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Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is Getting to Know Your Bible, a program dedicated
to the proclaiming of the good News of Jesus Christ.
Here's Billy Lambert.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, I'm Billy Lambert.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I am the regular speaker on Getting to Know Your Bible,
and I want to welcome you today.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This may be the.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Very first time that you have seen this telecast. I
want you to know that the thing that we emphasize
on getting to Know your Bible is a word of God.
The Bible is the greatest book that has ever been written.
Many years ago, there were those that wrote books that
thought they would replace the Bible. That's what Thomas Paine
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thought when he wrote The Age of Reason. But the
Bible continues to live after century. Jesus said, heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away.
So on getting to Know your Bible, we're teaching from
the timeless Word of God. The Bible is God's book,
the greatest book that has ever been written. And today
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we're going to be opening up the pages of the
Word of God and delivering a message to you from
God's book. Today we're going to be seeing a one
of our classics that is a production of one of
our telecasts from time in the past, and we want
you to stay tuned. We're going to be offering a
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And so we want to pause at this time.
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To help you in your study of the Bible. We
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eight seven seven seven one one five two one four.
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There are a lot of words that are used in
the Bible that have special significance. I think about the
word love that has special significance, and when we study
the Bible, we learn about God's love. Another word that
has special significance is the word grace. Without God's grace,
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we could not be saved. Another word that has special
significance is the word sin. Sin actually means to miss
the mark.
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And the fact is all.
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Of us do that, don't we all of us miss
the mark? Somewhere or other. Another word that is of
special significance is the word lost. It's a Bible word.
We're going to look at that today. We want to
think about why men are lost. I want to read
today from the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, and I'm
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going to start reading it verse number four. What man
of you, having one hundred sheep, if he loses one
of them, does not leave ninety nine in the wilderness
and go after the one which is lost until he
finds it. And when he is founded it, lays it
on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home he
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calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, rejoice
with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
I say to you that likewise there shall be more
joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
ninety nine just persons that need no repentance. In this
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particular parable of Jesus, he tells about a man that
had a hundred sheep, and one sheep wandered away. It
was lost, lost in the wilderness, and the shepherd went
looking for that one sheep that was lost, and he
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said that there's more joy over that one sheep that
was lost than the ninety nine sheep who were still
in the fold. Can men be lost? Can men be lost?
And if they can, who says they can be lost?
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Well?
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Jesus says men can be lost. The reason Jesus came
into this world was because men are lost, because we
are lost. Luke, chapter nineteen and verse ten says that
the son of Man came to seek and to save
that which was lost, and humanity was lost, and Jesus
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came to save that which was lost. And Jesus came
in order that men might be saved from their lostness.
Matthew one twenty one his parents were told to call
his name Jesus, for he would save his people from
their sins. Jesus and Matthew sixteen and verse twenty six
talked about a man losing his soul, that his soul
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would be lost. Jesus asked, well, what is a man
profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?
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Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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So, Jesus, the divine Son of God, says that men
can be lost.
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Well.
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The apostle Paul also taught that men could be lost.
In Second Thessalonian chapter one, beginning in verse seven, he wrote,
and to you who are trouble, rest with us. The
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them who know
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not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with ever lasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord and from the glory
of his power. Paul is telling me, hey, men can
be lost. They can be lost. The Hebrew writer and
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Hebrews chapter ten says, we're not of them that draw
back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul. Those that draw back to perdition
are lost. So the Bible teaches men can be lost.
The apostle Peter taught people could be lost, while God
spared not the angels that sin Second Peter chapter two,
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but cast them down into hell. They are reserved in
chains of darkness under the day of judgment. Men can
be lost, Even angels can be lost.
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And it was.
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John who taught that men could be lost. Those whose
names are not written in the Book of Life are
cast into the lake of fire Revelation, chapter twenty and
verse fifteen.
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And then in chapter twenty one of the.
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Book of Revelation, in verse eight, he said, but the
fearful and the unbelieving, and the hormone, and the dolt, doolators,
and sorcerers and all liars shall have their part in
the lake which burns with fire in brimstone, which is
the second death. John was the apostle of Love. But
John said, men can be lost. Yes, it's possible for
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men to be lost. But what does that really mean
when we talk about people being lost, what does that
really mean?
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Well, it means that there is.
