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 All right.

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 Well, we...

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 JoJo, you by yourself?

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 Did you say we're coming?

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! Did you say we're coming tonight?

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 We have tonight, and we have one more.

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 This tonight, we're looking at the saving act of the Spirit.

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 So that's kind of where we've been so far.

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 If you, by way of reminder, we talked about sin, depravity, the shattered image of God.

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 We kind of did a little bit of a history lesson on what the church has taught historically.

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 Then three weeks ago, before Easter, we did the saving work of the Father,

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 which is election, planning our salvation, that sort of thing.

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 Then last week, we did the work of the Son, which we talked about atonement and what that meant.

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 And this week, the saving work of the Spirit.

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 And it's really crazy, because I always grew up not hearing that salvation was Trinitarian.

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 I always just thought, Jesus saved me.

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 And it's true.

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 But it's just cool how the Scripture, in detail,

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 talks about how each member of the Trinity had a role in our salvation.

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 And so, just sort of connecting the dots,

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 because, like I've kind of, just kind of sarcastically joked a little bit,

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 there's no such thing as a three-point Calvinist or a five-point Calvinist.

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 They may say that, but what they're really saying is they're disconnecting these doctrines.

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 So, like the Father planned our salvation, and by His grace and by His mercy chose an elect people to be saved,

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 the Son then dies for those elect, right?

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 Just for the elect about that last time.

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 And so, and then now the Spirit is the one who applies that work.

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 He takes what Jesus did, and He applies it to the individual.

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 So, that's kind of what we're going after tonight.

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 So, but, just to kind of make it, you know, a little more personal,

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 we, I usually give you one quote from somebody in the past who's taught this,

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 and this is from William Tyndale.

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 This was the man who wasn't the first to translate the Bible into English,

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 of course that was John Wycliffe, but Wycliffe translated from the Latin into English,

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 because he didn't speak Greek or Hebrew.

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 But Tyndale translated the New Testament from Greek and from Hebrew.

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 The whole Bible, eventually.

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 And so, yeah, he was the English reformer.

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 Eventually, he was, you know, caught and betrayed.

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 But he spent, like, I think seven years on the run as a fugitive translating the Bible,

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 while both the English crown and Rome was, like, hunting him down all simultaneously.

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 But eventually, he was caught and executed for translating the Bible into English.

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 And so, yeah, thanks to him, we have much of what we have in our modern-day English translations.

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 But he believed in what we're talking about, God's election,

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 the atoning work of the Son for the elect, and then the regenerating power of the Spirit.

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 And this is what he actually wrote about the work of the Spirit.

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 And he says,

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 Note now the order, meaning, like, this is how Scripture talks about how this happens.

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 First, God gives me light to see the goodness and righteousness of the law,

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 and my own sin and unrighteousness, out of which knowledge springs repentance.

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 Then the Spirit works in the heart, trust and confidence,

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 to believe the mercy of God and His truth,

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 that He will do so as He promised, which belief saves me.

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 And so here's how you know what he means.

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 Just as a child does not cause the conception of his father, or even of himself,

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 and an unsaved person does not initiate salvation,

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 the work is done upon him by the Spirit of God.

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 So, just a little blast from the past.

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 Just good to kind of keep reminding ourselves this isn't new stuff.

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 So, but, have you ever just sort of been, I guess, amazed by the Spirit's regenerating power in your life,

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 or in somebody else's life, where they weren't who they used to be?

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 And sometimes it happens overnight, like Saul of Tarsus, quickly.

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 You know, he struck down, and there's a different guy the next morning when he woke up.

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 And some people have explained their salvation that way.

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 Others, it was more, God saved them.

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 But that change was, then sanctification was sort of slower.

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 But I just want to emphasize, like, the power of God to save anybody tonight.

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 He can save whoever He wants to.

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 And He can do it fully and completely.

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 And just a reminder that He saved you to rejoice in your own salvation,

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 that He can save anybody.

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 Like, the worst of the worst.

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 And we see that everywhere in the Scripture.

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 But I thought I would give you, like, a fun, more modern-day example.

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 This would probably lead to more conversation, but I just, like, won't for sake of time.

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 But, how many of you remember this guy?

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 Anybody remember that name?

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 Some of the older folks might.

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 Well, this guy, David Berkowitz, was a serial killer in the late 70s.

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 And he murdered six people in New York City and became known as the Son of Sam.

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 Was eventually arrested.

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 Cops surrounded his car.

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 Guns pointed at him.

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 And he's like, they should have blown me away.

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 Like, the cops said, like, we were that close just to, like, letting, you know, loose on you.

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 So, basically, God sent us to life in prison.

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 And, but, he tells the story.

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 He was actually interviewed many years ago by Focus on the Family.

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 And he basically talks about how he came to know Christ while he was in prison.

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 And it's a pretty incredible story.

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 And it seems genuine.

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 A lot of guys in prison fake their conversion or just kind of, like, put it on to, like, gain favor with guards or gain favor with the authorities.

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 And, but, in his case, like, he's got nothing to gain.

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 He's in prison forever.

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 He's not getting out.

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 He's not getting any favors.

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 And, and some of the guards in this interview, they had two guards that they interviewed.

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 And the guard said, yeah, he's, it's real.

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 Like, it's not, he's not, this isn't a game.

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 It's not, like, a show to him.

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 And there's been some mainline news people who have interviewed him.

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 And they were, like, really nervous about me.

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 And he was just a really nice guy and just came up and just greeted them and talked to them about Jesus when they got there.

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 And that's what it kind of looks like today.

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 But a guy started sharing the gospel with him in the workout yard at the prison.

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 And eventually, the guy gave him a pocket New Testament with the Psalms.

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 And he actually has a Jewish background.

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 And so the guy really encouraged him, as he was sharing the gospel, to read the Psalms.

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 And, and at some point, you know, alone in his cell, he said he got, the lights were out and he got by himself where no one was watching.

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 Because he didn't want anybody to see him, you know, what he was doing.

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 But he just began to pray and pour his heart out to the Lord.

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 And this is kind of what he said in the interview.

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 I told him that I was sick and tired of doing evil and asked Jesus to forgive me for all my sins.

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 I spent a good while on my knees praying to him.

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 And when I got up, it was, it felt as a very heavy but invisible chain that had been around me for so many years was broken.

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 A piece flooded over me.

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 I did not understand what was happening.

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 Meaning like, now I know I was, I was, the Lord was saving me.

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 Like he was, I was born again.

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 I just didn't know what was happening in that moment.

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 But, but in my heart, I just knew that my life somehow was going to be different.

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 And so I have that interview thing.

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 If you ever want to hear, I can try to get it to you somehow.

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 But he just shares the gospel of people in prison, the guards, the prisoners.

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 But it is how the Lord can completely, you know, alter somebody.

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 So, just to connect, remember, as we did this in our first week, we kind of went over just how, not just our condition is kind of bad.

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 Our condition is awful.

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 And our condition is desperate, is desperate.

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 Apart from God's saving grace.

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 This is what scripture says, right?

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 We look at it all.

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 Born spiritually dead.

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 Our minds darkened by sin.

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 Our hearts corrupted by evil.

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 Slaves to sin.

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 Children of the devil.

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 None good or righteous.

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 Our will is in bondage to sin.

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 And we're unable to improve upon our condition.

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 And that last one is important.

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 We can't just like wake up one day and just decide to change.

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 On our own power and our own strength.

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 And so, but really quickly, like, before you were a believer, can you like now go back and sort of retrace your steps to see how God was pursuing you?

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 Like, looking back at it?

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 To see God's grace, God sort of, in His own gentle way, sort of pursuing you by putting people around you.

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 By putting books into your hands.

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 By putting a Bible in your hands.

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 Parents.

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 Friends that were just sharing with you.

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 And at the time, you were like, whatever.

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 But now you're like, wow, He was like, He was on top of me.

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 Like, He was chasing me.

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 He was pursuing me.

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 And at some point, the Lord overcame me, you know, and saved me.

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 I just want you to think about that while we're meeting.

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 Like, God's pursuit of you.

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 Alright?

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 Because we tend to get it backwards.

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 Like, we just woke up today and decided to start pursuing God.

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 And it doesn't really work that way.

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 So, in what way did the Holy Spirit bring the Gospel message to you when you believe?

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 So, think about where it was.

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 Was it at home?

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 Was it reading the Bible somewhere?

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 Was it a conversation with a family member?

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 Or a friend?

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 And like, how did He use that moment to bring you to faith?

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 That's some of the stuff to kind of think on personally in the background.

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 As we're going forward.

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 So, can we think about being regenerated?

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 What particularly stands out to you?

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 Like, what does regeneration...

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 What need does it meet in our spiritual condition before Christ?

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 What do you think?

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 Every one of these things are needs that we had when we weren't in Christ.

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 And regeneration meets a particular...

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 Well, it meets a few of these, but...

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 Which one kind of stands out to you?

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 What need does it meet?

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 Born again?

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 Why do we need to be born again?

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 Why do we need to be born again?

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 Anybody?

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 Because we were spiritually dead.

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 So, if you're spiritually dead, you need to be resurrected.

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 You need new life.

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 You need a second birth.

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 So, it meets that need in particular.

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 But then, that new birth renews our minds, gives us new hearts,

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 frees us from sin,

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 makes us children of God,

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 makes us righteous before God,

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 sets our wills free,

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 and then,

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 God is the one who initiates and changes us.

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 So, here's sort of a definition for you,

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 just for regeneration.

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 The Greek just means a new birth.

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 Reproduction, renewal, recreation,

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 often denotes the restoration of a thing

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 to its original, pristine state.

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 Or a renewal or restoration of life after death.

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 And so, just a quick textbook definition.

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 Taking that.

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 Regeneration is the secret act of God

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 in which He imparts new spiritual life to us.

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 As the gospel comes to us,

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 God speaks through it

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 to summon us to Himself.

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 That's the effective calling.

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 And to give us new spiritual life regeneration.

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 So that we are enabled to respond in faith.

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 Right?

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 I mean, these are just a few terms

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 I'd like to understand

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 that we'll be using throughout the night.

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 So, we've heard the term irresistible grace.

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 And if you're familiar with

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 the five points of Calvinism,

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 this is the eye, the two lip.

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 It really is just a term that refers to the fact

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 that God effectively calls people

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 and also gives them regeneration.

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 And then, effective or internal gospel call

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 is the act of God speaking

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 through human proclamation of the gospel

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 in which He summons the elect to Himself

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 in which that they respond in saving faith.

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 So, the term itself can sometimes lead

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 to misunderstanding

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 because it seems to imply

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 that man doesn't make at some point

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 a voluntary, willful choice

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 to respond to the gospel.

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 He does.

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 Alright?

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 So, don't...

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 They're not at odds with each other.

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 What we're saying is

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 the man has to be born again first.

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 And when he is,

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 the inevitable outcome of that is faith.

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 And he willingly and gladly

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 puts his faith in Christ

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 as a result of being born again.

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 And he will.

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 It's an effective, irresistible call

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 that God puts on him.

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 So, it doesn't negate faith.

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 But we're just saying

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 that a dead man cannot have faith

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 in God.

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 So, I'm just trying to save some time.

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 But, like, just so you know,

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 there is also a general

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 or external gospel call

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 which refers to the general

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 gospel invitation

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 to all people

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 that comes through

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 human proclamation

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 of the gospel.

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 So, you'll see all this

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 when we're reading here

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 in a minute.

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 But this is just the idea

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 that, like, we go out

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 and we preach the gospel

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 to all people.

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 It's just this general call

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 that goes out

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 to all men

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 regardless of who they are.

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 And that particular call

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 can be rejected.

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 So, save some time.

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 Alright.

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 So, let's get into our outline.

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 Alright.

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 So, just simply pointing out

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 that the Father saves,

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 the Spirit saves,

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 and the Holy Spirit saves.

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 Alright.

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 So, point number one.

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 Sinners, through regeneration,

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 are brought into God's kingdom

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 and are made His children.

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 The author of this new birth

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 is the Holy Spirit.

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 And the instrument

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 in which He uses

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 is the Word of God.

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 Alright.

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 So, just a couple verses

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 so that we can see that.

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 John says,

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 but to all who did receive Him,

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 who believed in His name,

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 He gave them the right

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 to become children of God.

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 That's what we just read.

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 Who were born,

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 not of blood,

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 nor of the will of the flesh,

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 nor of the will of man.

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 So, that's basically saying

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 not out of any desire

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 or willful act

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 that we put into it,

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 but of God.

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 Right?

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 And Jesus talks about

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 being born again there

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 in John 3,

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 Titus 3.

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 He saved us,

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 not because of works

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 done in righteousness,

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 but according to His own mercy

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 by the washing of regeneration

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 and renewal of the Holy Spirit.

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 So, meaning,

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 like the instrument

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 that the Spirit uses to save us

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 is the Word of God.

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 So, when we speak the Word of God

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 in the Gospel,

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 and the Holy Spirit uses that

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 to regenerate somebody,

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 it's crazy.

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 So, it's a mysterious work.

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 That's why Jesus said

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 in John 3,

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 you hear the wind blow,

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 you see its effects,

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 right?

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 But you don't know

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 where it's coming from.

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 So, meaning that

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 you can see the work

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 of the Spirit,

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 but you can't see the Spirit.

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 You can't, like,

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 it's a mysterious work

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 that the Spirit does.

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 And Paul remarks that

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 for some reason,

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 God has ordained

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 to accomplish this,

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 bringing people

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 to the kingdom

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 through the foolishness

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 of preaching.

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 That's what he says.

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 Like, it doesn't make sense

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 that God would use

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 my words,

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 my sloppy,

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 imperfect,

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 but truthful

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 Gospel presentation.

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 He uses that

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 to save someone.

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 Or it can be just reading

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 the Word of God,

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 you know.

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 But,

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 so it's a mysterious work.

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 So the instrument

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 uses the Word of God.

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 And we know that

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 not just based on

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 acts and seeing people

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 preach the Word,

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 but in 1 Peter here,

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 it says,

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 He has caused us

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 to be born again

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 to a living hope

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 through the resurrection

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 of Jesus Christ

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 from the dead.

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 Look at verse 23.

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 Since you have been

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 born again,

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 not a perishable seed,

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 but imperishable

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 through the living

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 and abiding Word

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 of God.

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 Should I share with them

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 what this actually means?

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 Yeah, okay.

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 I just don't want

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 to torture Jojo twice.

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 So,

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 so what,

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 I want you to think about

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 human anatomy

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 and biology

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 for a second.

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 I promise not to get

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 graphic, parents.

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 But,

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 the word seed

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 is what you think it is.

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 It's not pumpkin seed,

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 it's,

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 it's a male

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 reproductive thing.

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 And saying that God

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 plants His Word

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 in you.

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 And at some point,

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 that grows

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 and there's a birth

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 that happens.

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 Right?

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 And,

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 and at some point,

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 that person is born again.

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 If God indeed

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 plants His Word

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 in them.

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 And,

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 we kind of remark

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 at the apprenticeship,

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 like just as there's

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 like a season

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 where a woman

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 doesn't know

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 that she's pregnant

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 just yet,

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 there,

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 there may be a period

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 where God is actually

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 working that

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 in the person's heart.

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 working His Word

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 in their,

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 in their soul.

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 And at some point,

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 it will result

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 in a new birth.

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 So,

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 I'll just stop there

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 before I get any more graphic.

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 But,

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 you get the point.

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 That's just what the word means,

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 you know.

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 So,

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 anyway,

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 I always joke about it.

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 You know,

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 you remember it.

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 You don't remember it

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 because of what we talked about.

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 But,

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 another way

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 that

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 the Bible talks

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 about regeneration

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 is this idea

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 of being born again,

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 a second Genesis.

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 being a new creature.

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 A new creature,

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 excuse me.

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 Next part.

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 I'll stop in a minute.

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 Ask questions.

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 But,

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 through the work

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 of the Holy Spirit

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 in the new

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 and everlasting covenant,

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 the dead sinner

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 is given a new heart

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 or nature

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 and is enabled

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 to walk in obedience

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 to God's law.

