Jack Graham - Saved, Certain, and Secure

January 12, 2025 | S25:E2

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Saved, Certain, and Secure | January 12, 2025

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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As we begin a brand new year, there's no better time to focus
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On what truly matters - your relationship with god through
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Jesus! and this is our opportunity for renewal, for
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Reset, for fresh commitments and growing deeper and deeper
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In our faith.
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That's why i want to help you cut through the noise of life
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And stand firmly on the word of god, the foundation of truth.
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The bible isn't just any book. it is the story of redemption,
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A bright hope for today and strength for tomorrow. the
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Truth is, its the key to understanding everything,
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Including your destiny.
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In my new book, “the jesus book - reading and understanding the
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Bible for yourself,” i unpack practical applications and
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Ideas for reading the bible every day and understanding the
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Will of god for your life.
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Start the new year strong, rooted in scripture and ready
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For all god has for you.
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[jack graham] so let's go together and make this year a
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Year of spiritual transformation that god would
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Change our hearts,
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Change our lives till the whole world hears.
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It's essential that you live with confidence and certainty
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In your christian life. the blessed assurance of knowing
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That your sins are forgiven, that you're on your way to
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Heaven, that you have eternal life and that you can never
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Lose it. that we are saved and secure. and because of what
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Christ has done for us, we live with this utter confidence,
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This deep assurance, that we know that we know that we know
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That we know that jesus is lord, and because christ is
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Lord of our lives, that we are with him now and forever. so
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“saved, certain & secure.” can you be sure?
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Now, someone might think, “well, it's presumptuous, and
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Maybe even prideful to be so confident.” well, our
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Confidence is not in ourselves; our confidence is not in what
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We have done, but in what christ has done for us.
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How can we be sure? that's what this message is about.
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So 1 john 5:13: puts it this way:
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13) these things are written that you may... to those of you
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Who have eternal life, that you may have confidence... that you
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May know that you have eternal life and that you may continue
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To believe in the name of the son of god.
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Then down in verse 19 of 1 john, chapter 5... 1 john 5,
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Verse 19, it says:
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19) we know that we are of god... (the whole world is in
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The hands of satan, but) we know that we are the children
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Of god....
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“these things are written” to those of you who believe on the
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Name of the son of god, “that you may know that you have
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Eternal life.”
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So how do we know? here's how we know; here's what we know.
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Take your bible and just hold it up right now. just hold it
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Up high over your head. just as a sign that you're under the
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Authority of the word of god. this is god's inerrant,
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Infallible word. it's the only perfect thing on this earth...
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Is the perfect word of god. written by imperfect men but
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Inspired by the perfect holy spirit which gives us this
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Perfect word of god. so "these things are written that you may
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Know that you have eternal life."
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Our confidence, our assurance is not in what we feel; our
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Confidence is in the one whom we believe, the one that we
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Trust. here's what we know; we know the word of god and the
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Word of god tells us who jesus is and what he's done in our
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Life. so i'm going to give you five things that... that we
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Know and ways, therefore, that we can be sure. you can be as
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Certain for heaven as if you were already there.
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Number one, god wants us to know that jesus is our lord and
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Savior. to know it! paul expressed this in 2 timothy
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Chapter 1, verse 12. he said, “i know whom i believe and am
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Persuaded that he is able to keep what i've committed unto
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Him against that day.” against what day? the day that christ
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Comes again. he said, “i know whom i have believed.” he said,
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“i know jesus!” he's not someone i know about; he is
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Real to me!
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And my testimony to you today, and the testimony of thousands
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Like me is to say that jesus is lord and that because christ is
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Savior and lord, he is master and friend; that jesus is alive
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In me. he's not someone i just know about; he's someone i know
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And love!
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Jesus said, "i stand at the door and knock. (revelation
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3:20) if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, i will come
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In." has there been a decisive moment in your life when you
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Have invited... welcomed christ into your life? do you know
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That jesus is living in you? do you know him as your lord and
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Personal savior of your life? our confidence is in this: that
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Jesus is our personal savior and lord.
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Number two, god wants us to know that all of our sins are
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Forgiven. god wants you to know this! look at 1 john... chapter
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2 and look with me at verses 1 and 2... of 1 john, 1 and 2.
