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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham. A
little later in the program, we'll tell you how you
can get a copy of doctor Graham's book, A Hope
and a Future. But first, here's the message. It's too
good to keep.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Take your Bibles and turn with me to the Book
of Romans, chapter ten, beginning in verse one of Romans,
chapter ten, And I'm reading today from the New Living
because this is a familiar passage to many longtime Christians,
so I want to give it a fresh look, and
also just to use some language that everybody is going
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to understand. Verse one, Romans ten, Dear brothers and sisters,
the longing of my heart and my prayer to God
is for the people of Israel to be saved. I
know what enthusiasm they have for good God, but it
is misdirected zeal, for they don't understand God's way of
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making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God's way,
they cling to their own way of getting right with
God by trying to keep the law. That is, rejecting
Jesus the way of salvation and keeping the Law as
the means of salvation.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Verse four. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
For which the Law has given. Jesus fulfilled the law.
He points everything in the Old Testament, all the law,
the sacrificial system, the temple, the worship, all the feast
and festivals, all point to Jesus Christ. He fulfills it all,
and as a result, all who believe in Him are
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made right with God. Then scroll on down to verse
eight of Romans ten.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
In fact, it says, the message is very close at hand,
and it is on your lips and in your heart.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And that message is the very message about faith that
we preach.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Verse nine. If you openly declare that Jesus is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved. For it is
by the believing in your heart that you are made
right with God. And it is by openly declaring your
faith that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You are saved.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
As the scripture tells us, anyone who trust in Him
will never be disappointed or disgraced. You and gentile are
the same in this respect, that is the Gospels for everyone,
they have the same Lord, only Jesus, who gives generously
to all who call on him. For everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be say it
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saved verse fourteen. But how can they call on him
to save them unless they believe in him? And how
can they believe in him if they have not heard
about him? And how can they hear about him unless
someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell
them without being sent? This is why the scripture says,
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how beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news?
But not everyone welcomes the good news. For Isaiah, the
prophet said, Lord, who has believed our message, so faith
comes by hearing, that is, hearing the good news about Christ.
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The passion of the apostle Paul, the passion of the
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a passion intense
and intentional to see people saved. This was Paul's prayer.
He said, my heart's desire and prayer is that Israel
would be saved.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Salvation.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Saved is a key, critical, essential word in the Gospel,
in all of the Bible.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I know for some it must sound archaic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Some even mocked the idea of Oh, you people say
you're saved, and you can go to churches that never
speak of people needing to be saved or being saved.
I mean, it's just sort of a word that, for
some reason some have set aside. But this word saved
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is vital.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
An incredible and beautiful word. Because the most important question
that any of us can ask is the question, what
must I do to be saved?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
To be saved from lostness.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
To be saved from judgment, to be saved from sin,
to be saved from hopelessness?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What must I do to be saved?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Because when you get right down to it, there are
only two categories of people, two classes of people in
all of the world, the saved and the lost, Believers
and unbelievers, Christians and non Christians, those headed for heaven
and those headed for hell.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know that's not.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Politically correct to say, but it is biblically correct. Jesus
himself said, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
and no one comes to the Father except by me.
No one is made right with God until they are saved,
And the only way to be saved is by Jesus.
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When the Angel announced the name of Jesus, he said,
you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save
his people from their sins.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Save.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The Bible says in Luke, chapter nineteen, verse ten. This
is quoting Jesus for the Son of Man, the Savior
has come to.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Seek and to save those who are lost and one
Timothy one point fifteen.
