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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah - Fully Engaged With the Gospel

January 24, 2026 | 57:29

David Jeremiah - Fully Engaged With the Gospel
God provided a way for us to be saved through no work of our own – it cannot be earned – the Good News of this gift should be shared unashamedly.
#Dedication/Devotion #Commitment #Gospel #Ministry #Missions #Commission #Faith #Peopleinyourlife #Witness/Witnessing #DavidJeremiah

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - Fully Engaged With the Gospel | January 24, 2026
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  • Male announcer: passionate, courageous, bold, resolute.
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  • All around us, people live fully engaged.
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  • We witness in real time as athletes push
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  • The boundaries of their physical ability,
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  • Entrepreneurs drive industry forward,
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  • And creatives explore the potentials of art
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  • And performance.
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  • Ours is a life best lived fully engaged.
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  • But what if we did the same with our faith?
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  • What if we took our faith to more than we thought
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  • It could be,
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  • If we as believers lived fully engaged,
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  • Be undeniably dedicated, utterly committed?
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  • Even you might be surprised by who you can be
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  • Through the power of god.
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  • You are unlimited when you are fully engaged.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • And now here's your host, dr. david jeremiah.
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  • Dr. david jeremiah: most people think of the gospel
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  • As the truth we must believe to be saved, and it is.
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  • The problem is, once we are saved,
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  • It's easy to forget about the gospel,
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  • But as christians,
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  • We are called to be fully engaged with the gospel.
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  • And that is the title of my message today.
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  • Why fully engaged?
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  • Because the gospel is the power of god.
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  • It impacts every area of our life, our family,
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  • Our finances, friendships, and even our future.
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  • And when the power of god changes us,
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  • We become witnesses for how it can change others
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  • As well.
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  • We accept and believe the gospel one time,
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  • But we live out the gospel every single day.
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  • We become stewards of god's gracious good news.
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  • That is a weighty responsibility,
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  • And doing so means committing to a fully engaged life.
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  • So stay with me and let's explore the gospel together
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  • On today's edition of "turning point."
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  • ♪ lord, you are good ♪
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  • ♪ and your mercy endureth forever ♪
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  • ♪ lord, you are good ♪
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  • ♪ and your mercy endureth forever ♪
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  • ♪ people from every nation and tongue ♪
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  • ♪ from generation to generation ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ you are good ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ lord, you are good ♪
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  • ♪ and your mercy endureth forever ♪
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  • ♪ lord, you are good ♪
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  • ♪ and your mercy endureth forever ♪
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  • ♪ people from every nation and tongue ♪
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  • ♪ from generation to generation ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ you are good ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ people from every nation and tongue ♪
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  • ♪ from generation to generation ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ oh, come on! ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ we worship you for who you are ♪
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  • ♪ for who you are ♪♪
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  • ♪ blessed are those who run to him ♪
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  • ♪ who place their hope and confidence in jesus ♪
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  • ♪ he won't forsake them ♪
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  • ♪ blessed are those who seek his face ♪
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  • ♪ who bend their knee and fix their gaze on jesus ♪
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  • ♪ they won't be shaken ♪
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  • ♪ come on and praise the lord with me ♪
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  • ♪ sing if you love his name ♪
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  • ♪ come on and lift your voice with me ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪
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  • ♪ blessed are those who walk with him ♪
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  • ♪ whose hearts are set on pilgrimage with jesus ♪
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  • ♪ they'll see his glory ♪
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  • ♪ blessed are those who die to live ♪
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  • ♪ whose joy it is to give it all for jesus ♪
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  • ♪ and for him only ♪
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  • ♪ oh jesus, all for your glory ♪
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  • ♪ come on and praise the lord with me ♪
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  • ♪ sing if you love his name ♪
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  • ♪ come on and lift your voice with me ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪
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  • ♪ come on and bring your offering ♪
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  • ♪ sing if you've known his grace ♪
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  • ♪ come on and lift up your holy hands ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪
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  • ♪ bless god in the sanctuary ♪
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  • ♪ bless god in the fields of plenty ♪
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  • ♪ bless god in the darkest valley ♪
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  • ♪ every chance i get i bless your name ♪
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  • ♪ bless god when my hands are empty ♪
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  • ♪ bless god with a praise that costs me ♪
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  • ♪ bless god when nobody's watching ♪
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  • ♪ every chance i get i bless your name ♪
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  • ♪ bless god when the weapon's forming ♪
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  • ♪ bless god when the walls are falling ♪
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  • ♪ bless god 'cause he goes before me ♪
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  • ♪ every chance i get i bless your name ♪
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  • ♪ bless god for he holds the victory ♪
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  • ♪ bless god for he's always with me ♪
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  • ♪ bless god for he's always worthy ♪
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  • ♪ every chance i get i bless your name ♪
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  • ♪ oh, every chance i get ♪
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  • ♪ come on and praise the lord with me ♪
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  • ♪ sing if you love his name ♪
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  • ♪ come on and lift your voice with me ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪
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  • ♪ come on and bring your offering ♪
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  • ♪ sing if you've known his grace ♪
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  • ♪ come on and lift up your holy hands ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪
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  • ♪ he's worthy of all our praise ♪♪
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  • ♪ they say this mountain can't be moved ♪
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  • ♪ they say these chains will never break ♪
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  • ♪ but they don't know you like we do ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ we've heard that there is no way through ♪
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  • ♪ we've heard the tide will never change ♪
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  • ♪ they haven't seen what you can do ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ so much power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ move the immovable ♪
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  • ♪ break the unbreakable ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ from the impossible ♪
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  • ♪ we'll see a miracle ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ we know that hope is never lost ♪
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  • ♪ oh, for there is still an empty grave ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe no matter what ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ oh, so much power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ move the immovable ♪
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  • ♪ break the unbreakable ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ from the impossible ♪
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  • ♪ we'll see a miracle ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ you are the way ♪
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  • ♪ oh god, you are the way when there seems to be no way ♪
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  • ♪ we trust in you ♪
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  • ♪ god, you have the final say ♪
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  • ♪ oh, you are the way when there seems to be no way ♪
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  • ♪ we trust in you ♪
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  • ♪ for you have the final say ♪
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  • ♪ you are the way when there seems to be no way ♪
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  • ♪ we trust in you ♪
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  • ♪ god, you have the final say ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ ooh ♪
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  • ♪ move the immovable ♪
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  • ♪ break the unbreakable ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ from the impossible ♪
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  • ♪ we'll see a miracle ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ move the immovable ♪
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  • ♪ break the unbreakable ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe for it ♪
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  • ♪ from the impossible ♪
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  • ♪ we'll see a miracle ♪
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  • ♪ god, we believe ♪
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  • Dr. jeremiah: let me read to you the words of a man
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  • Who was fully engaged with the gospel.
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  • His name is paul, and he wrote this incredible letter
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  • To the romans.
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  • In the 16th and 17th verses, we read his words:
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  • "for i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ,
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  • For it is the power of god to salvation
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  • For everyone who believes,
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  • For the jew first and also for the greek.
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  • For in it the righteousness of god is revealed
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  • From faith to faith; as it is written,
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  • 'the just shall live by faith.'"
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  • If you've ever dabbled at all in theology,
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  • You know these are two of the most important verses
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  • In the bible.
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  • There are no two verses like it anyplace in the scripture.
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  • These words are the essence of christianity,
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  • And in many respects,
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  • These two verses are responsible for the protestant reformation.
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  • Knowing that paul was on his way to rome,
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  • The imperial city of his day, he's writing to the romans
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  • To whom he is about to visit,
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  • And he wants them to know what he's bringing with him
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  • When he comes.
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  • He wants them to know that the gospel is his message
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  • And that he is not ashamed of it.
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  • He's saying, "though i may be the laughing stock
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  • Of the aristocratic thinkers in the city of rome,
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  • I am not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ."
