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Let's take a look at some clips of the most powerful preaching I've ever heard in my life. You definitely don't want to miss the last one.

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Number eight is Steve Lawson, who didn't just call out Joel Osteen in this clip, but also ended with an extremely powerful exhortation to all preachers.

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Quote, Larry King, because we've had ministers on our program who said, you either believe in Christ or you don't.

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If you believe in Christ, you're going to heaven. And if you don't, no matter what you've done in your life, you ain't.

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We've had ministers on who said, your record don't count. You either believe in Christ or you don't.

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If you believe in Christ, you are, you are going to heaven. And if you don't, no matter what you've done in your life, you ain't.

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I wonder what minister would ever say that on the Larry King program. Listen to the response of one of the biggest, grandest

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Christian so -called leaders in America. Yeah, I don't know.

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Yeah, I don't know. So here it goes.

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To Larry King, yeah, I don't know. There's probably a balance between…

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I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you're a believer in God, that you're going to have some good works.

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I think it's a cop -out to say, I'm a Christian, but I don't ever do anything. Yeah, I don't know.

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There's probably a balance between, I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know

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Christ, if you're a believer in God, you're going to have some good works. And I think it's a cop -out to say well,

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I'm not a Christian, but I don't ever do anything That doesn't even answer the question King What if you're

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Jewish as? He is What if you're a Muslim and you don't accept

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Christ at all question mark? What if you're Jewish or Muslim and you don't accept

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Christ at all the answer? You know, you know I'm very careful about saying

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Who would and who wouldn't go to heaven? I just I'm very careful about saying who and wouldn't wouldn't go to heaven

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I don't know. I don't know. I think only the King If you believe you have to believe in Christ They're wrong

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Aren't they don't believe you have to believe in Christ. I believe they're wrong referring to the

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Jews referring to the Muslims The answer I'm just reading this, okay well, well,

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I Don't know.

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I don't know. I Don't know if I believe they're wrong.

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I don't know if I believe they're wrong I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I've spent a lot of time in India with my father

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I don't know about all their religion, you know, I don't know all about the religion, but I know they love

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God But I know they love God. No, they don't they hate God. I Don't know.

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I don't know. I've seen their sincerity So I've seen their sincerity.

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So on worldwide television so I Don't know

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I don't know give us some men who know the truth And who will declare the truth?

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And who will stand with Athanasius and polycart and Calvin and Luther and Whitfield and Edwards and who will declare from the

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Housetops that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation Number seven is an amazing encounter between Ray Comfort and a young man and Ray powerfully presenting the gospel to him

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So Mario, are you spiritual? Yes, what do you mean by that the way

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I grew up? My heart was in my neighborhood, but my love I've always been loyal to love

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I've always known that but it deceived me I confused the two if you confuse the two it lets you down.

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You have to pick yourself up You can't be a man without love You have to separate yourself from love in order to find that for yourself

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Who created man and woman a higher power who was that God? Why do we exist as human beings the love and worry where you going when you die, whatever you did here it depends

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Jesus suffered and died on the cross for the sin of the world the Ten Commandments are called the moral law You and I broke the law

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Jesus paid the fine. That's what happened on that cross Mario if you're in court and someone pays your fine a judge can let you go.

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Did you know that you can say Mario? There's a stack of speeding fines here. This is deadly serious

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But someone's paid him you're free to go and he can do that which is legal and right and just and God loves you so much

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He became a human being suffered and died on the cross to take the punishment for the sin of the world That means you don't have to end up in hell

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God can legally forgive your sins because he's the lover of your soul And then

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Jesus rose from the dead and defeated death Mario if you give up the battle and just say God I'm a rebel and you repent and trust in Christ God will forgive every sin you've ever committed and grant you everlasting life as a free gift

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Do you believe what I'm saying? Yes, it's the gospel truth. I wouldn't lie to you. Are you ready to repent and trust in Christ?

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Yes, pray with you. Sure. Well, I pray for Mario. I think we met today.

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Thank you. We met today I pray today. He'll truly repent and trust in Jesus and have her sins forgiven in a second and pass from death to life

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In Jesus name we pray. Amen You have a Bible out No I'm I'm gonna give you some literature.

