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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 10)

June 6, 2025 | S25 E2306 | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 10)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 10) | June 6, 2025
  • (gentle music)
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  • - praise the lord friend, i am so glad that you tuned in
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  • To be with us today.
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  • I have a question for you.
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  • Who is jesus christ?
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  • You know, jesus asked that question.
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  • He said, who do men say that i am?
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  • Peter said, well, some say this and some say that,
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  • But jesus said, who do you say that i am?
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  • Did you know what, eternity hangs on this question.
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  • And in this broadcast, we're gonna answer that question.
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  • Blessings.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • Friend, it is so good to have you today.
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  • We're finishing up the teaching today on jesus influencers.
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  • And jesus wants you to be an influence to the people
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  • Around you, whether they're at your work,
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  • Whether at your, you know, home, whether they're, you know,
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  • At a place where you're doing business.
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  • Jesus wants you to be an influence.
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  • - and i think, you know, what i've kinda realized is
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  • That people really aren't stepping out
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  • And being who they're supposed to be for jesus,
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  • Really shining the light like they're supposed to.
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  • And that really starts, you really receive
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  • That power when you're completely sold out to jesus.
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  • - amen. - and i think there's,
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  • You know, a lot of people who acknowledge jesus,
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  • But they don't really know him.
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  • They don't really pursue that relationship with him.
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  • And you have to be completely sold out for jesus.
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  • You have to be born again.
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  • I think a lot of people who say they're christian,
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  • Like, i don't even know if they're really born again or not.
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  • So i actually wanna start talking about
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  • What it means to be born again.
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  • - yeah. - you know,
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  • When jesus mentioned this phrase being
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  • Born again, someone who is open to jesus,
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  • They could see something was different about him.
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  • They could see, you know, his teachings were good.
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  • They could see he was healing people.
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  • But jesus saying, hey, that's not just enough.
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  • You know, you have to be born again
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  • To really enter into my kingdom.
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  • And that's really where you make an impact for jesus
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  • Is by living that born again life.
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  • So i wanna talk about nicodemus.
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  • In john three, you know, it says that there was a man
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  • Of the pharisees named nicodemus, a ruler of the jews.
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  • So he had a high position,
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  • He was influential in a certain way
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  • Not yet necessarily influential for jesus.
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  • - right. he was religious.
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  • - yeah. - did you know
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  • You can be religious without really
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  • Knowing who jesus is?
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  • - yeah. and there might be some people that
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  • Say they're christian, but they might be more,
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  • More doing it out of religion, out of tradition,
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  • Out of just that,
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  • Rather than really knowing jesus rather,
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  • Like being completely sold out to him.
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  • So this man came to jesus by night.
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  • Notice this by night.
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  • You know, he's kind of afraid
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  • To be considered a follower of jesus, a fanatic of jesus,
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  • A disciple of jesus.
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  • You know, i'm still a disciple of
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  • What other ruler of this synagogue.
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  • I'm not, you know, he comes to him by night and says, rabbi.
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  • So he doesn't call him lord, he calls him rabbi, you know,
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  • A teacher, rabbi, we know
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  • That you're a teacher come from god
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  • For no one can do these things that you do
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  • Unless god is with him.
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  • And jesus answered and said to him,
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  • Jesus cut straight to the jugular,
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  • Just straight to what this guy needs.
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  • Hey, nicodemus, you need to be born again.
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  • You need to be completely sold out.
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  • You need to be completely after me.
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  • - right. - most assuredly.
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  • And that's a powerful phrase there whenever you see that.
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  • And john uses that, john verily, verily.
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  • - truly, truly. - this is true.
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  • This is as true as it can be.
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  • Most assuredly i say to you,
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  • Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god.
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  • So he's saying, hey, hey, nicodemus,
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  • You can't even see the kingdom of god.
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  • - yeah. now, this word, see actually in the great means
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  • To understand or know or experience the kingdom of god.