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  • Sometimes today, as you look around,
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  • You notice that some folks are ashamed of the gospel.
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  • They're all right to do church.
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  • They're all right to be good people.
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  • They're all right even to be known as religious,
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  • Perhaps even as evangelicals, but when it comes to the gospel,
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  • They think maybe that's a bit over the top.
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  • And they don't want to be involved in preaching the gospel
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  • Or trumpeting the call of the gospel.
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  • Sometimes it's true that they're this way
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  • Because of intellectual reasons.
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  • Paul ran into that in his life
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  • When he wrote to the corinthians.
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  • He said, "the jews view the gospel as a stumbling block
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  • And the greeks think it's foolishness."
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  • Well, he's about to go to rome, filled up with greeks,
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  • To tell them about the gospel which they think is foolishness.
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  • Just think of it.
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  • In the midst of the pomp and ceremony
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  • Of these roman emperors
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  • And in the imperial city of rome,
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  • Here comes this guy who says that the savior of the world
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  • Was a carpenter who grew up in nazareth
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  • And imagines the ridicule and laughter of the court
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  • And the great people
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  • When they're saying to one another,
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  • "the latest joke in town is there's this guy who arrived
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  • Actually saying that a carpenter from nazareth
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  • In the land of the jews is the son of god.
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  • And not only that, he's the savior of the world,
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  • And that he saves the world by dying helplessly on a cross.
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  • How funny is that?"
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  • A lot of people view the gospel in that way.
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  • Intellectually, it's inconceivable to them
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  • That the story of the gospel could be actually true.
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  • Sometimes they reject it for philosophical reasons
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  • Because, you see, the gospel reverses
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  • All of the other religions of the world.
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  • All of the religions of the world teach
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  • That you get to god by climbing up to him
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  • Through all of the works of righteousness
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  • That you can manage.
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  • But the gospel says it's exactly the opposite.
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  • You don't climb up to god; god reaches down to you.
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  • So the gospel's counterintuitive to every kind
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  • Of philosophical thinking you can imagine.
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  • Someone has said that christianity
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  • Is the "unreligion" of the world
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  • Because it turns all our religious instincts
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  • On their heads.
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  • Sometimes people reject this gospel
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  • Because of social reasons.
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  • It's not respectable to be a christian.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • Criticism of catholics and evangelicals,
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  • Berating them, almost as if to be a christian,
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  • An evangelical, or a committed catholic
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  • Is to live beneath the intellectual line
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  • That is acceptable to the more aristocratic people.
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  • The bible says that god chooses people,
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  • And he tells us how he goes about it.
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  • He says, "not many wise and not many mighty,
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  • And not many noble, are called."
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  • He didn't say not any, he said not many.
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  • We're just common people.
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  • We're the people god has chosen,
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  • And those who do not like the gospel
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  • Find that to be socially revolting--
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  • That god should choose people like us
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  • To be born into his family.
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  • And some people are disengaged with the gospel
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  • For moral reasons.
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  • One day i was in my office in the church
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  • That i started in fort wayne, and a man came to see me.
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  • And he'd heard me preach the day before,
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  • And i gave a gospel message, and he said,
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  • "i just wanted to come by and tell you
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  • That i've been thinking about being a christian,
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  • But i don't think i'm gonna do it."
  • 00:25:56.561 --> 00:25:57.896
  • And i said, "why?"
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  • He said, "well, dr. jeremiah,
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  • It would be just downright inconvenient for me right now,
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  • If you wanna know the truth."
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  • And then he began to tell me what he--and it was--
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  • It would have been very inconvenient for him
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  • To have become a christian.
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  • But how many of you know that what's--
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  • Christ comes to take us out of our convenience
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  • And give us something far more important
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  • Than anything we've got going for us at the time?
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  • But there are many people who do not like the gospel
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  • Because, you see, the gospel is offensive
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  • To the pride of man.
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  • The gospel tells men that they are sinners
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  • And that they're rebels,
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  • That they're under the wrath and condemnation of god,
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  • And they can't do anything about it themselves.
  • 00:26:32.731 --> 00:26:35.266
  • And that is so revolting
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  • To the modern "i can get it myself" person.
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  • They have to accept the fact that only christ,
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  • Who was crucified between two thieves,
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  • Can save them.
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  • And it's just not possible for them to get their arms
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  • Around it.
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  • So, as paul says in romans chapter 1,
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  • "i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ."
  • 00:26:59.758 --> 00:27:04.529
  • He's saying something to us in our generation.
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  • I want to ask you this question today, whoever you are,
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  • Whether you're listening here in this auditorium
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  • Or through the internet or on the television program
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  • Or on the radio or whatever,
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  • How do you stack up with this question?
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  • Are you ashamed of the gospel of christ?
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  • Are you willing to get into a conversation
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  • All the way up until then, and then you back away?
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  • I'm here to tell you that god almighty has called us
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  • To a fully engaged relationship with his gospel.
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  • So as we unpack these two verses,
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  • I want you to think with me
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  • Not only about what paul is saying concerning himself
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  • But what paul is saying to us.
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  • Why should i be fully engaged with the gospel?
  • 00:27:47.038 --> 00:27:51.443
  • And he helps us understand that in these two verses.
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  • First of all, it's the gospel. the gospel.
  • 00:27:54.746 --> 00:28:00.118
  • The word "gospel" is made up of two greek words.
  • 00:28:00.118 --> 00:28:02.587
  • One word means "news,"
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  • And the little preface to the word means "good."
  • 00:28:04.956 --> 00:28:09.260
  • The word "gospel" means good news.
  • 00:28:09.260 --> 00:28:12.997
  • How could you not want to be fully engaged with good news?
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  • It's an announcement not about what we do for god.
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  • It's an announcement about what god has done for us.
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  • The gospel isn't a list of things you need to do
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  • To get to god.
  • 00:28:24.909 --> 00:28:26.344
  • The gospel is a list of everything god has done
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  • To reach down to you.
  • 00:28:29.114 --> 00:28:31.149
  • How could you not want to be fully engaged with the gospel?
  • 00:28:31.149 --> 00:28:35.153
  • Tim keller says: "here's the gospel:
  • 00:28:35.153 --> 00:28:37.489
  • You're more sinful than you ever dared believe,
  • 00:28:37.489 --> 00:28:39.390
  • And you're more loved than you ever dared hope."
  • 00:28:39.390 --> 00:28:42.527
  • Isn't that the truth? listen to how paul continues.
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  • The power of god to salvation.
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  • The gospel is not only the promise of good news,
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  • It's the power that god brings into the situation.
  • 00:28:53.738 --> 00:28:58.576
  • By the way, if you're a grammatical student,
  • 00:28:58.576 --> 00:29:00.612
  • You might notice that the word "for"
  • 00:29:00.612 --> 00:29:02.647
  • Is in these two verses a lot.
  • 00:29:02.647 --> 00:29:05.016
  • The word "for" is a word that tells you
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  • This is the "because" in the sentence.
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  • We should not be ashamed of the gospel
  • 00:29:10.121 --> 00:29:11.756
  • Because the gospel is the power of god to salvation.
  • 00:29:11.756 --> 00:29:15.927
  • Did you know that the gospel of jesus christ
  • 00:29:15.927 --> 00:29:17.896
  • Is the most powerful force in the universe?
  • 00:29:17.896 --> 00:29:21.432
  • It is the deliverance of man
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  • From the consequences of the fall and sin.
  • 00:29:23.735 --> 00:29:27.539
  • To be saved means to be set free from the greatest evil
  • 00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:32.043
  • And placed in the possession of the greatest good.
  • 00:29:32.043 --> 00:29:35.914
  • A friend of mine who is a young teacher of the word of god
  • 00:29:35.914 --> 00:29:39.217
  • By the name of j. d. greear
  • 00:29:39.217 --> 00:29:41.119
  • Has written a little book on the gospel,
  • 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.754
  • And in that book, he makes this incredible statement:
  • 00:29:42.754 --> 00:29:46.424
  • "the gospel reveals a greater power
  • 00:29:46.424 --> 00:29:49.260
  • Than even the power of creation.
