April 16, 2024 • 21 mins
Every response to the Gospel, whether visible or hidden deep within, is a profound and crucial decision. With part 3 of Witnesses, we confront the stark helplessness of worldly wisdom when faced with spiritual needs, emphasizing the precious promise of faith and the unshakable assurance of salvation. This episode isn't just a discourse; it's an invitation to experience the ultimate reconciliation of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Greetings and welcome to the Redeeming Love Bible
Broadcast.
My name is Phil Duddy,evangelist with Grace Baptist
Tabernacle of King, northCarolina.
Really glad to have you with meon the program today as we get
into part three of our currentseries, which is called Witness.
As always, please do feel freeto reach out to us at
redeemingthelost at icloudcom.
And as we lead into part threeof this series, we need to go
(00:37):
back and link up with part twoof the series and we talked
about something called anencounter last time.
Can't overemphasize how keythat is An encounter between a
person and Jesus, an encounterbeing a meeting, particularly a
sudden or an unplanned, even anaccidental meeting of two or
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more persons.
Jesus is alive and people arealive and there are encounters
every day to go on between Jesusand people.
And these meetings, especiallyfrom our perspective, from our
perspective, you know I've met alot of people over the years.
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I myself used to be one.
I sought out a religion, Isought out a philosophy, I
sought out a worldview and itwas all sort of geared based on
my own taste, based on my ownpreferences, based on my own
lusts.
People will seek that out.
People will seek out a religionor philosophy or way of looking
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at the world that kind of suitsthem, that kind of fits them,
maybe challenges them to grow insomething that they already
believe.
But the difference is, whenJesus shows up, people are like
whoa.
When Jesus shows up, becauseJesus is not tailored according
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to our lusts, jesus is nottailored according to, you know,
our preconceived notions abouthim.
Jesus is Jesus, jesus is alive.
And Jesus shows up.
And Jesus reveals sin.
Jesus reveals lostness.
Jesus reveals the reality thatthere is a difference between
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the fallen world and fallenhumanity and who God is.
Jesus reveals that somethinghas been lost.
He's here to restore that.
He's here to forgive the sin.
He's here to make all thingsnew.
He's here to heal, he's here torestore.
And that runs counter to ourlusts, that runs counter to
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fornication, that runs counterto adultery, drunkenness,
anything like that.
At the same time, jesus doesn'tchange who he is, but he's
looking to heal, he's looking torestore, he's looking to save
people, certainly from the wrathof God, and he's looking to
sort of restore people, to healpeople of all the consequences
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of sin.
And he seeks and he saves thatwhich is lost.
And it's a real, real, sobering,major, huge reality that sin
has consequences, that whilewe're living in sin we're not
living in the will of God.
When we're living in sin, we'renot living in the will of God
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and certain things are lost.
You know, the price offornication is often a stable
family.
The price of adultery iscertainly a family.
The price of drunkennessthere's, you know, there's
physical consequences, there'semotional consequences, there's
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even mental consequences, andall of those things kind of take
root where, you know, the wholetime, god designed it for us to
be joyful, designed it for usto be peaceful, designed it for
us to be fruitful, designed us,you know, to have wisdom.
But you know, in choosing sinyou're putting aside Jesus.
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In choosing sin you're puttingaside the Holy Spirit, you're
putting aside the Father andyou're putting aside God's will
for your life.
When you're choosing sin, soyeah, and so we choose sin and
addictions come up.
We choose sin, and sin kind ofcreates more and more and more
and more and more problemswithout really fixing anything.
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Sin creates all of this death,sin creates all this destruction
, sin creates all thisbrokenness.
And then this encounter takesplace and Jesus shows up and he
is so completely different.
He's so completely differentfrom a philosophy or a worldview
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or a way of you know looking atthe world or sort of a set of
religious structures.
But we've got the living Godencountering a living person.
And something always happens inthat meeting Either the person
is saved and born again and thathealing process gets started,
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or that person you know goesaway sad, or that person goes
away angry.
Or that person goes away andkind of clings and doubles down
on the sin.
That is bringing about a lot ofdestructive consequences in
that life.