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  • - so to experience it, you have to be born again.
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  • You have to be completely sold out for jesus.
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  • Otherwise, you're not gonna see it.
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  • - as we move through this, let's look at
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  • What his question, what he's asking about.
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  • - yeah. nicodemus said to him,
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  • How can a man be born when he is old?
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  • Can he enter a second time into
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  • His mother's woman and be born?
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  • So he, and, and jesus does this a lot, he'll talk.
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  • So he'll just say something, this great spiritual truth,
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  • And the person's just like on another dimension.
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  • Because they're not seeing it.
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  • They're not hearing
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  • - it happens in the church today.
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  • - yeah, exactly. and jesus just keeps going on.
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  • He's, i'm not gonna let this guy's carnality
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  • Just interrupt my message here.
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  • Most assuredly i say to you, unless one is born of water
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  • And the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of god.
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  • That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
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  • That which is born of the spirit is spirit.
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  • Do not marvel that i said to you, you must be born again.
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  • The wind blows where it wishes.
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  • You hear the sound of it,
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  • But you cannot tell where it comes from
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  • And where it goes, so is everyone who is born of the spirit.
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  • So he is saying, you don't even know me.
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  • I'm born of the spirit.
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  • You know, because he is god.
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  • - yeah. - and nicodemus just says,
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  • How can these things be?
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  • And jesus answered and said to him,
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  • Are you the teacher of israel?
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  • And yet you do not know these things.
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  • Most assuredly i say to you, we speak what we know
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  • And testify what we have seen.
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  • And you do not receive our witness.
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  • So he's saying, you aren't born again.
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  • You don't believe in me. you haven't received my witness.
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  • He said, if i've told you earthly things
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  • And you don't believe, how then will
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  • You believe if i tell you heavenly things
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  • And he's going to just go on
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  • With telling him spiritual things or heavenly things.
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  • - right. - you know, again,
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  • They're on two different dimensions
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  • Because jesus is god in the flesh.
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  • He's speaking truth, he's speaking revelation,
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  • He's speaking spirit.
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  • And nicodemus is not because he hasn't accepted
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  • The witness of jesus,
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  • The witness of the word, the witness of scripture.
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  • - but what got nicodemus attention, he said,
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  • No man can do these miracles except god is with him.
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  • - so something got his attention.
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  • So there was an openness, that's great.
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  • There was openness.
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  • You know, i'm seeing in the world today, like,
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  • Like some people's attentions are getting sparked.
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  • You know, i've seen people who've been
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  • Complete atheists, people who've been complete, woke, left,
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  • You know, just start, their attention is sparked.
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  • But there has to come a point like nicodemus,
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  • Where you're either gonna surrender your life
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  • To the lordship of jesus or you're not.
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  • It's not just to see the miracles,
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  • To see the truth, to see,
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  • But you have to surrender your life.
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  • You know, recently,
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  • The biggest podcast in the world, joe rogan, he used
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  • To be left leaning democrat,
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  • But he's kind of opened up actually.
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  • He had a gentleman recently on his podcast
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  • Who's a very outspoken christian, wesley huff,
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  • He's an apologist,
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  • He runs an organization called apologetics canada.
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  • He's from canada getting his phd in like ancient documents.
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  • But wesley huff was invited onto another person's
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  • Podcast, debating this atheist who tries
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  • To just trash the bible says, you know,
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  • It's all forgeries, these kind of things.
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  • This person, he was actually on, his name's billy carson.
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  • He was on joe rogan like six months prior
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  • Because he has a large following.
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  • But billy carson, this atheist who tries to trash
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  • The history of the bible
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  • And just says, you know, it's all twisted, it's all forged.
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  • It's, you know, we, there's like the gospel of mary,
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  • The gospel of thomas, all this garbage i've heard
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  • For years as well.
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  • But wesley huff just completely destroyed this guy.
