269 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:46,775 You don't know the wickedness and the 1270 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:48,983 vile, corrupt thoughts that those 1271 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:50,239 individuals have. You just don't 1272 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:52,927 know how they talk to each other. And 1273 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:54,511 it's more than just verbal. Oh my 1274 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:56,979 goodness. We live in nice neighborhoods. 1275 00:00:30,219 --> 00:50:59,751 But there are areas, I'm telling you, 1276 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:02,929 even in nice neighborhoods, the police 1277 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:04,337 have gone in nice neighborhoods, 1278 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:06,473 the police have gone in and broken down, taken 1279 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:09,025 down crack houses, nice neighborhoods. 1280 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:11,097 In nice neighborhoods, police have gone in 1281 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:13,629 and rescued girls from sex trafficking 1282 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:16,753 in nice neighborhoods, in nice neighborhoods, 1283 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:18,001 children have been chained to their 1284 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:21,001 beds. In nice neighborhoods, I'm 1285 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:23,109 telling you, because man is broken. 1286 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:25,521 And if we go out and we start talking 1287 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:29,299 to people and we see and hear the, their 1288 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:33,807 utter repugnance toward God and Christ 1289 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:36,103 and the things of God will understand 1290 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:39,899 why. And hopefully in understanding why, 1291 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:42,815 it'll help us to understand the depth 1292 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:45,335 of their depravity. And the level 1293 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:47,551 of their ignorance. And rather than 1294 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:50,579 get upset and say, just go to hell, then 1295 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:52,983 as you walk off, you know he's going 1296 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:54,687 to because he rejected you, he almost 1297 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:56,087 cussed you out. Well, let him go 1298 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:57,039 to hell. If that's what he wants, 1299 00:00:30,219 --> 00:51:59,435 let him go on to hell, then rather than 1300 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:01,979 have that attitude, which I'm telling 1301 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:06,035 you has come from me because I didn't 1302 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:10,555 go filled with the spirit, rather 1303 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:12,115 than have that attitude, maybe we can 1304 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:15,307 actually love them like Jesus did. 1305 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:16,915 Father, forgive them, for they know 1306 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:20,875 not what they do. Oh, man. Stephen. 1307 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:23,795 Lord, hold not this sin to their 1308 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:27,895 charge. You can only say that when 1309 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:29,567 Jesus is living through us and that's 1310 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:31,695 what we have to do. And when we understand 1311 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:33,319 why they're doing what they do, why 1312 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:34,559 they're talking the way they talk, 1313 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:36,631 that'll help us a lot. So this is 1314 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:41,575 just one. One piece of knowledge 1315 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:43,487 that I think is important. When we go out 1316 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:45,063 and we talk to people about Jesus 1317 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:47,447 Christ, they might be ugly, and then 1318 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:49,431 they might be just ready. They might 1319 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:51,717 be low hanging fruit. God may have 1320 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:52,829 been working in their heart waiting 1321 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:55,205 for you to come with the gospel. Amen. 1322 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:56,701 I hope that helps. We'll finish the 1323 00:00:30,219 --> 00:52:58,261 rest of it next time. Well, let's 1324 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:00,765 go ahead and stand. This is more. This 1325 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:03,421 is a. This was supposed to be like 1326 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:07,533 a 20 people classroom setting. I never 1327 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:10,009 actually planned on invitations, 1328 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:13,725 and so we're, you know, we'll get a little 1329 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:15,301 deeper into some more doctrine as 1330 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:17,599 well. And so this is for all practical 1331 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:19,271 purposes. What pastor said was, go 1332 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:20,407 ahead and do it like this and kind 1333 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:22,359 of give them a taste of what HBBI 1334 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:24,727 will be like. Only HBBI will be like 1335 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:25,991 in a different setting where you'll 1336 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:27,511 actually have an opportunity to ask 1337 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:29,559 questions. You know, we want to keep 1338 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:31,791 that, you know, under control. Of 1339 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:32,783 course, we don't want it to get out 1340 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:34,495 of hand, but you'll have an opportunity 1341 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:36,551 to ask questions in a classroom setting 1342 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:38,999 where this isn't conducive for that. 1343 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:42,639 So. All right, well, we're not going 1344 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:48,711 to have an invitation then. I just 1345 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:50,159 feel. Let's go. Come on, brother. 1346 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:52,671 It's just terrible. I just can't. We'll 1347 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:54,895 just have music. Yeah, just play 1348 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:56,543 through a verse. It's just hard. 1349 00:00:30,219 --> 00:53:58,631 It just hurts me. Here. It wouldn't 1350 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:00,055 hurt me in the classroom, but here, it hurts 1351 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:02,207 me to not have one. So, you know, 1352 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:03,223 I don't know how the holy spirit of 1353 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:04,511 God spoke to your heart. Maybe you 1354 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:06,015 do have somebody in your life right 1355 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:07,631 now that you know is man. They're 1356 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:09,799 just wicked and they're hard and they're 1357 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:11,649 calloused and they're. They're just 1358 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:14,265 venomous toward the gospel. Pray 1359 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:18,025 for them. Love them. Do good for them. 1360 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:19,665 Right? Isn't that what Jesus said? 1361 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:21,305 Pray for your enemies. Do good to 1362 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:24,361 those that hurt you. Do good to those 1363 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:27,505 that hate you. Pray for those that 1364 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:30,081 persecute you. Let's pray. Father. 1365 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:31,649 Lord, we love you. And we realize 1366 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:35,001 that when people reject you, they're not 1367 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:36,945 rejecting us. And when they're hateful 1368 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:38,727 toward us, it's not us they're hateful 1369 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:41,395 toward, it's you. And, Lord, I pray 1370 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:43,051 that rather than get mad, you didn't 1371 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:44,883 get mad. There was no guile found 1372 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:46,699 in you. You didn't curse them when they 1373 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:48,835 hung you on the cross. You prayed 1374 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:52,203 for them, you loved them. And you asked 1375 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:54,559 God to not hold it to their charge. 1376 00:00:30,219 --> 00:54:57,011 So, Father, I pray that you'd help us 1377 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:00,155 to understand not only the makeup 1378 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:03,299 of a man, but the brokenness of men. The 1379 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:06,749 brokenness of men and women. Teenagers. 1380 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:09,825 Lord, help us to love them with a 1381 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:14,265 heart that you give us when we go 1382 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:18,857 out. I pray it in Jesus name. Let 1383 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:20,161 him play through. Just a moment. 1384 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:21,585 If the holy spirit of God spoke to your 1385 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:23,337 heart, let him play through. If you 1386 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:24,713 want to come to the altar and pray. 1387 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:27,641 God, give me a heart to witness to 1388 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:34,707 my hard coworker, my mean boss, my 1389 00:00:30,219 --> 00:55:40,209 ugly neighbor, ugly spirited neighborhood.