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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - An Offer You Can Refuse | April 4, 2026
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- From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- 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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- Every day companies bombard us with offers they say
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- We can't pass up like limited time deals
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- Or once in a lifetime opportunities,
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- But what about the greatest offer ever made,
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- The offer of eternal salvation through jesus christ?
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- Surprisingly, many people walk right past it.
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- Today we're going to explore why so many people
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- Neglect god's incredible gift.
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- My message is titled "an offer you can't refuse"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ you took my place, laid inside my tomb of sin ♪
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- ♪ you were buried for three days ♪
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- ♪ and then you walked right out again ♪
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- ♪ and now death has no sting ♪
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- ♪ and life has no end ♪
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- ♪ i have been transformed by the blood of the lamb ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious life ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ there to my heart was the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪ ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪ ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ his glorious light ♪
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- ♪ we thank you for ♪
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- ♪ his glorious light ♪
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- (applause) ♪ his glorious light ♪
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- Whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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- Satan has a strategy to attack your faith,
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- Disrupt your family, and derail your future.
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- But god has given you everything you need
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- To fight back and win.
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- In "the divine defense,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress reveals six practical strategies
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- From ephesians chapter six
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- To defeat satan's destructive plan.
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- When you put on the full armor of god,
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- Satan doesn't have a prayer.
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- Request "the divine defense"
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- When you give a generous ministry gift
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- ♪ music ♪
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- A few years ago i used a sermon illustration
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- That i could never offer again today
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- Because of security reasons.
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- You'll understand, but some of you may remember,
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- See if i can find it here.
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- I pulled out a $10 bill,
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- And i said, whoever comes up on this platform first
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- Will receive this $10.
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- Can't do that today.
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- But i offered it, and to my surprise, nobody came.
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- And so we kept waiting and still no one came,
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- And everybody walked away that day empty handed,
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- And i speculated why it was
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- That nobody took me up on my offer.
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- Perhaps they thought there was some trick.
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- They were going to get tricked.
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- It wasn't a legitimate offer.
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- Other people thought i'd like the $10,
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- But i'm not going to humiliate myself
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- And make people think i need $10 that badly.
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- And then there were some who thought, quite frankly,
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- I've got plenty of $10 bills in the bank
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- Or in the stock market.
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- I really don't need it.
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- The point is, some rejected, some neglected,
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- But everybody walked away with empty hands
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- Without any lasting consequences.
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- Did you know that every day
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- Here in america 8,000 people die?
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- Every day in the world, tens of thousands of people die,
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- And they die without having taken advantage
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- Of the greatest offer, the greatest deal in the world,
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- The forgiveness of their sins that god offers
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- And the assurance of heaven.
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- Why do people not take up god on his offer?
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- Some reject it, but most simply neglect it.
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- Why would anybody neglect an offer like that?
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- Well, the author of the book of hebrews
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- In the new testament answers that question
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- In the passage we're going to look at today.
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- If you have your bibles turn to hebrews chapter two,
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- Beginning with verse one.
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- As we look at an offer from god you can refuse.
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- Hebrews chapter two, beginning with verse one.
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- Now, the context of this letter's
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- Important to understanding it.
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- People say hebrews is so hard to understand.
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- It's not when you understand the context.
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- The writer was writing to jewish christians
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- Who had left judaism, embraced the message of christianity,
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- But they were having second thoughts about it.
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- They began suffering ridicule and pressure
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- From their jewish families
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- To renounce christianity and go back to judaism.
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- They were facing external threats from the roman government.
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- And so to keep them from making such a tragic mistake,
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- The writer of hebrews shows them
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- How christianity is superior to judaism
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- And every other religion.
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- Jesus christ is superior,
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- And here is the word of warning in chapter two, verse one.
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- "for this reason, we must pay much closer attention
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- "to what we have heard so that they do not drift away
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- "from it."
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- Now there are two key words in this passage
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- That we need to pay attention to.
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- One is the word that is translated pay close attention to.
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- We need to pay closer attention to the message of salvation.
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- That word in greek is the word prosecho.
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- Prosecho, it's a nautical term that literally means
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- To tie up a ship to its mooring.
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- Just imagine a fisherman who goes out in the morning early
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- To start his ritual with catching fish,
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- But he can't find his boat.
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- Why?
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- He forgot to tie it up to the dock
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- Before he went to sleep the night before.
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- And what the writer is saying is
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- It's not enough to admire the message of salvation,
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- To be attracted to it.
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- We need to tie up to that message of salvation.
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- We need to appropriate it for ourselves.
