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Good evening, everyone. This is truth and love network. We get truth and love from Ephesians chapter 4 verse 15 was speaking the truth and love.

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Tonight I have a special guest. Hopefully not the last time that I'll have him. Hopefully we can be together more often, but I have a new guest

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Pastor Happy from Cali and that's all that I'm going to say about Happy.

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Happy from Cali. I want him to introduce himself and tell us as much as he feels comfortable sharing with our community.

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Well, hi, I'm Pastor Happy and I'm the

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I'm one of the elders pastors of all Branch Ministries in Southern California.

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And what we do is we get the mentally ill off the streets and those with serious and firmities and and sicknesses and we bring him here and we give them the gospel of Jesus Christ and we make disciples out of them and we help them get help.

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And on their meds and reunited with their families and we teach them all about Jesus Christ and to obey all that he has commanded and we baptize them in the name of the

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Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. And that's about it.

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Sweet. Well, it's great to be connected with you. It's great to have conversation with you and and just have time to share

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God's word together as we reach our community. We we love the Lord. We want to glorify God, like I said, and share the gospel and share his word tonight.

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If you happen to see the post that we advertised, we want to talk about the gospel, no greater subject to talk about.

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And it's a good place, good place for us to start talking about the gospel. But before we get into the gospel conversation,

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I was telling Happy that my mind has been on overload and I was thinking about things that we could do.

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I want to start off with with a segment called spontaneous combustion.

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And so the reason I call it spontaneous is because I'm going to give Happy some thoughts that I've things

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I've been thinking about and he doesn't know what they are. So he's he's just going to give me his his initial thoughts of some of the things that I've been thinking about.

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And the reason we're going to call it combustion is because we're either going to catch on fire in a good way or we're going to crash and burn.

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Maybe at least we'll meet somewhere in the middle and do pretty good. You never know how these things are going to go.

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So the first one that I'm going to throw at you should be a softball. OK. I heard someone say

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Sunday, which I've heard it many other times before, of course, and probably you have to.

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One of the verses that is often quoted and misunderstood and misquoted sometimes.

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And that verse comes from Matthew chapter 16, verses 17 through 19, where Jesus is speaking to Peter and upon this rock,

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I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And so the comment is made.

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There's so many bad things happening in this world. And so Satan is coming after us.

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And then they will quote this verse as the gates of hell will not prevail against us, which, you know, it's used as an encouragement, but it's it's often misused.

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In reality, this verse is and it's a verse that puts us on the offense, not the defense.

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Yes, yes, definitely. Because because gates are stationary and the gates of hell are stationary, you know, keeping people in or out of something.

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And it's not it's not describing something coming after us. It's actually putting us on the offensive because we have the victory in Christ and we are coming after we are going after moving forward as Jesus is putting his enemies under his feet.

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So what are your thoughts on that? Amen and amen. You know, yeah, you know,

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I tell you that it I really got to see that when

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I was I was up and you ever heard of cruciform ministries? Yeah, I was up kicking with Jake and and Brandon Scalf.

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I was staying at their house for about a week and and I was asked to go on Saturday to where they have something called the church and they go to Planned Parenthood and they have these different denominations with a common goal to come and end abortion.

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And what they did was is they brought the church to the very front of the abortion mill and they had church in the first words out of my mouth was in the gates of hell will not prevail against this church.

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You know, it was just like, you know, like, wow, you know, and again, gates are on the defensive and we are on the offensive as we we bring the gospel of Jesus Christ and his kingdom.

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And that's that's a big one right there. And that's another something that the church nowadays doesn't really preach on is the kingdom of God.

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And but yeah, that that when Jesus said that one stone,

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I mean that that upon this rock stone,

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I will build my church in the gates of hell will not prevail and that we are those living stones that are being built up, you know, and and I just think it's it's probably one of the most encouraging scriptures in the

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New Testament. Absolutely. All right. Here's number two. And these last two are something that things that have just been running through my mind.

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They're not fleshed out yet. So I'm interested in hearing some feedback from from a brother.

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The second one is we often hear a lot about a distinction between Israel and the church, especially when it comes to eschatology.

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God's not done with Israel. He works with Israel different than he does the church.

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And there's that distinction made. But then I got to think about, you know, in Genesis chapter three, verse 15, you've got the first gospel where Christ, the

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Messiah's heel will be bruised, but he will bruise or crush the head of Satan.

