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Welcome to Pastor Jeff Ministries, the Bible teaching ministry of
doctor Jeff Swarzentraup, Senior Pastor of Brave Church in Denver, Colorado. Today,
Pastor Jeff continues his message the Fomo and the Gospel
from the series The Greatest and explains that true salvation
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brings transformation because God changes those he saves. But before
we get started with today's teaching, we invite you to
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from Pastor Jeff as he brings us today's teaching from
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God's Word.
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And there are some of you here today who think
that you're saved, and you're not saved because Jesus is
not the Lord.
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Of your life. That's just a fact.
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That's why Jesus said to it people that were following him,
why do you call me lord Lord?
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And do not do as I say. I mean, giving.
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Lip service to Jesus's Lord is different than making him
the lord of your life.
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I mean.
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Fast forward a couple chapters after the rich young ruler,
and you come across this white collar criminal name is
a Chius, a shrimpy guy that had to climb a
tree to.
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See Jesus coming by.
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And when Jesus sees him and says, the Chias come down,
I must stay at your house today.
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What does the Chius do?
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He doesn't say, Oh, but you know I'm a good person.
He says, Lord, here and now, I give half my
possessions to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody, I'll
give him four times as much. I don't care about
my money anymore. I care that I have a relationship
with you, and you're my lord. And if you're willing
to take someone like me, I'll take you at the
exception of anything else I.
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Could ever have. What does Jesus say today, I tell
you the truth. Salvations come to this house.
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Jesus will take anybody that wants him, but it's on
his terms. You bring all your sin to him, and
you let Jesus be the lord of your life.
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That's the gospel. That's the good news.
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You don't get to hunker down with your sin and
live completely for yourself. And mouthed words that Jesus is
the Lord when he's actually not the Lord. And there's
a lot of people that go to church and they
haven't changed at all over time ever, but they think
that they're saved.
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So let me just clear up a couple of testimonies
for it.
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Because I hear this at Brave Church. I've heard it
for twelve years. I hear it all the time.
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Let me help you, cause I heard it a couple
of weeks ago too.
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And I'm gonna I'm not giving you names, and I'm
changing some of the stories.
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But the testimony goes something.
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Like this, Pastor Jeff, I got saved for the first
time when I was about seven years.
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Old, but I didn't really know what it meant.
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I got baptized and I went into water, but I
kind of did that more for my dad because he
was in the church and was a deacon, so I
kind of went through with it, but and I went
to the youth group, but it really didn't mean a
whole lot to me. And then when I got to
high school, I kind of backslid a little bit, and
then I kind of got right, but when I went
out to college, I back slid again for the second
time for like six years, and then I was just
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so desperate And there was one time I just made
my way into Brave Church and everything's changed, Like my
heart's different, and I've I no longer smoke weed, and
I no longer want to do what's wrong, and I
want to do what's right.
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And I've rededicated my life to Jesus. I say, uh uh,
uh uh, you got saved at Brave Church. There's no
backsliding in the Bible.
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Where do you get this idea that I'm a Christian
but I'm back sliden for how long?
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For like twenty five years, I was kind of backsliden.
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Like what I mean, think about it like this. I've
heard this analogy. I've used this in preaching before. But
imagine you were on I twenty five today, the crossing
the highway walking and as you did that, as semi
going seventy five miles an.
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Hour hit you. Would you know that you were hit
by that semi. Of course you would.
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It would alter your entire life, It would alter your
entire being, it would alter your entire world. You wouldn't
have to wonder was I hit by the semi or
not I unless you were brain dead or something like that.
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So here's my question.
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What is more powerful, semi traveling at seventy five miles
an hour or the third person of the Trinity, the
Holy Spirit who came in to take over and let
Jesus Christ be lord of your life.
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So, then here's the question.
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How is it the Holy Spirit can come into your life,
whose job it is.
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To glorify the resurrected Christ, who always.
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Accomplishes what he sets out to do, and nothing's changed
in you. The reason is is because you don't have
the Holy Spirit, because Jesus Christ is not.
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The lord of your life.
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You've been playing religion and there's some of you here
that are still playing religion.
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You don't have saving faith. You don't want.
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Jesus to be the lord of your life. You feel
like he's a hard, cruel master. And you think to yourself,
I don't want that. Friends, if you don't want that,
you don't want the Gospel, And you don't realize how
desperate you are, because there's a lot of people that
know all the facts that go to hell every single day.
What would be the point of that. It tears my
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heart up, and you see it all over the Old and.
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New Testament, especially the New Testament. I mean, you see
it in the story of the Parable of the Soils.
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When the word of God gets placed in good soil,
what happened? It produces a harvest of thirty.
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Sixty or even one hundred percent.
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What do you see in John's gospel when he talks
about the vine and the branches. If you abide in
Me and I abide in you, ask whatever you wish,
it will be done for you. For this is my
Father's glory that you bear much fruit. If you are
a Christian, you will bear fruit. If you are a Christian,
you will produce a harvest.
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And it's not because of what you do. It's because
of what God's doing in and through you. There will
be a change.
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You can't allow Jesus to be the lord of your
life and see no change in your life.
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You will have a.
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Greater love for God. You'll have a greater love for people.