  • 00:29:49.260 --> 00:29:52.597
  • It is the power of new creation, redeeming from sin
  • 00:29:52.597 --> 00:29:56.968
  • And regenerating life from death.
  • 00:29:56.968 --> 00:30:00.004
  • Did you know that nothing else in the bible,
  • 00:30:00.004 --> 00:30:02.707
  • Except for christ himself,
  • 00:30:02.707 --> 00:30:04.809
  • Is referred to as the power of god?
  • 00:30:04.809 --> 00:30:07.478
  • Think about that.
  • 00:30:07.478 --> 00:30:08.813
  • The sun is 9900 degrees fahrenheit
  • 00:30:08.813 --> 00:30:12.584
  • On the surface
  • 00:30:12.584 --> 00:30:13.918
  • And 27 million degrees at its core.
  • 00:30:13.918 --> 00:30:17.088
  • Tsunami waves rise up to 100 feet high
  • 00:30:17.088 --> 00:30:19.691
  • And travel at over 80 miles an hour,
  • 00:30:19.691 --> 00:30:22.327
  • Destroying everything in their path.
  • 00:30:22.327 --> 00:30:24.996
  • A recently discovered star is reported to streak through
  • 00:30:24.996 --> 00:30:28.266
  • The heavens at 1.5 miles per second.
  • 00:30:28.266 --> 00:30:31.169
  • We know of volcanoes that spew lava up to 17 miles
  • 00:30:31.169 --> 00:30:34.606
  • Into the atmosphere
  • 00:30:34.606 --> 00:30:35.940
  • Whose eruptions can be heard from more than 3000 miles away.
  • 00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:40.578
  • And none of these is called the power of god.
  • 00:30:40.578 --> 00:30:44.883
  • Jesus's victorious work of putting away our sin forever
  • 00:30:44.883 --> 00:30:48.953
  • Is what the bible calls the power of god."
  • 00:30:48.953 --> 00:30:52.724
  • If you're a christian here today
  • 00:30:52.724 --> 00:30:55.193
  • Because you've accepted jesus christ as your savior,
  • 00:30:55.193 --> 00:30:58.062
  • You are a very wonderfully blessed
  • 00:30:58.062 --> 00:31:00.999
  • And unique person.
  • 00:31:00.999 --> 00:31:02.333
  • You have experienced the power of god.
  • 00:31:02.333 --> 00:31:07.906
  • Thank god it's always sufficient, isn't it?
  • 00:31:07.906 --> 00:31:10.575
  • The power of god.
  • 00:31:10.575 --> 00:31:14.045
  • Several years ago, i met a pro golfer
  • 00:31:14.045 --> 00:31:16.948
  • By the name of greg powers.
  • 00:31:16.948 --> 00:31:19.984
  • He'd been in a terrible accident
  • 00:31:19.984 --> 00:31:21.920
  • And was told that he would never play golf again.
  • 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:26.024
  • During his recovery and rehabilitation from surgery,
  • 00:31:26.024 --> 00:31:28.693
  • Someone gave greg powers a set of my teaching tapes
  • 00:31:28.693 --> 00:31:32.263
  • On the book of daniel.
  • 00:31:32.263 --> 00:31:34.532
  • So greg began to listen to those tapes over and over again,
  • 00:31:34.532 --> 00:31:37.468
  • And as the result, he fell under conviction
  • 00:31:37.468 --> 00:31:39.437
  • And received the lord jesus christ
  • 00:31:39.437 --> 00:31:41.072
  • As his savior.
  • 00:31:41.072 --> 00:31:42.907
  • It was the power of the gospel that captured his mind.
  • 00:31:42.907 --> 00:31:47.779
  • Once he visited our church here in southern california.
  • 00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:50.715
  • Since i'm not a golfer, we had a lot of leisure time
  • 00:31:50.715 --> 00:31:54.285
  • To talk about what was happening in his life.
  • 00:31:54.285 --> 00:31:57.855
  • And after he returned to his home in florida,
  • 00:31:57.855 --> 00:31:59.891
  • He wrote me this letter
  • 00:31:59.891 --> 00:32:02.327
  • Which demonstrates the change that takes place in life
  • 00:32:02.327 --> 00:32:06.531
  • When it is exposed to the power of god.
  • 00:32:06.531 --> 00:32:10.001
  • He said, "my trip back across the country last week,
  • 00:32:10.001 --> 00:32:12.470
  • Some 3100 miles in my van, proved very enlightening.
  • 00:32:12.470 --> 00:32:16.374
  • While in el cajon, i picked up five more series of tapes.
  • 00:32:16.374 --> 00:32:20.211
  • I'll give you some idea just how far 3100 miles is.
  • 00:32:20.211 --> 00:32:24.415
  • It's the 'ten burning questions from psalms' twice,
  • 00:32:24.415 --> 00:32:28.453
  • 'turning toward integrity' twice,
  • 00:32:28.453 --> 00:32:30.054
  • 'home improvement' three times,
  • 00:32:30.054 --> 00:32:32.056
  • 'how to survive in a hostile world,'
  • 00:32:32.056 --> 00:32:33.691
  • Volume 1 and 2 once,
  • 00:32:33.691 --> 00:32:35.393
  • 'the greatest stories ever told:
  • 00:32:35.393 --> 00:32:36.728
  • The parables of jesus' twice,
  • 00:32:36.728 --> 00:32:38.629
  • And of course, the trip would not have been complete
  • 00:32:38.629 --> 00:32:40.565
  • Without another rendition
  • 00:32:40.565 --> 00:32:41.899
  • Of 'the handwriting on the wall,' volumes 1, 2, and 3,
  • 00:32:41.899 --> 00:32:44.569
  • Which makes about 30 times of daniel's life
  • 00:32:44.569 --> 00:32:46.971
  • And god's secret that led me to accepting
  • 00:32:46.971 --> 00:32:49.374
  • Our precious lord and savior, jesus christ."
  • 00:32:49.374 --> 00:32:52.977
  • Now, god can use his power.
  • 00:32:52.977 --> 00:32:56.147
  • In this man's life, he put it in cassette tapes
  • 00:32:56.147 --> 00:33:00.685
  • Where he heard the word of god audibly
  • 00:33:00.685 --> 00:33:04.155
  • And the power of god was released on his life.
  • 00:33:04.155 --> 00:33:07.925
  • Men and women, i'm here to tell you, like never before,
  • 00:33:07.925 --> 00:33:10.795
  • In all of my time as a pastor,
  • 00:33:10.795 --> 00:33:13.464
  • I am so excited and committed to be involved as a distributor
  • 00:33:13.464 --> 00:33:18.669
  • Of the power of god.
  • 00:33:18.669 --> 00:33:20.972
  • Because as i look at the world today,
  • 00:33:20.972 --> 00:33:23.041
  • It is the only thing powerful enough
  • 00:33:23.041 --> 00:33:25.610
  • To rescue us from ourselves.
  • 00:33:25.610 --> 00:33:29.514
  • And i hope you catch in this sermon today
  • 00:33:29.514 --> 00:33:31.916
  • That all of us need to re-energize ourselves
  • 00:33:31.916 --> 00:33:35.286
  • Toward this message,
  • 00:33:35.286 --> 00:33:36.687
  • Which is the one life-changing thing
  • 00:33:36.687 --> 00:33:38.489
  • We have to offer to a dying and desperate world.
  • 00:33:38.489 --> 00:33:42.460
  • We should be totally engaged with the gospel
  • 00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:45.696
  • Because of the promise of the gospel.
  • 00:33:45.696 --> 00:33:47.198
  • It's the good news.
  • 00:33:47.198 --> 00:33:48.833
  • Because of the power of the gospel,
  • 00:33:48.833 --> 00:33:50.401
  • It's the gospel that leads us to salvation.
