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Welcome to PowerPoint with Jack Graham. On today's PowerPoint, doctor
Graham brings a message about why Jesus came to earth
and what it means for your life today.
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Before tide began, God loved you before you were born.
God loved you before he made.
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The mountains and set the.
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Stars in place and the courses of the planet.
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God loved you.
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Now.
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Here's doctor Graham with his message life according to Jesus.
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I want to invite you to take your Bibles and
turn with me once again to First John chapter four.
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Five times.
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In this letter of First John, the apostle emphasizes that
Jesus literally physically came and for what purpose?
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Why did he come? By now, John is an old
man looking back and.
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Reflecting upon his experience with Christ, and John was saying,
we could forget.
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We will never forget what Christ has done for us.
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Now, there are many reasons that I believe.
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In Jesus.
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I believe in Jesus because of the historical evidence. I
believe in Jesus because of the powerful scripture, and yes,
you can trust the Bible. I believe in Jesus because
of personal experience knowing him and trusting him. Building my
faith upon the truth of God's word. But the thrill
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of knowing and loving Jesus never fades for me.
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For God has.
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Given us a living and vibrant faith that will last
beyond the critics. And I believe the Bible after studying
it seriously for many years. Now I believe the Bible
more than ever. I believe in Jesus now more than ever.
I am discovering new reasons to believe, not new reasons
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to doubt.
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And that is why my love for Christ is growing
day by day.
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I don't want, I don't intend to burn out in
my love to Christ. I intend to burn on in
my love for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Why did Jesus come?
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Well, I want you to see in first John chapter three,
actually in verse five, that Jesus came to be our
sin bear. Look at verse five of first John three,
and we're gonna look at these five times in First John.
When he said Jesus came, and why he came, You
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know that he appeared to take away sins, and in
him there is no sins.
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He appeared and.
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With that implicit within that truth is that he was
not born at Bethlehem, but he came from eternity. He
is the Son of God, the eternal Christ. And as
a result, because he has now made manifest, he has
now appeared. He makes God knowable and visible. So the
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Son of God, God the Father, sent the Son to
bear our sins, that is, to take away our sins.
This is the constant theme of the New Testament. When
John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the world, he said, look,
look at the lamb of God, who takes away the
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sin of the world. That's his introduction to the world.
Before that, the Prince of Prophets, Isaiah spoke of the Savior,
the Messiah, who would come. And in Isaiah fifty three and
verse six, all we like sheep and gone astray.
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We, every one of us, had turned into our our
own way.
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But the Lord laid on him all our sins, all
of our iniquities. We're told that in Second Corinthians five
and twenty one, that he who knew no sin became
sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness
of God. Hebrews nine twenty six, that he put away
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sin in himself. That Jesus died for our sins. One Peter,
chapter two and verse twenty four. The scripture tells us
once again that Jesus bore our sins in his own
body at the cross. He took our sins. He is
our sin bearer. But how does Jesus forgive sins?
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Well?
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Notice in one John three five that the apostle is
very clear and pointing out that Jesus was sin free.
He knew no sin, He never participated in sin. Why
because only a endless man could die for sinful man
and bear our sins. And so when Jesus came, he
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came to the cross. When he entered into the city
of Jerusalem that day, amidst the hailing of the hallelujahs,
he came, presenting himself and preparing himself to die on
the cross. He is the sin bearer. Now do you
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still carry your sin? Or have you allowed the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ to take your sin away?
Because Jesus is our sin bearer. He came to take
away our sins. In him, we have been cleansed changed
covered by his grace. All of our sins are forgiven.
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What does first John tell us, By the blood of
Jesus Christ, he forgives us of all of our sins.
The past really is the past. Our future truly is
secure in Heaven. We live today with peace and purpose
in our hearts. There is joy for the journey. There
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is life every single day. We have been saved from hell,
and we are on our way to Heaven.
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We are right with.
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God because Jesus is our sin bearer, the sinless One
has taken our sins and removed them as far as
the east is from the west. That's why Jesus came.
He came to be our sin bearer. But there's another
reason that Jesus came, not only the bearer of my sins,
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but he came to be the breaker of my chains.
Looking first John three and verse eight, and once again
at the end of the that verse, he tells us.
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Why Jesus came.