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Do you know why you're you're weeping any idea? Because I've sinned as a man

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That's called contrition and the Bible says godly sorrow being sorry for your sins works repentance so I trust today that God's brought conviction of sin to you and that you know, you've sinned against God and you'll understand that God can forgive you and grant you everlasting life as a free gift.

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I've got some literature for you. Okay, Mario Thank you for talking to me. I really appreciate it. I appreciate you

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Interviewing me I do a friend recently asked me to send him the full

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Mario interview so they could show it to his church Then he sent me this email Okay, they were blown away yesterday by the

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Mario video brought several to tears Not kidding The closed out the service by asking who would attend a class where we could learn how to do what we just saw

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They do half the church said sign them up and more from the half that didn't will once they see it happening

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Number six is Jeff Durbin standing firm in speaking the truth Even while police officers are illegally trying to shut him down Constitution says that I have a right to remain silent and not self incriminate and our state law says that in order for you to actually

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Get my idea. I have to be cited with a crime At a warning, so please don't do it. What's the warning for you?

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This is my question. What's the warning for? Officer, what's the warning for amplified sound device? That's legal activity.

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You won't look at this. Don't use it. It's a legal activity We have a complaint ma 'am. We'll sue you for violent

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Officer you need to repent of your lawless conduct. This is lawless

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You are not engaging in activity as law enforcement right now. You are engaging in thuggish oppressive

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Unconstitutional behavior, you don't know the law and yet you pretend to represent it The law states

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I have freedom of speech the law states you have to have a calibrated meter In order to cite me for anything

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You didn't even know you're not allowed to ask for my ID without citing for a crime Officer you didn't know the law and she didn't know the law

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You're citing people for disorderly conduct and no amplicate amplification you didn't even know the law

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That's not law enforcement, sir. That's being a thug Obviously, we're being a little more firm with the police today

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The police recently have been harassing us and trying to stop us from doing this work the police

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Recently cited our friend Steven who's been out here for years saving lives He has a court case this month for this very issue also, they

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Stole his property which is valued at over $300, which I think is a felony that the city of Tempe two different departments including the police department are colluding with The business owners here and with Planned Parenthood to stop our constitutionally protected activity

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So you'll notice I was a little more firm With the police department there and calling them out on their lawless activity because if Christians don't actually stand on what the law is and Actually confront lawless behavior of police officers.

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They'll continue to oppress people. They'll continue to perpetrate injustice They'll continue to violate our rights and they'll actually try to halt

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Ministries like this that work to rescue children So you'll notice something when Steven was here and Steven was criminally cited they confiscated his property

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Steven didn't actually confront the police officers from what I understand with the law itself the city code

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And so what did they do? They ran roughshod over Steven They confiscated his property and now he has a court case

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But as soon as you confront the police officers with the law itself They don't even know and you'll notice her very unprofessional behavior when she's being asked to look at the law itself

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She wasn't even willing to do that And so I want to encourage you guys to keep praying for us because this could get worse for us

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We are not stopping as a matter of fact I'm going right back on this to continue to talk to the women because that is our constitutional right and beyond that it's also

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What God commands us to preach the gospel were illegally allowed to use amplification. They have to have a calibrated meter

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They're not obeying the law And so as Christians we have every right to obey the law, which is

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Freedom of speech we can use amplification It's been ruled on by the Supreme Court by federal courts and the city of Tempe says we can use this if they think it's

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A disturbance they have to actually use a calibrated meter and test it for a minimum of five minutes So that's it guys pray for us.

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There's a good chance. They might show back up. It's a good chance I'm going to jail. So pray for us. Number five is

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RC spruill fearlessly and unashamedly giving the biblical answer to one of the most controversial questions that both non -christians and Christians ask we're only about eight students and we were seated around the table

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With a professor and one of the students asked the question dr.

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Gershner How can I be happy in heaven if I am aware?