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  • - yeah, great. - so much so
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  • That this guy actually tried to sue wesley huff
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  • Because he just ruined his reputation
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  • As this scholarly smart person.
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  • - that's awesome. - and joe rogan
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  • Had wesley huff on his program.
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  • And right from the bat, it was a three hour long discussion.
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  • Wesley huff said, you know,
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  • I grew up a missionaries kid in jordan, in pakistan.
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  • - oh wow. - when i was 12 years old.
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  • My parents, you know, they let, they said, hey,
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  • Read the koran,
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  • Read these things like figure out what's true for yourself.
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  • And he could see, you know, there are some
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  • Problems with the koran.
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  • There are some problem, you know, these things aren't true.
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  • The bible seems really true to me.
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  • When he was 12 years old, he got sick,
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  • His body attacked his nervous system.
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  • He was completely paralyzed.
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  • The doctor said, you'll probably never walk again.
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  • If you do, it'll take years to get better.
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  • You won't be able to run.
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  • You'll just have all these physical difficulties
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  • Because what's happened to your nervous system.
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  • And one night he just woke up
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  • In the early morning
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  • And just walked to his wheelchair.
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  • And then he realized, i'm walking.
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  • He was completely, instantly healed.
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  • The doctor said it is a complete miracle.
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  • - yeah. - he told joe rogan
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  • Right from the bat about the miracle power of god.
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  • - yeah. you know, aaron, this is really interesting
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  • 'cause i go to the gym, right?
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  • And there's a doctor that goes to my gym
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  • And he's actually jewish
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  • And he's actually studied the scripture, right?
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  • I don't know where he is in the realm of faith, okay.
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  • But he went to school in high school with the guy
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  • That went to rhema a bible training center.
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  • And that guy's a pastor like me, so he kind
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  • Of knows what we believe.
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  • So he would ask me questions
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  • And sometimes i say, i don't know, he studied the bible yet.
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  • He said, well, this,
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  • And we connected on some areas, but recently i was there
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  • And he's kind of been left-leaning politically.
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  • I'm very right, okay.
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  • But at the same point in time, we're friends, we communicate
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  • With one another, we go to the same
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  • Gym, you know, get along.
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  • But he was telling me
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  • How he doesn't believe in miracles today.
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  • And i said, well, you know, here's some miracles
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  • We've seen, these are miracles
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  • That have happened in our ministry.
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  • And these aren't just, you know,
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  • They're not just things we say.
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  • These are things that are medically confirmed miracles.
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  • And i told him about a woman who was sent home
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  • To die in 1990 from the big
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  • Medical place in...
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  • - minneapolis. - minneapolis,
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  • The mayo clinic.
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  • And they said she had six months, less than six months
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  • To live, inoperable cancer.
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  • Nothing that she could do. she was actually a methodist.
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  • And as a methodist person, she came over
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  • To our full gospel church because she knew what we preached
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  • And we laid hands on her and prayed for her.
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  • And then she came up here to colorado springs,
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  • This was in eastern colorado,
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  • Kit carson when we pastored there
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  • And they said, where did you go and get that cancer frozen
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  • Because it appears to be dead.
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  • And she said, i didn't go anywhere but to church.
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  • And you know, this is over 30 years later, 35 years later,
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  • As we're recording this broadcast.
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  • And this woman is healed and healthy and whole.
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  • This is a medically confirmed miracle.
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  • We had a young man in our church that had
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  • A digestive disorder.
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  • He was on 11 medications a day, on a good day.
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  • And he came to our church for like six years.
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  • And when he was 10 years old, he woke up
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  • And told his mom, i'm done with this disease.
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  • I'm done with the devil.
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  • God healed pastor lawson, when he was a little boy,
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  • I believe he's gonna heal me.
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  • And that day he was healed.
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  • And this is a, and the doctors took the test
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  • And they said he's normal, which is a complete miracle.
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  • They told him that he was gonna die young.
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  • I told him about another woman
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  • That we had just in the last two years.