  • 00:33:50.401 --> 00:33:54.238
  • And because of the purpose of the gospel,
  • 00:33:54.238 --> 00:33:55.840
  • It says, "for everyone who believes."
  • 00:33:55.840 --> 00:33:59.043
  • John 3:16 says that god loves the world
  • 00:33:59.043 --> 00:34:02.313
  • And that if we believe in him, we won't perish.
  • 00:34:02.313 --> 00:34:05.216
  • Acts 2:21 says: "and it shall come to pass
  • 00:34:05.216 --> 00:34:08.186
  • That whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved."
  • 00:34:08.186 --> 00:34:11.456
  • Yes, the gospel is god's power offered to us,
  • 00:34:11.456 --> 00:34:15.793
  • But it must be received by us.
  • 00:34:15.793 --> 00:34:18.629
  • And the bible says there's a priority to the gospel.
  • 00:34:18.629 --> 00:34:22.333
  • Some people struggle with this.
  • 00:34:22.333 --> 00:34:25.303
  • This verse says: "the gospel comes first to the jews
  • 00:34:25.303 --> 00:34:27.772
  • And then to the greeks," to the gentiles.
  • 00:34:27.772 --> 00:34:33.111
  • Now, there's only one gospel,
  • 00:34:33.111 --> 00:34:35.680
  • So if you've heard some of the rumors
  • 00:34:35.680 --> 00:34:37.315
  • That have been floating around lately
  • 00:34:37.315 --> 00:34:38.850
  • That jewish people get saved in a different way
  • 00:34:38.850 --> 00:34:40.918
  • Than gentiles, don't believe it, because it's only one gospel.
  • 00:34:40.918 --> 00:34:44.188
  • There's not gospel number one and gospel number two,
  • 00:34:44.188 --> 00:34:46.958
  • Or plan a and b.
  • 00:34:46.958 --> 00:34:48.292
  • There's just one gospel: the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:34:48.292 --> 00:34:51.295
  • The gospel is the great leveler.
  • 00:34:51.295 --> 00:34:52.964
  • Everybody comes to faith the same way.
  • 00:34:52.964 --> 00:34:55.399
  • When you get to heaven,
  • 00:34:55.399 --> 00:34:56.734
  • Everybody else who's there got there the same way you did.
  • 00:34:56.734 --> 00:35:00.671
  • Nobody climbed up over the wall. nobody offered some bribe.
  • 00:35:00.671 --> 00:35:03.975
  • Nobody said, "i'm better than they are."
  • 00:35:03.975 --> 00:35:06.644
  • You only get into heaven one way,
  • 00:35:06.644 --> 00:35:08.379
  • And that's through the gospel of jesus christ--
  • 00:35:08.379 --> 00:35:09.814
  • Whether you're jewish or gentile or muslim
  • 00:35:09.814 --> 00:35:12.250
  • Or whoever you are.
  • 00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:13.651
  • The gospel is the great leveler.
  • 00:35:13.651 --> 00:35:15.386
  • But in the economy of god, he allowed the gospel
  • 00:35:15.386 --> 00:35:18.289
  • To begin to his chosen people, the jews.
  • 00:35:18.289 --> 00:35:21.993
  • And you and i are grafted into this
  • 00:35:21.993 --> 00:35:24.495
  • Because--listen to acts chapter 13:
  • 00:35:24.495 --> 00:35:29.400
  • "paul and barnabas grew bold and said, 'it was necessary
  • 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.870
  • That the word of god should be spoken to you first;
  • 00:35:32.870 --> 00:35:36.073
  • But since you reject it,
  • 00:35:36.073 --> 00:35:37.508
  • And judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
  • 00:35:37.508 --> 00:35:40.645
  • Behold, we turn to the gentiles.'"
  • 00:35:40.645 --> 00:35:44.582
  • It's the same gospel--
  • 00:35:44.582 --> 00:35:46.484
  • To the jew first, and also to the greek.
  • 00:35:46.484 --> 00:35:51.455
  • And then we should never be disengaged with the gospel
  • 00:35:51.455 --> 00:35:55.126
  • Not only because of the promise of the gospel--
  • 00:35:55.126 --> 00:35:57.328
  • That it's the good news--
  • 00:35:57.328 --> 00:35:59.330
  • And the power of the gospel
  • 00:35:59.330 --> 00:36:00.665
  • Because it's what causes salvation to happen,
  • 00:36:00.665 --> 00:36:03.634
  • Or the purpose of the gospel for everyone who will believe,
  • 00:36:03.634 --> 00:36:07.772
  • Or the priority of the gospel--
  • 00:36:07.772 --> 00:36:09.106
  • The jew first and then the greek--
  • 00:36:09.106 --> 00:36:12.109
  • But because of the plan of gospel:
  • 00:36:12.109 --> 00:36:14.078
  • The righteousness of god is revealed.
  • 00:36:14.078 --> 00:36:18.382
  • Put on your thinking caps right now.
  • 00:36:18.382 --> 00:36:20.585
  • Don't take a mental vacation. stay with me for these moments.
  • 00:36:20.585 --> 00:36:25.623
  • These are the most important truths in this verse.
  • 00:36:25.623 --> 00:36:29.594
  • We should be engaged with the gospel
  • 00:36:29.594 --> 00:36:32.063
  • Because it's the gospel that helps us understand
  • 00:36:32.063 --> 00:36:34.565
  • How we can become worthy of heaven.
  • 00:36:34.565 --> 00:36:39.237
  • When humans invent religion,
  • 00:36:39.237 --> 00:36:43.074
  • They usually do it for one of two reasons.
  • 00:36:43.074 --> 00:36:45.543
  • Sometimes they invent religion to make themselves look good.
  • 00:36:45.543 --> 00:36:49.714
  • I've been telling you that we have gotten it all wrong.
  • 00:36:49.714 --> 00:36:52.016
  • God created us in his image, and we have missed it
  • 00:36:52.016 --> 00:36:55.386
  • And decided to create god in our image
  • 00:36:55.386 --> 00:36:57.021
  • So we can feel comfortable with god,
  • 00:36:57.021 --> 00:36:58.656
  • And that's what goes on all over the place,
  • 00:36:58.656 --> 00:37:00.758
  • Especially in these recent days.
  • 00:37:00.758 --> 00:37:03.861
  • But the gospel that doesn't have any information in it
  • 00:37:03.861 --> 00:37:08.099
  • About how an unrighteous person like me can get to heaven
  • 00:37:08.099 --> 00:37:13.704
  • Is not the gospel, because i'm still outside.
  • 00:37:13.704 --> 00:37:17.742
  • I need someone to show me
  • 00:37:17.742 --> 00:37:19.076
  • How, in my sinful self, i can get to heaven.
  • 00:37:19.076 --> 00:37:24.615
  • And this is the thing that drove martin luther
  • 00:37:24.615 --> 00:37:29.287
  • To the reformation.
  • 00:37:29.287 --> 00:37:32.590
  • Here's a little bit of a story out of his life.
  • 00:37:32.590 --> 00:37:37.728
  • Martin luther, as a monk, was living an ascetic life
  • 00:37:37.728 --> 00:37:42.066
  • In augustinian monastery.
  • 00:37:42.066 --> 00:37:44.001
  • He was determined that he would live his life
  • 00:37:44.001 --> 00:37:46.971
  • Holy and self-denying,
  • 00:37:46.971 --> 00:37:49.206
  • That he would qualify for heaven.
  • 00:37:49.206 --> 00:37:51.175
  • He fasted, sometimes three days without a crumb.
  • 00:37:51.175 --> 00:37:54.679
  • He laid on himself vigils and prayers
  • 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:56.714
  • In excess of those stipulated by his rule.