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A separation from that individual from God. Now, that which
separates a man from God is man sin. God did
not cause the separation. Man causes separation. Man made a
conscious decision to violate the law of God, and in
soul doing it separates him from God.
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The Lord's year is not heavy. They cannot hear it.
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And in Isaiah chapter fifty nine and verse one, and
so Isaiah said, it is your sins. It is your
iniquities that has separated you from your God. Sin separates
men from God. That's what led Paul To write in
Romans six twenty three, the wages of sin is death,
spiritual death, spiritual death. When men sin and violate the
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law of God, it causes us separation between man and God.
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And so.
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It means that people are separated. It means spiritual death.
The wages of sin is death, and then it also
means eternal punishment. That's what it means to be lost. Matthew,
Chapter twenty five and verse forty six. Jesus is talking
about the future life, and Jesus has the judgment seen
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in play there. And Jesus said, and these shall go
away into everlasting punishment. But the righteous and the life
eternal has the sheep on the one hand, the goat's
on the left, they saved on the one hand, the
lost on the other hand. And those that are lost
are going into everlasting punishment. That's what it means to
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be lost. But now question why are men lost? If
that's the case, is it the will, desire, and the
decree of God that people be lost? And unequivocally I
would have to say, no, it is not the will,
the desire, the decree of God, oh my, that one
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single person be lost. God doesn't want anyone to be lost.
As a matter of fact, in First Timothy, chapter two
and four, we're told that God would have all men
to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.
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God doesn't want anyone lost.
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He's willing that all men should repent of their sins.
Second Peter three and verse nine, Acts seventeen and verse thirty.
God doesn't want anyone lost. It's not God's will. It's
not God's desire that men be lost. Now, men are lost,
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but it's not because God did not love them. Because
the fact is God loves the world. For God soul
love the world, and that means the world. That means
all the people of the world, every person in the world,
even those who we would consider to be some of
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the worst people in the world, loves them. God so
loved the world that he gave his only begaudt and son,
that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the
world to condemn the world, but that the world through
him might be saved. That is not lost any longer,
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but they might be saved.
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God loved us.
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God commends his love toward us in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us. You see, if
men are lost, it's not going to because be because
they were not loved. Because God is love and God
sent his son because of that love. And men are
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not going to be lost because the numbers fixed, that
is a certain number of people can be saved that many.
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No more, the number is not set.
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No, No, God wants all people to be saved and
come to another knowledge of the truth. Verse tiventy two
four when Peter was at the house of Cornelius, and
Cornelius fell down before Peter, and Peter said, stand up,
I'm just a man. And then this is what Peter said,
I perceive of a truth that God is no respect
of persons. But in every nation, he that feareth Him
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and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. The truth is
God is willing to save all mankind. First John, chapter two,
verses one and two. Reasons like this, my little children,
these things write I unto you that you sin God.
But if any man's sin, if any man's sin, we
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have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous,
and is a perpetiation for our sins, and not for
ours only, But also for the sins of the whole world.
When Jesus died, he died for the sins of the
whole world. Folks, the numbers not said. It's not fixed.
And any individual, regardless of who they are or where
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they are, regardless of their background, regardless of their economic status,
regardless of their educational attainments or the lack thereof, they
can come to Christ and they can be saved of
their sins.
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No, No, the number is not fixed. The number is
not set.
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Occasionally you'll hear some teacher talking about a certain number
of people are going to be saved and everyone else
is going to be lost.
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That individual has.
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Not been reading his or her Bible enough. Men are
not going to be lost because the means of salvation
has not been provided, because there is not a way
to be saved. The fact is there is a way,
and the truth is there's just one way. There's just
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one way, and that one way he is God's way.
Let me tell you God knows more than we do.
Need you realize that now there are some people think
they know more than God. I see people that seem
to think they know more than God, and they start
assuming that they know what God is thinking and what
God will do, what God will not do. They'll say
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something like this, I just can't see how God could
do this or how God could do that. Well, the
fact is God's wiser than we, smarter than we are,
has greater thoughts than well. You know in Isaiah fifty
five of the Lord said, my thoughts and not your thoughts,
neither my ways than your ways, as the heavens are
higher than there are. So my thoughts and your thoughts,
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and my ways than your ways. God's thoughts, in God's
ways are superior to ours.