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- It's time to make a decision of what we really believe,
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- And then why?
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- A second reason is lest we drift away.
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- That's a different greek word, pararrhyém,
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- To drift away.
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- It too is a nautical term.
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- It refers to a ship that misses the harbor
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- Due to the inattention of the sailors.
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- It's not that the sailors don't want to go into the harbor.
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- They're looking forward to getting home,
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- But they become distracted.
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- They have their attention diverted
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- Because of other things they get interested in,
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- And they miss the harbor that leads to home.
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- That's the way it is with many christians.
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- They drift past the message of salvation,
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- Not because they hate the message of salvation.
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- They just don't think they have time for it.
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- Jesus illustrated that truth in a parable he told
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- In matthew 22, if you can hold your place in your bibles
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- And turn back to matthew 22 for a moment,
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- Listen to this parable.
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- Verse two, "the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king
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- "who gave a wedding feast for his son,
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- "and he sent out his slaves to call those
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- "who had been invited to the wedding feast,
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- "and they were unwilling to come."
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- This king decided he was going to have a big party,
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- A big banquet for his son, and he wanted everybody to come.
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- Now this was in the day before email or evites
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- Or even the postal service.
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- So how does he get the invitation to people?
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- He sends his slaves out,
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- And guess how many rsvps he receives?
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- None.
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- So he sends another group out.
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- Verse four, "send the slaves out again
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- "and tell those who have been invited.
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- "behold, i've prepared my dinner, my oxen
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- "and my fattened livestock are all butchered,
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- "and everything is ready.
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- "come to the wedding feast.
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- "but they paid no attention
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- "and they went their one to his own farm,
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- "another to his business, and the rest seized the slaves
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- "and mistreated them and killed them."
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- Now that's incomprehensible.
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- Why would they kill somebody for inviting them to a feast?
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- It makes no sense.
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- No more sense than it makes for people
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- To angrily reject the gospel.
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- Have you ever wondered why some people get so worked up
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- And angry when they hear the news of jesus christ
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- Coming to die for their sins?
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- They get angry about it.
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- It makes no sense,
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- But most people, again, don't angrily reject the gospel,
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- They just neglect it.
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- That's what these people in jesus's story did.
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- They said, i've got other things to do.
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- I've got a home life to deal with.
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- I've got a business to deal with.
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- I'll get around to it at a more convenient time.
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- No, the writer of hebrew says, we need to tie up
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- To the message of salvation today
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- Lest we drift past it and never return.
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- Why is it important for tying up to the gospel?
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- Why the reason for this warning?
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- First of all, because of the superiority of god's messenger,
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- Jesus christ.
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- Perhaps this illustration will help you
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- Understand what he's saying.
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- Just imagine you're out there driving
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- In the middle of nowhere,
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- And you notice you're about to run out of gas,
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- And you don't know what you're going to do,
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- But suddenly to your relief, you see a billboard
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- That says gas ahead 10 miles,
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- And you think, man, if i can just make it.
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- And you're driving down, then you see another sign,
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- A sign that says gas five miles ahead,
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- And you think, oh, i'm almost there, if i can just make it.
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- You're sucking fumes
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- By the time you pull into the gas station, but you made it.
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- How much sense would it make once you're seated there
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- In your car at the gas station to say, you know,
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- This is a nice place,
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- But i kind of think i like that billboard back there better.
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- That one that said 10 miles away.
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- I think i'll go back
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- And see if i can make it to the billboard.
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- You wouldn't go back to a billboard.
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- The billboard can't provide gas.
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- It can only point the way to receive gas.
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- It's the same way with the gospel.
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- You know i'm amazed at people
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- Who want to give up christianity,
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- Like these people the writer to hebrews was writing to.
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- Why would you give up jesus christ
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- To go back to the signpost who pointed to jesus?
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- The prophets, moses, isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel,
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- They were wonderful, but they were signs pointing to jesus.
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- Why would you go back to somebody inferior?
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- Now the only thing more insane than turning your car around
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- To go back would be without filling up with gas
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- Saying i think i'll go down the road a little bit further
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- To see if i can find a more attractive gas station
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- Or one that offers gas at a cheaper rate.
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- No, you don't have the gas to make it down there.
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- You will never find a better deal in the past,
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- 10 miles up the road or 10 miles down the road
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- Than what's being offered right now.
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- Now that's what the writer is saying.
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- The superiority of god's messenger,
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- We need to tie up.
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- We need to not neglect the message of salvation.
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- The second reason he gives in addition to the superiority
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- Of god's messenger is the severity of god's judgment.