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 In Christ,

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 He becomes a new creation

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 with new affections

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 and desires

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 to love God.

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 Okay.

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 So,

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 remember,

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 before we were in Christ

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 in the fallen state,

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 we had no desire for God.

00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:02.160
 Right?

00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:03.279
 We didn't love God.

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 We didn't obey God.

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 And,

00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:07.319
 the result,

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 though,

00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:08.880
 of the Holy Spirit's work

00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:09.420
 in us

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 is that we

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 are new creations.

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 That we're given

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 a heart

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 to actually love God.

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 And,

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 what I love about this

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 is it was prophesied

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 about in the Old Testament

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 the Spirit would come

00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:21.660
 and do this work.

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 He talks about it

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 in Jeremiah

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 where He says

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 that He will write

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 His law upon their hearts.

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 And then,

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 in Ezekiel,

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 let's look at this one.

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 He says,

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 I will give them

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 one heart

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 and a new spirit

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 I will put within them.

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 I will remove

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 their heart of stone

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 from their flesh

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 and give them

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 a heart of flesh

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 so that,

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 right,

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 they may walk

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 in My statues

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 and keep My rules

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 and obey them

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 and I shall be,

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 they shall be My people

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 and I will be

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 their God.

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 Then,

00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:53.019
 a little later on

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 in Ezekiel,

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 I will give you

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 a new heart

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 and a new spirit

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 I will put within you.

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 I will remove

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 the heart of stone

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 from your flesh

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 and give you

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 a heart of flesh.

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 And listen to this.

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 This is,

00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:06.960
 this is a prophecy

00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:07.920
 of the Holy Spirit

00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:08.480
 coming.

00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:09.759
 Now,

00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:12.119
 we're studying

00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:12.759
 the Old Testament

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 right now

00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:14.700
 in my men's

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 discipleship group.

00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:16.660
 We just finished

00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:17.619
 reading 1 Samuel.

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 Saul.

00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:20.980
 Right?

00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:21.920
 So in the Old Covenant,

00:22:22.259 --> 00:22:22.940
 the Holy Spirit

00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:24.779
 rested and empowered

00:22:24.779 --> 00:22:25.440
 prophets,

00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:26.799
 priests,

00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:27.579
 kings

00:22:27.579 --> 00:22:28.500
 to do His work.

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 He rested on them

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 and empowered them

00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:32.079
 to accomplish a mission.

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 But,

00:22:33.099 --> 00:22:33.720
 that Holy Spirit

00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:34.619
 could be taken away

00:22:34.619 --> 00:22:35.279
 and that's what happens

00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:35.660
 to Saul.

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 Like,

00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:37.079
 once he disobeys God,

00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:38.460
 it says that he took

00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:39.440
 his spirit from him

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:40.460
 and then an evil spirit

00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:41.480
 came to torture him,

00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:42.840
 to torment him.

00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:44.500
 And that's why David

00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:45.840
 prays in Psalm 51,

00:22:46.460 --> 00:22:46.640
 like,

00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:46.900
 God,

00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.779
 do not take

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:48.600
 your Holy Spirit

00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:49.400
 from me.

00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:50.539
 Alright?

00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:50.940
 So,

00:22:51.120 --> 00:22:52.480
 these are prophecies

00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:53.920
 that that's going

00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:54.820
 to change one day.

00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:55.500
 That one day

00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:56.100
 the Holy Spirit

00:22:56.100 --> 00:22:56.900
 is going to come

00:22:56.900 --> 00:22:58.080
 and take up

00:22:58.080 --> 00:22:58.620
 residence

00:22:58.620 --> 00:22:59.740
 inside

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 His people.

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 Like,

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:03.059
 take out

00:23:03.059 --> 00:23:04.100
 their sinful heart,

00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:05.900
 their sinful desires,

00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:06.900
 their sinful flesh,

00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:08.220
 and give them

00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:08.900
 a heart

00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:09.960
 of flesh

00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:10.240
 so that they

00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.259
 will love God.

00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:11.900
 You see that?

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:13.080
 So they will know God

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 and love Him.

00:23:14.800 --> 00:23:15.519
 And then he says

00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:16.480
 in this last part,

00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.360
 verse 27,

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 I will put

00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:19.580
 My Spirit

00:23:19.580 --> 00:23:20.920
 within them

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:23.220
 and cause you

00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:24.400
 to walk in My statues

00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:25.060
 and be careful

00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:26.040
 to keep My rules.

00:23:26.800 --> 00:23:27.720
 So there's a prophecy

00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.560
 that like,

00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:29.519
 one day,

00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:30.460
 My Spirit's going to come

00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:31.259
 and dwell in people

00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:31.960
 and I'm going to give them

00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:32.519
 a new heart.

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 And of course,

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:34.540
 there's a very familiar one

00:23:34.540 --> 00:23:35.700
 in 2 Corinthians 5.

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 If anyone's in Christ,

00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:37.819
 a new creation.

00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:39.600
 The old is past.

00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:40.240
 Come back to this one

00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:40.740
 for a second.

00:23:41.580 --> 00:23:42.220
 The Holy Spirit

00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:43.420
 raises the dead

00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:44.400
 sinner

00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:44.960
 from a state

00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:45.920
 of spiritual death

00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:47.380
 and makes them

00:23:47.380 --> 00:23:47.940
 alive.

00:23:48.940 --> 00:23:49.180
 Right?

00:23:49.259 --> 00:23:49.600
 Those are

00:23:49.600 --> 00:23:51.420
 very clear passages

00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:52.059
 on that one.

00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.519
 But John 5,

00:23:53.660 --> 00:23:54.720
 for as the Father

00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:55.799
 raises the dead

00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:56.680
 and gives them life,

00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:58.240
 so also the Son

00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:58.819
 gives life

00:23:58.819 --> 00:23:59.940
 to whom He will.

00:23:59.940 --> 00:24:00.480
 Don't forget

00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:01.220
 that last part.

00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:02.420
 To whom He will.

00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:04.380
 Whoever He wants to.

00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:05.980
 So,

00:24:06.140 --> 00:24:06.860
 then we get that

00:24:06.860 --> 00:24:08.380
 Ephesians 2.

00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:09.180
 We were dead

00:24:09.180 --> 00:24:10.259
 in our trespasses.

00:24:11.539 --> 00:24:11.860
 Right?

00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:14.160
 We were made alive

00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:15.900
 together with Christ.

00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:16.420
 By grace,

00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:17.279
 you have been saved.

00:24:17.380 --> 00:24:17.559
 So,

00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:18.799
 you get the point here.

00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:21.579
 But here's what's

00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:22.539
 critical to understand,

00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:23.420
 particularly in the way

00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:24.400
 we're talking about it.

00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.759
 If you're in a state

00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:28.019
 of spiritual death,

00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:30.079
 maybe a better analogy.

00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:30.399
 So,

00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:32.299
 if most of us

00:24:32.299 --> 00:24:33.059
 have been to a funeral

00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:33.500
 before,

00:24:34.819 --> 00:24:35.480
 family member,

00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:36.159
 friend,

00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.419
 that dead corpse

00:24:38.419 --> 00:24:39.199
 is not breathing.

00:24:39.619 --> 00:24:39.960
 It's not,

00:24:40.419 --> 00:24:41.619
 no air is going in,

00:24:41.679 --> 00:24:42.679
 no air is coming out.

00:24:42.779 --> 00:24:44.099
 It's like life has ceased.

00:24:45.019 --> 00:24:46.379
 That's the word dead.

00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:47.500
 That word dead

00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:48.339
 means corpse.

00:24:49.099 --> 00:24:50.099
 Spiritually speaking,

00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:51.079
 like a corpse.

00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:53.559
 So,

00:24:53.639 --> 00:24:54.339
 spiritually speaking,

00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:56.319
 the air you would be

00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.299
 breathing is faith.

00:24:57.960 --> 00:24:58.259
 Right?

00:24:58.439 --> 00:24:59.519
 In relationship to God.

00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:00.299
 If you were alive,

00:25:00.339 --> 00:25:01.519
 you would have faith.

00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:03.000
 And so,

00:25:03.139 --> 00:25:04.039
 what happens is,

00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:06.400
 God raises the dead sinner,

00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:08.660
 gives them life,

00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:10.180
 puts the spirit with them.

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:11.240
 You know what the outcome is?

00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:12.579
 Faith.

00:25:13.639 --> 00:25:14.059
 Like,

00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:15.200
 the air that they breathe

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.259
 following that resurrection

00:25:17.259 --> 00:25:19.319
 is faith in Christ.

00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:20.099
 So,

00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.480
 that analogy works true.

00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:21.859


00:25:21.980 --> 00:25:23.200
 but the way

00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:25.240
 I was taught it was,

00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:26.740
 I exercise faith first

00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:28.240
 and then God rewards me

00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:29.240
 with being born again.

00:25:30.120 --> 00:25:30.240
 But,

00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:31.640
 but according to what we're just reading,

00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:33.079
 the order in which it's laid out,

00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:34.140
 that's not how it's laid out.

00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:35.339
 It's,

00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:36.940
 he regenerates us,

00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:37.880
 he raises us,

00:25:37.940 --> 00:25:38.359
 and then,

00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:39.940
 and then we have,

00:25:40.019 --> 00:25:40.799
 we have faith

00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.519
 as a result of that.

00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:43.839
 And so,

00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:45.639
 but it's basically,

00:25:45.879 --> 00:25:46.420
 if you can imagine

00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:47.920
 going to the tomb of Lazarus,

00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:49.920
 what if Jesus said,

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:50.579
 Lazarus,

00:25:51.379 --> 00:25:53.339
 if you want me to make you alive,

00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:54.220
 come out first,

00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:55.339
 and then I'll make you alive.

00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:56.099
 It's sort of a,

00:25:57.019 --> 00:25:57.619
 instead he said,

00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:57.920
 no,

00:25:58.059 --> 00:25:58.700
 come out.

00:25:58.700 --> 00:26:00.779
 and because of his

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:01.920
 omnipotent command,

00:26:02.059 --> 00:26:02.660
 he comes out.

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:03.900
 It's a very,

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:05.600
 it's a metaphor for us,

00:26:06.140 --> 00:26:06.580
 spiritually,

00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:07.519
 you know.

00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:08.600
 So,

00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:09.640
 any questions

00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.380
 or comments?

00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:13.400
 I may not know the answer to everything.

00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:15.200
 You said,

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.900
 you said that you can take

00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:18.019
 his spirit from you

00:26:18.019 --> 00:26:18.340
 like,

00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:19.680
 like that,

00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:21.819
 and you can't

00:26:21.819 --> 00:26:22.779
 become

00:26:22.779 --> 00:26:24.000
 not a believer.

00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:24.740
 Mm-hmm.

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:25.360
 So,

00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:26.640
 what's the difference between this?

00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:26.880
 Yep.

00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:28.559
 The difference is,

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:31.279
 to put it in very familiar terms,

00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:32.180
 the difference between

00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:32.819
 what the spirit did

00:26:32.819 --> 00:26:33.640
 in the Old Testament

00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:35.680
 and what the spirit does now

00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.480
 in the New Testament.

00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:38.220
 In the Old Testament,

00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:40.120
 he did not come up

00:26:40.120 --> 00:26:40.920
 and take residence

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:41.779
 inside people.

00:26:42.100 --> 00:26:42.420
 He just,

00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:43.319
 he,

00:26:44.100 --> 00:26:45.360
 God anointed people.

00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:45.779
 Remember,

00:26:45.860 --> 00:26:46.640
 he anointed Saul,

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:47.640
 he anointed Samuel,

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:49.680
 he anointed different people,

00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:51.460
 and the spirit came

00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:53.100
 and empowered them,

00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:53.980
 gave them the strength

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:55.019
 to accomplish a mission.

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:56.059
 Does that make sense?

00:26:56.120 --> 00:26:56.259
 So,

00:26:56.340 --> 00:26:56.759
 in this case,

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:57.920
 he anointed,

00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:59.180
 King Saul

00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:00.320
 and empowered Saul

00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:01.259
 to be the king,

00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:04.180
 to triumph over the pagan enemies,

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:06.380
 to bring the people together.

00:27:07.060 --> 00:27:07.900
 Did the same thing

00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:08.560
 with King David.

00:27:09.259 --> 00:27:10.039
 But Saul,

00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:11.360
 if you remember the stories,

00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:11.560
 I mean,

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:11.880
 he just,

00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:14.420
 he just disregarded God's commands.

00:27:14.580 --> 00:27:16.259
 He rebelled against God.

00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:16.680
 God would say,

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:16.840
 hey,

00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:17.860
 here's what I want you to do

00:27:17.860 --> 00:27:18.500
 through Samuel.

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.000
 He'd be like,

00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:19.800
 God wants you to

00:27:19.800 --> 00:27:20.960
 do this,

00:27:21.300 --> 00:27:21.560
 this,

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:22.159
 and this,

00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:22.159
 and this,

00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:23.519
 very particular way.

00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:25.379
 And Saul kept amending

00:27:25.379 --> 00:27:26.319
 what God said,

00:27:26.399 --> 00:27:26.559
 like,

00:27:26.639 --> 00:27:26.879
 well,

00:27:27.139 --> 00:27:28.579
 I'll do that and that,

00:27:28.619 --> 00:27:29.539
 but I won't do this.

00:27:29.659 --> 00:27:29.799
 You know,

00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:30.639
 and he kept doing it

00:27:30.639 --> 00:27:32.319
 and disobeying God.

00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:33.319
 And the consequence was,

00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:34.319
 he was warned not,

00:27:34.460 --> 00:27:35.679
 he was warned not to stop,

00:27:35.740 --> 00:27:36.440
 and he kept doing it.

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:37.519
 And then,

00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.759
 Samuel finally confronted him

00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.879
 and said,

00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.159
 the Lord has torn your power

00:27:42.159 --> 00:27:42.720
 from you.

00:27:43.379 --> 00:27:43.659
 Like,

00:27:43.919 --> 00:27:44.940
 it's over for you.

00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:46.279
 And so the Spirit

00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:47.420
 was taken away from him.

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.039
 No.

00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.000
 But so,

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:55.980
 so what we just read

00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:57.240
 in Jeremiah and Ezekiel

00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:58.019
 are prophecies

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.779
 that one day

00:27:58.779 --> 00:27:59.400
 the Holy Spirit

00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:00.059
 is going to come

00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:01.200
 and he'll do something different

00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.660
 and seal them,

00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:03.759
 right?

00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:04.320
 And,

00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:04.799
 and not,

00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:05.860
 not go away,

00:28:06.100 --> 00:28:06.759
 like remain,

00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:08.100
 take up residence

00:28:08.100 --> 00:28:08.660
 so that,

00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:09.700
 you know,

00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:10.320
 1 Corinthians,

00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.380
 we are now the temple

00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:12.380
 of the Holy Spirit,

00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:13.460
 like the Spirit lives

00:28:13.460 --> 00:28:14.500
 and dwells in us.

00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:15.680
 As believers.

00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:16.440
 So,

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:18.180
 so if you truly are

00:28:18.180 --> 00:28:19.180
 saved,

00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:20.039
 then no,

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:21.019
 the Spirit's not

00:28:21.019 --> 00:28:22.700
 going to leave you.

00:28:22.900 --> 00:28:23.080
 But,

00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.140
 we're speaking

00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:24.860
 in a different context.

00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:25.539
 Good question, buddy.

00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:30.820
 Yeah,

00:28:30.860 --> 00:28:31.180
 that's actually

00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:31.960
 what we read this morning

00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.360
 about how

00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:33.960
 God took the Holy Spirit

00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:34.700
 away from Saul.

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.640
 And so David saw that.

00:28:36.840 --> 00:28:36.940
 Like,

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:37.880
 David saw what happened

00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:38.340
 to Saul.

