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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 1)

January 27, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 1) | January 27, 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, we make hundreds of decisions.
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  • Most are trivial, what to eat for breakfast,
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  • What route to take to work.
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  • Some are more significant,
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  • Where to live, what career to pursue,
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  • But no choice we make is more consequential
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  • Than the one we're going to examine today,
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  • The choice of where we're going to spend eternity.
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  • And it's this critical choice that jesus addresses
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  • In the final section of the sermon on the mount.
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  • My message is titled,
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  • Straight talk about your eternal destiny,
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Each day, millions of lost people
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  • Presidential speech writer and columnist,
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  • Peggy noonan, attended the funeral service,
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  • The state funeral service
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  • Of president ronald reagan.
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  • And while she was there, she looked around
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  • And made observations about different members
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  • Of reagan's cabinet and team.
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  • And when she came to jeane kirkpatrick,
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  • Who had served as reagan's ambassador to the united nations,
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  • Peggy wrote these words:
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  • "somewhere along the way,
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  • I've always felt she made a decision.
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  • She chose to follow the academic
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  • And analytical part of her nature
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  • And not perhaps other parts of her inner self,
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  • Parts, perhaps, less definitive and constructive
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  • And perhaps more merry."
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  • And then peggy concluded,
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  • "life is options up to a point,
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  • And then it's decisions made."
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  • That's a profound statement.
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  • Life is options up to a point,
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  • And then life becomes decisions you have made.
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  • You know, every day we make decisions, don't we?
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  • Most are inconsequential.
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  • What we're going to have for lunch, what we're going to wear.
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  • Some are more important,
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  • What university to attend, what vocation to choose.
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  • And some are life-altering decisions,
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  • Whether to get married, whom to marry,
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  • Whether to have children.
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  • But no choice we make is any more consequential
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  • Than the one we're going to look at today,
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  • The choice of where you're going to spend eternity.
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  • And it's that final choice
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  • That jesus addresses in the sermon on the mount
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  • That we're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to matthew 7
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  • As we look at some straight talk from the savior
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  • About your eternal destiny,
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  • Matthew 7.
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  • Today concludes our study on the sermon on the mount.
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  • And remember, this sermon is not a checklist
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  • Of good things you can do to get into heaven.
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  • This sermon is more of a constitution
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  • For life in the kingdom of god,
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  • Not something that happens after you die.
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  • It's how to live now.
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  • And remember, jesus is telling us,
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  • If we will model the attitudes,
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  • Actions, and affections of jesus,
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  • We can have genuine joy in this life
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  • And unending happiness in the next life.
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  • It's no accident that jesus saved the most important topic
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  • For the last one as he talks about our eternal destiny.
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  • And making the choice
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  • Of where we're going to spend eternity,
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  • Jesus draws four sharp contrasts.
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  • He's going to talk about two kinds of roads,
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  • Two kinds of prophets, two kinds of followers,
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  • And two very different kind of houses.
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  • Let's look at what he says, first of all,
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  • About two different kinds of roads in life.
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  • Matthew 7, beginning with verse 13,
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  • "enter through the narrow gate,
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  • For the gate is wide and the way is broad
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  • That leads to destruction,
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  • And there are many who enter through it.
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  • But the gate is small
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  • And the way is narrow that leads to salvation,
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  • And there are few who find it."
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  • A few years ago, i preached a sermon series
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  • And wrote a book entitled "not all roads lead to heaven."
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  • And my motivation for writing that book
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  • And preaching that sermon series
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  • Was a poll i had come across that revealed
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  • That 60% of evangelical christians
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  • Believe there is more than one way to heaven
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  • Other than through faith in christ alone.
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  • Isn't that astounding?
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  • 60% of people, christians,
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  • Believe jesus was wrong in john 14:6 when he said,
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  • "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • No man comes to the father, but by me."
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  • But in seeking to be inclusive of everyone,
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  • They have rejected the gospel.
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  • They say things like, "well, different religions,
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  • They're kind of like different paths,
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  • Up same mountain that lead to the same truth."
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  • Or, "different religions, they're like different tributaries
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  • That flow into the same water of eternal life,
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  • The same river of life that lead us to heaven."
