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Robert Jeffress - Eternally Secure (Part 2)

December 31, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Eternally Secure (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Eternally Secure (Part 2) | December 31, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory," and happy new years eve.
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  • Perhaps you were shocked to hear of a high-profile
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  • Or maybe a stalwart believer in your local church
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  • Both scenarios are deeply troubling and they both cause us
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  • Once you've been saved?
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  • Today we're going to look at the single greatest verse
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  • In the bible that provides the answer.
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  • My message is titled, "eternally secure"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: acts 16:31.
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  • Remember the philippian jailer asked,
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  • "what must i do to be saved?"
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  • Paul said, "believe in the lord jesus christ
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  • And you shall be saved."
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  • Or in john 11:25 jesus said,
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  • "i'm the resurrection and the life.
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  • He who," what?
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  • "believes in me shall have eternal life
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  • And live even if he dies."
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  • John 3:16, "for god so loved the world that he gave his only son,
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  • That whoever believes in him shall have everlasting life."
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  • Belief is the way we channel god's faith and grace
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  • Into our life.
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  • But what does it mean to believe?
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  • Listen, believe is not intellectual ascent
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  • To a certain set of facts about jesus.
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  • It's not agreeing that jesus is the son of god,
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  • That he died for the sins of the world,
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  • That he was raised again on the third day.
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  • We've got this idea if you believe intellectually
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  • All the right things about jesus you can be saved.
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  • Let me remind you of something.
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  • Did you know some of the greatest professions of faith
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  • In history have been made by demons?
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  • Did you know that?
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  • It's demons who have made some of the greatest professions
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  • Of faith about who jesus is.
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  • In matthew 8:29, the demons at gadarene said, "what do we
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  • Have to do with you, jesus, the son of god?"
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  • Or in mark 1:24, while jesus was in capernaeum, a demon said to
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  • Him, "what do we have to do with you, jesus of nazareth?
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  • We know who you are: the holy one of god."
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  • The demons knew the truth.
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  • Remember in james 2:19, james said, "hey, you jews, you
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  • Believe that je--that god is one?
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  • Congratulations."
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  • That was the basic profession of faith of the jewish people,
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  • "god is one, not many."
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  • James said, "you believe that god is one?
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  • Congratulations.
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  • So do the demons."
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  • And they shudder.
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  • They shudder.
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  • Literally, the hair on their neck stands up.
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  • That's what the word shudder in greek means.
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  • They shudder at that truth.
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  • Demons know the right truth about who jesus is.
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  • But does anybody here today believe demons
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  • Are going to be in heaven?
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  • No.
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  • It's not believing the right things about jesus.
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  • The word "believe" means to trust in,
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  • To cling to, to put your whole faith and trust in.
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  • The best illustration i know of what the word "believe" means is
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  • Found in john chapter 3 when jesus was talking to nicodemus.
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  • Remember nicodemus wanted to know how he could know
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  • That he had eternal life.
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  • And jesus talked about the importance of being born again
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  • By believing in the son of god.
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  • And nicodemus didn't understand that.
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  • So, jesus used an illustration that nicodemus
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  • As a jew was familiar with.
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  • He said in john 3, verses 14 to 16,
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  • "for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
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  • So must the son of god be lifted up;
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  • That whoever believes in him might have eternal life."
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  • Nicodemus recognized the story immediately.
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  • It came from numbers 21.
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  • Remember how the children of israel,
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  • Because they were being disobedient to god,
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  • Were bitten by the fiery serpents that god sent.
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  • And those fiery serpents, the bite,
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  • The venom was killing the children of israel.
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  • And so, they went to moses and they said,
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  • "moses have mercy on us.
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  • Intercede with god, save us."
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  • And so, moses went to god, and god said,
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  • "all right, this is the way of salvation.
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  • You make a bronze serpent, put it on the end of the pole,
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  • Hold the pole and the serpent up in the air and tell the people
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  • This; if they will look at the serpent,
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  • They will be healed."
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  • Look and live was the message of healing.
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  • And all those israelites had to do was to acknowledge
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  • That they were ill and dying.
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  • And by faith, look at god's provision that had been lifted
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  • Up and immediately they would experience healing.