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The first gospel presentation, the first mention of the gospel all the way at the very beginning in Genesis.

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And then you flip all the way to the end of the New Testament, practically, and you have Hebrews 11 where you have

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Abraham and all the others from from the Old Testament. And an author of Hebrews is telling us, you know, they were they were saved by by faith.

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And so you've got this covenant of grace or you at least you've got this this grace salvation by faith gospel.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, totally.

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I mean, we can go and like Psalm 22, Habakkuk 2,

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Psalm 110, First Corinthians 15. I mean, you just you got

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I mean, going all the way from Genesis all the way, you just see victory to victory, you know, and it's this is

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God's planet. You know, what I really love is a lot of people forget this one and you see it at the garden when the promise is given, you know, by God saying that that he'll put enmity between the serpent seed and the woman seed and his heel will crush the head of the snake and it'll bruise his heel.

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I'm just you know, I didn't say it right. But right. And then I automatically think of 1st John 3 where it says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.

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You know, he came to destroy the works of the devil that that that here

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God has has planted in his in his field.

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So I'm thinking about,

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I guess, is the Americanized church and how we think.

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And we sometimes put our nation, America, and insert it into some of these things that we talk about.

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And even the church sometimes. So we look at the Old Testament.

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We hear the judgment verses that that are pronounced against the nation of Israel and whatnot.

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And I think about 2nd Chronicles 714 that is often quoted.

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My people who are called by my name, if they will humble themselves and pray and turn from their sins,

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I will hear them from heaven and heal their land. And we're we insert America in there when in reality, you know, you'll probably agree with me that in context, you know, it was for Israel at that time.

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And we oftentimes misapply that verse.

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And we. That's what you haven't fleshed all these out yet.

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I see where you're going with this. I get it. But we we hear the judgments on Israel pronounced on Israel.

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And then we think God is going to God kind of views us and judges us or will judge us as a nation is

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American in the same way. And then it led me to think about how

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Jesus. Jesus is the true Israel. Jesus is the the true son.

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Jesus is the true temple. Jesus is the fulfillment of everything. And so if we're if we're in him.

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Then. The way the way God judges now the way God works now is his judgment on nations per se.

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Does is it him putting his enemies under his feet and then he will judge them in eternity?

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You know, is he judging America because of their sins?

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To me, I'm kind of thinking about how Christ, you know, paid for our sins on the cross.

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Yeah, past, present, present and future as the true Israel is the true temple. He's he's the promised land.

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He's everything. And I really don't have a clear question from that.

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Those are just things right here recently. Any any thoughts on that jumbled up mess of a thought?

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No, I'm having one of those days, too. No, I really believe in all my heart that he is ruling and reigning right now.

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And we're his bride. And, you know, we're

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Jerusalem. That's going to come down adorned as a bride, it says in Revelation. And I believe that he's ruling and reigning right now, like it says in, you know, like if you take

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Acts one and in Acts one, how it says he ascended on the clouds of heaven and the same way he'll come back.

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And then you go to Daniel seven and it said unto the ancient of days came one on the clouds of heaven.

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The son of man to him was given dominion and a kingdom, you know, and and so when we look at the

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Great Commission, I'm just I'm throwing all this together, too. So I'm digging it.

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I'm following. So when we look at the Great Commission, I mean, let's just look at it for a second.

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Let's just be honest about everything. Let's do we believe it? Do we believe it?

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He says that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. That's Jesus Christ.

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Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the

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Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey that all that he has commanded, lo, he'll be with us until the end of the age.

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And the one word that really sticks out to me there is therefore. Yeah, that's why we go.

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Right. It's because. And so if we're teaching the nations to obey all that he has commanded, it's because they they're disobeying all that he has commanded.

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And the law and the gospel is being brought forth with the covenant.

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Breakers couldn't do the covenant. People of God, his church is doing now.

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And so I can imagine that. I don't think that that God would bring judgment.

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Well, I know judgment comes to the house of the Lord first, you know, but when we're looking at nations and stuff like that,

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I've seen nothing. I mean, I know a lot of people see a lot of, you know, it's all bad out.

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And I look at the last 2000 years and we've seen pagan empires come and go and come and go.

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And we're just one of those pagan nations. And this dispensational view of eschatology says that because we bless the covenant breakers of Israel.

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I mean, honestly, you know that we're blessed. And I just don't see that.

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I see that God is judging this nation as he's judging other nations.