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:40.360
 And so that's why

00:28:40.360 --> 00:28:40.779
 he prayed

00:28:40.779 --> 00:28:41.420
 after he had

00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:42.840
 committed adultery

00:28:42.840 --> 00:28:43.380
 with Bathsheba,

00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:43.559
 like,

00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:43.779
 Lord,

00:28:43.860 --> 00:28:44.480
 do not take

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.059
 your Holy Spirit

00:28:45.059 --> 00:28:45.579
 from me.

00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:45.819
 Like,

00:28:45.860 --> 00:28:46.660
 that was the context

00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:47.240
 in which the Spirit

00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:47.740
 operated.

00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:51.460
 Yeah,

00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:52.339
 anything else?

00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.319
 Oh.

00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:03.640
 Next week.

00:29:03.900 --> 00:29:04.400
 I'm just kidding.

00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:07.019
 Perseverance of the saints

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:07.579
 next week.

00:29:07.579 --> 00:29:08.139
 Well,

00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:09.960
 I mean,

00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:12.000
 so,

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.079
 I think some of that

00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:14.639
 will be answered

00:29:14.639 --> 00:29:15.339
 in what we're talking

00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:15.919
 about tonight.

00:29:16.059 --> 00:29:16.220
 But,

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:17.480
 but in general,

00:29:17.619 --> 00:29:18.179
 the Holy Spirit

00:29:18.179 --> 00:29:19.079
 has the ability

00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:19.899
 to make people feel

00:29:19.899 --> 00:29:21.199
 bad about their sin,

00:29:21.419 --> 00:29:23.099
 to make them feel

00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:24.480
 guilty about stuff.

00:29:24.679 --> 00:29:25.699
 But that's different

00:29:25.699 --> 00:29:26.519
 than repentance.

00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:27.899
 It's different.

00:29:28.059 --> 00:29:28.199
 So,

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:29.899
 so some people that,

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:30.139
 you know,

00:29:30.139 --> 00:29:31.099
 you may share the gospel

00:29:31.099 --> 00:29:31.379
 with,

00:29:31.439 --> 00:29:32.059
 they feel bad

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:32.859
 about what they've done.

00:29:32.859 --> 00:29:34.579
 They have a sense

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:34.979
 of guilt

00:29:34.979 --> 00:29:36.000
 about what they've done,

00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.539
 but it falls short.

00:29:37.639 --> 00:29:38.279
 It doesn't actually

00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:39.799
 go to true repentance.

00:29:39.979 --> 00:29:41.259
 It's like a worldly sorrow.

00:29:41.439 --> 00:29:41.799
 They hate

00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:43.559
 how it makes them feel.

00:29:43.679 --> 00:29:44.019
 They hate

00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:44.559
 what it's done

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:45.259
 to their friends

00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:45.879
 and family,

00:29:46.059 --> 00:29:47.500
 but it falls short

00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:48.919
 of like true repentance.

00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:49.619
 And so,

00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:51.599
 but,

00:29:52.439 --> 00:29:52.899
 but yeah,

00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:53.279
 I mean,

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:54.179
 if indeed

00:29:54.179 --> 00:29:56.279
 they walk away

00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.719
 and kind of prove

00:29:57.719 --> 00:29:58.459
 that they're not

00:29:58.459 --> 00:29:59.159
 in the faith

00:29:59.160 --> 00:29:59.740
 and the spirit

00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:00.800
 was never

00:30:00.800 --> 00:30:01.320
 in them

00:30:01.320 --> 00:30:02.120
 in the first place,

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:03.100
 you know,

00:30:03.580 --> 00:30:03.940
 so.

00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:13.560
 Yeah.

00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:17.000
 Yeah.

00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:23.840
 Yep.

00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:25.620
 So meaning,

00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:26.500
 like next week,

00:30:26.600 --> 00:30:28.100
 just a glance

00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:28.660
 at next week,

00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:29.300
 perseverance

00:30:29.300 --> 00:30:29.980
 of the saints

00:30:29.980 --> 00:30:31.519
 means that those

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:32.800
 who are truly saved,

00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:34.340
 truly born again,

00:30:35.340 --> 00:30:36.200
 even though they,

00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:36.820
 they struggle

00:30:36.820 --> 00:30:38.340
 and have battles

00:30:38.340 --> 00:30:40.740
 and sometimes sin,

00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:42.279
 like the overall

00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:43.820
 projectile is

00:30:43.820 --> 00:30:44.740
 they will persevere

00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:45.519
 until the end,

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:46.620
 like they will make it

00:30:46.620 --> 00:30:47.480
 and,

00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:48.180
 and be saved.

00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:48.940
 And what Ernie's saying

00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:49.560
 is like there are

00:30:49.560 --> 00:30:50.060
 some people

00:30:50.060 --> 00:30:50.840
 who come around

00:30:50.840 --> 00:30:52.460
 and they look like Christians,

00:30:52.580 --> 00:30:53.480
 they talk like Christians,

00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:54.460
 they hold their heads right,

00:30:54.540 --> 00:30:55.560
 they sing all the songs,

00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:56.500
 but,

00:30:56.600 --> 00:30:57.279
 but eventually

00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:58.240
 they fall away

00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:59.559
 just proving

00:30:59.559 --> 00:30:59.980
 that they were

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:00.680
 never of

00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.440
 the faith anyway.

00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:03.440
 That's what he just read.

00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:03.700
 Like,

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:05.160
 they went out from us

00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:06.539
 and they left us,

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:08.420
 but that was to show

00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:08.799
 that they were

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:09.759
 never of us.

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:11.519
 Sort of think about

00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:12.799
 Judas a little bit,

00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:13.440
 like how he was

00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:14.099
 around Christ

00:31:14.099 --> 00:31:14.740
 all the time

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:15.160
 and he'd be like,

00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:15.299
 yeah,

00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:16.019
 Judas is one of,

00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:16.819
 Judas is one of

00:31:16.819 --> 00:31:17.400
 Jesus' boys.

00:31:18.339 --> 00:31:18.900
 Not really.

00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:19.420
 Jesus,

00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:19.980
 Jesus said

00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:20.380
 that he never

00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:21.039
 belonged to them

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:22.759
 and so,

00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:27.119
 I don't know,

00:31:27.159 --> 00:31:27.740
 you'll have to ask him

00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:28.079
 one day.

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:31.740
 I mean,

00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:32.579
 one clear answer,

00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:33.119
 Jesus says

00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:34.500
 the scripture will be fulfilled

00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:35.420
 like it was written

00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:36.079
 that the Messiah

00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:38.099
 would be betrayed one day.

00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:39.099
 Yeah.

00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:52.099
 Oh,

00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:54.779
 don't get that personal.

00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:56.919
 I'm just kidding.

00:31:57.419 --> 00:31:58.179
 You mean,

00:31:58.179 --> 00:31:59.099
 you mean Derek Webb?

00:31:59.779 --> 00:32:00.419
 Yeah.

00:32:01.340 --> 00:32:01.600
 Well,

00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:03.820
 when we were in college,

00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:06.080
 we loved Derek Webb.

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:06.880
 Like,

00:32:07.500 --> 00:32:08.160
 he said a lot,

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:09.180
 we loved his music,

00:32:09.340 --> 00:32:09.940
 he wrote a lot of

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:10.960
 really good things,

00:32:11.060 --> 00:32:11.720
 true things,

00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:13.900
 and then is now

00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:15.500
 apostate,

00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:17.060
 renouncing the faith.

00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:18.580
 At least what you told me,

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:19.220
 like actually trying

00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:20.180
 to deconstruct it,

00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:20.640
 you know.

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:24.240
 We don't know,

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:25.880
 like I'm really hesitant now,

00:32:26.019 --> 00:32:27.300
 I used to do this all the time,

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:28.240
 but really hesitant now

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:29.920
 to say that person

00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:31.960
 is not,

00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:33.200
 or that person will not,

00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:34.860
 because I don't know.

00:32:35.580 --> 00:32:36.480
 I will say right now

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.460
 it doesn't seem like they are,

00:32:38.120 --> 00:32:39.640
 and they continue in that path,

00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:39.900
 they,

00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:40.400
 they,

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.980
 it'll lead to destruction,

00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:42.620
 but,

00:32:43.620 --> 00:32:44.220
 could God,

00:32:44.340 --> 00:32:45.400
 if he wants to,

00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:46.920
 like grab Derek Webb's

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:48.660
 soul?

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.200
 He could,

00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:50.060
 if he wants to,

00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:51.820
 but as for now,

00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.000
 it really does seem

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:54.039
 like he has,

00:32:54.740 --> 00:32:55.779
 that he never had it

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:56.620
 to begin with,

00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:57.860
 like it was never a real thing,

00:32:57.940 --> 00:32:59.700
 he knew a lot in his head,

00:32:59.700 --> 00:33:00.039
 and he,

00:33:00.100 --> 00:33:01.279
 he had this outward show

00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:02.420
 of being a follower of Jesus,

00:33:02.620 --> 00:33:02.860
 but,

00:33:03.340 --> 00:33:04.059
 but deep down,

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:05.299
 it never was like real

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:06.180
 to begin with,

00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:07.940
 so,

00:33:08.180 --> 00:33:08.620
 but maybe,

00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:09.840
 maybe he'll come back around,

00:33:10.340 --> 00:33:11.380
 and that doesn't change

00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:12.559
 anything that he's saying

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:13.220
 that was true

00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:14.059
 to be untrue though,

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:14.420
 like,

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.200
 he still said a lot of good things,

00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:16.640
 and,

00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:18.960
 it all was truthful things,

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.240
 but,

00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:27.940
 it kind of started with his divorce,

00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:28.559
 when you say,

00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:30.960
 with Sandra McCracken,

00:33:32.019 --> 00:33:32.319
 yeah,

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:33.559
 and you see the difference

00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.000
 in how both of them handled it,

00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.799
 she's handled it by drawing nearer to Christ,

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.640
 and he's kind of handled it

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:40.400
 by running away,

00:33:41.779 --> 00:33:42.100
 so,

00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:43.900
 yeah,

00:33:43.900 --> 00:33:46.380
 Josh Harris is another one,

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:46.600
 yeah,

00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:47.320
 this is all getting into,

00:33:47.380 --> 00:33:47.500
 like,

00:33:47.540 --> 00:33:48.000
 the next week,

00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:48.220
 but,

00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:48.440
 yeah,

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:49.000
 just like,

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:51.120
 you just don't ever know,

00:33:51.780 --> 00:33:52.000
 like,

00:33:52.060 --> 00:33:52.259
 Lord,

00:33:52.360 --> 00:33:53.820
 just help us persevere,

00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:55.960
 no matter what,

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.340
 all right,

00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:01.840
 this next point,

00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:02.579
 we can get through,

00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:04.220
 pretty quickly,

00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:04.740
 but,

00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:05.740
 but think about this,

00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:07.340
 who is the,

00:34:07.420 --> 00:34:09.119
 the one who reveals,

00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:11.559
 the truth about God to us,

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.679
 it's the Holy Spirit,

00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:14.699
 he is the one who like,

00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.039
 teaches us about who God actually is,

00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:18.559
 truthfully is,

00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:20.420
 that's his role,

00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:21.380
 that's what he does,

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:22.720
 so,

00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:23.480
 the next part,

00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:24.599
 revealing the things of God,

00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:25.740
 the Holy Spirit reveals,

00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:27.559
 the deep and secret things of God,

00:34:27.659 --> 00:34:28.219
 to man,

00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:30.219
 man's intellect,

00:34:30.359 --> 00:34:31.779
 and self exertion,

00:34:31.899 --> 00:34:32.799
 may attain,

00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:35.159
 a certain knowledge of God,

00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:36.559
 but not a saving knowledge,

00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:37.259
 meaning like,

00:34:37.819 --> 00:34:38.799
 there are unbelievers,

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:39.259
 there's,

00:34:39.319 --> 00:34:40.559
 there's religious professors,

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:42.779
 who know a lot of true things,

00:34:42.779 --> 00:34:43.399
 about the Bible,

00:34:43.879 --> 00:34:45.159
 but they don't believe it,

00:34:45.819 --> 00:34:46.419
 they're not like,

00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:47.759
 actually saved by it,

00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:49.079
 so,

00:34:49.299 --> 00:34:51.319
 they can have an intellectual assent,

00:34:51.399 --> 00:34:52.159
 to the truth,

00:34:53.359 --> 00:34:54.379
 but then the Holy Spirit,

00:34:54.459 --> 00:34:55.439
 enables man not merely,

00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:56.320
 to reach an intellect,

00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:57.740
 so,

00:34:58.019 --> 00:34:59.340
 let's just pick one of these,

00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:01.340
 um,

00:35:03.179 --> 00:35:04.059
 hmm,

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:06.320
 now they're both good,

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:06.320


00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.320
 yeah,

00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:15.820
 let's look at,

00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:17.920
 the last part of Matthew there,

00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:19.079
 he says,

00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:20.819
 all things have been handed over to me,

00:35:20.860 --> 00:35:21.599
 by my Father,

00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:23.539
 no one knows the Son,

00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:24.299
 except the Father,

00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.900
 and no one knows the Father,

00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:26.739
 except the Son,

00:35:27.340 --> 00:35:28.860
 and anyone to whom the Son,

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.360
 chooses to reveal,

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.360
 so you see some kind of,

00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:32.500
 election idea there,

00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:33.840
 right,

00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.300
 yeah,

00:35:37.300 --> 00:35:39.579
 so what the Spirit does,

00:35:39.700 --> 00:35:40.220
 he's the one,

00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:41.039
 who reveals us,

00:35:41.100 --> 00:35:41.680
 the knowledge,

00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:42.960
 about who Jesus is,

00:35:43.120 --> 00:35:44.180
 so it's true,

00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:44.980
 to actually kind of,

00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:45.620
 say both,

00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:46.780
 but I guess,

00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:47.660
 a big distinguishing,

00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:48.260
 one would be here,

00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:49.019
 in first Corinthians,

00:35:49.200 --> 00:35:50.079
 so let's look at that one,

00:35:51.160 --> 00:35:51.780
 these things,

00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:53.079
 God has revealed to us,

00:35:53.140 --> 00:35:54.180
 through his Spirit,

00:35:54.740 --> 00:35:55.300
 for the Spirit,

00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:56.420
 searches everything,

00:35:56.620 --> 00:35:57.920
 even the depths of God,

00:35:58.920 --> 00:35:59.700
 for who knows,

00:35:59.740 --> 00:36:00.579
 a person's thoughts,

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:01.500
 except the Spirit,

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:02.380
 of that person,

00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:03.700
 which is in him,

00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:05.220
 so also,

00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:06.380
 no one comprehends,

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:07.480
 the thoughts of God,

00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:08.360
 except the Spirit,

00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:09.019
 of God,

00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:10.960
 now we have received,

00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:12.300
 not a spirit of the world,

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.139
 but the Spirit,

00:36:13.240 --> 00:36:14.059
 who is from God,

00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:15.740
 that we might understand,

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:16.740
 the things freely,

00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:17.780
 given to us,

00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:18.519
 by God,

00:36:18.860 --> 00:36:19.559
 which is also,

00:36:19.659 --> 00:36:20.460
 a knowledge of Jesus,

00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:21.000
 the Son,

00:36:21.300 --> 00:36:22.200
 so going back to your,

00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:23.280
 question,

00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:23.700
 so,

00:36:24.200 --> 00:36:25.940
 and we impart this,

00:36:26.019 --> 00:36:27.119
 in words not taught,

00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:28.639
 by human wisdom,

00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:30.019
 but taught,

00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:30.759
 by the Spirit,

00:36:31.099 --> 00:36:32.739
 interpreting spiritual truths,

00:36:32.779 --> 00:36:33.960
 to those who are spiritual,

00:36:34.539 --> 00:36:35.199
 and here's a really,

00:36:35.279 --> 00:36:35.880
 critical verse,

00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.579
 don't miss this one,

