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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Salvation (Part 1)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Salvation (Part 1) | February 18, 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'm robert jeffress.
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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In the garden of eden,
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God created the first man and the first woman
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And gave them dominion
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Over the perfect world he had created,
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But it didn't take long for things to fall apart.
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Adam and eve disobeyed god
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And introduced sin into the world.
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Thankfully, the story doesn't end there.
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Today, i'll describe the gift
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That god has offered to every one of us
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If we'll only accept it.
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My message is titled:
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What every christian should know about salvation,
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe
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Or struggle to put your faith into words?
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In a world where truth shifts with every cultural trend,
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Christians need solid ground to stand on.
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In "what every christian should know,"
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Dr. robert jeffress equips you
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To understand 10 core doctrines of christianity,
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Build your faith and your family's
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On biblical truth that never changes.
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Request "what every christian should know"
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When you give a generous gift
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♪ music ♪
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If you're in the mood to start an argument,
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Especially among a group of men above a certain age,
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Just throw this out there:
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The best way to get to blank is by going blank.
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It doesn't matter what you fill in the blank with.
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You can say, "the best way to get to your own house is,"
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And give the route and somebody will argue with you.
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They'll say, "oh, there's a better way."
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Better way.
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Just go down two blind alleys,
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Take a left at the courthouse,
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Drive across the golf green
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And you can shave seven and a half seconds
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Off your time there."
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People always say they have a better way.
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But just try saying,
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"the only way to get to blank is by going blank,"
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And that's when the fireworks erupt.
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You see, we recoil at the idea of exclusivity
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That there is one way to anything,
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And yet, exclusivity is at the heart
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Of the core biblical truth we're going to look at today.
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In our series, what every christian should know,
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We're examining the 10 core beliefs
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Of historic christianity,
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And today we're going to look at what every christian
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Should know about salvation.
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Now we talk about salvation, we sing about salvation,
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What are we exactly talking about?
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That word salvation is soterian in greek.
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We talk about soteriology in seminary.
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That's the study of salvation,
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But that greek word soterian
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Means to rescue from danger, to save from destruction.
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As we just heard in that beautiful song,
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We have a savior who has saved us.
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Well, what has he saved us from?
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The bible uses that word salvation
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In three distinct ways.
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There are three distinct ways
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In which jesus saves us.
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There is a past aspect of salvation,
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We call that justification.
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I have been saved from the penalty of sin.
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That's what the word justification refers to.
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The moment you trust in christ for salvation,
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You are justified,
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You are declared not guilty by god,
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And that happens at the moment of your salvation.
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Romans 5:1:
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"therefore, having been justified through faith,
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We have peace with god."
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Ephesians 2:8 says: "for by grace you have been saved,"
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Not you will be saved,
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You have been saved through faith,
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Grace that we receive through faith.
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So that's justification.
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But there's also a present aspect of salvation.
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I am being saved from the power of sin.
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That's called sanctification.
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Right now if you're a christian,
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The holy spirit is available to save you
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From the power of sin.
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That's what romans 6, 7, and 8 is all about.
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Sanctification says, i am being saved from the power of sin.
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That's what paul meant in 1 corinthians 1:18 when he said,
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"for the word of the cross is foolishness
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To those who are perishing,
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But to those of us who are being saved,
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It is the power of god."
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I have been saved. i am being saved.
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The third aspect of salvation is future, glorification.
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I will one day be saved from the presence of sin.
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When we get rid of these old bodies,
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And aren't you looking forward to that?
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These bodies that are filled with the sin virus,
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One day we're going to be rid of that
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And god's going to give us a brand new body,
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And at that point i will be saved forever
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From the presence of sin.
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Hebrews 9:28 refers to that future salvation,
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So christ also having been offered once to bear the sins
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Of many will appear a second time for salvation.
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Why does he have to come back to save us?
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I thought he's already saved us.
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There's a future salvation.
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It's not with reference to sin,
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But to those who eagerly await him.
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His second coming is going to be for our glorification,
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To give us those brand new bodies free from sin.
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As you look through the bible,
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There are three biblical words that describe
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What it is salvation does for us.
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There are more words,
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But there are three that i've selected today.