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This is a trustworthy sayment. In other words, count on
this and everyone.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Should accept it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Christ Jesus came into the world to do what to
save sinners. And Paul added, and I am the worst
of them all. So we're all sinners, Paul and all,
and we need a savior, and so Jesus Us king
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to be our savior. I am unapologetically and unashamedly a
salvation preacher.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
As a little boy.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
God put it in my heart to preach as a
teenager that was confirmed, and from that day till this day,
I've been preaching this message, to preach Christ, to teach
the Bible, to serve the church, to reach the loss,
to help the helpless and the hopeless, to stand for
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life and fight for life, and to do whatever it
takes to deliver the message of salvation till the whole
world hears.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That is what God has called me to do.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And though we all do it in different ways, He's
called you to do it as well.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
By praying and giving and sending and going.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's the good news of great joy which shall be
delivered to all people. It's the message of angels, men
and angels. It's the message of the Bible. It's a
very simple message. It's a very straightforward message because humanity's
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our greatest need is this salvation from sin. We all
live in guilt and emptiness and loneliness and fear. But
it is Paul's heart, and more importantly, it is the
heart of Christ to bring people to himself. Sometimes we
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are criticized for being too focused on evangelism to focus
on salvation message. But it's impossible to be too focused
on bringing people to Jesus. It's impossible. God has called
us to go into all the world and preach the gospel.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's you and me. So how can we participate in this.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So that, knowing that it's too good to keep, that
we can share the gospel with others. Number One, Pray
for lost people. Pray with passion for people far from God,
and that includes your religious friends who don't know Jesus.
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In those first four verses that we read, Paul is
praying like he prayed in chapter nine.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
The first several verses for his Jewish friends and family.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He said, my heart's desire, my prayer, my passion, is
for Jewish people to be saved. He earlier said, chapter nine,
verse three, I'm willing to die and go to Hell
if my kinsmen, my country, my family would come to Jesus,
my Jewish family.
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Would receive your shoe of the Messiah.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That was his passion, that was his burden, and he
carried with it, carried that burden in that passion from
prayer around the world to become the great missionary of
the faith.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
But what Paul prayed, we ought to be praying.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That God would give us this same kind of intense
and intentional passion for souls lost people, that it would
be the longing of our hearts. Many of us have
loved ones and family and friends who do not know Jesus.
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Some are far far from God and far away from
the things of God. They're living a life without the Lord.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Others are church people, are religious people.
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Who are also lost without God because they don't have
a personal relationship with Jesus. That whole passage that we
read there is about Jewish people who said, you know,
they missed it because they rejected the real way to
get right with God, which is to know Jesus. He
came into his own, and his own received him, not
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but to as many as received him. To them gave
you the right to be called the children of God,
even to them who believe on his name. So Paul
really is talking to his religious friends here. One of
the things we have to remember is that many people
who go to church or who have a religion don't
have salvation.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
They've never been born again.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Because you're not saved by religious ceremony, our ritual, or
praying more prayers or being baptized. You know, every believer
will want to be baptized, but we're not saved by baptism,
or we're not saved by taking communion or showing up
at church. Everybody ought to go to church, and everybody
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ought to receive communion who is a Christian. But none
of these things save us.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Our good deeds are good works.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Many think this is going to get them right with
God in some way, but none of these things get.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You right with God. Only Jesus. Only Jesus is the
savior of the world.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And because the world needed a savior, he sent his son,
and so do you know someone who needs.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
To know Jesus? I'm certain that you do, because.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
They're all around us, aren't They across the street, across
the office, across the world.
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And there are ways that we can get to them,
but we should pray.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
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It's too Good to Keep. Sometimes answers to life's problems
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to keep.
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You say, what should I pray when I'm praying for
lost people? Well, remember, this is a spiritual battle, and
we fight this battle on our knees. People without Jesus
are held captive by the enemy, by Satan himself. And
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sometimes I think we get angry with the very people
that God loves.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I know, people who are lost do things that lost
people do, and we don't like it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But lost people aren't the enemy. Satan is the enemy.
And so the battle begins on our knees as we
pray and take spiritual authority in the name of Jesus
over all the works of the enemy, that we begin
to ask God to open the hearts of unbelievers around us.
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That we would begin to ask that God would soften
the hard hearts of people who seem to resist so much,
and I'm asking you today, I'm encouraging you today to
have a prayer list of people who do not know
Jesus and pray till they come to know him. Pray
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and ask God to open their hearts. Pray and ask
God to send a witness. This is one reason we
pray for missions, because we can't go somewhere around the
world necessarily, but we can pray for missionaries who do
and witnesses to show up. You could pray, maybe you've
got a child this far from God, lost without Christ
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and you just can't seem to break the barrier, start
praying that God would send someone in their life that
would introduce them to Jesus and help them to be saved.