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And he is bringing all his enemies underneath his footstool as promised.

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Right. You know, right. I think I appreciate all that you said there.

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And I think kind of a little mess. Yeah, absolutely. Right along with mine.

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I think one of the lines of thought where I was going with that is that we we try to put

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America in the place of the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God. However, you want to phrase it when, you know, the kingdom of Christ, he's the one that's ruling and reigning.

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He is no judgment is going to come upon him because he was perfect. He fulfilled everything.

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And he is he's his kingdom is going to be the only one left at the end. Yeah, because he's putting all of his enemies under his feet.

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You know, can I just say something? Yeah, real fast. It's so funny that we're bringing this up, you know, because I was just I was preaching yesterday morning with to my guys out here.

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It's some of my guys are very, very liberal. Uh, straight up, uh,

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Democrats. And, you know, I got a school teacher that lives there. He was a school teacher for about 30 years.

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And he's all Biden and all this and that. And I got other people that are Trump here. And I just had to really stop and and explain to them that look at the

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American gospel. Uh, the the the the kingdom of God is not capitalism.

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It's not democracy. It's not communism. It's not socialism. The kingdom of God is the rule of God.

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Right. And every nation will bow. Every person will bow to the king.

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Yeah. But what's exciting about that is is how the Old Testament describes not only will it describes nations, you know, bowing and coming and submit under submission, but they will come to Jerusalem.

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And oh, yeah. Well, it's teaching. Yeah. One is teachings. Follow his ways. Follow his past.

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And that's exciting. And that's amazing. That's beautiful. Yeah. I think there's more hope in that.

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There's there's so much I have as the men here at my home and I've had over 900 people come through here.

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They have such a reverence for for God now, for for Christ and his kingdom now than when they were caught up in this dispensationalism.

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Actually, there was a beer that came with it and with an expectation that one day that that we're going to escape from here, that we're going to get raptured and and and we're going to be just up in heaven.

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And this whole place is going to get destroyed. And, you know, I just I don't see that in Scripture.

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I see the the beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ reaching every shore and every person.

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Yeah. Over time. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Well, without any further ado, and we make this a two hour video, which

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I hope we do not. Let's let's get into the gospel conversation.

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All right. Let me read our text and then I'll start asking the questions. I picked out three.

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Of course, there's so many that we can read, but I picked out three text. John 316, of course, for God's love, the world that he gave his one and only begotten son, that everyone believing in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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And then John 524, truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me as eternal life, and he does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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And then First Corinthians 15, verses one through six. Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which

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I preached to you, which also you received and which also you stand by, which also you are saved if you hold fast the word which

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I preached to you unless you believed in vain. For I deliver to you as of first importance what

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I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas and then to the twelve.

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And after that, he appeared to more than 500 brethren at one time. Most of them remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

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So there's there's our gospel passages. And I'd just like to go through some questions, clarify some, maybe some misunderstandings and bring some clarity to America concerning the gospel.

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So the first question is, of course, obviously, what is the gospel? The gospel, that's,

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I'm so glad you asked me that. You know, the gospel is Jesus Christ. Plain and simple.

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The gospel is Jesus Christ. The gospel is the good news. Absolutely.

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And why is it good news? Because there's bad news. Right, right, right.

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Well, I'm going to get into that. Yeah. Okay. So the gospel, the meaning of the word is good news, like you said, and the gospel is in one word.

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Jesus. So number number two, and here kind of leads into what you were you were taking us to.

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What what information must be present to have a complete gospel? The complete gospel is the good news and the bad news.

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Okay. Do you want me to say it or just leave it there?

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Yeah. So here's the gospel. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation.

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The gospel is good news. It's Jesus Christ. And it's not good news like, like, you know,

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I got like a cholesterol problem and I found out the other night that I can have steak.

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That's good news. This is God's good news to a fallen world right here.

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All right. And the reason why it's good news is because there's bad news. And the bad news is you're dead in your sins and trespasses because of our parents who sinned in the garden.

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They introduced sin into the world. We're all born into sin, naturally depraved. We're hostile in mind, naturally rebellious in nature.

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And we come out of the womb saying no. You know, my kids did. I know

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I did. You know, and, and we naturally run away from God and go towards idolatry and all things.

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Our heart is a natural factory maker for idols, like John Calvin said.

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And, but the good news is that God so loved the world. He gave us only begotten son.