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  • Now, that's the illustration that jesus used of
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  • What it means to believe.
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  • As moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
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  • So must the son of man be lifted up,
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  • That whoever believes, whoever in an instant recognizes
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  • His need for salvation and trust in jesus
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  • To provide that salvation,
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  • Whoever believes in him shall have eternal life.
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  • Do you know what the next verse is?
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  • Verse 16.
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  • "for god so loved the world, that he gave his only son,
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  • That whoever believes in him shall have eternal life."
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  • These things i have written to you who believe
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  • In the name of the son of god.
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  • And that leads to the fourth phrase in this verse,
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  • The son of god.
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  • How are we saved forever?
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  • It's not just by faith in general.
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  • It's not belief in general that somehow some way
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  • Everything is going to turn out okay.
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  • Faith always requires an object.
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  • And that's why john specifies the object of belief.
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  • Those who believe in the name of the son of god,
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  • Our faith is in jesus christ.
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  • And the fact is our faith is only as reliable
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  • As the object of our faith, and it's true in our salvation.
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  • Our salvation doesn't depend how much or how little faith
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  • We have, it depends upon the object of our faith.
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  • Our faith is only as effective as the object of our faith.
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  • Let me illustrate that for you if i could for just a moment
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  • Because this will help you understand
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  • This very misunderstood concept of belief
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  • And how it relates to salvation.
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  • You know, i've got this chair here and i could look
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  • At this chair and i could make all kinds of professions
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  • Of faith about the durability of this chair.
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  • I could say i think this chair is well built.
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  • I could say i think it's capable of supporting me.
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  • I could say all of that without this chair
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  • Actually supporting me.
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  • As much as i profess faith in this chair to be able
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  • To hold me up, is it supporting me right now?
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  • No.
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  • For me to really believe that this chair can support me,
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  • I have to put my whole weight in this chair.
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  • It is only when i sit down and rest completely in this chair,
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  • Is this chair rather than my own effort supporting me.
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  • That's the same way with salvation.
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  • To believe in jesus for salvation means to put
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  • Your whole weight to trust completely in jesus
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  • And not yourself for your salvation.
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  • One time i was using this illustration in my first church
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  • In eastland and on our platform we had those old big pulpit
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  • Chairs like we used to have in our old sanctuary,
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  • You know, those big huge wooden chairs.
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  • And so, i was making the point that faith is only reliable,
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  • As reliable as the object of our faith.
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  • And so, i began to sit down in one of those pulpit chairs,
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  • And as soon as i sat down, i started hearing
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  • This cracking and creaking and at about 15 seconds
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  • The entire chair collapsed and i was there
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  • In a very un pastoral position on the ground
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  • Before the congregation.
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  • Trust me, they never forgot that illustration.
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  • Our faith is only as reliable as the object of our faith.
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  • And that's what he's saying here.
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  • We have to believe in an object.
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  • That object is a person, the name of the son of god.
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  • And by the way, will you notice the emphasis on the word
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  • "the name of the son of god?"
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  • "these things i have written to you who believe
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  • In the name of the son of god."
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  • I was talking to a seminary student.
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  • He had just graduated.
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  • He was a muslim and he had converted to christianity,
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  • And he felt like his mission in life was to go back to the
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  • Followers of islam and to tell them the truth of the gospel.
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  • And then he made this comment to me.
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  • He said, "you know, pastor, one of the greatest hindrances
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  • To witnessing the muslims is our unwillingness
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  • To refer to god as allah.
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  • If we would simply use the term allah in our witnessing
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  • To muslims, we could win many of them to christ."
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  • And i said, "sir, you are mistaken.
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  • God and allah are not the same.
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  • Names mean something.
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  • God is not whoever we think he is.
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  • God has a name, and god's son has a name
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  • And his name is jesus christ."
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  • You know, there are people who say,
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  • "oh, you know, they're gonna be all these people in heaven."
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  • We never expected to be there.
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  • People we never believed would be there because
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  • They've not particularly believed in the name of jesus.
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  • They believed in god, they just called him by some other name.
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  • Have you ever heard that before?
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  • And they say, "you know, a name isn't that important."