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- That's why we better pay attention to the gospel.
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- Look at verse two of hebrews two.
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- "for if the words spoken through angels proved unalterable,
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- "and every transgression and disobedience received
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- "a just penalty."
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- Numbers 15, verses 30 to 36
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- Tells a story of a man who was simply gathering wood
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- Except it was on the sabbath day.
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- God struck him dead for that.
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- He may have been wanting to do something good
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- Like warm up the food for his family
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- Or offer a sacrifice to god, but he broke god's rule,
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- And god killed him.
- 00:15:01.490 --> 00:15:03.125
- Now that's the kind of god
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- That we all have to deal with.
- 00:15:06.195 --> 00:15:08.931
- So the question is how do you plan to escape
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- If you neglect god's salvation?
- 00:15:13.268 --> 00:15:16.572
- God demands absolute perfection,
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- And none of us starting with me
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- Can begin to meet that expectation.
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- So how do we plan to escape
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- If we neglect so great a salvation?
- 00:15:28.283 --> 00:15:30.853
- And that leads to the third reason to tie up
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- To that message of salvation, not tomorrow, not someday,
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- But today, and that is the sufficiency of god's salvation.
- 00:15:37.626 --> 00:15:42.965
- Go back to hebrews two verses three and four,
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- "how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
- 00:15:46.035 --> 00:15:50.239
- "after it was first spoken through the lord,
- 00:15:50.239 --> 00:15:52.975
- "it was confirmed for those of us who have heard
- 00:15:52.975 --> 00:15:55.878
- "god also testifying with them both by signs
- 00:15:55.878 --> 00:15:59.114
- "and wonders and by various miracles
- 00:15:59.114 --> 00:16:01.683
- "and by gifts of the holy spirit according to his own will."
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- Pastor, what is so great about this salvation god offers?
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- Why does the writer describe this salvation
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- As so great a salvation?
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- Three reasons.
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- First of all, it is a salvation without cost.
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- It cost you and me absolutely nothing.
- 00:16:23.772 --> 00:16:28.143
- In hebrews 1:14, remember he talked about
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- Those who inherit salvation.
- 00:16:30.979 --> 00:16:34.817
- The final invitation of the bible
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- Is found in revelation 22:17.
- 00:16:36.618 --> 00:16:39.288
- "the spirit and the bride say come,
- 00:16:39.288 --> 00:16:41.790
- "and let the one who hears say come,
- 00:16:41.790 --> 00:16:44.193
- "and let the one who is thirsty come.
- 00:16:44.193 --> 00:16:46.462
- "let him who wants to take water of life
- 00:16:46.462 --> 00:16:49.798
- "do so without cost."
- 00:16:49.798 --> 00:16:53.802
- It's a great salvation because it's without cost.
- 00:16:53.802 --> 00:16:56.472
- Second, it's without condition.
- 00:16:56.472 --> 00:16:59.174
- There are no conditions.
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- There are no loopholes.
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- There are no exceptions.
- 00:17:03.045 --> 00:17:05.047
- God grants us salvation forever.
- 00:17:05.047 --> 00:17:08.317
- Romans 11:29 says, "for the gifts and the calling of god
- 00:17:08.317 --> 00:17:12.221
- "are irrevocable."
- 00:17:12.221 --> 00:17:14.289
- Here's the promise we have from jesus himself
- 00:17:14.289 --> 00:17:16.825
- Who said in john 10:28, "i give eternal life to them,
- 00:17:16.825 --> 00:17:20.829
- "and they shall never perish.
- 00:17:20.829 --> 00:17:22.431
- "no man shall snatch out of my hand,
- 00:17:22.431 --> 00:17:25.400
- "those whom the father has given me."
- 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.770
- It is a salvation without cost, without condition,
- 00:17:29.805 --> 00:17:33.609
- And most importantly, it is a salvation without constraint.
- 00:17:33.609 --> 00:17:37.980
- There are no limits to what god will forgive us of.
- 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:42.584
- I love colossians 2:13.
- 00:17:42.584 --> 00:17:44.586
- Paul says, "when you were dead in your transgressions
- 00:17:44.586 --> 00:17:47.856
- "and uncircumcision of your flesh,
- 00:17:47.856 --> 00:17:50.392
- "he made you alive together with christ
- 00:17:50.392 --> 00:17:53.929
- "having forgiven us of," how many of our transgressions?
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- All our transgressions.