But the encounter is absolutelykey, folks, and we're going to
jump one verse out of 1Corinthians, so excuse me.
(05:42):
So come on over to 1Corinthians, chapter 1, starting
in verse 18.
For the preaching of the crossis to them that perish
foolishness, but unto us, whichare saved, it is the power of
God.
Preaching is a means of thisencounter and preaching is
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always a part of this encountersomewhere.
So the preaching of the cross,the preaching of Jesus, the
preaching of the finished workthat Jesus did on that cross,
and God uses one person.
God uses one person, you know,and God uses one person.
God uses one person, you know,a spirit-filled, jesus-loving
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hallelujah, amen.
You know God uses one preacherto get this word to another
preacher to get the word ofJesus to another preacher, to
get the word of God to anotherperson.
No-transcript.
And, as we've mentioned, thepeople who hear always have a
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reaction.
There's always a response.
There's never a neutral, evenif the person doesn't say
anything.
There's never a neutral becauseinside, that person is reacting
, that person's reacting in theheart, that person's reacting in
the head.
There's all kinds of responsesgoing on.
That person may not verbalizethem, that person may just go
(07:08):
blank, that person may even, youknow, use a deception to cover
it up, but there is always,always, always, always, always a
response.
Whenever Jesus is preached,whenever Jesus is preached,
whenever the Word of God goesforward that God so loves this
world that he sent his onlybegotten son so that any who
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should believe in him will notperish but have everlasting life
, whenever just that one versegoes forward, that's just John 3
, 16.
Whenever that goes forward,there is always a response
because God sets up an encounter.
In that moment, god initi up anencounter.
In that moment, god initiatesan encounter.
In that moment he shows up andhe says this is who I am, this
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is my love for you, this is mynature, these are my thoughts,
these are my ways, this is who Iam as Lord ways.
This is who I am as Lord andthis is who you are, and I love
you.
And I love you, no matter howmuch you might have sinned
against me, no matter how muchyou might hate me, no matter how
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much you want me to go away andstop talking.
I love you.
This is what God says to people.
This is kind of what goes on inthis encounter, and God reveals
a lostness, god reveals the sin.
God reveals all theconsequences, all the addictions
, all the brokenness, all thehurt, all the pain, all the
ungodly fear, all of the worry,all of the concern, all of the
stress, all the anxiety, allthat has come up.
(08:44):
You know all the brokenrelationships.
God kind of reveals not only anindividual sin but the
consequences of that sin and,first and foremost, god is going
to deal with the relationshipbetween a lost and dying sinner
and God and himself.
God's going to deal with thatrelationship first Because Jesus
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is the foundation, jesus is thechief cornerstone, jesus is the
foundation of everything andGod's going to start at that
foundation.
Where that person is beforeholy God.
Is that person, you know, inChrist or outside of Christ?
Is that person under theauthority of God and in his
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kingdom or is that person in thekingdom of the devil?
You know God's going to dealwith these foundational issues
first in this encounter, andpreaching is the means of that
encounter.
At some point somebody has toopen the mouth, somebody has to
preach Jesus, and you know, andthat reaction is going to go on
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in people who listen.
You know, book of Romans tellsyou know.
You know, you know, faith comesby hearing and hearing comes by
the word of God.
Whenever the preaching goesforward, that little bit of that
faith, that capacity, thatGod-given faith that's in every
person, that faith kind of getsstirred up and that belief
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either goes toward God or towardsomething else.
You know, if it goes towardsomething else, call that
unbelief.
But that person's either goingto go to Jesus, run to Jesus or
run away from Jesus.
But preaching is kind of thecatalyst.
If you will God, you know, ifyou're preaching Jesus, you're
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not going to use the words ofthe world but you're going to
use the Word of God.
And God honors His Word, godmoves in His Word.
If all you do is stand out onthe street and read the word of
God verbatim, out loud God isstill going to move.
God's going to move because Godhonors this word and this word
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is a living word.
This word is an active word,this word is a powerful word and
this word is always going tohave a response.
And so we go.
You know, the preaching of thecross is to them that perish
foolishness.
Those who perish are the lostand the ruined and the destroyed
.
