Spiritual Transition from Sunburn

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All right, this is the spiritual transition game. This is a game that we play to practice transitioning from the natural world to the spiritual world.

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Because of the fact, so many people think, like, wouldn't it be so much easier if I could get into a spiritual conversation, then

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I could share the gospel. And they pray and wait for opportunities to share the gospel.

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And when you practice this game, you don't have to wait any longer. In fact, you could turn anything into a spiritual transition from the natural world to the spiritual world and get into that conversation.

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So this is a game we play for live Monday nights, 8 o 'clock, for those who join the Striving for Eternity Academy live and get to give me something to transition that they think

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I just cannot possibly transition from whatever they give me to the gospel. And there, you know,

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I was talking to someone this week that they thought that these things are staged. I do not know what it is that I'm going to be transitioning to the gospel until the record button is hit.

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So I am going to transition from sunburn. Okay, now

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I understand why someone thought this was a fitting one for me to transition. So I was down at Washington, D .C.

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evangelizing to a bunch of atheists. I was outside all day and I had known that I have the complexion,

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I am melanin deficient. I lack melanin. And because of that,

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I burn easy as you can see. So what happens when I'm out in the sun is

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I get sunburned. I don't tan, I don't look good, I just burn.

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And so I have to be very careful. So what do you do? You take the precautions. And I took the precaution of putting on sunblock.

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The problem was it was a very hot day and I spent the day sweating. And sunblock isn't always waterproof and I ended up wiping away the sunblock.

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You know, it's very interesting because what I actually did without realizing it is wiped away the very thing that was going to protect me from sunburn.

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And what I ended up doing was, well, getting burned. And the thing with that is as much as it can be painful and I look kind of like a lobster,

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I actually had the very thing that could protect me but I wiped it away.

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You know, there's many people that do that with something far more important that protects us from something far more than just a sunburn.

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Something that will burn far more. That is the fact that every one of us break God's law and are destined, are guilty and destined to a lake of fire where we will burn but not be consumed.

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We have a protection. God has given us His word, His self -revelation to tell us how we could be in a right state with Him, how we could be forgiven.

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And you know what most people do? They wipe it away. They just say, that's not God's word. That's just written by men.

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That has contradictions. And they wipe it away and a day is coming that they're going to realize that they wiped away the only thing that could protect them from the danger to come.

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Don't be like that. Repent today. The Bible says that we must repent and receive Christ.

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We have to turn from trusting ourself as a good person or our good works or our genealogy that we're born

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Jewish or Catholic or whatever. We got to turn from those things and turn and trust what Jesus Christ, God Almighty did on the cross 2 ,000 years ago when

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God Himself became a man and died as a payment of sin. That's how