- 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:01.603
- That little word all is big enough
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- To include everything you've ever done,
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- Every sin you've ever committed,
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- Not just the little ones like picking up sticks
- 00:18:11.446 --> 00:18:14.149
- On the sabbath, but those gigantic humongous sins
- 00:18:14.149 --> 00:18:18.387
- That you pray to god nobody ever finds out about.
- 00:18:18.387 --> 00:18:22.691
- God forgives you of all of your sins.
- 00:18:22.691 --> 00:18:26.929
- That is why it is so great a salvation.
- 00:18:26.929 --> 00:18:31.700
- In his book, "in the grip of grace,"
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- Max lucado says you know what bothers me most
- 00:18:35.637 --> 00:18:39.608
- About convicted murderer jeffrey dahmer,
- 00:18:39.608 --> 00:18:43.912
- The man responsible for murdering, dismembering,
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- Cannibalizing dozens of men.
- 00:18:47.182 --> 00:18:50.619
- The thing that bugs me most about jeffrey dahmer
- 00:18:50.619 --> 00:18:54.256
- Is not his heinous acts but his salvation.
- 00:18:54.256 --> 00:18:59.127
- While in prison, before dahmer was murdered by an inmate,
- 00:19:00.262 --> 00:19:03.532
- Jeffrey dahmer trusted in christ as his savior
- 00:19:03.532 --> 00:19:07.436
- And immediately had his sins forgiven.
- 00:19:07.436 --> 00:19:10.939
- And right now, jeffrey dahmer is in the same heaven
- 00:19:10.939 --> 00:19:14.943
- You and i will occupy one day.
- 00:19:14.943 --> 00:19:18.213
- That is a tribute not to the greatness of jeffrey dahmer,
- 00:19:18.213 --> 00:19:22.818
- But to the goodness of a god
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- Who offers you so much grace
- 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:28.323
- That it covers even the most vile of all of your sins.
- 00:19:28.323 --> 00:19:34.563
- Let me ask you the all important question.
- 00:19:35.464 --> 00:19:39.501
- What's your game plan for escaping god's judgment?
- 00:19:40.535 --> 00:19:45.574
- You better have one because it's coming.
- 00:19:46.441 --> 00:19:49.311
- If you reject god's offer of jesus christ,
- 00:19:50.212 --> 00:19:54.883
- How are you going to escape god's judgment of your life?
- 00:19:54.883 --> 00:19:59.821
- How do you plan to be right with god
- 00:20:00.622 --> 00:20:05.694
- If you neglect a great salvation?
- 00:20:06.361 --> 00:20:08.897
- A salvation that is without cost, without condition,
- 00:20:08.897 --> 00:20:12.567
- Without constraint.
- 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:15.637
- How will you escape
- 00:20:15.637 --> 00:20:18.707
- If you neglect such a great salvation?
- 00:20:18.707 --> 00:20:23.612
- The answer is you won't.
- 00:20:24.112 --> 00:20:28.717
- You won't.
- 00:20:29.017 --> 00:20:31.119
- It's time for some of you to tie up
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- To the message of salvation.
- 00:20:34.156 --> 00:20:36.958
- You've heard it, you may understand it,
- 00:20:36.958 --> 00:20:40.395
- You may be even drawn to it,
- 00:20:40.395 --> 00:20:42.130
- But you haven't made that final act
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- Of trusting in christ as your savior.
- 00:20:44.833 --> 00:20:47.636
- If you understand the gospel message i preach today,
- 00:20:48.670 --> 00:20:51.740
- If you understand that christ came to die for your sins
- 00:20:51.740 --> 00:20:57.079
- And only by trusting in him can we have eternal life,
- 00:20:58.180 --> 00:21:00.982
- You didn't come to that understanding by yourself.
- 00:21:00.982 --> 00:21:04.152
- If there's something right now drawing you
- 00:21:04.152 --> 00:21:06.588
- To become a christian, that's not of you,
- 00:21:06.588 --> 00:21:09.391
- That is god at work in your life.
- 00:21:09.391 --> 00:21:12.194
- But if you refuse by rejecting
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- Or just simply neglecting this message today,
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- There is no guarantee that you'll ever come this close
- 00:21:18.767 --> 00:21:22.270
- To a point of decision again.
- 00:21:22.270 --> 00:21:24.573
- Today if you would like to receive the forgiveness
- 00:21:25.574 --> 00:21:28.677
- That we all need, i want to invite you wherever you are,
- 00:21:28.677 --> 00:21:32.647
- To pray this prayer in your heart as i pray it out loud,
- 00:21:32.647 --> 00:21:36.618
- Knowing that god is listening to you.
- 00:21:36.618 --> 00:21:39.688
- Would you pray this with me?
