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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2) | January 28, 2026

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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 am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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We cannot possibly predict when or where,
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But the day is coming for every one of us.
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Someday our hearts will stop beating
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And we'll be on the threshold of a new beginning.
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So when that day comes, where will you spend eternity?
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Today we're going to see what jesus said
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About your life beyond the grave.
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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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♪ holy, holy, holy ♪
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♪ early in the morning ♪
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♪ all thy works shall praise thy name ♪
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♪ amen ♪
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A second fruit we need to look at any teacher is his
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Lifestyle.
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Look at the teacher's life.
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Is his life characterized by devotion to god or by
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Rebellion against god?
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Peter makes that distinction in 2 peter 2 beginning with
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Verse 1, “but false prophets also arose among the people
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Just as there shall also be false teachers among you who
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Will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even
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Denying the master who brought them, bringing swift
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Destruction upon themselves.
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Many will follow their sensuality and because of
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Them the way of truth will be maligned, and in their
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Greed they will exploit you with false words.”
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Look at the prophet's life.
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Is his life littered with divorces, and immorality,
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And greed, and corruption, and outbursts of anger?
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Is that the fruit of his life?
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Or is his life marked by a lifelong devotion to god?
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Now, i am not claiming
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And saying that every prophet of god has to be perfect.
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Obviously that's not true. (chuckles)
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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, he admits that sin and he repents,
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Which means turns away from that sin.
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The fall becomes the exception,
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Not the rule of his life.
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Thirdly,
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Jesus makes a contrast between two kinds of followers.
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False teachers produce false followers.
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True teachers produce true followers of christ.
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Look at what he says about two different kinds
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Of so-called followers of christ.
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Verse 21, "not everyone who says to me,
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'lord, lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven,
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But he who does the will of my father,
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Who is in heaven, will enter.
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For many will say to me on that day,
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'lord, lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
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And in your name, cast out demons,
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And in your name perform many miracles?'
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And then i will declare to them,
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'i never knew you.
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Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.'"
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Folks, to me,
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These are the three most terrifying words
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In all of the bible, the three most terrifying verses,
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Because these verses tell us
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That there are some people seated in the pew right now,
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Some people tuned into this message,
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Who have deluded themselves
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Into thinking they're christians.
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They really believe with all of their hearts
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That when they die they are going to be welcomed into heaven.
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They believe they are true followers of christ,
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And yet, when they stand before
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The great white throne judgment in revelation, chapter 20,
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And god looks for their name,
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And their name is not written in the book of life,
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They will hear the lord sentence them to an eternity in hell
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Where they will burn and be tormented
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Day and night, forever and ever.
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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,
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They think they are christians.
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And yet, when they die,
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They're going to receive the surprise of their life
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When they are dispatched not to heaven, but to hell.
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"not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord'
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Will enter into heaven."
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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, these are not child molesters,
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These are not satanic worshipers,
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These are people who profess, "jesus is lord."
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He said, "they will say to me,
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'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,
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And they will say,
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"not only have we believe the right things, the 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."
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By the way, people say,
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"well, how is that possible that a false follower of christ
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Could do miracles?"
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Well, first of all,
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This is what they will claim they've done to the lord.
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This is their claim.
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But even if they have done those things, so what?
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There are many instances in scripture
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Of unbelievers performing miracles,
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The magicians in pharaoh's court in the book of exodus.
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In revelation 13, during the tribulation,
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The false prophet will do signs and miracles.
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In revelation 16, remember the three evil spirits
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That will perform miracles and lure the kings of the earth
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To come 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 of faith in jesus christ
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Without being a possessor of faith in jesus christ.
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Well, so pastor who will enter into the kingdom of god?
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Well, what did jesus say?
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Verse 21, "only he who does the will of my father
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Who is in heaven will enter."
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Well then the $64,000 question is
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What is the will of the father
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If only those who do the will of the father
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Enter into heaven?
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Well, first of all,
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It's the will of the father that we believe,
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Not just intellectually, but we trust in,
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Put our hope in, jesus and jesus alone,
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For the forgiveness of our sins.
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In fact, in john 6:40, jesus said,
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"for this is the will of my father,
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That everyone who beholds the son and believes in him
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May have eternal life,
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And i myself will raise him up on the last day."
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That's the foundational decision you make
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To trust in christ and christ alone.
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That is the will of the father.
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But that's just the beginning.
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That's not the end of it. that's the beginning of it.
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To do the will of the father means to do the things
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That jesus just got through talking about
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In the sermon on the mount.
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It's the will of the father that you forgive those
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Who wrong you instead of retaliate against them.
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It's the will of the father that you exercise the attitudes
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And practice the attitudes and the beatitudes.
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It's the will of the father that you persist in prayer.
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It's the will of the father that you act graciously
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Instead of judgmentally toward those who have fallen.
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All of these things jesus has talked about
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Are the will of the father.
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Some may question when a pastor,
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"are you teaching a works oriented salvation?"
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Are you saying we are saved by works? not at all.
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But what i am saying is,
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And jesus is saying more importantly,
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There is an inseparable connection in the bible
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Between belief in jesus christ
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And obedience to jesus christ.