00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.179
 verse 14,

00:36:37.279 --> 00:36:38.199
 the natural person,

00:36:38.319 --> 00:36:38.500
 okay,

00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:38.980
 so the,

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:40.199
 the fallen,

00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:42.199
 sinful person,

00:36:42.279 --> 00:36:42.579
 without,

00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:43.359
 without God,

00:36:44.259 --> 00:36:44.920
 does not,

00:36:45.019 --> 00:36:45.460
 accept,

00:36:45.579 --> 00:36:46.199
 understand them,

00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:46.759
 because they are,

00:36:46.759 --> 00:36:48.199
 spiritually discerned,

00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:48.619
 you see that,

00:36:48.739 --> 00:36:48.900
 so,

00:36:49.279 --> 00:36:50.579
 so man left to himself,

00:36:50.759 --> 00:36:52.599
 can't come to that kind of knowledge,

00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:53.920
 again,

00:36:54.059 --> 00:36:54.239
 some,

00:36:54.299 --> 00:36:55.599
 some intellectual knowledge,

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:55.900
 sure,

00:36:55.900 --> 00:36:58.400
 but not a saving knowledge,

00:36:59.059 --> 00:37:00.200
 man left to himself,

00:37:00.340 --> 00:37:01.059
 a natural person,

00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:01.740
 it's,

00:37:01.740 --> 00:37:02.660
 it's silly to him,

00:37:02.740 --> 00:37:03.599
 it doesn't make sense to him,

00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:04.579
 like,

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:04.860
 yeah,

00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:05.460
 I get it,

00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:05.720
 but,

00:37:05.860 --> 00:37:06.380
 I'm not there,

00:37:07.240 --> 00:37:07.700
 so,

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:09.320
 the Spirit is the one,

00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:10.000
 who teaches us,

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:11.579
 about who Jesus is,

00:37:12.099 --> 00:37:12.680
 the gospel,

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:14.280
 yeah,

00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.480
 all right,

00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:17.119
 so now,

00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:19.000
 getting to the,

00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:20.280
 the general call,

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:21.059
 of the gospels,

00:37:21.180 --> 00:37:23.019
 what we kind of referred to earlier,

00:37:23.019 --> 00:37:26.039
 we see in such passages,

00:37:26.139 --> 00:37:26.480
 in scripture,

00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:28.179
 God summoning,

00:37:28.179 --> 00:37:28.820
 men and women,

00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:29.320
 to repent,

00:37:29.420 --> 00:37:30.159
 and believe the gospel,

00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:30.500
 right,

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:30.800
 so,

00:37:31.259 --> 00:37:31.920
 Paul goes out,

00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:33.199
 and he preaches to a large crowd,

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.980
 what's going on,

00:37:36.500 --> 00:37:37.360
 when he does that,

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:38.219
 this is referred to,

00:37:38.300 --> 00:37:39.380
 as the gospel call,

00:37:40.179 --> 00:37:41.739
 which is the general invitation,

00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:43.280
 that goes out to all people,

00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.719
 by way of human proclamation,

00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:47.980
 other terms,

00:37:48.099 --> 00:37:48.619
 used for this,

00:37:48.659 --> 00:37:49.799
 are the external call,

00:37:49.879 --> 00:37:50.539
 so meaning like,

00:37:51.059 --> 00:37:52.399
 of the gospel message,

00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:54.339
 this doctrine,

00:37:54.459 --> 00:37:55.159
 of the gospel call,

00:37:55.219 --> 00:37:55.699
 is important,

00:37:55.799 --> 00:37:57.179
 because if there were,

00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:59.119
 no external proclamation,

00:37:59.279 --> 00:37:59.899
 of the good news,

00:38:00.019 --> 00:38:00.879
 no one would be saved,

00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:01.179
 so,

00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:02.159
 so again,

00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:03.099
 this goes back to the idea,

00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:04.099
 that God has chosen,

00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:06.399
 so try to remember,

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.159
 if you have your notes,

00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:09.079
 from like last Sunday,

00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:09.599
 I did a whole,

00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:10.919
 the whole sermon was about this,

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:11.239
 like,

00:38:11.699 --> 00:38:12.639
 it was about how,

00:38:13.879 --> 00:38:15.059
 like God has chosen,

00:38:15.059 --> 00:38:16.119
 the means,

00:38:16.799 --> 00:38:18.079
 to reach his people,

00:38:18.219 --> 00:38:18.759
 and that means,

00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:19.759
 is the preaching of the gospel,

00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:20.980
 right,

00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:21.400
 so,

00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:22.719
 that message goes out,

00:38:22.799 --> 00:38:23.460
 to all people,

00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:26.900
 without any kind of distinction,

00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:27.779
 we preach the gospel,

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:28.500
 to all people,

00:38:29.340 --> 00:38:29.880
 we have a,

00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:30.239
 you know,

00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:31.360
 obviously a lot of examples,

00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:31.900
 of that,

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:34.219
 Romans 10,

00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:37.279
 how they call upon him,

00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:38.739
 whom they have not believed,

00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:40.860
 and how are they to believe in him,

00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:41.980
 of whom they have never heard,

00:38:41.980 --> 00:38:42.400
 and,

00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:44.380
 and how are they to hear,

00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:45.400
 without someone preaching,

00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:47.000
 how,

00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:48.400
 are they to preach,

00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:49.480
 unless they are sent,

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:50.099
 so you get the,

00:38:50.099 --> 00:38:51.460
 the picture there,

00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:53.820
 so God has,

00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:56.039
 ordained our ends,

00:38:56.220 --> 00:38:57.380
 which is our salvation,

00:38:57.579 --> 00:38:58.500
 but he's also ordained,

00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:59.920
 the way that's to happen,

00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:00.480
 the means,

00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:00.860
 which is,

00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:02.099
 the proclamation of the gospel,

00:39:02.220 --> 00:39:02.960
 that's why we go,

00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:03.599
 we do it,

00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:05.599
 remember,

00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:05.599


00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:11.539
 just by way of reminder,

00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:13.360
 we'll look at,

00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.579
 Acts 18 again,

00:39:15.659 --> 00:39:16.099
 real quick,

00:39:18.659 --> 00:39:20.199
 Acts chapter 18,

00:39:20.299 --> 00:39:21.360
 when Paul's in Corinth,

00:39:22.099 --> 00:39:23.579
 not to give you the whole sermon,

00:39:23.699 --> 00:39:24.500
 we did last week,

00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:25.900
 but remember,

00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:28.240
 Paul,

00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:29.680
 stresses a,

00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:32.059
 personal responsibility,

00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:34.180
 to preach the gospel,

00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:35.180
 he takes it personally,

00:39:35.300 --> 00:39:35.960
 he says like,

00:39:36.579 --> 00:39:37.059
 you know what,

00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.579
 blood be on your own heads,

00:39:38.680 --> 00:39:39.460
 I'm innocent,

00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:40.000
 I'm free,

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:41.400
 I've warned you,

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:42.720
 I've told you,

00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:43.860
 and you haven't listened to me,

00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:44.880
 so,

00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:45.960
 it's the same guy,

00:39:46.059 --> 00:39:46.680
 Romans 9,

00:39:47.380 --> 00:39:47.760
 you know,

00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:48.460
 he gets it,

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.960
 but then after that,

00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:51.260
 again,

00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:52.280
 he's sort of discouraged,

00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:54.260
 and in verse 9,

00:39:54.539 --> 00:39:55.119
 chapter 18,

00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:55.559
 he says,

00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:56.500
 the Lord said to Paul,

00:39:56.579 --> 00:39:57.099
 one night,

00:39:57.720 --> 00:39:58.280
 in a vision,

00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:59.360
 do not be afraid,

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.199
 but go on speaking,

00:40:01.380 --> 00:40:02.179
 do not be silent,

00:40:03.139 --> 00:40:04.059
 for I am with you,

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:05.360
 and no one will attack you,

00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:06.119
 to harm you,

00:40:06.260 --> 00:40:07.059
 for I have many,

00:40:07.699 --> 00:40:08.519
 in this city,

00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:09.860
 who are my people,

00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:11.220
 alright,

00:40:11.300 --> 00:40:12.079
 and we talked about,

00:40:12.240 --> 00:40:13.659
 what that actually meant,

00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:15.300
 last week,

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:16.340
 how that's an encouragement,

00:40:16.340 --> 00:40:17.539
 for evangelism,

00:40:17.539 --> 00:40:19.539
 that knowing,

00:40:19.699 --> 00:40:20.539
 that God has a people,

00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:22.759
 empowers you to go,

00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:24.340
 it doesn't make you lazy,

00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:25.659
 it gives you confidence,

00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:26.860
 to go,

00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:27.739
 and reach them,

00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:29.440
 I've kind of,

00:40:29.539 --> 00:40:30.860
 I did the analogy already,

00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:31.599
 you can,

00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:33.539
 when I got invited,

00:40:33.619 --> 00:40:34.639
 to the Gay Straight Alliance,

00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:36.420
 on campus,

00:40:36.659 --> 00:40:36.800
 yeah,

00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:39.019
 and God was like,

00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:40.079
 my God,

00:40:40.139 --> 00:40:40.659
 what's going to happen,

00:40:40.739 --> 00:40:41.360
 I don't know,

00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:41.860
 what's going to happen,

00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:42.779
 I hope you're just a good,

00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:44.179
 I hope you do a good job,

00:40:44.980 --> 00:40:46.219
 I hope you can convince people,

00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:47.959
 don't mess it up,

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.699
 yeah,

00:40:50.139 --> 00:40:52.819
 yeah,

00:40:53.379 --> 00:41:00.539
 if they were angry,

00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:01.839
 they didn't show it to us,

00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:03.799
 I think,

00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:05.699
 they were shocked,

00:41:06.219 --> 00:41:06.459
 that,

00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:09.139
 we used to just hearing,

00:41:10.419 --> 00:41:11.099
 you queers,

00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:11.839
 you're going to hell,

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.579
 which is true,

00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:16.900
 if they don't repent,

00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:18.079
 but,

00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:19.960
 yeah,

00:41:20.200 --> 00:41:21.240
 but,

00:41:21.340 --> 00:41:22.220
 the difference is,

00:41:22.820 --> 00:41:23.820
 I brought myself,

00:41:23.860 --> 00:41:24.780
 under that umbrella too,

00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:25.200
 I'm like,

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:27.120
 you're under condemnation,

00:41:27.260 --> 00:41:28.320
 I'm under condemnation,

00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:29.059
 I'm a sinner,

00:41:29.380 --> 00:41:29.940
 you're a sinner,

00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:31.700
 like we're all guilty,

00:41:31.700 --> 00:41:32.420
 before God,

00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:33.539
 like I need a savior,

00:41:33.820 --> 00:41:34.720
 you need a savior,

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:37.079
 my sin is appalling to God,

00:41:37.180 --> 00:41:38.420
 your sin is appalling to God,

00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:39.420
 so I kind of put myself,

00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:40.720
 they weren't used to that,

00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:42.820
 they're used to more of a self-righteous condemning,

00:41:43.539 --> 00:41:44.380
 versus like,

00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:44.659
 hey,

00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:45.159
 like,

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.820
 we're all screwed,

00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:47.619
 and we all need a savior,

00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:49.139
 they're not used to kind of hearing that,

00:41:49.139 --> 00:41:49.639
 that's not the same,

00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:50.039
 but,

00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:50.480
 yeah,

00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:55.299
 it is true,

00:41:56.179 --> 00:41:57.219
 those people weren't wrong,

00:41:57.299 --> 00:41:57.960
 who say that,

00:41:58.379 --> 00:42:00.159
 but they're not preaching the gospel in humility,

00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:02.279
 and they're not putting themselves in,

00:42:02.319 --> 00:42:03.879
 with someone who also needs Jesus,

00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:04.539
 you know,

00:42:04.940 --> 00:42:05.879
 that's the difference,

00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:06.679
 so,

00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.039
 but yeah,

00:42:09.139 --> 00:42:09.440
 so that,

00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:10.679
 God has chosen the means,

00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:11.879
 alright,

00:42:11.940 --> 00:42:12.839
 so listen to this though,

00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.759
 that general gospel call,

00:42:16.259 --> 00:42:17.759
 is often rejected,

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.460
 right,

00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:20.160
 so you preach,

00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:21.480
 you see Paul preaching to,

00:42:21.860 --> 00:42:22.760
 people in Corinth,

00:42:22.940 --> 00:42:23.740
 and the Jews say,

00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:24.120
 yeah right,

00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:24.760
 get out of here,

00:42:25.420 --> 00:42:26.120
 we don't believe,

00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:27.680
 we don't believe Jesus was the Messiah,

00:42:28.600 --> 00:42:28.900
 so,

00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:30.820
 so let's look at this,

00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:34.140
 though the,

00:42:35.140 --> 00:42:35.960
 re-burble,

00:42:36.140 --> 00:42:36.780
 oh my gosh,

00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:38.160
 yep,

00:42:39.660 --> 00:42:41.240
 though expressing the gospel in words,

00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:43.380
 of the gospel message,

00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:44.800
 is powerful,

00:42:44.980 --> 00:42:46.460
 not all people who hear it,

00:42:46.540 --> 00:42:47.040
 receive it,

00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:49.180
 we often can see in scripture,

00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:50.480
 and in our own lives,

00:42:50.520 --> 00:42:51.580
 that people perish,

00:42:51.680 --> 00:42:52.680
 even after hearing,

00:42:52.780 --> 00:42:53.580
 and knowing the gospel,

00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:55.660
 those who do resist,

00:42:55.780 --> 00:42:56.700
 the spirit's influence,

00:42:56.840 --> 00:42:57.300
 do so,

00:42:57.360 --> 00:42:59.020
 because God has justly,

00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:01.120
 underlined justly,

00:43:01.980 --> 00:43:02.800
 decided not,

00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:04.820
 to change their hearts,

00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:06.400
 look at Acts,

00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:07.900
 7,

00:43:08.660 --> 00:43:09.340
 51,

00:43:09.640 --> 00:43:10.740
 you stiff neck people,

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:11.680
 uncircumcised,

00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:12.520
 and heartened ears,

00:43:12.600 --> 00:43:13.720
 you always resist,

00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:15.559
 the Holy Spirit,

00:43:15.980 --> 00:43:17.119
 as your fathers did,

00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:18.459
 so do you,

00:43:19.799 --> 00:43:20.319
 and,

00:43:20.379 --> 00:43:21.819
 all the day long,

00:43:21.899 --> 00:43:22.639
 I've held out my hands,

00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:23.419
 to disobedient,

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:24.459
 and contrary people,

00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:25.699
 so meaning,

00:43:25.879 --> 00:43:26.039
 like,

00:43:26.139 --> 00:43:27.379
 you know,

00:43:27.439 --> 00:43:28.019
 this was a verse,

00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:29.179
 that I had a hard time,

00:43:29.739 --> 00:43:30.279
 reckoning,

00:43:30.399 --> 00:43:31.059
 what we would call,

00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:31.919
 irresistible grace,

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:32.399
 it says right here,

00:43:32.459 --> 00:43:33.459
 that like people are resisting,

00:43:34.059 --> 00:43:35.159
 the grace of God,

00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:35.559
 so,

00:43:35.699 --> 00:43:36.459
 what's going on,

00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:37.899
 what does that mean,

00:43:37.900 --> 00:43:39.920
 but,

00:43:40.059 --> 00:43:41.440
 this is,

00:43:41.539 --> 00:43:42.480
 the contrast,

00:43:42.780 --> 00:43:43.019
 right,

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:45.019
 go to the next section,

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:47.200
 like sadly,

00:43:48.240 --> 00:43:49.139
 many reject,

00:43:49.720 --> 00:43:50.480
 the general,

00:43:51.240 --> 00:43:52.160
 external call,

00:43:52.300 --> 00:43:52.920
 of the gospel,

00:43:54.220 --> 00:43:54.660
 however,

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:55.539
 in addition,

00:43:55.700 --> 00:43:56.880
 to this external call,

00:43:57.660 --> 00:43:58.480
 the Holy Spirit,

00:43:58.579 --> 00:43:59.880
 extends a special,

00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:00.920
 inward call,

00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:02.800
 to the elect only,