I remember when I got saved. I remember being in
a Bible study about six months after I got saved,
sitting around with a group of guys, and this thought
went off in my head, and it was this, if
I wasn't saved. I don't think I would have ever
talked to these guys, and now they're my friends. You see,
when I wasn't saved and I went to church, I
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thought those crazy hyper spiritual people were weird.
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They weren't crazy hyper spiritual people, they were Christians. I
was lost. When I got saved, some.
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Of those crazy hyper spiritual people seemed normal to me,
and I became one of them because my heart was transformed.
Did I change overnight? Did every bad behavior immediately go away?
Did I clean myself up to get right with God?
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No? I came to God just as I was.
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His grace drew me and showed me that I was
dead and that I needed a savior and a Lord
who could do something.
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And I gave my.
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Life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the question, do
you have saving faith? Do you believe that Jesus Christ
is Lord? And if you say yes, here's my question.
When did he become the Lord of your life? When
now you may not remember the exact day, you may
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not remember the exact hour. You may do not even
remember the exact monde if you're a little bit older,
but there would be a transforming time in your life
where you used to live like this, and now you
live like this. And it's not because of your effort
and I'm going to become a better person. It's because
Jesus Christ came in your life as Lord.
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Right. And here's what he's saying.
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He's saying, there's some who hear the word and by
faith they believe, and that changes everything. And there's others
who hear the same word, but they don't appropriate it
by faith, and so they're upset at the gospel.
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Notice verse three, for.
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We who have believed entered that rest, just as he
has said, as I swore in my wrath, they shall
not enter my rest although his works were finished from
the foundation of the world or from the creation of
the world. Friends, when you give your life to the
Lord Jesus Christ, you cease trying to work for your salvation.
It's a new day.
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It means this.
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Your works don't count when it comes to salvation. Your
works don't count in getting you saved. There's nobody in
heaven that's going to play a real or a film
of their life that shows, Hey, look at how good
I was before I got saved. Look at what I
was doing to get right with God. Nobody, not one.
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Everybody will say I was dead.
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I was a sinner, and Christ made himself known to me,
and I came flying too the cross because I.
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Didn't want my sin anymore and I wanted Jesus. That's
what he was saying.
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That's why he goes back and he keeps talking about
this understanding.
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That there's rest.
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Do you have rest when it comes to your salvation?
Is Jesus Christ the lord of your life? Does your
mom say that Jesus Christ is the lord of your life?
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Not? Does your pastor say that not? Does your grandparents
say that? Do you say that? Do you know that?
You know that?
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You know that Jesus is the Lord of your life. See,
some people not only lack saving faith, but you should
fear missing out because some people strive in vain. See
if the first group agrees to the reality of the Gospel,
but they lack saving faith. In other words, yeah, I
agree with all that, I'm just not gonna make Jesus
the lord of my life.
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If that's the first group.
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The second group knows about the truth of the Gospel,
that Jesus needs to be lord, but they would rather
strive in vain to create their own religion than allow
him to be that. In other words, you don't have
a problem with point number one in the sense that, yeah,
I know that's true, But not only do I know
that's true, I don't want that. And so you create
your own religious thing that you think works for you.
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For some of you it's religion, and for some of
you it's something other than religion. But you think that
because you're a pretty good person, or you think because
you compare yourself to other people, it'll be okay. It'll
all play out in the end, and I'm here to
tell you on the authority of God's word.
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It won't. It will not.
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God wants you to be rightly related to Him through
Jesus Christ, and he's the only way you can be
rightly related. Some people are naive enough to believe I
don't need to make him lord. Other people know they
need to make him lord, but live in a pattern
of disobedience. Notice what he says in verse four, For
he has said somewhere concerning the seventh day, and God
rested on the seventh day from all his works.
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Now let's get back to today's message as we listen
to the conclusion of this teaching from God's Word.
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God wants you to be rightly related to Him through
Jesus Christ, and He's the only way you can be
rightly related. Some people are naive enough to believe I
don't need to make him lord. Other people know they
need to make him lord, but live in a pattern
of disobedience. Notice what he says in verse four, for
he has said somewhere concerning the seventh day, and God
rested on the seventh day from all his works. I
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love teaching through the book of Genesis a couple of
years ago. You remember we got to Genesis too.
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Two.
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It says by the seventh day God completed his work
which he had done, and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had done. Or
how about Exodus twenty and verse eleven. For in six
days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the
see and all that is in them, and rested on
the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day and
made it holy. Or how about Exodus thirty one seventeen.
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It is a sign between me and the sons of
Israel forever, For in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth. But on the seventh day he
sees from labor and was refreshed.
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Now what does this mean.
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Well, first of all, it means of the world, the
universe was created in six literal days. That's what it means.
That's clear teaching from all of scripture. Secondly, what it
means is when God was done, he get completed his work.
It means God was putting his feet up as a
model to show us what we should do, that we
don't need to work all the time and be stressed
out all the time. It's also a model of salvation
that when we come to know Christ, that God set
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it up from the foundation of the world, that we
can enter rest with God. And when you truly repent
of your sins and trust Jesus, there's rest in that.
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I know that. I know that, I know that, I
know that.