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  • Really?
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  • Think about how ludicrous that is.
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  • Names aren't important.
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  • The name of a person represents the essence of that person.
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  • Let's just suppose for example, that all this week we been
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  • Advertising that our preacher this sunday
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  • Is gonna be dr. david jeremiah.
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  • Dr. david jeremiah is coming to preach.
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  • And so, you sit down and you look at the program
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  • And there's the message title, "eternally secure,
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  • Dr. david jeremiah."
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  • And when the sermon time comes, i step up in the pulpit
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  • And begin to preach.
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  • And after the sermon, you come up
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  • And you're trying to be polite
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  • And not show your disappointment.
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  • And so, you say, "well, pastor, we saw dr. jeremiah
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  • Was gonna be here.
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  • Is he sick? is something wrong?"
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  • "oh, no," i say.
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  • "david jeremiah is just another name
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  • That i go by sometimes.
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  • Sometimes i go by david jeremiah,
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  • Sometimes chuck swindoll, sometimes joe locsin,
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  • Sometimes even al sharpton.
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  • I mean i use a different variety of names,
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  • But we're all the same people."
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  • That's ridiculous.
  • 00:11:38.387 --> 00:11:40.623
  • Names mean something, they represent the essence
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  • Of a person.
  • 00:11:43.826 --> 00:11:45.161
  • Our savior has a name, his name is jesus christ.
  • 00:11:45.161 --> 00:11:49.031
  • He is the god-man who came and died and rose again
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  • That we should have eternal life.
  • 00:11:52.535 --> 00:11:55.771
  • And there is no salvation apart from belief
  • 00:11:56.739 --> 00:12:00.910
  • In the name of jesus christ.
  • 00:12:00.910 --> 00:12:04.513
  • Now let me show you something i found this week.
  • 00:12:04.513 --> 00:12:07.283
  • I was actually working on another series of messages
  • 00:12:07.283 --> 00:12:09.885
  • For next year, but i'm gonna give you an advanced preview.
  • 00:12:09.885 --> 00:12:12.888
  • Look at this in acts chapter 4, verses 8 to 12.
  • 00:12:12.888 --> 00:12:16.525
  • Remember it's a story of peter and the apostles who were
  • 00:12:16.525 --> 00:12:20.496
  • Healing people in the name of jesus christ and the jewish
  • 00:12:20.496 --> 00:12:24.066
  • Authorities were furious and they arrested them and said,
  • 00:12:24.066 --> 00:12:27.303
  • "you've got to quit speaking that name of jesus.
  • 00:12:27.303 --> 00:12:29.872
  • That name of jesus is very offensive to us.
  • 00:12:29.872 --> 00:12:32.741
  • You can heal if you want to.
  • 00:12:32.741 --> 00:12:34.376
  • Just don't use the name of jesus."
  • 00:12:34.376 --> 00:12:36.579
  • How many people today do you hear say,
  • 00:12:36.579 --> 00:12:38.414
  • "oh, you can pray.
  • 00:12:38.414 --> 00:12:39.748
  • Just don't pray in jesus's name."
  • 00:12:39.748 --> 00:12:41.650
  • That is very, very offensive.
  • 00:12:41.650 --> 00:12:43.419
  • Notice what happened, verse 8.
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  • "then peter, filled with the holy spirit, said to them,
  • 00:12:45.354 --> 00:12:48.390
  • 'rulers and elders of the people if we are on trial
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  • Today for a benefit done to a sick man,
  • 00:12:51.927 --> 00:12:55.097
  • As to how this man has been made well,
  • 00:12:55.097 --> 00:12:57.633
  • Let it be known to all of you, and to all people of israel,
  • 00:12:57.633 --> 00:13:00.903
  • That by the name of jesus christ the nazarene,
  • 00:13:00.903 --> 00:13:05.641
  • Whom you crucified, whom god raised from the dead
  • 00:13:05.641 --> 00:13:08.210
  • By this name this man stands here before you in good health.
  • 00:13:08.210 --> 00:13:12.514
  • He the name is the stone which was rejected by you,
  • 00:13:12.514 --> 00:13:16.118
  • The builders, but which has become the very corner stone.