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The reason the Son of God appeared. Same word, was
to destroy the works of the devil. Now every person,
because of sin, is in the grip of satan. Sin
devastates us in two ways. Not only does it make
us guilty before God and therefore condemned in our sin
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before a holy God, but sin enslaves us in habits
and addictions and lifestyles that not only dishonor God and
defame his name, but destroy our own lives sin in slaves.
And therefore Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil,
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to set us free, not only from the penalty of sin,
but from the very power of sin. Jesus liberates us
for life, from the guilt, from the slave of sin.
And this is something we can never do ourselves, not
by any self improvement method or technique, not by personal
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will power, but by the power of Jesus Christ, we
are set free. The scripture tells us that he reversed
the curse and restored what was.
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Lost when mankind sin.
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When Jesus died, he destroyed the power of sin and Satan.
At the cross, Satan did his very best to destroy
Jesus and his mission on earth. In fact, in the
Garden of Eden, when Judas was about to turn Christ
over to the authorities, to the Roman authorities, Jesus said
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in Luke twenty two and verse fifty three, that this
is your hour. And then he spoke of the power
of darkness, the power of darkness that invaded the light
of his truth and of his love.
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Yet on the cross.
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Jesus died, and when he died, he defeated all that
Satan had.
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Tried to do, not only to man, but to the
god Man.
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And as a result of his cross, he demolished the
works of the devil. And therefore our hearts can be transformed.
And he sets the pack captive free. He emancipates us.
He gives us power to overcome sinful habits and addictions,
and behavior and lifestyle that.
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Is so destructive.
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Jesus called Satan a liar and a murderer, and his
weapon is deception, the lie.
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Now Jesus is the truth.
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And because Christ is the truth, he is destroyed Satan
and exposed his lies and removed the power of sin.
We have freedom in Christ. We've been set free in
Hebrews two, verse fourteen. Since therefore the children share in
flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things,
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that through death he might destroy the one who has
the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver
all of those who, through fear of death, were subject
to lifelong slavery. The fear of death, the final enemy,
terrorizes and enslaves us in fear. But because of what
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Christ is done at the cross and the power of
his resurrection. He has defeated.
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Death and the chains that bind us. We are free.
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Aren't you ready to be changed and breathe the new life,
the air of new life in Jesus Christ. I've got
good news for you. You can break free, and you
can break through in your life because Jesus not only
has given his life for us, he has given his
life to us, and we are free.
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Indeed, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
set you free.
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According to Jesus, Jesus is the bearer of my sins,
my sin bearer. He is not only my sin bearer,
he is the breaker of my chaine. But not only that,
Jesus is the lover of my soul. That's why he came.
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Look at first John chapter four, in verse ten. In
this is love, not that we have loved God, but
that He loved us and sent his son to be
the propitiation.
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For our sins.
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What does it mean that this love brought about the
propitiation of our sin. The word propitiation is a word
which means, if I could just simplify it, satisfied, you
see God's holiness, his righteousness based upon the law and
the commandments must be satisfied, must be fulfilled. So how
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can a holy God who cannot even look at sin,
who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? According
to the scripture, how can God, who is holy forgive
sinful man? He did it by propitiation, And that's a
big word, but it simply means that God provided a substitute,
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just as we're taught and condition in the Old Testament
of the substitutionary sacrifices and propitiation and atonement of sins.
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As they brought animals.
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Bulls and sheep and the like for a sacrifice, there
came to this earth the ultimate sacrifice, the Lord Jesus himself.
That God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.
And because of this propitiation, now God and man can
walk together, heart to heart, hand in hand.
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And therefore He is the lover of my soul. We
have received this love. God is love.
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You didn't gain anything, You didn't do anything to get
this love. You can't do anything to keep God from
loving you. Because God is love. He is infinite love.
I've loved you with an everlasting love. Before tide began
God loved you before you were born. God loved you
before he made the mountains and set the stars in
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place and the courses of the planet.
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God loved you.
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We love him because he first loved us and sent
his son to be the propitiation of our sins. He
satisfied the demands of holiness with his righteous love.
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He's the lover of my soul Romans five eight.
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God demonstrated his love toward us, and that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The meaning of
the cross, the message of the cross is propitiation. It
is substitution, It is sacrificed. Because he loved me. He
paid the highest price possible to give me the greatest
gift possible, which is forgiveness and eternal life. Paul said
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in Galatians two twenty his love, he loved me rather
and gave himself for me. Love should be returned as
we respond with loving faith and give him our hearts.