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  • And on the first day of march,
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  • She was diagnosed with cancer.
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  • They told her, it's stage four, it's all through your body.
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  • There's nothing we can do.
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  • You're not gonna live over 30 days. she was gray.
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  • Her belly was blown up with cancer.
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  • She just said, you know what they said,
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  • Chemo won't help you.
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  • They said surgery won't help you.
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  • She said, i'll tell you what i'm gonna do.
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  • I'm just gonna believe the word.
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  • And she had a good reason to live.
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  • Her husband was older and he needed her help.
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  • And she's like over 80 years old.
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  • But she made a decision and believed god.
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  • She said, i'm just gonna believe god in a little bit.
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  • Did you know what? her stomach went flat,
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  • Her skin turned pink,
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  • And now she's diagnosed by the doctors cancer free.
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  • They didn't do anything.
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  • They didn't do surgery, they didn't do chemo.
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  • She believed god.
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  • Now we've had many miracles, many healings.
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  • Not everybody we've prayed for has been healed,
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  • But we've had a lot of them over the years.
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  • And, you know, and i told him,
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  • And he said, you know what, i don't believe in that,
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  • But i know you and i believe you.
  • 00:13:26.214 --> 00:13:28.617
  • And then he was telling me how he didn't believe in,
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  • You know, like the prophetic, like the word of wisdom
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  • And the word of knowledge, what we understand it as.
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  • And he said, people go
  • 00:13:36.224 --> 00:13:37.592
  • To these meetings and they have a thing in the ear.
  • 00:13:37.592 --> 00:13:39.027
  • And i said, well, let me tell you.
  • 00:13:39.027 --> 00:13:40.862
  • And your mom operates very
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  • Strong in the word of knowledge.
  • 00:13:42.731 --> 00:13:44.466
  • And i told him about a few meetings
  • 00:13:44.466 --> 00:13:46.101
  • And he said, well, you know, i don't believe in that guy,
  • 00:13:46.101 --> 00:13:48.703
  • But i know you and i believe you.
  • 00:13:48.703 --> 00:13:50.939
  • So, you know, our life is witnessing to people around us.
  • 00:13:50.939 --> 00:13:54.776
  • And there are miracles today.
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  • And jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.
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  • So, you know, praise god.
  • 00:14:00.548 --> 00:14:02.817
  • - but you have to, you can't just be open,
  • 00:14:02.817 --> 00:14:05.220
  • You know, like even the friend you're talking to
  • 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:07.155
  • Or even joe rogan, that you can't just be open.
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  • At some point, you're gonna have to...
  • 00:14:09.124 --> 00:14:10.892
  • - you have to make a decision to believe jesus.
  • 00:14:10.892 --> 00:14:12.260
  • - you have to make a decision to believe jesus,
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  • To surrender your life to him.
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  • So we're talking about being born again.
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  • - yeah. and this man may be born again.
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  • He may go to a traditional church, you know, i don't know.
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  • He may go to a, you know, a jewish, you know, like a...
  • 00:14:23.939 --> 00:14:28.677
  • - a messianic.
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  • - messianic jewish congregation,
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  • But he hasn't really told me that.
  • 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:33.782
  • - yeah. but you have to surrender your life to jesus.
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  • - amen. - and believe on him.
  • 00:14:38.253 --> 00:14:40.088
  • And that's what jesus is saying,
  • 00:14:40.088 --> 00:14:41.356
  • - it's good to see this what's happening in
  • 00:14:41.356 --> 00:14:43.191
  • In our culture.
  • 00:14:43.191 --> 00:14:44.426
  • - yeah. it's good to see the openness,
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  • The shift where people are tired of the lies,
  • 00:14:45.860 --> 00:14:48.763
  • The crazy, the destruction that lies lead to.
  • 00:14:48.763 --> 00:14:55.103
  • But you have to believe on jesus.
