Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 2)

January 17, 2025 | S25:E30

Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 2) | January 17, 2025
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [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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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Personal problems can produce two very different outcomes.
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  • Problems can strengthen our relationship with god
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  • Or problems can destroy our faith in god.
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  • The difference comes down to one single word,
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  • And that word is faith.
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  • Well, today we'll admire several people
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  • Who courageously faced their problems
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  • By placing their complete faith in god.
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  • My message is titled,
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  • "the necessary ingredient"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ many are they increased ♪
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  • ♪ that trouble me ♪
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  • ♪ many are they that rise up against me ♪
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  • ♪ many there be which say of my soul ♪
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  • ♪ there is no help for him in god ♪
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  • ♪ but thou, oh lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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  • ♪ thou, oh lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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  • ♪ for thou ♪
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  • ♪ oh, lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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  • ♪ for thou ♪
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  • ♪ oh, lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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  • ♪ for thou ♪
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  • ♪ oh, lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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  • ♪ for thou, oh lord ♪
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  • ♪ are a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory ♪
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  • ♪ and the lifter ♪
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  • ♪ of my head ♪
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  • ♪ of my head ♪
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  • (applause)
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  • [announcer] in a world filled with noise and clutter,
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  • God invites us to look past the distractions
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  • And connect with him on a deeply personal level.
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  • In his book called "spiritual essentials",
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  • Dr. robert jeffress shows you how to pray
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  • And how to study god's word in a truly meaningful way.
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  • Not sure where to start reading your bible?
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  • These practical principles
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  • Are based on the tried and true methods
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  • That dr. jeffress uses in his own bible study.
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  • Request "spiritual essentials"
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  • When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory".
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Cain and abel were the first two children of adam and eve,
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  • And remember god said to them,
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  • "i want you to bring a sacrifice to me,"
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  • And he prescribed the kind of sacrifice he wanted.
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  • And abel brought a sacrifice.
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  • He was a shepherd,
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  • And so he brought one of his animals
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  • And offered a blood sacrifice to god.
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  • Cain decided that he would try
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  • To offer his own sacrifice to god,
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  • And he brought some of the produce that he had raised.
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  • And the bible says that, "god accepted abel's offering,
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  • "but he rejected cain's offering,"
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  • And cain was so despondent
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  • Over the fact that god rejected him,
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  • That he became enraged at his brother abel
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  • And killed him, the first murder in the bible.
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  • Why is it that god accepted abel's sacrifice
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  • But rejected cain's offering?
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  • I've heard pastors speculate about that.
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  • I've heard bible commentators who said,
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  • "well, it was in their attitude.
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  • "abel brought his sacrifice
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  • "as an act of love,
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  • "but cain brought his to satisfy a religious ritual.
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  • "and it was their attitude that made the difference."
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  • That sounds so good, but it's so wrong.
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  • I mean, the fact is the bible tells us exactly
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  • Why god accepted abel's sacrifice and rejected cain.
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  • Look at verse four, "by faith,
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  • "abel offered to god a better sacrifice than cain."
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  • Apparently, in words we don't have recorded,
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  • God told both men exactly what he wanted.
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  • He prescribed a blood sacrifice,
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  • A blood offering of an innocent animal,
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  • That would foretell the coming many years later
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  • Of the lamb of god, jesus christ,
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  • Who would take away the sins of the world.
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  • And abel, although he didn't understand why god said that,
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  • He couldn't see down the corridor of history
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  • To jesus christ.
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  • It made no sense to him
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  • To kill an innocent and good animal.
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  • He obeyed god.
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  • He believed what god said
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  • And acted accordingly, but not cain.
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  • He thought he could come to god any way he wanted to.
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  • In fact, did you know in the new testament,
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  • Jude verse 11, the writer says,
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  • "avoid the way of cain."
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  • You know what, "the way of cain is?"
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  • It's trying to come to god on your own terms,
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  • And the world today is filled with people
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  • Who say they can come to god any way they want to.
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  • It doesn't matter what you believe.
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  • It's like you can approach god
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  • Any way you want to, from any direction,
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  • And still go up the same mountain of truth
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  • And approach the same god.
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  • God says, "no!
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  • "you cannot come to me any way you choose.
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  • "you must come in my way,"
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  • And for us today it means believing
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  • In jesus christ to be our savior.