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One is the word atonement.
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Christ is the atonement for our sins.
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That word atonement means covering.
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He covers our sin.
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Remember, we saw last time in genesis 3
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That after adam and eve sin the first sin,
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They immediately felt guilt
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For their sin and instinctively they wanted
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To cover over their guilt,
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So they made that covering of fig leaves
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That it had been sewn together.
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But that didn't do the trick, they still felt guilty.
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They ran and they hid from god,
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And when god found them, he killed an animal.
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The first death recorded in human history
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Was the death of an innocent animal,
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And god took the skin of that animal and he made a garment
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To cover adam and eve.
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Genesis 3:21,
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"the lord god made garments of skin
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For adam and his wife and he clothed them."
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God was teaching all of humanity a lesson.
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Someone has to die for our sin.
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Someone innocent must die for those of us who are guilty,
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And only god can provide the covering for our sin.
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Of course, that would be a foreshadowing of what jesus,
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The lamb of god would do,
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Who would take away the sins of the world.
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That's the covering the atonement.
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You see it hundreds if not thousands of years later
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In the old testament law.
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Remember, in leviticus 16,
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We find the highest holiday on the jewish calendar
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Was yom kippur.
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It still is today.
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It's called the day of what?
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Atonement.
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The day of atonement.
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It is that day when the high priest
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First after offering a sacrifice
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For his own sins went into the holy of holies,
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Where only the high priest could go to the presence of god,
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And there was the ark of the covenant
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That contained the 10 commandments
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That people were breaking day and night, 360 days a year,
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That was the jewish calendar.
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But on that ark of the covenant, there was a lid,
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A golden lid, the mercy seat,
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And the high priest would go in to the holy of holies
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And he would sprinkle the blood of an innocent animal
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On that lid and the picture was god was looking down
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And no longer did he see the law that had been broken
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And deserved judgment,
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But he saw the blood of an innocent animal
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Covering those broken laws.
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Again, a foreshadowing of what jesus,
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Our perfect high priest has done for us.
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Hebrews 9 says,
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"when he died, he took his blood
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And he offered it in the true tabernacle,
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The true temple of god in heaven,
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And it was a once for all sacrifice."
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It was his own blood that he made redemption, salvation,
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Atonement possible forever.
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That's what atonement means, a covering for our sin.
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There's a second word and that's the word reconciliation.
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That's another aspect of salvation.
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Reconciliation, the greek word is katallasso.
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It refers to two parties,
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Two people who've had a break in their relationship.
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The relationship has become hostile,
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But one of those parties takes the first step to reconcile,
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To change the status of the relationship
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From hostility back to harmony,
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And that's a picture of what god did for us.
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He made the first move in sending christ to die for us.
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2 corinthians 5:20 says,
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"therefore, we are ambassadors for christ,
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As though god,
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Were making an appeal through us.
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We beg you on behalf of christ,
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Be reconciled to god."
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Even though you and i are the ones
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Who have moved away from god,
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He has made this first step in bringing us back together.
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How did he do it?
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Verse 21 says,
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"for god made him jesus who knew no sin
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To become sin for us
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That we might become the righteousness of god in him."
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The third word that describes what christ does for us
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Is redemption.
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Galatians 3:13 says,
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"christ redeemed us from the curse of the law,
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Having become a curse for us,
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For it is written cursed as everyone who hangs on a tree."
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That word redeem in greek is the word exagorazo.
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It's actually two words.
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Ex means out of,
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Agorazo refers to the agoram, the marketplace,
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The forum where things were bought and sold
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In the greek culture.
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And among those things that were bought and sold
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Were slaves.
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If you needed a slave, you would go to the agora,
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The marketplace,
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And you would pay the necessary price to redeem that slave.
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What purpose did you redeem the slave?
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Not to set him free
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But to serve you instead of serving the other master.
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Well, that is a picture of what christ did for us
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With his own blood.
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He redeemed us.
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Our late member, charles reary,
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Noted that there are three aspects to redemption.
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We are redeemed from something, out of something.
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In our case, we are redeemed out of satan's *******.
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When we are born into this world,
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Whether you realize it or not,
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Every baby that's born is born a slave of satan
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And an enemy of god.