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That one of my loved ones is in hell and Gershner snapped around and looked at this man

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And he said don't you know that when you're in heaven you will be so sanctified

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That you will be able to see your own mother in hell and rejoice in that Knowing that God's perfect justice is being carried out

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But God said Through Moses to Aaron Do you remember what the

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Lord said I will be

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Regarded as holy by anyone who comes near to me and I must be honored

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Among the whole congregation and if it means that my friends if it means my family

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Must be sacrificed for the righteousness of God for the manifestation of his holiness

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For the glory of His righteousness

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Though I can't stomach the thought of it now this word tells me

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That the day will come where I will be so concerned

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About the glory of God and Of Jesus That I will be able to rejoice in his judgments

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We're not there yet folks But that is our destiny

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Number four is one of John MacArthur's most popular sermons on YouTube where he warns professing

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Christians about being self -deceived about their salvation Another thing to look for when you're looking for people who might be in a condition of being self -deceived is that they are over Indulgent in the name of grace.

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They are over indulgent in the name of grace. Another way to say that is they lack penitence With true

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Christians. There's just an ongoing brokenness There's there's just an ongoing kind of Recognition that they fall short.

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We are the ones always confessing our sins and thereby verse 1st John 1 we give evidence of being the ones who are always being forgiven when you find people who are

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Overindulgent in their sins who are going to defend their right to conduct their life in a certain way and live a certain way

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Because of grace sort of super grace Indulgent grace and they lack penitence and brokenness and a measure of humility might well be that you're dealing

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With someone who is deceived Number three is Paul washers shocking message delivered to 5 ,000 youth at a conference that went viral where he fearlessly preached some uncomfortable very biblical truths what you need to know is that salvation is by faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ and Faith alone in Jesus Christ is preceded and followed by repentance a

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Turning away from sin a hatred for the things that God hates and a love for the things that God loves a

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Growing in holiness and a desire not to be like Britney Spears not to be like the world and not to be like the great

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Majority of American Christians, but to be like Jesus Christ. I don't know why you're clapping.

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I'm talking about you I didn't come here to get amens.

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I didn't come here to be applauded. I'm talking about you Let me take it a little further let's imagine that I show up late and I run up here on the platform and And every all the leaders are angry with me said brother

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Paul Don't you appreciate the fact you're giving the opportunity to speak here and you come late and I said brothers you have to forgive me

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Well, why well I was out here on the highway and I was driving and I had a flat tire and I got out to change the

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Tire and when I was changing the tire the lug nut fell off and I wasn't paying attention that I was on the highway

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And I ran out and I grabbed the lug nut and soon as I picked it up in the middle of the highway I stood up and there was a 30 -ton logging truck going 120 miles an hour about 10 yards in front of me and it ran

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Me over and that's why I'm late Now there would only be two logic.

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I know no one studies logic anymore, but there would only be two logical conclusions one

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I'm a liar Or two. I'm a madman You would say brother

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Paul. It's absolutely absurd. It is impossible brother Paul to have an encounter

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With something as large as a logging truck and not be changed and then my question would be to you

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What is larger a logging truck or God? How is it that so many people today profess to have had an encounter with Jesus Christ and yet they are not permanently changed

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Number two is an incredibly powerful gospel presentation and summary by Vodie Bauckham delivered at Shepherds Conference 2022 in case you missed it what we do in the midst of this sin -sick age that has rejected the gospel and Perverted the gospel and replaced the gospel with that which is not the gospel is that we call out that wickedness

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We call it by name Then we remind people of the good news of the gospel again and again and again until it tastes sweet to them

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When people say no our problem is this our problem is that we say no no no no our problem is that God created the world and God created man and he put man in the garden to keep the garden and he gave the man a command

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And he held that man to perfect perpetual obedience to that command and he promised him life if he kept it and death if he didn't and he didn't keep it he ate and because he ate because of that one man sin entered the world and death through sin and everyone born from that man through ordinary generation inherited that man's sin nature and because of that sin nature sins proceed from it and our world is broken because of that sin and We stand guilty before a holy and righteous

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God And we know that he's holy and we know that he's righteous and we crave justice

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But the problem is that if God gives us justice we all die And so that God in his goodness and in his mercy

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Sent forth his son who was not born of ordinary generation, but was born of a virgin

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Yes, the virgin birth matters. Why because if he's born of ordinary generation, he's born in sin

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But because he's not born of ordinary generation, he's not born in sin he's clean of sin his record is clean and he keeps his record clean and he obeys