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If I were to die today, I'd be in the
presence of Jesus because of everything that the Word of
God tells me.
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I know I've turned from my sin. I know I've
turned to Jesus.
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I know it has nothing to do with what I've done,
but has everything to do with what Christ did for me.
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And some people say, well, I don't want that.
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I know that's what I'd need to do, but I
kind of like living my life my own way, and
I don't know that I want that.
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Notice what he.
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Says again and again in this passage, they shall not
enter my rest. I mean some ninety five is being
quoted all over the place. In chapter three and four. Therefore,
since it remains for some to enter it, and those
who formerly had good news preached to them failed to
enter because of disobedience. Disobedience disobedience is when you know
what God requires and you choose to do the opposite.
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You know what God wants, and you're like, yeah, but
I don't want to do it that way. He said, well,
pastor Jeff, you just got done explaining to us the
Gospel's not about works. Here's what I would say. You
are not saved by your works. But if you are saved,
you are saved.
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For good works.
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If you're truly saved, something will change in your life
where you will say, I want to do it God's way.
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I want to honor the Lord.
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I want to do it the way he wants me
to do it. I want to know what the word says.
I want to know what God's saying. I want to
make sure I'm aligned with him. Some of you are
here today say I didn't come to church for that reason.
I came to get my marriage right, and it's a mess.
Why don't you just do a good Ted talk about marriage.
This is way better than a Ted talk, because if
you're surrendered to the lordship of Jesus Christ. He will
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change your attitudes and behaviors as to who you need
to be in your marriage, which is way better than
anything a talk will ever do for you. Jesus Christ
will come in and change who you are. He'll change
the way you relate to your employer or your employees,
or people at church, or your neighbors Christians non Christians.
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He'll change your whole life and demeanor. That's what he does.
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But some people don't think that works have anything to
do with salvation. They don't have anything to do with
you getting in, But they have everything to do with
you demonstrating that you've truly been saved.
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So I want to hear somebody, because at funerals were
great at saying stuff like this.
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Oh, I know he was a Christian fifty years ago
when he was at youth camp, he stood to his
feet and trusted Christ. But there's been no fruit in
his life for fifty years. And he's a drunk, and
he beats his wife, and he hates his kids, and
everybody at work thinks it's better that he's dead. Oh,
but he's going to heaven because he prayed a magic prayer.
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No he's not.
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I hate to tell you this that some of you
have been bought into a false gospel, which says, hey,
believe whatever you want to believe about Jesus and you
let's go to heaven because he's a good guy.
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That's false.
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The truth of the gospel is that Jesus Christ is Lord.
And when you say I no longer want my sin
and I want him to rule and reign in my life,
you're saved. And when he's truly in charge, everything in
you will begin to change overnight. No, not everything, but
it'll start. There should be a fear in your life
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if you lack saving faith. There should be fear in
your life if you strive in vain. So people have
a hard time with stories like the thief on the
Cross because people say, well, look at the thief on
the cross, what did he ever do? Well, let's look
at the thief on the cross. Let's look at what
God did to the thief.
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On the cross.
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You remember the day that Jesus was crucified. He was
crucified between two thieves, and in the morning when he
was being crucified, and everybody's hurling insults at Jesus for
that six hours in the morning, both of those thieves
were mocking him as well.
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Do you remember that they were saying all.
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Sorts of evil things about Jesus, But for one things
begin to change at some point in time during the day.
And the one thief began to look at the other
thief as Jess was being mocked, and he's like, wait,
he's done nothing wrong.
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We deserve this because of our sin. He didn't do
anything wrong.
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He was starting to silence the other thief because a
change was going off in his heart.
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And then do you remember what he prayed?
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Remember what he said out loud, Lord, not savior, Lord,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
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What was he doing?
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He's saying, I deserve this because of my sin. I
deserve to die.
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But because this man is who he says he is.
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I want him to be the lord of my life.
Whether I've got three minutes left or three hours, he
needs to be the lord. And when he called on
Jess's lord, what did he say? Truly, truly, I say
to you today, you'll be with me in paradise. I mean,
you'll see the story played out all throughout the Bible.
It doesn't matter who people are now non Christians hate
that story.
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Well he got away scott free because his whole life,
you live like hell, and at the last minute he
can just pray that way and go to heaven. Yes,
it's called the gospel. It means anybody, at any time,
in any.
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Place that calls upon the name of the Lord can
be saved and saved to the full.
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That's good news. He said, I don't know if I
like that gospel.
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Oh, yes, you do, because it means you can get saved. Two,
it means God loves you. Because people that don't like
that gospel think think that the thief on the cross
is worse than them. People that don't like the gospel
compare the world and think that there's, oh those criminals
over there, Oh those pedophiles over there, are all those
sexual and moral over there. They're horrible people. But me,
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I'm better than that. You've missed the gospel. You're dead,
you're blind, you're going to hell, and you need Jesus
Christ to rescue you. That's the message of the gospel,
and he's willing to save you. But some people lack
saving faith, and some people strive in vain. But let
me tell you about a third group of people, you
should fear missing out because some people live with a
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hardness of heart. Some people live with the hardness of heart.
This takes it one step further. If the first group
of people they agree to the realities of who Jesus is.