And you know, the more we contemplate his love, the
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more we consider his cross, as we survey the cross
in this wondrous love, the more we love him. And
if you don't love Jesus the way you ought to
love Jesus. If you're not this hour experiencing a passion
and emotional, heartfelt love for the Lord Jesus, I can
tell you exactly what you need to do.
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You need to get a place.
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Alone and get on your knees and once again consider
the cross, and remember what Christ has done for you,
how much He has loved you, how he first loved
you when you were unlovable and even unlikable.
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What we need to do is.
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To get in the presence of God and to let
him love us, and let his love fill our souls,
and that love will flow back in praise and adoration
and loving commitment to him. We never get over his love,
We will never forget the reality of his love.
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Jesus is the.
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Bearer of our sins. Jesus is the breaker of our chains.
Jesus is the lover of our souls, and Jesus is
the maker of our lives. Look at first John four
and verse nine. This is why he came in the
love of God was made manifest. There's the same word again.
He wasn't a phantom. He really came, And this is
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why he came. That God sin is only son into
the world that we may have life that we may
live through him. He said, I've come that you might
have life, and have it more abundantly. Our greatest need
is life. Why because sin brought death, and the wages
of sin is death, spiritual death ultimately the second death,
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eternal separation from God in hell and in judgment forever.
It's not polite to spot talk about death in sophisticated company.
I mean, if you want to clear a room and
a party, just start talking about death. But Jesus came
to take away the fear of death.
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He said in John.
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Eleven, I am the resurrection and the Life, and whoever
lives and believes in me will never die. He came
to give us eternal life. And why we will die
physically if Christ does not come in our lifetimes, we
will live eternally because He has given us life. And
eternal life is in his son, and it begins right now.
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You don't have to wait to heaven. In fact, until
you get.
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To heaven to find out if you have eternal life,
it will be too late that.
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You can know eternal life. Today.
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Jesus said, this is eternal life in John seventeen. And
that is to believe, to know the Father and his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We can have it right now,
and our life transcends death as we are instantaneously transferred
from this old life and these old bodies that are
declining and deteriorating into a brand new life.
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I know that I'm going to heaven, not.
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Because of what I've done, but because He is the
maker of my life. He is the giver of my life,
and that life is eternal. And people are only prepared
to live when they are prepared to die by receiving
Jesus as Lord and life savior in God.
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So Jesus came.
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Jesus is the bearer of my sins, the breaker of
my chaine, the lover of my soul, the maker, the
giver of my life. And finally, he is the savior
of my heart one John four fourteen. And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent his son
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to be the Savior, the savior of the world. Why
a savior, because that was our greatest need.
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To be saved. In fact, if I could just.
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Summarize the Bible in two words, all the message of
the Bible in two words, it would be these two words.
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Jesus saves.
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He said, the son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which is lost. He came to
be our savior, that salvation which means the forgiveness of sin.
That Christ comes to live in us, that we have
a hope in the future in heaven for him is
promised and provided in Christ and Christ alone. That is
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the witness of the scriptures, the testimony of believers. Peter
said it Acts four twelve that there is no other
name given among men by which we can be saved,
must be saved, but the name of Jesus. In Jesus
only are we saved. And he is able to save
all who come to him. I said, He is able
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to save all who come to him, and his salvation
is made possible because of what He has done for
us to everyone. His love and his grace invites everyone.
And I reject totally and completely any idea or any
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theological concept or structure that says Jesus only died for.
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The elect or the select.
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I often ask some of my friends who believe this
kind of of theology. If that is true, what does
the Bible mean In First John two to two when
it says He is the propitiation for our sins, and
not for ours only, but also the sins of the
whole world. Jesus died for all. His blood was poured
out for everyone and anyone. Certainly, we know that God
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is sovereign, that God strategically draws unto himself. We know
that God has by his grace elected unto salvation those
who believe. But we must maintain balance between God's sovereignty
and man's responsibility. And I am confident as I read
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the Bible. According to Save Corinthians five point fifteen, he
died for all. As the scripture says, God is not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance, that whosoever.
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Will may come.