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Now.
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So we need to listen to God. And God has
one way for us to be saved, just one way,
and that's through the Cross of Christ. Listen to Acts
four twelve. Neither is their salvation any other, for there
is no other name under Heaven given among men whereby
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you must be saved. Now, you see, men are not
lost because a way to be saved has not been provided.
When you think about the Cross of Jesus Christ, recognize
the fact that that cross stands as a bridge from
earth to Heaven. It stands as a bridge to go
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from God to our lives of sin. And we've crossed
that chasm created by our sins and get to God
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Men are not lost because
that the way of salvation is hard to understand. I
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think about what Jesus said in John eight thirty two.
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make
you free. Folks, we can know the way.
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Does it seem sensible to you that God would give
his son to die on the cross for the salvation
of the world, to save the world from sain and
then turn around and give us a plan of salvation
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that was so confusing, so complicated that we couldn't understand it.
That just doesn't seem like the God of the Bible
to me. It's easy to understand. Jesus said, you can
know the truth and the truth will make you free. Well,
the question, then, while if that's the case, why is
it that men are lost?
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Then?
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If God loves man and God wants man saved, and
anybody can be saved, so whosoever will may thing that
whosoever wants to come to Christ can come, why is it.
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Then men are lost? And men are.
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Lost simply because they reject Jesus Christ.
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John five and verse forty, Jesus said, and you would
not come in to me.
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That you might have life. You see, they're rejecting. Jesus
was rejected for the whole of his life. Actually when
he was born. You remember, his parents are trying to
find a place to spend the night, and we're told
in Luke two seven there's no room in the end.
And from that time to this the world largely has
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had no room for Jesus. And even in the twenty
first century, they are people in whose lives they have
no room for the Lord Jesus Christ. But you see,
men are lost because they don't make room for him.
In John chapter one, verse eleveny came to his own,
and his own received him. Not In Matthew chapter twenty
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one and verse forty two, the stone which the bill
is rejected, the same has.
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Become the head of the corner.
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Jesus was despised and rejected of men Isaiah chapter fifty three.
You see, men are lost because they reject the Lord
Jesus Christ. And folks, it's a serious thing to reject Jesus.
One day we're going to stand before him and he
will be the judge of mankind. And in John chapter
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twelve and verse forty eight, Jesus said, he that rejecteth
me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him?
The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge
him in the last day. You see, the word Jesus
has spoken will be our judge. That is, by his word,
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will be judge on that last day. It's a serious
thing to reject Jesus Christ, but it was predicted that
he would be rejected. Have you not read in the
scriptures the stone which the builders rejected, the same has
become the head of the corner. Have you rejected the
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Lord Jesus Christ? You said, Well, Brother Lamberta, I believe
in Jesus. I don't want to reject Jesus, and I
don't want to be lost. Well, what do I have
to do to be saved? First of all, you've got
to surrender your will to his will, and that really
is hard for us sometime to bend our will to
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fit the will of God. Jesus gave us an example
of what that really means in the garden of gotseemone
when he was praying to his father, and he said,
if it be possible, let.
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This cup pass.
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Nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done, so
he wanted God's will, not his will, to be done.
When we get to the point in our lives that
we say no to self and know to our selfish
desires and our self will, and I say, Lord, I
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just want to do your will in my life, then
we're beginning to get on the right road that leads
to our salvation. If you've not yet gotten to that
point where you're willing to give up your will and
your desires to coincide with the desires that Jesus has
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for your life, then you're not yet ready to find
out what to do to be saved. Jesus said, why
do you call me lord, Lord, but you don't do
the things that I say? Are you say, well, I
believe he's Lord. I believe he's Christ. But are you
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willing to bend your will to his? And also, we've
got to cut some ties with things that would bind
us and things that would hinder us. In following Jesus
in Luke fourteen thirty three, Jesus said, whosoever he be
of you that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot
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be my disciple. You see, you can't have the best
of both worlds. You can't have Jesus and then have
the life that you used to live before you allegedly
gave your life to Christ.
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You're going to have to cut.
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Some tithes that will bind you and cause you to
not serve Jesus in the best possible way. He said, Well, then,
brother Lambert, what must I do to be saved? Well, well,
let me suggest that you must believe in Jesus Christ.