You see what I'm saying. This happens in prayer. Something
supernatural happens when we pray, and then we get off
our knees and up on our feet and we go
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in Jesus's name. We put feet to our prayers, beautiful feet.
The scripture says here, and we go in Jesus' name
and we share the good news.
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And that's the second point, and that is that.
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If we believe that this is too good to keep,
not only will we pray for lost people, but we
will share personally, share the good news. And what is
the good news? Look at it again Verse nine of
Romans ten. If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved. For it is by
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believing in your heart that you are made right with God.
And it is by openly declaring your faith that you
are there.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It is again saved. So how.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Can a person be saved? How can you be saved
by believing in your heart? The heart is the you
of you, speaking of the inner life, the part of
you that was made to live forever.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
In your heart. To believe in your heart.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Beyond emotional or intellectual assent or affirmation of a religion,
but to believe in your heart and confess with your
mouth Jesus is Lord. This is the message of salvation.
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That you would believe within and that without you would
confess your personal faith in Jesus Christ. That you would
make the good confession that Christ died on the cross
for our sins and that he rose again. Because it's
the resurrection that makes the sacrifice the cross so powerful
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and so effective. If there had been no resurrection, the
cross would have been meaningless. But believe in your heart
that God has raised him from the dead, that Christ
is alive and that he lives, and that He can
live in you. That's salvation to be forgiven of all
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of our sins, that Christ would live in us, and
that we would know that we're going to heaven. You
can be for sure, for certain forever that you are
saved and going to heaven.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It says later in chapter ten.
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Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be
what saved. In case you haven't gotten it yet, I'm
trying to help you get saved.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And know that you're saved, and so that we together can.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Help as many people as possible to get saved around us.
So here we have we are to pray for lost people,
and then we are to personally proactively share the gospel
with others. And the gospel is Jesus saves. Jesus saves.
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And maybe you're thinking right now, I'm so far away,
I'm long gone.
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What I need to do to be saved.
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I gotta climb some ladder, i gotta pay some penance,
I've got to pay some money.
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I gotta do something.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
No, the scripture says here in Romans chapter ten that
this is close look at look at chapter ten when
it says the message is very close at hand. This
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is verse eight. The message is very close at hand.
It is on your lips and in your hearts. And
that message is the very message about faith that we preach.
So here's what's happening right now. I've been preaching the
word of faith. I've been pouring out the message of salvation.
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Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
So I've been pouring out my faith and sharing my faith,
and perhaps others have shared their faith with you. People
have been been pouring out. So we have preached this
word of faith to you. So it is it is
near you, It is close to you, it's in your mouth.
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You can taste it. You don't have to go on
some pilgrimage to find God.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You don't have to perform multiple religious rites that you
can never achieve.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So you know, you you don't even have to live
this life. You think I could never live a Christian life, Right,
you can't, but He can through you if you will
come to him. So I'm saying, listen to.
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Me it's near you, it's close to you, it's in
your mouth. All you got to do is say it.
All you got to do is believe it and profess it.
One final thing, you know, the gospel is not good
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news unless it gets there on time. And so we
give and we go and we share Jesus and we
send missionaries because it's urgent. The times are urgent.
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So be prepared and promise to go anywhere to share Jesus.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Now that's the last point. Look again in verses fourteen.
