October 18, 2025 • 53 mins
Today's episode of Sunday Service by Pray.com features Ray Comfort
Ray shares a compelling teaching on why 80–90% of “decisions for Christ” don’t stick—and what we can do about it. Discover the almost-forgotten principle used by Spurgeon, Wesley, and Whitfield (illustrated with the memorable “parachute on the plane” story) that turns shallow commitments into lasting conversions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fight the good fight of faith, Lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before my witnesses Verse Timothy six twelve. My Father
and my God, Please help me to renew my spirit
and keep my eyes fixed on you to day. Please
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help me to fight against any adversity and opposition so
that I can remain confident in You. I will undoubtedly
face many obstacles and lose my focus. Please help divert
my attention back to You when these circumstances arise. Fill
my mind and body with your power so that I
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can fight against any negative feelings that try to deter
me away from You. Allow my words to speak your
truth despite the situations unfolding around me, so that I
may walk in victorious peace. Amen. Thank you for listening
to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you know that up to eighty to ninety percent
of those making a decision to follow Christ will fall
away from the faith?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yes, It's true. Did you know that Jesus used a
principle to reach the lost that was also used by
the Apostle Paul and Stephen and Timothy, also Charles Spurgeon,
John Wesley, George Whitfield, and other great preachers of the past,
that has been almost entirely forgotten about by the church today.
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Don't let anything stop you from listening to this incredible teaching.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Me. As I beget to travel, I had access to
chuld growth records and found to my horror that something
like eighty to ninety percent of those making a decision
for Christ or falling away from the faith that is,
modern evangelism, with its methods, was creating something like eighty
to ninety of what we commonly call backsliders for every
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hundred decisions for Christ. Let me make it more real
for you. In nineteen ninety one, in the first year
of the Decade of Harvest, a major denomination in the
US was able to obtain two hundred and ninety four
thousand decisions for Christ. That is, in one year, this
major denomination of eleven and a half thousand churches was
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able to obtain two hundred and ninety four thousand decisions
for Christ. Unfortunately, they can only find fourteen thousand fellowship
which means they couldn't account for two hundred and eighty
thousand of their decisions. And this is normal modern results
and something I discovered way back in the seventies or
late seventies who greatly concerned me. I began to study
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the Book of Romans intently and specifically the Gospel proclamation
of men like Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney Whitfield, Luther, others
that God used down through the ages, and I found
they used a principle which is almost entirely neglected by
modern methods. I began teaching that principle. Was eventually invited
to base our ministry in southern California, the city of
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Bellflower in California, specifically to bring this teaching to the
Church of the US. Things were quiet for the first
three years until I received a call from Bill Garthard,
who had seen the teaching on video, and he flew
me to San Jose and northern California. I shared it
with a thousand pastors. In nineteen ninety two, he screened
that video to thirty thousand pastors. The same year, David
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Wilkinson called from New York called from his car. He
had been listening to the teaching in his car, called
me on his car phone and immediately flew me three
thousand miles from Alley to New York to share the
one hour teaching with his church. He considered it to
be that important, and recently I heard of a pastor
who had listened to the audio tape two hundred and
fifty times. I'd be happy if you'd listened just once
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to this teaching, which is called Hell's best kept secret.
The Bible says in Psalm nineteen, verse seven, the law
of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. What is
it that the Bible says is perfect and actually converts
the soul? Why? Scripture makes it very clear the law
of the Lord is perfect converting the soul, and it'll
illustrate the function of God's law. Let's just look for
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a moment at civil law. Imagine if I said to you,
I've got some good news for you. Someone has just
paid a twenty five thousand dollars speeding fine on your behalf.
You'd probably react by saying, what are you talking about.
That's not good news. It doesn't make sense. I don't
have a twenty five thousand dollars speeding fine. My good
news wouldn't be good news to you. It seemed foolishness.
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But more than that, it would be offensive to you
because I'm insinuating you've broken the law when you don't
think you have. However, if I put it this way,
it may make more sense. On our way to this meeting,
the law clocked you at going fifty five miles an
hour through an area set aside for a blind children's convention.
There were ten clear warning signs stating that fifteen miles
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now was the maximum speed, but you went straight through
at fifty five miles an hour. What you did was
extremely dangerous. Is a twenty five thousand dollars fine. The
law was about a ticket's course. When someone you don't
even know stepped in and paid the fine for you,
you are very fortunate. Can you see that telling you
precisely what you've done wrong first actually makes the good
news make sense. If I don't clearly bring instruction and
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understanding your violated the law, then the good news will
seem foolishness, it will seem offensive. But once you understand
that you've broken the law, then that good news will
become good news. Indeed, now in the same way, if
I approach an impenitent sinner and say Jesus Christ died
on the cross for your sins, it'll be foolishness to
him and offensive to him, foolishness because it won't make sense.
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The Bible says that the preaching of the cross is
to them that perish, foolishness and offensive because I'm insinuating
he's a sinner when he doesn't think he is. As
far as he is concerned, there are a lot of
people far worse than him. But if I take the
time to follow on the footsteps of Jesus, that may
make more sense. If I take the time to open
up the Divine Law, the Ten Commandments, and show the
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sinner precisely what he's done wrong, that he has offended
God by violating his law, then when he becomes, as
James says, convinced of the law as a transgressor, the
good news of the find being paid for will not
be foolishness, It will not be offensive. It will be
the power of God under salvation. Now, with those few
thoughts in mind, by way of reduction, let's now look
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at Romans free verse nineteen. We'll look at some of
the functions of God's law for humanity Romans free, verse nineteen.
Now we know the wats of the things the law says.
It says to them who are under the law, that
every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God. So one function of God's law
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is to up the mouth, to stop sinners justifying themselves
and saying, there's plenty people worse than me. I'm not
a bad person. Really. Now the law stops the mouth
of justification and leaves the whole world, not just the Jews,
but the whole world guilty before God. Romans three, verse twenty. Therefore,
by the deeds of the law, there should no flesh
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be justified in his sight. For by the law is
the knowledge of sin. So God's law tells us what
sin is. One John three four says sin is transgression
of the law. Romans seven, verse seven. What shall we
say in, says Paul, is the law sin God forbid? No,
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I had not known sin, But by the law, Paul says,
I didn't know what sin was until the Lord told me.
In Galatians three twenty four. Wherefore, the Law was our
schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Though we might be
justified by faith. God's law acts as the schoolmaster to
bring us to Jesus Christ that we might be justified
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through faith in his blood. The law doesn't help us,
It just leaves us helpless. It doesn't justify us, It
just leaves us guilty before the judgment bar of a
holy God. And the tragedy of modern evangelism is because
around the turn of the century, when it forsook the
law in its capacity to convert the soul to drive
sinners to Christ, modern evangelism had to therefore find another
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reason for sinners to respond to the Gospel, and the
issue that modern evangelism chose to attract sinners was the
issue of life enhancement. The Gospel degenerated into Jesus Christ
will give you peace, joy, love, fulfillment, and lasting happiness. Now,
to illustrate the unscriptural nature of this very popular teaching,
I would like you to listen very carefully to this
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following anecdote, because the essence of what I'm saying pivots
on this particular illustration. So please listen carefully. Two men
are seated in a plane. The first is given a
parachute and told to put it on as it would
improve his flight. He's a little skeptical at first, as
he can't see how ring a parachute a plane could
possibly improve a flight. After time, he decides to experiment
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and see if the claim is true. As he puts
it on, he notices the weight of it upon his shoulders,
and he finds his ears difficulty in sitting upright. However,
he consoles himself with the fact he was told the
parachute would improve the flight, so he decides to give
the thing a little time. As he waits, he notices
that some of the other passengers are laughing at him
because he's wearing a parachute and a plane. He begins
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to feel somewhat humiliated. As they begin to point and
laugh on him, he can stand it no longer. He
SLINKs in his seat, unstraps the parachute, and throws it
to the floor. Disillusionment and bitterness fill his heart because,
as far as he was concerned, he was told an
outright lie. The second man has given a parachute, but
listen to what he's told. He's told to put it
on because at any moment he be jumping twenty five
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thousand feet out of the plane. He gratefully puts the
parachute on. He doesn't notice the weight of it upon
his shoulders, nor that he can't sit upright. His mind
is consumed with a thought of what would happened to
him if he jump without that parachute. Let's analyze the
motive and the result of each passenger's experience. The first
man's motive for putting the parachute on was solely to
improve his flight. The result of his experience was that
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he was humiliated by the passengers. He was disillusioned and
somewhat embittered against those who gave him the parachute. As
far as he's concerned, it'll be a long time before
anyone gets one of those things on his back again.
The second man put the parachute on solely to escape
the jump to come, and because of his knowledge of
what would happen to without it, he has a deep
rooted joy and peace in his heart, knowing that he
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say from sure death. This knowledge gives them the ability
to withstand the mockery of the other passengers, as the
attitude or those who gave him the parachute is one
of heartfelt gratitude. Now listen to what the modern Gospel says.
It says, put on the Lord Jesus Christ. He'll give
you love, joy, peace for film and lasting happiness. In
other words, Jesus will improve your flight. So the sinner
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responds and in an experimental fashion, puts on the savor
to see the claims are truth. And what does he get?
The promise? Temptation, tribulation and persecution. The other passengers mack him.
So what does he do? He takes off the Lord
Jesus Christ. He's offended for the word sake, He's disillusioned
and somewhat embittered, And quite rightly so, he was promised peace, joy,
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love for fillment and lasting happiness. And all he got
the trials and humiliation, as bitterness as director to those
who gave him the so called good news. As latter
in becomes worse than the first. Another inoculated and bitter
backslider saints. Instead of preaching that Jesus improves the flight,
we should be warning the passengers they're going to have
to jump out of the plane that disappointed a man
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once to die and after this the judgment and when
a sinner understands the horrific consequences of breaking God's law,
then he will flee to the Savior solely to escape
the wrath that's to come. And if we're true and
faithful witnesses, that's what will be preaching that there is
wrath to come, that God commands all men everywhere to repent.
Why because He has appointed a day in which you'll
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judge the world in righteousness. You see, the issue isn't
one of happiness, but one of righteousness. Doesn't matter how
happy a sinner is, how much he's enjoying the pleasures
of sin for a season. Without the righteousness of Christ,
he'll perish in the day of wrath. Richest profit not
on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. Peace,
enjoy are legitimate fruits of salvation. But it's not legitimate
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to use these fruits as to draw cord for salvation.
If we continue to do so, sinners respond with an
impure motive lacking repentance. Now, can you remember why the
second passenger had joy in peace and his heart was
because he knew that parachute was gonna save him from
sure death. And as a believer, I have, as Paul says,
joy and peace in believing because I know that the
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righteousness of Christ is going to deliver me from the
wrath that's to come. Now that thought of mine, Let's
take a close look at an incident on board the plane.
We have a brand new stuartess. She's carrying a tray
of boiling hot coffee. It's her first day. She wants
to leave an impression on the passengers, and she certainly
does because as she's walking down the aisle, she trips
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over someone's foot and slops that boiling hot coffee all
over the lap of our second passenger. Now, what's his
reactions that boiling liquid hits his tender flesh? Does he go, man,
that hurt? Mm hmm? He feels the pain. But then
does he rip the parachute from his shoulders, throw it
to the floor and say the stupid parachute? No, why
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should he? He didn't put the parachute on for better flight.
He put it on to save him from the jump
to come. If anything, the hot coffee incident causes him
to cling tighter to the parachute and even look forward
to the jump. Now, if you and I have put
on the Lord Jesus Christ for the right motive to
flee from the rath is to come when tribulation strikes,
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when the flight gets bumpy, we won't get angry at God.