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  • And there is salvation in no one else;
  • 00:13:19.788 --> 00:13:22.258
  • For there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved
  • 00:13:22.258 --> 00:13:27.897
  • Except the name of jesus.'"
  • 00:13:27.897 --> 00:13:29.598
  • Do you hear that?
  • 00:13:30.566 --> 00:13:31.901
  • Over and over and over again
  • 00:13:31.901 --> 00:13:33.269
  • It is through the name of jesus christ.
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  • Now listen to me.
  • 00:13:35.905 --> 00:13:37.539
  • There is no indication in scripture,
  • 00:13:37.539 --> 00:13:40.142
  • There is no allowance in scripture that there will be
  • 00:13:40.142 --> 00:13:42.845
  • Anyone in heaven who has not trusted
  • 00:13:42.845 --> 00:13:45.681
  • In the name of jesus christ.
  • 00:13:45.681 --> 00:13:49.118
  • If there is another way to heaven,
  • 00:13:49.118 --> 00:13:50.753
  • If there is another pathway to heaven,
  • 00:13:50.753 --> 00:13:52.621
  • If it doesn't matter what god or what you calling by to get into
  • 00:13:52.621 --> 00:13:55.891
  • Heaven, there's no need for us to have an evangelism program.
  • 00:13:55.891 --> 00:13:59.228
  • There's no need for us to have a mission program.
  • 00:13:59.228 --> 00:14:01.463
  • We might as well just shut the doors today.
  • 00:14:01.463 --> 00:14:04.199
  • But the reason we're doing that is because we are convinced
  • 00:14:04.199 --> 00:14:06.769
  • That there is no salvation apart from the name
  • 00:14:06.769 --> 00:14:09.972
  • Of the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:14:09.972 --> 00:14:12.641
  • Now, will you let me climb up on my soapbox
  • 00:14:12.641 --> 00:14:15.377
  • For 30 seconds longer here?
  • 00:14:15.377 --> 00:14:20.082
  • The next time i hear a staff member or a deacon stand up
  • 00:14:20.082 --> 00:14:27.923
  • In this pulpit and pray a prayer that ends this way,
  • 00:14:27.923 --> 00:14:32.728
  • "and we pray this in your name, o god," i'm gonna throw up.
  • 00:14:32.728 --> 00:14:38.934
  • That is a weak weasley wimpy way to pray.
  • 00:14:39.902 --> 00:14:44.139
  • God has a name.
  • 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:46.008
  • It is through the name jesus christ
  • 00:14:46.008 --> 00:14:48.444
  • That we have confident access to god through the father.
  • 00:14:48.444 --> 00:14:51.680
  • Don't be a wimp, don't wimp out, don't be politically correct.
  • 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:55.484
  • You tell people the name by which they can come to god
  • 00:14:55.484 --> 00:14:58.220
  • Through, it is the name of jesus christ.
  • 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:01.991
  • "these things i have written to you who believe
  • 00:15:01.991 --> 00:15:04.760
  • In the name of the son of god."
  • 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:09.331
  • And that leads to the last phrase,
  • 00:15:09.331 --> 00:15:11.867
  • "these things i have written to you that you may know you have,"
  • 00:15:11.867 --> 00:15:15.771
  • What?
  • 00:15:15.771 --> 00:15:17.106
  • "eternal life."
  • 00:15:17.106 --> 00:15:19.241
  • Isn't it interesting?
  • 00:15:19.241 --> 00:15:20.676
  • He doesn't say that you may know you are saved.
  • 00:15:20.676 --> 00:15:23.645
  • He said, "these things i've written to you
  • 00:15:23.645 --> 00:15:25.247
  • That you may know you have eternal life."
  • 00:15:25.247 --> 00:15:29.785
  • In the first--in the verse right before that,
  • 00:15:29.785 --> 00:15:32.187
  • 1 john 5:12, he says, "he who has the son has the," what?
  • 00:15:32.187 --> 00:15:35.791
  • "life.
  • 00:15:35.791 --> 00:15:37.659
  • He who does not have the life does not have the son."