Let's just scan these a little bit. Verse ten, Chapter ten,
Verse fourteen. How can they call on him to save
them unless they can believe on him? And if they,
how can they believe if they've never heard? And how
can they hear unless someone tells them? And how can
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anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is
why the scriptures say, how beautiful are the feet of.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
The messengers who bring good news?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Feet first on our knees in prayer, then up on
our feet, because how beautiful are the feet of the
messengers of God. The word beautiful there means lovely, of course,
but it also means lively, lively feet, And we need
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to get our feet moving, whether it is across the
street or across the seas, across the neighborhood, or across.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
To the nations.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
We need to get our feet moving because unless they hear,
how can they be saved.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
We need to keep.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Giving as generously as we can, because how can they
believe and be saved if we do not tell them,
if we do not send those missionaries, if we do
not invest in those mission opportunities, if we don't go,
and we don't pray, and we don't send, how can.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They be saved.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
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It's too good to keep. God's Word is the source
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But so many people around the world have never heard
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Speaker 2 (25:07):
I want to really challenge you today to become a
Christian who's taking the message of Jesus Christ to the world.
In other words, that you would be that we would
be world Christians. So let me remind you of several
important factors that we discover about the truth of Jesus Christ.
The truth of the Gospel. One, the Gospel is universal
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in its application. That means it's for all people, all cultures,
and all countries. Everyone needs to know Jesus as Lord
and Savior. In Luke chapter eighteen, verse nineteen, Jesus says,
why do you call me good? No one is good
except God alone. So you see, every person has the
same need, has the same universal problem, and that problem
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is sin, and the solution is Jesus. Secondly, the good news,
this gospel is universal in its invitation. John three point
sixteen says that whoever believes in Jesus should not perish,
but have eternal life. I believe that whoever, that, whosoever,
must be among the favorite words of God. And the Gospel,
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this good News is therefore universal because all people have
the same need, and all people can respond to the
same savior. And the whoever is the invitation of the
Church and the invitation of the Lord Jesus. And then, finally,
the Gospel is universal in its proclamation we must go
and be messengers. In Acts one, verse eight, Jesus commands
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and calls his apostles to be witnesses in Jerusalem, in
all Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
So you say, what can I really do about global
missions about the whole world? Well, get available, get usable,
and be expendable, and God will use you. The gospel
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can't go from land to land until it goes from
life to life and then lip to lip. And you're
not only going into the world at large, but you're
going to the world nearby, not only the nations, but
your neighbors with the wonderful good news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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Speaker 2 (27:54):
Say
Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham. A
little later in the program, we'll tell you how you
can get a copy of doctor Graham's book, A Hope
and a Future. But first, here's the message. It's too
good to keep.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Take your Bibles and turn with me to the Book
of Romans, chapter ten, beginning in verse one of Romans,
chapter ten, And I'm reading today from the New Living
because this is a familiar passage to many longtime Christians,
so I want to give it a fresh look, and
also just to use some language that everybody is going
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to understand. Verse one, Romans ten, Dear brothers and sisters,
the longing of my heart and my prayer to God
is for the people of Israel to be saved. I
know what enthusiasm they have for good God, but it
is misdirected zeal, for they don't understand God's way of
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making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God's way,
they cling to their own way of getting right with
God by trying to keep the law. That is, rejecting
Jesus the way of salvation and keeping the Law as
the means of salvation.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Verse four. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
For which the Law has given. Jesus fulfilled the law.
He points everything in the Old Testament, all the law,
the sacrificial system, the temple, the worship, all the feast
and festivals, all point to Jesus Christ. He fulfills it all,
and as a result, all who believe in Him are
(01:49):
made right with God. Then scroll on down to verse
eight of Romans ten.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
In fact, it says, the message is very close at hand,
and it is on your lips and in your heart.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And that message is the very message about faith that
we preach.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Verse nine. If you openly declare that Jesus is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved. For it is
by the believing in your heart that you are made
right with God. And it is by openly declaring your
faith that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You are saved.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
As the scripture tells us, anyone who trust in Him
will never be disappointed or disgraced. You and gentile are
the same in this respect, that is the Gospels for everyone,
they have the same Lord, only Jesus, who gives generously
to all who call on him. For everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be say it
(02:56):
saved verse fourteen. But how can they call on him
to save them unless they believe in him? And how
can they believe in him if they have not heard
about him? And how can they hear about him unless
someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell
them without being sent? This is why the scripture says,
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how beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news?