We won't lose our joy and peace. Why should we.
We didn't come to Jesus for a happy lifestyle. We
came to flee from the rat Come and if anything,
tribulation drives the true believer closer to the Savior. And sadly,
we have literally multitudes of professing Christians who lose their
joy and peace when the flight gives bumpy. Why the
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other product of a man scentered gospel, they came lacking repentance,
without which you cannot be saved. I was in Australia
recently ministering. Australia is a small island off the coast
of New Zealand. I preached sin, law, righteousness, holiness, judgment,
repentance and hell and I wasn't exactly crushed by the
amount of people wanting to give their hearts to Jesus.
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In fact, the air went very tense after the meeting.
The said is a young guy down the back who
wants to give his life to Christ. I went down
the back and found a teenage lad who could not
pray the sinner's prayer because he was weeping so profusely.
Now for me it was so refreshing, because for many
years I suffered from the disease of evangelical frustration. I
so wanted sinners to respond to the Gospel. I unwittingly
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preached a man centered message, the essence of which was this,
You'll never find true peace without Jesus Christ. You've a
god checked back him in your heart that only God
can fill. I'd preach Christ crucified. I'd preach repentance. A
sinner would respond to the altar. I'd open an eye
and say, oh no, this guy wants to give his
heart to Jesus, and there's an eighty percent chance he's
gonna backslide. And I am tired of creating backsliders. So
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I better make sure this guy really means it. He
bitter be sincere, soard approach the poor guy in a
gestapo spirit. I'll walk up and say, and what do
you find? I'm here to become a Christian. I'd say,
do you mean it? He say, yes, do you really
mean it? It's a here. I reckon say, okay, I'll
pray with you, but you bitter mean it from your heart?
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He says, Okay, okay, you repeat this prayer sincerely after
me and mean it from your heart's and silly, and
really mean it from your hearts and silly, and make
sure you mean it. Oh God, I'm a sinner, he say,
Oh God, I'm a sinner. And I'd say, man, why
isn't there a visible sign of contrition? There's no outw evidence.
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The guy is inwardly sorry for his sins. And if
I could have seen his motive, I would have seen
he was one hundred percent sincere. He really did mean
his decision with all his heart. He sincerely want to
give this Jesus thing of God to see if he
get a buzz out of it. He had tried six drugs, materism, alcohol,
Why not give us Christian bittergoat? He said, was as
good as all these Christians say. This peace, joy, love, fulfillment,
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lasting happiness. He wasn't fleeing from the wrath that was
to come, because I hadn't told him there was wrath
to come. There was this clearing omission from my message.
He wasn't broken in contrition because the poor guy didn't
know what sin was. Remember Romans seven, verse seven. Paul said,
I had not known sin, but by the law. How
can a man repent if he doesn't know what sin is?
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Any soul called repentance will be merely what I call
horizontal repentance. He's coming because he's led to men, he's
stolen from men. But when David sinned with Bathsheba and
broke all ten of the ten commandments, when he coveted
his neighbor's wife, lived a lie, he stole his neighbor's wife,
committed adultery, committed murder, dishonored his parents, and thus dishonored God.
He didn't say I've sinned against man. He said against you,
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and you only have I sin and done this evil
in your sight. When Joseph was tempted sexually, he said,
how can I do this thing and sin against God?
The prodigal son said, I have sinned against Heaven. Paul
preach repentance towards God, and the Bible says godly sorrow
works repentance. And when a man doesn't understand that his
sin is primarily vertical, he'll merely come and exercise superficial,
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experimental and horizontal repentance and fall away. When tribulation, temptation,
and persecution come, aby Earl said, I have found by
long experience that the severest threatenings of the law of
God have a prominent place in leading men to Christ,
and must see themselves lost before they will cry for mercy.
They'll not escape danger until they see it. I like
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to do something a little unusual. I'll not embarrass you.
I give you my word, but I would like to
ask how many of you were thinking of something else
when I was reading that quote from ab Earl. Now
I want to admit something to you. I was thinking
of something else when I was reading that quote from
ab Earl. I was thinking, nobody's listening to me. They're
thinking of something else. So to make a very important point,
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I'd like to be really honest. If you were thinking
of something else and you even got a clue what
ab Earl said, could you raise your hand up nice
and high, up, nice and high. It's usually half to
two thirds, and I've got that here tonight. Let's try again.
God bless your pastor for your honesty. Ab Earl was
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a famous evangelist of the last century who had one
hundred and fifty thousand converts to substantiate his claims. Satan
doesn't want you to get a grip of this, So
listen very closely. Aby Earl said, I have found my
long experience that's the true test that the severest threatenings
of the law of God have a prominent place in
leading men to Christ. They must see themselves lost before
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they will cry for mercy. They'll not escape danger until
they see it. You see, you try and save a
man from drowning. When a man doesn't believe he's drowning,
he'll not be too happy with you. You see him
swimming out in a lake. You think I think he's drowning. Yes,
I believe he is. You dive in pull him to
the shore without telling him anything. He's not going to
be very happy with you. He won't want to get
saved until he sees he's in danger. They'll not escape
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danger until they see it. You see. If you came
to me and says, hey, ray, and I said to you,
you said, this is a cure to grownans's disease. I
sold my house to raise the money to get this cure.
I'm giving it to you as a free gift. I'd
probably react something like this, what cure to what grownans' disease.
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You sold your house to raise the money to get
this cure. You're giving him as a free gift. Why,
thanks a lot by guys A nut. I mean, that's
probably how i'd react if you sold your house to
raise the money to get a cure for a disease
I never heard of, and you're giving it to me
as a free gift. I think you're rather strange. But
instead of you came to me and said, ray, you've
got grown ins' disease. I can see ten clear symptoms
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on your flesh. You're going to be dead in two weeks.
And I became convinced I had the disease. The symptoms
are so evident, and said, oh, what should I do?
And then you said, don't worry. This is a cure
to grown in this disease. So my house to raise
them undergether this cure given to you as a free gift.
I'm not going to despise your sacrifice. I'm going to
appreciate it and I'm going to appropriate it. Why because
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I've seen the disease that I might appreciate the cure
And saidie, what's happened in the US and the Western
world has followed, is that we have preached the cure
without first convincing of the disease. Well, you have preached
a gospel of grace without first convincing men of the
law that transgresses. And consequently, almost everyone I try and
witness to in southern California, all around the Bible belt has
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been born again six or seven times. So you need
to give your life to Jesus Christ. I did that
when I was seven eleven, seventeen, twenty three, twenty five, twenty eight,
thirty two. You know, the guy is not a Christian.
He's a faunicator, he's a blasphemer. But he thinks he's
say because he's been born again, what's happening. He's using
the grace of our God for an occasion of the flesh.
He doesn't esteem the sacrifice. For him, it's not a
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bad thing to trample the blood of Christ underfoot. Why
because he's never been convinced of the disease that he
might appreciate the cure. Biblical of anelism is always without exception,
Law to the proud and grace to the humble. Never
will you see Jesus giving the gospel the good news
the cross, the grace of our God to a proud, arrogant,
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self righteous person. No. No, with the law he breaks
the hard heart, and with the Gospel he heals the
broken heart. Why because he always did those things that
please the Father. God resists a proud and gives grace
to the humble. Everyone who is proud of heart. Scripture says,
is an abomination to the Lord. Jesus told us whom
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the Gospel is for. He said, the spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he has annoyed me to
preach the Gospel to the poor, the broken hearted, the captives,
and the blind. Now they are spiritual statements. The poor
and spirit the broken hearted are the contracte once. The
captives are those of whom Satan has taken captive to
do his will. And the blind are those of whom
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the God of this world is blinded. At least the
light of the Gospel should shine of them. Only the
sick need of physician, and only those who are convinced
of the disease will appreciate an appropriated cure. So we're
gonna now very briefly look at examples of Lord of
the proud and grace to the humble. Luke ten twenty four.
Luke ten twenty four. And when I give you a
reference from the pulpit, I'll give it twice because I
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know that men are present and men need to be
told things twice. Men need to be told things twice.
This can be backed up biblically. When God speaks to
men in the Bible, he uses the name twice Abraham, Abraham, Saul, Saul, Moses, Moses, Samuel, Samuel,
because men need to be told things twice, women once.
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I don't know how many times I've sat in a pew,
preacher said I Luke ten twenty five. I turn to
my wife and say, what do you say? She's a
Sluke ten twenty five. I said, thank you, dear, help mate.
That's why God created women, because men could not handle
it on their own. The whole thing is men lose things,
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women find things. Where's the keys? Love hanging on your nose? Dear?
I mean, I don't know how he ties home in
a cabin. There's no honey here, Honey, she says, here
is here, dear? Where would man be without woman? Still
in the garden of Eden, Eve found the tree. Adam
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didn't really know what was going on. In fact, if
you look at the creation of woman. To create woman,
the Bible says God put man into a deep sleep,
and scripture doesn't say if it came out of it.
In Luke ten twenty five, we see a certain lawyer
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stood up and tempted Jesus. This is not an attorney,
but a professing expert in God's law stood up and
he said to Jesus, how can I get ever lasting life? Now?
What did Jesus do? He gave him law? Why? Because
he was proud, arrogant, self righteous. Here we have a
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professing expert in God's law tempting the son of God.
The spirit of his question was, and what do you
think We've got to do to get ever lasting life?
Said Jesus gave him law. He says, what is written
in the law. What is your reading of it? And
he says, ah, you shall love the Lord, your gobbled,
your heart, mind's soul, and strength, love your neighbors, yourself.
And Jesus said this do and you shall live. Minuscriture says,
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but he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, who's
my neighbor. The Living Bible brings that more clearly the
effect of the law and the man, and said. The
man wanted to justify his lack of love for some
kinds of people, so he asked which neighbors. See, he
didn't mind Jews, but he didn't like Samaritans. So Jesus
then told him the story of what we call the
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good Samaritan, who was not good at all, and loving
his neighbor as much as he loved himself. He merely
obeyed the basic requirements of God's law, and the effect
of the essence of the law, the spirituality of the law,
of what the law demands in truth, was that that
man's mouth was stopped. See he didn't love his neighbor
to that degree. The law was given to stop every
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mouth and leave the whole world guilty before God. Similarly,
in Luke eighteen, verse eighteen, the rich young ruler came
to Jesus said, how can a get everlasting life? I mean,
how would most of us react if someone come up
and said, how can I get everlasting life? We'd say, oh,
quickly say this prayer before you change your mind. But
what did Jesus do with this potential convert He pointed
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him to the law. He gave him five horizontal commandments,
commandments to do with his fellow men. And when he said, Ah,
have kept those from our youth, Jesus said, one thing
you lack, and he used the essence of the first
of the ten commandments. I am the Lord your God.
You shall have no other gods before me, to show
this man that his God was his money, and you
cannot serve God and mammon, Lord of the proud. Then
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we see grace being given to the humble in the
case of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a leader of the Jews.
He was a teacher in Israel. Therefore he was thoroughly
versed in God's law. He was humble of heart because
he came to Jesus and acknowledged the deity of the
son of God, a leader in Israel. We know that
you've come from God. For no man can do these
miracles that you do unless God is with him. So
Jesus gave the sincere seeker of truth, through had a
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humble heart and a knowledge of send via the law,
the good news of the fine being paid for him.
For God's soul loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son and it was not foolishness to Nicodemus,
but the power of God to salvation. Similarly, a case
of Nathaniel. Nathaniel was an Israel brought up under the law,
indeed not just in word, in whom there was no guile,
There was no deceitnous heart. Obviously, the Law was a
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schoolmaster to bring this godly Jew to Christ. Similar were
the Jews on the Pentecost. They were devout Jews, godly Jews.