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  • No, jesus said. there are not multiple ways to heaven.
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  • There's one way.
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  • And by the way, that's not isolated to one verse, john 14:6.
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  • Throughout scripture, the testimony is
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  • There is one way to god.
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  • Jesus said it again in john 3:16 when he said,
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  • "for god so loved the world that he gave his only son
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  • That whoever what believes in him shall not perish
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  • But shall have everlasting life."
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  • In john 11:25, jesus said,
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  • "i am the resurrection and the life.
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  • He who believes in me, though we were dead,
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  • Yet shall he live again."
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  • In act 16:31, remember,
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  • The philippian jailer asked paul and silas,
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  • "what must i do to be saved?"
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  • And what did paul say to him?
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  • Follow your own convictions, and you'll make it to heaven.
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  • No, he said, believe on the lord jesus christ.
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  • Act 16:31, "believe on the lord jesus christ,
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  • And you will be saved."
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  • Romans 10:9, if, if you believe in your heart
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  • That jesus christ is the lord
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  • And believe that god has raised him from the dead,
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  • You shall be saved.
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  • Think of this.
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  • If a person can go to heaven
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  • Regardless of which path he follows,
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  • Which religion he subscribes to,
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  • Then the death of jesus christ was wholly unnecessary.
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  • Jesus need not have endured that agony
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  • Or wasted his time, that friday afternoon on a cross,
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  • If all roads lead to heaven.
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  • But remember what he prayed in the garden of gethsemane
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  • The night before he was crucified?
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  • He said, "father, if there be any other way, if possible,
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  • Remove this cup, this experience from me."
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  • But heaven was silent.
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  • God said nothing because there was no other way.
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  • There's one way. there's one pathway that leads to heaven.
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  • Look again at verses 13 and 14,
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  • "enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide
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  • And the way is broad that leads to destruction,
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  • And there are many who enter through it.
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  • But the gate is small
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  • And the way is narrow that leads to life,
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  • And there are few," please underline that,
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  • "few who find it."
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  • Some theologians i read this week try to make a distinction
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  • Between the gate and the road.
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  • There's a narrow gate and a narrow road,
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  • A wide gate and a wide road.
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  • They're the same thing.
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  • In jesus' day, roads, paths had a gate
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  • At the beginning of them.
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  • You went through the gate
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  • In order to travel on a particular road.
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  • And jesus said there are really only two roads in life.
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  • There is the broad road that many people are on
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  • That leads directly to hell,
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  • And there is a narrow road
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  • That few are on that lead to heaven.
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  • You know one of the most common arguments
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  • Against this belief in the exclusivity
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  • Of jesus christ for salvation
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  • Is the fact of other religions.
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  • I've had people say to me in the television interview,
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  • "pastor, are you so ignorant that you don't realize
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  • That christians have always been a minority
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  • Of the world's population?"
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  • Even today of 7 billion people in the world,
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  • There are a billion muslims,
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  • There are 650 buddhists,
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  • 350 million hindus, and on and on it goes.
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  • Only 2 billion, less than 1/3 of the world's population,
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  • Can even be classified as christian.
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  • And that's only because they live
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  • In christian designated countries.
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  • The total of true christians is much less.
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  • Pastor, are you so intolerant
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  • And ignorant that you would say
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  • All of these other people are wrong?
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  • Are you going to send them to hell
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  • Because they believe the wrong thing?"
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  • Well, first of all, i'm not sending anybody to hell.
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  • Jesus is. jesus is the one who made this comment, not me.
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  • And the fact that the majority of people
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  • Are going to burn in hell forever and ever and ever
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  • Is unthinkable to us,
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  • But it's exactly what jesus taught here.
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  • He said the majority of people are not on the way to heaven.
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  • They are on the broad way that leads to eternal death.
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  • There are only a few who ever find the way to heaven.
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  • The fact that only a few people profess to be christians
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  • Is absolutely affirmation of what jesus said.
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  • Somebody once asked the great bible expositor,
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  • G. campbell morgan, how do you explain the thousands
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  • And thousands and thousands of religions in the world?
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  • And morgan said,
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  • "there aren't thousands of religions in the world.