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And as the Old Gospel song says it so well,
whosoever will surely means me. He is the savior of
all who will come to him. And He has brought
you to this place today that you may know him
and love him and follow him. Why because he is
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the bearer of our sins, the breaker of our chains,
the lover of our souls, the maker of our lives,
and the savior of our hands.
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The Father sent the Son to be the savor of
the book.
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Well, our PowerPoint today is really the point of all points.
Jesus came to earth to be our savior and our God,
to be the lord of our lives. And why do
we need a savior? Because we have sinned and broken
God's commandments. We are lost without God and without hope.
We desperately need a savior, and Jesus is our savior.
That's the message of the Bible.
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Now.
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I know it's not really popular today to talk about
people being lost and people sinning. No one seems to
really want to hear that today, But it is a
fact that we have all broken God's commandments, we have
all sinned against God, and we cannot save ourselves. The
Bible tells us. If you could just really reduce the
message of the Bible to two simple words, it would
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be this, Jesus saves. Now listen to that Jesus saves,
because that is the message of the faith. That is
the message of the word of God. The Father sent
the Son to be the savior of the world, and
this salvation is promised and provided in Christ and Christ alone.
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Acts four to twelve puts it this way, and there
is salvation and no one else. For there is no
other name under Heaven given among men by which we
must be saved. Now, this salvation is possible for everyone.
No one is excluded. Jesus didn't die just for people
like you and me. He died for all. Jesus came
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to be the savior of the world. In God's desire
is that no one would perish, that every man, woman,
boy and girl would be saved. God is not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Listen to Romans ten to nine. The scripture says, if
you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God has raised him from
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the dead, you will be saved. So why don't you
confess Christ today, right now where you are. Invite Jesus
into your life by confessing him as your Lord and
savior and asking him to come into your life. Pray
a prayer like this, Lord, Jesus, I do believe. I
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receive you as my Lord and my savior. Forgive me
of all my sin, change my heart in me, and
may I know that I'm going to heaven because of
what you have done for me. Pray and invite Christ
into your life, and I promise you He will hear
your prayer and welcome you into His eternal kingdom. You
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can be saved, you can be forgiven. Christ will live
in you, and you will have an eternal hope in heaven.
And if you're praying that prayer today and receiving Christ
into your life, then I want to tell you that's
the greatest decision you could ever make.
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Graham brings a message about why Jesus came to earth
and what it means for your life today.
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Before tide began, God loved you before you were born.
God loved you before he made.
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The mountains and set the.
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Stars in place and the courses of the planet.
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God loved you.
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Now.
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Here's doctor Graham with his message life according to Jesus.
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I want to invite you to take your Bibles and
turn with me once again to First John chapter four.
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Five times.
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In this letter of First John, the apostle emphasizes that
Jesus literally physically came and for what purpose?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Why did he come? By now, John is an old
man looking back and.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Reflecting upon his experience with Christ, and John was saying,
we could forget.
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We will never forget what Christ has done for us.
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Now, there are many reasons that I believe.
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In Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I believe in Jesus because of the historical evidence. I
believe in Jesus because of the powerful scripture, and yes,
you can trust the Bible. I believe in Jesus because
of personal experience knowing him and trusting him. Building my
faith upon the truth of God's word. But the thrill
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of knowing and loving Jesus never fades for me.
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For God has.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Given us a living and vibrant faith that will last
beyond the critics. And I believe the Bible after studying
it seriously for many years. Now I believe the Bible
more than ever. I believe in Jesus now more than ever.
I am discovering new reasons to believe, not new reasons
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to doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And that is why my love for Christ is growing
day by day.
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I don't want, I don't intend to burn out in
my love to Christ. I intend to burn on in
my love for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Why did Jesus come?
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Well, I want you to see in first John chapter three,
actually in verse five, that Jesus came to be our
sin bear. Look at verse five of first John three,
and we're gonna look at these five times in First John.
When he said Jesus came, and why he came, You
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know that he appeared to take away sins, and in
him there is no sins.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
He appeared and.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
With that implicit within that truth is that he was
not born at Bethlehem, but he came from eternity. He
is the Son of God, the eternal Christ. And as
a result, because he has now made manifest, he has
now appeared. He makes God knowable and visible. So the
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Son of God, God the Father, sent the Son to
bear our sins, that is, to take away our sins.