  • 00:14:55.837 --> 00:14:57.772
  • And that's what i'm getting to, you know, openness is great,
  • 00:14:57.772 --> 00:15:00.175
  • But you have to believe on jesus.
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  • You have to make a decision.
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  • - right. - and jesus says to him,
  • 00:15:02.444 --> 00:15:04.713
  • Verse 13, no one has ascended to heaven,
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  • But he who has come down from heaven.
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  • That is the son of man who is in heaven.
  • 00:15:08.650 --> 00:15:11.319
  • So he's just saying, i am the son of man.
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  • I am the messiah. that's a messianic term.
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  • - right? - and, that this,
  • 00:15:16.858 --> 00:15:18.460
  • That nicodemus would've understood as a ruler, as a
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  • Religious thinker, he would've known
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  • That jesus is talking about that the prophecy in daniel
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  • Of the son of man of the messiah.
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  • - right. - he said,
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  • I've come down from heaven.
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  • And he just keeps on saying what's gonna happen,
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  • With him as the messiah.
  • 00:15:35.710 --> 00:15:38.279
  • And you know, actually, if you study daniel,
  • 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.815
  • Man, daniel is such a powerful, powerful prophetic book.
  • 00:15:40.815 --> 00:15:44.419
  • - it's amazing. - he prophesized
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  • The exact year that the son of man
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  • Would be stricken, would be crucified,
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  • The exact year you can, it's called the prophecy of weeks.
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  • If you study that.
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  • - the 70 weeks of daniel.
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  • - there is no way humanly to explain
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  • That he could prophesy the exact year, you know,
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  • Literally four centuries before jesus came to earth.
  • 00:16:04.239 --> 00:16:07.942
  • He says, as the, as moses lifted up the serpent in the
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  • Wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up,
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  • That whosoever believes in him should not perish,
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  • But have eternal life.
  • 00:16:19.754 --> 00:16:21.489
  • And everyone knows john 3:16, for god so loved the world
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  • That he gave his only begotten son,
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  • That whoever believes in him should not perish
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  • But have everlasting life.
  • 00:16:30.198 --> 00:16:32.400
  • Now notice in context, he's not saying that just,
  • 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:36.004
  • God loves everyone and everyone is automatically saved.
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  • - right. - he's saying,
  • 00:16:38.807 --> 00:16:40.075
  • Jesus is saying that people need to be saved.
  • 00:16:40.075 --> 00:16:42.710
  • - right. - because everyone
  • 00:16:42.710 --> 00:16:45.280
  • Is in a state of condemnation.
  • 00:16:45.280 --> 00:16:47.148
  • If you don't believe on jesus, you are condemned.
  • 00:16:47.148 --> 00:16:50.251
  • You are not saved. you don't have jesus.
  • 00:16:50.251 --> 00:16:53.621
  • - he that believes not the son is condemned already
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  • Because he does not believe.
  • 00:16:56.958 --> 00:16:58.393
  • - and that's exactly, you know, verse 17,
  • 00:16:58.393 --> 00:17:00.095
  • For god did not send his son into the
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  • World to condemn the world.
  • 00:17:02.030 --> 00:17:03.364
  • Jesus did not have to come to condemn people
  • 00:17:03.364 --> 00:17:05.834
  • Because they were condemned already.
  • 00:17:05.834 --> 00:17:07.936
  • It says, but he came that the world
  • 00:17:07.936 --> 00:17:10.271
  • Through him might be saved.
  • 00:17:10.271 --> 00:17:12.006
  • He who believes in him is not condemned.
  • 00:17:12.006 --> 00:17:15.877
  • So if you believe on jesus, you are not condemned.
  • 00:17:15.877 --> 00:17:18.079
  • You are saved, you have that eternal life.
  • 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.582
  • But it says, but he who does not believe is condemned
  • 00:17:20.582 --> 00:17:22.984
  • Already because he has not believed in the name
  • 00:17:22.984 --> 00:17:26.287
  • Of the only begotten son of god.