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God's law and Because he's fully God and fully man. He obeys the law of God on our behalf in his active obedience

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And then in his passive obedience God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us

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All we like sheep had gone astray each of us had turned to his own way, but God laid upon him the iniquity of us all and Christ died for sin once for all the just for the unjust and God imputes our sinfulness to him and he nails our sinfulness to the tree and Christ dies and raises again on the third day for our

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Justification and there's another imputation. The righteousness of Christ is actually imputed to us

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So that God can be both just and the justifier of the one who places faith in Jesus Christ So that all those who come to Christ may enter in so that all those who place faith in Christ Might be saved but not only saved but sanctified

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Because he's the firstborn of many brethren We're justified and we're adopted into the family of God and was sanctified and as his children

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We began to bear the family resemblance and we're further Sanctified throughout this life by the very same gospel that saves us until one day when it's all said and done

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We're not just saved from the penalty of sin We're not just saved from the power of sin, but one day we're glorified and saved from the very presence of sin

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That's the gospel that we preach. That's the gospel that we need and that's the gospel

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That's more than enough And number one are all the local pastors

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You don't know about who faithfully preach the Word of God to their congregations week after week without any fanfare

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I really hope you appreciate your own local churches pastors as much as you appreciate any of these other outside Pastors we love to listen to here's a clip of my own pastor whom

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God has put in charge of shepherding my soul through my local church Remember what JC Ryle said?

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He says you will not participate in the exaltation of Jesus if you have not participated in his humiliation

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Like you said earlier there is no crown Without a cross you must deny yourself and take up your cross you must deny yourself and Take up your cross

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John MacArthur makes this point says the good news of Jesus preaches the truth that God offers

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Forgiveness of all sin and the gift of eternal life to those who genuinely follow him in faith

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It calls for a total abandonment of self You must not trust in yourself for your hope you must not

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Follow a religious practice that merely seeks to add to what Jesus has already done

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Paul says this in Galatians 2 and verse 20. I have been crucified With Christ it is no longer

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I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith and the

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Son of God who loved me and gave himself up For me that is the hope of all who are in Christ That that is the hope of all who have denied themselves and are not ashamed of the

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Lord Jesus Christ and The work of God in the lives of those people is

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God bringing his kingdom forward working through the hearts of the people We see this inclusion conclusion here in first 27 of John 9

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Jesus as I tell you truly there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God and there's many that like to focus on this verse and try to Find the fall of Jerusalem was certainly what he's talking about here, and I think that's that's a little short -sighted

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Conclusion We see overwhelming of the kingdom of God coming forward will happen ultimately at one point and in a finality at one point

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This is he's not talking about the finality of this but rather that they will see the kingdom of God coming forward and They see that through the life and the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ The power that happens even there in the following work of the

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Holy Spirit and And the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth at this time

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Not finalized, but they're seeing it This will be finalized when Jesus returns

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Jesus will come back. That is the hope of the Christian He will come back. He will make all things new but but do not claim to be in Christ and And Refuse to deny yourself do not claim to be a

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Christian and be one who has not recognized your sin in your own hopelessness see Your hopelessness in and of yourself.

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Do not be ashamed of Jesus dear friends Do not be ashamed of Jesus Christ has for you

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That which is greater than anyone can take from you The wealth of Christ is greater

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Than the totality of the wealth of this world the poorest person in the kingdom of God is wealthier

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Than the richest man in the kingdom of man Believe that dear friends

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Believe that dear friends believe that in times of ease and times of comfort Believe that in times of difficulty.

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You must believe that at both times I'll see the reality friends

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See this world as what it is It is fading use what God gives you by his grace and for his glory for his good purpose

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Be a good steward of what he gives to you but cling to the possessions you have cling to the

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Relationships that you have cling to your power your health and your wealth with an open hand willing to let it go

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If the Lord calls you to let it go for he has a reward

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For you that is greater than anything you can lose within this life Praise be to God for Christ Praise be to God for Christ our victor our ruler

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Who has made all things right and will make all things, right? Christ the one who has delivered his people turn to Christ your friends

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Turn to Christ and have true hope true salvation true contentment in this life

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