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He was born. The good news is the infinite became finite.

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The word became flesh. God became flesh and he was born of a virgin. He was born in Bethlehem.

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He came and he lived a sinless life, a life that you and I can never live. And he came to fulfill the law, something you and I can never and will never ever do.

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And the very curse that is found in the garden with the thorns was placed upon his head.

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And he was hung on a tree for, for our sins.

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And what we need is forgiveness from God. And that's what he came and did. He took the very wrath that you and I deserve upon himself.

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And he died and he rose three days later with a resurrection so powerful that others rose with him.

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I get excited just talking about it, bro. You know, and he was, he was, he was, many people saw him and he ascended and is seated at the right hand of the father.

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And he's interceding for all of us that believe night and day. And the call is this to repent and believe the gospel.

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That and though your sins are like scarlet, he'll make them white as wool. And I could not add a single thing to that.

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That was, I think that's a complete gospel. It included everything. And I appreciate the work that Ray Comfort has done in bringing that back to life or bringing it, bringing it back.

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It was, you know, it was always there, but reintroducing it to, you know, the

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American church or the church, the modern church that we need to know that there's bad news.

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And because there's, it's not good news unless there's bad news. And we don't know that we need a cure unless we know that we're sick.

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And so that, I mean, that's so significant. And you know what, Robert? It's, it amazes me that, and I tell you,

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I'm so glad that, and I got so much respect for you for wanting to get right to the gospel.

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I always hear that. That's what attracted me to your videos was this, just getting the gospel, getting the good news, getting

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Jesus out there. Even when there's only one or two views, you never know how many people are watching behind those one or two views.

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And then it goes to five views and 10 views and 20s. And you'd be surprised.

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I've traveled all over the country and I've gone to so many different churches. And it's like, nobody knows the gospel anymore, you know?

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Yeah. Yeah. It's sad. It's sad. It's sad, but we want to do our part.

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And thankfully, gratefully, praise the Lord. He is allowing us in this time, in this era, with this technology to spread the gospel, to share the gospel, to reawaken the church and get this clear information out that's been hidden or missing for so long.

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Yeah, because you know what? There's people out there written in the book of life and they don't even know it yet. And I want to see where we've all been given this.

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You see all these people, they run around. I got this type of ministry and I got this type. Look, we've been all given one ministry.

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And that's the ministry of reconciliation. That's right. That's what we want to do, to make disciples, to make disciples.

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But the gospel, you know Jeffrey Rice? I do not. Oh, bro,

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I got people to hook you up with, man. So Jeffrey Rice and I are starting a podcast.

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And we're writing the curriculum right now for the first ever in the United States reformed 12 -step program.

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And it's the gospel. Okay. And it's not rocket science.

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Do we really believe the gospel is the power of God unto salvation? Do we believe it or not? Yeah. But anyways,

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I know I'm jabbering right now. It's the vitamin water. That's fantastic.

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And please share with me the link when you have it. Oh, I am. Because that's a lot better than that one step that that one program has.

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As long as you believe in a God, it's the power of Jesus Christ.

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The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Just some generic belief in something out there is not going to cut it.

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Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's go to number three. The difference between the gospel of salvation and the gospel of kingdom.

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One of the reasons that I brought this up is because I've been walking through Matthew. And when you walk through Matthew, you hear

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John the Baptist repent. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. And Jesus says repent.

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The kingdom of heaven is at hand in chapter one, two, and three. And then you get to chapter four. And Jesus says or Jesus is going to the synagogues.

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And he's preaching the gospel of the kingdom. He's preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

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Yeah. And I'll just give you my thoughts real quick. And then you slide in there and tell me what you think. So we talked about the gospel of salvation, the gospel of reconciliation.

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That's our mandate going back to creation to fill the earth.

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But Jesus also preaches the gospel or the good news of the kingdom. And then you have chapter five, six, and seven.

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And to me, what I'm seeing is you've got the message of the gospel of salvation, which is entrance into the kingdom.

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And then you have the gospel or good news of the kingdom, chapters five through seven. And this is kingdom living.

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And that's kind of how I see the difference. Does that make sense?

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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Remember, you know, we got it wrong just like the

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Jews got it wrong. You know, because we look at the first thing

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I think of is Luke. Hold on one second. Luke 17, 20 being asked by the

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Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, the kingdom of God is not coming in a way that can be observed.