00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:05.220
 the special call,

00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:05.760
 the spirit,

00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:06.280
 cannot,

00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:06.700
 cannot,

00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:07.780
 and will not be,

00:44:07.780 --> 00:44:08.300
 rejected,

00:44:09.120 --> 00:44:11.040
 it is an effectual call,

00:44:11.160 --> 00:44:12.380
 and always results,

00:44:12.500 --> 00:44:13.220
 in the conversion,

00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:13.900
 of those,

00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:15.519
 to whom it is made,

00:44:16.340 --> 00:44:17.160
 and in an act,

00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:17.760
 of mercy,

00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:18.460
 the Holy Spirit,

00:44:18.540 --> 00:44:19.420
 effectually calls,

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:19.920
 the elect,

00:44:19.980 --> 00:44:20.640
 by overcoming,

00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:21.560
 all resistance,

00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:23.660
 and making his influence,

00:44:23.720 --> 00:44:24.480
 irresistible,

00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:25.180
 to them,

00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:27.440
 at the appointed time,

00:44:27.600 --> 00:44:27.980
 the spirit,

00:44:28.040 --> 00:44:29.019
 regenerates all,

00:44:29.100 --> 00:44:29.540
 that the father,

00:44:29.640 --> 00:44:30.120
 has chosen,

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:30.800
 or elected,

00:44:31.019 --> 00:44:31.780
 to salvation,

00:44:32.780 --> 00:44:34.000
 those who do respond,

00:44:34.080 --> 00:44:34.400
 in faith,

00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:35.340
 to the gospel call,

00:44:36.140 --> 00:44:36.840
 though not perhaps,

00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:37.440
 right away,

00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.079
 so it doesn't mean,

00:44:38.139 --> 00:44:38.659
 like the first time,

00:44:38.700 --> 00:44:38.980
 they hear it,

00:44:38.980 --> 00:44:39.320
 they're just going to go,

00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:39.519
 oh,

00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:40.159
 I'm saved,

00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:41.679
 like it may be a while,

00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:43.440
 are those,

00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:44.519
 that God is predestined,

00:44:44.720 --> 00:44:45.420
 to believe,

00:44:45.619 --> 00:44:46.139
 all those,

00:44:46.220 --> 00:44:46.599
 that God,

00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:47.800
 predestined,

00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:48.940
 he effectually calls,

00:44:49.139 --> 00:44:50.039
 by his spirit,

00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:51.119
 all right,

00:44:51.139 --> 00:44:51.780
 now here's a bunch,

00:44:51.780 --> 00:44:52.400
 of scriptures,

00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.200
 about that,

00:44:53.539 --> 00:44:54.360
 so we read,

00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:55.220
 here,

00:44:55.219 --> 00:44:57.679
 and Paul,

00:44:57.779 --> 00:44:59.019
 Paul writing to Romans,

00:44:59.199 --> 00:44:59.480
 all right,

00:45:00.059 --> 00:45:00.379
 Jesus,

00:45:00.699 --> 00:45:01.179
 very clearly,

00:45:01.299 --> 00:45:01.459
 he goes,

00:45:01.539 --> 00:45:02.179
 many are called,

00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:03.879
 but few are chosen,

00:45:04.279 --> 00:45:04.859
 meaning like,

00:45:05.319 --> 00:45:07.059
 many people hear the gospel message,

00:45:07.919 --> 00:45:08.939
 but of those people,

00:45:09.859 --> 00:45:10.599
 few are chosen,

00:45:12.799 --> 00:45:13.679
 Romans 1,

00:45:13.819 --> 00:45:14.459
 6 and 7,

00:45:15.399 --> 00:45:15.919
 he says,

00:45:16.179 --> 00:45:17.299
 who you were called,

00:45:18.019 --> 00:45:18.319
 remember,

00:45:18.379 --> 00:45:18.959
 all these letters,

00:45:19.059 --> 00:45:19.699
 were to Christians,

00:45:19.819 --> 00:45:20.019
 right,

00:45:20.019 --> 00:45:22.719
 including you,

00:45:22.780 --> 00:45:23.380
 who were called,

00:45:23.500 --> 00:45:24.139
 to belong,

00:45:24.259 --> 00:45:25.119
 to Jesus Christ,

00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:26.780
 to those in Rome,

00:45:26.860 --> 00:45:28.039
 who were loved by God,

00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:28.639
 and called,

00:45:28.759 --> 00:45:29.719
 to be saints,

00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:32.000
 it's this effectual,

00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:32.900
 calling idea,

00:45:33.900 --> 00:45:34.380
 Romans 8,

00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:34.800
 38,

00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:36.300
 does not be predestined,

00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:36.880
 he called,

00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:38.619
 does not be called,

00:45:38.699 --> 00:45:39.119
 he justified,

00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:41.460
 um,

00:45:43.780 --> 00:45:46.860
 that's 8,

00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:47.079
 38,

00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:47.320
 yeah,

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:47.599
 my bad,

00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:48.820
 uh,

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:51.240
 at least we got it right on here,

00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:53.400
 then you look at,

00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:54.680
 um,

00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:55.500
 Romans 9,

00:45:55.600 --> 00:45:56.380
 which we went over,

00:45:57.019 --> 00:45:57.880
 in order to make known,

00:45:57.960 --> 00:45:58.960
 the riches of his glory,

00:45:59.100 --> 00:46:00.340
 for vessels of mercy,

00:46:00.340 --> 00:46:01.780
 which he prepared beforehand,

00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:02.420
 for glory,

00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:03.460
 even us,

00:46:03.900 --> 00:46:05.200
 whom he has called,

00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:07.080
 not from the Jews only,

00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:08.380
 but also from the Gentiles,

00:46:08.640 --> 00:46:08.960
 right,

00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:09.760
 so,

00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:10.960
 just to give you a few,

00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:11.960
 um,

00:46:13.539 --> 00:46:14.620
 verses for that,

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:16.580
 uh,

00:46:16.580 --> 00:46:17.420
 there's a lot,

00:46:18.160 --> 00:46:18.720
 but when God,

00:46:18.820 --> 00:46:19.940
 when they mention in the letters,

00:46:20.140 --> 00:46:20.200
 that,

00:46:20.200 --> 00:46:20.500
 that,

00:46:20.500 --> 00:46:20.519
 that,

00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.019
 you who are called,

00:46:22.100 --> 00:46:23.400
 he's talking about to the Christians,

00:46:23.620 --> 00:46:24.180
 you who are,

00:46:24.660 --> 00:46:25.000
 um,

00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.559
 God has affectionately called to himself,

00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:29.400
 and as Jesus said,

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:31.080
 many are called,

00:46:31.180 --> 00:46:32.760
 the general call of the gospel,

00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:34.860
 but few are chosen,

00:46:35.220 --> 00:46:36.260
 right,

00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:36.559
 now,

00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:37.160
 now look,

00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:38.920
 many of us in here,

00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:39.659
 including me,

00:46:40.099 --> 00:46:41.319
 we heard the gospel growing up,

00:46:41.339 --> 00:46:41.579
 and we're like,

00:46:41.659 --> 00:46:42.920
 nah,

00:46:43.399 --> 00:46:44.579
 like,

00:46:44.619 --> 00:46:45.059
 no thanks,

00:46:45.099 --> 00:46:46.039
 I'm going to have a good time,

00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:47.859
 I'm going to go and have,

00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:48.159
 you know,

00:46:48.179 --> 00:46:49.359
 figure out life on my own,

00:46:49.420 --> 00:46:50.659
 my parents are telling me this,

00:46:51.299 --> 00:46:52.139
 my pastor is,

00:46:52.179 --> 00:46:52.759
 my grandparents,

00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:54.899
 but I kind of want to have a good time,

00:46:54.980 --> 00:46:56.159
 I kind of want to sin for a while,

00:46:56.899 --> 00:46:57.279
 and,

00:46:57.339 --> 00:46:57.519
 uh,

00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:58.259
 try that out,

00:46:58.319 --> 00:46:59.000
 see how that goes,

00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.360
 um,

00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:01.019
 we've all,

00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:03.059
 some of us have lived that life,

00:47:03.059 --> 00:47:05.000
 so at that point,

00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.760
 we were being stiff-necked,

00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.739
 and we were resisting the Holy Spirit,

00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:12.440
 but,

00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:14.300
 I think you'll agree,

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:16.900
 there was an appointed time,

00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:18.480
 when God said,

00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:19.019
 enough,

00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:22.420
 you're done,

00:47:22.699 --> 00:47:24.139
 you're done rebelling against me,

00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:25.699
 and you're done running,

00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:28.719
 and that gets to our next part,

00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:31.099
 the Spirit imparts saving faith and repentance,

00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:33.779
 so at the appointed time,

00:47:34.859 --> 00:47:37.099
 the Holy Spirit imparts saving faith,

00:47:37.859 --> 00:47:38.659
 to the elect,

00:47:38.739 --> 00:47:40.819
 upon hearing the external call,

00:47:40.959 --> 00:47:41.599
 of the gospel,

00:47:42.819 --> 00:47:43.619
 these are verses,

00:47:43.739 --> 00:47:44.519
 I just read over,

00:47:44.619 --> 00:47:45.219
 and never saw,

00:47:45.339 --> 00:47:46.079
 until I just sort of,

00:47:46.219 --> 00:47:46.919
 put them together,

00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:47.139
 I'm like,

00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:47.419
 what?

00:47:47.779 --> 00:47:48.000
 yeah,

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:48.500
 they're everywhere,

00:47:49.699 --> 00:47:50.779
 so Acts 11,

00:47:51.779 --> 00:47:53.000
 we see this idea,

00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:53.839
 that,

00:47:54.799 --> 00:47:55.179
 um,

00:47:56.179 --> 00:47:57.439
 then to the Gentiles,

00:47:57.439 --> 00:47:58.379
 also given,

00:47:58.719 --> 00:47:59.519
 excuse me,

00:47:59.579 --> 00:48:01.219
 also God has granted,

00:48:01.219 --> 00:48:02.439
 repentance,

00:48:03.019 --> 00:48:03.819
 leading to life,

00:48:04.919 --> 00:48:05.219
 um,

00:48:05.859 --> 00:48:06.500
 Acts 13,

00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:07.079
 this one's,

00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:08.480
 very real,

00:48:09.779 --> 00:48:10.139
 alright,

00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:10.579
 now look,

00:48:10.819 --> 00:48:11.679
 they're preaching the gospel,

00:48:12.379 --> 00:48:14.319
 to a large crowd of Gentiles,

00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:14.839
 okay,

00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:16.519
 it says,

00:48:16.619 --> 00:48:17.739
 when the Gentiles heard this,

00:48:17.819 --> 00:48:18.679
 they began rejoicing,

00:48:18.819 --> 00:48:20.159
 glorifying the word of the Lord,

00:48:20.980 --> 00:48:21.879
 and underline this,

00:48:21.939 --> 00:48:22.599
 and as many,

00:48:22.779 --> 00:48:23.599
 who were appointed,

00:48:24.299 --> 00:48:25.359
 to eternal life,

00:48:25.779 --> 00:48:26.239
 believed,

00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:26.839
 pfft,

00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:27.859
 what?

00:48:28.379 --> 00:48:28.719
 you know,

00:48:29.579 --> 00:48:29.879
 I,

00:48:29.919 --> 00:48:31.259
 I just never saw that,

00:48:31.899 --> 00:48:32.859
 so what was the difference?

00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:34.319
 They were appointed,

00:48:34.459 --> 00:48:35.139
 to our eternal life,

00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:36.179
 and in that moment,

00:48:37.319 --> 00:48:38.419
 God used that preaching,

00:48:38.419 --> 00:48:39.119
 of the gospel,

00:48:39.339 --> 00:48:40.059
 by the apostle,

00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:41.739
 and he used that,

00:48:41.799 --> 00:48:42.619
 to regenerate them,

00:48:42.619 --> 00:48:44.159
 and it resulted,

00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:45.480
 in saving faith,

00:48:46.759 --> 00:48:47.059
 uh,

00:48:47.059 --> 00:48:47.699
 we see a picture,

00:48:47.699 --> 00:48:48.579
 of Lydia here,

00:48:48.839 --> 00:48:49.900
 in Acts 16,

00:48:50.539 --> 00:48:52.400
 the Lord opened her heart,

00:48:53.279 --> 00:48:54.400
 to pay attention,

00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:56.779
 to what was said by Paul,

00:48:56.960 --> 00:48:57.380
 see that,

00:48:58.339 --> 00:48:59.259
 an access,

00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:01.679
 we see in Philippians 1,

00:49:01.779 --> 00:49:03.159
 God has granted to you,

00:49:04.179 --> 00:49:05.420
 that for the sake of Christ,

00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:07.019
 that you should not only believe in him,

00:49:07.099 --> 00:49:07.319
 so he,

00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:07.619
 look,

00:49:08.019 --> 00:49:09.079
 belief in Christ,

00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:09.960
 has been granted,

00:49:10.319 --> 00:49:10.859
 you see that,

00:49:12.299 --> 00:49:13.779
 God has allowed it,

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.319
 not only to believe in him,

00:49:16.359 --> 00:49:18.059
 but also suffer for his sake,

00:49:18.299 --> 00:49:19.359
 and we see it again,

00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:21.279
 in 2nd Timothy,

00:49:22.279 --> 00:49:23.980
 that God may,

00:49:24.739 --> 00:49:25.219
 perhaps,

00:49:25.359 --> 00:49:26.799
 grant them repentance,

00:49:27.859 --> 00:49:29.799
 leading to a knowledge of the truth,

00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:32.400
 and they may come to their senses,

00:49:32.680 --> 00:49:33.480
 and escape,

00:49:34.100 --> 00:49:34.980
 the snare of the devil,

00:49:35.100 --> 00:49:36.380
 after being captured by him,

00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:37.420
 to do his will,

00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:38.620
 very chill,

00:49:38.620 --> 00:49:39.700
 awakening,

00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:41.100
 where you come to your senses,

00:49:41.860 --> 00:49:42.920
 like spiritually speaking,

00:49:43.019 --> 00:49:43.500
 not just like,

00:49:43.580 --> 00:49:43.740
 yeah,

00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:44.320
 I need to quit,

00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:45.120
 doing this,

00:49:45.160 --> 00:49:46.480
 it's like God shows you,

00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:49.160
 your desperate need for Christ,

00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:49.820
 and,

00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:51.280
 regenerates you,

00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:53.420
 so,

00:49:54.300 --> 00:49:54.800
 yeah,

00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:55.560
 does that make sense?