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They don't want him to be the lord of their life.
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But and the second group says, I know he needs
to be the lord of my life, but I don't
want that either. I'm just going to live my life
and come up with my own sense of spirituality or
religion and just hope it all works out in the end.
This third group is this they hear the gospel and
they reject it. They hear it and say, no way,
Jesus Christ is Lord. I don't want to hear another
word about it. Here's what the scripture says, that the
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message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
but to those of us who are being saved, it's become.
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The power of God.
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I'll tell you this, I'm not ashamed of the gospel,
for it is the power of God for everyone who believes.
For the jew first, and then also the gentile. These
are people who you hear about the gospel, and they
reject it, and because of the passivity of acting by faith,
their heart begins to harden. As we talked about last week.
So they don't care what they hear. They will not
believe it. They don't care about it. They're not going
to respond to it. They have passivity in their hearts
when it comes to responding to the gospel. Some of
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these people have heard the gospel over and over to
a point they've hardened their hearts. Don't talk to me
about that garbage anymore. And this is what he says
verse seven. He again fixes a certain day. What day
is God going to fix? What day do we need
to get right with God? When do I need to
get right with him? I don't know when He's going
to come back. So when he tells us today, well,
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I'll be thinking about your message this week, pastor Jeb,
don't think about it. Get right today, in this very moment.
Get right with God today. Make today the day of salvation.
Saying through David, to quote Palm ninety five and Hebrews
three seven, he said, through the Holy Spirit, so we
see the dual authorship of the scriptures after so long
a time, just as has been said before today, if
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you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
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Isn't that the third time we've heard that?
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I mean, do you think there's truth in repeating something
over and over and over again?
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When you hear this, don't harden your hearts? You say, well, what.
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Does that mean? It means this listen. Because you're hearing
this message today. You're accountable to this message. Whether you're
listening to in person, online, in the radio at Westminster,
it doesn't matter. You're accountable to this message. And if
you don't respond properly to this message, you'll still be
hearing this message ten billion years from now in hell.
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It's true. I love you enough to tell you the truth,
Pastor Jeff.
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Is this one of those fire and brimstone messages. No,
it's a message of truth and grace that God loves
you so much he doesn't want you to endure that.
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He loves you.
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Enough he sent his own son to be slaughtered in
your place, and he's saying, wake up and come to
me and quit hardening your heart, Quit suppressing it, quit
pushing it down, Quit saying, Hey, one day, Pastor Jeff,
when I'm old like you, I'll think about these realities.
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You may not have a chance to grow old like me.
Today may be the day. Today may be the last opportunity.
We falsely believe we can come to Christ anytime we want.
We'll just choose No.
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The more you reject him, the hearter your heart gets.
And they'll come a time when you can't even hear
his voice. So if you hear his voice today, do
not harden your hearts. And knows what he says in
verse eight, For if Joshua had given them rest, he
would not have spoken of another day after that. In
other words, when we're looking at the Old Testament, Joshua
didn't provide rest for the people, I mean even when.
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They got into the promise, and they didn't have total rest.
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And through some ninety five which came after that time
of the Book of Joshua, he's saying, there's a future
rest coming.
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Friends, There's a day coming.
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For those of us who believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ where there'll be no more fatigue or hard or
oppression or suffering or persecution or affliction or distress or
falling off a bicycle and hitting your head and not
remembering it. Those days are gone. They'll be gone. There's
a day of rest coming. But presently we can experience
his rest in this world. Presently we can experience the
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fact we don't have to strive to get God to
love us. God already demonstrate how much he loved us
when he said, has only begotten son for you.
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Don't to strive anymore.
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If you receive Him as your personal Lord and savior,
you can cease striving, and you can know that He's God,
and no matter what comes in your life, you can
have that inner rest, knowing no matter what happens circumstantially,
all the things I can't control, all the things I
was hoping I could control, I can still have rest
on the inside.
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And one day I'm gonna have an eternal rest.
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Friends, there's a utopia coming for those of us who
believe that's unlike anything we've ever experienced and more than
we could ever dream about. I think we can have
it here. We think if we vote for the right
political leaders, or we have the right school board chairman,
or we have all these different things, that everything's going
to be perfect, and I'm like, no way, it's never
gonna happen. We do need to get involved in that process.
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We do need to push back the darkness. We do
need to preserve it for one reason and one reason only,
because friends, this world is like the Titanic. It's going down,
and we're preserving it for more time so that we
can share the hope of Jesus.
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Christ with more and more people. Amen.
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That's the purpose of the gospel, and that's what God wants.
God wants us to understand that some live with this
hardness of heart. Some of you have heard the gospel
of Brave Church, but you've kind of waited, and you've waited,
and you've waited, and you've waited.
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And hey, when it's just right, I'll get make today
your day. Quit waiting today. If you hear his voice,
do not harden your heart.
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Now listen to this. Some people have lack of saving faith.
Some people strive in vain. Some people live with the
hardness of heart. But notice this other reason that you
should fear missing out in the gospel. It's because some
people actually pursue the Lord Jesus Christ zealously.
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I mean, here's a positive one.