  • 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:40.396
  • So in other words, the way to know if you're eternally secure,
  • 00:15:40.396 --> 00:15:43.098
  • If you're safe, do you have eternal life or not?
  • 00:15:43.098 --> 00:15:47.403
  • Where you say, "well, i don't know
  • 00:15:47.403 --> 00:15:48.771
  • That until i die and find out where i wake up.
  • 00:15:48.771 --> 00:15:50.572
  • Am i in heaven or hell?
  • 00:15:50.572 --> 00:15:51.907
  • Then i'll know whether i have eternal life."
  • 00:15:51.907 --> 00:15:53.242
  • No, no, no, no, no, that's too late.
  • 00:15:53.242 --> 00:15:55.644
  • That's too late.
  • 00:15:55.644 --> 00:15:57.513
  • Eternal life does not refer to a quantity of life.
  • 00:15:57.513 --> 00:16:01.850
  • That's what most people think.
  • 00:16:01.850 --> 00:16:03.185
  • They think, oh, having eternal life
  • 00:16:03.185 --> 00:16:04.520
  • Means you're gonna live forever.
  • 00:16:04.520 --> 00:16:06.021
  • No.
  • 00:16:06.021 --> 00:16:07.356
  • The fact is everybody is gonna live forever,
  • 00:16:07.356 --> 00:16:08.957
  • Doesn't matter what you believe.
  • 00:16:08.957 --> 00:16:10.726
  • Doesn't matter whether you're a baptist, catholic,
  • 00:16:10.726 --> 00:16:12.961
  • Lutheran, methodist, hindu, mormon, atheist,
  • 00:16:12.961 --> 00:16:16.832
  • Everybody's gonna live forever.
  • 00:16:16.832 --> 00:16:18.767
  • Bible says we're eternal beings.
  • 00:16:18.767 --> 00:16:21.103
  • It's the location of our eternity
  • 00:16:21.103 --> 00:16:23.338
  • That makes the difference.
  • 00:16:23.338 --> 00:16:25.707
  • Some will spend eternity in heaven with god.
  • 00:16:25.707 --> 00:16:28.343
  • Some will spend eternal life, eternity in hell with satan,
  • 00:16:28.343 --> 00:16:33.115
  • But everybody's going to live forever.
  • 00:16:33.115 --> 00:16:36.018
  • Eternal life does not refer to a quantity of life,
  • 00:16:36.018 --> 00:16:39.288
  • It refers to a quality of life.
  • 00:16:39.288 --> 00:16:42.825
  • It's the quality of life that jesus was talking about
  • 00:16:42.825 --> 00:16:45.060
  • In john 10:10 when he said, "the thief, satan,
  • 00:16:45.060 --> 00:16:47.896
  • Comes to steal, kill and destroy;
  • 00:16:47.896 --> 00:16:49.965
  • But i have come that you might have life,
  • 00:16:49.965 --> 00:16:54.536
  • And have it more abundantly."
  • 00:16:54.536 --> 00:16:57.239
  • When jesus and john talk about eternal life,
  • 00:16:57.239 --> 00:17:00.242
  • They're talking about this abundant life.
  • 00:17:00.242 --> 00:17:03.178
  • A life that is filled with joy, contentment.
  • 00:17:03.178 --> 00:17:07.850
  • A life that is marked by obedience to god.
  • 00:17:07.850 --> 00:17:11.887
  • A life filled with a desire to know god better.
  • 00:17:11.887 --> 00:17:16.225
  • A life that demonstrates self-control.
  • 00:17:16.225 --> 00:17:19.428
  • A life that is marked by love, not hatred toward other people.
  • 00:17:19.428 --> 00:17:24.133
  • A life that forgives rather than engages in bitterness.
  • 00:17:24.133 --> 00:17:30.038
  • That's the eternal life he's talking about.
  • 00:17:30.038 --> 00:17:34.176
  • And jesus--john is saying, the best way to know
  • 00:17:34.176 --> 00:17:36.578
  • Whether you're eternally secure or not is to ask yourself,
  • 00:17:36.578 --> 00:17:39.481
  • "do i have that life?"
  • 00:17:39.481 --> 00:17:40.983
  • It's not something you get when you die,
  • 00:17:40.983 --> 00:17:42.317
  • It's something you're supposed to be having right now.