00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:00.740
 yep,

00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:01.840
 so at some point,

00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:04.480
 me who heard the gospel,

00:50:04.580 --> 00:50:05.400
 a lot growing up,

00:50:06.500 --> 00:50:08.680
 had an intellectual understanding,

00:50:08.820 --> 00:50:08.940
 of it,

00:50:08.940 --> 00:50:10.080
 I could explain it to you,

00:50:10.680 --> 00:50:11.800
 I could talk about it,

00:50:12.539 --> 00:50:13.580
 and at least at the time,

00:50:13.620 --> 00:50:14.620
 I thought I believed it,

00:50:14.640 --> 00:50:15.880
 but there wasn't a lot of real evidence,

00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:16.560
 behind that,

00:50:17.200 --> 00:50:18.420
 but at some point,

00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:18.860
 God,

00:50:20.200 --> 00:50:21.180
 at an appointed time,

00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:21.420
 was like,

00:50:21.500 --> 00:50:22.100
 that's it,

00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.080
 that's enough,

00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:23.519
 and he,

00:50:23.620 --> 00:50:25.200
 he took what I knew,

00:50:25.340 --> 00:50:26.100
 about the gospel,

00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:27.000
 and he saved me,

00:50:27.820 --> 00:50:28.519
 and sometimes,

00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:29.440
 that can be,

00:50:30.420 --> 00:50:31.200
 you might not fully,

00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:31.800
 you know,

00:50:32.099 --> 00:50:33.440
 it's an instantaneous event,

00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:34.119
 when the Holy Spirit,

00:50:34.179 --> 00:50:34.980
 regenerates you,

00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:36.119
 but,

00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:37.139
 it may not be,

00:50:37.200 --> 00:50:37.920
 just like a,

00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:39.460
 a pinpoint moment,

00:50:39.579 --> 00:50:40.079
 that you can say,

00:50:40.200 --> 00:50:40.639
 I can,

00:50:40.720 --> 00:50:41.780
 I can probably pin it down,

00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:42.360
 to like a four,

00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:43.320
 or five month period,

00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:44.880
 where I knew God,

00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:45.740
 was doing something,

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:47.019
 and working in me,

00:50:47.740 --> 00:50:48.300
 to where I was never,

00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:49.059
 the same again,

00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:51.039
 but a lot of people,

00:50:51.240 --> 00:50:52.840
 want that Damascus road experience,

00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:53.400
 like Saul,

00:50:53.539 --> 00:50:54.200
 he's on the horse,

00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:54.820
 and Jesus goes,

00:50:54.900 --> 00:50:55.500
 I am Jesus,

00:50:55.740 --> 00:50:56.119
 and he goes,

00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:56.659
 oh I'm your,

00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:56.960
 you know,

00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:57.179
 so,

00:50:57.780 --> 00:50:58.039
 we all,

00:50:58.119 --> 00:50:59.240
 we all don't have that,

00:50:59.239 --> 00:50:59.639
 so don't,

00:50:59.659 --> 00:51:00.219
 don't think,

00:51:00.319 --> 00:51:00.959
 because you don't,

00:51:01.019 --> 00:51:01.599
 that you're not,

00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:02.779
 in the faith,

00:51:03.859 --> 00:51:04.079
 but,

00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.599
 lastly,

00:51:09.479 --> 00:51:10.439
 I kind of already,

00:51:10.579 --> 00:51:11.500
 I kind of jumped ahead,

00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:11.859
 didn't I,

00:51:11.879 --> 00:51:12.299
 I'm sorry,

00:51:12.300 --> 00:51:13.000
 so,

00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.280
 missions and evangelism,

00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:16.480
 are commanded by God,

00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:17.220
 because he's chosen,

00:51:17.340 --> 00:51:18.060
 the preaching of the gospel,

00:51:18.180 --> 00:51:18.820
 as the means,

00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:21.140
 in which to bring salvation,

00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:22.000
 to his people,

00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:23.320
 who are scattered abroad,

00:51:24.200 --> 00:51:25.800
 God's election ensures,

00:51:26.120 --> 00:51:26.800
 that our efforts,

00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:27.860
 of evangelism,

00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:28.460
 and missions,

00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:30.440
 are not left to chance,

00:51:31.340 --> 00:51:32.840
 and it emboldens Christians,

00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:33.260
 knowing,

00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:34.900
 that God has a definite people,

00:51:35.580 --> 00:51:36.340
 that he will save,

00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:37.539
 by the power of his spirit,

00:51:37.539 --> 00:51:40.460
 I read Acts 18,

00:51:40.679 --> 00:51:41.219
 about,

00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:44.380
 John 10,

00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:45.519
 Jesus says,

00:51:45.579 --> 00:51:46.500
 I have other sheep,

00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:47.739
 who are not of this fold,

00:51:47.820 --> 00:51:48.300
 and what he means,

00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:48.960
 by this fold,

00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:49.420
 is like,

00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:50.360
 Israel,

00:51:50.579 --> 00:51:50.679
 like,

00:51:50.860 --> 00:51:52.900
 I have people,

00:51:53.059 --> 00:51:53.960
 who belong to me,

00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:54.559
 who are not a part,

00:51:54.579 --> 00:51:55.579
 of this fold,

00:51:55.940 --> 00:51:58.440
 and he goes beyond that,

00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:58.920
 and he goes,

00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:00.840
 I must bring them in also,

00:52:00.900 --> 00:52:01.699
 he means Gentiles,

00:52:01.699 --> 00:52:03.299
 and they will listen,

00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:04.259
 to my voice,

00:52:04.539 --> 00:52:05.879
 so there will be one flock,

00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:07.000
 with one shepherd,

00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:08.519
 alright,

00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:13.000
 my beatings,

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:14.000
 and my imprisonments,

00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:14.939
 my starvation,

00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:16.559
 my torture,

00:52:16.739 --> 00:52:17.519
 that I've been through,

00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:19.199
 I endure all that,

00:52:19.259 --> 00:52:19.960
 because I know,

00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:20.759
 that God has,

00:52:20.899 --> 00:52:21.960
 an alike people out there,

00:52:22.319 --> 00:52:23.299
 that's what he's saying,

00:52:23.980 --> 00:52:25.259
 so that they will obtain,

00:52:25.379 --> 00:52:26.059
 the salvation,

00:52:26.279 --> 00:52:27.139
 that is in Christ Jesus,

00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:28.039
 with eternal glory,

00:52:29.739 --> 00:52:30.119
 so,

00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:33.000
 again,

00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:33.960
 just imagine like,

00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:34.339
 being,

00:52:35.420 --> 00:52:36.339
 going out into,

00:52:37.539 --> 00:52:38.679
 a closed country,

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:39.259
 like,

00:52:39.859 --> 00:52:40.819
 somewhere in the Middle East,

00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:41.859
 or somewhere in Asia,

00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:42.920
 where you could be killed,

00:52:43.019 --> 00:52:44.279
 or imprisoned for the gospel,

00:52:45.259 --> 00:52:45.619
 and,

00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:46.719
 and God was just like,

00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:48.539
 good luck buddy,

00:52:49.460 --> 00:52:50.259
 go get them,

00:52:50.339 --> 00:52:51.159
 don't mess it up,

00:52:51.359 --> 00:52:51.559
 you know,

00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:52.380
 make sure you practice,

00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:53.519
 that gospel presentation,

00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:54.900
 and,

00:52:55.019 --> 00:52:55.839
 if they have questions,

00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:57.079
 you better be able to answer them,

00:52:57.139 --> 00:52:58.079
 because their soul is,

00:52:58.699 --> 00:52:59.880
 kind of in your hands,

00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:00.840
 that would be kind of scary,

00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:02.079
 but instead,

00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:02.700
 it's like,

00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:03.300
 God's saying,

00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:03.480
 hey,

00:53:03.500 --> 00:53:04.539
 I have people go,

00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:05.519
 like,

00:53:05.579 --> 00:53:06.119
 I have people,

00:53:06.200 --> 00:53:07.000
 that I'm going to use,

00:53:07.059 --> 00:53:08.700
 your foolish preaching,

00:53:08.980 --> 00:53:09.820
 to save,

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:10.820
 and,

00:53:10.900 --> 00:53:12.980
 one,

00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:15.340
 example was,

00:53:16.680 --> 00:53:17.840
 good many years ago,

00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:18.519
 when I was like,

00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:19.559
 in Canvas Outreach,

00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:21.140
 we were down in,

00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:22.000
 down in Florida,

00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.460
 and,

00:53:23.460 --> 00:53:26.219
 I met with this one student,

00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:27.500
 I think he was from UGA,

00:53:28.500 --> 00:53:28.920
 and,

00:53:29.019 --> 00:53:31.000
 I shared the gospel with him,

00:53:31.019 --> 00:53:31.340
 it was like,

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:32.860
 the perfect gospel presentation,

00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:33.300
 it was like,

00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:35.340
 and I was like,

00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:36.380
 you know,

00:53:36.420 --> 00:53:36.599
 like,

00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:37.320
 nailed it,

00:53:37.460 --> 00:53:37.760
 and,

00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:38.659
 like,

00:53:38.699 --> 00:53:39.699
 it was just crystal clear,

00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:40.800
 I laid it out perfectly,

00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:41.840
 and,

00:53:42.019 --> 00:53:42.219
 I was like,

00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:42.739
 does that make sense,

00:53:42.780 --> 00:53:43.139
 and he was like,

00:53:43.980 --> 00:53:44.619
 not really,

00:53:44.619 --> 00:53:46.359
 and I'm like,

00:53:46.420 --> 00:53:46.679
 huh?

00:53:46.900 --> 00:53:47.259
 And so,

00:53:47.380 --> 00:53:47.900
 I spent,

00:53:48.059 --> 00:53:48.299
 you know,

00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:49.219
 at the ticky stand,

00:53:49.299 --> 00:53:50.339
 just talking to him for,

00:53:50.980 --> 00:53:51.279
 an hour,

00:53:51.359 --> 00:53:51.519
 and I'm like,

00:53:51.579 --> 00:53:51.779
 man,

00:53:51.839 --> 00:53:52.599
 this is just like,

00:53:52.980 --> 00:53:54.019
 this is ridiculous,

00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:55.319
 and like,

00:53:55.380 --> 00:53:55.579
 I don't,

00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:56.199
 I don't really know,

00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:57.219
 where that guy is spiritually,

00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.000
 and then,

00:53:59.400 --> 00:53:59.759
 maybe,

00:54:00.179 --> 00:54:00.739
 a few days later,

00:54:01.859 --> 00:54:03.639
 another guy,

00:54:04.179 --> 00:54:05.079
 also with me at GA,

00:54:06.179 --> 00:54:08.420
 I didn't sleep well,

00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:09.139
 the night before,

00:54:09.319 --> 00:54:10.139
 and I was just like,

00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:11.579
 groggy,

00:54:11.659 --> 00:54:12.119
 and tired,

00:54:12.380 --> 00:54:13.000
 and discouraged,

00:54:13.359 --> 00:54:13.480
 and,

00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:14.760
 and,

00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:15.059
 and he's like,

00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:15.260
 man,

00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:16.780
 just explain the gospel to me,

00:54:16.860 --> 00:54:16.980
 like,

00:54:17.019 --> 00:54:17.900
 that's what we're talking about,

00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:18.079
 a lot,

00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:18.619
 what is it,

00:54:18.619 --> 00:54:19.039
 and I'm like,

00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:21.440
 you know,

00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:22.539
 and I just tried to,

00:54:22.940 --> 00:54:25.380
 went through a very sloppy gospel presentation,

00:54:26.380 --> 00:54:27.000
 and I was like,

00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.300
 does that make sense,

00:54:30.460 --> 00:54:30.820
 and he goes,

00:54:31.740 --> 00:54:34.059
 I've never heard anything so clear,

00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:35.179
 and I'm like,

00:54:35.240 --> 00:54:35.460
 huh?

00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:36.719
 So,

00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:37.139
 again,

00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:37.860
 so,

00:54:38.139 --> 00:54:38.460
 like,

00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:41.260
 so the power is resting on God's spirit,

00:54:41.380 --> 00:54:43.119
 not on my ability to,

00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:45.059
 communicate something,

00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:46.980
 clearly or unclearly,

00:54:47.179 --> 00:54:47.340
 to,

00:54:48.300 --> 00:54:48.780
 I mean,

00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:49.639
 you have to speak truth,

00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:49.960
 then like,

00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:50.820
 you can just make up stuff,

00:54:50.940 --> 00:54:52.400
 you've got to share the gospel message,

00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:53.219
 you know,

00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:53.619
 but,

00:54:53.699 --> 00:54:53.980
 but,

00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:56.019
 but ultimately,

00:54:56.300 --> 00:54:57.860
 it's the spirit convincing them,

00:54:57.900 --> 00:54:58.719
 and showing them,

00:54:59.219 --> 00:54:59.619
 right,

00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:00.219
 that,

00:55:00.219 --> 00:55:02.179
 he means business,

00:55:03.379 --> 00:55:03.759
 um,

00:55:04.459 --> 00:55:06.519
 did we ever look at,

00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:08.419
 John 6,

00:55:08.419 --> 00:55:17.359
 did we ever look at John 6,

00:55:17.419 --> 00:55:18.019
 I can't remember,

00:55:18.419 --> 00:55:19.039
 John 6,

00:55:19.619 --> 00:55:20.419
 44,

00:55:20.420 --> 00:55:23.960
 we did,

00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:23.960


00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:23.960


00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:24.019
 we did,

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:26.519
 all right,

00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:33.079
 did we,

00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:38.400
 yeah,

00:55:38.460 --> 00:55:38.880
 there we go,

00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:40.159
 just look at this one real quick,

00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:41.680
 um,

00:55:41.720 --> 00:55:42.680
 this one was always,

00:55:43.240 --> 00:55:45.639
 one of those that just made me scratch my head a little bit,

00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:46.420
 uh,

00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:48.159
 verse 44,

00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:50.000
 Jesus says,

00:55:50.099 --> 00:55:50.259
 okay,

00:55:50.319 --> 00:55:50.899
 this is important,

00:55:51.099 --> 00:55:53.159
 no one can come to me,

00:55:54.059 --> 00:55:54.399
 all right,

00:55:54.460 --> 00:55:54.759
 so,

00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:57.539
 we would call that an absolute condition,

00:55:57.739 --> 00:55:58.000
 like,

00:55:58.460 --> 00:55:59.079
 Jesus saying,

00:55:59.139 --> 00:56:00.460
 no one can come to me,

00:56:01.259 --> 00:56:01.940
 unless,

00:56:03.059 --> 00:56:05.039
 the Father who sent me,

00:56:05.759 --> 00:56:06.619
 draws him,

00:56:07.799 --> 00:56:10.199
 and I will raise him up on the last days,

00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:12.000
 as the prophet says,

00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:13.719
 they will be taught by God,

00:56:14.399 --> 00:56:16.339
 and everyone who has heard and learned from the Father,

00:56:16.539 --> 00:56:17.559
 comes to me,

00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:19.179
 all right,

00:56:19.279 --> 00:56:19.559
 so,

00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:21.619
 the,

00:56:21.779 --> 00:56:23.579
 opposition,

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:26.699
 I would just call it friendly opposition,

00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:27.079
 other,

00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.099
 other believers who don't believe this,

00:56:29.179 --> 00:56:29.480
 they would,

00:56:30.139 --> 00:56:30.960
 look at that word,

00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:31.400
 draw,

00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:32.320
 that's the,

00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:32.900
 that's the word,

00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:33.159
 right,

00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:35.079
 that we need to think about,

00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.480
 what does it mean for the Holy Spirit to draw somebody,

00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:38.940
 um,

00:56:39.699 --> 00:56:40.340
 well,

00:56:41.059 --> 00:56:42.779
 they would interpret it as,

00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:44.320
 woo,

00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:45.299
 like,

00:56:45.300 --> 00:56:46.680
 the Holy Spirit saying,

00:56:46.740 --> 00:56:46.840
 hey,

00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:47.260
 come on,

00:56:48.140 --> 00:56:48.700
 look at Jesus,

00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:49.340
 he's great,

00:56:49.620 --> 00:56:50.320
 look at your life,

00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:50.860
 you're a mess,

00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:51.060
 like,

00:56:51.100 --> 00:56:51.420
 come on,

00:56:51.500 --> 00:56:51.640
 like,

00:56:51.680 --> 00:56:51.840
 just,

00:56:52.680 --> 00:56:53.039
 it'll be,

00:56:53.140 --> 00:56:54.080
 you'll have a great life,

00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:54.600
 you know,

00:56:54.660 --> 00:56:55.460
 it'll make you happy,

00:56:55.660 --> 00:56:55.760
 and,

00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:56.840
 just come on,

00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:57.620
 come to Jesus,

00:56:58.200 --> 00:56:58.600
 and you're like,

00:56:58.660 --> 00:56:58.940
 no,

00:56:59.600 --> 00:56:59.900
 you know,

00:56:59.900 --> 00:57:01.160
 kind of,

00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:01.500
 yeah,

00:57:01.740 --> 00:57:02.119
 kind of,

00:57:02.340 --> 00:57:02.500
 yeah,

00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:02.920
 good point,

00:57:03.559 --> 00:57:04.360
 I'll take that,

00:57:05.300 --> 00:57:06.360
 it could be like a drug dealer,

00:57:07.099 --> 00:57:07.599
 but basically,

00:57:07.700 --> 00:57:09.360
 just the Spirit wooing somebody,

00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:10.639
 um,

00:57:10.740 --> 00:57:11.680
 to come and believe,

00:57:12.680 --> 00:57:13.139
 and,

00:57:13.380 --> 00:57:14.619
 uh,

00:57:14.619 --> 00:57:15.920
 I won't steal the story,

00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:16.480
 but R.C.