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"my little children, these things i write to you so that
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You may not sin. and if anyone sins (and do we sin? yes,
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Indeed, we do! but) we have an advocate with the father, jesus
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Christ, the righteous, and he himself is the propitiation
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(that is, the redemptor for our sins) for our sins, and not
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Only for our only, but also for the whole world." god wants you
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To know that all your sins are forgiven. we have a sin
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Problem. and as a result of our sin problem... all of us... we
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Live in guilt. and because of sin there is shame and the
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Regrets of our lives. and we live under this condemnation.
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And so many people live with the uncertainty of knowing if
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God has forgiven them. even people who have been in the
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Church or around the church or maybe even you're a baptized
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Believer but you don't have assurance in your life because
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You're wondering, “how could god forgive me?
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God could never overlook my sin." well, the fact is that
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God doesn't overlook our sin. he sees our sin but he sent
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Jesus to die on the cross and to pay the sin debt so that we
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Can be forgiven. and his blood... the blood of jesus
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Christ cleanses us from every sin! and therefore, because we
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Have been fully and forever forgiven, we can live life
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Without regrets and we can live life with confidence, looking
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At our future, knowing that jesus has said, as he said to
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The lame man in mark's gospel, "your sins are forgiven. rise
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Up and walk!" he said to the woman taken in adultery,
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"neither do i condemn you. go and sin no more."
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You are forgiven in christ! this means your past is blotted
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Out; it is deleted. it means that your present... the sins
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Of your present can be covered... is covered by and
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Cleansed by the blood of jesus christ.
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So, many people think, “well, what happens when i sin? what
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Happens when i commit sins as a christian? do i have to go back
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To “go” like one of those board games and you have to go back
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To start, and get saved all over again? no. because every
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Sin that you committed was in the future when christ died for
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You. right? all your sins were in the future. so whether your
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Sins were past or present or future, the blood of jesus
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Christ, god's son, cleanses us from every sin. and all of our
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Sins are, therefore, cleansed.
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Look at isaiah chapter 53, verses 5 and 6... key verse...
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Verses in the bible. "for he was wounded for our
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Transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the
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Chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we
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Are healed. all we like sheep have gone astray; we have
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Turned, every one, to his own way; and the lord has laid on
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Him the iniquity of us all."
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First peter 2:24: "...who himself (that is jesus) bore
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Our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to
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Sins, might live for righteousness... by whose
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Stripes you are healed."
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Psalm 103:12: “as far as the east is from the west, so far
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Has he removed our transgressions from us.”
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Psalms 32:1: “blessed is he whose transgression is
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Forgiven, whose sin is covered”"
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God is saying, “i've got you covered completely and totally”"
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So when people say something like, “well, you can be saved
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But then you could sin to the degree that you could lose your
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Salvation.” you know, there are people who teach that you can
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Somehow lose your salvation, that you could forfeit your
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Eternal life, that you could turn away and be lost again.
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The bible teaches us that once you are saved, you are always
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Saved. you know, “i know, that's that old baptist thing.”
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No, it's the bible thing. and here's why it's the bible
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Thing. because every sin that we have committed is covered by
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The blood of christ as we have trusted him.
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Listen to me, i always want to ask people, “okay, if you can
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Sin away your salvation, how much sin does it take to sin
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Away your salvation? and how bad does it have to be?”
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If there was one cent of a scintilla of sin held to my
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Account or your account, we would be on... we would be on a
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Slide to hell. a waterslide to hell. because if there is any
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Sin that we have committed that is not covered...
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You see, you got to understand the holiness of god! “god is of
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Purer eyes than to behold iniquity.” if there's any sin
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Against me then i'm lost forever. but christ took my
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Sin. when jesus went to the cross, he carried your sin and
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My sin with him! and therefore, we are saved and secure because
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Of what christ has done!
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And, therefore, it is grace. so the same grace
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That saves us and forgives us, takes away our sin and we live
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In this grace every day. and that's why we know and can say,
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“i know that we are saved.” because we're trusting in
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Christ alone. we have his pardon and his promise that he
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Would take our sins and “remember them no more.”
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This is what you can know! and what the bible says is that it
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Is in christ, and christ alone that we are saved, and,
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Therefore, we trust in him, and him alone.