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That's all because of the edenic curse.
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We are born slaves to god,
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But god in his mercy has sent christ to redeem us.
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We are redeemed from something, the marketplace of sin.
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We are redeemed by something, there has to be a price paid.
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The price was the blood of jesus christ.
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And we are redeemed for something.
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We are redeemed to serve a new master.
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Jesus didn't pay that price on the cross to set you free
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To serve yourself.
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He set you free to serve him.
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That's what romans 6, 7, and are all about.
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Paul said it this way in 1 corinthians 6:19-20,
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"do you not know that your body is the temple
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Of the holy spirit,
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Whom you have from god and that you are not your own?
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For you have been bought with a price,
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Therefore glorify god in your body."
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We were redeemed by the blood of christ from the marketplace
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Of slavery to serve god,
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And the price that was paid was the blood of christ.
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For he himself who knew no sin became sin for us,
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That we might become the righteousness of god in him.
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And that's why there are not many ways to be saved.
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The only price that could be paid to redeem us
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Was the blood of christ,
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And that leads us to the exclusivity of salvation.
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God has not provided many ways to himself.
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All roads do not lead to heaven.
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There is one way to be saved and that shouldn't surprise us.
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You see that pattern of exclusivity
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Beginning in the opening pages of the old testament.
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For example, when god gave his 10 commandments in exodus 20,
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The very first commandment was,
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"i am the lord your god,
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You shall have no other gods before me."
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Well, that sounds intolerant, doesn't it?
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For god to say you must worship me and no other god,
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But god is very intolerant when it comes to other gods
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And to other religions.
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What we celebrate today and call diversity or pluralism,
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God has another word for it.
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Idolatry.
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To acknowledge any other god as a legitimate god is idolatry
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And god hates idolatry.
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You see that in exodus 20.
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You see it in the instructions in genesis 6
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That god gave to noah.
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God told him a flood was coming
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And he was to build a boat to rescue himself
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And any who would believe.
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Did god say,
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Now you just build a boat that you imagine,
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Any kind of boat will do?
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You can build a a cabin cruiser,
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You can build a motorboat, or you can have a rowboat.
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I don't care whatever boat you want.
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No.
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God gave noah exacting specifications
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For the size of that arc,
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The wood that it was to be made from,
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How it was to be fashioned together.
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Only the arc god designed would save the people
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Who believed.
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Or look in the instructions that god gave moses
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In exodus 25:30 about the construction
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Of the tabernacle, the first place of worship.
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Did he say, "oh, i don't care about buildings,
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I don't care what kind of building you build,
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Build anything you want?"
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No, there were exacting specifications
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For what that tabernacle was to look like.
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Even down to the intricate instructions
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For the priestly garments,
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You had to do it god's way
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For god to recognize your worship.
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Or in leviticus 16 to 27,
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You have all of the detailed instructions
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About the sacrifices
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To temporarily remove the problem of sin.
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Did god say,
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"i don't care about what sacrifice you offer
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Just as long as it comes from your heart,
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Just as long as you are sincere,
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Offer anything you want to to me?"
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No.
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God had specific requirements for the sacrifice
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That was to be offered him.
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There are not many paths to god. there is one path to god.
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Somebody who learned that lesson the hard way was cain.
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Remember the story of cain in genesis 4:3-5?
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Cain was one of the many children of adam and eve.
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Adam and eve didn't just have two children, cain and abel.
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The bible says they had many children
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Which answers that age old question,
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Where did cain get his wife from?
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You've heard that before.
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They had many children,
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But remember cain and abel, genesis 4:3 says,
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"cain brought an offering to the lord
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Of the fruit of the ground,
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Abel on his part brought of the firstlings of his flock
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And of their fat portions,
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And the lord had regard
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For he accepted abel's sacrifice,
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But for cain and his offering, he had no regard."
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So cain became angry and his countenance fell
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And he ended up killing his brother over the jealousy.
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Now, why is it god accepted the offering of abel
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And rejected the offering of cain?
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What's very clear?
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It's because abel's offering was the offering
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That god required.
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Cain decided to try to approach god in his own way
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With his own offering.