And this perishing is a bigdeal Lost, ruined and destroyed.
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As you know, as we've alreadyseen, already seen, sin's got a
lot of consequences.
If you're living in sin, you'renot living in the will of God.
If you're choosing sin, you'renot choosing the will of God.
If you're building up sin inyour life, you're not building
up the will of God and the wordof God in your life.
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And there are consequences.
God would want us to have joy,he wants us to have peace, he
wants us to have wisdom, wantsus to have temperance, wants us
to have all the good fruits ofthe Holy Ghost.
And if we're choosing sin, ifwe're living in foolishness, if
we're living in arrogance, ifwe're living in anger or hatred,
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fornication, adultery,drunkenness, drug use, whatever
the case may be.
We're building that up in ourlives.
If we're living there andthere's a lot of lostness,
there's a lot of consequencethat comes about from that and
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you know it's been well said.
You know what we need to do iswe need to and you know,
sometimes you know you got toask God for this and God will
give it to you but to reallyhave a vision of you know, this
person that you want to seesaved, this person that you want
to see born again, what wouldtheir role in the body of Christ
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look like?
What would their place in thechurch look like?
What would their life look likeafter salvation?
After all those consequences ofsin have been dealt with and
washed away, torn down, andrighteousness and goodness and
holiness and godliness has beenbuilt up.
What would that person looklike?
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We've got to kind of have thatheart for folks and those who
perish, lost, ruined, destroyed,in the here and now and in
eternity.
And as this preaching goesforward, the difference between
God's thoughts and God's natureand the fallen world's thoughts
and the fallen world's naturebecomes very, very pronounced.
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And you know the preaching ofthe cross is to them that perish
foolishness.
So if they're going to stay intheir sin, they're going to
dismiss it as foolishness.
But unto us, which are saved,it is the power of God.
If that person will stay intheir sin, they dismiss it as
foolishness.
But if that person will believeJesus Christ, will put their
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faith in Jesus Christ, will sayyes and amen.
Lord, you know I'm lost, I'mdying, I'm hell bound.
I'm a sinner.
I need grace, I need the bloodof Jesus.
I want the blood of Jesus, Iwant Jesus, I want you to be my
Lord, my God, make me all new,make me all born again, whatever
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words kind of come up out ofthat person.
But the faith is toward JesusChrist.
The faith, the inward faith,the attitude of the heart goes
toward Jesus Christ and heresponds with that miracle of
new birth and salvation.
This word is the power of Godunto salvation.
The preaching of the cross, thepreaching of that finished work,
the fact that Jesus became oursin and the fact that Jesus shed
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his blood, the fact that hedied in atoning death and he
rose again on the third day, thepreaching of that cross that he
became our sin, that he becameour lust, he became our
arrogance, our lostness, our.
You know any lust you want tolook at.
He became all of that on theand he died in our place so that
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we might have eternal life.
That is the very power of Godand the us which are saved.
Saved meaning rescued fromdestruction, rescued from
destruction.
The cross was used as thatinstrument because Jesus died
there.
You know, the cross itself wasjust wood, the nails just metal,
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but Jesus died there.
The cross was an instrument.
Jesus shed his blood there.
There, god the Father made himto be sin.
There he was made to be a curse.
There he died an atoning death.
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The power of God, god's, youknow, the sort of ultimate act
of initiation, because God didthis while we were yet sinners.
The ultimate act of Godinitiating an encounter with the
fallen, lost, dying world.
And that's every single one ofus included.
God initiated that.
He did this while we were yetsinners, while we were yet
sinners.
Christ died for us.
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That's how we know his love.
Hallelujah, amen, glory to God.
And we've got to look at this,because all the knowledge and
the philosophy and the cultureof the world, every, all, all of
its might, all of its ability,everything that it's been able
to come up with over generations, over eras, over times, over
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cultures, everything that peoplehave been able to kind of come
up with has not yet and it neverwill, um has not yet and never
will conquer sin and death, andit cannot bring a single soul
home to God, because that's thedesign of God the world.
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We cannot do this by ourselves.
We can't learn enough.