Therefore ate drank and slept God's law. Matthew Henry, the
Bible commentator, said, the reason they were gathered together on
the dad Pentecost was to celebrate the giving of God's
Law and Mount Sinai. So when Peter stood up to
preach to these godly Jews, he didn't preach wrath. Now
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the law works wrath. They knew that. He didn't preach
righteousness or judgment. No, no, he just told them the
good news of the fine being paid for them. And
they were pricked in their heart and cried, men and brethren,
what should we do? The Law was a schoolmaster to
bring them to Christ. They might be justified through faith
in His blood. As the hymn writer said, by God's would,
at last my sin I learned. Then I trembled at
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the law I'd spurned, till my guilty soul, imploring turned
to Calvary. First Timothy. Chapter one, verse eight says, but
we know that the law is good if it is
used lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed.
God's law is good if it's used lawfully for the
purpose for what it was designed. What was the law
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designed for? Following verse tells us the law was not
made for a righteous man, but for sinners, and even
lests of sinners homosexuals fornicatus. If you want to bring
a homosexual to Christ, don't get into an argument with
him over his perversion. He's ready for you with boxing
gloves on. No, no, give him the Ten Commandments. The
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law was made for homosexuals. Show him that he is
damned despite his perversion. If you want to bring a
Judah Christ, lay the way of the law upon him.
Let it prepare his heart for grace has happened on
the day of pencast. You want to bring a mauslem
to Christ, give them the law of Moses. They accept
Moses as a prophet, we'll give them the law of
Moses and strip them of the self righteousness and bring
them to the foot of a bloodstained cross. I heard
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of a mauslem reading a book, How's best kept secret?
And God soundly saved them purely for reading of the book.
Why because the law of the Lord is perfect converting
the soul. Think of the woman caught in the act
of adultery, violation of the seventh Commandment. The law called
for her blood. She found herself between a rock and
a hard place. She had no avenue but to fling
herself at the feet of the Son of God for mercy.
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And that is the function of God's law. Paul spoke
of being shut up under the law it condemns. You say, oh,
you can't condemn sinners, since they are already condemned John three,
verse seventeen. He that believes not is condemned already. All
the law does is show him himself in his true state.
Your table needs dusting in your living room, so you
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dust it clean. All the dust is gone. Then you
draw back the curtains and let in the early morning sunlight.
What do you see on the table dust? What do
you see in the air dust? Did the light create
the dust? The light merely exposed the dust. And when
you and I take the time to draw back the
curtains of the Holy of Holies and the light of
God's Law shine upon the sinner's heart, all that happens
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is that he sees himself in truth. The commandment is
a lamp and the Law is light. That's why Paul said,
by the Law is the knowledge of sin. That's why
he said by the commandment sin became exceedingly sinful. In
other words, the Law showed him thin in its true light. Now, normally,
at this stage of the teaching, I guess for the
ten commments one by one. But what I'll do is
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share with you how I witness personally, because I think
it would have been more beneficial. Now. I'm a strong
believer in following the footsteps of Jesus. Never ever would
I approach someone and say Jesus loves you, totally unbiblical.
There's no precedent for that in scripture. Neither would I
go up to someone and say, I'd like to talk
to you about Jesus Christ. Why because if I want
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to waken you from a deep sleep, I wouldn't use
a flashlight in your eyes. That would offend you, I'd
turn on and like to him very gently, First the natural,
then the spiritual. Why because the natural man receives not
the things of the spirit of God, neither can he
know them. A foolishness to him, because they spiritually understood
the president in scripture is given in John fourth. For
personal witness, we can see Jesus example with the woman
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at the well. He started in the natural realm, swung
to the spiritual, bought conviction using the seventh Commandment, and
then revealed himself as the Messiah. When I meet someone,
I'll talk about the weather, I talk about sport, let
them feel a little bit of sanity, get to know them,
maybe joke here and there, and then deliberately swing from
the natural to the spiritual. Now, the way I do
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this is that I use gospel tracks. We're a ministry
to the body of Christ. I printed millions and millions
of tracks, and our tracks are unusual. If you get
hold of them, what you'll have to do is have
a stack on you, because people chase you and ask
for more. Let me give you an example. This is
our optical illusion track, which looks bigger if you can
see does the pink look bigger. You see that for
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those listening by tape that the same size. It's an
optical illusion. I say, it's actually a gospel track. Instructions
are on the back how to get saved at say
say you can keep that. He say, hey, thanks a lot.
This is me. Got another gift for you. Out of
my pocket. I get a pressed penny with the Ten
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Commandments are we have a machine that does this. We
buy the pennies new from the bank, nice golden looking pennies,
and we feed them into this machine and it presses them.
We'll do your thumbnail if you want to hold still,
but oppresses some of the Ten Commandments. It's legal to
do this. This is considered artists not defacing a penny.
So I say, here's a gift. He says, well, what
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is it as that's a penny with the ten commandments?
Aren't did it with my teeth? Do the eyes with
my eye? Teeth? But the ease are really difficult. Now.
What I'm doing is I am putting out a feeler
to see if he's open to spiritual things. If he
says ten commandments, thanks a lot, is not open. But
the usual reaction is ten commandents. Hey, thanks, appreciate this.
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I said, Ah, you think you've kept the ten commandment?
Says noyeh, pretty much. He said, let's go through them.
You ever told a lie? He zah, yeah, yeah, I
wanted to. So what does that make you? He is
a sinner? I said no, no, specifically, what does it
make you? He said? Well, man, I'm not a liar?
So I say, how many lies? Then? Do you have
to tell to be a liar? Ten? And a bell
rings and pull across your forehead? Is that sure? You
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tell one liar makes you a liar? He says, yeah,
I guess you're right. So have you ever stolen something?
He says no, Say come on, you've just admitted to
me you're a liar. Has he ever stolen something? You have?
It small? He says, year. So what does that make you?
Says a thief? So Jesus said, if you look at
a woman and last after he commit adultery with her
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in your heart? Ever done that? He says, yeah, plenty
of times. He said, from your own admission, you're a lying, thieving,
adulter at heart, and you have to face God on
judgment day. And women, he looked at three of the
ten commandments. There's another seven with your cannonet's pointed edge.
Ever used God's name in vain? Yeah, I've been trying
to stop. You know what you're doing. Instead of using
a folly of filth word beginning with S to express disgust,
you're using God's name in its place. That's called blasphemy.
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And the Bible says, every idle word a man speaks,
you've given account the rat on the day of judgment.
The law will not hold him guiltless who takes his
name in vain. Bible says, if you hate someone, you
are a murderer. And a wonderful thing about God's law
is a God has taken the time to write it
upon our heart Romans two, verse fifteen, which show the
work of the law written in their hearts. The conscience
bearing witness. Now conscience means with knowledge, connors with science
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is knowledge conscience. So when he lies, LUs fornicates, blasphemes,
commits adultery, he does it with knowledge that it's wrong.
God has given light to every man. The Holy Spirit
convicts him of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Sin which is
transgression of the law, righteousness which is of the law.
Judgment which is by the law. His conscience accuses him,
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the work of the law written on his heart, and
the law condemns him. So I say, so, if God
judges you by this standard on the day of judgment,
you're going to be innocent guilty. He says guilty. I say, well,
do you think you're go to heaven or hell? And
the usual answer is heaven, product of the modern gospel.
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I say, why do you feel like that is because
you think God is good and you'll overlook your sins.
He sa, that's it, He'll overlook my sins. I said,
we'll try that in the court of law. You've committed rape, murder,
drug pushing, very serious crimes. The judge says, you're guilty.
All the evidence is here. Have you anything to say
before I pass sentence? And you say yes, judge like
to say, I believe you're a good man and you'll
overlook my crimes. The judge would probably say you're right
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about one thing. I am a good man, and because
of my goodness, I'm going to see that justice is done.
Because of my goodness, I'm going to see that you're punished.
And the very thing that sinners are hoping will save them.
On the day of judgment, the goodness of God will
be the very thing that will condemn them. Because of
God is good, he must by nature punish murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, fornicators, blasphemous.
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God is going to punish sin wherever it's found. So
with this knowledge, he's now able to understand. He now
has light that a sinner is primarily vertical, that he
has sinned against Heaven, that he has violated God's law,
and he has angered God, and the wrath of God
abides upon her. You can now see these weighed in
the balance of eternal justice and found wanting. You can
now understand the need for a sacrifice. Christ redeemed us
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from the curse of the law being made a curse
for us. God commanded his love toward us, and that
while we yet sinners, Christ died for us. We broke
the law. He paid the fine. It's as simple as that.
And if a man will repent, if a woman will
repent and put their faith in Jesus, God will remit
their sin so that on the day of judgment, when
their court case comes up, God can say, your case
is dismissed through lack of evidence Christ redeemed us from
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the curse of the law being made a curse for us,
and therefore exercise repentance towards God faith to it. The
Lord Jesus Christ put his hand in a plow and
not look back, because he's fit for the kingdom. That
word fit means ready for use. The soil of his
heart has been turned that he might receive the ingrafted
word which is able to save the soul. Now, I
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haven't got time to share these quotes with you, but
they're in literature. These men, I'm sure you recognize their names.
John Wycliffe, he said, this is the Bible translator, said,
the highest service to which a man may attain on
earth is to preach the law of God. Why because
it'll drive sinners to faith in the Savior to everlasting life.
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Martin Luther said, the first duty of the gospel preacher
is to declare God's law and show the nature of sin.
In fact, as we read these quotes, these men are
so they have so much conviction you can feel their
teeth grit. They say things like, if you do not
use the law in gospel proclamation, you will fill the
church with false converts. Stony ground hearers who will receive
the Word with joy and gladness. Listen, what Martin Luther said,
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is it Satan, the god of all dissension, stirs up
daily new sects, the last of all, which are all others.
I should never have foreseen or once suspected. He's raised
up a sect such as teach that men should not
be terrified by the law, but generally exhorted by the
preaching of the grace of Christ. So what's Luther saying.
He's saying, Listen, guys, there's a demonic Satanic sectors just
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risen up man. I never ever would have believed this
could happen. He's raised up a sex such as teach
that men should not be terrified by the law, but
gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ,
which perfectly sums up most of evangelism. Matthew Henry John
Wesley said to a friend of writing to a young evangelist,
he said, preach ninety percent law and ten percent grace.
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And you say, ninety percent law ten percent grace. Pretty heavy?
Couldn't it be fifty to fifty? Think of it like this.
I'm a doctor, you're a patient. You have a terminal disease.
I have a cure, but it's absolutely essential that you
are totally committed to this cure. If you're not one
hundred percent committed, it will not work. How am I
going to handle it? Probably like this. Come in here,
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sit down, have some very serious news for you. You
have a terminal disease. I see you begin to shake.
I think to myself, good, he's beginning to see the
seriousness of the situation. I bring out charts, I bring
out X rays. I show you the poison seeping through
your system. I speak to you for ten whole minutes
about this terrible disease. How long then do you think
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I'm going to have to talk about the cure? Not
long at all. When he's sitting there trembling, after tenants,
I say, by the way, here's the cure. You go to.
Your knowledge of the disease, and a terrific consequence has
made you desire the cure. You see, before I was
a Christian, I had as much desire for righteousness as
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a four year old boy has for the word bath.
What's the point? See, Jesus said, a blessed of those
who hunger and thirst after righteousness. How many non Christians.
Do you know who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness?
The Bible says there's none that seeks after God. Since
they love the darkness, they hate the light. Neither will
they come to the light least their needs be exposed.
The only thing they'd drink in is iniquity like water.