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Some people actually believe what I'm saying, that Jesus Christ
is Lord, and pursue them with everything they have.
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from the series The Greatest and explains that true salvation
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God's Word.
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And there are some of you here today who think
that you're saved, and you're not saved because Jesus is
not the Lord.
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Of your life. That's just a fact.
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That's why Jesus said to it people that were following him,
why do you call me lord Lord?
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And do not do as I say. I mean, giving.
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Lip service to Jesus's Lord is different than making him
the lord of your life.
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I mean.
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Fast forward a couple chapters after the rich young ruler,
and you come across this white collar criminal name is
a Chius, a shrimpy guy that had to climb a
tree to.
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See Jesus coming by.
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And when Jesus sees him and says, the Chias come down,
I must stay at your house today.
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What does the Chius do?
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He doesn't say, Oh, but you know I'm a good person.
He says, Lord, here and now, I give half my
possessions to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody, I'll
give him four times as much. I don't care about
my money anymore. I care that I have a relationship
with you, and you're my lord. And if you're willing
to take someone like me, I'll take you at the
exception of anything else I.
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Could ever have. What does Jesus say today, I tell
you the truth. Salvations come to this house.
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Jesus will take anybody that wants him, but it's on
his terms. You bring all your sin to him, and
you let Jesus be the lord of your life.
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That's the gospel. That's the good news.
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You don't get to hunker down with your sin and
live completely for yourself. And mouthed words that Jesus is
the Lord when he's actually not the Lord. And there's
a lot of people that go to church and they
haven't changed at all over time ever, but they think
that they're saved.
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So let me just clear up a couple of testimonies
for it.
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Because I hear this at Brave Church. I've heard it
for twelve years. I hear it all the time.
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Let me help you, cause I heard it a couple
of weeks ago too.
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And I'm gonna I'm not giving you names, and I'm
changing some of the stories.
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But the testimony goes something.
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Like this, Pastor Jeff, I got saved for the first
time when I was about seven years.
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Old, but I didn't really know what it meant.
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I got baptized and I went into water, but I
kind of did that more for my dad because he
was in the church and was a deacon, so I
kind of went through with it, but and I went
to the youth group, but it really didn't mean a
whole lot to me. And then when I got to
high school, I kind of backslid a little bit, and
then I kind of got right, but when I went
out to college, I back slid again for the second
time for like six years, and then I was just
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so desperate And there was one time I just made
my way into Brave Church and everything's changed, Like my
heart's different, and I've I no longer smoke weed, and
I no longer want to do what's wrong, and I
want to do what's right.
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And I've rededicated my life to Jesus. I say, uh uh,
uh uh, you got saved at Brave Church. There's no
backsliding in the Bible.
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Where do you get this idea that I'm a Christian
but I'm back sliden for how long?
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For like twenty five years, I was kind of backsliden.
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Like what I mean, think about it like this. I've
heard this analogy. I've used this in preaching before. But
imagine you were on I twenty five today, the crossing
the highway walking and as you did that, as semi
going seventy five miles an.
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Hour hit you. Would you know that you were hit
by that semi. Of course you would.
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It would alter your entire life, It would alter your
entire being, it would alter your entire world. You wouldn't
have to wonder was I hit by the semi or
not I unless you were brain dead or something like that.
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So here's my question.
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What is more powerful, semi traveling at seventy five miles
an hour or the third person of the Trinity, the
Holy Spirit who came in to take over and let
Jesus Christ be lord of your life.
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So, then here's the question.
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How is it the Holy Spirit can come into your life,
whose job it is.
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To glorify the resurrected Christ, who always.
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Accomplishes what he sets out to do, and nothing's changed
in you. The reason is is because you don't have
the Holy Spirit, because Jesus Christ is not.
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The lord of your life.
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You've been playing religion and there's some of you here
that are still playing religion.
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You don't have saving faith. You don't want.
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Jesus to be the lord of your life. You feel
like he's a hard, cruel master. And you think to yourself,
I don't want that. Friends, if you don't want that,
you don't want the Gospel, And you don't realize how
desperate you are, because there's a lot of people that
know all the facts that go to hell every single day.
What would be the point of that. It tears my
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heart up, and you see it all over the Old and.
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New Testament, especially the New Testament. I mean, you see
it in the story of the Parable of the Soils.
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When the word of God gets placed in good soil,
what happened? It produces a harvest of thirty.
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Sixty or even one hundred percent.
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What do you see in John's gospel when he talks
about the vine and the branches. If you abide in
Me and I abide in you, ask whatever you wish,
it will be done for you. For this is my
Father's glory that you bear much fruit. If you are
a Christian, you will bear fruit. If you are a Christian,
you will produce a harvest.
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And it's not because of what you do. It's because
of what God's doing in and through you. There will
be a change.
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You can't allow Jesus to be the lord of your
life and see no change in your life.
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You will have a.
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Greater love for God. You'll have a greater love for people.
I remember when I got saved. I remember being in
a Bible study about six months after I got saved,
sitting around with a group of guys, and this thought
went off in my head, and it was this, if
I wasn't saved. I don't think I would have ever
talked to these guys, and now they're my friends. You see,
when I wasn't saved and I went to church, I
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thought those crazy hyper spiritual people were weird.