This is the constant theme of the New Testament. When
John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the world, he said, look,
look at the lamb of God, who takes away the
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sin of the world. That's his introduction to the world.
Before that, the Prince of Prophets, Isaiah spoke of the Savior,
the Messiah, who would come. And in Isaiah fifty three and
verse six, all we like sheep and gone astray.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We, every one of us, had turned into our our
own way.
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But the Lord laid on him all our sins, all
of our iniquities. We're told that in Second Corinthians five
and twenty one, that he who knew no sin became
sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness
of God. Hebrews nine twenty six, that he put away
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sin in himself. That Jesus died for our sins. One Peter,
chapter two and verse twenty four. The scripture tells us
once again that Jesus bore our sins in his own
body at the cross. He took our sins. He is
our sin bearer. But how does Jesus forgive sins?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well?
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Notice in one John three five that the apostle is
very clear and pointing out that Jesus was sin free.
He knew no sin, He never participated in sin. Why
because only a endless man could die for sinful man
and bear our sins. And so when Jesus came, he
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came to the cross. When he entered into the city
of Jerusalem that day, amidst the hailing of the hallelujahs,
he came, presenting himself and preparing himself to die on
the cross. He is the sin bearer. Now do you
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still carry your sin? Or have you allowed the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ to take your sin away?
Because Jesus is our sin bearer. He came to take
away our sins. In him, we have been cleansed changed
covered by his grace. All of our sins are forgiven.
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What does first John tell us, By the blood of
Jesus Christ, he forgives us of all of our sins.
The past really is the past. Our future truly is
secure in Heaven. We live today with peace and purpose
in our hearts. There is joy for the journey. There
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is life every single day. We have been saved from hell,
and we are on our way to Heaven.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
We are right with.
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God because Jesus is our sin bearer, the sinless One
has taken our sins and removed them as far as
the east is from the west. That's why Jesus came.
He came to be our sin bearer. But there's another
reason that Jesus came, not only the bearer of my sins,
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but he came to be the breaker of my chains.
Looking first John three and verse eight, and once again
at the end of the that verse, he tells us.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Why Jesus came.
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The reason the Son of God appeared. Same word, was
to destroy the works of the devil. Now every person,
because of sin, is in the grip of satan. Sin
devastates us in two ways. Not only does it make
us guilty before God and therefore condemned in our sin
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before a holy God, but sin enslaves us in habits
and addictions and lifestyles that not only dishonor God and
defame his name, but destroy our own lives sin in slaves.
And therefore Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil,
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to set us free, not only from the penalty of sin,
but from the very power of sin. Jesus liberates us
for life, from the guilt, from the slave of sin.
And this is something we can never do ourselves, not
by any self improvement method or technique, not by personal
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will power, but by the power of Jesus Christ, we
are set free. The scripture tells us that he reversed
the curse and restored what was.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Lost when mankind sin.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
When Jesus died, he destroyed the power of sin and Satan.
At the cross, Satan did his very best to destroy
Jesus and his mission on earth. In fact, in the
Garden of Eden, when Judas was about to turn Christ
over to the authorities, to the Roman authorities, Jesus said
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in Luke twenty two and verse fifty three, that this
is your hour. And then he spoke of the power
of darkness, the power of darkness that invaded the light
of his truth and of his love.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yet on the cross.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Jesus died, and when he died, he defeated all that
Satan had.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Tried to do, not only to man, but to the
god Man.
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And as a result of his cross, he demolished the
works of the devil. And therefore our hearts can be transformed.
And he sets the pack captive free. He emancipates us.
He gives us power to overcome sinful habits and addictions,
and behavior and lifestyle that.
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Is so destructive.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Jesus called Satan a liar and a murderer, and his
weapon is deception, the lie.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now Jesus is the truth.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And because Christ is the truth, he is destroyed Satan
and exposed his lies and removed the power of sin.
We have freedom in Christ. We've been set free in
Hebrews two, verse fourteen. Since therefore the children share in
flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things,
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that through death he might destroy the one who has
the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver
all of those who, through fear of death, were subject
to lifelong slavery. The fear of death, the final enemy,
terrorizes and enslaves us in fear. But because of what
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Christ is done at the cross and the power of
his resurrection. He has defeated.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Death and the chains that bind us. We are free.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Aren't you ready to be changed and breathe the new life,
the air of new life in Jesus Christ. I've got
good news for you. You can break free, and you
can break through in your life because Jesus not only
has given his life for us, he has given his
life to us, and we are free.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Indeed, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
set you free.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
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According to Jesus, Jesus is the bearer of my sins,
my sin bearer. He is not only my sin bearer,
he is the breaker of my chaine. But not only that,
Jesus is the lover of my soul. That's why he came.