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You can't have one without the other.
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D.a. carson, the new testament commentator said,
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"it is true that no man enters the kingdom
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Because of his obedience,
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But it is equally true that no man enters the kingdom
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Who is not obedient.
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It is true that men are saved by god's grace
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Through faith in christ,
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But it's equally true that god's grace in a man's life
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Inevitably results in obedience."
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Dietrich bonhoeffer said it more succinctly, he said,
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"only he who believes obeys,
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And only he who obeys truly believes."
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You can't separate faith in christ
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With obedience to christ, you just can't do it.
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Let me illustrate it to you this way.
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Let's say on a saturday in october,
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A crisp fall saturday, i invite you to our home,
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And i say, "i want you to come into the backyard
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And i want show you our beautiful apple tree."
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And so you come in the backyard and you look at the tree,
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But instead of having fully ripened apples on it,
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Like it should, the tree is absolutely bare,
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Not an apple anywhere.
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And not only that, the branches are dried up,
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There are little twigs everywhere with no apples on them,
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And you say, "pastor, i hate to tell you,
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But i think your apple tree is dead."
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And i'm insulted, "dead?"
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How could you make such a harsh judgment
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About my apple tree?
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After all, it's an apple tree."
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You say, "well, there's no apples on it."
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I say, "oh that, hold on just a moment."
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I get in my car, run up to tom thumb, buy some apples,
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Come back, tie the apples to the dead branches.
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I say, "there it is, there are the apples.
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Now my tree is alive."
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No.
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Apples do not produce life in an apple tree,
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But they prove that there's life in an apple tree.
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There are a lot of people who are spiritually dead,
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But they think if they tie on their dead spiritual life
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Some good works, you know, come to church,
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Get bad baptized, give a few bucks to god's work,
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That somehow that makes them spiritually alive.
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No.
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Good works don't produce eternal life,
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But they prove that there is eternal life.
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James said it this way in james 2:17, he said,
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"even so faith, if it has no works,
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Is dead being by itself."
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Faith without works is a dead, non-existent faith.
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Jesus has contrasted two different kinds of roads in life.
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He's talked about two kinds of prophets.
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He's talked about two kinds of followers.
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He closes by talking about two kinds of houses.
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Look at the dramatic conclusion
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To jesus' sermon on the mount.
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Beginning with verse 24, "therefore,
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Everyone who hears these words of mine..."
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What words?
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Well, he's talking about the whole sermon on the mount.
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He's coming to the conclusion.
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"everyone who hears these words of mine,"
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And please underline this, "acts on them."
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He's going to repeat that again.
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It's not enough to hear, it's not enough to believe,
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It's to hear, believe and obey.
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"to hear and not obey is not to hear at all,"
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The bible says.
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Everyone who hears these words of mine and acts upon them
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May be compared to a wise man
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Who built his house on the rock, and the rain fell,
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And the floods came, and the winds blew,
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And slammed against that house, and yet it did not fall,
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For it had been founded on the rock.
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"everyone who hears these words of mine
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And does not act on them will be like a foolish man
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Who built his house on the sand, and the rain fell,
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And the floods came, and the winds beat
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And slammed against that house, and it fell,
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And great was its fall."
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Notice the similarities between these two men.
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They both built houses.
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Apparently both houses were in the same neighborhood
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Because they had the same weather pattern.
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They probably looked alike.
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They were alike in one aspect.
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They looked alike. they were built by two men.
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They suffered the same weather storm,
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But the difference was when the storm came,
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One stood and one collapsed.
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Why? here's the contrast.
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One house, unbeknownst to anybody looking at it,
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Had been built on a foundation of rock.
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The other, and again, nobody could see it,
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Had only a foundation of sand.
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What's interesting is both houses experienced a storm,
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The same storm.
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One stood, one fell because of the foundation.
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Jesus is saying, every one of us
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Gets about 70 or 80 years here on earth
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To construct our life.
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Our life is constructed out of choices we make.
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Life is, up to a point, options. then it's decisions made.
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We choose every day how to spend our time, our money,
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Our energy, where our affections are directed.
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We're constructing a life, and eventually we're all,
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Whether we're building on the rock
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Of obedience to jesus christ,
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Or the sand of pleasure, riches, and popularity,
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Regardless of our foundation,
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We're all going to experience a storm.
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Christians and non-christians alike experience storms.
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Have you noticed that?
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Being a christian doesn't exempt you from a storm.
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Psalm 34:19 says, "the good man has troubles too.
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He does not escape them, but the lord is with him
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In each and every one."
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Building your life on obedience to christ
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Does not exempt you from problems.
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Don't let anybody sell you that.
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I'm thinking about two families in our church right now,
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And the last 10 days,
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One family has suffered the devastating loss of their son.
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Another family, the wife is in the hospital
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After what you could only describe as a freak accident.
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Both families have suffered.
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Both families have questions.
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They feel pressure,
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But their lives haven't collapsed under the stress,
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Because their faith is built on jesus christ.
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You get to choose what foundation
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You're going to build your life on.