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They weren't crazy hyper spiritual people, they were Christians. I
was lost. When I got saved, some.
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Of those crazy hyper spiritual people seemed normal to me,
and I became one of them because my heart was transformed.
Did I change overnight? Did every bad behavior immediately go away?
Did I clean myself up to get right with God?
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No? I came to God just as I was.
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His grace drew me and showed me that I was
dead and that I needed a savior and a Lord
who could do something.
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And I gave my.
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Life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the question, do
you have saving faith? Do you believe that Jesus Christ
is Lord? And if you say yes, here's my question.
When did he become the Lord of your life? When
now you may not remember the exact day, you may
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not remember the exact hour. You may do not even
remember the exact monde if you're a little bit older,
but there would be a transforming time in your life
where you used to live like this, and now you
live like this. And it's not because of your effort
and I'm going to become a better person. It's because
Jesus Christ came in your life as Lord.
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Right. And here's what he's saying.
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He's saying, there's some who hear the word and by
faith they believe, and that changes everything. And there's others
who hear the same word, but they don't appropriate it
by faith, and so they're upset at the gospel.
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Notice verse three, for.
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We who have believed entered that rest, just as he
has said, as I swore in my wrath, they shall
not enter my rest although his works were finished from
the foundation of the world or from the creation of
the world. Friends, when you give your life to the
Lord Jesus Christ, you cease trying to work for your salvation.
It's a new day.
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It means this.
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Your works don't count when it comes to salvation. Your
works don't count in getting you saved. There's nobody in
heaven that's going to play a real or a film
of their life that shows, Hey, look at how good
I was before I got saved. Look at what I
was doing to get right with God. Nobody, not one.
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Everybody will say I was dead.
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I was a sinner, and Christ made himself known to me,
and I came flying too the cross because I.
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Didn't want my sin anymore and I wanted Jesus. That's
what he was saying.
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That's why he goes back and he keeps talking about
this understanding.
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That there's rest.
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Do you have rest when it comes to your salvation?
Is Jesus Christ the lord of your life? Does your
mom say that Jesus Christ is the lord of your life?
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Not? Does your pastor say that not? Does your grandparents
say that? Do you say that? Do you know that?
You know that?
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You know that Jesus is the Lord of your life. See,
some people not only lack saving faith, but you should
fear missing out because some people strive in vain. See
if the first group agrees to the reality of the Gospel,
but they lack saving faith. In other words, yeah, I
agree with all that, I'm just not gonna make Jesus
the lord of my life.
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If that's the first group.
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The second group knows about the truth of the Gospel,
that Jesus needs to be lord, but they would rather
strive in vain to create their own religion than allow
him to be that. In other words, you don't have
a problem with point number one in the sense that, yeah,
I know that's true, But not only do I know
that's true, I don't want that. And so you create
your own religious thing that you think works for you.
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For some of you it's religion, and for some of
you it's something other than religion. But you think that
because you're a pretty good person, or you think because
you compare yourself to other people, it'll be okay. It'll
all play out in the end, and I'm here to
tell you on the authority of God's word.
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It won't. It will not.
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God wants you to be rightly related to Him through
Jesus Christ, and he's the only way you can be
rightly related. Some people are naive enough to believe I
don't need to make him lord. Other people know they
need to make him lord, but live in a pattern
of disobedience. Notice what he says in verse four, For
he has said somewhere concerning the seventh day, and God
rested on the seventh day from all his works.
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Now let's get back to today's message as we listen
to the conclusion of this teaching from God's Word.
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God wants you to be rightly related to Him through
Jesus Christ, and He's the only way you can be
rightly related. Some people are naive enough to believe I
don't need to make him lord. Other people know they
need to make him lord, but live in a pattern
of disobedience. Notice what he says in verse four, for
he has said somewhere concerning the seventh day, and God
rested on the seventh day from all his works. I
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love teaching through the book of Genesis a couple of
years ago. You remember we got to Genesis too.
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Two.
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It says by the seventh day God completed his work
which he had done, and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had done. Or
how about Exodus twenty and verse eleven. For in six
days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the
see and all that is in them, and rested on
the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day and
made it holy. Or how about Exodus thirty one seventeen.
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It is a sign between me and the sons of
Israel forever, For in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth. But on the seventh day he
sees from labor and was refreshed.
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Now what does this mean.
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Well, first of all, it means of the world, the
universe was created in six literal days. That's what it means.
That's clear teaching from all of scripture. Secondly, what it
means is when God was done, he get completed his work.
It means God was putting his feet up as a
model to show us what we should do, that we
don't need to work all the time and be stressed
out all the time. It's also a model of salvation
that when we come to know Christ, that God set
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it up from the foundation of the world, that we
can enter rest with God. And when you truly repent
of your sins and trust Jesus, there's rest in that.
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I know that. I know that, I know that, I
know that.
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If I were to die today, I'd be in the
presence of Jesus because of everything that the Word of
God tells me.
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I know I've turned from my sin. I know I've
turned to Jesus.
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I know it has nothing to do with what I've done,
but has everything to do with what Christ did for me.
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And some people say, well, I don't want that.