00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:16.960
 Spurl,

00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:18.460
 a long time ago,

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:19.400
 um,

00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:20.840
 was debating,

00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:21.619
 uh,

00:57:21.660 --> 00:57:22.139
 a guy,

00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:24.380
 who was a professor of Greek,

00:57:24.380 --> 00:57:24.980
 at some,

00:57:25.099 --> 00:57:26.460
 some Bible college,

00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:27.160
 or seminary,

00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:29.859
 who wasn't in the Reformed Calvinistic camp,

00:57:30.279 --> 00:57:31.679
 and this was the verse that,

00:57:32.460 --> 00:57:34.679
 they were basically asked to give their interpretation of,

00:57:34.699 --> 00:57:35.359
 what does this mean,

00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:36.519
 and,

00:57:36.579 --> 00:57:37.980
 um,

00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:38.420
 so,

00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:40.500
 Spurl pointed out,

00:57:40.819 --> 00:57:41.219
 that,

00:57:41.739 --> 00:57:42.699
 the Greek word,

00:57:42.899 --> 00:57:43.480
 is actually,

00:57:43.779 --> 00:57:44.159
 drag,

00:57:45.259 --> 00:57:45.500
 like,

00:57:45.500 --> 00:57:46.659
 literally means drag,

00:57:47.899 --> 00:57:49.299
 that's a forceful word,

00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:51.019
 um,

00:57:51.179 --> 00:57:53.019
 I don't really know why we write draw,

00:57:53.139 --> 00:57:53.619
 to be honest,

00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:55.920
 maybe like we're too nervous about offending somebody,

00:57:56.019 --> 00:57:56.639
 so we write draw,

00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:57.899
 um,

00:57:58.139 --> 00:57:58.460
 but,

00:57:59.279 --> 00:57:59.779
 so,

00:57:59.899 --> 00:58:00.599
 it talks about,

00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:02.119
 the same word is used in James,

00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:03.960
 about dragging your neighbor in the court,

00:58:04.899 --> 00:58:05.259
 you know,

00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:06.059
 it's the same,

00:58:06.099 --> 00:58:06.920
 same Greek word,

00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:09.119
 and so,

00:58:09.319 --> 00:58:11.019
 this other guy said,

00:58:11.799 --> 00:58:12.199
 like,

00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:13.199
 it means to woo,

00:58:13.379 --> 00:58:13.839
 he said,

00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:15.139
 in other,

00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:17.440
 classical Greek literature,

00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:18.859
 so meaning not inside the Bible,

00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:19.980
 but outside the Bible,

00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:21.299
 the people who wrote,

00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:21.799
 you know,

00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:22.379
 in Greek,

00:58:22.500 --> 00:58:23.339
 and,

00:58:23.339 --> 00:58:25.099
 and he says to him,

00:58:25.179 --> 00:58:25.500
 you see,

00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:27.139
 so the word means,

00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:27.440
 like,

00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:28.139
 to draw,

00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:29.360
 okay,

00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:31.539
 and so he was like,

00:58:32.059 --> 00:58:33.820
 because you don't drag water out of a well,

00:58:33.900 --> 00:58:35.039
 you draw water out of a well,

00:58:35.980 --> 00:58:36.380
 and,

00:58:36.460 --> 00:58:37.840
 so,

00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:38.320
 Spurl,

00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:39.539
 Spurl admits in the moment,

00:58:39.659 --> 00:58:41.019
 he was just sort of stumped by that,

00:58:41.099 --> 00:58:41.199
 like,

00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:41.960
 I didn't know that,

00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:42.619
 I didn't know that,

00:58:43.059 --> 00:58:46.059
 there was extra biblical sources that use it to draw water out of a well,

00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:47.900
 but then he kind of paused,

00:58:47.980 --> 00:58:48.139
 he's like,

00:58:48.219 --> 00:58:48.340
 well,

00:58:49.579 --> 00:58:49.780
 well,

00:58:49.780 --> 00:58:51.420
 what do you do to get water out of a well?

00:58:51.420 --> 00:58:53.460
 Do you stand at the top of a well?

00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:53.639
 Here,

00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:53.960
 water,

00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:54.200
 water,

00:58:54.300 --> 00:58:54.579
 water.

00:58:55.700 --> 00:58:56.800
 See what he's talking about?

00:58:56.900 --> 00:58:57.079
 Like,

00:58:57.079 --> 00:58:57.260
 like,

00:58:57.559 --> 00:58:58.860
 willing the water to come up?

00:58:59.240 --> 00:59:00.159
 Or is he saying,

00:59:00.260 --> 00:59:00.380
 you,

00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:03.639
 you do something to compel water to come up?

00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:04.780
 And like,

00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:06.940
 to go against gravity and come up?

00:59:07.900 --> 00:59:09.119
 And so that's what he means by,

00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:10.340
 the Spirit.

00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:11.740
 The Spirit has to do something,

00:59:12.420 --> 00:59:13.659
 contrary to our nature,

00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:14.260
 and like,

00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:16.300
 drags us to himself.

00:59:16.980 --> 00:59:17.599
 Thank goodness.

00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:18.519
 You know,

00:59:19.339 --> 00:59:19.639
 so,

00:59:20.460 --> 00:59:21.799
 but no one can,

00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:22.380
 unless,

00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:24.659
 the Father who sends me draws him.

00:59:26.360 --> 00:59:26.679
 Yeah.

00:59:29.259 --> 00:59:30.179
 Because we,

00:59:30.380 --> 00:59:30.679
 so meaning,

00:59:30.839 --> 00:59:31.259
 believers,

00:59:31.460 --> 00:59:31.799
 saints,

00:59:32.299 --> 00:59:35.219
 are also gods by conquest.

00:59:36.059 --> 00:59:36.380
 Right?

00:59:37.259 --> 00:59:40.759
 What a battle he had in us before we would be won.

00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:42.500
 How long,

00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:43.779
 he gives you like a castle,

00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:44.599
 battle,

00:59:44.860 --> 00:59:45.799
 siege analogy.

00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:47.219
 He says,

00:59:47.219 --> 00:59:51.079
 how long had he laid siege to our hearts?

00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.559
 How often he sent us terms of capitulation,

00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:58.739
 but we barred our gates and fenced our walls against him.

01:00:00.399 --> 01:00:06.419
 Do we not remember that glorious hour when he carried our hearts by storm?

01:00:06.539 --> 01:00:07.119
 So meaning like,

01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:07.480
 okay,

01:00:08.139 --> 01:00:10.899
 I'm done sending you like terms.

01:00:11.019 --> 01:00:12.319
 I'm just going to go over your wall,

01:00:12.759 --> 01:00:13.159
 you know,

01:00:13.339 --> 01:00:14.859
 and conquer you.

01:00:14.860 --> 01:00:16.420
 He says,

01:00:16.420 --> 01:00:19.900
 do you remember that glorious hour when he carried our hearts by storm?

01:00:20.460 --> 01:00:25.840
 When he placed his cross against the wall and scaled our ramparts,

01:00:26.300 --> 01:00:28.420
 planting on our strongholds,

01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:31.940
 the blood red flag of his omnipotent captives,

01:00:31.940 --> 01:00:33.380
 of his omnipotent love,

01:00:34.180 --> 01:00:35.000
 thus chosen,

01:00:35.260 --> 01:00:35.720
 purchased,

01:00:36.059 --> 01:00:36.659
 subdued,

01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:41.220
 the rights of our divine possessor are inalienable.

01:00:41.219 --> 01:00:42.919
 we rejoice that we,

01:00:42.919 --> 01:00:45.159
 we never can be our own.

01:00:45.659 --> 01:00:49.359
 And we desire day by day to do his will and to show forth his glory.

01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:51.840
 So you see that at some point,

01:00:52.620 --> 01:00:53.340
 God was like,

01:00:54.180 --> 01:00:54.740
 we had this,

01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:55.260
 I had this,

01:00:55.260 --> 01:00:57.280
 this image growing up of like Jesus is going,

01:00:58.340 --> 01:01:00.059
 please let me in.

01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:01.740
 And we were like,

01:01:02.019 --> 01:01:02.500
 no.

01:01:02.500 --> 01:01:05.340
 And at some point Jesus goes,

01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:05.780
 all right.

01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:07.940
 And like,

01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:08.139
 says,

01:01:08.219 --> 01:01:10.360
 I'm coming in and,

01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:12.699
 and captures us.

01:01:12.739 --> 01:01:13.179
 And then like,

01:01:13.219 --> 01:01:13.840
 when he actually comes in,

01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:14.239
 we're like,

01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:14.539
 oh,

01:01:14.539 --> 01:01:15.699
 thank you for doing that.

01:01:15.739 --> 01:01:16.920
 I never would have opened the door.

01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:17.840
 Like,

01:01:17.900 --> 01:01:19.659
 thank you for saving me.

01:01:20.139 --> 01:01:24.440
 Thank you for overcoming all the sinful resistance.

01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:25.400
 I was throwing to you.

01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:26.320
 You could have walked away.

01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:26.800
 Yeah,

01:01:29.240 --> 01:01:29.760
 that's right.

01:01:29.820 --> 01:01:30.760
 We can't.

01:01:31.080 --> 01:01:31.780
 And like,

01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:33.200
 so thank goodness he didn't just say,

01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:33.420
 okay,

01:01:33.500 --> 01:01:33.720
 well,

01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:36.680
 stay in there then and walk away.

01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:38.480
 Point over came that resistance.

01:01:38.600 --> 01:01:41.000
 And that's what the spirit of God does.

01:01:43.019 --> 01:01:43.620
 He's the,

01:01:43.620 --> 01:01:44.440
 the instrument.

01:01:45.640 --> 01:01:47.200
 So really quickly,

01:01:47.820 --> 01:01:49.800
 here's a few ways like this,

01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:51.640
 why this is so great.

01:01:52.680 --> 01:01:55.480
 It glorifies the saving work of the Holy spirit.

01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:55.900
 So yeah,

01:01:55.900 --> 01:01:57.119
 he had a great work.

01:01:57.199 --> 01:01:59.920
 He took what Jesus did and he brought it home to us.

01:01:59.960 --> 01:02:02.240
 He applied the blood to us.

01:02:02.380 --> 01:02:04.920
 He applied the work that Jesus accomplished to us.

01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:09.400
 It demonstrates the power of God's word.

01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:14.900
 So meaning like God's word is so powerful that the Holy spirit can use it to

01:02:14.900 --> 01:02:16.740
 actually bring us from death to life.

01:02:16.740 --> 01:02:19.679
 That's like how powerful his word is.

01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.899
 it frees us from,

01:02:22.899 --> 01:02:23.899
 uh,

01:02:24.859 --> 01:02:25.000
 de,

01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.759
 deforming evangelism into man-made devices.

01:02:27.759 --> 01:02:28.539
 This is what I meant earlier.

01:02:28.739 --> 01:02:30.339
 So if this wasn't true,

01:02:30.399 --> 01:02:30.639
 it'd be like,

01:02:30.699 --> 01:02:30.799
 man,

01:02:30.819 --> 01:02:32.819
 how can we trick people into believing in Jesus?

01:02:33.019 --> 01:02:33.239
 Like,

01:02:33.699 --> 01:02:36.799
 do we just need to have a bunch of beers and get people to come in?

01:02:36.879 --> 01:02:37.159
 Like,

01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:38.319
 you know,

01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:40.359
 yep.

01:02:41.119 --> 01:02:41.399
 Yep.

01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:42.059
 Bow your head,

01:02:42.319 --> 01:02:43.059
 close your eyes,

01:02:43.059 --> 01:02:43.659
 um,

01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:47.299
 and tell the big guy to block the door.

01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:49.099
 Don't let anybody out.

01:02:49.940 --> 01:02:51.400
 You may have ever been to a youth meeting like that.

01:02:51.460 --> 01:02:51.639
 Like,

01:02:51.699 --> 01:02:54.659
 I know there's somebody out there and we are not leaving until that person

01:02:54.659 --> 01:02:55.480
 comes forward.

01:02:55.880 --> 01:02:56.599
 And it's like,

01:02:57.199 --> 01:02:58.219
 I remember one guy,

01:02:58.519 --> 01:02:58.980
 my buddy,

01:02:59.099 --> 01:02:59.299
 uh,

01:02:59.980 --> 01:03:01.079
 he's still probably isn't a believer.

01:03:01.179 --> 01:03:01.420
 He said,

01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:02.420
 I've went forward and I'm like,

01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:02.759
 really,

01:03:02.860 --> 01:03:03.019
 man,

01:03:03.059 --> 01:03:03.579
 I thought you were,

01:03:03.639 --> 01:03:03.799
 he's like,

01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:03.980
 nah,

01:03:03.980 --> 01:03:04.940
 I just want to get out of there.

01:03:05.139 --> 01:03:05.920
 They weren't letting us out.

01:03:06.380 --> 01:03:08.039
 So he just pretended that he was that guy.

01:03:09.259 --> 01:03:09.519
 Um,

01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:11.880
 which I don't blame him.

01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:12.119
 Like,

01:03:12.179 --> 01:03:12.460
 you know,

01:03:12.460 --> 01:03:13.260
 serves him right,

01:03:13.460 --> 01:03:14.900
 manipulating people the way they were.

01:03:15.019 --> 01:03:15.139
 But,

01:03:15.780 --> 01:03:16.260
 um,

01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:17.860
 it,

01:03:18.039 --> 01:03:19.539
 it freezes from that.

01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:19.800
 Like,

01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:19.940
 Hey,

01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:20.460
 you know what?

01:03:21.500 --> 01:03:22.900
 The gospel is powerful.

01:03:23.019 --> 01:03:24.380
 The word of God is powerful.

01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:28.659
 And I'm going to pray that he uses that through his Holy spirit to save somebody

01:03:28.659 --> 01:03:31.139
 and just let it loose.

01:03:31.260 --> 01:03:31.619
 You know,

01:03:32.260 --> 01:03:32.519
 like,

01:03:32.579 --> 01:03:33.079
 let it go.

01:03:33.079 --> 01:03:33.440
 Um,

01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:37.840
 God's spirit applying the word of God is powerful.

01:03:38.380 --> 01:03:42.420
 So it frees us from like putting all that into like man-made devices to save

01:03:42.420 --> 01:03:42.740
 people.

01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:44.220
 Uh,

01:03:44.220 --> 01:03:46.539
 it assures us that God will finish the saving work.

01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:47.119
 He began.

01:03:47.260 --> 01:03:47.559
 So yeah,

01:03:47.579 --> 01:03:49.720
 he sealed us with the Holy spirit.

01:03:52.980 --> 01:03:54.760
 I need time for this or not.

01:03:55.019 --> 01:03:55.300
 Um,

01:03:56.139 --> 01:03:56.519
 yeah.

01:03:59.019 --> 01:03:59.420
 Okay.

01:03:59.420 --> 01:03:59.820
 Um,

01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:06.180
 you want to look in Ephesians.

01:04:10.180 --> 01:04:11.340
 Ephesians chapter one.

01:04:11.340 --> 01:04:11.380
 Um,

01:04:15.380 --> 01:04:18.720
 this could be a whole sermon.

01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:20.280
 I'm not going to try to really condense it.

01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:20.539
 Uh,

01:04:20.539 --> 01:04:20.980
 uh,

01:04:20.980 --> 01:04:31.980
 there's a lot of marriage imagery in our relationship with God and salvation a lot.