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But the night I was confronted with the spiritual nature
of God's law and understood that God requires truth in
the inward parts that he saw my thought life, and
considered lust to be the same as adultery, hatred, the
same as murder. I began to say, I can see
I'm condemned. What must I do to be made right?
I began to thirst for righteousness. The law puts salt
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on my tongue. It was a schoolmaster to bring me
to Christ. Charles Spurgeon said, they will never accept grace
until they tremble before a just and holy law. Dearl Moody,
John Bunyan, John Newton who wrote Amazing Grace, and if
any one had a grip on grace, it was Newton.
He said that the correct understanding of the harmony between
law and grace is to preserve one's self from being
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entangled by errors on the right hand and on the left.
Charles Phiney said, evermore, the law must prepare the way
for the Gospel. He said, to overlook this and instructing
souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the
introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to
fill the church with false converts saints. The first thing
David Wilkeson said to me when he called me on
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his car phone was I thought I was the only
one who didn't believe in follow up. Now I believe
in feeding a new convert. I believe in nurturing him.
I believe in descipling him biblical and most necessary. But
I don't believe in following him. I can't find it
in scripture that Ethiopian Eunich was left without follow up.
How could he survive? All he had was God and
the scriptures. You see, it's my understanding. You know what
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follow up? Now, let me explain follow up for those
of you who don't know. Follow up is when we
get decisions, either through crusades or local church, and we
take laborers from the harvest fields, who are few as
it is, and give them this disheartening task of running
after these decisions to make sure they're going on with God.
What it is is a sad admission to the amount
of confidence we have in the power of our message
and in the keeping power of God. If God has
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saved them, God will keep them. They're born of God.
They'll never die. If He's begun a good work in them,
he'll complete it to that day. If he's the author
of their faith, he'll be the finish of their faith.
He's able to save to the outlast them that come
to God by him. He's able to keep them from falling,
present them faultless. Before the presence was glory with exceeding joy. Jesus,
that no one will pluck you from my Father's hand.
See the problem is, Saints. Lazarus is four days dead.
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We can run on the tomb, we can pull him out,
we can prop him up, we can open his eyes,
but he stinketh. He needs to hear the voice of
the Son of God, and the sinner there's four days
dead in his sins. We can run up and say
say this prayer. Still, he needs to hear the voice
of the Son of God or there is no life
in him. And the things that primes. The sinner's here
to hear the voice of the Son of God is
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the law. It's a schoolmaster to bring him to Christ,
that he might be justified through faith saints. The law works,
It converts the soul, that makes a person a new
creature in Christ, that all things pass away. Behold, all
things have become new. So find yourself a sinner, an
experiment on him. But as you do so, remember this
one anecdote. You're sitting on a plane. You're suffering your coffee,
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you're biting your cookie, you're watching a movie. It's a
good flight, very pleasurable, and suddenly you hear, this is
your captain speaking of an announcement to make because the
tail section has just formed this plane you're about to
crash as a twenty five thousand foot drop. There's a
parachute under your seat. We appreciate it if you put
it on. Thank you for your attention, and thank you
for flying with this airline. You say, what twenty one
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thousand feet man, I'm I glad to be in this parachute.
You look next to the guy next to his biting
his cookie, supping his coffee, watching the movie. You say,
excuse me, did you hit a captain put the parachute on,
turns to you and says, I really don't think the captain
means besides him, quiet appis and thanks. Don't turn Tomans
and see a zeal and say, oh, please put the
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parachute on. It'll be better than the movie. But that
doesn't make sense. If you tell him somehow the parachute
is going to improve his flight, he's going to put
it on for a wrong motive. If you wanted to
put it on and keep it on, tell him about
the jump. Excuse me, ignore the captain. If you wish
jump without a parachute. Splat, he says, I'm sorry, I
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beg your pardon. I said, if you jump without a parachute,
law of gravity on the ground, he says, oh, who
knows me? I see what you're saying. Thank you very much.
And as long as that man knows, as long as
he has knowledge, he has to pass through the door
and face the consequences of breaking the law of gravity.
There's no way you're going to get that parachute off
his back, because there's very life depends on it. Now,
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if you'll go around, you find there are plenty of
passages enjoying the flight. They're enjoying the pleasures of sin
for a seas. Gods, excuse me, did you hear the
command from the captain of our salvation? Put on the
Lord Jesus Christ. Detern it and says, oh, I really
don't think God means that God is love. Besides, I'm
quite happy as I am. Thanks. Don't turn to them,
and sincere is zeal without knowledge, and say, please, put
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on the Lord Jesus Christ, who give you love, joy,
peace fulfillment, last and happiness. God check victory heart and
if God can feel you hear her marriage problem, drug problem,
alcohol problem. Just give your heart to Jesus. No, you'll
give him a wrong motive for his commandment. Instead, say oh, God,
give me courage and tell him about the jump to say, hey,
it's appointed a man wants to die. If you die
and your sins, God will be forced to give you justice,
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and his judgment is going to be so thorough every
idle word a man speaks, you've given accountter of in
the day of judgment. If you've lusted, you've committed adultery,
if you've hated someone, you've committed murder, And Jesus warned
that justice will be so thorough the fist of eternal
wrath will come upon you, and Ah grind you to powder.
God bless I saints. I'm not talking about hell fire preaching.
Hell Fire preaching will produce fear filled converts. Using God's
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law will produce tear filled converts. This one comes because
why he wants to escape the fires of hell. But
in his heart he thinks God is harsh and unjust
because the law hasn't been used to show him the
exceeding sinful nature of sin. He doesn't see hell as
being as just dessert that he deserves. Hell. Therefore he
doesn't understand mercy or grace. Therefore he lacks gratitude to
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God for his mercy, and gratitude is the prime motivation
for evangelism. There'll we know zeal and the heart of
a false convert to evangelize. But this one comes knowing
he has sinned against Heaven. The God's eyes in every
place beholding the evil and the good, and God has
seen darkness as though a pure light. He's seen his thought,
life of God and his holiness. On the day of
Wrath made manifest all the secret sins of his heart,
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all the deeds done in darkness, he made man of
all his evidence of his guilt. God could pick him
up as an unclean thing and cast him to hell
and do that which is just. But instead of giving
him justice, He's given him mercy. He's commanded his love
toward him that while he's here to send a Christ
died from He falls on his knees before that blood's
dain cross and says, Oh God, if you do that
for me, I'll do anything for you. I'd delight to
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do your will. Oh my God, your law has written
upon my heart. And like the man who knew he
had to pass through the door and face the consequences
of breaking the law of gravity, would never take his
parachute off because his very life depended on it. So
he who comes to the Savior, knowing he has to
face a holy God on the day of wrath, would
never forsake the righteousness of God in Christ because his
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very life depends on it. Let me see if I
can coregulate this teaching us which wrought to a close.
I was in the store some time ago, and the
owner of the store was serving a customer and using
God's name and blasphemy now, if somebody used my wife's
name and blasphemy, I'll be extremely offended if they use
her name as a curse word in that sense. But
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this guy was using God, God's name as a curse
word when God had given them life, his eyes, the
ability to think, his children, his food, every pleasure has
ever had given him by the goodness of God. And
he's using God's name as a curse word and indignantly
between him and his customer. I leaned and said, excuse me,
is this a religious meeting? The guy says, what h
l ol No. I said, yes, it is, because now
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you're talking about how let me get you one of
my books. So I went out of my car. Sorry,
I went out to my car er and he got
a book that I've written called God Doesn't Believe in
Atheists Proof the Atheist doesn't Exist. And it's a book
which uses logic, humor, reason and rationalism to prove the
existence of God, which you can do in two minutes
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without the use of faith. It's a very simple thing
to conclusively, absolutely prove God's existence, and it proves also
that the atheist doesn't exist. In fact, let me show
you a bumper sticket National Atheist Day, April the first.
So I gave him this book. And two months later,
when I gave i'm ano book, I've written a book
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called My Friends Are Dying, a book which is a
true and gripping story about the ministry of the Gospel,
and the most mirror murderous portion of Los Angeles, a
book which also uses humor in its presentation. Gave him
those books and he called me and told me that
what had happened. He told me his wife keep giving
him filthy looks, because there he was reading a book
called My Friends are Dying and laughing every two minutes.
But he's cleaning out his room and he picked up
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God doesn't leave an atheist. He that ah, and he
opened it up and read the first page, and then
he read the whole book, turned it in sixty pages.
He said it was weird because I hate reading. Then
he read My Friends are Dying. Gave his life to Christ,
brought himself a Bible, came round to say hi and
told me, after two days of being a Christian, and
his Bible is already up to what he called the
Book of Levititis. And I guess he is going to
read Palms and then job. But up until his commitment,
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the man was a practicing which the law of the
Lord is perfect, converting the soul. And says, O, God
looked down upon me is for many years I have
preached as I fought off the enemy of the feather
duster of modern evangelism, this is God said, what are
you doing weapons of war? For? Are not channel that
mighty through God to the pulling down a strongholds? Here
are ten great cannons. And as I lined up the
ten cannons of God's law, no longer had sent a
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scarf and mock know their faces went pale. They lifted
their hands and said, I surrender all order Jesus, A
footy give came across to the winning side, never to
become deserted. Such converts become soul miners, not pure warmers, laborers,
not layabouts, assets not liabilities for the local church. And now, saints,
with every head raised and every eye open and no
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music playing, let me challenge you as to the validity
of your salvation. Mom evangelism says, never question your salvation.
The Bible says the exact opposite. It says, examine yourself
and see if you're in the faith better now than
on the day of judgment. The Bible says, make your
calling elections sure, and some of you know that something
is radically wrong in your Christian walk. You lose your
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peace and joy when the flight kids bumpy. There is
a lack of zeal to evangelize. You never fell on
your face before a mighty garden, said I've sinned against
you of God, have mercy upon me. You've never lad
to Jesus Christ and his blood for cleansing and desperation,
crying out, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And
there's a lack of gratitude. There's not a burning zeal
for the lost. You can't see you're on fire for God.
In fact, you're in danger of being one of the
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ones that are called luke warman. We spewed out of
the mouth of Christ. On the day of judgment, when
multitudes will cry out to Jesus, Lord Lord, if they
depart from me, your worker of iniquity, lawlessness, I never
knew no regard to the divine law. The Bible says
that everyone that names the name of Christ depart from
iniquity lawlessness. So today you need to readjust a motive
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for your commitment. Friend, don't let your pride stop you.
I would like to pray for you, or remain up here,
you remain in your seat if you'd like to be
including this Prayer'd like you to slip up your hand.
But remember this. If you say, well, I should put
my hand out, what will people think that's pride? You
prefer the praises of men to the praises of God.
Everyone who is proud of heart is an abomination to
the Lord. God resists of proud, gives grace to the humble.
So humble yourself for the mighty hand of God. He'll
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exalt you in due time. Call it a recommittal, call
it a committal, but whatever you call it, make your
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dying world that you'll give us wisdom, help us to
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and keep my eyes fixed on you to day. Please
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help me to fight against any adversity and opposition so
that I can remain confident in You. I will undoubtedly
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my attention back to You when these circumstances arise. Fill
my mind and body with your power so that I
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can fight against any negative feelings that try to deter
me away from You. Allow my words to speak your
truth despite the situations unfolding around me, so that I
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you know that up to eighty to ninety percent
of those making a decision to follow Christ will fall
away from the faith?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yes, It's true. Did you know that Jesus used a
principle to reach the lost that was also used by
the Apostle Paul and Stephen and Timothy, also Charles Spurgeon,
John Wesley, George Whitfield, and other great preachers of the past,
that has been almost entirely forgotten about by the church today.