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Or will they say, look, here it is, or there or behold. For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.

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And we know that the kingdom of God is the rule of God. You know, and again, like I was just saying earlier, that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.

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Right. To destroy it. And all dominion has been given to him.

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And so this kingdom of God that we profess is the kingdom of righteousness. Yeah. It's righteousness and holiness.

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Yeah. And that he is ruling and reigning now. And just like it says in Psalm 2, O kings be wise.

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Kiss the king. Let his wrath be kindled. Right. That kind of leads me into the heels, the heel of that question.

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Because I kind of see that as a pattern. You've already mentioned to us Matthew chapter 28.

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All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Therefore, based on that authority, go make disciples of all the nations, baptizing in the name of the father, son, and the

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Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all that I've commanded. Yes. And to me, that's kind of a synopsis of the pattern of his life here.

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He's proclaiming the kingdom is here. He's presenting an entrance into the kingdom.

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Repent. Believe the gospel, Mark 115. Yes. And then he's teaching about the kingdom, teaching about kingdom living, about how we are to, or what we are to teach.

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You know, this is what he taught. And we should share that, as he tells us in Matthew 28, teach them to observe all that I've commanded you.

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What has he commanded us? This kingdom living, Matthew 5 through 7. Do you think

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I'm going in the right direction? Yes, yes. You know, it's more of a, you know, it's loving

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God, loving neighbor. The 10 commandments hangs on these two commandments. But if I can really add to that, that, you know,

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Peter came out swinging an ax. You know, he came out swinging. He's preaching the, you know, repent, just like John the

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Baptist, repent for the kingdom of God at his hand. And then he prepared the way. Jesus came out, repent for the kingdom of God at his hand.

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And even at the end of Acts, I just happen to open it up to it right now, by the way. Even at the end of Acts, where, do you mind if I read it real fast?

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Go ahead, yeah. Yeah, so the end of Acts here, Paul is, he's really saying that this gospel, this kingdom is going to be preached to the

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Gentiles because they will listen. And these Jews are not going to, they'll never understand.

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But it says here in 28, Matthew, it's

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Acts 28, 28 says, therefore, there's that word again. Let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the

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Gentiles. They will listen. He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about, and teaching about the

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Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. Amen. So this is, this is, this is something that we have really forgot.

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And, and, and cause we, we remember everybody thinks they're going to see just like the covenant breakers.

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They thought that they were going to see that the king was going to come and he was going to bring the kingdom, which he did.

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They just didn't see it. But he's saying that, Hey, that, that the kingdom of God, isn't something you can observe, but the kingdom, the keys of the kingdom have been given to us.

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Therefore go. Yeah. You know, and, and you know what? Kick down those gates of hell.

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That's right. Amen. Oh, we have lost happy.

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Hopefully he's going to click that link and come right back to us.

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Appreciate you guys. Stand by. Stay, stay on there. Hang on. We're going to see if happy.

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There he is right there. There we are. I don't know.

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I lost you for a second. Oh my gosh. It's a devil. Oh, the

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Prince and the power of the airways. I think that's something that Todd would say. Where's Todd?

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Where's Todd White? When you need it, you know, exactly. Oh, all right.

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Let's go to number four. All right. And the way I wrote this question, it was kind of off misleading.

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What I wrote down and I'm just going to be honest. What I wrote down was the pre pre millennial dispensational gospel versus the, the post millennial gospel.

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And let me tell you what I mean by that. We're brothers and sisters in Christ. Whether you believe in pre millennial dispensationalism or post millennial,

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I'm millennial, you know, the different eschatologies. We preach the same gospel.

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The gospel is the same. But what I mean by that question is I think our motivations are a little bit different.

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Yeah. Do you think you could speak to that? Well, you see the differences between the two groups and their motivations behind preaching the gospel?

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Oh yeah. Oh, I definitely have seen that. It's so funny.

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I, I actually have this very interesting book by Chuck Smith called end times and it was really, really interesting how he said that the tribulation would start anytime before 1981.

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And he has everything. It's right, right here on page 35. And my, my parents were actually one of the first couples there.

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My dad was Chuck Smith's real estate agent. Okay. And when they started in Huntington beach and everything, and it was just the way they lived was in fear.

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I mean, like straight up, you know, and what happened was is a lot of people ended up believing this guy and, but not

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Chuck Smith was a great guy. Don't get me wrong. All right. He was our brother in Christ and stuff. But he just wasn't teaching the right thing on eschatology.

