Am I Really Saved? Sermon Jam

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Watch this powerful sermon jam from Pastor Jeff Durbin's message about regeneration and the new birth. Be sure to share it. Thank you to Dax Hamma for putting together the video! Everyone be sure to check out his channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYQTwZzSBp2K0VhJ6dyxsQ You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video. #ApologiaStudios You can partner with us by signing up for All Access. When you do you make everything we do possible and you also get our TV show, After Show, and Apologia Academy. In our Academy you can take a courses on Christian apologetics and much more. Follow us on social media here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApologiaStudios/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/apologiastudios?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apologiastudios/?hl=en

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One of the great heresies of modern evangelicalism is the idea of the carnal
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Christian. The idea that somebody can say a magic prayer, trust in Jesus, have their ticket punched for heaven one day, and now they're going to heaven, but nothing ever happens between it.
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That is foreign to the Bible. The Bible teaches, in fact, something different. It says, He that began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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That when God takes a person from darkness to light, He changes their heart from a heart of stone to a heart of what?
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Flesh. Something happens from a heart that is hard towards God to where now it's malleable, it's fleshly, it's soft, it can be molded by God.
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We go from a position where the Bible says we're dead in our sins and trespasses to now we are made alive in Jesus.
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And what the Bible teaches is this fundamental truth, that God is going to glorify
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Himself through conforming His people into the image of Jesus Christ.
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That means, watch, what Jesus was like, but what He was like in His earthly ministry, that is where God is taking us.
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And God is jealous for you and I. And He is, listen, He is invested in His glory in this world, that He is going to increase the fame of His name through the sanctification of His people.
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And if you don't believe it, read Ezekiel 36, when God talks about this amazing thing
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He's going to do in the new covenant. He explicitly says that God's people have brought shame to His name among all the nations because of their lives, because they will not be the image of God, because they won't be the light of God in the world.
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And what God says is not for their sake, but for the sake of His name. He's going to vindicate
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His name through giving new hearts, through indwelling them by His Spirit and putting
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His law within them, causing them to observe His statues. Now, I think most of us know what that means, right?
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The law of God within us means that when God saves us, something happens. Some of you guys have amazing stories, crazy stories, where you were pursuing one thing your whole life, you didn't trust in Jesus, you're running the other direction, and all of a sudden,
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God grabbed ahold of you, He pulled you out of your pits, He redeemed you, saved you, and all of a sudden, renewed mind, a new heart.
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God did something in you and He changed you, transformed you, and now all of a sudden the things that you used to be able to do, you can't do anymore.
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All of a sudden, the things that you loved so much, you don't love anymore. All of a sudden, the idols you used to pursue and fall down before, they've lost their luster.
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They don't have their draw anymore, their pull anymore. All of a sudden now, something happened in you that you couldn't do for yourself before, but He did it.