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That's why we can say: it is well with my soul. “my sin, oh
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The bliss of this glorious thought, / my sin not in part
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But the whole, / is nailed to the cross and i bear them no
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More./ praise the lord, it is well, it is well with my soul.”
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[applause] this is what we know.
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So what we know is that jesus is our lord and savior because
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We have trusted in him, and him only. what we know is that all
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Of our sins are forgiven and, therefore, what we know is that
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We have passed from death unto life. that's the third thing i
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Want you to see. he wants you to know that you have passed
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From death unto life. that's 1 john 5:11 and 12...
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Says this, and this is the
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Testimony: that he has given us eternal life, and that life is
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In his son. he who has the son has life; he who does not have
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The son of god does not have life." and that's when he says,
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"these things are written... these things are written to you
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That believe in the name of the son of god." so we know that we
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Have passed from death to life,
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From temporal life to eternal life.
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Now heads up on this one: eternal life and heaven are not
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The same. they're not synonymous. heaven is the
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Byproduct of eternal life. heaven is the byproduct... the
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Future that we have because we have been given eternal life.
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Eternal life is in christ. we have the son jesus! we were
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Born dead in our trespasses. we were the walking dead! but
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Because christ said, "i've come that you might have life and
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Have it more abundantly," we now, having received christ,
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Have received his life in us. christ is alive in us, and we
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Have eternal life.
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Listen to john chapter 10, verse 27 and 29. this is why
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You need your bibles when you come. but here it is: john 10:
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27-29: “my sheep hear my voice, and i know them, and they
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Follow me. and i give them eternal life, and they shall
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(what?) never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of
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My hand. my father, who has given them to me, is greater
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Than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's
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Hand.”
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The devil can't snatch you out of the father's hand. don't you
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Know that if he could, he would? jesus said, “i give you
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Eternal life.” i've said it many times here. you know, how
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Long is eternal life? well, it's eternal; it's forever. but
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It's more than just living a long time; it's the life of god
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In you. it's the life of christ.
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You see, we were devoid of life. we were empty of god.
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That's what it means to be life... ... lost. but when
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Christ comes to live in us, we have passed from death to life.
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I am alive, alive, alive in christ! i've passed from the
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Old life and i'm living a brand-new life because of jesus
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Himself. and so eternal life is what he gives us right now.
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In john 17 and verse 3, this is what jesus says: "and this is
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Eternal life,..." okay, you want to know what eternal life
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Is based on what jesus said? "that they may know you, the
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Only true god, and jesus christ whom you have sent." all right?
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Eternal life is to know god and jesus christ! you receive
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Eternal life the moment the miracle takes place when you
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Pass from death to life. eternal life means here and now.
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You say, “well, i want to wait for heaven to find out if i
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Have eternal life.” that's too late! too late. here and now is
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When you put your faith and trust in christ and are given
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This eternal life in christ.
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Next, what does god want us to know? here's what we know: god
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Wants us to know his perfect plan for our lives... god wants
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Us to know his perfect plan for our lives. god does have a plan
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And god has a purpose for us. romans 8:28 says that "we know
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That all things are working together for good to those who
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Love god, to those who are called according to his
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Purpose. for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be
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Conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the
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Firstborn among many brethren. moreover, whom he predestined,
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These he also called; whom he called, these he also
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Justified; and whom he justified, these he also
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Glorified."
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It is a done deal! accomplished! tetelestai!
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Finished! what christ has done for us means that he has a plan
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And his plan is working progressively, perfectly in our
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Lives; that he's constructing us and we're just getting
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Started when we come to christ, and he's building us up and
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Making us more and more like christ. and therefore, what we
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Know is that everything that's happening in our lives, both
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Good and bad, god is good and god does good, and god is
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Working all things together for the good to those who love the
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Lord and who are called according to his purpose.
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Listen to me! god has a perfect plan... a plan and a purpose
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For your life! you're not an accident. you're not here by
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Chance or circumstance. god formed you in your mother's
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Womb and with that plan comes god's progressive work, his
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Will in your life.
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And so the only thing we need to do is to make sure we're
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Getting ourselves aligned in god's will. and when you're
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Aligned in this way, life works, because god works in
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Response to our obedience to him and god works even when we
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Are disobedient to him, he turns things around and enables
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Us to get back on track.