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And what happens is a lot of people sold their properties, went out and hid, took all their money that was supposed to be for their children's children or preparing for the future to advance the kingdom of God.

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They thought like any second, the rapture is going to happen. And then the nineties happened, you know, and a lot of people didn't save it for their children to go to school.

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And we can see how that has developed in our society, the whole society, because the, the parents were so devastated that the secret rapture didn't happen.

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And then pass that onto their kids. And then they had a hatred for God. And then now you see how that's just developed over time.

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But when it comes to really what, to the post -millennial view is having arrows in our quiver, you know, it is really preparing our children, teaching our children about Christ and bringing that out.

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And how could we have, how could we advance the kingdom of God? what kind of platform is he going to give us?

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Is it at Taco Bell? Is it in the local schools, you know, where, wherever it is, it's advancing the kingdom of God.

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And I see that happening with the post -mill, but when it comes more to dispensational, it's just like any second now we're out of here.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting that you say that because I saw a video just today of a lady and she was explaining how this, she just, she had this revelation and she wanted to prepare her, her house for the rapture.

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She said her and her family were ready and the rapture was coming. There would be gone, but she wanted to prepare her house for the people that were going to be left behind.

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She said those, those that would come in and maybe come into her house, she wanted them to see God. She was going to label all the food cans with Bible verses and all of her guns and ammo.

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She was going to put the, you know, verses about the armor of God or whatever. And she, she was preparing her house for them to be gone and for her house to be taken over the, for those left behind.

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So yeah, there's that mindset out there. You know, stop and think about it for a second, Robert. I just, you know, it's so funny.

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We're bringing this up right now because I, I've been teaching on this all last week and, and I really wanted my guys to really stop and think about this, this type of eschatology.

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I go to, according to Jesus, when Jesus, Jesus. Now, if our eschatology, uh, um, doesn't match up to what

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Jesus said, then there's not something wrong with what Jesus said. There's what your views are on eschatology.

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And so Jesus, when Nicodemus came to him at night and Jesus was telling him, um, about, uh, one must be born again.

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All right. Uh, one must be born of the spirit mean of the, of, of water and of the spirit, or they will not see the kingdom of God or they will not enter the kingdom of God.

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So if you stop and think about it, according to their eschatology, uh, and revelation that the church is somehow just raptured out of here after was, uh, chapter three, right?

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Is this a chapter two, chapter three of revelation? I don't know. I'm not a dispensational, but, um, and so there's going to be these people left behind and you too can get saved.

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Well, if the Holy spirit and the church are gone and the only way, that you can enter the kingdom of God is by water and by spirit, then that just doesn't match up, you know, because you need to be sealed with the

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Holy spirit of God. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

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I got, you know, I kind of go off on little tangents like that. Cause I got a, I seen that, uh,

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I love my brothers very, very, very much. Uh, we, we just us as reformers, we call them our crazy cousins.

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You know, there's, there's still family, but I, I, I've seen that. Um, I, I just had a, uh, you know,

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I'm just talking open with you right now. You're my brother and everything. And I, one of my guys just came in and he's, he's mentally ill and I've had him for about three years and he's got serious, serious health problems.

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And he started watching these, uh, dispensational views on the end times. And he was crying at my front door, man.

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And I was like, bro, you know, his name is Lou. We call him mama Lou. Cause he's really, really large. And he likes to help people, you know?

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And he was really upset, crying. And he goes, I was watching this, this video. I think it was

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Paul Begley or something like that. And, um, he was like, they're telling me not to go get the

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COVID shot, you know, or I'm going to lose my salvation or I'm going to, uh,

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I, uh, I'll be left behind during the rapture. And I was just like, that's just not true, dude.

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You're sealed with the Holy spirit. If you get left behind, that's a good thing. That's a good thing.

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Right. Just like in the days of Noah. Yeah. I'm like, that's a good thing, bro. You know?

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Yeah. And I, and I wanted to, to make a point, uh, based on something that you said, uh, at the very beginning of your statements there, uh, you were talking about it.

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If, if your eschatology doesn't match up with what Jesus says, and we're talking about, you know, examining your theology, examining your eschatology.

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Um, I want to make it clear and, and I'm really sure that you would feel the exact same way.

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We're pointing the finger at ourselves as well, because we want to examine ourselves and make sure our theology lines up with Jesus.