But not everyone welcomes the good news. For Isaiah, the
prophet said, Lord, who has believed our message, so faith
comes by hearing, that is, hearing the good news about Christ.
(03:40):
The passion of the apostle Paul, the passion of the
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a passion intense
and intentional to see people saved. This was Paul's prayer.
He said, my heart's desire and prayer is that Israel
would be saved.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Salvation.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Saved is a key, critical, essential word in the Gospel,
in all of the Bible.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I know for some it must sound archaic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Some even mocked the idea of Oh, you people say
you're saved, and you can go to churches that never
speak of people needing to be saved or being saved.
I mean, it's just sort of a word that, for
some reason some have set aside. But this word saved
(04:42):
is vital.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
An incredible and beautiful word. Because the most important question
that any of us can ask is the question, what
must I do to be saved?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
To be saved from lostness.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
To be saved from judgment, to be saved from sin,
to be saved from hopelessness?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What must I do to be saved?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Because when you get right down to it, there are
only two categories of people, two classes of people in
all of the world, the saved and the lost, Believers
and unbelievers, Christians and non Christians, those headed for heaven
and those headed for hell.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know that's not.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Politically correct to say, but it is biblically correct. Jesus
himself said, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
and no one comes to the Father except by me.
No one is made right with God until they are saved,
And the only way to be saved is by Jesus.
(06:01):
When the Angel announced the name of Jesus, he said,
you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save
his people from their sins.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Save.
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The Bible says in Luke, chapter nineteen, verse ten. This
is quoting Jesus for the Son of Man, the Savior
has come to.
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Seek and to save those who are lost and one
Timothy one point fifteen.
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This is a trustworthy sayment. In other words, count on
this and everyone.
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Should accept it.
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Christ Jesus came into the world to do what to
save sinners. And Paul added, and I am the worst
of them all. So we're all sinners, Paul and all,
and we need a savior, and so Jesus Us king
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to be our savior. I am unapologetically and unashamedly a
salvation preacher.
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As a little boy.
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God put it in my heart to preach as a
teenager that was confirmed, and from that day till this day,
I've been preaching this message, to preach Christ, to teach
the Bible, to serve the church, to reach the loss,
to help the helpless and the hopeless, to stand for
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life and fight for life, and to do whatever it
takes to deliver the message of salvation till the whole
world hears.
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That is what God has called me to do.
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And though we all do it in different ways, He's
called you to do it as well.
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By praying and giving and sending and going.
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It's the good news of great joy which shall be
delivered to all people. It's the message of angels, men
and angels. It's the message of the Bible. It's a
very simple message. It's a very straightforward message because humanity's
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our greatest need is this salvation from sin. We all
live in guilt and emptiness and loneliness and fear. But
it is Paul's heart, and more importantly, it is the
heart of Christ to bring people to himself. Sometimes we
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are criticized for being too focused on evangelism to focus
on salvation message. But it's impossible to be too focused
on bringing people to Jesus. It's impossible. God has called
us to go into all the world and preach the gospel.
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That's you and me. So how can we participate in this.
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So that, knowing that it's too good to keep, that
we can share the gospel with others. Number One, Pray
for lost people. Pray with passion for people far from God,
and that includes your religious friends who don't know Jesus.
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In those first four verses that we read, Paul is
praying like he prayed in chapter nine.
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The first several verses for his Jewish friends and family.
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He said, my heart's desire, my prayer, my passion, is
for Jewish people to be saved. He earlier said, chapter nine,
verse three, I'm willing to die and go to Hell
if my kinsmen, my country, my family would come to Jesus,
my Jewish family.
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Would receive your shoe of the Messiah.
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That was his passion, that was his burden, and he
carried with it, carried that burden in that passion from
prayer around the world to become the great missionary of
the faith.
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But what Paul prayed, we ought to be praying.
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That God would give us this same kind of intense
and intentional passion for souls lost people, that it would
be the longing of our hearts. Many of us have
loved ones and family and friends who do not know Jesus.
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Some are far far from God and far away from
the things of God. They're living a life without the Lord.
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Others are church people, are religious people.