  • 00:37:56.714 --> 00:37:59.650
  • He cast off the blankets that were given to him at night,
  • 00:37:59.650 --> 00:38:03.387
  • And well-nigh froze himself to death
  • 00:38:03.387 --> 00:38:06.657
  • Because he thought it would be more acceptable to god.
  • 00:38:06.657 --> 00:38:11.329
  • He went to confession every day
  • 00:38:11.329 --> 00:38:13.798
  • And sometimes spent as many as six hours in a row
  • 00:38:13.798 --> 00:38:18.235
  • Wearing out his priest with every possible sin
  • 00:38:18.235 --> 00:38:21.339
  • He thought he might have committed.
  • 00:38:21.339 --> 00:38:23.541
  • In everything he did or thought,
  • 00:38:23.541 --> 00:38:24.942
  • He was seeking to work his way to heaven.
  • 00:38:24.942 --> 00:38:28.412
  • That's martin luther.
  • 00:38:28.412 --> 00:38:30.381
  • He later reflected on his early religious commitment.
  • 00:38:30.381 --> 00:38:33.250
  • He said, "i was a good monk,
  • 00:38:33.250 --> 00:38:34.652
  • And i kept the rule of my order so strictly
  • 00:38:34.652 --> 00:38:37.421
  • That if i may say so myself,
  • 00:38:37.421 --> 00:38:39.323
  • If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery,
  • 00:38:39.323 --> 00:38:41.892
  • It would have been me."
  • 00:38:41.892 --> 00:38:45.629
  • And it wasn't until he started to study
  • 00:38:45.629 --> 00:38:47.765
  • Paul's epistle to romans,
  • 00:38:47.765 --> 00:38:49.266
  • And it challenged him in his thinking,
  • 00:38:49.266 --> 00:38:52.503
  • And it was utterly new to him.
  • 00:38:52.503 --> 00:38:53.871
  • He never had heard anything quite like this,
  • 00:38:53.871 --> 00:38:55.706
  • Though he had grown up religiously.
  • 00:38:55.706 --> 00:38:58.542
  • He said, "i greatly longed to understand paul's epistle
  • 00:38:58.542 --> 00:39:01.479
  • To the romans, and nothing stood in the way
  • 00:39:01.479 --> 00:39:03.914
  • But one expression,
  • 00:39:03.914 --> 00:39:05.850
  • And that expression was the justice of god.
  • 00:39:05.850 --> 00:39:08.953
  • Because it seemed to me that it was saying
  • 00:39:08.953 --> 00:39:11.555
  • That god is just and deals justly
  • 00:39:11.555 --> 00:39:14.125
  • In punishing the unjust.
  • 00:39:14.125 --> 00:39:15.993
  • And my situation was that although i was
  • 00:39:15.993 --> 00:39:18.562
  • An impeccable monk, i stood before god as a sinner,
  • 00:39:18.562 --> 00:39:21.732
  • Troubled in my conscience,
  • 00:39:21.732 --> 00:39:23.234
  • And i had no confidence that my merit would ever satisfy him.
  • 00:39:23.234 --> 00:39:27.405
  • Therefore, i did not love this just and angry god,
  • 00:39:27.405 --> 00:39:31.075
  • But i hated and murdered against him."
  • 00:39:31.075 --> 00:39:36.847
  • Years later, when he was writing his own commentary
  • 00:39:36.847 --> 00:39:39.550
  • On the book of romans,
  • 00:39:39.550 --> 00:39:40.885
  • Luther reiterated what he had learned:
  • 00:39:40.885 --> 00:39:44.388
  • "for god does not want to save us by our own righteousness,
  • 00:39:44.388 --> 00:39:48.726
  • But by an extraneous righteousness,
  • 00:39:48.726 --> 00:39:50.795
  • One that does not originate in ourselves,
  • 00:39:50.795 --> 00:39:52.863
  • But comes to us from beyond ourselves;
  • 00:39:52.863 --> 00:39:56.066
  • Which does not arise on earth, but comes from heaven."
  • 00:39:56.066 --> 00:40:00.337
  • Martin luther discovered the righteousness of god
  • 00:40:00.337 --> 00:40:04.041
  • And the incredible transaction that takes place on the cross.
  • 00:40:04.041 --> 00:40:08.479
  • Ladies and gentlemen, when jesus died on the cross,
  • 00:40:08.479 --> 00:40:11.348
  • He took all of our sin upon himself
  • 00:40:11.348 --> 00:40:15.019
  • And stood in our place.
  • 00:40:15.019 --> 00:40:16.554
  • But that's not the end of the story.
  • 00:40:16.554 --> 00:40:18.756
  • In exchange for our sin, he gave to us his righteousness
  • 00:40:18.756 --> 00:40:24.662
  • So that we can now stand before god,
  • 00:40:24.662 --> 00:40:26.764
  • Not because of anything we have done,
  • 00:40:26.764 --> 00:40:29.133
  • But we are the receivers of the righteousness of god
  • 00:40:29.133 --> 00:40:32.636
  • Through salvation in jesus christ alone.
  • 00:40:32.636 --> 00:40:35.606
  • And when that broke across martin luther's mind
  • 00:40:35.606 --> 00:40:39.043
  • And he began to see that all you can do
  • 00:40:39.043 --> 00:40:41.545
  • To work your way to heaven is worthless,
  • 00:40:41.545 --> 00:40:43.948
  • That the bible is true when it says
  • 00:40:43.948 --> 00:40:45.783
  • That our righteousnesses are as filthy rags before god,
  • 00:40:45.783 --> 00:40:50.087
  • He began to understand the hope that is in the gospel
  • 00:40:50.087 --> 00:40:54.058
  • Because that hope is not resident
  • 00:40:54.058 --> 00:40:55.860
  • In the one who is seeking heaven.
  • 00:40:55.860 --> 00:40:58.629
  • That hope is in god, who, in heaven, offers us
  • 00:40:58.629 --> 00:41:03.334
  • His righteousness.
  • 00:41:03.334 --> 00:41:06.337
  • We should not be disengaged with the gospel.
  • 00:41:06.337 --> 00:41:08.506
  • How could we be disengaged with something so marvelous,
  • 00:41:08.506 --> 00:41:11.342
  • So wonderful?
  • 00:41:11.342 --> 00:41:14.211
  • The verse ends with this thought:
  • 00:41:14.211 --> 00:41:16.547
  • That we should not be disengaged with the gospel
  • 00:41:16.547 --> 00:41:18.649
  • Because of the principle of the gospel.
  • 00:41:18.649 --> 00:41:21.218
  • "for everyone who believes, from faith to faith,
  • 00:41:21.218 --> 00:41:25.189
  • 'the just shall live by faith.'"
  • 00:41:25.189 --> 00:41:27.625
  • So here's this gospel, the power of god.
  • 00:41:27.625 --> 00:41:30.461
  • How do we get it? we get it by faith.
  • 00:41:30.461 --> 00:41:35.299
  • One interpretation of this says
  • 00:41:35.299 --> 00:41:36.767
  • That it's out of faith and into faith,
  • 00:41:36.767 --> 00:41:39.703
  • And the idea is that it comes to us sometimes through others.
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  • The righteousness of god is conveyed to me
  • 00:41:43.040 --> 00:41:45.209
  • Out of the testimony of another man's faith
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  • Into the receptivity of my faith.
  • 00:41:47.678 --> 00:41:50.147
  • And the righteousness of god will be communicated
  • 00:41:50.147 --> 00:41:52.149
  • To many out of the testimony of my faith
  • 00:41:52.149 --> 00:41:54.618
  • Into the receptivity of their faith.
  • 00:41:54.618 --> 00:41:56.654
  • One man preaches, another man believes,
  • 00:41:56.654 --> 00:41:58.856
  • And faith comes to your heart from faith to faith,
  • 00:41:58.856 --> 00:42:03.460
  • And people believe.
  • 00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:04.795
  • As i ask you today, think about how you
  • 00:42:04.795 --> 00:42:06.864
  • Came to know jesus christ.