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  • There are only two religions in the world."
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  • Every other religion,
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  • The thousands of religions in the world
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  • Are all spelled the same way, d-o.
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  • Do this, do this, do this.
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  • Did you know, this is going to get me in trouble for saying,
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  • But i don't care, it's true.
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  • There's not a dime's worth of difference
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  • Between judaism and islam
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  • And hinduism and buddhism,
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  • Not a dime's worth of difference in all of those religions.
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  • Do you know that?
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  • Because they are all based on do. they have a list.
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  • Do this, do this, do this, do this,
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  • And you may make it into heaven.
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  • Now, different religions have different lists,
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  • But it's all the same.
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  • Do this, do this, do this. that's the broad way.
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  • That's the way most people are on, salvation by works,
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  • And it's an appealing way to try to go to heaven
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  • Because you get to play a part in it.
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  • It's based on your merit.
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  • Remember what proverbs says?
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  • "there is a way that seems right to a man,
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  • But the end thereof is destruction."
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  • There is all the religions in the world spelled d-o,
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  • Different gates that enter to it,
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  • But it's the same road that leads to hell.
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  • But christianity and christianity alone is spelled not d-o,
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  • It's spelled d-o-n-e, done.
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  • Salvation is not what i do for god.
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  • It is what god has done for me
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  • In sending his son jesus to cover my sins.
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  • That's the difference between christianity
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  • And every other religion.
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  • There are two roads, jesus said.
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  • You have to choose which road you're going to be on
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  • For your eternal destiny.
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  • But that's not all. there's a second contrast.
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  • Two kinds of prophets, two kinds of prophets.
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  • Look at verse 15.
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  • "beware of the false prophets
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  • Who have come to you in sheep's clothing
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  • But inwardly are ravenous wolves."
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  • How do people get onto the wrong road
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  • That leads to eternal destruction?
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  • It's usually through somebody they listen to
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  • Or read or watch on television,
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  • Some kind of prophet who doesn't appear as a wolf.
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  • He appears as a harmless sheep,
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  • But inside, he's a ravenous wolf.
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  • It's a prophet who appears to be intellectual,
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  • Appears to be loving and inclusive and kind and appealing.
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  • It's those kind of people
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  • That lure people on the wrong road.
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  • So the question is,
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  • How do i know if a prophet is a true prophet
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  • Or a false prophet?
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  • How do i know if i should listen to him or reject him?
  • 00:13:21.490 --> 00:13:24.693
  • Look at what jesus says in verse 16.
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  • "you shall know them," that is, these prophets,
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  • "by their fruits."
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  • Grapes are not gathered from thorn and bushes
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  • Nor figs from thistles, are they?
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  • So every good tree bears good fruit,
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  • But the bad tree bears bad fruit.
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  • A good tree cannot produce bad fruit,
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  • Nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
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  • Every tree that does not bear good fruit
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  • Is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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  • You don't have to be a horticulturist
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  • To know you don't get grapes from a thorn bush.
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  • You don't get figs from a thistle.
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  • No, grapes come from grape vines.
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  • Figs come from fig trees.
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  • The problem is, sometimes you can't tell it apart
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  • From a distance between the good tree and the bad tree.
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  • For example, in israel, there was a certain kind of bush,
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  • The buckthorn bush that produced berries
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  • That looked, from a distance, like grapes.
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  • But when you got up close,
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  • You would never want to put them on a pb&j sandwich.
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  • They just don't taste good.
  • 00:14:30.426 --> 00:14:31.994
  • They look like grapes, but they really aren't.
  • 00:14:31.994 --> 00:14:34.897
  • Same way with the thistle.
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  • There was a certain kind of thistle in israel
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  • That produced a flower that appeared to be like a fig,
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  • But i guarantee you,
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  • You'd never want it in a fig newton cookie.
  • 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:45.841
  • It just doesn't taste great. they are false figs.
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  • They are false, fake grapes.
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  • Jesus said the same thing about the kind of fruit
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  • A bad prophet bears.
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  • Every good tree bears good fruit.
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  • The bad tree bears bad fruit. what does that mean?
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  • Every prophet, everybody who claims
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  • To speak for god bears a certain kind of fruit,
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  • Good or bad fruit.