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Who are also lost without God because they don't have
a personal relationship with Jesus. That whole passage that we
read there is about Jewish people who said, you know,
they missed it because they rejected the real way to
get right with God, which is to know Jesus. He
came into his own, and his own received him, not
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but to as many as received him. To them gave
you the right to be called the children of God,
even to them who believe on his name. So Paul
really is talking to his religious friends here. One of
the things we have to remember is that many people
who go to church or who have a religion don't
have salvation.
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They've never been born again.
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Because you're not saved by religious ceremony, our ritual, or
praying more prayers or being baptized. You know, every believer
will want to be baptized, but we're not saved by baptism,
or we're not saved by taking communion or showing up
at church. Everybody ought to go to church, and everybody
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ought to receive communion who is a Christian. But none
of these things save us.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Our good deeds are good works.
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Many think this is going to get them right with
God in some way, but none of these things get.
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You right with God. Only Jesus. Only Jesus is the
savior of the world.
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And because the world needed a savior, he sent his son,
and so do you know someone who needs.
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To know Jesus? I'm certain that you do, because.
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They're all around us, aren't They across the street, across
the office, across the world.
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And there are ways that we can get to them,
but we should pray.
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You say, what should I pray when I'm praying for
lost people? Well, remember, this is a spiritual battle, and
we fight this battle on our knees. People without Jesus
are held captive by the enemy, by Satan himself. And
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sometimes I think we get angry with the very people
that God loves.
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I know, people who are lost do things that lost
people do, and we don't like it.
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But lost people aren't the enemy. Satan is the enemy.
And so the battle begins on our knees as we
pray and take spiritual authority in the name of Jesus
over all the works of the enemy, that we begin
to ask God to open the hearts of unbelievers around us.
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That we would begin to ask that God would soften
the hard hearts of people who seem to resist so much,
and I'm asking you today, I'm encouraging you today to
have a prayer list of people who do not know
Jesus and pray till they come to know him. Pray
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and ask God to open their hearts. Pray and ask
God to send a witness. This is one reason we
pray for missions, because we can't go somewhere around the
world necessarily, but we can pray for missionaries who do
and witnesses to show up. You could pray, maybe you've
got a child this far from God, lost without Christ
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and you just can't seem to break the barrier, start
praying that God would send someone in their life that
would introduce them to Jesus and help them to be saved.
You see what I'm saying. This happens in prayer. Something
supernatural happens when we pray, and then we get off
our knees and up on our feet and we go
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in Jesus's name. We put feet to our prayers, beautiful feet.
The scripture says here, and we go in Jesus' name
and we share the good news.
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And that's the second point, and that is that.
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If we believe that this is too good to keep,
not only will we pray for lost people, but we
will share personally, share the good news. And what is
the good news? Look at it again Verse nine of
Romans ten. If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved. For it is by
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believing in your heart that you are made right with God.
And it is by openly declaring your faith that you
are there.
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It is again saved. So how.
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Can a person be saved? How can you be saved
by believing in your heart? The heart is the you
of you, speaking of the inner life, the part of
you that was made to live forever.
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In your heart. To believe in your heart.
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Beyond emotional or intellectual assent or affirmation of a religion,
but to believe in your heart and confess with your
mouth Jesus is Lord. This is the message of salvation.
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That you would believe within and that without you would
confess your personal faith in Jesus Christ. That you would
make the good confession that Christ died on the cross
for our sins and that he rose again. Because it's
the resurrection that makes the sacrifice the cross so powerful
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and so effective. If there had been no resurrection, the
cross would have been meaningless. But believe in your heart
that God has raised him from the dead, that Christ
is alive and that he lives, and that He can
live in you. That's salvation to be forgiven of all
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of our sins, that Christ would live in us, and
that we would know that we're going to heaven. You
can be for sure, for certain forever that you are
saved and going to heaven.
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It says later in chapter ten.
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Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be
what saved. In case you haven't gotten it yet, I'm
trying to help you get saved.
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And know that you're saved, and so that we together can.