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  • Jesus said in john 14:6,
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  • "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • "no man comes to the father except by me."
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  • The way to god is not broad.
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  • It is narrow.
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  • There is one way,
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  • And that's what abel and cain illustrate to us.
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  • "it was by faith that abel offered a better sacrifice."
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  • Let me stop here and just say
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  • I have people ask me all the time,
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  • "well, pastor, how could abel be saved?
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  • "how could anybody be saved before jesus christ
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  • "gave his life on the cross for us?"
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  • Have you ever wondered that?
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  • How were the old testament saints saved?
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  • I've heard people say,
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  • "well, in the old testament, people were saved by works,
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  • "but in the new testament, they're saved by christ."
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  • Have you heard that before?
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  • No, god hasn't changed.
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  • Since the beginning of time,
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  • We've all been saved in the same way.
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  • In fact, i was studying this passage yesterday morning,
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  • Just going over it and trying to think,
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  • "how can i best illustrate this?"
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  • And this little phrase came to me,
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  • And i want you to write it down.
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  • If you ever wonder how it is we are saved,
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  • I want you to write this down.
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  • "our forgiveness,"
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  • Because that's what salvation is.
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  • It's the forgiveness of our sins.
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  • "our forgiveness is,"
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  • And then underneath it write these three things.
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  • Number one, "based on god's grace."
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  • It's based on god's grace.
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  • Secondly, "it's paid for by christ's blood."
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  • And thirdly, "it is received through our faith."
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  • Our forgiveness,
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  • And anybody's forgiveness in history,
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  • Is based on god's grace.
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  • It is paid for by christ's blood,
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  • And it is received through our faith.
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  • Remember ephesians 2:8-9,
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  • "for by grace you have been saved through faith,
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  • "and that not of yourselves.
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  • "it is the gift of god,
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  • "not as a result of works,
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  • "so that no man, no person may boast."
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  • All of us are saved by god's grace never by works.
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  • It's always been by god's grace.
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  • That's what he says.
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  • He doesn't say, "for by faith you have been saved."
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  • He says, "by grace you have been saved."
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  • We are saved by god's grace.
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  • We receive that grace through our faith,
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  • Grace through faith.
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  • Let me illustrate the difference for you this way.
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  • Let's imagine you're walking downtown.
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  • You see a crowd gathered together
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  • Underneath a building, by a building.
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  • Firetrucks are there.
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  • Everybody's pointing up to the same direction.
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  • They're pointing up to the sixth floor ledge
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  • Where somebody is standing out on the ledge
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  • Of a burning building.
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  • The firemen are below with a safety net,
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  • And they're urging the person up there
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  • On that sixth floor ledge to jump
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  • Before he's destroyed by the fire.
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  • And so that man is trying to decide,
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  • "am i going to jump into that net or not?"
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  • Finally he, in a leap of faith, takes a leap of faith,
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  • And he jumps from that building.
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  • He lands safely in the net, and he is saved.
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  • Now, if you witnessed that and somebody were to ask you,
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  • "how was that man saved,"
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  • Would you say he was saved because he jumped?
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  • Was he saved through his jumping?
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  • No, there have been people
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  • Who have jumped from buildings before
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  • And ended up splattering on the concrete below.
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  • Jumping isn't what saves you.
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  • That man was saved by the net the fireman had provided,
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  • But as long as that man was standing on the ledge,
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  • That net did him no good.
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  • The fireman offered him a provision for salvation,
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  • But the way he took advantage of that provision
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  • Was by faith believing that that net would hold him.
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  • He was saved by the net that he accessed through jumping.
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  • It's the same way for us.
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  • It's not faith that saves us.
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  • We cannot conjure up enough faith to save us.
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  • Faith demands an object.
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  • It's believing that jesus christ died for our sins,
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  • And when we trust in what jesus did,
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  • We are saved by god's grace,
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  • Which is paid for by christ's blood
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  • And received through our faith.
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  • And that's what abel did.
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  • Abel believed what god said.
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  • He was saved by god's grace,
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  • Which he received through his faith,
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  • Which was ultimately paid for
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  • By christ's death on the cross.
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  • When people say, "yeah, but that happened
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  • "before christ paid the debt,"
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  • I tell people abel was saved on credit.