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Our, our eschatology lines up with scripture. And so we're not, we're not speaking as, as people who have, um, figured it all out, who have, who are above anyone else.

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We, we are speaking as people who, um, are, are learning from Christ and want to conform to his word wherever it leads us.

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Uh, you agree with that? Oh, 100%. Okay. Well, 100%, you know, like, uh,

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I, as we're, we're all growing in the knowledge of God and what my, um, you know, like when you think of a plant and it's growing, you know, and it gets to a certain height in that perspective, that perspective it has at that height as it's in its growth is that perspective on everything, just like we are in our scriptures.

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And as we grow and we get a little, we get a little taller, our perspective on, on everything changes.

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Until we, we come to the full maturity of Christ, you know, the whole stature of Christ. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. And you know what? I hope it never ends. I want to keep learning and keep learning. And, and I want to learn other views.

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I know my brother is a two kingdom guy. I don't get it, but I, I want to learn. So I know how

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I can have common ground, right? Because no matter what it says in Philippians one, that we, uh,

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Koinonia, we fellowship in, uh, the gospel together. Yeah. Yeah. And that, that knowledge for me, at least, at least the worship.

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Yeah. The more I learn about Christ, the more I love him and the more I worship him for, for who he is.

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Yeah. And the more excited by, I get about him and want to share his, share him and share his word.

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So yeah, I want to continue in that as well. I want to see people have that joy. Yeah. That, that, that, that peace, you know, you know,

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I have a, a guy in here that's, um, he got lung cancer and it just spread to his brain.

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He's got brain cancer now and he's got, uh, three months to live. And, um, I, about four hours ago

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I walked in there and he just had the biggest smile on his face and hospice was just here and everything.

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And, and he just looked at me and he goes, I got peace with God. That's awesome.

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Yeah. God is so good. He's so awesome. He's the only one that can do that. Yeah. He's the only one.

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Yeah. Wow. Let's, uh, I got two more. Number five, number five says, um, and I, I think this is probably been around for all the time, but we can talk about how it, what it looks like in our day, a man center presentation of the gospel versus, uh,

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Christ center presentation of the gospel. Uh, can you speak to that? Could you say that again? I had a ding on my phone.

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Okay. Uh, a man centered presentation of the gospel versus a Christ center presentation of the gospel.

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Oh yeah. That's, I see that all the time that the man centered gospel is, uh, let me tell you my testimony.

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Yeah. You know, when it's the, the testimony, uh, of Jesus Christ is what we bring.

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Right. Yeah. And then you have the, everything that God or Jesus can do for you.

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Yeah. Um, the, you know, he can, you'll have favor in every aspect of life.

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He'll give you this, give you that. He's a divine Butler. He's a genie. Ultimately that man center presentation, um, versus like you said,

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Christ in a presentation, you know, it's his testimony. It's what he did and what he's doing.

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It's, it's all about him. Yeah. Yeah. Any, any further thoughts on that? No, that's a mic drop right there.

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Okay. All right. We'll, we'll touch on our last one. Um, which is a really good one.

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What does the, what does preaching the gospel to yourself look and sound like?

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And secondly, how was that beneficial? Preaching the gospel to myself?

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Yes, man. I tell you, um, I need to hear the gospel preached to me is awesome.

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And it is, I mean, as more as I preach it, I need to hear it.

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But preaching the gospel to myself, uh, is I, I, I, we lost our sound.

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Can you hear me there? There we go.

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All right. All right. Sorry. That's all right. So I've, I've never preached the gospel to myself.

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I just, uh, um, remind myself of his promises, you know, that, that it's just promises that we can stand on.

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And, but I need to hear the gospel. You know, I, I preach so much that, uh, I was preaching about 1092 sermons a year because I preach three times a day, six times a week.

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And, um, and I just finally had to go, you know what? I'm not getting fed. And I, I, my youngest brother,

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I, I went and sat under him because I, I, I need to hear the gospel, you know? Yeah.

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And just as much as I give, I, I give the gospel. I need to hear it myself. All every, every

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Sunday, you know? Yeah. And I think, I think what people mean when they say preach the gospel to yourself is exactly what you're talking about.

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It's, it's a reminder of the gospel. It's a refresher of the gospel. And it, it, it puts you back in your place.

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Gospel, um, between who you are between you and God and who you are between you and your, uh, fellow man.

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Um, you remember the gospel and you remember that, you know, I'm not in the position of God.