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Don't let anything stop you from listening to this incredible teaching.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Me. As I beget to travel, I had access to
chuld growth records and found to my horror that something
like eighty to ninety percent of those making a decision
for Christ or falling away from the faith that is,
modern evangelism, with its methods, was creating something like eighty
to ninety of what we commonly call backsliders for every
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hundred decisions for Christ. Let me make it more real
for you. In nineteen ninety one, in the first year
of the Decade of Harvest, a major denomination in the
US was able to obtain two hundred and ninety four
thousand decisions for Christ. That is, in one year, this
major denomination of eleven and a half thousand churches was
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able to obtain two hundred and ninety four thousand decisions
for Christ. Unfortunately, they can only find fourteen thousand fellowship
which means they couldn't account for two hundred and eighty
thousand of their decisions. And this is normal modern results
and something I discovered way back in the seventies or
late seventies who greatly concerned me. I began to study
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the Book of Romans intently and specifically the Gospel proclamation
of men like Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney Whitfield, Luther, others
that God used down through the ages, and I found
they used a principle which is almost entirely neglected by
modern methods. I began teaching that principle. Was eventually invited
to base our ministry in southern California, the city of
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Bellflower in California, specifically to bring this teaching to the
Church of the US. Things were quiet for the first
three years until I received a call from Bill Garthard,
who had seen the teaching on video, and he flew
me to San Jose and northern California. I shared it
with a thousand pastors. In nineteen ninety two, he screened
that video to thirty thousand pastors. The same year, David
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Wilkinson called from New York called from his car. He
had been listening to the teaching in his car, called
me on his car phone and immediately flew me three
thousand miles from Alley to New York to share the
one hour teaching with his church. He considered it to
be that important, and recently I heard of a pastor
who had listened to the audio tape two hundred and
fifty times. I'd be happy if you'd listened just once
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to this teaching, which is called Hell's best kept secret.
The Bible says in Psalm nineteen, verse seven, the law
of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. What is
it that the Bible says is perfect and actually converts
the soul? Why? Scripture makes it very clear the law
of the Lord is perfect converting the soul, and it'll
illustrate the function of God's law. Let's just look for
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a moment at civil law. Imagine if I said to you,
I've got some good news for you. Someone has just
paid a twenty five thousand dollars speeding fine on your behalf.
You'd probably react by saying, what are you talking about.
That's not good news. It doesn't make sense. I don't
have a twenty five thousand dollars speeding fine. My good
news wouldn't be good news to you. It seemed foolishness.
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But more than that, it would be offensive to you
because I'm insinuating you've broken the law when you don't
think you have. However, if I put it this way,
it may make more sense. On our way to this meeting,
the law clocked you at going fifty five miles an
hour through an area set aside for a blind children's convention.
There were ten clear warning signs stating that fifteen miles
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now was the maximum speed, but you went straight through
at fifty five miles an hour. What you did was
extremely dangerous. Is a twenty five thousand dollars fine. The
law was about a ticket's course. When someone you don't
even know stepped in and paid the fine for you,
you are very fortunate. Can you see that telling you
precisely what you've done wrong first actually makes the good
news make sense. If I don't clearly bring instruction and
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understanding your violated the law, then the good news will
seem foolishness, it will seem offensive. But once you understand
that you've broken the law, then that good news will
become good news. Indeed, now in the same way, if
I approach an impenitent sinner and say Jesus Christ died
on the cross for your sins, it'll be foolishness to
him and offensive to him, foolishness because it won't make sense.
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The Bible says that the preaching of the cross is
to them that perish, foolishness and offensive because I'm insinuating
he's a sinner when he doesn't think he is. As
far as he is concerned, there are a lot of
people far worse than him. But if I take the
time to follow on the footsteps of Jesus, that may
make more sense. If I take the time to open
up the Divine Law, the Ten Commandments, and show the
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sinner precisely what he's done wrong, that he has offended
God by violating his law, then when he becomes, as
James says, convinced of the law as a transgressor, the
good news of the find being paid for will not
be foolishness, It will not be offensive. It will be
the power of God under salvation. Now, with those few
thoughts in mind, by way of reduction, let's now look
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at Romans free verse nineteen. We'll look at some of
the functions of God's law for humanity Romans free, verse nineteen.
Now we know the wats of the things the law says.
It says to them who are under the law, that
every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God. So one function of God's law
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is to up the mouth, to stop sinners justifying themselves
and saying, there's plenty people worse than me. I'm not
a bad person. Really. Now the law stops the mouth
of justification and leaves the whole world, not just the Jews,
but the whole world guilty before God. Romans three, verse twenty. Therefore,
by the deeds of the law, there should no flesh
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be justified in his sight. For by the law is
the knowledge of sin. So God's law tells us what
sin is. One John three four says sin is transgression
of the law. Romans seven, verse seven. What shall we
say in, says Paul, is the law sin God forbid? No,
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I had not known sin, But by the law, Paul says,
I didn't know what sin was until the Lord told me.
In Galatians three twenty four. Wherefore, the Law was our
schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Though we might be
justified by faith. God's law acts as the schoolmaster to
bring us to Jesus Christ that we might be justified
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through faith in his blood. The law doesn't help us,
It just leaves us helpless. It doesn't justify us, It
just leaves us guilty before the judgment bar of a
holy God. And the tragedy of modern evangelism is because
around the turn of the century, when it forsook the
law in its capacity to convert the soul to drive
sinners to Christ, modern evangelism had to therefore find another
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reason for sinners to respond to the Gospel, and the
issue that modern evangelism chose to attract sinners was the
issue of life enhancement. The Gospel degenerated into Jesus Christ
will give you peace, joy, love, fulfillment, and lasting happiness. Now,
to illustrate the unscriptural nature of this very popular teaching,
I would like you to listen very carefully to this
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following anecdote, because the essence of what I'm saying pivots
on this particular illustration. So please listen carefully. Two men
are seated in a plane. The first is given a
parachute and told to put it on as it would
improve his flight. He's a little skeptical at first, as
he can't see how ring a parachute a plane could
possibly improve a flight. After time, he decides to experiment
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and see if the claim is true. As he puts
it on, he notices the weight of it upon his shoulders,
and he finds his ears difficulty in sitting upright. However,
he consoles himself with the fact he was told the
parachute would improve the flight, so he decides to give
the thing a little time. As he waits, he notices
that some of the other passengers are laughing at him
because he's wearing a parachute and a plane. He begins
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to feel somewhat humiliated. As they begin to point and
laugh on him, he can stand it no longer. He
SLINKs in his seat, unstraps the parachute, and throws it
to the floor. Disillusionment and bitterness fill his heart because,
as far as he was concerned, he was told an
outright lie. The second man has given a parachute, but
listen to what he's told. He's told to put it
on because at any moment he be jumping twenty five
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thousand feet out of the plane. He gratefully puts the
parachute on. He doesn't notice the weight of it upon
his shoulders, nor that he can't sit upright. His mind
is consumed with a thought of what would happened to
him if he jump without that parachute. Let's analyze the
motive and the result of each passenger's experience. The first
man's motive for putting the parachute on was solely to
improve his flight. The result of his experience was that
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he was humiliated by the passengers. He was disillusioned and
somewhat embittered against those who gave him the parachute. As
far as he's concerned, it'll be a long time before
anyone gets one of those things on his back again.
The second man put the parachute on solely to escape
the jump to come, and because of his knowledge of
what would happen to without it, he has a deep
rooted joy and peace in his heart, knowing that he
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say from sure death. This knowledge gives them the ability
to withstand the mockery of the other passengers, as the
attitude or those who gave him the parachute is one
of heartfelt gratitude. Now listen to what the modern Gospel says.
It says, put on the Lord Jesus Christ. He'll give
you love, joy, peace for film and lasting happiness. In
other words, Jesus will improve your flight. So the sinner
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responds and in an experimental fashion, puts on the savor
to see the claims are truth. And what does he get?
The promise? Temptation, tribulation and persecution. The other passengers mack him.
So what does he do? He takes off the Lord
Jesus Christ. He's offended for the word sake, He's disillusioned
and somewhat embittered, And quite rightly so, he was promised peace, joy,
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love for fillment and lasting happiness. And all he got
the trials and humiliation, as bitterness as director to those
who gave him the so called good news. As latter
in becomes worse than the first. Another inoculated and bitter
backslider saints. Instead of preaching that Jesus improves the flight,
we should be warning the passengers they're going to have
to jump out of the plane that disappointed a man
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once to die and after this the judgment and when
a sinner understands the horrific consequences of breaking God's law,
then he will flee to the Savior solely to escape
the wrath that's to come. And if we're true and
faithful witnesses, that's what will be preaching that there is
wrath to come, that God commands all men everywhere to repent.
Why because He has appointed a day in which you'll
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judge the world in righteousness. You see, the issue isn't
one of happiness, but one of righteousness. Doesn't matter how
happy a sinner is, how much he's enjoying the pleasures
of sin for a season. Without the righteousness of Christ,
he'll perish in the day of wrath. Richest profit not
on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. Peace,
enjoy are legitimate fruits of salvation. But it's not legitimate
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to use these fruits as to draw cord for salvation.
If we continue to do so, sinners respond with an
impure motive lacking repentance. Now, can you remember why the
second passenger had joy in peace and his heart was
because he knew that parachute was gonna save him from
sure death. And as a believer, I have, as Paul says,
joy and peace in believing because I know that the
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righteousness of Christ is going to deliver me from the
wrath that's to come. Now that thought of mine, Let's
take a close look at an incident on board the plane.
We have a brand new stuartess. She's carrying a tray
of boiling hot coffee. It's her first day. She wants
to leave an impression on the passengers, and she certainly
does because as she's walking down the aisle, she trips
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over someone's foot and slops that boiling hot coffee all
over the lap of our second passenger. Now, what's his
reactions that boiling liquid hits his tender flesh? Does he go, man,
that hurt? Mm hmm? He feels the pain. But then
does he rip the parachute from his shoulders, throw it
to the floor and say the stupid parachute? No, why
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should he? He didn't put the parachute on for better flight.
He put it on to save him from the jump
to come. If anything, the hot coffee incident causes him
to cling tighter to the parachute and even look forward
to the jump. Now, if you and I have put
on the Lord Jesus Christ for the right motive to
flee from the rath is to come when tribulation strikes,
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when the flight gets bumpy, we won't get angry at God.
We won't lose our joy and peace. Why should we.
We didn't come to Jesus for a happy lifestyle. We
came to flee from the rat Come and if anything,
tribulation drives the true believer closer to the Savior. And sadly,
we have literally multitudes of professing Christians who lose their
joy and peace when the flight gives bumpy. Why the
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other product of a man scentered gospel, they came lacking repentance,
without which you cannot be saved. I was in Australia
recently ministering. Australia is a small island off the coast
of New Zealand. I preached sin, law, righteousness, holiness, judgment,
repentance and hell and I wasn't exactly crushed by the
amount of people wanting to give their hearts to Jesus.
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In fact, the air went very tense after the meeting.
The said is a young guy down the back who
wants to give his life to Christ. I went down
the back and found a teenage lad who could not
pray the sinner's prayer because he was weeping so profusely.
Now for me it was so refreshing, because for many
years I suffered from the disease of evangelical frustration. I
so wanted sinners to respond to the Gospel. I unwittingly
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preached a man centered message, the essence of which was this,
You'll never find true peace without Jesus Christ. You've a
god checked back him in your heart that only God
can fill. I'd preach Christ crucified. I'd preach repentance. A
sinner would respond to the altar. I'd open an eye
and say, oh no, this guy wants to give his
heart to Jesus, and there's an eighty percent chance he's
gonna backslide. And I am tired of creating backsliders. So
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I better make sure this guy really means it. He
bitter be sincere, soard approach the poor guy in a
gestapo spirit. I'll walk up and say, and what do
you find? I'm here to become a Christian. I'd say,
do you mean it? He say, yes, do you really
mean it? It's a here. I reckon say, okay, I'll
pray with you, but you bitter mean it from your heart?