  • 00:42:06.864 --> 00:42:08.198
  • Was it not someone who told you about him?
  • 00:42:08.198 --> 00:42:10.401
  • Either your parents or the people
  • 00:42:10.401 --> 00:42:12.036
  • In your small group or in your class
  • 00:42:12.036 --> 00:42:13.504
  • Or maybe a preacher?
  • 00:42:13.504 --> 00:42:14.838
  • How do we get this faith? it's from faith to faith.
  • 00:42:14.838 --> 00:42:17.341
  • And when we get to faith, we receive it.
  • 00:42:17.341 --> 00:42:19.276
  • Now we become reservoirs,
  • 00:42:19.276 --> 00:42:21.011
  • And from our lives, others get faith.
  • 00:42:21.011 --> 00:42:23.247
  • So the gospel says the way faith is communicated
  • 00:42:23.247 --> 00:42:26.216
  • Is originally comes from god.
  • 00:42:26.216 --> 00:42:27.985
  • It's deposited in a human,
  • 00:42:27.985 --> 00:42:29.320
  • And through that faith in that human,
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  • He is the transferer of that faith to others.
  • 00:42:31.288 --> 00:42:35.192
  • The gospel is shared by faith.
  • 00:42:35.192 --> 00:42:38.495
  • I'm here to tell you today
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  • That there's someone waiting for you
  • 00:42:39.830 --> 00:42:43.334
  • To share your faith.
  • 00:42:43.334 --> 00:42:46.337
  • Did you ever think about what that term means?
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  • I want to share my faith.
  • 00:42:48.872 --> 00:42:51.375
  • That doesn't mean just talk about what you believe.
  • 00:42:51.375 --> 00:42:53.143
  • That means take the faith that god has given to you
  • 00:42:53.143 --> 00:42:56.013
  • And allow yourself to be a conduit
  • 00:42:56.013 --> 00:42:58.349
  • So that that faith can come from you into others,
  • 00:42:58.349 --> 00:43:02.019
  • From faith to faith.
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  • Every one of us has some faith to give away, don't we?
  • 00:43:05.589 --> 00:43:09.560
  • No, we don't give anybody salvation.
  • 00:43:09.560 --> 00:43:11.662
  • We help them understand what faith is,
  • 00:43:11.662 --> 00:43:14.765
  • And it's through our witness that they become christians.
  • 00:43:14.765 --> 00:43:21.205
  • But the gospel is not only shared by faith,
  • 00:43:21.205 --> 00:43:22.806
  • It's received by faith.
  • 00:43:22.806 --> 00:43:24.508
  • For everyone who believes,
  • 00:43:24.508 --> 00:43:27.144
  • And the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:43:27.144 --> 00:43:30.180
  • Earlier paul has written that the gospel
  • 00:43:30.180 --> 00:43:32.549
  • Is for everyone who believes.
  • 00:43:32.549 --> 00:43:34.084
  • That means you may know about the faith,
  • 00:43:34.084 --> 00:43:36.654
  • You may have seen the faith, you may understand the faith,
  • 00:43:36.654 --> 00:43:38.789
  • But you don't have the faith unless you receive the faith.
  • 00:43:38.789 --> 00:43:43.027
  • You have to reach out and take the gift.
  • 00:43:43.027 --> 00:43:46.497
  • The gospel says that salvation is a gift of god
  • 00:43:46.497 --> 00:43:50.501
  • Through jesus christ our lord.
  • 00:43:50.501 --> 00:43:52.102
  • You may not even really be able to say
  • 00:43:52.102 --> 00:43:53.704
  • You have a gift until you receive it.
  • 00:43:53.704 --> 00:43:56.473
  • Did you get anything for christmas?
  • 00:43:56.473 --> 00:43:58.142
  • Yes, it's sitting up in the room, unwrapped.
  • 00:43:58.142 --> 00:44:01.512
  • You didn't get anything,
  • 00:44:01.512 --> 00:44:03.380
  • Because it's not your gift until you receive it,
  • 00:44:03.380 --> 00:44:05.683
  • Until you accept it.
  • 00:44:05.683 --> 00:44:07.718
  • And so it is with the gospel.
  • 00:44:07.718 --> 00:44:09.053
  • If you don't know jesus christ--
  • 00:44:09.053 --> 00:44:10.621
  • It's not gonna come through osmosis.
  • 00:44:10.621 --> 00:44:12.790
  • It's not gonna come through coming to church.
  • 00:44:12.790 --> 00:44:14.625
  • You only get jesus christ when you understand
  • 00:44:14.625 --> 00:44:17.628
  • That he loves you, he sent his son to die for you,
  • 00:44:17.628 --> 00:44:20.064
  • And by faith, through prayer,
  • 00:44:20.064 --> 00:44:22.199
  • You ask jesus christ to be your savior.
  • 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:26.036
  • Four times this statement-- "the just shall live by faith"--
  • 00:44:26.036 --> 00:44:28.939
  • Is found.
  • 00:44:28.939 --> 00:44:30.641
  • You'll see it in the book of habakkuk,
  • 00:44:30.641 --> 00:44:32.943
  • In the book of galatians, in the book of hebrews,
  • 00:44:32.943 --> 00:44:35.579
  • And here in the book of romans.
  • 00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:38.482
  • And this is the war cry of the reformation:
  • 00:44:38.482 --> 00:44:41.452
  • "the just shall live by faith,"
  • 00:44:41.452 --> 00:44:43.787
  • Not by works which we have done.
  • 00:44:43.787 --> 00:44:47.624
  • The reformation was a resistance against the idea
  • 00:44:47.624 --> 00:44:52.129
  • That you could work your way to heaven,
  • 00:44:52.129 --> 00:44:55.132
  • That you could buy your way out of indulgences and other things
  • 00:44:55.132 --> 00:45:00.104
  • And merit god by your own activity.
  • 00:45:00.104 --> 00:45:03.340
  • The reformation is all about this:
  • 00:45:03.340 --> 00:45:05.409
  • "the just shall live by faith," not by works,
  • 00:45:05.409 --> 00:45:11.815
  • Not by good deeds.
  • 00:45:11.815 --> 00:45:13.617
  • We are not saved by works. we are saved unto good works.
  • 00:45:13.617 --> 00:45:18.622
  • We are saved; once we're saved, we do these good works,
  • 00:45:18.622 --> 00:45:21.959
  • According to the scripture.
  • 00:45:21.959 --> 00:45:25.229
  • But this was the truth that riveted the heart
  • 00:45:25.229 --> 00:45:29.032
  • Of the great reformer martin luther.
  • 00:45:29.032 --> 00:45:32.436
  • On three separate occasions,
  • 00:45:32.436 --> 00:45:34.772
  • This phrase had an impact on his life.
  • 00:45:34.772 --> 00:45:38.075
  • First of all, in wittenberg, in the quiet of his cell,
  • 00:45:38.075 --> 00:45:40.277
  • While the world is still asleep,
  • 00:45:40.277 --> 00:45:41.712
  • He's been incarcerated for all that he has been doing,
  • 00:45:41.712 --> 00:45:46.550
  • And he's poring over the epistle to the romans.
  • 00:45:46.550 --> 00:45:49.386
  • And paul's quotation from habakkuk
  • 00:45:49.386 --> 00:45:51.421
  • Strangely captivates him,
  • 00:45:51.421 --> 00:45:53.624
  • And he begins to say to himself, "the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:45:53.624 --> 00:45:57.528
  • The just shall live by faith."
  • 00:45:57.528 --> 00:45:59.930
  • Years pass, and luther, in the course of his journey,
  • 00:45:59.930 --> 00:46:03.400
  • Crosses the alps, and there he's overtaken
  • 00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.303
  • By a serious sickness.