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Help as many people as possible to get saved around us.
So here we have we are to pray for lost people,
and then we are to personally proactively share the gospel
with others. And the gospel is Jesus saves. Jesus saves.
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And maybe you're thinking right now, I'm so far away,
I'm long gone.
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What I need to do to be saved.
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I gotta climb some ladder, i gotta pay some penance,
I've got to pay some money.
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I gotta do something.
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No, the scripture says here in Romans chapter ten that
this is close look at look at chapter ten when
it says the message is very close at hand. This
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is verse eight. The message is very close at hand.
It is on your lips and in your hearts. And
that message is the very message about faith that we preach.
So here's what's happening right now. I've been preaching the
word of faith. I've been pouring out the message of salvation.
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Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
So I've been pouring out my faith and sharing my faith,
and perhaps others have shared their faith with you. People
have been been pouring out. So we have preached this
word of faith to you. So it is it is
near you, It is close to you, it's in your mouth.
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You can taste it. You don't have to go on
some pilgrimage to find God.
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You don't have to perform multiple religious rites that you
can never achieve.
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So you know, you you don't even have to live
this life. You think I could never live a Christian life, Right,
you can't, but He can through you if you will
come to him. So I'm saying, listen to.
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Me it's near you, it's close to you, it's in
your mouth. All you got to do is say it.
All you got to do is believe it and profess it.
One final thing, you know, the gospel is not good
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news unless it gets there on time. And so we
give and we go and we share Jesus and we
send missionaries because it's urgent. The times are urgent.
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So be prepared and promise to go anywhere to share Jesus.
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Now that's the last point. Look again in verses fourteen.
Let's just scan these a little bit. Verse ten, Chapter ten,
Verse fourteen. How can they call on him to save
them unless they can believe on him? And if they,
how can they believe if they've never heard? And how
can they hear unless someone tells them? And how can
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anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is
why the scriptures say, how beautiful are the feet of.
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The messengers who bring good news?
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Feet first on our knees in prayer, then up on
our feet, because how beautiful are the feet of the
messengers of God. The word beautiful there means lovely, of course,
but it also means lively, lively feet, And we need
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to get our feet moving, whether it is across the
street or across the seas, across the neighborhood, or across.
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To the nations.
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We need to get our feet moving because unless they hear,
how can they be saved.
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We need to keep.
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Giving as generously as we can, because how can they
believe and be saved if we do not tell them,
if we do not send those missionaries, if we do
not invest in those mission opportunities, if we don't go,
and we don't pray, and we don't send, how can.
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They be saved.
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Speaker 2 (25:07):
I want to really challenge you today to become a
Christian who's taking the message of Jesus Christ to the world.
In other words, that you would be that we would
be world Christians. So let me remind you of several
important factors that we discover about the truth of Jesus Christ.
The truth of the Gospel. One, the Gospel is universal
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in its application. That means it's for all people, all cultures,
and all countries. Everyone needs to know Jesus as Lord
and Savior. In Luke chapter eighteen, verse nineteen, Jesus says,
why do you call me good? No one is good
except God alone. So you see, every person has the
same need, has the same universal problem, and that problem
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is sin, and the solution is Jesus. Secondly, the good news,
this gospel is universal in its invitation. John three point
sixteen says that whoever believes in Jesus should not perish,
but have eternal life. I believe that whoever, that, whosoever,
must be among the favorite words of God. And the Gospel,
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this good News is therefore universal because all people have
the same need, and all people can respond to the
same savior. And the whoever is the invitation of the
Church and the invitation of the Lord Jesus. And then, finally,
the Gospel is universal in its proclamation we must go
and be messengers. In Acts one, verse eight, Jesus commands
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and calls his apostles to be witnesses in Jerusalem, in
all Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
So you say, what can I really do about global
missions about the whole world? Well, get available, get usable,
and be expendable, and God will use you. The gospel
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can't go from land to land until it goes from
life to life and then lip to lip. And you're
not only going into the world at large, but you're
going to the world nearby, not only the nations, but
your neighbors with the wonderful good news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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