Do you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
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You said, absolutely? Do Peter acknowledge that? In Matthew sixteen
and sixteen, he said, thou art the Christ, the son
of the Living God. Not only must you acknowledge your
faith in Jesus Christ, you must be willing to repent
of all your sins, and at nineteen repent and be
converted that your sins may be blooded out, and repentance
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is a change of mind for the better. And then
we must be willing to confess our faith in Jesus
Christ as being the divine Son of God. Like the
man in Acts eighth chapter. We call him the Ethiopian eunuch.
And he's now being taught in the Gospel by Philip
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the evangelist they've been riding along the charity and he's
preaching Jesus to the man. And the man said, here's water.
Why can't I be baptized? And Philip said, if you believe,
you can't. He said, I believe in Jesus Christ is
the Son of God. Are you willing to acknowledge that?
Do you believe Jesus is the Christ, the son of
the Living God? You say, brother Lambord, I've already been baptized.
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What did the preacher ask you before you were baptized?
Did he ask you do you believe Jesus Christ is
the son of God? Or he asks you do you
believe that God, for Christ's sake has pardon your sins?
You see, the question should be, do you believe Jesus
Christ is the Son of God? And upon the confession
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of your faith in Christ, here to be baptized into Christ,
that your sins be washed away? I read now from Macs.
Twenty two sixteen, And now why terrest.
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Thou arise.
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Be baptized, wash away your sins, calling on the name
of the Lord. Baptism is an immersion. Baptism is a
burial in water, and baptism in water is for the remission.
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Of sin or for salvation.
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It is to be preceded by faith in Christ, repentance
of one's sin, confession of one's faith in Christ. And
when we're immersed into Jesus Christ, it puts us into Christ,
into his death, the benefit of his death Romans six,
verses three and four. It puts us into the body
of Christ the Church. First Corinthians twelve thirteen, Acts two
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forty seven. Have you ever been baptized into Christ? You know, friends,
Jesus said, he that believeth he is baptized, shall be saved.
But that's just the beginning. Once you're baptized, there's a
life to live. You live for Jesus. Every day you
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let people see Christ living in you. And then on
the Lord's Day, because you love the Lord, you gather
with God's people on the Lord's Day where you partake
of the Lord's suffer in remembrance of the death of
Jesus Christ. Pray together, sing together, give.
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As God has blessed us back to his work.
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Oh what a time it is together on the first
day of the week to worship in spirit and in truth.
Somebody says, we're Rother LAMBERTA I know what you're saying
is true because I've been listening to you for a
long time. I get letters from people who are not Christians,
who are not yet saved, and they tell me, Brother Lamberta,
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I've been watching, and I've been listening and have been studying.
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Along with you.
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But I've never been baptized like you're talking about, my friend.
The time for you is now. It is now.
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You see, the.
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Bible always talks about today being the day of salvation.
Somebody says, well, what about tomorrow? Solomon says, most not
yourself off tomorrow. For a man doesn't know what a
day's going to bring forth. You don't know that you'll
have it tomorrow. None of us knows that all we
have is today, fact is tomorrow. You could be so
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hardened about the message is that I've been teaching that
you'd never obey the gospel. You see, we can become
hardened to the gospel. The gospel will do one of
two things to your heart. It will soften your heart
by your rejection of it. It will harden your heart.
You'll just become hardened to the gospel. Paul in Ephesians
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four nineteen talked about those who begin past feeling, we
can get to the point that we're no longer disturbed.
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About our lost condition.
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And then tomorrow, regrettably, some of us watching right now
could be dead because it's a pointed done to a
man wants to die, and then comes the judgment, and
tomorrow could bring your death. Tomorrow, all of us could
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be before the judgment seed of Christ. Tomorrow we could
be an eternity. So today is your day of salvation.
If you've never obeyed the Gospel, let me encourage you
to do it. Get in touch with us. We'll find
someone who can baptize you into Jesus Christ.
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There's nothing that would thrill.
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Us anymore then to assist you in rendering obedience to
the Gospel of Christ. I want to thank you for
watching today. Let me give you a personal invitation to
visit the Church of Christ in your community. And also,
right now pick up the phone and call for the
free Bible correspondence course. I want to thank you for
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watching today. Until we meet again, May the Lord bless
you and keep you is my prayer.
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Here's Billy Lambert.