  • 00:17:26.287 --> 00:17:29.057
  • So he's saying, jesus, i am the son of man.
  • 00:17:29.057 --> 00:17:32.627
  • I am the only begotten son of god.
  • 00:17:32.627 --> 00:17:34.429
  • - right? - he's saying i'm the messiah.
  • 00:17:34.429 --> 00:17:36.531
  • I am the king of kings.
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  • I'm in the lineage of david, but i am also the son of god.
  • 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.370
  • The father and i are one and the same.
  • 00:17:42.370 --> 00:17:45.373
  • - right? - and,
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  • This is that condemnation
  • 00:17:47.242 --> 00:17:48.610
  • That the light has come into the world.
  • 00:17:48.610 --> 00:17:50.111
  • And men love darkness rather than light
  • 00:17:50.111 --> 00:17:52.247
  • Because their deeds were evil.
  • 00:17:52.247 --> 00:17:53.948
  • For everyone practicing evil hates the light
  • 00:17:53.948 --> 00:17:56.050
  • And does not come to the light
  • 00:17:56.050 --> 00:17:58.119
  • Unless his deeds should be exposed.
  • 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:00.488
  • But he who does the truth comes to the light
  • 00:18:00.488 --> 00:18:03.258
  • That his deeds may be clearly seen
  • 00:18:03.258 --> 00:18:05.593
  • That they have been done in god.
  • 00:18:05.593 --> 00:18:08.596
  • So he is just black and white there to nicodemus.
  • 00:18:08.596 --> 00:18:12.300
  • - right? amen.
  • 00:18:12.300 --> 00:18:14.369
  • So, you know, the word works
  • 00:18:14.369 --> 00:18:16.638
  • And you know, jesus is the living word.
  • 00:18:16.638 --> 00:18:20.575
  • And you're either gonna reject the word
  • 00:18:20.575 --> 00:18:22.911
  • Or you're gonna receive the word.
  • 00:18:22.911 --> 00:18:24.846
  • There comes a point in time, you gotta make a choice.
  • 00:18:24.846 --> 00:18:27.415
  • And if you don't make a choice to believe on jesus,
  • 00:18:27.415 --> 00:18:30.285
  • The living word, then you're making a choice not to believe.
  • 00:18:30.285 --> 00:18:33.621
  • - i wanna talk, and i actually was kind
  • 00:18:34.489 --> 00:18:35.823
  • Of thinking about this recently,
  • 00:18:35.823 --> 00:18:38.793
  • And i want to go
  • 00:18:38.793 --> 00:18:40.295
  • To the story about the rich young ruler in matthew 19,
  • 00:18:40.295 --> 00:18:44.532
  • 'cause i think this is probably
  • 00:18:45.166 --> 00:18:46.668
  • The main reason why people don't really, they might be open
  • 00:18:46.668 --> 00:18:51.105
  • To jesus, but they don't ultimately make him lord.
  • 00:18:51.105 --> 00:18:53.675
  • And i'm praying for these people.
  • 00:18:53.675 --> 00:18:55.210
  • 'cause it's exciting to see them open to truth, open to
  • 00:18:55.210 --> 00:18:57.845
  • Christianity, open to jesus,
  • 00:18:57.845 --> 00:18:59.714
  • Open to very outspoken christians.
  • 00:18:59.714 --> 00:19:02.917
  • It's exciting to see that.
  • 00:19:02.917 --> 00:19:04.385
  • But i think probably the number one reason,
  • 00:19:04.385 --> 00:19:06.454
  • Especially here in america, why people don't
  • 00:19:06.454 --> 00:19:08.923
  • Make jesus their lord, is
  • 00:19:09.490 --> 00:19:11.059
  • Because they think they're good enough on their own.
  • 00:19:11.059 --> 00:19:13.094
  • - right? - and that's the exact
  • 00:19:13.094 --> 00:19:14.996
  • Same mindset that this rich young ruler had.