01:04:32.659 --> 01:04:33.179
 And,

01:04:33.179 --> 01:04:38.739
 and then the traditional Hebrew way of like getting betrothed,

01:04:38.820 --> 01:04:39.759
 engaged and married,

01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:41.759
 what would happen is,

01:04:41.820 --> 01:04:42.139
 um,

01:04:42.139 --> 01:04:44.179
 a man would ask permission,

01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:45.719
 obviously from the dad.

01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:46.419
 And he was a,

01:04:46.759 --> 01:04:47.239
 you know,

01:04:47.619 --> 01:04:48.459
 yay or nay.

01:04:48.739 --> 01:04:49.059
 Um,

01:04:49.500 --> 01:04:50.959
 and if he granted permission,

01:04:51.039 --> 01:04:53.359
 where he would go is he would go to the woman and he would,

01:04:53.839 --> 01:04:54.239
 you know,

01:04:55.439 --> 01:04:57.079
 he would have something,

01:04:57.480 --> 01:04:58.259
 a token.

01:04:58.260 --> 01:05:00.180
 And he would say,

01:05:00.300 --> 01:05:01.900
 I go to prepare a place for you.

01:05:02.380 --> 01:05:03.020
 Sound familiar.

01:05:04.300 --> 01:05:08.320
 And that he would take his father's ring or something,

01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:09.600
 something from his father,

01:05:09.900 --> 01:05:10.480
 not his,

01:05:10.560 --> 01:05:11.040
 his father.

01:05:11.660 --> 01:05:12.540
 He would take it to that girl.

01:05:12.580 --> 01:05:13.140
 And he would say,

01:05:13.240 --> 01:05:14.620
 like,

01:05:14.680 --> 01:05:16.380
 I promise this,

01:05:16.380 --> 01:05:16.660
 this,

01:05:16.660 --> 01:05:22.580
 this is a pledge to you that my father will bring you into his house one day.

01:05:23.140 --> 01:05:23.940
 You see that?

01:05:23.940 --> 01:05:28.460
 So what is that pledge for the believer?

01:05:31.539 --> 01:05:32.099
 Anybody?

01:05:34.420 --> 01:05:35.880
 I've been talking about it.

01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:38.980
 Yes.

01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:40.079
 Yes.

01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:40.420
 So that,

01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:40.720
 that,

01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:44.619
 that the promise is that we will be with our father one day in heaven.

01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:46.119
 That's the promise.

01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:49.659
 What is the token of that promise?

01:05:51.500 --> 01:05:51.980
 Yeah.

01:05:53.940 --> 01:05:55.740
 Ephesians one.

01:05:55.980 --> 01:05:59.800
 Look at verse 13 in him.

01:05:59.920 --> 01:06:00.519
 You also,

01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:02.139
 when you heard the word of truth,

01:06:02.200 --> 01:06:04.639
 the gospel of your salvation and believe in him,

01:06:04.740 --> 01:06:15.579
 you were sealed with the promised Holy spirit who is a guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory.

01:06:15.579 --> 01:06:16.920
 So see that.

01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:22.480
 So it's the promise that we're given that one day we will be with the Lord.

01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:25.279
 Like we will inherit internal life.

01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:28.940
 And the analogy goes on and on and on.

01:06:29.900 --> 01:06:30.259
 Eventually,

01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:35.500
 like the son had no idea when he would go for his bride.

01:06:35.500 --> 01:06:39.599
 It was really up to the father to decide his dad would be like,

01:06:39.659 --> 01:06:39.739
 Hey,

01:06:39.780 --> 01:06:40.500
 go get your bride.

01:06:40.820 --> 01:06:41.159
 You know?

01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:42.579
 So he could just be like,

01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:42.940
 all right,

01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:43.920
 I've got the place ready.

01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:45.480
 I've got the stuff like dad,

01:06:45.579 --> 01:06:46.719
 when am I going to go do this?

01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:48.099
 And in meanwhile,

01:06:48.219 --> 01:06:49.260
 the bride doesn't know either.

01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:50.760
 She just has to ready herself.

01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:52.840
 Like physically,

01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:57.579
 spiritually prepare herself for this marriage.

01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:00.619
 You imagine that not like,

01:07:00.699 --> 01:07:00.739
 Hey,

01:07:00.739 --> 01:07:01.500
 let's set the date.

01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:02.719
 It wasn't that it was like,

01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:05.359
 she waits and she prepared herself.

01:07:05.459 --> 01:07:07.980
 How many like parables sound familiar?

01:07:08.159 --> 01:07:11.179
 Like the virgins lighting their lamps like that.

01:07:11.539 --> 01:07:12.119
 Be ready.

01:07:12.359 --> 01:07:13.519
 You don't know the day or the hour.

01:07:13.759 --> 01:07:13.939
 Right.

01:07:14.419 --> 01:07:15.139
 And then,

01:07:15.799 --> 01:07:17.419
 and then when the father gave permission,

01:07:18.419 --> 01:07:19.399
 remember Jesus said that he goes,

01:07:19.459 --> 01:07:20.939
 no one knows the time except the father.

01:07:21.980 --> 01:07:22.379
 Right.

01:07:22.500 --> 01:07:23.319
 Then you go on.

01:07:23.379 --> 01:07:25.099
 And then he would get some,

01:07:25.339 --> 01:07:27.980
 once the father gave permission to go get his bride,

01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.980
 he would have his buddies go down the street with blowing trumpets.

01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:35.579
 And carrying torches announcing that he was coming to get his bride.

01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:40.919
 It says that when Christ returns,

01:07:41.079 --> 01:07:41.219
 the,

01:07:41.219 --> 01:07:44.099
 the trumpets will sound like the,

01:07:44.099 --> 01:07:47.419
 the cry of the angels will sound before he comes to get his bride.

01:07:47.420 --> 01:07:49.579
 But in all this,

01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:53.960
 the promise that we've been given that the father will come and get us is the Holy Spirit.

01:07:54.639 --> 01:07:55.280
 That's what he's,

01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:55.980
 he's sealed us.

01:07:56.019 --> 01:07:58.960
 He's given us a guarantee of our inheritance.

01:07:59.099 --> 01:07:59.920
 Jesus says like,

01:07:59.960 --> 01:08:00.200
 I'm,

01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:00.519
 he's,

01:08:00.579 --> 01:08:04.599
 he's coming here to remind you of these things and to be that pledge.

01:08:05.139 --> 01:08:06.039
 Remember when Jesus said,

01:08:06.099 --> 01:08:08.340
 the spirit will remind you of all that I've taught you.

01:08:09.019 --> 01:08:10.599
 So when that girl gets nervous,

01:08:10.599 --> 01:08:12.559
 like he's not going to come get me,

01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:13.099
 she goes,

01:08:13.200 --> 01:08:13.320
 Oh,

01:08:13.380 --> 01:08:13.820
 wait a minute.

01:08:13.820 --> 01:08:17.260
 His father promised to come get me.

01:08:17.360 --> 01:08:17.980
 See that?

01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:18.520
 Like the,

01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:19.960
 the picture there.

01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:23.319
 So that's the role of the spirit plays in,

01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:24.880
 in our salvation.

01:08:25.800 --> 01:08:26.659
 A lot there.

01:08:29.239 --> 01:08:29.760
 All right.

01:08:29.800 --> 01:08:30.539
 That's all I got.

01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:30.920
 Wait,

01:08:30.980 --> 01:08:31.079
 no,

01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:31.560
 one more thing.

01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:35.140
 He gives us the ability to know and enjoy the love of God.

01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:35.460
 So yeah,

01:08:35.460 --> 01:08:37.420
 he's the one who makes all that real to us.

01:08:37.420 --> 01:08:38.279
 Um,

01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:39.880
 being filled with the Holy spirit.

01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:40.880
 Right.

01:08:41.380 --> 01:08:41.699
 Um,

01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:42.960
 yeah,

01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:43.440
 you see,

01:08:43.579 --> 01:08:48.899
 you see Newton talking about this was grace that taught my heart to fear.

01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:50.279
 And grace,

01:08:50.420 --> 01:08:53.560
 my fears relieved how precious did that grace appear the hour.

01:08:53.699 --> 01:08:54.440
 I first believed.

01:08:54.699 --> 01:08:54.840
 So.

01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:54.899
 So.

01:08:54.899 --> 01:08:55.020
 So.

01:08:59.760 --> 01:09:02.199
 Hmm.

01:09:02.819 --> 01:09:03.079
 Yep.

01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:05.899
 Grace taught you and grace will keep you.

01:09:05.899 --> 01:09:06.979
 So.

01:09:07.339 --> 01:09:07.979
 The goal of it.

01:09:09.199 --> 01:09:09.479
 Yep.

01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:11.439
 So any other thoughts or questions?

01:09:15.539 --> 01:09:17.299
 So I have a real quick one.

01:09:17.779 --> 01:09:18.719
 Or comments even.

01:09:18.939 --> 01:09:19.059
 Yeah.

01:09:19.579 --> 01:09:19.819
 Yeah,

01:09:19.879 --> 01:09:21.359
 I was thinking about your comment about,

01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:21.779
 um,

01:09:22.500 --> 01:09:24.859
 drawing from John 6.

01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:25.259
 Mm-hmm.

01:09:25.259 --> 01:09:26.159
 And so,

01:09:26.379 --> 01:09:27.799
 I just kind of used my,

01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:28.879
 I changed.

01:09:29.259 --> 01:09:29.899
 Of course you did.

01:09:30.519 --> 01:09:33.559
 Let's see the other places in John where that work draw.

01:09:33.819 --> 01:09:34.960
 It's really interesting.

01:09:34.960 --> 01:09:36.060
 Earth and New Testament.

01:09:36.300 --> 01:09:36.420
 Yeah.

01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:37.220
 Yeah.

01:09:37.619 --> 01:09:38.980
 But they're like the,

01:09:38.980 --> 01:09:41.340
 the haul of fish that,

01:09:41.340 --> 01:09:41.779
 um,

01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:44.659
 that Simon Peter had after Jesus.

01:09:45.659 --> 01:09:46.180
 Yeah.

01:09:46.920 --> 01:09:47.439
 Dragon,

01:09:47.739 --> 01:09:48.480
 drag the fish in.

01:09:48.480 --> 01:09:48.600
 Yeah.

01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:49.619
 That's the same word,

01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:49.899
 right?

01:09:50.480 --> 01:09:50.779
 Mm-hmm.

01:09:50.779 --> 01:09:51.359
 So that,

01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:52.340
 that's a cool one.

01:09:52.420 --> 01:09:54.079
 But then the other one in John 12,

01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:55.119
 32 says,

01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:56.460
 and I,

01:09:56.539 --> 01:09:58.559
 when I'm lifted up from the earth,

01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:01.279
 will withdraw all people to myself.

01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:02.000


01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:04.420
 I just love the imagery there,

01:10:04.599 --> 01:10:05.920
 because it's the,

01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:08.059
 it's the resurrection,

01:10:08.059 --> 01:10:09.059
 and the,

01:10:09.059 --> 01:10:11.260
 the conquering of death,

01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:13.880
 that is guaranteed.

01:10:14.300 --> 01:10:14.500
 Yeah.

01:10:14.579 --> 01:10:16.019
 But the company is that,

01:10:16.559 --> 01:10:18.880
 is Christ will then apply,

01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:20.579
 by drawing everybody,

01:10:20.579 --> 01:10:23.519
 to enjoy his victory.

01:10:23.859 --> 01:10:24.140
 Right.

01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:25.239
 And so there's,

01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:27.819
 that has nothing to do with wooing,

01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:28.680
 that is a,

01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:30.680
 a work of a company,

01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.060
 victorious gathering,

01:10:33.360 --> 01:10:35.260
 the spoils of what he did.

01:10:35.700 --> 01:10:36.900
 I love why he said that,

01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:37.140
 yeah.

01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:38.800
 It's good.

01:10:39.940 --> 01:10:41.520
 And based on what we were talking about last week,

01:10:41.539 --> 01:10:43.900
 what does draw all men unto myself mean?

01:10:46.060 --> 01:10:47.140
 Just connecting the dots.

01:10:48.780 --> 01:10:50.260
 Does it mean every single individual?

01:10:52.560 --> 01:10:52.960
 No.

01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:55.100
 But all types of people,

01:10:55.480 --> 01:10:55.980
 Gentiles,

01:10:56.180 --> 01:10:56.500
 Jews,

01:10:57.340 --> 01:10:57.700
 rich,

01:10:57.960 --> 01:10:58.300
 poor,

01:10:59.619 --> 01:11:00.520
 rejected people,

01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:01.360
 accepted people,

01:11:02.420 --> 01:11:02.660
 God,

01:11:02.780 --> 01:11:05.140
 saving all men without,

01:11:06.300 --> 01:11:06.800
 distinction,

01:11:07.080 --> 01:11:07.780
 not all men without,

01:11:07.780 --> 01:11:08.360
 exception.

01:11:09.260 --> 01:11:09.740
 Jesus is saying,

01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:11.480
 and for a Jew to read that,

01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:12.020
 that would be crazy.

01:11:12.120 --> 01:11:12.420
 Like, wait a minute,

01:11:12.480 --> 01:11:12.940
 all people?

01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:14.500
 Not just us?

01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:15.040
 Yep.

01:11:15.160 --> 01:11:15.680
 Not just you.

01:11:16.460 --> 01:11:17.120
 Gentiles too.

01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:19.640
 Creating a people,

01:11:19.820 --> 01:11:20.560
 for himself,

01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:22.000
 that are scattered abroad,

01:11:22.120 --> 01:11:22.640
 that will be,

01:11:23.080 --> 01:11:23.920
 gathered one day,

01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:24.620
 before the throne,

01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:24.900
 right?

01:11:24.980 --> 01:11:25.500
 The multitude,

01:11:25.980 --> 01:11:26.700
 and revelation,

01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:28.360
 praising God.

01:11:29.320 --> 01:11:29.600
 Yeah.

01:11:31.200 --> 01:11:31.560
 Good.

01:11:31.820 --> 01:11:32.000
 Yeah,

01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:32.380
 I love that.

01:11:34.020 --> 01:11:34.740
 Anything else?

01:11:36.120 --> 01:11:36.480
 Comments?

01:11:36.780 --> 01:11:37.100
 Questions?

01:11:37.100 --> 01:11:44.820
 I have a big goal to help you put all this together,

01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:46.880
 like each little thing building on the other.

01:11:46.940 --> 01:11:48.000
 Is that making sense so far?

01:11:48.079 --> 01:11:50.360
 Like how all this is coming together?

01:11:50.980 --> 01:11:51.840
 It's all connected.

01:11:51.980 --> 01:11:54.700
 It's not separate things that are on their own.

01:11:56.440 --> 01:11:58.060
 All little different links in the chain.

01:11:58.060 --> 01:12:02.140
 All right.

01:12:03.360 --> 01:12:03.720
 Well,

01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:05.140
 I'll be here for a little while longer,

01:12:05.200 --> 01:12:07.120
 if you want to ask something or talk.

01:12:09.120 --> 01:12:10.280
 Have you ever read this one?

01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:11.580
 John Piper's book,

01:12:11.660 --> 01:12:12.539
 Finally Alive?

01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:14.539
 I really love the title.

01:12:16.780 --> 01:12:19.200
 This is a book about regeneration itself.

01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:20.140
 So,

01:12:20.260 --> 01:12:21.800
 if you want to read just a good book about

01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:23.240
 what it means to be born again,

01:12:23.360 --> 01:12:24.440
 this is a good one.

01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:26.000
 I read,

01:12:26.099 --> 01:12:26.279
 man,

01:12:26.339 --> 01:12:27.000
 where did I get this?

01:12:27.179 --> 01:12:27.819
 How many years ago?

01:12:28.759 --> 01:12:29.059
 Yep.

01:12:29.519 --> 01:12:30.500
 These are just books in general

01:12:30.500 --> 01:12:31.599
 that are about all this stuff.

01:12:32.539 --> 01:12:32.779
 But,

01:12:32.839 --> 01:12:33.839
 let's pray together.

01:12:33.839 --> 01:12:33.960
 Let's pray together.