  • 00:17:42.317 --> 00:17:44.219
  • Again, 1 john 5:12,
  • 00:17:44.219 --> 00:17:45.721
  • "he who has the son has this life."
  • 00:17:45.721 --> 00:17:49.124
  • This kind of experience.
  • 00:17:49.124 --> 00:17:50.826
  • "he who doesn't, doesn't have the life."
  • 00:17:50.826 --> 00:17:52.895
  • Now, you may be thinking,
  • 00:17:52.895 --> 00:17:54.229
  • "well, pastor, you're contradicting yourself.
  • 00:17:54.229 --> 00:17:55.831
  • You just said a few moments ago, our salvation doesn't depend
  • 00:17:55.831 --> 00:17:58.000
  • Upon experience."
  • 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.602
  • I'm talking about feeling when i talk about experience there.
  • 00:18:00.602 --> 00:18:03.672
  • No, john is saying here, the proof of your salvation
  • 00:18:03.672 --> 00:18:06.508
  • Is not your feeling, it's tangible fruit in your life.
  • 00:18:06.508 --> 00:18:11.280
  • That's a great way to know whether or not you're saved.
  • 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:13.849
  • Is there tangible fruit like love and joy and peace
  • 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:16.752
  • And obedience and desire to know god?
  • 00:18:16.752 --> 00:18:18.654
  • Is that fruit being produced in your life?
  • 00:18:18.654 --> 00:18:20.956
  • That's evidence that you have the life-giving spirit of god
  • 00:18:20.956 --> 00:18:25.127
  • Inside of you.
  • 00:18:25.127 --> 00:18:26.929
  • If there is no fruit, there's no spirit.
  • 00:18:26.929 --> 00:18:29.531
  • You don't have the son of god residing in you.
  • 00:18:29.531 --> 00:18:33.268
  • That's why paul said in 2 corinthians 13, verse 5.
  • 00:18:33.335 --> 00:18:38.407
  • You want to know whether you're saved or not?
  • 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:40.709
  • "test yourselves to see if you are in the faith;
  • 00:18:40.709 --> 00:18:44.680
  • Examine yourselves!
  • 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.481
  • Or do you not recognize this about yourselves,
  • 00:18:46.481 --> 00:18:49.051
  • That jesus christ is in you
  • 00:18:49.051 --> 00:18:51.420
  • Unless you indeed fail the test?"
  • 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:54.223
  • Jesus said you can perform a self-exam to see
  • 00:18:54.223 --> 00:18:56.391
  • If you're really a christian.
  • 00:18:56.391 --> 00:18:57.726
  • Test yourself right now to see if you're in the faith.
  • 00:18:57.726 --> 00:19:00.596
  • What does he mean, "test yourself?"
  • 00:19:00.596 --> 00:19:02.197
  • He's not talking about give yourself a theological test.
  • 00:19:02.197 --> 00:19:06.034
  • Don't get out a piece of paper or a blue book and say,
  • 00:19:06.034 --> 00:19:08.437
  • "okay, can i list ten reasons for the virgin birth of christ?
  • 00:19:08.437 --> 00:19:12.441
  • Or can i distinguish between the term pre-millennial,
  • 00:19:12.441 --> 00:19:15.244
  • Post-millennial, and amillennial?"
  • 00:19:15.244 --> 00:19:17.546
  • He's not talking about a theological exam,
  • 00:19:17.546 --> 00:19:20.349
  • He's talking about test your obedience to god.
  • 00:19:20.349 --> 00:19:25.287
  • How do i know that's what he's talking about?
  • 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:26.755
  • That's the whole purpose of 2 corinthians.
  • 00:19:26.755 --> 00:19:28.957
  • Paul was concerned that these corinthian christians
  • 00:19:28.957 --> 00:19:31.293
  • Were living in such a way that didn't match up
  • 00:19:31.293 --> 00:19:34.162
  • To their profession of faith.