- 00:21:39.688 --> 00:21:40.789
- Dear god, thank you for loving me.
- 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:44.860
- I know i have failed you in so many ways,
- 00:21:45.727 --> 00:21:49.865
- And i'm truly sorry for the sins in my life,
- 00:21:49.865 --> 00:21:53.735
- But i believe what i've heard today,
- 00:21:54.536 --> 00:21:57.105
- That you love me so much you sent your son jesus
- 00:21:57.105 --> 00:22:00.876
- To die on that cross for me
- 00:22:00.876 --> 00:22:02.644
- To take the punishment i deserve to take for my sins.
- 00:22:02.644 --> 00:22:07.616
- And right now i'm trusting in what jesus did for me,
- 00:22:07.616 --> 00:22:10.786
- Not in my good works,
- 00:22:10.786 --> 00:22:12.654
- But in what jesus did for me to save me from my sins.
- 00:22:12.654 --> 00:22:17.926
- Thank you for forgiving me
- 00:22:18.493 --> 00:22:19.995
- And help me to live the rest of my life for you
- 00:22:20.929 --> 00:22:24.199
- In jesus's name.
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:22:26.835 --> 00:22:31.506
- God's offer of salvation is without cost, without condition
- 00:22:32.674 --> 00:22:37.345
- And without constraint, but it won't be available forever.
- 00:22:37.345 --> 00:22:41.983
- Today i hope you'll accept that offer
- 00:22:41.983 --> 00:22:44.252
- And trust in jesus christ as your savior.
- 00:22:44.252 --> 00:22:48.123
- Now before our time is up today,
- 00:22:48.123 --> 00:22:49.925
- I want to share a note from a viewer in arizona
- 00:22:49.925 --> 00:22:52.360
- Who wrote, "this past easter
- 00:22:52.360 --> 00:22:54.629
- "i was feeling under the weather,
- 00:22:54.629 --> 00:22:56.765
- "so i stayed home and i watched 'pathway to victory' on tv.
- 00:22:56.765 --> 00:23:00.569
- "dr. jeffress spoke about the real reason for easter,
- 00:23:00.569 --> 00:23:04.039
- "the death and resurrection of christ,
- 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:06.374
- "and what god accomplished for us
- 00:23:06.374 --> 00:23:08.543
- "through these crucial events.
- 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:10.645
- "i haven't heard a powerful message like that,
- 00:23:10.645 --> 00:23:13.648
- "a truth-filled message in so long.
- 00:23:13.648 --> 00:23:16.585
- "it restored my faith in the truth."
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- Testimonies like these remind us
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- Why "pathway to victory" exists,
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- Pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
- 00:23:36.538 --> 00:23:39.641
- Now please stay right there.
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- I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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- That recurring temptation you can't shake,
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- The doubts that creep in during your darkest moments,
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- The tension in your closest relationships,
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- These aren't random struggles.
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- These are part of a strategic attack on your faith,
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- Your family, and your future.
- 00:23:58.326 --> 00:24:00.061
- Satan has a personalized plan to discourage, deceive,
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- And derail you, but you don't have to live in defeat.
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:25:16.738 --> 00:25:17.872
- How will you respond
- 00:25:17.872 --> 00:25:19.174
- To god's incredible offer of forgiveness?
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- You can reject it, you can neglect it, or you can receive it
- 00:25:22.043 --> 00:25:26.681
- And be saved for all of eternity.
- 00:25:26.681 --> 00:25:29.417
- I hope today you've made the decision to stop drifting
- 00:25:29.417 --> 00:25:32.687
- And anchor your life to jesus christ.
- 00:25:32.687 --> 00:25:36.191
- Next time we're going to explore the emotional agony
- 00:25:36.191 --> 00:25:39.160
- Jesus experienced on the cross
- 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:41.496
- And discover what his suffering means
- 00:25:41.496 --> 00:25:43.965
- For those of us who sometimes feel abandoned by god.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- On pathway to victory.
- 00:25:51.172 --> 00:25:53.508
- Both the death and resurrection of christ
- 00:25:54.376 --> 00:25:57.545
- Are essential foundations of the christian message.
- 00:25:57.545 --> 00:26:00.382
- For the few minutes we have together this morning,
- 00:26:00.382 --> 00:26:02.550
- I want to talk about why both the death
- 00:26:02.550 --> 00:26:05.053
- And resurrection of christ are essential foundations
- 00:26:05.053 --> 00:26:08.289
- Of our faith.
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- There has to be a cross, but there also needs to be a crown.
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