We can't get big enough, badenough, strong enough, we can't
get powerful enough, we can'tget smart enough, we can't get
healthy enough, we can't getenough technology, we can't get
enough enlightenment, we can'tget enough chemical assistance,
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prescription drugs and the like.
You know, we cannot do enough.
We can't do enough to cover onesin, to cover one moment of sin
, to cover one lie.
We cannot do it.
We can't get to God on our own.
But hallelujah on the cross.
This is why it's the power ofGod.
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God came down to us and saidlook, this is who I am.
This is what I'm going to dofor you, because I love you.
I'm going to die your death.
I'm going to die your death.
You won't see one second ofhell.
I'm going to die your death sothat we can be reconciled.
You can be with me, we can healyour wounds, we can give you a
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new mind, we give you a newheart, we give you a new life.
You get born again and you bewith me and I be with you.
I be your God, you be my peoplewith me and I be with you.
I be your God, you be my people.
And God made this happen.
God did this, god initiated it,god provided for it and
hallelujah and amen.
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You know God maintains it.
You know the blood's nevergoing to be shed again.
Jesus never going to die again.
Jesus never going to rise upfrom the dead again.
It's done one time.
It's finished, it's complete.
And the question is are yougoing to receive it?
The question is are the peopleyou minister to going to receive
it or not?
But it's foolishness to them,who will remain in their sin.
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But hallelujah and amen, ifthey're going to believe.
Now you might be listening tothis today.
You know God drawing you.
If you're going to believe,it's the very power of God on
the salvation.
Hallelujah and amen.
You know I pray.
This has been a real blessingto you today.
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continue to richly bless you,amen.
Greetings and welcome to the Redeeming Love Bible
Broadcast.
My name is Phil Duddy,evangelist with Grace Baptist
Tabernacle of King, northCarolina.
Really glad to have you with meon the program today as we get
into part three of our currentseries, which is called Witness.
As always, please do feel freeto reach out to us at
redeemingthelost at icloudcom.
And as we lead into part threeof this series, we need to go
(00:37):
back and link up with part twoof the series and we talked
about something called anencounter last time.
Can't overemphasize how keythat is An encounter between a
person and Jesus, an encounterbeing a meeting, particularly a
sudden or an unplanned, even anaccidental meeting of two or
(00:59):
more persons.
Jesus is alive and people arealive and there are encounters
every day to go on between Jesusand people.
And these meetings, especiallyfrom our perspective, from our
perspective, you know I've met alot of people over the years.
(01:19):
I myself used to be one.
I sought out a religion, Isought out a philosophy, I
sought out a worldview and itwas all sort of geared based on
my own taste, based on my ownpreferences, based on my own
lusts.
People will seek that out.
People will seek out a religionor philosophy or way of looking
(01:39):
at the world that kind of suitsthem, that kind of fits them,
maybe challenges them to grow insomething that they already
believe.
But the difference is, whenJesus shows up, people are like
whoa.
When Jesus shows up, becauseJesus is not tailored according
(02:01):
to our lusts, jesus is nottailored according to, you know,
our preconceived notions abouthim.
Jesus is Jesus, jesus is alive.
And Jesus shows up.
And Jesus reveals sin.
Jesus reveals lostness.
Jesus reveals the reality thatthere is a difference between
(02:23):
the fallen world and fallenhumanity and who God is.
Jesus reveals that somethinghas been lost.
He's here to restore that.
He's here to forgive the sin.
He's here to make all thingsnew.
He's here to heal, he's here torestore.
And that runs counter to ourlusts, that runs counter to
(02:47):
fornication, that runs counterto adultery, drunkenness,
anything like that.
At the same time, jesus doesn'tchange who he is, but he's
looking to heal, he's looking torestore, he's looking to save
people, certainly from the wrathof God, and he's looking to
sort of restore people, to healpeople of all the consequences
(03:09):
of sin.
And he seeks and he saves thatwhich is lost.
And it's a real, real, sobering,major, huge reality that sin
has consequences, that whilewe're living in sin we're not
living in the will of God.
When we're living in sin, we'renot living in the will of God
(03:32):
and certain things are lost.
You know, the price offornication is often a stable
family.
The price of adultery iscertainly a family.