  • 00:15:12.067 --> 00:15:14.236
  • When you are trying to evaluate a teacher's fruit,
  • 00:15:14.236 --> 00:15:17.206
  • Whether he's a good prophet or a false prophet,
  • 00:15:17.206 --> 00:15:20.909
  • Look at two specific fruits in his life.
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  • First of all, his teaching, his teaching.
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  • Does his teaching align
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  • With the truth of god's word?
  • 00:15:30.753 --> 00:15:33.389
  • For example, you hear this all the time.
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  • I heard it this morning on television,
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  • The idea that god wants every christian to be wealthy.
  • 00:15:37.693 --> 00:15:42.998
  • God wants every christian to be free
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  • From any kind of physical illness whatsoever.
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  • That is false teaching.
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  • That is not the teaching of god's word.
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  • God's will for everyone is not that they'd be wealthy
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  • Or that they'd be free from illness.
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  • If that were the case,
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  • And the apostle paul certainly missed it,
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  • He had a thorn in the flesh
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  • That he prayed three times god would remove,
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  • And god said no.
  • 00:16:06.588 --> 00:16:08.424
  • But there are teachers out there who teach that.
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  • Compare everything you're hearing
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  • To whether or not it's what the scripture teaches.
  • 00:16:13.362 --> 00:16:16.465
  • Remember the story in acts 17 of the bereans, the bereans?
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  • Paul came to the city of berea to preach,
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  • And he flashed his apostolic credentials.
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  • And the people in berea were excited to hear him,
  • 00:16:26.108 --> 00:16:28.877
  • But they said, "paul, that's really great
  • 00:16:28.877 --> 00:16:30.512
  • That you're apostle,
  • 00:16:30.512 --> 00:16:31.814
  • But we're still going to search the scriptures
  • 00:16:31.814 --> 00:16:34.016
  • To see if these things are true."
  • 00:16:34.016 --> 00:16:35.818
  • In fact, that's what's acts 17:11 says.
  • 00:16:35.818 --> 00:16:38.387
  • Now, these people were more noble-minded
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  • Than those in thessalonica,
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  • For they received the word with great eagerness,
  • 00:16:42.958 --> 00:16:46.228
  • But they were examining the scriptures daily
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  • To see whether these things were so.
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  • I don't care how many degrees a teacher has,
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  • How many books he has sold, how popular he is.
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  • If you listen to anyone, including yours truly,
  • 00:16:59.141 --> 00:17:03.445
  • You check out what we say
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  • According to the word of god itself.
  • 00:17:05.514 --> 00:17:08.117
  • That's the test
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  • Of whether a prophet is speaking truth or heresy.
  • 00:17:09.485 --> 00:17:13.188
  • A second fruit, we need to look at it, any teacher,
  • 00:17:13.188 --> 00:17:15.757
  • Is his lifestyle.
  • 00:17:15.757 --> 00:17:17.626
  • Look at the teacher's life.
  • 00:17:17.626 --> 00:17:19.161
  • Is his life characterized by devotion to god
  • 00:17:19.161 --> 00:17:23.398
  • Or by rebellion against god?
  • 00:17:23.398 --> 00:17:26.502
  • Peter makes that distinction in 2 peter 2,
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  • Beginning with verse one.
  • 00:17:29.104 --> 00:17:30.806
  • "but false prophets also arose among the people
  • 00:17:30.806 --> 00:17:35.077
  • Just as there shall also be false teachers among you
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  • Who will secretly introduce destructive heresies,
  • 00:17:38.580 --> 00:17:42.384
  • Even denying the master who brought them,
  • 00:17:42.384 --> 00:17:45.053
  • Bringing swift destruction upon themselves."
  • 00:17:45.053 --> 00:17:48.157
  • Many follow their sensuality,
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  • And because of them, the way of truth will be maligned.
  • 00:17:50.225 --> 00:17:53.162
  • And in their greed,
  • 00:17:53.162 --> 00:17:55.030
  • They will exploit you with false words.
  • 00:17:55.030 --> 00:17:58.967
  • Look at the prophet's life.