  • 00:46:06.303 --> 00:46:08.071
  • His mind relapses into utmost darkness and dejection,
  • 00:46:08.071 --> 00:46:11.675
  • And the sense of his sinfulness troubles him,
  • 00:46:11.675 --> 00:46:13.877
  • And the prospect of judgment
  • 00:46:13.877 --> 00:46:15.412
  • Begins to fill him with fear and dread.
  • 00:46:15.412 --> 00:46:18.081
  • But at the very moment at which those terrors
  • 00:46:18.081 --> 00:46:20.517
  • Reach their highest pitch,
  • 00:46:20.517 --> 00:46:22.186
  • The words that had already struck wittenberg
  • 00:46:22.186 --> 00:46:24.755
  • Recur forcibly to his memory,
  • 00:46:24.755 --> 00:46:27.057
  • And he begins to hear them again:
  • 00:46:27.057 --> 00:46:30.160
  • "the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:32.629
  • The just shall live by faith."
  • 00:46:32.629 --> 00:46:36.300
  • Restored and comforted, he gains his health back
  • 00:46:36.300 --> 00:46:39.203
  • And continues his journey.
  • 00:46:39.203 --> 00:46:41.338
  • And his third and final
  • 00:46:41.338 --> 00:46:43.140
  • And absolute most-important experience
  • 00:46:43.140 --> 00:46:46.877
  • With this phrase happens at rome.
  • 00:46:46.877 --> 00:46:50.047
  • An incredible story.
  • 00:46:50.047 --> 00:46:51.682
  • In the city of rome, there is the cathedral church
  • 00:46:51.682 --> 00:46:55.319
  • Of st. john the lateran.
  • 00:46:55.319 --> 00:46:58.021
  • In it is a famous staircase that's built in three sections--
  • 00:46:58.021 --> 00:47:02.259
  • The ancient staircase with two parallel staircases,
  • 00:47:02.259 --> 00:47:05.395
  • One on each side.
  • 00:47:05.395 --> 00:47:07.130
  • And people would come to st. john's church
  • 00:47:07.130 --> 00:47:09.833
  • And walk up the staircases to the left and to the right.
  • 00:47:09.833 --> 00:47:13.604
  • But on the staircase in the center,
  • 00:47:13.604 --> 00:47:15.806
  • Only pilgrims were allowed,
  • 00:47:15.806 --> 00:47:18.141
  • And they would come to that staircase,
  • 00:47:18.141 --> 00:47:20.310
  • And on their knees they would climb up painfully,
  • 00:47:20.310 --> 00:47:24.848
  • Step by step,
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  • Reciting their prayers as they went.
  • 00:47:26.183 --> 00:47:30.320
  • On two or three of the stairs,
  • 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:31.655
  • There is a covering of plate glass
  • 00:47:31.655 --> 00:47:34.057
  • Through which you can see red stains.
  • 00:47:34.057 --> 00:47:37.361
  • As these steps are climbed by these anguished pilgrims,
  • 00:47:37.361 --> 00:47:40.597
  • They often stop on the plate glass stair
  • 00:47:40.597 --> 00:47:45.269
  • And look through there to these blood stains.
  • 00:47:45.269 --> 00:47:48.372
  • There is a tradition that says that these stains
  • 00:47:48.372 --> 00:47:51.508
  • Come from pilate's hall in jerusalem
  • 00:47:51.508 --> 00:47:53.510
  • And that these are the stains of the blood of jesus christ.
  • 00:47:53.510 --> 00:47:59.082
  • So martin luther is climbing up the stairs in the cathedral
  • 00:47:59.082 --> 00:48:04.955
  • Of st. john the lateran,
  • 00:48:04.955 --> 00:48:07.324
  • Wishing to obtain an indulgence promised by the pope
  • 00:48:07.324 --> 00:48:12.162
  • To all who would ascend the so-called pilate staircase
  • 00:48:12.162 --> 00:48:15.465
  • On their knees.
  • 00:48:15.465 --> 00:48:18.035
  • Luther is painfully weeping his way up those stairs
  • 00:48:18.035 --> 00:48:21.505
  • In hopes of pleasing god.
  • 00:48:21.505 --> 00:48:25.042
  • While he is performing this meritorious act,
  • 00:48:25.042 --> 00:48:27.978
  • He thinks he hears a voice of thunder,
  • 00:48:27.978 --> 00:48:31.949
  • "the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:48:31.949 --> 00:48:36.186
  • The just shall live by faith."
  • 00:48:36.186 --> 00:48:41.191
  • These words, which had twice before struck him
  • 00:48:41.191 --> 00:48:44.594
  • Like the voice of an angel from heaven,
  • 00:48:44.594 --> 00:48:47.297
  • Resound powerfully within his heart.
  • 00:48:47.297 --> 00:48:51.068
  • And in a moment when he realizes the work of climbing
  • 00:48:51.068 --> 00:48:54.438
  • These stairs will never get him to heaven,
  • 00:48:54.438 --> 00:48:56.573
  • There are no stairs long enough or even painful enough
  • 00:48:56.573 --> 00:48:59.543
  • To get you to heaven.
  • 00:48:59.543 --> 00:49:01.244
  • Martin luther stands up from the steps
  • 00:49:01.244 --> 00:49:06.616
  • On which he is dragging his painfully weary body.
  • 00:49:06.616 --> 00:49:10.454
  • He shudders at himself.
  • 00:49:10.454 --> 00:49:12.289
  • He is ashamed at seeing to what a depth he has plunged.
  • 00:49:12.289 --> 00:49:16.226
  • He runs as far as he can
  • 00:49:16.226 --> 00:49:17.995
  • From the scene of his foolishness.
  • 00:49:17.995 --> 00:49:21.298
  • And today, if you would visit the library of rudolstadt,
  • 00:49:21.298 --> 00:49:25.635
  • There is a glass case where you will discover
  • 00:49:25.635 --> 00:49:28.705
  • A manuscript that memorializes luther's experience in rome.
  • 00:49:28.705 --> 00:49:33.643
  • This letter is in the handwriting
  • 00:49:33.643 --> 00:49:35.012
  • Of dr. paul luther, the reformer's youngest son,
  • 00:49:35.012 --> 00:49:38.949
  • And here's what the letter says: "in the year 1544,
  • 00:49:38.949 --> 00:49:43.887
  • My dearest father, in the presence of us all,
  • 00:49:43.887 --> 00:49:46.923
  • Narrated the whole story of his journey to rome.
  • 00:49:46.923 --> 00:49:49.893
  • He acknowledged with great joy that in that city,
  • 00:49:49.893 --> 00:49:52.496
  • Through the spirit of jesus christ,
  • 00:49:52.496 --> 00:49:54.431
  • He had come to the knowledge
  • 00:49:54.431 --> 00:49:55.766
  • Of the truth of the everlasting gospel.
  • 00:49:55.766 --> 00:49:57.968
  • It happened this way.
  • 00:49:57.968 --> 00:49:59.703
  • As he repeated his prayers on the lateran staircase,
  • 00:49:59.703 --> 00:50:02.773
  • The words of the prophet habakkuk
  • 00:50:02.773 --> 00:50:04.408
  • Came suddenly to his mind, 'the just shall live by faith.'
  • 00:50:04.408 --> 00:50:08.145
  • Thereupon he ceased his prayers, returned to wittenberg,
  • 00:50:08.145 --> 00:50:11.481
  • And took this as the foundation of his life and his doctrine."
  • 00:50:11.481 --> 00:50:16.620
  • After all of the effort, all of the monkery,
  • 00:50:16.620 --> 00:50:22.559
  • And finally he got it.
  • 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:24.594
  • We are not saved by our works. we are saved by his work.
  • 00:50:24.594 --> 00:50:31.001
  • The bible tells us: "for by grace we are saved
  • 00:50:31.001 --> 00:50:34.304
  • Through faith, and that not of ourselves;
  • 00:50:34.304 --> 00:50:36.907
  • It is a gift of god, not of works,
  • 00:50:36.907 --> 00:50:39.176
  • Lest any man should boast."