The price of drunkennessthere's, you know, there's
physical consequences, there'semotional consequences, there's
(03:52):
even mental consequences, andall of those things kind of take
root where, you know, the wholetime, god designed it for us to
be joyful, designed it for usto be peaceful, designed it for
us to be fruitful, designed us,you know, to have wisdom.
But you know, in choosing sinyou're putting aside Jesus.
(04:14):
In choosing sin you're puttingaside the Holy Spirit, you're
putting aside the Father andyou're putting aside God's will
for your life.
When you're choosing sin, soyeah, and so we choose sin and
addictions come up.
We choose sin, and sin kind ofcreates more and more and more
and more and more problemswithout really fixing anything.
(04:37):
Sin creates all of this death,sin creates all this destruction
, sin creates all thisbrokenness.
And then this encounter takesplace and Jesus shows up and he
is so completely different.
He's so completely differentfrom a philosophy or a worldview
(04:58):
or a way of you know looking atthe world or sort of a set of
religious structures.
But we've got the living Godencountering a living person.
And something always happens inthat meeting Either the person
is saved and born again and thathealing process gets started,
(05:18):
or that person you know goesaway sad, or that person goes
away angry.
Or that person goes away andkind of clings and doubles down
on the sin.
That is bringing about a lot ofdestructive consequences in
that life.
But the encounter is absolutelykey, folks, and we're going to
jump one verse out of 1Corinthians, so excuse me.
(05:42):
So come on over to 1Corinthians, chapter 1, starting
in verse 18.
For the preaching of the crossis to them that perish
foolishness, but unto us, whichare saved, it is the power of
God.
Preaching is a means of thisencounter and preaching is
(06:05):
always a part of this encountersomewhere.
So the preaching of the cross,the preaching of Jesus, the
preaching of the finished workthat Jesus did on that cross,
and God uses one person.
God uses one person, you know,and God uses one person.
God uses one person, you know,a spirit-filled, jesus-loving
(06:26):
hallelujah, amen.
You know God uses one preacherto get this word to another
preacher to get the word ofJesus to another preacher, to
get the word of God to anotherperson.
No-transcript.
And, as we've mentioned, thepeople who hear always have a
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reaction.
There's always a response.
There's never a neutral, evenif the person doesn't say
anything.
There's never a neutral becauseinside, that person is reacting
, that person's reacting in theheart, that person's reacting in
the head.
There's all kinds of responsesgoing on.
That person may not verbalizethem, that person may just go
(07:08):
blank, that person may even, youknow, use a deception to cover
it up, but there is always,always, always, always, always a
response.
Whenever Jesus is preached,whenever Jesus is preached,
whenever the Word of God goesforward that God so loves this
world that he sent his onlybegotten son so that any who
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should believe in him will notperish but have everlasting life
, whenever just that one versegoes forward, that's just John 3
, 16.
Whenever that goes forward,there is always a response
because God sets up an encounter.
In that moment, god initi up anencounter.
In that moment, god initiatesan encounter.
In that moment he shows up andhe says this is who I am, this
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is my love for you, this is mynature, these are my thoughts,
these are my ways, this is who Iam as Lord ways.
This is who I am as Lord andthis is who you are, and I love
you.
And I love you, no matter howmuch you might have sinned
against me, no matter how muchyou might hate me, no matter how
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much you want me to go away andstop talking.
I love you.
This is what God says to people.
This is kind of what goes on inthis encounter, and God reveals
a lostness, god reveals the sin.
God reveals all theconsequences, all the addictions
, all the brokenness, all thehurt, all the pain, all the
ungodly fear, all of the worry,all of the concern, all of the
stress, all the anxiety, allthat has come up.
(08:44):
You know all the brokenrelationships.
God kind of reveals not only anindividual sin but the
consequences of that sin and,first and foremost, god is going
to deal with the relationshipbetween a lost and dying sinner
and God and himself.
God's going to deal with thatrelationship first Because Jesus
(09:07):
is the foundation, jesus is thechief cornerstone, jesus is the
foundation of everything andGod's going to start at that
foundation.
Where that person is beforeholy God.