  • 00:19:14.996 --> 00:19:17.098
  • - it happens all the time.
  • 00:19:17.098 --> 00:19:18.199
  • - in matthew 19.
  • 00:19:18.199 --> 00:19:20.501
  • - 16. - we'll start in verse 16,
  • 00:19:20.501 --> 00:19:22.270
  • So it says, now behold, one came
  • 00:19:22.270 --> 00:19:25.106
  • And said to him, good teacher.
  • 00:19:25.106 --> 00:19:26.941
  • Again, he says, good teacher, good rabbi.
  • 00:19:27.809 --> 00:19:31.346
  • He's not calling him messiah, son of man, son of god.
  • 00:19:31.346 --> 00:19:35.683
  • Good, good teacher.
  • 00:19:35.683 --> 00:19:37.118
  • What good thing, again, what good thing shall i do
  • 00:19:38.152 --> 00:19:40.455
  • That i may have eternal life?
  • 00:19:40.455 --> 00:19:42.223
  • This is the mentality of most people who don't
  • 00:19:42.223 --> 00:19:45.927
  • Make jesus their lord, don't surrender their life to him.
  • 00:19:47.061 --> 00:19:50.565
  • It's because they think they're good enough on their own.
  • 00:19:50.565 --> 00:19:53.701
  • And you're not gonna need a savior if
  • 00:19:54.469 --> 00:19:56.004
  • You don't think you need saving.
  • 00:19:56.004 --> 00:19:56.971
  • But jesus said you're condemned,
  • 00:19:56.971 --> 00:19:58.973
  • That's what he told nicodemus.
  • 00:19:58.973 --> 00:20:00.675
  • And that's basically what he proves here
  • 00:20:00.675 --> 00:20:02.010
  • To this rich young ruler.
  • 00:20:02.010 --> 00:20:03.311
  • So he said to him, why do you call me good?
  • 00:20:03.311 --> 00:20:05.947
  • No one is good, but one that is god.
  • 00:20:05.947 --> 00:20:09.617
  • He's basically pointing to his own lordship,
  • 00:20:09.617 --> 00:20:13.254
  • No, only one can be good and that is god.
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  • So you don't even, i don't you, you don't even believe
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  • What you just told me,
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  • But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.
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  • And he said to him, which ones?
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  • Jesus said, you shall not murder, commit adultery,
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  • Steal, you shall not bear false witness.
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  • Honor your father, your mother.
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  • You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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  • The young man said to him,
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  • All these things i have kept from my youth.
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  • It's about me. it's about what i do.
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  • It's, hey, i'm, i'm good enough.
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  • I think i'm really good actually, that like,
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  • What good thing do i even lack?
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  • What do i still lack?
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  • Verse 21 jesus said to him, if you want
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  • To be perfect, go sell what you have and give to the poor,
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  • And you'll have treasure in heaven.
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  • And come follow me,
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  • You have to follow,
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  • You have to surrender to me.
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  • And he made the wrong decision.
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  • You know, the young man turned away.
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  • He heard that saying, he went away sorrowful
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  • For he had great possessions.
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  • - now, what jesus actually was doing here, this young
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  • Man raised in a jewish tradition,
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  • Raised hearing the teaching of the law,
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  • Saying that he was keeping it all.
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  • The very first commandment is you will have
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  • No other god before me.
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  • - and here's god before him.
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  • - there's 10 commandments, right?
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  • The judeo christian ethic,
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  • But there's another 620 that go with them in the mosaic law.
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  • So the young man said, i've kept all these things.
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  • He was a rich young ruler.
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  • Keep in god's word is good for you.
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  • And jesus said, well, wait a minute. go do this.
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  • And what jesus was saying, you're saying you've
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  • Kept not only the first 10, the 10 commandments,
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  • But the 620 that go with him.
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  • And what jesus was saying is,
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  • You haven't even fulfilled number one,
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  • Because number one says,
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  • You'll have no other gods before me.