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Look at first John chapter four, in verse ten. In
this is love, not that we have loved God, but
that He loved us and sent his son to be
the propitiation.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
For our sins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What does it mean that this love brought about the
propitiation of our sin. The word propitiation is a word
which means, if I could just simplify it, satisfied, you
see God's holiness, his righteousness based upon the law and
the commandments must be satisfied, must be fulfilled. So how
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can a holy God who cannot even look at sin,
who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? According
to the scripture, how can God, who is holy forgive
sinful man? He did it by propitiation, And that's a
big word, but it simply means that God provided a substitute,
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just as we're taught and condition in the Old Testament
of the substitutionary sacrifices and propitiation and atonement of sins.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
As they brought animals.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Bulls and sheep and the like for a sacrifice, there
came to this earth the ultimate sacrifice, the Lord Jesus himself.
That God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.
And because of this propitiation, now God and man can
walk together, heart to heart, hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And therefore He is the lover of my soul. We
have received this love. God is love.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You didn't gain anything, You didn't do anything to get
this love. You can't do anything to keep God from
loving you. Because God is love. He is infinite love.
I've loved you with an everlasting love. Before tide began
God loved you before you were born. God loved you
before he made the mountains and set the stars in
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place and the courses of the planet.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
God loved you.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We love him because he first loved us and sent
his son to be the propitiation of our sins. He
satisfied the demands of holiness with his righteous love.
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He's the lover of my soul Romans five eight.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
God demonstrated his love toward us, and that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The meaning of
the cross, the message of the cross is propitiation. It
is substitution, It is sacrificed. Because he loved me. He
paid the highest price possible to give me the greatest
gift possible, which is forgiveness and eternal life. Paul said
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in Galatians two twenty his love, he loved me rather
and gave himself for me. Love should be returned as
we respond with loving faith and give him our hearts.
And you know, the more we contemplate his love, the
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more we consider his cross, as we survey the cross
in this wondrous love, the more we love him. And
if you don't love Jesus the way you ought to
love Jesus. If you're not this hour experiencing a passion
and emotional, heartfelt love for the Lord Jesus, I can
tell you exactly what you need to do.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You need to get a place.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Alone and get on your knees and once again consider
the cross, and remember what Christ has done for you,
how much He has loved you, how he first loved
you when you were unlovable and even unlikable.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What we need to do is.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
To get in the presence of God and to let
him love us, and let his love fill our souls,
and that love will flow back in praise and adoration
and loving commitment to him. We never get over his love,
We will never forget the reality of his love.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Jesus is the.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Bearer of our sins. Jesus is the breaker of our chains.
Jesus is the lover of our souls, and Jesus is
the maker of our lives. Look at first John four
and verse nine. This is why he came in the
love of God was made manifest. There's the same word again.
He wasn't a phantom. He really came, And this is
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why he came. That God sin is only son into
the world that we may have life that we may
live through him. He said, I've come that you might
have life, and have it more abundantly. Our greatest need
is life. Why because sin brought death, and the wages
of sin is death, spiritual death ultimately the second death,
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eternal separation from God in hell and in judgment forever.
It's not polite to spot talk about death in sophisticated company.
I mean, if you want to clear a room and
a party, just start talking about death. But Jesus came
to take away the fear of death.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
He said in John.
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Eleven, I am the resurrection and the Life, and whoever
lives and believes in me will never die. He came
to give us eternal life. And why we will die
physically if Christ does not come in our lifetimes, we
will live eternally because He has given us life. And
eternal life is in his son, and it begins right now.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You don't have to wait to heaven. In fact, until
you get.
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To heaven to find out if you have eternal life,
it will be too late that.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You can know eternal life. Today.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Jesus said, this is eternal life in John seventeen. And
that is to believe, to know the Father and his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We can have it right now,
and our life transcends death as we are instantaneously transferred
from this old life and these old bodies that are
declining and deteriorating into a brand new life.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I know that I'm going to heaven, not.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Because of what I've done, but because He is the
maker of my life. He is the giver of my life,
and that life is eternal. And people are only prepared
to live when they are prepared to die by receiving
Jesus as Lord and life savior in God.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So Jesus came.