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Well, where is that?
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That's not in my bible in genesis 4.
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Well, it is in the white space between verses 2 and 3.
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That's where you find it.
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But no, there's a better place to find that.
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It's true, genesis 4 doesn't tell us that,
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But hebrews 11 tells us that verse 4:
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"by faith, abel offered to god a better sacrifice
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Than cain through which he obtained the testimony
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That he was a righteous."
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The fact is abel's offering was better
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Because it met the specifications that god gave them.
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And another verse that tells us for sure
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That happened is jude 11:
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"woe to them for they have gone the way of cain."
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That is a phrase that you find in scripture
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Used to describe any attempt to approach god on your terms
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Rather than by god's terms.
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The way of cain refers to any religious system that attempts
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To earn god's favor through good works
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Rather than god's grace.
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The way of cain is any religious system
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That focuses on man's goodness rather than man's sinfulness.
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The way of cain is a religious system
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That says there are many paths to god
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Instead of one way to god.
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The way of cain leads to eternal death
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Rather than the eternal life.
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That's why proverbs 14:12 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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Exclusivity is taught throughout the bible
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Beginning in the old testament.
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People, as i said, recoil against that.
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They have four major objections to this idea of exclusivity.
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Some people say,
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Well, exclusivity is, that's just intolerant
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To say jesus is the only way to be saved.
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And in our culture today,
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The worst thing you can be accused of is intolerance.
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To be saying that there's only one way to anything.
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We teach people to be tolerant.
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We try to drill in our children the idea of tolerance.
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But what we need to understand is tolerance,
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That word has undergone a radical devolution,
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Not evolution, devolution, in the last 70 years.
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It used to mean, intolerance was a virtuous characteristic.
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It used to mean to respect the right of other people
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To be wrong about something,
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To treat people that you disagree with
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With dignity and respect, and that's a good thing.
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My grandmother years ago wrote a well-published poem
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Entitled "a plea for tolerance."
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She begged people to be tolerant,
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But by tolerant she was talking about respectful,
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Respecting the right of others to be wrong.
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Today, that term has devolved and demeaning,
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All ideas are equally valid.
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To be tolerant means to say,
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I don't have a market on the truth,
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Your way to god is just as good as my way to god.
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And such a claim is idiotic when you think about it.
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There are whole areas of our world
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That are very intolerant.
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The world of mathematics is intolerant.
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7 times 7 doesn't equal 51 or 103.
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There's one answer, 49.
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When you ask, what temperature does water freeze at?
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It's not 103 degrees.
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It's not 33 degrees.
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There's one answer, 32 degrees.
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When we come to the idea of faith,
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The faith that is required to get into heaven
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Is very intolerant.
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There are not many ways to god, there is one way to god.
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A second objection people raise often about the exclusivity
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Of christ is this,
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Well, how could so many other people be so wrong?
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I mean, after all, pew research says that only 31%
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Of the world's 7 billion population can be categorized
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As christians,
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And that's only because they live
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In what is called a christian land.
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The actual number of real christians is much more than that.
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And if jesus is the only way to heaven,
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Then you're saying billions and billions
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Of people living today
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And billions that have lived in the past
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Are all wrong about faith.
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How could so many people be so wrong?
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How could hindus, and buddhists, and muslim,
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How could they all be so wrong?
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Well, isn't that what jesus predicted?
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Jesus said, most people will miss heaven.
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Most people won't find that narrow way
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That leads to salvation.
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In matthew 7, jesus said,
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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 many are those who enter into it,
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But the gate is small and the way is narrow
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That leads to life,
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And there are few, few who find it."
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A third objection people say, some people say,
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Well, you don't have to claim to be exclusive
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Because all religions teach basically the same thing.
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All the world religions teach basically the same thing.
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The only thing people who say that are people
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Who are ignorant about world religions.
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This is the most important topic
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Because eternity hangs in the balance.
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Your response to the doctrine of salvation
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Paul said,
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"through one man, adam,
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Sin came into the world and all sin,
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By one man's sin, everybody was condemned."
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But then paul says in romans 5:17,
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Salvation (Part 1)

February 18, 2026 | 27:29

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