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Is it going to be a obedience to jesus christ in 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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You know, the fact is we're all going to experience storms,
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But the greatest storm christians and non-christians alike
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Will face one day is death,
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And their subsequent judgment by god.
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Hebrews 9:22 says,
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"it's appointed unto every one of us to die,
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And then our judgment."
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Hebrews 10:31 says, "it is a terrifying thing
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To fall into the hands of the living god."
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How are you going to survive
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Your inevitable death and judgment by god?
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There's only one way to survive that judgment.
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It's to make sure you've entered through the narrow gate,
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That gate that leads to eternal life
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And that you're not on that broad way
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-that leads to eternal death.
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You know, this whole week
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As i've been preparing this message,
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The words of that song kept coming back to me.
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"my hope is built on nothing less
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Than jesus' blood and righteousness.
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I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
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-but holy lean on jesus' name."
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Jesus christ is the solid foundation
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Upon which this daily program is built.
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As we wrap up this teaching series,
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Called "18 minutes with jesus,"
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I want to share a note i received from ray who wrote,
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"pastor, i have been physically sick with anxiety
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While enduring the humiliating mess i made of my life.
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I believe god was forcing me to humility.
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Eventually in a massive crying mess on my knees,
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I gave my life to christ and have put my full faith in him.
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May god bless you and all the staff it takes
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To get the word out to people like me."
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Well, thank you so much, ray,
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And thanks to all of our pathway partners,
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And anyone who gives generously to this ministry.
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God is using your gifts to help others construct their lives
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On the solid foundation of jesus christ.
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All other ground is sinking sand.
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Stay right there, i'll be back
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With more "pathway to victory" 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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In the famous sermon on the mount.
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In his sermon on the mount, jesus delivers straight talk
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About the issues that matter to you most,
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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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Laura, thank you for that question.
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It's one we're receiving more and more frequently
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Here at "pathway to victory."
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You know, the apostle john said,
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"i have no greater joy than this,
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Than to know that my children walk in the truth."
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Conversely, the greatest pain we parents have
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Is when we see our children not walking in the truth,
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And especially when they're overcome with gender confusion
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Or homosexual relationships.
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What do we say to a child who's living a lifestyle
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That is contrary to what scripture says?
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As parents, we have the obligation to speak the truth,
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But to speak it in love.
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We should never hesitate
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In affirming what the bible says about sin.
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But at the same time, i think it is very important
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That we do everything we can
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To keep that bridge of communication open with our children.
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I don't believe what some parents believe
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That we need to turn our back on our children
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Until they repent.
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I don't find that anywhere in scripture.
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Now, i'm not saying if you have gay children that if they,
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Quote, "get married, you need to attend the ceremony."
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I would never do that.
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That's condoning something god has condemned,
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But it doesn't mean you cease relationships
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With your children.
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You continue to pray for them
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To make them know your door is always open
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To talk with them and help them.
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You know, one of the greatest illustrations of that
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Is in the story of the prodigal son.
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You remember the son said, basically to his father,
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"i wish you were dead, but since you're not dead yet,
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I want my portion of the estate."
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And he got his money and went to the far country.
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And the bible says when he hit a low point, that son said,
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"you know, my father's servants have more than i have.
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I shall get up and go back to my father."
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And the bible says,
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When the father looked out on the horizon
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And he saw his son walking toward him,
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The father ran to embrace his son.
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He hugged him and he kissed him,
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And the son began that speech,
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"father, i've been wrong," and he cut him off.
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He didn't need to hear any more speeches.
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His son was home, and that's all he needed to know.
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You know, i've often wondered, how is it
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That that father just happened to be on the front porch,
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Looking out when his son appeared on the horizon?
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I don't think that was an accident.
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I think the father sat on that front porch every day,
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Starting early in the morning, waiting 'til late at night,
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Looking for some sign of his son's return,
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Hoping this may be the day,
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"perhaps this is the day my son will return."
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And i think that ought to be our attitude
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Toward our children who are living apart from god.
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We keep looking, we keep hoping,
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We keep praying for their return,
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And when they do return, we rejoice in it.
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So my best advice to you, laura, is don't give up hope.
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Don't give up praying,
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And always keep the communication lines open with your child
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Because very possibly, that day will come when they return.
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♪ music ♪
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Do you know with absolute certainty
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You're on the right road,
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The only road that leads to eternal life in heaven?
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If you're not sure,
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It's no accident you're watching this telecast.
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God wants you to be sure.
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If you wait until you die, you've waited too long.
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Well, the sermon on the mount is often regarded
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As the greatest message ever preached.
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In it, jesus commanded his followers
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To love their enemies and turn the other cheek.
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But can we really live out those radical commands
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In our everyday life?
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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On "pathway to victory."
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Jesus is talking about how we are to act as christians.
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And yes, it's difficult.
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If you believe this world is all that there is,
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These commands are impossible to keep.
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There's no motivation for keeping them.
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When you know what jesus knows about the future,
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You can be generous in your attitude
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Toward difficult circumstances and difficult people.
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Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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"the crux of christianity," here on "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2)

January 28, 2026 | 27:29

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