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Hello, I'm Billy Lambert.
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I am the regular speaker on Getting to Know Your Bible,
and I want to welcome you today.
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This may be the.
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Very first time that you have seen this telecast. I
want you to know that the thing that we emphasize
on getting to Know your Bible is a word of God.
The Bible is the greatest book that has ever been written.
Many years ago, there were those that wrote books that
thought they would replace the Bible. That's what Thomas Paine
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thought when he wrote The Age of Reason. But the
Bible continues to live after century. Jesus said, heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away.
So on getting to Know your Bible, we're teaching from
the timeless Word of God. The Bible is God's book,
the greatest book that has ever been written. And today
(01:17):
we're going to be opening up the pages of the
Word of God and delivering a message to you from
God's book. Today we're going to be seeing a one
of our classics that is a production of one of
our telecasts from time in the past, and we want
you to stay tuned. We're going to be offering a
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free Bible correspondence course today and we will see information
on the screen as to how you can receive that course.
And so we want to pause at this time.
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To help you in your study of the Bible. We
want to send you this Bible Correspondence course. This course
is non denominational, it's based on the Bible, it's conducted
by mail, and it's free to receive this course. Right
to getting to Know your Bible po Box three one four, Summerdale, Alabama,
three six five eight zero or call toll free one
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There are a lot of words that are used in
the Bible that have special significance. I think about the
word love that has special significance, and when we study
the Bible, we learn about God's love. Another word that
has special significance is the word grace. Without God's grace,
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we could not be saved. Another word that has special
significance is the word sin. Sin actually means to miss
the mark.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And the fact is all.
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Of us do that, don't we all of us miss
the mark? Somewhere or other. Another word that is of
special significance is the word lost. It's a Bible word.
We're going to look at that today. We want to
think about why men are lost. I want to read
today from the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, and I'm
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going to start reading it verse number four. What man
of you, having one hundred sheep, if he loses one
of them, does not leave ninety nine in the wilderness
and go after the one which is lost until he
finds it. And when he is founded it, lays it
on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home he
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calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, rejoice
with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
I say to you that likewise there shall be more
joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
ninety nine just persons that need no repentance. In this
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particular parable of Jesus, he tells about a man that
had a hundred sheep, and one sheep wandered away. It
was lost, lost in the wilderness, and the shepherd went
looking for that one sheep that was lost, and he
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said that there's more joy over that one sheep that
was lost than the ninety nine sheep who were still
in the fold. Can men be lost? Can men be lost?
And if they can, who says they can be lost?
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Well?
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Jesus says men can be lost. The reason Jesus came
into this world was because men are lost, because we
are lost. Luke, chapter nineteen and verse ten says that
the son of Man came to seek and to save
that which was lost, and humanity was lost, and Jesus
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came to save that which was lost. And Jesus came
in order that men might be saved from their lostness.
Matthew one twenty one his parents were told to call
his name Jesus, for he would save his people from
their sins. Jesus and Matthew sixteen and verse twenty six
talked about a man losing his soul, that his soul
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would be lost. Jesus asked, well, what is a man
profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?
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Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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So, Jesus, the divine Son of God, says that men
can be lost.
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Well.
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The apostle Paul also taught that men could be lost.
In Second Thessalonian chapter one, beginning in verse seven, he wrote,
and to you who are trouble, rest with us. The
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them who know
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not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with ever lasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord and from the glory
of his power. Paul is telling me, hey, men can
be lost. They can be lost. The Hebrew writer and
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Hebrews chapter ten says, we're not of them that draw
back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul. Those that draw back to perdition
are lost. So the Bible teaches men can be lost.
The apostle Peter taught people could be lost, while God
spared not the angels that sin Second Peter chapter two,
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but cast them down into hell. They are reserved in
chains of darkness under the day of judgment. Men can
be lost, Even angels can be lost.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And it was.
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John who taught that men could be lost. Those whose
names are not written in the Book of Life are
cast into the lake of fire Revelation, chapter twenty and
verse fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then in chapter twenty one of the.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Book of Revelation, in verse eight, he said, but the
fearful and the unbelieving, and the hormone, and the dolt, doolators,
and sorcerers and all liars shall have their part in
the lake which burns with fire in brimstone, which is
the second death. John was the apostle of Love. But
John said, men can be lost. Yes, it's possible for
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men to be lost. But what does that really mean
when we talk about people being lost, what does that
really mean?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, it means that there is.