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  • And you've put your possessions.
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  • It's not that you have your possessions.
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  • There's no problem with having possessions.
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  • The problem is when your possessions have you
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  • And you've let your possessions rule you,
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  • And he went away sorrowful,
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  • - [aaron] and you let those possessions
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  • Control the direction of your life.
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  • - right, so jesus said, you know,
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  • You have haven't even fulfilled the first commandment.
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  • You'll have no other gods before me.
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  • So, so it's not only what the law says,
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  • It's the implications.
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  • And you haven't even begun.
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  • And nobody could keep the law, the law wasn't given
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  • So a man could keep it.
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  • You know, the bible says this timothy,
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  • That the law was not made for a righteous man.
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  • The law was made for murders of fathers, murders of mothers,
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  • Men stealers, kidnappers, sexual, you know, immoral people.
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  • So the law was given to show you that you were in sin.
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  • Galatians three said, the law was our school master
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  • To bring us to christ so that when we come to christ,
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  • We know that we're no longer under the law.
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  • We're not gonna go back right to school.
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  • We're not gonna go back to kindergarten
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  • After we graduate from high school.
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  • Because the law showed us that we needed jesus.
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  • So when we come to jesus,
  • 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.243
  • That was the purpose of the law, not to purify us,
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  • To show us that we needed a savior.
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  • - and jesus actually shows,
  • 00:23:28.516 --> 00:23:29.817
  • Like in the sermon on the mountain, matthew five.
  • 00:23:29.817 --> 00:23:31.452
  • - same thing. - same thing.
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  • Like the law does not perfect you just
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  • Because you know you don't kill someone.
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  • That doesn't mean that.
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  • - so you may be... - doesn't change your heart.
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  • - you may be a good person,
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  • But it's not being a good person that gets you to heaven.
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  • It's believing on jesus, right?
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  • It's not being right.
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  • - well.
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  • And sometimes it's harder to lead people to salvation
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  • Who think they are good enough
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  • Because they don't realize that they need a savior.
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  • You know, and that's why, you know, it was hard
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  • For nicodemus to receive maybe i,
  • 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:05.186
  • Maybe later on he received, he got it.
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  • I don't know. maybe this rich young rule
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  • Later on figure it out.
  • 00:24:09.423 --> 00:24:10.925
  • I don't know. but these are two instances in scripture
  • 00:24:10.925 --> 00:24:12.793
  • Where people were open to jesus,
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  • But they didn't make him more.
  • 00:24:14.729 --> 00:24:16.430
  • - they hadn't made that decision.
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  • So if you have, sometimes it takes people a while.
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  • You know, my grandmother
  • 00:24:20.835 --> 00:24:22.303
  • And my great-uncle were raised in the same church.
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  • My grandmother received christ as a child in that church,
  • 00:24:25.339 --> 00:24:28.776
  • A traditional church when she was about eight.
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  • My great uncle didn't receive christ
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  • Until he was 70 years old.
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  • And my pastor actually from a church like ours,
  • 00:24:34.916 --> 00:24:37.985
  • Led him to christ.
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  • And so he finally saw,
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  • Even though he was raised in the church,
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  • He thought he was good enough.
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  • =and maybe that's you, but listen, friends,
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  • It's not about me.
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  • It's not about you, it's not about someone.
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  • It's about jesus. and if you have received jesus
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  • As your lord and savior, then you're saved.
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  • But if you haven't received jesus,
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  • You need to believe on jesus.
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  • Just pray with me right now.
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  • Just say, heavenly father, i believe
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  • That jesus christ is your son.
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  • I believe that he died for my sins.
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  • And right now i believe that you raised him from the dead
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  • And made him lord.
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  • And right now, i surrender my life to the lordship
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  • And dominion of jesus.
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  • Jesus come into my life.
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  • Forgive me for my sins
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  • And i will live for you as you give me the strength.
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