  • 00:50:39.176 --> 00:50:42.712
  • Ladies and gentlemen, the reason i want you to hear this story
  • 00:50:42.712 --> 00:50:45.916
  • And hear the heart of your pastor is this.
  • 00:50:45.916 --> 00:50:48.785
  • We basically just have one job to do as a church.
  • 00:50:48.785 --> 00:50:52.322
  • We do a lot of other things that are important,
  • 00:50:52.322 --> 00:50:53.990
  • And if we're not careful,
  • 00:50:53.990 --> 00:50:55.325
  • We let all the other things get in the way of
  • 00:50:55.325 --> 00:50:56.927
  • The one thing we're supposed to do,
  • 00:50:56.927 --> 00:50:58.662
  • And that's to carry the message of the gospel to the world
  • 00:50:58.662 --> 00:51:01.131
  • And let everybody know that the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:51:01.131 --> 00:51:04.668
  • And if you'll put your faith in jesus christ,
  • 00:51:04.668 --> 00:51:07.204
  • He will change your lives.
  • 00:51:07.204 --> 00:51:08.538
  • Can i get an amen?
  • 00:51:08.538 --> 00:51:09.873
  • Congregation: amen.
  • 00:51:09.873 --> 00:51:11.208
  • Dr. jeremiah: i want to end by telling you
  • 00:51:11.208 --> 00:51:13.376
  • A more modern story.
  • 00:51:13.376 --> 00:51:15.946
  • On the morning of september the 11th, 2001,
  • 00:51:15.946 --> 00:51:18.315
  • The brooklyn tabernacle lost four of its members.
  • 00:51:18.315 --> 00:51:21.551
  • One victim was a police officer,
  • 00:51:21.551 --> 00:51:23.587
  • And the officer's funeral was held at the church building,
  • 00:51:23.587 --> 00:51:27.057
  • And rudy giuliani, then mayor of new york city,
  • 00:51:27.057 --> 00:51:31.194
  • Had asked to share a few thoughts.
  • 00:51:31.194 --> 00:51:34.364
  • In his book "you were made for more,"
  • 00:51:34.364 --> 00:51:35.832
  • Jim cymbala, pastor of the tabernacle,
  • 00:51:35.832 --> 00:51:37.868
  • Records what the mayor shared with the audience that morning.
  • 00:51:37.868 --> 00:51:41.938
  • Listen carefully.
  • 00:51:41.938 --> 00:51:44.074
  • "you know, people," he said,
  • 00:51:44.074 --> 00:51:45.408
  • "i've learned something through all this.
  • 00:51:45.408 --> 00:51:46.743
  • Let me see if i can express it to you.
  • 00:51:46.743 --> 00:51:49.279
  • When everybody was fleeing that building
  • 00:51:49.279 --> 00:51:51.248
  • And the cops and the firefighters
  • 00:51:51.248 --> 00:51:52.649
  • And the ems people were heading up into it,
  • 00:51:52.649 --> 00:51:54.784
  • Do you think any of them said,
  • 00:51:54.784 --> 00:51:56.119
  • 'i wonder how many blacks are up there for us to save.
  • 00:51:56.119 --> 00:51:59.890
  • I wonder what percentage are whites up there.
  • 00:51:59.890 --> 00:52:02.192
  • I wonder how many jews are up there.
  • 00:52:02.192 --> 00:52:03.827
  • Let's see, i wonder how many people up there make $400,000
  • 00:52:03.827 --> 00:52:07.964
  • Or $24,000 or whatever'?
  • 00:52:07.964 --> 00:52:11.001
  • No, when you're saving lives, they're all precious,
  • 00:52:11.001 --> 00:52:13.870
  • And that's how we're supposed to live all the time.
  • 00:52:13.870 --> 00:52:16.406
  • How would you want the cops to treat you
  • 00:52:16.406 --> 00:52:18.441
  • If you were on the 75th floor that day?
  • 00:52:18.441 --> 00:52:20.644
  • Would you want them to say,
  • 00:52:20.644 --> 00:52:21.978
  • 'excuse me, but i gotta get to the bosses
  • 00:52:21.978 --> 00:52:24.514
  • And get them out first'?
  • 00:52:24.514 --> 00:52:26.550
  • Not exactly."
  • 00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:28.718
  • Giuliani said, "i haven't always lived this way,
  • 00:52:28.718 --> 00:52:31.454
  • But i'm convinced that god wants us to do it.
  • 00:52:31.454 --> 00:52:34.357
  • He wants us to value every human life
  • 00:52:34.357 --> 00:52:36.626
  • The way he values us."
  • 00:52:36.626 --> 00:52:39.329
  • Jim cymbala said, "i sat there, thinking, 'my goodness,
  • 00:52:39.329 --> 00:52:42.566
  • The mayor is preaching the gospel.'"
  • 00:52:42.566 --> 00:52:45.902
  • And it's a gospel that seems to have eluded
  • 00:52:45.902 --> 00:52:47.771
  • So many of our churches
  • 00:52:47.771 --> 00:52:49.105
  • Throughout new york and this country.
  • 00:52:49.105 --> 00:52:51.007
  • The world you and i live in
  • 00:52:51.007 --> 00:52:52.542
  • Is falling apart before our eyes,
  • 00:52:52.542 --> 00:52:54.411
  • And we are god's only representatives on the planet,
  • 00:52:54.411 --> 00:52:57.914
  • And simply cannot take time to pick and choose
  • 00:52:57.914 --> 00:53:00.517
  • Who needs our help.
  • 00:53:00.517 --> 00:53:02.085
  • They all need help.
  • 00:53:02.085 --> 00:53:03.420
  • They all need the love and forgiveness of jesus christ.
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  • They all need to be rescued from the horror
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  • Of an eternity apart from god.
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  • And, gentlemen and ladies,
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  • That's what god has called us to do as a church.
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  • I don't want us to lose our way.
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  • We've had lots of distractions of late,
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  • But let's get back to the main business
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  • To which god has called us.
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  • Nobody else offers what we do unless they're a church
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  • That bases its truth on the word of god.
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  • We have a commodity, if i can use that word,
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  • That is in great demand,
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  • And we need to be very serious about the calling
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  • That god has placed upon us for the gospel.
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  • "for i'm not ashamed of the gospel,
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  • For it is the power of god unto salvation."
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  • I hope you will join your pastor
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  • With a new and greater understanding,
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  • Not only the responsibility but the privilege we have
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  • To preach this gospel and share this gospel.
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  • And don't think because you're not a preacher or teacher
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  • That doesn't involve you.
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  • Listen to me.
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  • Everything you do that advances the ministry,
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  • Whether it's with children or young people or anybody else,
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  • Is helping us get the gospel forward.
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  • Don't diminish the importance of your job, and don't say,
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  • "i'm not a preacher so--" or don't say,
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  • "i haven't been asked to teach."
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  • No, do what god has called you to do where you are
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  • And trust god.
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  • Don't worry so much about the promotion.
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  • Worry about yourself.
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  • Worry about what god has called you to do,
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  • And then go do it with all your heart.
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  • And the gospel of jesus christ will be the winner, amen.
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  • Dr. jeremiah: as we learned in today's message,
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  • The gospel of jesus christ offers the good news
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  • About the sacrificial death and resurrection of jesus christ
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  • And the promise of eternal life for those who believe on him.
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  • Dr. jeremiah: ladies and gentlemen,
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  • The fear of god is being lost in our culture today.
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  • God is being kicked to the curb, shoved to the perimeter,
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  • Omitted from everything.
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  • But we who know him, we who are believers,
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  • We who are followers of christ,
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  • We want the privilege of a life that's meaningful,
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  • And it starts with having the right attitude
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  • Toward your maker, and to fear god.
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  • Announcer: join us next time for dr. jeremiah's message
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  • "fully engaged with life," here on "turning point."
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