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A separation from that individual from God. Now, that which
separates a man from God is man sin. God did
not cause the separation. Man causes separation. Man made a
conscious decision to violate the law of God, and in
soul doing it separates him from God.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The Lord's year is not heavy. They cannot hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And in Isaiah chapter fifty nine and verse one, and
so Isaiah said, it is your sins. It is your
iniquities that has separated you from your God. Sin separates
men from God. That's what led Paul To write in
Romans six twenty three, the wages of sin is death,
spiritual death, spiritual death. When men sin and violate the
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law of God, it causes us separation between man and God.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And so.
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It means that people are separated. It means spiritual death.
The wages of sin is death, and then it also
means eternal punishment. That's what it means to be lost. Matthew,
Chapter twenty five and verse forty six. Jesus is talking
about the future life, and Jesus has the judgment seen
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in play there. And Jesus said, and these shall go
away into everlasting punishment. But the righteous and the life
eternal has the sheep on the one hand, the goat's
on the left, they saved on the one hand, the
lost on the other hand. And those that are lost
are going into everlasting punishment. That's what it means to
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be lost. But now question why are men lost? If
that's the case, is it the will, desire, and the
decree of God that people be lost? And unequivocally I
would have to say, no, it is not the will,
the desire, the decree of God, oh my, that one
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single person be lost. God doesn't want anyone to be lost.
As a matter of fact, in First Timothy, chapter two
and four, we're told that God would have all men
to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.
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God doesn't want anyone lost.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He's willing that all men should repent of their sins.
Second Peter three and verse nine, Acts seventeen and verse thirty.
God doesn't want anyone lost. It's not God's will. It's
not God's desire that men be lost. Now, men are lost,
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but it's not because God did not love them. Because
the fact is God loves the world. For God soul
love the world, and that means the world. That means
all the people of the world, every person in the world,
even those who we would consider to be some of
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the worst people in the world, loves them. God so
loved the world that he gave his only begaudt and son,
that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the
world to condemn the world, but that the world through
him might be saved. That is not lost any longer,
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but they might be saved.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
God loved us.
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God commends his love toward us in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us. You see, if
men are lost, it's not going to because be because
they were not loved. Because God is love and God
sent his son because of that love. And men are
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not going to be lost because the numbers fixed, that
is a certain number of people can be saved that many.
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No more, the number is not set.
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No, No, God wants all people to be saved and
come to another knowledge of the truth. Verse tiventy two
four when Peter was at the house of Cornelius, and
Cornelius fell down before Peter, and Peter said, stand up,
I'm just a man. And then this is what Peter said,
I perceive of a truth that God is no respect
of persons. But in every nation, he that feareth Him
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and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. The truth is
God is willing to save all mankind. First John, chapter two,
verses one and two. Reasons like this, my little children,
these things write I unto you that you sin God.
But if any man's sin, if any man's sin, we
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have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous,
and is a perpetiation for our sins, and not for
ours only, But also for the sins of the whole world.
When Jesus died, he died for the sins of the
whole world. Folks, the numbers not said. It's not fixed.
And any individual, regardless of who they are or where
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they are, regardless of their background, regardless of their economic status,
regardless of their educational attainments or the lack thereof, they
can come to Christ and they can be saved of
their sins.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, No, the number is not fixed. The number is
not set.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Occasionally you'll hear some teacher talking about a certain number
of people are going to be saved and everyone else
is going to be lost.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That individual has.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Not been reading his or her Bible enough. Men are
not going to be lost because the means of salvation
has not been provided, because there is not a way
to be saved. The fact is there is a way,
and the truth is there's just one way. There's just
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one way, and that one way he is God's way.
Let me tell you God knows more than we do.
Need you realize that now there are some people think
they know more than God. I see people that seem
to think they know more than God, and they start
assuming that they know what God is thinking and what
God will do, what God will not do. They'll say
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something like this, I just can't see how God could
do this or how God could do that. Well, the
fact is God's wiser than we, smarter than we are,
has greater thoughts than well. You know in Isaiah fifty
five of the Lord said, my thoughts and not your thoughts,
neither my ways than your ways, as the heavens are
higher than there are. So my thoughts and your thoughts,
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and my ways than your ways. God's thoughts, in God's
ways are superior to ours.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So we need to listen to God. And God has
one way for us to be saved, just one way,
and that's through the Cross of Christ. Listen to Acts
four twelve. Neither is their salvation any other, for there
is no other name under Heaven given among men whereby
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you must be saved. Now, you see, men are not
lost because a way to be saved has not been provided.