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I know that's what I'd need to do, but I
kind of like living my life my own way, and
I don't know that I want that.
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Notice what he.
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Says again and again in this passage, they shall not
enter my rest. I mean some ninety five is being
quoted all over the place. In chapter three and four. Therefore,
since it remains for some to enter it, and those
who formerly had good news preached to them failed to
enter because of disobedience. Disobedience disobedience is when you know
what God requires and you choose to do the opposite.
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You know what God wants, and you're like, yeah, but
I don't want to do it that way. He said, well,
pastor Jeff, you just got done explaining to us the
Gospel's not about works. Here's what I would say. You
are not saved by your works. But if you are saved,
you are saved.
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For good works.
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If you're truly saved, something will change in your life
where you will say, I want to do it God's way.
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I want to honor the Lord.
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I want to do it the way he wants me
to do it. I want to know what the word says.
I want to know what God's saying. I want to
make sure I'm aligned with him. Some of you are
here today say I didn't come to church for that reason.
I came to get my marriage right, and it's a mess.
Why don't you just do a good Ted talk about marriage.
This is way better than a Ted talk, because if
you're surrendered to the lordship of Jesus Christ. He will
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change your attitudes and behaviors as to who you need
to be in your marriage, which is way better than
anything a talk will ever do for you. Jesus Christ
will come in and change who you are. He'll change
the way you relate to your employer or your employees,
or people at church, or your neighbors Christians non Christians.
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He'll change your whole life and demeanor. That's what he does.
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But some people don't think that works have anything to
do with salvation. They don't have anything to do with
you getting in, But they have everything to do with
you demonstrating that you've truly been saved.
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So I want to hear somebody, because at funerals were
great at saying stuff like this.
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Oh, I know he was a Christian fifty years ago
when he was at youth camp, he stood to his
feet and trusted Christ. But there's been no fruit in
his life for fifty years. And he's a drunk, and
he beats his wife, and he hates his kids, and
everybody at work thinks it's better that he's dead. Oh,
but he's going to heaven because he prayed a magic prayer.
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No he's not.
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I hate to tell you this that some of you
have been bought into a false gospel, which says, hey,
believe whatever you want to believe about Jesus and you
let's go to heaven because he's a good guy.
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That's false.
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The truth of the gospel is that Jesus Christ is Lord.
And when you say I no longer want my sin
and I want him to rule and reign in my life,
you're saved. And when he's truly in charge, everything in
you will begin to change overnight. No, not everything, but
it'll start. There should be a fear in your life
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if you lack saving faith. There should be fear in
your life if you strive in vain. So people have
a hard time with stories like the thief on the
Cross because people say, well, look at the thief on
the cross, what did he ever do? Well, let's look
at the thief on the cross. Let's look at what
God did to the thief.
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On the cross.
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You remember the day that Jesus was crucified. He was
crucified between two thieves, and in the morning when he
was being crucified, and everybody's hurling insults at Jesus for
that six hours in the morning, both of those thieves
were mocking him as well.
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Do you remember that they were saying all.
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Sorts of evil things about Jesus, But for one things
begin to change at some point in time during the day.
And the one thief began to look at the other
thief as Jess was being mocked, and he's like, wait,
he's done nothing wrong.
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We deserve this because of our sin. He didn't do
anything wrong.
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He was starting to silence the other thief because a
change was going off in his heart.
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And then do you remember what he prayed?
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Remember what he said out loud, Lord, not savior, Lord,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
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What was he doing?
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He's saying, I deserve this because of my sin. I
deserve to die.
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But because this man is who he says he is.
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I want him to be the lord of my life.
Whether I've got three minutes left or three hours, he
needs to be the lord. And when he called on
Jess's lord, what did he say? Truly, truly, I say
to you today, you'll be with me in paradise. I mean,
you'll see the story played out all throughout the Bible.
It doesn't matter who people are now non Christians hate
that story.
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Well he got away scott free because his whole life,
you live like hell, and at the last minute he
can just pray that way and go to heaven. Yes,
it's called the gospel. It means anybody, at any time,
in any.
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Place that calls upon the name of the Lord can
be saved and saved to the full.
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That's good news. He said, I don't know if I
like that gospel.
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Oh, yes, you do, because it means you can get saved. Two,
it means God loves you. Because people that don't like
that gospel think think that the thief on the cross
is worse than them. People that don't like the gospel
compare the world and think that there's, oh those criminals
over there, Oh those pedophiles over there, are all those
sexual and moral over there. They're horrible people. But me,
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I'm better than that. You've missed the gospel. You're dead,
you're blind, you're going to hell, and you need Jesus
Christ to rescue you. That's the message of the gospel,
and he's willing to save you. But some people lack
saving faith, and some people strive in vain. But let
me tell you about a third group of people, you
should fear missing out because some people live with a
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hardness of heart. Some people live with the hardness of heart.
This takes it one step further. If the first group
of people they agree to the realities of who Jesus is.
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They don't want him to be the lord of their life.
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But and the second group says, I know he needs
to be the lord of my life, but I don't
want that either. I'm just going to live my life
and come up with my own sense of spirituality or
religion and just hope it all works out in the end.