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  • His faith was on credit,
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  • As was all of the old testament.
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  • God isn't bound by time like you and i are.
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  • We see past, present, future.
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  • In god's mind, it had already happened,
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  • The death of christ.
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  • He was saved on credit,
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  • But it was all by god's grace.
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  • That was abel.
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  • He demonstrates a faith that saves.
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  • But you know what, faith is not
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  • Only necessary for our salvation,
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  • But also for our sanctification,
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  • For our becoming more like christ.
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  • Look at verse five.
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  • That's demonstrated in the life of enoch.
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  • "by faith, enoch was taken up
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  • "so that he would not see death,
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  • "and he was not found because god took him up.
  • 00:12:54.730 --> 00:12:57.366
  • "for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up,
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  • "he was pleasing to god."
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  • Underline that word "pleasing."
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  • We find the story of enoch in genesis 5:21-24.
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  • The bible says, "enoch lived 65 years
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  • "and became the father of methuselah."
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  • Remember methuselah?
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  • The oldest man in the bible lived to be 969.
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  • Well, enoch was his father.
  • 00:13:20.756 --> 00:13:22.925
  • "enoch lived 65 years,
  • 00:13:22.925 --> 00:13:24.827
  • "and then he and his wife gave birth to methuselah.
  • 00:13:24.827 --> 00:13:28.530
  • "and then enoch walked with god 300 more years
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  • "after he became the father of methuselah."
  • 00:13:32.468 --> 00:13:36.171
  • Isn't that interesting?
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  • Enoch is known as a person that walked with god,
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  • Even though he spent the first 65 years
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  • Of his life living apart from god.
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  • He made a change in his life.
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  • Perhaps it was the birth of his son that made him realize,
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  • "i need to start walking with god.
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  • "i need to be an example to my child."
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  • I see that all the time.
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  • Maybe young adults have wandered away from god,
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  • But when they have that first child,
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  • They see how important it is to be back in church
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  • And be rearing their children to know christ.
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  • That was enoch.
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  • He wasted the first 65 years of his life.
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  • But isn't it good to know,
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  • It's not how you start in life
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  • It's how you finish that counts.
  • 00:14:18.881 --> 00:14:21.183
  • Maybe you're living in the far country away from god,
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  • Or maybe you've just recently come back to god.
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  • God doesn't care about your past.
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  • He cares about your future.
  • 00:14:29.258 --> 00:14:30.993
  • Not the direction you've been
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  • But the direction you're going in
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  • That's what makes a difference to god.
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  • Enoch spent the rest of his life serving god,
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  • "so all the days of enoch were 365 years."
  • 00:14:39.768 --> 00:14:42.805
  • Now look at this, verse 24,
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  • "enoch walked with god,
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  • "and he was not, for god took him."
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  • Every other person in genesis five, it says,
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  • "and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died."
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  • Not enoch.
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  • No, god just took him.
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  • He raptured him.
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  • Enoch is a picture, a type of a group
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  • Of christians in some future age,
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  • Maybe this one, maybe another one,
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  • In which they won't experience death.
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  • God will just rapture them,
  • 00:15:07.830 --> 00:15:09.598
  • "harpazo" them to catch them up to meet him in the air.
  • 00:15:09.598 --> 00:15:14.136
  • Why did god do that with enoch?
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  • It's because he walked with god.
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  • That doesn't mean he and god took
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  • A stroll on sunday afternoons together.
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  • "to walk with god," means to please god.
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  • In fact, that's what the bible says.
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  • "he was pleasing to god," hebrews 11:5.
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  • He wanted to please god with all of his life,
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  • And what gave him that desire to please god?
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  • It was faith.
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  • You see the relationship to faith in pleasing god
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  • Beginning in verses six and seven.
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  • Look at this, verse six,
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  • "and without faith it is impossible to please god."
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  • Now stay with me on this.
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  • This is so important.
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  • Without faith you cannot please god.
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  • You cannot walk with god,
  • 00:15:59.948 --> 00:16:01.550
  • You cannot obey god, without faith.
  • 00:16:01.550 --> 00:16:05.921
  • Now i want to tell you the way i used to hear
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  • People preach this passage and teach it.