When you think about the Cross of Jesus Christ, recognize
the fact that that cross stands as a bridge from
earth to Heaven. It stands as a bridge to go
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from God to our lives of sin. And we've crossed
that chasm created by our sins and get to God
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Men are not lost because
that the way of salvation is hard to understand. I
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think about what Jesus said in John eight thirty two.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make
you free. Folks, we can know the way.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Does it seem sensible to you that God would give
his son to die on the cross for the salvation
of the world, to save the world from sain and
then turn around and give us a plan of salvation
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that was so confusing, so complicated that we couldn't understand it.
That just doesn't seem like the God of the Bible
to me. It's easy to understand. Jesus said, you can
know the truth and the truth will make you free. Well,
the question, then, while if that's the case, why is
it that men are lost?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Then?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
If God loves man and God wants man saved, and
anybody can be saved, so whosoever will may thing that
whosoever wants to come to Christ can come, why is it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Then men are lost? And men are.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Lost simply because they reject Jesus Christ.
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John five and verse forty, Jesus said, and you would
not come in to me.
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That you might have life. You see, they're rejecting. Jesus
was rejected for the whole of his life. Actually when
he was born. You remember, his parents are trying to
find a place to spend the night, and we're told
in Luke two seven there's no room in the end.
And from that time to this the world largely has
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had no room for Jesus. And even in the twenty
first century, they are people in whose lives they have
no room for the Lord Jesus Christ. But you see,
men are lost because they don't make room for him.
In John chapter one, verse eleveny came to his own,
and his own received him. Not In Matthew chapter twenty
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one and verse forty two, the stone which the bill
is rejected, the same has.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Become the head of the corner.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Jesus was despised and rejected of men Isaiah chapter fifty three.
You see, men are lost because they reject the Lord
Jesus Christ. And folks, it's a serious thing to reject Jesus.
One day we're going to stand before him and he
will be the judge of mankind. And in John chapter
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twelve and verse forty eight, Jesus said, he that rejecteth
me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him?
The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge
him in the last day. You see, the word Jesus
has spoken will be our judge. That is, by his word,
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will be judge on that last day. It's a serious
thing to reject Jesus Christ, but it was predicted that
he would be rejected. Have you not read in the
scriptures the stone which the builders rejected, the same has
become the head of the corner. Have you rejected the
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Lord Jesus Christ? You said, Well, Brother Lamberta, I believe
in Jesus. I don't want to reject Jesus, and I
don't want to be lost. Well, what do I have
to do to be saved? First of all, you've got
to surrender your will to his will, and that really
is hard for us sometime to bend our will to
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fit the will of God. Jesus gave us an example
of what that really means in the garden of gotseemone
when he was praying to his father, and he said,
if it be possible, let.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
This cup pass.
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Nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done, so
he wanted God's will, not his will, to be done.
When we get to the point in our lives that
we say no to self and know to our selfish
desires and our self will, and I say, Lord, I
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just want to do your will in my life, then
we're beginning to get on the right road that leads
to our salvation. If you've not yet gotten to that
point where you're willing to give up your will and
your desires to coincide with the desires that Jesus has
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for your life, then you're not yet ready to find
out what to do to be saved. Jesus said, why
do you call me lord, Lord, but you don't do
the things that I say? Are you say, well, I
believe he's Lord. I believe he's Christ. But are you
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willing to bend your will to his? And also, we've
got to cut some ties with things that would bind
us and things that would hinder us. In following Jesus
in Luke fourteen thirty three, Jesus said, whosoever he be
of you that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot
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be my disciple. You see, you can't have the best
of both worlds. You can't have Jesus and then have
the life that you used to live before you allegedly
gave your life to Christ.
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You're going to have to cut.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Some tithes that will bind you and cause you to
not serve Jesus in the best possible way. He said, Well, then,
brother Lambert, what must I do to be saved? Well, well,
let me suggest that you must believe in Jesus Christ.