This third group is this they hear the gospel and
they reject it. They hear it and say, no way,
Jesus Christ is Lord. I don't want to hear another
word about it. Here's what the scripture says, that the
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message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
but to those of us who are being saved, it's become.
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The power of God.
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I'll tell you this, I'm not ashamed of the gospel,
for it is the power of God for everyone who believes.
For the jew first, and then also the gentile. These
are people who you hear about the gospel, and they
reject it, and because of the passivity of acting by faith,
their heart begins to harden. As we talked about last week.
So they don't care what they hear. They will not
believe it. They don't care about it. They're not going
to respond to it. They have passivity in their hearts
when it comes to responding to the gospel. Some of
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these people have heard the gospel over and over to
a point they've hardened their hearts. Don't talk to me
about that garbage anymore. And this is what he says
verse seven. He again fixes a certain day. What day
is God going to fix? What day do we need
to get right with God? When do I need to
get right with him? I don't know when He's going
to come back. So when he tells us today, well,
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I'll be thinking about your message this week, pastor Jeb,
don't think about it. Get right today, in this very moment.
Get right with God today. Make today the day of salvation.
Saying through David, to quote Palm ninety five and Hebrews
three seven, he said, through the Holy Spirit, so we
see the dual authorship of the scriptures after so long
a time, just as has been said before today, if
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you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Isn't that the third time we've heard that?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I mean, do you think there's truth in repeating something
over and over and over again?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
When you hear this, don't harden your hearts? You say, well, what.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Does that mean? It means this listen. Because you're hearing
this message today. You're accountable to this message. Whether you're
listening to in person, online, in the radio at Westminster,
it doesn't matter. You're accountable to this message. And if
you don't respond properly to this message, you'll still be
hearing this message ten billion years from now in hell.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's true. I love you enough to tell you the truth,
Pastor Jeff.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Is this one of those fire and brimstone messages. No,
it's a message of truth and grace that God loves
you so much he doesn't want you to endure that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
He loves you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Enough he sent his own son to be slaughtered in
your place, and he's saying, wake up and come to
me and quit hardening your heart, Quit suppressing it, quit
pushing it down, Quit saying, Hey, one day, Pastor Jeff,
when I'm old like you, I'll think about these realities.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You may not have a chance to grow old like me.
Today may be the day. Today may be the last opportunity.
We falsely believe we can come to Christ anytime we want.
We'll just choose No.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
The more you reject him, the hearter your heart gets.
And they'll come a time when you can't even hear
his voice. So if you hear his voice today, do
not harden your hearts. And knows what he says in
verse eight, For if Joshua had given them rest, he
would not have spoken of another day after that. In
other words, when we're looking at the Old Testament, Joshua
didn't provide rest for the people, I mean even when.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
They got into the promise, and they didn't have total rest.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And through some ninety five which came after that time
of the Book of Joshua, he's saying, there's a future
rest coming.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Friends, There's a day coming.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
For those of us who believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ where there'll be no more fatigue or hard or
oppression or suffering or persecution or affliction or distress or
falling off a bicycle and hitting your head and not
remembering it. Those days are gone. They'll be gone. There's
a day of rest coming. But presently we can experience
his rest in this world. Presently we can experience the
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fact we don't have to strive to get God to
love us. God already demonstrate how much he loved us
when he said, has only begotten son for you.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Don't to strive anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
If you receive Him as your personal Lord and savior,
you can cease striving, and you can know that He's God,
and no matter what comes in your life, you can
have that inner rest, knowing no matter what happens circumstantially,
all the things I can't control, all the things I
was hoping I could control, I can still have rest
on the inside.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And one day I'm gonna have an eternal rest.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Friends, there's a utopia coming for those of us who
believe that's unlike anything we've ever experienced and more than
we could ever dream about. I think we can have
it here. We think if we vote for the right
political leaders, or we have the right school board chairman,
or we have all these different things, that everything's going
to be perfect, and I'm like, no way, it's never
gonna happen. We do need to get involved in that process.
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We do need to push back the darkness. We do
need to preserve it for one reason and one reason only,
because friends, this world is like the Titanic. It's going down,
and we're preserving it for more time so that we
can share the hope of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Christ with more and more people. Amen.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
That's the purpose of the gospel, and that's what God wants.
God wants us to understand that some live with this
hardness of heart. Some of you have heard the gospel
of Brave Church, but you've kind of waited, and you've waited,
and you've waited, and you've waited.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
And hey, when it's just right, I'll get make today
your day. Quit waiting today. If you hear his voice,
do not harden your heart.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Now listen to this. Some people have lack of saving faith.
Some people strive in vain. Some people live with the
hardness of heart. But notice this other reason that you
should fear missing out in the gospel. It's because some
people actually pursue the Lord Jesus Christ zealously.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I mean, here's a positive one.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Some people actually believe what I'm saying, that Jesus Christ
is Lord, and pursue them with everything they have.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Thanks for listening to Pastor Jeff Ministries. That was Pastor
Jeff with his message the Fomo and the Gospel from
the series The Greatest, showing you how true salvation transforms
your life and proves God's power in you. Before we
say goodbye, we want to remind you that when you
give a gift to keep teachings like this one going
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battle tested wisdom, a ten day prayer journey for real
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