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  • Is his life littered with divorces
  • 00:18:00.802 --> 00:18:04.873
  • And immorality and greed and corruption
  • 00:18:04.873 --> 00:18:09.011
  • And outburst of anger?
  • 00:18:09.011 --> 00:18:11.246
  • Is that the fruit of his life,
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  • Or is his life marked by a lifelong devotion to god?
  • 00:18:13.815 --> 00:18:18.487
  • Now, i'm not claiming
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  • And saying that every prophet of god has to be perfect.
  • 00:18:20.222 --> 00:18:24.026
  • Obviously, that's not true.
  • 00:18:24.026 --> 00:18:26.728
  • It doesn't mean he's never made a mistake,
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  • But it does mean if he does make a mistake,
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  • If he does fall into sin,
  • 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:34.770
  • He admits that sin, and he repents,
  • 00:18:34.770 --> 00:18:37.306
  • Which means turns away from that sin.
  • 00:18:37.306 --> 00:18:40.609
  • The fall becomes the exception,
  • 00:18:40.609 --> 00:18:43.378
  • Not the rule of his life.
  • 00:18:43.378 --> 00:18:46.615
  • Look at the fruit of a prophet,
  • 00:18:46.615 --> 00:18:48.483
  • His teaching, and his lifestyle.
  • 00:18:48.483 --> 00:18:51.587
  • Thirdly, jesus makes a contrast
  • 00:18:51.587 --> 00:18:53.589
  • Between two kinds of followers.
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  • False teachers produce false followers.
  • 00:18:55.924 --> 00:18:59.127
  • True teachers produce true followers of christ.
  • 00:18:59.127 --> 00:19:02.898
  • Look what he says
  • 00:19:02.898 --> 00:19:04.466
  • About two different kinds of so-called followers of christ.
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  • Verse 21, "not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord'
  • 00:19:07.903 --> 00:19:12.274
  • Will enter the kingdom of heaven,
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  • But he who does the will of my father
  • 00:19:14.376 --> 00:19:16.445
  • Who is in heaven will enter,
  • 00:19:16.445 --> 00:19:18.513
  • For many will say to me on that day,
  • 00:19:18.513 --> 00:19:20.816
  • 'lord, lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
  • 00:19:20.816 --> 00:19:24.620
  • And in your name, cast out demons,
  • 00:19:24.620 --> 00:19:26.488
  • And in your name, performed many miracles?'
  • 00:19:26.488 --> 00:19:29.391
  • And then i will declare to them, 'i never knew you.
  • 00:19:29.391 --> 00:19:33.595
  • Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.'"
  • 00:19:33.595 --> 00:19:38.400
  • Folks, to me, these are the three most terrifying words
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  • In all of the bible, the three most terrifying verses,
  • 00:19:43.238 --> 00:19:47.776
  • Because these verses tell us
  • 00:19:48.377 --> 00:19:51.079
  • That there are some people seated in the pew right now,
  • 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:54.750
  • Some people tuned into this message
  • 00:19:54.750 --> 00:19:57.386
  • Who have diluted themselves
  • 00:19:57.386 --> 00:19:58.954
  • Into thinking they're christians.
  • 00:19:58.954 --> 00:20:01.323
  • They really believe with all of their hearts
  • 00:20:01.323 --> 00:20:03.425
  • That when they die, they are going to be welcomed into heaven.
  • 00:20:03.425 --> 00:20:06.728
  • They believe they are true followers of christ.
  • 00:20:06.728 --> 00:20:09.431
  • And yet when they stand
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  • Before the great white throne judgment
  • 00:20:11.266 --> 00:20:14.536
  • In revelation 20
  • 00:20:14.536 --> 00:20:16.772
  • And god looks for their name
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  • And their name is not written in the book of life,
  • 00:20:19.474 --> 00:20:22.477
  • They will hear the lord sentence them to an eternity in hell
  • 00:20:22.477 --> 00:20:27.282
  • Where they will burn
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  • And be tormented day and night, forever and ever.
  • 00:20:28.550 --> 00:20:31.586
  • Isn't that a frightening thought, that there are people
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  • Who are not pretending to be christians in their own mind,
  • 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:37.793
  • They think they are christians?