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He says, Okay, okay, you repeat this prayer sincerely after
me and mean it from your heart's and silly, and
really mean it from your hearts and silly, and make
sure you mean it. Oh God, I'm a sinner, he say,
Oh God, I'm a sinner. And I'd say, man, why
isn't there a visible sign of contrition? There's no outw evidence.
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The guy is inwardly sorry for his sins. And if
I could have seen his motive, I would have seen
he was one hundred percent sincere. He really did mean
his decision with all his heart. He sincerely want to
give this Jesus thing of God to see if he
get a buzz out of it. He had tried six drugs, materism, alcohol,
Why not give us Christian bittergoat? He said, was as
good as all these Christians say. This peace, joy, love, fulfillment,
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lasting happiness. He wasn't fleeing from the wrath that was
to come, because I hadn't told him there was wrath
to come. There was this clearing omission from my message.
He wasn't broken in contrition because the poor guy didn't
know what sin was. Remember Romans seven, verse seven. Paul said,
I had not known sin, but by the law. How
can a man repent if he doesn't know what sin is?
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Any soul called repentance will be merely what I call
horizontal repentance. He's coming because he's led to men, he's
stolen from men. But when David sinned with Bathsheba and
broke all ten of the ten commandments, when he coveted
his neighbor's wife, lived a lie, he stole his neighbor's wife,
committed adultery, committed murder, dishonored his parents, and thus dishonored God.
He didn't say I've sinned against man. He said against you,
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and you only have I sin and done this evil
in your sight. When Joseph was tempted sexually, he said,
how can I do this thing and sin against God?
The prodigal son said, I have sinned against Heaven. Paul
preach repentance towards God, and the Bible says godly sorrow
works repentance. And when a man doesn't understand that his
sin is primarily vertical, he'll merely come and exercise superficial,
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experimental and horizontal repentance and fall away. When tribulation, temptation,
and persecution come, aby Earl said, I have found by
long experience that the severest threatenings of the law of
God have a prominent place in leading men to Christ,
and must see themselves lost before they will cry for mercy.
They'll not escape danger until they see it. I like
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to do something a little unusual. I'll not embarrass you.
I give you my word, but I would like to
ask how many of you were thinking of something else
when I was reading that quote from ab Earl. Now
I want to admit something to you. I was thinking
of something else when I was reading that quote from
ab Earl. I was thinking, nobody's listening to me. They're
thinking of something else. So to make a very important point,
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I'd like to be really honest. If you were thinking
of something else and you even got a clue what
ab Earl said, could you raise your hand up nice
and high, up, nice and high. It's usually half to
two thirds, and I've got that here tonight. Let's try again.
God bless your pastor for your honesty. Ab Earl was
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a famous evangelist of the last century who had one
hundred and fifty thousand converts to substantiate his claims. Satan
doesn't want you to get a grip of this, So
listen very closely. Aby Earl said, I have found my
long experience that's the true test that the severest threatenings
of the law of God have a prominent place in
leading men to Christ. They must see themselves lost before
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they will cry for mercy. They'll not escape danger until
they see it. You see, you try and save a
man from drowning. When a man doesn't believe he's drowning,
he'll not be too happy with you. You see him
swimming out in a lake. You think I think he's drowning. Yes,
I believe he is. You dive in pull him to
the shore without telling him anything. He's not going to
be very happy with you. He won't want to get
saved until he sees he's in danger. They'll not escape
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danger until they see it. You see. If you came
to me and says, hey, ray, and I said to you,
you said, this is a cure to grownans's disease. I
sold my house to raise the money to get this cure.
I'm giving it to you as a free gift. I'd
probably react something like this, what cure to what grownans' disease.
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You sold your house to raise the money to get
this cure. You're giving him as a free gift. Why,
thanks a lot by guys A nut. I mean, that's
probably how i'd react if you sold your house to
raise the money to get a cure for a disease
I never heard of, and you're giving it to me
as a free gift. I think you're rather strange. But
instead of you came to me and said, ray, you've
got grown ins' disease. I can see ten clear symptoms
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on your flesh. You're going to be dead in two weeks.
And I became convinced I had the disease. The symptoms
are so evident, and said, oh, what should I do?
And then you said, don't worry. This is a cure
to grown in this disease. So my house to raise
them undergether this cure given to you as a free gift.
I'm not going to despise your sacrifice. I'm going to
appreciate it and I'm going to appropriate it. Why because
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I've seen the disease that I might appreciate the cure
And saidie, what's happened in the US and the Western
world has followed, is that we have preached the cure
without first convincing of the disease. Well, you have preached
a gospel of grace without first convincing men of the
law that transgresses. And consequently, almost everyone I try and
witness to in southern California, all around the Bible belt has
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been born again six or seven times. So you need
to give your life to Jesus Christ. I did that
when I was seven eleven, seventeen, twenty three, twenty five, twenty eight,
thirty two. You know, the guy is not a Christian.
He's a faunicator, he's a blasphemer. But he thinks he's
say because he's been born again, what's happening. He's using
the grace of our God for an occasion of the flesh.
He doesn't esteem the sacrifice. For him, it's not a
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bad thing to trample the blood of Christ underfoot. Why
because he's never been convinced of the disease that he
might appreciate the cure. Biblical of anelism is always without exception,
Law to the proud and grace to the humble. Never
will you see Jesus giving the gospel the good news
the cross, the grace of our God to a proud, arrogant,
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self righteous person. No. No, with the law he breaks
the hard heart, and with the Gospel he heals the
broken heart. Why because he always did those things that
please the Father. God resists a proud and gives grace
to the humble. Everyone who is proud of heart. Scripture says,
is an abomination to the Lord. Jesus told us whom
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the Gospel is for. He said, the spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he has annoyed me to
preach the Gospel to the poor, the broken hearted, the captives,
and the blind. Now they are spiritual statements. The poor
and spirit the broken hearted are the contracte once. The
captives are those of whom Satan has taken captive to
do his will. And the blind are those of whom
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the God of this world is blinded. At least the
light of the Gospel should shine of them. Only the
sick need of physician, and only those who are convinced
of the disease will appreciate an appropriated cure. So we're
gonna now very briefly look at examples of Lord of
the proud and grace to the humble. Luke ten twenty four.
Luke ten twenty four. And when I give you a
reference from the pulpit, I'll give it twice because I
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know that men are present and men need to be
told things twice. Men need to be told things twice.
This can be backed up biblically. When God speaks to
men in the Bible, he uses the name twice Abraham, Abraham, Saul, Saul, Moses, Moses, Samuel, Samuel,
because men need to be told things twice, women once.
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I don't know how many times I've sat in a pew,
preacher said I Luke ten twenty five. I turn to
my wife and say, what do you say? She's a
Sluke ten twenty five. I said, thank you, dear, help mate.
That's why God created women, because men could not handle
it on their own. The whole thing is men lose things,
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women find things. Where's the keys? Love hanging on your nose? Dear?
I mean, I don't know how he ties home in
a cabin. There's no honey here, Honey, she says, here
is here, dear? Where would man be without woman? Still
in the garden of Eden, Eve found the tree. Adam
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didn't really know what was going on. In fact, if
you look at the creation of woman. To create woman,
the Bible says God put man into a deep sleep,
and scripture doesn't say if it came out of it.
In Luke ten twenty five, we see a certain lawyer
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stood up and tempted Jesus. This is not an attorney,
but a professing expert in God's law stood up and
he said to Jesus, how can I get ever lasting life? Now?
What did Jesus do? He gave him law? Why? Because
he was proud, arrogant, self righteous. Here we have a
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professing expert in God's law tempting the son of God.
The spirit of his question was, and what do you
think We've got to do to get ever lasting life?
Said Jesus gave him law. He says, what is written
in the law. What is your reading of it? And
he says, ah, you shall love the Lord, your gobbled,
your heart, mind's soul, and strength, love your neighbors, yourself.
And Jesus said this do and you shall live. Minuscriture says,
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but he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, who's
my neighbor. The Living Bible brings that more clearly the
effect of the law and the man, and said. The
man wanted to justify his lack of love for some
kinds of people, so he asked which neighbors. See, he
didn't mind Jews, but he didn't like Samaritans. So Jesus
then told him the story of what we call the
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good Samaritan, who was not good at all, and loving
his neighbor as much as he loved himself. He merely
obeyed the basic requirements of God's law, and the effect
of the essence of the law, the spirituality of the law,
of what the law demands in truth, was that that
man's mouth was stopped. See he didn't love his neighbor
to that degree. The law was given to stop every
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mouth and leave the whole world guilty before God. Similarly,
in Luke eighteen, verse eighteen, the rich young ruler came
to Jesus said, how can a get everlasting life? I mean,
how would most of us react if someone come up
and said, how can I get everlasting life? We'd say, oh,
quickly say this prayer before you change your mind. But
what did Jesus do with this potential convert He pointed
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him to the law. He gave him five horizontal commandments,
commandments to do with his fellow men. And when he said, Ah,
have kept those from our youth, Jesus said, one thing
you lack, and he used the essence of the first
of the ten commandments. I am the Lord your God.
You shall have no other gods before me, to show
this man that his God was his money, and you
cannot serve God and mammon, Lord of the proud. Then
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we see grace being given to the humble in the
case of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a leader of the Jews.
He was a teacher in Israel. Therefore he was thoroughly
versed in God's law. He was humble of heart because
he came to Jesus and acknowledged the deity of the
son of God, a leader in Israel. We know that
you've come from God. For no man can do these
miracles that you do unless God is with him. So
Jesus gave the sincere seeker of truth, through had a
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humble heart and a knowledge of send via the law,
the good news of the fine being paid for him.
For God's soul loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son and it was not foolishness to Nicodemus,
but the power of God to salvation. Similarly, a case
of Nathaniel. Nathaniel was an Israel brought up under the law,
indeed not just in word, in whom there was no guile,
There was no deceitnous heart. Obviously, the Law was a
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schoolmaster to bring this godly Jew to Christ. Similar were
the Jews on the Pentecost. They were devout Jews, godly Jews.
Therefore ate drank and slept God's law. Matthew Henry, the
Bible commentator, said, the reason they were gathered together on
the dad Pentecost was to celebrate the giving of God's
Law and Mount Sinai. So when Peter stood up to
preach to these godly Jews, he didn't preach wrath. Now
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the law works wrath. They knew that. He didn't preach
righteousness or judgment. No, no, he just told them the
good news of the fine being paid for them. And
they were pricked in their heart and cried, men and brethren,
what should we do? The Law was a schoolmaster to
bring them to Christ. They might be justified through faith
in His blood. As the hymn writer said, by God's would,
at last my sin I learned. Then I trembled at
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the law I'd spurned, till my guilty soul, imploring turned
to Calvary. First Timothy. Chapter one, verse eight says, but
we know that the law is good if it is
used lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed.
God's law is good if it's used lawfully for the
purpose for what it was designed. What was the law
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designed for? Following verse tells us the law was not
made for a righteous man, but for sinners, and even
lests of sinners homosexuals fornicatus. If you want to bring
a homosexual to Christ, don't get into an argument with
him over his perversion. He's ready for you with boxing
gloves on. No, no, give him the Ten Commandments. The
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law was made for homosexuals. Show him that he is
damned despite his perversion. If you want to bring a
Judah Christ, lay the way of the law upon him.
Let it prepare his heart for grace has happened on
the day of pencast. You want to bring a mauslem
to Christ, give them the law of Moses. They accept
Moses as a prophet, we'll give them the law of
Moses and strip them of the self righteousness and bring
them to the foot of a bloodstained cross. I heard
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of a mauslem reading a book, How's best kept secret?