  • 00:19:34.162 --> 00:19:35.497
  • And that's why he said in 2 corinthians 12, verse 20,
  • 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:37.966
  • "for i am afraid that perhaps when i come i may find you
  • 00:19:37.966 --> 00:19:41.637
  • Not to be what i wish and may be found to you--
  • 00:19:41.637 --> 00:19:44.573
  • By you to be not what you wish;
  • 00:19:44.573 --> 00:19:47.542
  • That perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, anger,
  • 00:19:47.542 --> 00:19:50.078
  • Tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance,
  • 00:19:50.078 --> 00:19:53.115
  • And disturbances."
  • 00:19:53.115 --> 00:19:54.449
  • That's why paul said you better test yourself
  • 00:19:54.449 --> 00:19:56.485
  • To see if you're in the faith.
  • 00:19:56.485 --> 00:19:58.320
  • Paul was just echoing what james said in james 2,
  • 00:19:58.320 --> 00:20:00.756
  • Verses 14 and 17.
  • 00:20:00.756 --> 00:20:02.391
  • "what use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but,
  • 00:20:02.391 --> 00:20:06.561
  • He has no works?
  • 00:20:06.561 --> 00:20:08.263
  • Can that kind of faith save him?"
  • 00:20:08.263 --> 00:20:10.666
  • Absolutely not.
  • 00:20:10.666 --> 00:20:12.567
  • He says in verse 17, "even so faith,
  • 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:15.604
  • If it has no works, is dead, being by itself."
  • 00:20:15.604 --> 00:20:21.209
  • The bible is clear.
  • 00:20:21.209 --> 00:20:23.645
  • Faith without any fruit is a dead, non-existent faith.
  • 00:20:23.645 --> 00:20:30.485
  • The way to know whether you're truly eternally secure is;
  • 00:20:30.485 --> 00:20:35.057
  • Do you have evidence of that eternal life
  • 00:20:35.057 --> 00:20:38.493
  • Right now in your life?
  • 00:20:38.493 --> 00:20:40.262
  • Test yourself to see if you're in the faith.
  • 00:20:40.262 --> 00:20:44.499
  • Some years ago, northwest airlines
  • 00:20:44.499 --> 00:20:46.368
  • Had a special promotion.
  • 00:20:46.368 --> 00:20:48.170
  • They called it "a mystery fare."
  • 00:20:48.170 --> 00:20:50.872
  • You could pay $59 and receive a ticket to a mystery destination.
  • 00:20:50.872 --> 00:20:56.111
  • You wouldn't find out where you were going
  • 00:20:56.111 --> 00:20:57.779
  • 'till the day you got to the airport.
  • 00:20:57.779 --> 00:20:59.681
  • Kind of an interesting concept, isn't it?
  • 00:20:59.681 --> 00:21:01.917
  • Thousands of people took advantage of "the mystery fare,"
  • 00:21:01.917 --> 00:21:04.619
  • And most of them were happy with their destination.
  • 00:21:04.619 --> 00:21:08.724
  • Everybody except one customer who was wanting to go
  • 00:21:08.724 --> 00:21:12.828
  • To new orleans, but ended up with a fare to minneapolis
  • 00:21:12.828 --> 00:21:16.631
  • In the wintertime.
  • 00:21:16.631 --> 00:21:18.934
  • And a reporter said he was going through the airport waving
  • 00:21:18.934 --> 00:21:21.336
  • His ticket saying, i've got one ticket
  • 00:21:21.336 --> 00:21:23.805
  • To the mall of america that i'll trade for anywhere.
  • 00:21:23.805 --> 00:21:28.143
  • You know, mystery fares are fun for a weekend vacation,
  • 00:21:28.143 --> 00:21:31.947
  • But there is one day in your life you don't want to be
  • 00:21:31.947 --> 00:21:35.016
  • Holding "a mystery fare" ticket,
  • 00:21:35.016 --> 00:21:38.320
  • And that's the day of your death.
  • 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:41.356
  • To close your eyes for the last time here on earth
  • 00:21:41.356 --> 00:21:44.259
  • Without an absolute assurance of your eternal destination,
  • 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:51.066
  • That's a risk no sane person would want to take.
  • 00:21:51.066 --> 00:21:57.205
  • "these things i have written to you who believe in the name
  • 00:21:57.205 --> 00:22:02.144
  • Of the son of god, that you may know you have eternal life."