Is that person, you know, inChrist or outside of Christ?
Is that person under theauthority of God and in his
(09:28):
kingdom or is that person in thekingdom of the devil?
You know God's going to dealwith these foundational issues
first in this encounter, andpreaching is the means of that
encounter.
At some point somebody has toopen the mouth, somebody has to
preach Jesus, and you know, andthat reaction is going to go on
(09:53):
in people who listen.
You know, book of Romans tellsyou know.
You know, you know, faith comesby hearing and hearing comes by
the word of God.
Whenever the preaching goesforward, that little bit of that
faith, that capacity, thatGod-given faith that's in every
person, that faith kind of getsstirred up and that belief
(10:15):
either goes toward God or towardsomething else.
You know, if it goes towardsomething else, call that
unbelief.
But that person's either goingto go to Jesus, run to Jesus or
run away from Jesus.
But preaching is kind of thecatalyst.
If you will God, you know, ifyou're preaching Jesus, you're
(10:36):
not going to use the words ofthe world but you're going to
use the Word of God.
And God honors His Word, godmoves in His Word.
If all you do is stand out onthe street and read the word of
God verbatim, out loud God isstill going to move.
God's going to move because Godhonors this word and this word
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is a living word.
This word is an active word,this word is a powerful word and
this word is always going tohave a response.
And so we go.
You know, the preaching of thecross is to them that perish
foolishness.
Those who perish are the lostand the ruined and the destroyed
.
And this perishing is a bigdeal Lost, ruined and destroyed.
(11:25):
As you know, as we've alreadyseen, already seen, sin's got a
lot of consequences.
If you're living in sin, you'renot living in the will of God.
If you're choosing sin, you'renot choosing the will of God.
If you're building up sin inyour life, you're not building
up the will of God and the wordof God in your life.
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And there are consequences.
God would want us to have joy,he wants us to have peace, he
wants us to have wisdom, wantsus to have temperance, wants us
to have all the good fruits ofthe Holy Ghost.
And if we're choosing sin, ifwe're living in foolishness, if
we're living in arrogance, ifwe're living in anger or hatred,
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fornication, adultery,drunkenness, drug use, whatever
the case may be.
We're building that up in ourlives.
If we're living there andthere's a lot of lostness,
there's a lot of consequencethat comes about from that and
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you know it's been well said.
You know what we need to do iswe need to and you know,
sometimes you know you got toask God for this and God will
give it to you but to reallyhave a vision of you know, this
person that you want to seesaved, this person that you want
to see born again, what wouldtheir role in the body of Christ
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look like?
What would their place in thechurch look like?
What would their life look likeafter salvation?
After all those consequences ofsin have been dealt with and
washed away, torn down, andrighteousness and goodness and
holiness and godliness has beenbuilt up.
What would that person looklike?
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We've got to kind of have thatheart for folks and those who
perish, lost, ruined, destroyed,in the here and now and in
eternity.
And as this preaching goesforward, the difference between
God's thoughts and God's natureand the fallen world's thoughts
and the fallen world's naturebecomes very, very pronounced.
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And you know the preaching ofthe cross is to them that perish
foolishness.
So if they're going to stay intheir sin, they're going to
dismiss it as foolishness.
But unto us, which are saved,it is the power of God.
If that person will stay intheir sin, they dismiss it as
foolishness.
But if that person will believeJesus Christ, will put their
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faith in Jesus Christ, will sayyes and amen.
Lord, you know I'm lost, I'mdying, I'm hell bound.
I'm a sinner.
I need grace, I need the bloodof Jesus.
I want the blood of Jesus, Iwant Jesus, I want you to be my
Lord, my God, make me all new,make me all born again, whatever
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words kind of come up out ofthat person.
But the faith is toward JesusChrist.
The faith, the inward faith,the attitude of the heart goes
toward Jesus Christ and heresponds with that miracle of
new birth and salvation.
This word is the power of Godunto salvation.
The preaching of the cross, thepreaching of that finished work,
the fact that Jesus became oursin and the fact that Jesus shed
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his blood, the fact that hedied in atoning death and he
rose again on the third day, thepreaching of that cross that he
became our sin, that he becameour lust, he became our
arrogance, our lostness, our.