And God soundly saved them purely for reading of the book.
Why because the law of the Lord is perfect converting
the soul. Think of the woman caught in the act
of adultery, violation of the seventh Commandment. The law called
for her blood. She found herself between a rock and
a hard place. She had no avenue but to fling
herself at the feet of the Son of God for mercy.
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And that is the function of God's law. Paul spoke
of being shut up under the law it condemns. You say, oh,
you can't condemn sinners, since they are already condemned John three,
verse seventeen. He that believes not is condemned already. All
the law does is show him himself in his true state.
Your table needs dusting in your living room, so you
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dust it clean. All the dust is gone. Then you
draw back the curtains and let in the early morning sunlight.
What do you see on the table dust? What do
you see in the air dust? Did the light create
the dust? The light merely exposed the dust. And when
you and I take the time to draw back the
curtains of the Holy of Holies and the light of
God's Law shine upon the sinner's heart, all that happens
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is that he sees himself in truth. The commandment is
a lamp and the Law is light. That's why Paul said,
by the Law is the knowledge of sin. That's why
he said by the commandment sin became exceedingly sinful. In
other words, the Law showed him thin in its true light. Now, normally,
at this stage of the teaching, I guess for the
ten commments one by one. But what I'll do is
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share with you how I witness personally, because I think
it would have been more beneficial. Now. I'm a strong
believer in following the footsteps of Jesus. Never ever would
I approach someone and say Jesus loves you, totally unbiblical.
There's no precedent for that in scripture. Neither would I
go up to someone and say, I'd like to talk
to you about Jesus Christ. Why because if I want
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to waken you from a deep sleep, I wouldn't use
a flashlight in your eyes. That would offend you, I'd
turn on and like to him very gently, First the natural,
then the spiritual. Why because the natural man receives not
the things of the spirit of God, neither can he
know them. A foolishness to him, because they spiritually understood
the president in scripture is given in John fourth. For
personal witness, we can see Jesus example with the woman
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at the well. He started in the natural realm, swung
to the spiritual, bought conviction using the seventh Commandment, and
then revealed himself as the Messiah. When I meet someone,
I'll talk about the weather, I talk about sport, let
them feel a little bit of sanity, get to know them,
maybe joke here and there, and then deliberately swing from
the natural to the spiritual. Now, the way I do
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this is that I use gospel tracks. We're a ministry
to the body of Christ. I printed millions and millions
of tracks, and our tracks are unusual. If you get
hold of them, what you'll have to do is have
a stack on you, because people chase you and ask
for more. Let me give you an example. This is
our optical illusion track, which looks bigger if you can
see does the pink look bigger. You see that for
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those listening by tape that the same size. It's an
optical illusion. I say, it's actually a gospel track. Instructions
are on the back how to get saved at say
say you can keep that. He say, hey, thanks a lot.
This is me. Got another gift for you. Out of
my pocket. I get a pressed penny with the Ten
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Commandments are we have a machine that does this. We
buy the pennies new from the bank, nice golden looking pennies,
and we feed them into this machine and it presses them.
We'll do your thumbnail if you want to hold still,
but oppresses some of the Ten Commandments. It's legal to
do this. This is considered artists not defacing a penny.
So I say, here's a gift. He says, well, what
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is it as that's a penny with the ten commandments?
Aren't did it with my teeth? Do the eyes with
my eye? Teeth? But the ease are really difficult. Now.
What I'm doing is I am putting out a feeler
to see if he's open to spiritual things. If he
says ten commandments, thanks a lot, is not open. But
the usual reaction is ten commandents. Hey, thanks, appreciate this.
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I said, Ah, you think you've kept the ten commandment?
Says noyeh, pretty much. He said, let's go through them.
You ever told a lie? He zah, yeah, yeah, I
wanted to. So what does that make you? He is
a sinner? I said no, no, specifically, what does it
make you? He said? Well, man, I'm not a liar?
So I say, how many lies? Then? Do you have
to tell to be a liar? Ten? And a bell
rings and pull across your forehead? Is that sure? You
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tell one liar makes you a liar? He says, yeah,
I guess you're right. So have you ever stolen something?
He says no, Say come on, you've just admitted to
me you're a liar. Has he ever stolen something? You have?
It small? He says, year. So what does that make you?
Says a thief? So Jesus said, if you look at
a woman and last after he commit adultery with her
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in your heart? Ever done that? He says, yeah, plenty
of times. He said, from your own admission, you're a lying, thieving,
adulter at heart, and you have to face God on
judgment day. And women, he looked at three of the
ten commandments. There's another seven with your cannonet's pointed edge.
Ever used God's name in vain? Yeah, I've been trying
to stop. You know what you're doing. Instead of using
a folly of filth word beginning with S to express disgust,
you're using God's name in its place. That's called blasphemy.
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And the Bible says, every idle word a man speaks,
you've given account the rat on the day of judgment.
The law will not hold him guiltless who takes his
name in vain. Bible says, if you hate someone, you
are a murderer. And a wonderful thing about God's law
is a God has taken the time to write it
upon our heart Romans two, verse fifteen, which show the
work of the law written in their hearts. The conscience
bearing witness. Now conscience means with knowledge, connors with science
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is knowledge conscience. So when he lies, LUs fornicates, blasphemes,
commits adultery, he does it with knowledge that it's wrong.
God has given light to every man. The Holy Spirit
convicts him of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Sin which is
transgression of the law, righteousness which is of the law.
Judgment which is by the law. His conscience accuses him,
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the work of the law written on his heart, and
the law condemns him. So I say, so, if God
judges you by this standard on the day of judgment,
you're going to be innocent guilty. He says guilty. I say, well,
do you think you're go to heaven or hell? And
the usual answer is heaven, product of the modern gospel.
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I say, why do you feel like that is because
you think God is good and you'll overlook your sins.
He sa, that's it, He'll overlook my sins. I said,
we'll try that in the court of law. You've committed rape, murder,
drug pushing, very serious crimes. The judge says, you're guilty.
All the evidence is here. Have you anything to say
before I pass sentence? And you say yes, judge like
to say, I believe you're a good man and you'll
overlook my crimes. The judge would probably say you're right
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about one thing. I am a good man, and because
of my goodness, I'm going to see that justice is done.
Because of my goodness, I'm going to see that you're punished.
And the very thing that sinners are hoping will save them.
On the day of judgment, the goodness of God will
be the very thing that will condemn them. Because of
God is good, he must by nature punish murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, fornicators, blasphemous.
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God is going to punish sin wherever it's found. So
with this knowledge, he's now able to understand. He now
has light that a sinner is primarily vertical, that he
has sinned against Heaven, that he has violated God's law,
and he has angered God, and the wrath of God
abides upon her. You can now see these weighed in
the balance of eternal justice and found wanting. You can
now understand the need for a sacrifice. Christ redeemed us
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from the curse of the law being made a curse
for us. God commanded his love toward us, and that
while we yet sinners, Christ died for us. We broke
the law. He paid the fine. It's as simple as that.
And if a man will repent, if a woman will
repent and put their faith in Jesus, God will remit
their sin so that on the day of judgment, when
their court case comes up, God can say, your case
is dismissed through lack of evidence Christ redeemed us from
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the curse of the law being made a curse for us,
and therefore exercise repentance towards God faith to it. The
Lord Jesus Christ put his hand in a plow and
not look back, because he's fit for the kingdom. That
word fit means ready for use. The soil of his
heart has been turned that he might receive the ingrafted
word which is able to save the soul. Now, I
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haven't got time to share these quotes with you, but
they're in literature. These men, I'm sure you recognize their names.
John Wycliffe, he said, this is the Bible translator, said,
the highest service to which a man may attain on
earth is to preach the law of God. Why because
it'll drive sinners to faith in the Savior to everlasting life.
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Martin Luther said, the first duty of the gospel preacher
is to declare God's law and show the nature of sin.
In fact, as we read these quotes, these men are
so they have so much conviction you can feel their
teeth grit. They say things like, if you do not
use the law in gospel proclamation, you will fill the
church with false converts. Stony ground hearers who will receive
the Word with joy and gladness. Listen, what Martin Luther said,
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is it Satan, the god of all dissension, stirs up
daily new sects, the last of all, which are all others.
I should never have foreseen or once suspected. He's raised
up a sect such as teach that men should not
be terrified by the law, but generally exhorted by the
preaching of the grace of Christ. So what's Luther saying.
He's saying, Listen, guys, there's a demonic Satanic sectors just
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risen up man. I never ever would have believed this
could happen. He's raised up a sex such as teach
that men should not be terrified by the law, but
gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ,
which perfectly sums up most of evangelism. Matthew Henry John
Wesley said to a friend of writing to a young evangelist,
he said, preach ninety percent law and ten percent grace.
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And you say, ninety percent law ten percent grace. Pretty heavy?
Couldn't it be fifty to fifty? Think of it like this.
I'm a doctor, you're a patient. You have a terminal disease.
I have a cure, but it's absolutely essential that you
are totally committed to this cure. If you're not one
hundred percent committed, it will not work. How am I
going to handle it? Probably like this. Come in here,
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sit down, have some very serious news for you. You
have a terminal disease. I see you begin to shake.
I think to myself, good, he's beginning to see the
seriousness of the situation. I bring out charts, I bring
out X rays. I show you the poison seeping through
your system. I speak to you for ten whole minutes
about this terrible disease. How long then do you think
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I'm going to have to talk about the cure? Not
long at all. When he's sitting there trembling, after tenants,
I say, by the way, here's the cure. You go to.
Your knowledge of the disease, and a terrific consequence has
made you desire the cure. You see, before I was
a Christian, I had as much desire for righteousness as
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a four year old boy has for the word bath.
What's the point? See, Jesus said, a blessed of those
who hunger and thirst after righteousness. How many non Christians.
Do you know who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness?
The Bible says there's none that seeks after God. Since
they love the darkness, they hate the light. Neither will
they come to the light least their needs be exposed.
The only thing they'd drink in is iniquity like water.
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But the night I was confronted with the spiritual nature
of God's law and understood that God requires truth in
the inward parts that he saw my thought life, and
considered lust to be the same as adultery, hatred, the
same as murder. I began to say, I can see
I'm condemned. What must I do to be made right?
I began to thirst for righteousness. The law puts salt
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on my tongue. It was a schoolmaster to bring me
to Christ. Charles Spurgeon said, they will never accept grace
until they tremble before a just and holy law. Dearl Moody,
John Bunyan, John Newton who wrote Amazing Grace, and if
any one had a grip on grace, it was Newton.
He said that the correct understanding of the harmony between
law and grace is to preserve one's self from being
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entangled by errors on the right hand and on the left.
Charles Phiney said, evermore, the law must prepare the way
for the Gospel. He said, to overlook this and instructing
souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the
introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to
fill the church with false converts saints. The first thing
David Wilkeson said to me when he called me on
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his car phone was I thought I was the only
one who didn't believe in follow up. Now I believe
in feeding a new convert. I believe in nurturing him.
I believe in descipling him biblical and most necessary. But
I don't believe in following him. I can't find it
in scripture that Ethiopian Eunich was left without follow up.
How could he survive? All he had was God and
the scriptures. You see, it's my understanding. You know what
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follow up? Now, let me explain follow up for those
of you who don't know. Follow up is when we
get decisions, either through crusades or local church, and we
take laborers from the harvest fields, who are few as
it is, and give them this disheartening task of running
after these decisions to make sure they're going on with God.
What it is is a sad admission to the amount
of confidence we have in the power of our message
and in the keeping power of God. If God has
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saved them, God will keep them. They're born of God.