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So i'm saying all this to tell you that the world... the world
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Is going nowhere! when simon peter preached on the day of
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Pentecost and he said, "save yourself from this crooked and
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Untoward generation." the word "untoward" means a generation
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That's going nowhere. if you don't know christ, you don't
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Have a clue about where your life is going. i mean, you're
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Just left to good luck, and good luck with good luck! if
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You don't know christ in your life, you don't really have a
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Purpose. you may have your plans and ideas, but what
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Happens when life falls apart? and it ineligibly does. then
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What? when your plans fail or luck turns the wrong way?
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No, we don't live by luck. the lord directs our steps. the
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Lord has a plan; the lord has a purpose for our lives. and so
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We live in confidence in this.
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Now you see what a difference this makes in the way that you
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Live? if you get up every single day knowing "i am saved;
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I know that my sins are forgiven; i have passed from
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Death unto life and i am fulfilling god's plan and god's
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Purpose for my life every single day." when you see what
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Incredible confidence and certainty that brings to your
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Life... that you are saved, certain and secure.
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I just want to urge you by all means to remember philippians
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1:6: “being confident of this very thing, that he who began
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The good work in you will perfect it, perform it,
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Complete it unto the day of jesus christ.” god began the
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Work in you and what god starts, he finishes! he's not
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Finished with you; he's finishing you! and what he
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Starts, he finishes in your life!
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And... one more thing! we know that because jesus is lord,
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That everything that is happening in our world is under
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His control! and so we don't live in fear and uncertainty
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About the future. we don't live with angst and anxiety about
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What's going to happen next. our eyes are on the lord! the
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One who has come and who's coming again in great power and
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Great glory and in great victory!
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Here's what we know: it's what jude, the little brother of
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Jesus, the son of mary and joseph... big brother was
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Jesus. that's a tough act to follow. but jude became a
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Follower of jesus and he gave us a little letter. it's one of
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The most powerful and really for the church, the church that
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Is so woke and so weak in this generation needs the book of
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Jude now more than ever perhaps.
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But after all the contending for the faith that is in and
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The confrontation of wokeness and evil and all the rest in
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The book of jude, jude 24 and 25... it's a doxology that
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Closes. therefore, i'm going to close the message with it: "now
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To him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present
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You faultless before the presence of his glory with
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Exceeding joy, to god our savior, who alone is wise, be
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Glory and majesty and dominion and power, both now and
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Forever."
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"now to him who is able..." i'm not able to save myself, but he
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Is able to save to the uttermost, and "to keep me from
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Stumbling..." do we... do we misstep? do we stumble at
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Times? but when we stumble, he keeps us from falling. psalm
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37:23 and 24 says: "the steps of a righteous man are ordered
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By the lord... and though he stumble, he will not fall; for
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The lord upholds him with his strong right hand."
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You see, salvation is not a matter of me holding on to god,
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Trying to hold to him. he's holding on to me; he's holding
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On to you, and he's never going to let go. you're in the
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Father's hand. peter said, "we are kept by the power of god."
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We are in god's grip from time to eternity. "now to him to
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Present you (watch this!) faultless, blameless; as the
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Hymnwriter put it, "dressed in his righteousness alone,/
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Faultless to stand before the throne." we stand in the
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Righteousness, pure and perfect, and he is able to keep
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Us, bring us into his presence of glory with (what?) exceeding
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Joy... joy, joy, joy and more joy! can you imagine the joy of
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Being with jesus? of seeing jesus!
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Let me tell you something! i'm more excited today about jesus
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Than anything in my life! i mean more than politics, more
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Than the next election, more than sports, more than
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Entertainment, more than power, more than fame, more than
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Anything in this world! i am excited about seeing christ,
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And christ is coming and he's coming soon! and we're going to
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Be with him in exceeding joy! to god our savior, that's
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Jesus, who alone is wise! there's no one like him!
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There's no one above him! there's no one along side of
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Him! there's no one next to him! "there is no other name
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Given among men, whereby we must be saved, than the name of
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Jesus." "to him... to him be glory and majesty and power and
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Victory and authority!" you don't think there is confidence
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In living like this? there is confidence and hope in christ,
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Now and forever. amen and amen! come on, let's sing it!
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Jack Graham - Saved, Certain, and Secure

January 12, 2025 | S25:E2

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