  • 00:16:07.389 --> 00:16:09.725
  • I used to hear people say,
  • 00:16:09.725 --> 00:16:11.160
  • "now you can read your bible, tithe, and go to church,
  • 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:13.395
  • "but if you do it without faith,
  • 00:16:13.395 --> 00:16:15.164
  • "it's not pleasing to god.
  • 00:16:15.164 --> 00:16:16.999
  • "you can stay sexually, morally pure,
  • 00:16:16.999 --> 00:16:20.636
  • "but if you stay sexually and morally pure without faith,
  • 00:16:20.636 --> 00:16:25.040
  • "god doesn't care.
  • 00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:25.974
  • "it doesn't count for anything.
  • 00:16:25.974 --> 00:16:27.976
  • "you can witness to other people.
  • 00:16:27.976 --> 00:16:29.845
  • "you can share your faith with other people,
  • 00:16:29.845 --> 00:16:31.513
  • "but if you do it without faith,
  • 00:16:31.513 --> 00:16:33.982
  • "that's worthless in god's sight."
  • 00:16:33.982 --> 00:16:36.285
  • And when i heard people say that, i always say,
  • 00:16:36.285 --> 00:16:38.787
  • "well, how do you read your bible, and tithe,
  • 00:16:38.787 --> 00:16:40.756
  • "and go to church without faith?
  • 00:16:40.756 --> 00:16:42.624
  • "what does it mean to read your bible without faith?
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  • "i don't get it."
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  • That's not what this passage is saying.
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  • The word "faith"
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  • And "please god" is a synonym for obey.
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  • He's saying, "without faith it is impossible to obey god."
  • 00:16:55.737 --> 00:17:00.976
  • In other words, you will never consistently
  • 00:17:01.877 --> 00:17:04.012
  • Read your bible, tithe, and go to church.
  • 00:17:04.012 --> 00:17:06.482
  • You will never consistently stay morally, sexually pure.
  • 00:17:06.482 --> 00:17:10.252
  • You will never consistently share your faith
  • 00:17:10.252 --> 00:17:12.888
  • With other people without faith.
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  • Without faith you just won't do it.
  • 00:17:15.724 --> 00:17:18.393
  • Dietrich bonhoeffer said one time,
  • 00:17:18.393 --> 00:17:20.129
  • "only those who believe are obedient,
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  • "and only those who are obedient truly believe."
  • 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:27.603
  • You'll never be obedient to god without faith.
  • 00:17:27.603 --> 00:17:30.272
  • That's what he's saying.
  • 00:17:30.272 --> 00:17:31.673
  • "without faith you can never continually please god.
  • 00:17:31.673 --> 00:17:34.810
  • "for the person who comes to god," look at this,
  • 00:17:34.810 --> 00:17:37.579
  • "must believe" two things,
  • 00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:39.848
  • "that he is and that he is
  • 00:17:39.848 --> 00:17:42.084
  • "a rewarder of those who seek him."
  • 00:17:42.084 --> 00:17:45.053
  • You will never live a life that pleases god until,
  • 00:17:45.053 --> 00:17:48.423
  • A, you're convinced that god exists.
  • 00:17:48.423 --> 00:17:50.826
  • That's kind of a no brainer, isn't it?
  • 00:17:50.826 --> 00:17:53.095
  • But secondly, you also have to be convinced
  • 00:17:53.095 --> 00:17:55.664
  • That he rewards those who diligently follow after him.
  • 00:17:55.664 --> 00:18:01.703
  • You know, epicurus was a philosopher,
  • 00:18:02.504 --> 00:18:05.240
  • A greek philosopher who lived before jesus,
  • 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.376
  • And he developed this idea that,
  • 00:18:07.376 --> 00:18:09.878
  • "our chief goal in life should be pleasure."
  • 00:18:09.878 --> 00:18:13.615
  • And people today criticize that,
  • 00:18:13.615 --> 00:18:15.584
  • And say, "oh, that's hedonism.
  • 00:18:15.584 --> 00:18:16.919
  • "eat, drink and be merry,
  • 00:18:16.919 --> 00:18:18.320
  • "because tomorrow we die," and they discount it.
  • 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:20.289
  • But that's not really what epicurus was saying.