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I'm not sitting on the throne. Jesus is king and I'm the center. I'm the one who has failed, who's broken his commandments.

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Um, and therefore I'm, I need to submit. I need to bow.

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I need to be grateful. I need to praise it and worship, um, instead of living my life according to me being on the throne.

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And then as far as my relationship, as far as my relationship with my fellow man, you know, how can

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I be, be above them? Um, I need to serve them. Um, when it comes to my reaction towards how

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I'm treated by my fellow man, uh, I remember how I treated Christ and how he, he forgave me.

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So therefore, yeah, I, I base my reaction. I base my treatment and my service toward my fellow man.

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Um, based on how Christ treated me, an enemy of his that became his friend.

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You know, um, I tell you, I got this, this picture on the wall right here.

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It's a story, a story cloth from, from China. Um, I think it's called the gal tribe that they don't have a written language.

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And so, uh, my wife is a missionary to China and this is how they have pictures on cloth.

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And I always had this up right here. Here, let me try to turn it right here. It's Jesus washing the apostles feet.

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And it's, I think for a lot of us, and I know that you can totally understand this, uh, um, to wash the feet, um, uh, and to, to, to humble ourselves like Christ humble himself is one thing, but to be the one sitting in the seat is another thing, you know?

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Yeah. And that's, that's where I think that the, the, um, the humility starts to blossom right there is that when we can, uh, humbly sit in the seats ourselves and receive the gospel and receive healing and, and, um, yes, if that doesn't humble you and, and bring you to tears that the

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God of the universe came down and washed me clean.

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Yeah. And how filthy and dirty I am. And for him to do that is there's nothing in the universe that can explain that kind of grace and mercy.

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It's, it's indescribable. Yeah. At first it doesn't make sense. It's like, why?

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Yeah. You know? And it's just because he's righteous and he loves us.

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God still loved the world that he gave us. You know? And I think that's, that's the, the most beautiful, um, it, there's no words to describe.

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Yeah. You know, no, no words to describe it. I want everybody to, to come to know

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Christ, to come to repentance and faith in Jesus, you know, to come under, under the

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Lordship of Christ, you know, but amen. Well, happy.

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I'm happy. I'm thankful. I'm so thankful for you and your ministry and what

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God is doing with, through you and your family and, and California, and that you took time to be with me to talk about the gospel.

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This has been amazing. And I want, for those of you who were too stuck with us, who watched the video later, um, you've heard the gospel several times tonight and we would love nothing more than you for you to experience coming into the kingdom of God.

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Yes. Knowing his grace, knowing his mercy, knowing his love. Um, to do that, you must acknowledge your sin, that you, you've broken all of his commandments, just like we have.

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And you must repent, turn from them and put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. And so we would implore you.

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We would encourage you. We would plead with you to do that because Jesus is king. Be reconciled.

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Yeah. Be reconciled, be reconciled to him. And, uh, if you, if you are reconciled with him, we hope that this gospel message has encouraged you, blessed you and edified you and, and maybe spurring you on to, uh, share the gospel yourself, uh, with your, your friends and family and the people that you come in contact with.

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Uh, and with that being said, happy, would you mind to close us in prayer? sure.

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Yes. Oh God, we come before you right now.

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Lord, Lord, I just ask right now that you bless my brother here,

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Lord, that you kick it, kick open every single door to get this, do a, uh, uh, anti -abortion ministry going

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Lord, that you spirit stir up the hearts, the people around him, Lord, that you build up a mighty army

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Lord to come up along the side of my brother, Lord, Lord, I ask that you send a couple men, godly men in his life,

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Lord, Lord, that when he is, is, um, doing your will, Lord, in his arms, get tired.

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He'll have to there on each side to lift his arms up, Lord, even during times of worship and Lord, I, I ask right now,

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Lord, that, that you let this message go out, Lord, Lord, that you open up the, those hearts, uh, to the people out there like you did

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Lydia and you open up their minds to understand the gospel. You're a good news Lord. And Lord, we thank you for hearing our prayers.

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Like you always do. We thank you. We praise you. Hallowed be thy name for the name of the sake of your son, Jesus, the

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Christ. Amen. Amen. All right. Thank you guys for watching. I hope you have a good evening.

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Remember that Jesus is King. Go speak with the authority of Christ. Live in the victory of Christ. Go out there and share the gospel of Christ.