Do you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
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You said, absolutely? Do Peter acknowledge that? In Matthew sixteen
and sixteen, he said, thou art the Christ, the son
of the Living God. Not only must you acknowledge your
faith in Jesus Christ, you must be willing to repent
of all your sins, and at nineteen repent and be
converted that your sins may be blooded out, and repentance
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is a change of mind for the better. And then
we must be willing to confess our faith in Jesus
Christ as being the divine Son of God. Like the
man in Acts eighth chapter. We call him the Ethiopian eunuch.
And he's now being taught in the Gospel by Philip
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the evangelist they've been riding along the charity and he's
preaching Jesus to the man. And the man said, here's water.
Why can't I be baptized? And Philip said, if you believe,
you can't. He said, I believe in Jesus Christ is
the Son of God. Are you willing to acknowledge that?
Do you believe Jesus is the Christ, the son of
the Living God? You say, brother Lambord, I've already been baptized.
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What did the preacher ask you before you were baptized?
Did he ask you do you believe Jesus Christ is
the son of God? Or he asks you do you
believe that God, for Christ's sake has pardon your sins?
You see, the question should be, do you believe Jesus
Christ is the Son of God? And upon the confession
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of your faith in Christ, here to be baptized into Christ,
that your sins be washed away? I read now from Macs.
Twenty two sixteen, And now why terrest.
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Thou arise.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Be baptized, wash away your sins, calling on the name
of the Lord. Baptism is an immersion. Baptism is a
burial in water, and baptism in water is for the remission.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Of sin or for salvation.
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It is to be preceded by faith in Christ, repentance
of one's sin, confession of one's faith in Christ. And
when we're immersed into Jesus Christ, it puts us into Christ,
into his death, the benefit of his death Romans six,
verses three and four. It puts us into the body
of Christ the Church. First Corinthians twelve thirteen, Acts two
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forty seven. Have you ever been baptized into Christ? You know, friends,
Jesus said, he that believeth he is baptized, shall be saved.
But that's just the beginning. Once you're baptized, there's a
life to live. You live for Jesus. Every day you
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let people see Christ living in you. And then on
the Lord's Day, because you love the Lord, you gather
with God's people on the Lord's Day where you partake
of the Lord's suffer in remembrance of the death of
Jesus Christ. Pray together, sing together, give.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
As God has blessed us back to his work.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh what a time it is together on the first
day of the week to worship in spirit and in truth.
Somebody says, we're Rother LAMBERTA I know what you're saying
is true because I've been listening to you for a
long time. I get letters from people who are not Christians,
who are not yet saved, and they tell me, Brother Lamberta,
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I've been watching, and I've been listening and have been studying.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Along with you.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But I've never been baptized like you're talking about, my friend.
The time for you is now. It is now.
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You see, the.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Bible always talks about today being the day of salvation.
Somebody says, well, what about tomorrow? Solomon says, most not
yourself off tomorrow. For a man doesn't know what a
day's going to bring forth. You don't know that you'll
have it tomorrow. None of us knows that all we
have is today, fact is tomorrow. You could be so
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hardened about the message is that I've been teaching that
you'd never obey the gospel. You see, we can become
hardened to the gospel. The gospel will do one of
two things to your heart. It will soften your heart
by your rejection of it. It will harden your heart.
You'll just become hardened to the gospel. Paul in Ephesians
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four nineteen talked about those who begin past feeling, we
can get to the point that we're no longer disturbed.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
About our lost condition.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And then tomorrow, regrettably, some of us watching right now
could be dead because it's a pointed done to a
man wants to die, and then comes the judgment, and
tomorrow could bring your death. Tomorrow, all of us could
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be before the judgment seed of Christ. Tomorrow we could
be an eternity. So today is your day of salvation.
If you've never obeyed the Gospel, let me encourage you
to do it. Get in touch with us. We'll find
someone who can baptize you into Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
There's nothing that would thrill.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Us anymore then to assist you in rendering obedience to
the Gospel of Christ. I want to thank you for
watching today. Let me give you a personal invitation to
visit the Church of Christ in your community. And also,
right now pick up the phone and call for the
free Bible correspondence course. I want to thank you for
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watching today. Until we meet again, May the Lord bless
you and keep you is my prayer.
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