  • 00:18:20.289 --> 00:18:22.991
  • I read one commentator this week who pointed out
  • 00:18:22.991 --> 00:18:25.627
  • What he was saying was,
  • 00:18:25.627 --> 00:18:26.895
  • "you ought to decide what you do by
  • 00:18:26.895 --> 00:18:29.198
  • "that which will give you the most
  • 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:30.899
  • "long-term satisfaction."
  • 00:18:30.899 --> 00:18:34.069
  • And actually that's a good test.
  • 00:18:34.069 --> 00:18:36.471
  • What is it that will provide
  • 00:18:36.471 --> 00:18:38.006
  • The most long-term satisfaction?
  • 00:18:38.006 --> 00:18:41.944
  • And it's obedience to god.
  • 00:18:41.944 --> 00:18:44.279
  • You see, you will never consistently
  • 00:18:45.080 --> 00:18:46.882
  • Walk with god, obey god,
  • 00:18:46.882 --> 00:18:49.351
  • Until you're convinced it's in your best interest to do so,
  • 00:18:49.351 --> 00:18:54.089
  • Until you're absolutely convinced
  • 00:18:54.823 --> 00:18:56.658
  • That god will reward you,
  • 00:18:56.658 --> 00:18:59.394
  • Maybe not in the short term,
  • 00:18:59.394 --> 00:19:01.496
  • But in the long term for your obedience to him.
  • 00:19:01.496 --> 00:19:04.833
  • Now he gives us one final example of that.
  • 00:19:04.833 --> 00:19:07.869
  • In chapter 11, verse 7, noah,
  • 00:19:07.869 --> 00:19:10.572
  • "by faith, noah being warned by god
  • 00:19:10.572 --> 00:19:13.408
  • "about things not yet seen, in reverence,
  • 00:19:13.408 --> 00:19:17.212
  • "he prepared an ark for the salvation of his household,
  • 00:19:17.212 --> 00:19:20.115
  • "by which he condemned the world,
  • 00:19:20.115 --> 00:19:21.617
  • "and he became an heir of the righteousness
  • 00:19:21.617 --> 00:19:24.019
  • "which is according to faith."
  • 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:25.787
  • Remember the story of noah, genesis chapter six?
  • 00:19:25.787 --> 00:19:29.057
  • The world had become so evil that god
  • 00:19:29.057 --> 00:19:31.026
  • Decided to destroy it with a great flood,
  • 00:19:31.026 --> 00:19:33.829
  • But verse eight says, "noah found favor in god's eyes."
  • 00:19:33.829 --> 00:19:37.466
  • For no reason other than god's own secret will,
  • 00:19:37.466 --> 00:19:40.435
  • He chose noah, and he said to noah,
  • 00:19:40.435 --> 00:19:42.337
  • "noah, i'm going to flood the world.
  • 00:19:42.337 --> 00:19:44.006
  • "i'm going to send rain for 40 days
  • 00:19:44.006 --> 00:19:45.607
  • "and 40 nights, destroy the world.
  • 00:19:45.607 --> 00:19:47.309
  • "i want you to build an ark for you
  • 00:19:47.309 --> 00:19:48.744
  • "and those i'll tell you to put in that ark."
  • 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:51.880
  • And noah obeyed what god said.
  • 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:55.083
  • But what's interesting about his obedience is this.
  • 00:19:55.083 --> 00:19:57.786
  • It says, "he obeyed god
  • 00:19:57.786 --> 00:20:00.222
  • "being warned of things not yet seen."
  • 00:20:00.222 --> 00:20:04.493
  • You know what that means?
  • 00:20:04.493 --> 00:20:06.361
  • Up to that point it had never rained on the earth before.
  • 00:20:06.361 --> 00:20:09.931
  • The earth was watered by subterranean fountains
  • 00:20:09.931 --> 00:20:12.768
  • That provided this mist.
  • 00:20:12.768 --> 00:20:14.303
  • It had not yet rained on the earth
  • 00:20:14.303 --> 00:20:16.305
  • According to genesis 2:5.
  • 00:20:16.305 --> 00:20:18.640
  • So when god said to noah,
  • 00:20:19.207 --> 00:20:21.276
  • "hey, it's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights,"
  • 00:20:21.276 --> 00:20:24.613
  • That was like saying to noah,
  • 00:20:24.613 --> 00:20:25.847
  • "hey, noah, it's going to
  • 00:20:25.847 --> 00:20:27.449
  • "supercalifragilisticexpialidocs
  • 00:20:27.449 --> 00:20:29.751
  • "for 40 days and 40 nights."