  • 00:20:37.793 --> 00:20:40.062
  • And yet when they die,
  • 00:20:40.062 --> 00:20:41.596
  • They're going to receive the surprise of their life
  • 00:20:41.596 --> 00:20:44.966
  • When they are dispatched not to heaven, but to hell.
  • 00:20:44.966 --> 00:20:49.338
  • "not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord,'
  • 00:20:49.338 --> 00:20:52.541
  • Will enter into heaven."
  • 00:20:52.541 --> 00:20:55.644
  • Now, i can't overemphasize this enough.
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  • These people jesus is talking about, this group,
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  • These are not drug dealers.
  • 00:21:02.818 --> 00:21:05.153
  • These are not child molesters.
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  • These are not satanic worshipers.
  • 00:21:07.189 --> 00:21:09.991
  • These are people who profess, "jesus is lord."
  • 00:21:09.991 --> 00:21:13.295
  • He said they will say to me, "lord, lord, kyrios, kyrios."
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  • Testifying to the deity of christ,
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  • They believe in the deity of christ.
  • 00:21:20.035 --> 00:21:23.839
  • And they will say,
  • 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.207
  • "not only have we believed the right things, lord.
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  • Look at all the things we've done in your name,
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  • Not satan's name, in your name.
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  • We've cast out demons. we have performed many miracles.
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  • We've done all this in your name."
  • 00:21:36.184 --> 00:21:38.553
  • By the way, people say, well, how is that possible
  • 00:21:38.553 --> 00:21:40.822
  • That a false follower of christ could do miracles?
  • 00:21:40.822 --> 00:21:43.392
  • Well, first of all,
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  • This is what they will claim they've done to the lord.
  • 00:21:44.926 --> 00:21:47.095
  • This is their claim.
  • 00:21:47.095 --> 00:21:48.897
  • But even if they have done those things, so what?
  • 00:21:48.897 --> 00:21:52.300
  • There are many instances
  • 00:21:52.300 --> 00:21:53.735
  • In scripture of unbelievers performing miracles,
  • 00:21:53.735 --> 00:21:56.138
  • The magicians in pharaoh's court in the book of exodus.
  • 00:21:56.138 --> 00:21:59.608
  • In revelation 13, during the tribulation,
  • 00:21:59.608 --> 00:22:01.510
  • The false prophet will do signs and miracles.
  • 00:22:01.510 --> 00:22:04.813
  • In revelation 16, remember the three evil spirits
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  • That will perform miracles
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  • And lure the kings of the earth to come
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  • For that final battle known as armageddon.
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  • But don't miss the point what jesus is saying here.
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  • It is possible to be a professor
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  • Of faith in jesus christ
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  • Without being a possessor of faith in jesus christ.
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  • And to everyone who gives to support this ministry.
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  • Together, we are piercing the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • When jesus spoke, he wasted no time
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  • In getting straight to the heart of what matters most.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Did you realize that his famous sermon on the mount
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  • Can be read in only 18 minutes?
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  • And now in my book called "18 minutes with jesus,"
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  • With his followers in the famous sermon on the mount.
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  • In his sermon on the mount,
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  • Jesus delivers straight talk
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  • About the issues that matter to you most,
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  • This sermon is more of a constitution
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  • For life in the kingdom of god,
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  • That we might reach as many people as possible
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  • With the truth of god's word.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Jesus' teaching is clear.
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  • There are only two roads in life,
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  • The broad road that leads to destruction
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  • And the narrow road that leads to eternal life.
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  • And the difference between these two paths
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  • Couldn't be more significant.
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  • But how do we stay on the right road?
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  • Next time, we're going to discover
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  • How to identify false teachers who want to lead us astray,
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  • And we'll explore what it really means
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  • To be a true follower of jesus christ.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series, 18 minutes with jesus.
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  • You get to choose
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  • What foundation you're going to build your life on.
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  • Is it going to be a obedience to jesus christ and his word,
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  • Or is it going to be built on your pleasure,
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  • Your riches, your popularity?
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  • It's one or the other. it can't be both.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part two of the message,
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  • Straight talk about your eternal destiny,
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [narrator] experience a journey
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