They'll never die. If He's begun a good work in them,
he'll complete it to that day. If he's the author
of their faith, he'll be the finish of their faith.
He's able to save to the outlast them that come
to God by him. He's able to keep them from falling,
present them faultless. Before the presence was glory with exceeding joy. Jesus,
that no one will pluck you from my Father's hand.
See the problem is, Saints. Lazarus is four days dead.
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We can run on the tomb, we can pull him out,
we can prop him up, we can open his eyes,
but he stinketh. He needs to hear the voice of
the Son of God, and the sinner there's four days
dead in his sins. We can run up and say
say this prayer. Still, he needs to hear the voice
of the Son of God or there is no life
in him. And the things that primes. The sinner's here
to hear the voice of the Son of God is
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the law. It's a schoolmaster to bring him to Christ,
that he might be justified through faith saints. The law works,
It converts the soul, that makes a person a new
creature in Christ, that all things pass away. Behold, all
things have become new. So find yourself a sinner, an
experiment on him. But as you do so, remember this
one anecdote. You're sitting on a plane. You're suffering your coffee,
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you're biting your cookie, you're watching a movie. It's a
good flight, very pleasurable, and suddenly you hear, this is
your captain speaking of an announcement to make because the
tail section has just formed this plane you're about to
crash as a twenty five thousand foot drop. There's a
parachute under your seat. We appreciate it if you put
it on. Thank you for your attention, and thank you
for flying with this airline. You say, what twenty one
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thousand feet man, I'm I glad to be in this parachute.
You look next to the guy next to his biting
his cookie, supping his coffee, watching the movie. You say,
excuse me, did you hit a captain put the parachute on,
turns to you and says, I really don't think the captain
means besides him, quiet appis and thanks. Don't turn Tomans
and see a zeal and say, oh, please put the
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parachute on. It'll be better than the movie. But that
doesn't make sense. If you tell him somehow the parachute
is going to improve his flight, he's going to put
it on for a wrong motive. If you wanted to
put it on and keep it on, tell him about
the jump. Excuse me, ignore the captain. If you wish
jump without a parachute. Splat, he says, I'm sorry, I
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beg your pardon. I said, if you jump without a parachute,
law of gravity on the ground, he says, oh, who
knows me? I see what you're saying. Thank you very much.
And as long as that man knows, as long as
he has knowledge, he has to pass through the door
and face the consequences of breaking the law of gravity.
There's no way you're going to get that parachute off
his back, because there's very life depends on it. Now,
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if you'll go around, you find there are plenty of
passages enjoying the flight. They're enjoying the pleasures of sin
for a seas. Gods, excuse me, did you hear the
command from the captain of our salvation? Put on the
Lord Jesus Christ. Detern it and says, oh, I really
don't think God means that God is love. Besides, I'm
quite happy as I am. Thanks. Don't turn to them,
and sincere is zeal without knowledge, and say, please, put
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on the Lord Jesus Christ, who give you love, joy,
peace fulfillment, last and happiness. God check victory heart and
if God can feel you hear her marriage problem, drug problem,
alcohol problem. Just give your heart to Jesus. No, you'll
give him a wrong motive for his commandment. Instead, say oh, God,
give me courage and tell him about the jump to say, hey,
it's appointed a man wants to die. If you die
and your sins, God will be forced to give you justice,
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and his judgment is going to be so thorough every
idle word a man speaks, you've given accountter of in
the day of judgment. If you've lusted, you've committed adultery,
if you've hated someone, you've committed murder, And Jesus warned
that justice will be so thorough the fist of eternal
wrath will come upon you, and Ah grind you to powder.
God bless I saints. I'm not talking about hell fire preaching.
Hell Fire preaching will produce fear filled converts. Using God's
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law will produce tear filled converts. This one comes because
why he wants to escape the fires of hell. But
in his heart he thinks God is harsh and unjust
because the law hasn't been used to show him the
exceeding sinful nature of sin. He doesn't see hell as
being as just dessert that he deserves. Hell. Therefore he
doesn't understand mercy or grace. Therefore he lacks gratitude to
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God for his mercy, and gratitude is the prime motivation
for evangelism. There'll we know zeal and the heart of
a false convert to evangelize. But this one comes knowing
he has sinned against Heaven. The God's eyes in every
place beholding the evil and the good, and God has
seen darkness as though a pure light. He's seen his thought,
life of God and his holiness. On the day of
Wrath made manifest all the secret sins of his heart,
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all the deeds done in darkness, he made man of
all his evidence of his guilt. God could pick him
up as an unclean thing and cast him to hell
and do that which is just. But instead of giving
him justice, He's given him mercy. He's commanded his love
toward him that while he's here to send a Christ
died from He falls on his knees before that blood's
dain cross and says, Oh God, if you do that
for me, I'll do anything for you. I'd delight to
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do your will. Oh my God, your law has written
upon my heart. And like the man who knew he
had to pass through the door and face the consequences
of breaking the law of gravity, would never take his
parachute off because his very life depended on it. So
he who comes to the Savior, knowing he has to
face a holy God on the day of wrath, would
never forsake the righteousness of God in Christ because his
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very life depends on it. Let me see if I
can coregulate this teaching us which wrought to a close.
I was in the store some time ago, and the
owner of the store was serving a customer and using
God's name and blasphemy now, if somebody used my wife's
name and blasphemy, I'll be extremely offended if they use
her name as a curse word in that sense. But
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this guy was using God, God's name as a curse
word when God had given them life, his eyes, the
ability to think, his children, his food, every pleasure has
ever had given him by the goodness of God. And
he's using God's name as a curse word and indignantly
between him and his customer. I leaned and said, excuse me,
is this a religious meeting? The guy says, what h
l ol No. I said, yes, it is, because now
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you're talking about how let me get you one of
my books. So I went out of my car. Sorry,
I went out to my car er and he got
a book that I've written called God Doesn't Believe in
Atheists Proof the Atheist doesn't Exist. And it's a book
which uses logic, humor, reason and rationalism to prove the
existence of God, which you can do in two minutes
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without the use of faith. It's a very simple thing
to conclusively, absolutely prove God's existence, and it proves also
that the atheist doesn't exist. In fact, let me show
you a bumper sticket National Atheist Day, April the first.
So I gave him this book. And two months later,
when I gave i'm ano book, I've written a book
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called My Friends Are Dying, a book which is a
true and gripping story about the ministry of the Gospel,
and the most mirror murderous portion of Los Angeles, a
book which also uses humor in its presentation. Gave him
those books and he called me and told me that
what had happened. He told me his wife keep giving
him filthy looks, because there he was reading a book
called My Friends are Dying and laughing every two minutes.
But he's cleaning out his room and he picked up
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God doesn't leave an atheist. He that ah, and he
opened it up and read the first page, and then
he read the whole book, turned it in sixty pages.
He said it was weird because I hate reading. Then
he read My Friends are Dying. Gave his life to Christ,
brought himself a Bible, came round to say hi and
told me, after two days of being a Christian, and
his Bible is already up to what he called the
Book of Levititis. And I guess he is going to
read Palms and then job. But up until his commitment,
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the man was a practicing which the law of the
Lord is perfect, converting the soul. And says, O, God
looked down upon me is for many years I have
preached as I fought off the enemy of the feather
duster of modern evangelism, this is God said, what are
you doing weapons of war? For? Are not channel that
mighty through God to the pulling down a strongholds? Here
are ten great cannons. And as I lined up the
ten cannons of God's law, no longer had sent a
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scarf and mock know their faces went pale. They lifted
their hands and said, I surrender all order Jesus, A
footy give came across to the winning side, never to
become deserted. Such converts become soul miners, not pure warmers, laborers,
not layabouts, assets not liabilities for the local church. And now, saints,
with every head raised and every eye open and no
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music playing, let me challenge you as to the validity
of your salvation. Mom evangelism says, never question your salvation.
The Bible says the exact opposite. It says, examine yourself
and see if you're in the faith better now than
on the day of judgment. The Bible says, make your
calling elections sure, and some of you know that something
is radically wrong in your Christian walk. You lose your
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peace and joy when the flight kids bumpy. There is
a lack of zeal to evangelize. You never fell on
your face before a mighty garden, said I've sinned against
you of God, have mercy upon me. You've never lad
to Jesus Christ and his blood for cleansing and desperation,
crying out, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And
there's a lack of gratitude. There's not a burning zeal
for the lost. You can't see you're on fire for God.
In fact, you're in danger of being one of the
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ones that are called luke warman. We spewed out of
the mouth of Christ. On the day of judgment, when
multitudes will cry out to Jesus, Lord Lord, if they
depart from me, your worker of iniquity, lawlessness, I never
knew no regard to the divine law. The Bible says
that everyone that names the name of Christ depart from
iniquity lawlessness. So today you need to readjust a motive
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for your commitment. Friend, don't let your pride stop you.
I would like to pray for you, or remain up here,
you remain in your seat if you'd like to be
including this Prayer'd like you to slip up your hand.
But remember this. If you say, well, I should put
my hand out, what will people think that's pride? You
prefer the praises of men to the praises of God.
Everyone who is proud of heart is an abomination to
the Lord. God resists of proud, gives grace to the humble.
So humble yourself for the mighty hand of God. He'll
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exalt you in due time. Call it a recommittal, call
it a committal, but whatever you call it, make your
calling an election. Sure. Thank you for taking the time
to listen to Hell's Best Kept Secret. Experience has shown
us that the enemy hates this teaching, and it won't
be long until the truths that you've just heard are
taken from your mind. So you may like to listen
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to it again. Hell's Best Kept Secret is the first
in a series of sixteen teachings from an audio series
called The Way of the Master. May also be interested
in some of her other products products like the Evidence Bible.
This is unique in that it's packed full of scientific
and medical facts that are hidden in scripture, as well
as hundreds of incredible quotes from men like Spurgeon Woodfield
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and John Wesley. It also has wonderful anecdotes, teachings on
personal witnessing and open air preaching, as well as the
last words of famous people, and over a hundred of
the most commonly asked questions of the Christian faith, questions
like why is there suffering? Who made God? Where did
Kane get his wife? Etc. There was a Gold Medallion
Award finalist and is commanded by Franklin Graham, Josh McDowell,
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and d James Kennedy. We also have many gospel tracks
that are so unique non Christians actually ask for more.
You can see these online. For almost a year, Kirk
Cameron and myself poured our heart and souls into creating
the basic training course. We taught the cream of our
award winning television series The Way of the Master and
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created an eight week training course for local churches. We
facilitate the entire course. All you have to do is
switch on the DVD play. It comes with audio CDs
a comprehensive study guide and other additional helps to equip
you for Biblical evangelism. The Way of the Master television
series upon which the course is based has been commanded
by John MacArthur Rabizacharias, Josh McDowell, Johnny Rickson, Tata, and
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many other Christian leaders. Check out the online Bible school
called The School of Biblical Evangelism with over seven thousand
students from around the world and get into a habit
of listening to the Way of the Master radio. It's
on for two hours every weekday and you can get
broadcast details at wayothmasterradio dot com. And closing, please make
sure you sign up for our free email newsletter. Kirk
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and I would love to keep in contact with you
and let you know what God is doing through our ministry.
That address again is Wayofthemaster dot com. Forgive me for
all these commercials. Our motive is solely to seek and
save that which is lost. Let's just close and prayer. Father,
thank you so much for saving me, and for those
that are listening that know you. We pray for this
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dying world that you'll give us wisdom, help us to
use the tools you've given us the weapons that are
not carnal but mighty through God, to the pulling down
a strongholds. Help us to reach this world while there's
still time. In Jesus name, we pray Amen.
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