  • 00:20:29.751 --> 00:20:31.953
  • "lord, would you say that again, please?"
  • 00:20:31.953 --> 00:20:34.489
  • He didn't know what rain was.
  • 00:20:34.489 --> 00:20:35.791
  • He'd never heard of rain,
  • 00:20:35.791 --> 00:20:37.459
  • But he believed what god said.
  • 00:20:38.093 --> 00:20:40.929
  • He acted accordingly by building that ark,
  • 00:20:40.929 --> 00:20:44.733
  • And the result was,
  • 00:20:44.733 --> 00:20:46.501
  • Not only the temporary salvation
  • 00:20:46.501 --> 00:20:49.404
  • Of himself and his family,
  • 00:20:49.404 --> 00:20:51.540
  • But notice what it says here,
  • 00:20:51.540 --> 00:20:53.175
  • "he became an heir of the righteousness,
  • 00:20:53.175 --> 00:20:57.312
  • "which is according to faith."
  • 00:20:57.312 --> 00:20:59.448
  • Noah is the first person in the bible
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  • Who was ever declared righteous.
  • 00:21:02.150 --> 00:21:05.454
  • He is in a right standing with god.
  • 00:21:06.188 --> 00:21:09.324
  • Why?
  • 00:21:09.324 --> 00:21:10.492
  • Because he believed what god said.
  • 00:21:10.492 --> 00:21:12.794
  • He believed in a god of grace.
  • 00:21:12.794 --> 00:21:16.698
  • He received that grace through faith,
  • 00:21:16.698 --> 00:21:19.901
  • And one day that faith would be paid for
  • 00:21:19.901 --> 00:21:23.672
  • By the blood of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:23.672 --> 00:21:26.408
  • You know, one thing you notice as you read
  • 00:21:27.309 --> 00:21:29.144
  • Through hebrews chapter 11 is this, all of the men
  • 00:21:29.144 --> 00:21:32.280
  • And women we're going to look at in the days ahead
  • 00:21:32.280 --> 00:21:34.649
  • Had one thing in common.
  • 00:21:34.649 --> 00:21:36.451
  • They obeyed god,
  • 00:21:36.451 --> 00:21:38.487
  • And they died without fully seeing
  • 00:21:38.487 --> 00:21:41.456
  • And realizing the promises of god.
  • 00:21:41.456 --> 00:21:44.659
  • Nevertheless, they kept on obeying god,
  • 00:21:44.659 --> 00:21:47.996
  • And they found that as they did,
  • 00:21:47.996 --> 00:21:50.065
  • As they exercised their faith,
  • 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:53.468
  • Their faith became stronger.
  • 00:21:54.069 --> 00:21:56.171
  • As they practiced obedience,
  • 00:21:56.171 --> 00:21:58.874
  • It became easier to obey god.
  • 00:21:58.874 --> 00:22:01.343
  • What is it that gave them the ability
  • 00:22:02.110 --> 00:22:04.579
  • To keep on following god even when they
  • 00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:07.816
  • Weren't immediately rewarded for doing so?
  • 00:22:07.816 --> 00:22:11.386
  • It was their faith.
  • 00:22:11.386 --> 00:22:13.355
  • They believed that god exists,
  • 00:22:13.355 --> 00:22:16.825
  • And that he is a rewarder of those
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  • Who diligently follow after him.
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • Do you really believe that?
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  • Who was in a tough spiritual battle.
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  • She wrote, "pastor jeffress,
  • 00:23:01.002 --> 00:23:02.771
  • "satan dangled his temptations in front of me,
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  • "and i took them hook, line, and sinker.
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  • "and just like a fish on a hook,
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  • "i felt helpless, like i couldn't get free.
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  • "but your teaching changed my way of thinking.
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  • "thank you for helping me get free."
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  • Isn't that great?
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  • Mary chose to place her faith and trust in god
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  • Even when the outcome was uncertain.
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  • [announcer] when was the last time
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  • You heard god speak to you from his word?
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  • These principles are deeply personal
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  • The same grace that saved noah
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  • Before jesus came, after jesus came, it's all the same.
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  • "we want a priest that we can touch.
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