  • 00:22:02.144 --> 00:22:09.818
  • Do you know?
  • 00:22:09.818 --> 00:22:12.154
  • Are you absolutely sure?
  • 00:22:12.154 --> 00:22:16.291
  • Jeffress: it gives me great satisfaction to know
  • 00:22:20.328 --> 00:22:22.764
  • That the holy spirit is working in the hearts of men and women
  • 00:22:22.764 --> 00:22:25.967
  • All around the world at this very moment,
  • 00:22:25.967 --> 00:22:28.603
  • Bringing them into the kingdom of god with a confidence
  • 00:22:28.603 --> 00:22:32.607
  • That cannot be shaken.
  • 00:22:32.607 --> 00:22:34.543
  • Because jesus christ made a way for us,
  • 00:22:34.543 --> 00:22:37.245
  • Our eternal destiny is absolutely secure.
  • 00:22:37.245 --> 00:22:41.650
  • Well, today is the final day of the now is the time matching
  • 00:22:41.650 --> 00:22:45.587
  • Challenge, and at midnight tonight this opportunity ends.
  • 00:22:45.587 --> 00:22:49.724
  • Every gift we receive before the deadline will be matched and
  • 00:22:49.724 --> 00:22:53.628
  • Therefore doubled in impact until we reach
  • 00:22:53.628 --> 00:22:56.932
  • The $1.7 million goal,
  • 00:22:56.932 --> 00:22:59.267
  • And remember the deadline
  • 00:22:59.267 --> 00:23:00.936
  • Is tonight at midnight.
  • 00:23:00.936 --> 00:23:02.838
  • People across our nation are hungry for biblical truth, and
  • 00:23:02.838 --> 00:23:06.608
  • Now is the time for us to reach them.
  • 00:23:06.608 --> 00:23:09.044
  • Your generosity today, doubled through this challenge,
  • 00:23:09.044 --> 00:23:12.814
  • Will launch "pathway to victory" boldly into 2026, ready to
  • 00:23:12.814 --> 00:23:17.085
  • Proclaim christ and impact lives with the hope of the gospel.
  • 00:23:17.085 --> 00:23:21.356
  • The hours are slipping away, and the need has never been greater,
  • 00:23:21.356 --> 00:23:25.360
  • So don't let this opportunity pass you by.
  • 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:28.263
  • Thank you for partnering with us to make a greater impact for
  • 00:23:28.263 --> 00:23:31.566
  • Christ in the coming year.
  • 00:23:31.566 --> 00:23:34.069
  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: nearly three decades ago, dr. jeffress prayed
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  • That god would use "pathway to victory" to pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word, and what god has done
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  • Is miraculous.
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  • We need to share the gospel while there's still time.
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  • And got involved with the influences of the world.
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  • God sent me a wake-up call, and i waked up and i quit drinking.
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  • I will not turn my back on god again.
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  • Jeffress: it's common to go through a season of doubt
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  • Regarding your status before god,
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  • But god never intended for your eternal destiny
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  • To remain a mystery.
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  • He wants you to know with confidence
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  • That your future is safe with him.
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  • Well, christians often ask me how they can know god's will
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  • For their life, but it doesn't have to be a guessing game.
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  • Next time, i'm going to help you identify your unique role
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  • And purpose in life.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • On "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: you and i are parts of the body of christ.
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  • 1 corinthians 12 says some of us are hands, some of us are feet,
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  • Some of us are livers, some of us are stomachs.
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  • We all have a part to play in the body of christ.
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  • In fact, paul says, it's sometimes the hidden parts
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  • Of the body that are the most important
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  • Parts of the human body.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time
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  • Sail through the calm waters of the legendary inside passage
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  • Be inspired by award-winning musician michael o'brien's
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  • America's minister of encouragement;
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  • Skagway, and ketchikan.
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  • Jeffress: there's something powerful about connecting with
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  • God and fellow believers in the majesty
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  • Of his untamed wilderness.
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  • From the majestic glaciers to soaring eagles,
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  • These moments in god's creation will deepen your
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  • Faith in powerful ways.
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