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Jesus is the bearer of my sins, the breaker of
my chaine, the lover of my soul, the maker, the
giver of my life. And finally, he is the savior
of my heart one John four fourteen. And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent his son
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to be the Savior, the savior of the world. Why
a savior, because that was our greatest need.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
To be saved. In fact, if I could just.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Summarize the Bible in two words, all the message of
the Bible in two words, it would be these two words.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Jesus saves.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He said, the son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which is lost. He came to
be our savior, that salvation which means the forgiveness of sin.
That Christ comes to live in us, that we have
a hope in the future in heaven for him is
promised and provided in Christ and Christ alone. That is
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the witness of the scriptures, the testimony of believers. Peter
said it Acts four twelve that there is no other
name given among men by which we can be saved,
must be saved, but the name of Jesus. In Jesus
only are we saved. And he is able to save
all who come to him. I said, He is able
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to save all who come to him, and his salvation
is made possible because of what He has done for
us to everyone. His love and his grace invites everyone.
And I reject totally and completely any idea or any
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theological concept or structure that says Jesus only died for.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
The elect or the select.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I often ask some of my friends who believe this
kind of of theology. If that is true, what does
the Bible mean In First John two to two when
it says He is the propitiation for our sins, and
not for ours only, but also the sins of the
whole world. Jesus died for all. His blood was poured
out for everyone and anyone. Certainly, we know that God
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is sovereign, that God strategically draws unto himself. We know
that God has by his grace elected unto salvation those
who believe. But we must maintain balance between God's sovereignty
and man's responsibility. And I am confident as I read
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the Bible. According to Save Corinthians five point fifteen, he
died for all. As the scripture says, God is not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance, that whosoever.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Will may come.
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And as the Old Gospel song says it so well,
whosoever will surely means me. He is the savior of
all who will come to him. And He has brought
you to this place today that you may know him
and love him and follow him. Why because he is
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the bearer of our sins, the breaker of our chains,
the lover of our souls, the maker of our lives,
and the savior of our hands.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The Father sent the Son to be the savor of
the book.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
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Well, our PowerPoint today is really the point of all points.
Jesus came to earth to be our savior and our God,
to be the lord of our lives. And why do
we need a savior? Because we have sinned and broken
God's commandments. We are lost without God and without hope.
We desperately need a savior, and Jesus is our savior.
That's the message of the Bible.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Now.
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I know it's not really popular today to talk about
people being lost and people sinning. No one seems to
really want to hear that today, But it is a
fact that we have all broken God's commandments, we have
all sinned against God, and we cannot save ourselves. The
Bible tells us. If you could just really reduce the
message of the Bible to two simple words, it would
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be this, Jesus saves. Now listen to that Jesus saves,
because that is the message of the faith. That is
the message of the word of God. The Father sent
the Son to be the savior of the world, and
this salvation is promised and provided in Christ and Christ alone.
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Acts four to twelve puts it this way, and there
is salvation and no one else. For there is no
other name under Heaven given among men by which we
must be saved. Now, this salvation is possible for everyone.
No one is excluded. Jesus didn't die just for people
like you and me. He died for all. Jesus came
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to be the savior of the world. In God's desire
is that no one would perish, that every man, woman,
boy and girl would be saved. God is not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Listen to Romans ten to nine. The scripture says, if
you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God has raised him from
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the dead, you will be saved. So why don't you
confess Christ today, right now where you are. Invite Jesus
into your life by confessing him as your Lord and
savior and asking him to come into your life. Pray
a prayer like this, Lord, Jesus, I do believe. I
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receive you as my Lord and my savior. Forgive me
of all my sin, change my heart in me, and
may I know that I'm going to heaven because of
what you have done for me. Pray and invite Christ
into your life, and I promise you He will hear
your prayer and welcome you into His eternal kingdom. You
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can be saved, you can be forgiven. Christ will live
in you, and you will have an eternal hope in heaven.
And if you're praying that prayer today and receiving Christ
into your life, then I want to tell you that's
the greatest decision you could ever make.
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