You know any lust you want tolook at.
He became all of that on theand he died in our place so that
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we might have eternal life.
That is the very power of Godand the us which are saved.
Saved meaning rescued fromdestruction, rescued from
destruction.
The cross was used as thatinstrument because Jesus died
there.
You know, the cross itself wasjust wood, the nails just metal,
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but Jesus died there.
The cross was an instrument.
Jesus shed his blood there.
There, god the Father made himto be sin.
There he was made to be a curse.
There he died an atoning death.
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The power of God, god's, youknow, the sort of ultimate act
of initiation, because God didthis while we were yet sinners.
The ultimate act of Godinitiating an encounter with the
fallen, lost, dying world.
And that's every single one ofus included.
God initiated that.
He did this while we were yetsinners, while we were yet
sinners.
Christ died for us.
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That's how we know his love.
Hallelujah, amen, glory to God.
And we've got to look at this,because all the knowledge and
the philosophy and the cultureof the world, every, all, all of
its might, all of its ability,everything that it's been able
to come up with over generations, over eras, over times, over
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cultures, everything that peoplehave been able to kind of come
up with has not yet and it neverwill, um has not yet and never
will conquer sin and death, andit cannot bring a single soul
home to God, because that's thedesign of God the world.
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We cannot do this by ourselves.
We can't learn enough.
We can't get big enough, badenough, strong enough, we can't
get powerful enough, we can'tget smart enough, we can't get
healthy enough, we can't getenough technology, we can't get
enough enlightenment, we can'tget enough chemical assistance,
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prescription drugs and the like.
You know, we cannot do enough.
We can't do enough to cover onesin, to cover one moment of sin
, to cover one lie.
We cannot do it.
We can't get to God on our own.
But hallelujah on the cross.
This is why it's the power ofGod.
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God came down to us and saidlook, this is who I am.
This is what I'm going to dofor you, because I love you.
I'm going to die your death.
I'm going to die your death.
You won't see one second ofhell.
I'm going to die your death sothat we can be reconciled.
You can be with me, we can healyour wounds, we can give you a
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new mind, we give you a newheart, we give you a new life.
You get born again and you bewith me and I be with you.
I be your God, you be my peoplewith me and I be with you.
I be your God, you be my people.
And God made this happen.
God did this, god initiated it,god provided for it and
hallelujah and amen.
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You know God maintains it.
You know the blood's nevergoing to be shed again.
Jesus never going to die again.
Jesus never going to rise upfrom the dead again.
It's done one time.
It's finished, it's complete.
And the question is are yougoing to receive it?
The question is are the peopleyou minister to going to receive
it or not?
But it's foolishness to them,who will remain in their sin.
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But hallelujah and amen, ifthey're going to believe.
Now you might be listening tothis today.
You know God drawing you.
If you're going to believe,it's the very power of God on
the salvation.
Hallelujah and amen.
You know I pray.
This has been a real blessingto you today.
Feel free, you know, as all youyou know, get in touch with us.
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We want to hear from youRedeeming the Lost at iCloudcom
and also, please do continue toplay these for your churches,
continue to play these in yourhouseholds for your families,
you know.
Continue to share these, helpus to continue to reach people
around the world with thepreaching of Jesus and
especially, you know, if you'vebeen listening to this and God's
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been drawing you to salvationand you've been saved, we want
to continue to be a ministry toyou.
Please look us up, you can findus.
We're a ministry of GraceBaptist Tabernacle.
We're in King, north Carolina.
Gbtministriescom is the websiteaddress and you can find service
times.
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You can find service locationsthere.
We would really, really love tomeet you in person.
We would love to just come andvisit one of our services,
worship with us, meet us inperson.
We would love to know who youare and continue to minister to
you, and I want to thank you allof you again for helping this
podcast get around the world,for helping this podcast get
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around the world.
It's a real, real, tremendousblessing for us to see on our
end, and so reach out to us, letus know how we can pray for you
, how we can be a ministry toyou, and thank you for
continuing to support thepodcast, and may the Lord
continue to richly bless you,amen.
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