Can You Lose Your Salvation?

100:00:00.420 --> 00:00:05.380Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to200:00:05.380 --> 00:00:09.020proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture.300:00:09.300 --> 00:00:11.240Hey, what if you backslide?400:00:11.580 --> 00:00:14.240Is it impossible for you to come back to Christ?500:00:15.040 --> 00:00:22.780What if you are in church and you profess faith, but are you really a believer?600:00:23.140 --> 00:00:24.280Are you going to heaven?700:00:24.980 --> 00:00:26.040What does the Bible say?800:00:26.880 --> 00:00:29.920Can you come back after you have fallen away?900:00:30.180 --> 00:00:32.080Can you come back after you have sinned?1000:00:32.340 --> 00:00:33.560Let's see what the Bible says.1100:00:34.040 --> 00:00:34.560Let's see.1200:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.340Let's hear what God has to say about this.1300:00:41.350 --> 00:00:46.970You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash1400:00:46.970 --> 00:00:47.690podcast.1500:00:48.170 --> 00:00:52.910Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled1600:00:52.910 --> 00:00:56.950life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.1700:00:57.250 --> 00:01:02.690To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others1800:01:02.690 --> 00:01:03.290to listen.1900:01:04.010 --> 00:01:07.070Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.2000:01:07.430 --> 00:01:08.970Here is Jack Hibbs.2100:01:09.750 --> 00:01:12.550Well, everybody, welcome to the show today.2200:01:12.750 --> 00:01:14.970And we're glad that you're with us.2300:01:15.010 --> 00:01:21.750And we want to always, always invite you to tell others if in any way, shape,2400:01:21.790 --> 00:01:26.250or form that are getting together is something that communicates to you,2500:01:26.590 --> 00:01:30.610something that's challenging, makes you think, makes you research the2600:01:30.610 --> 00:01:34.230scriptures and or the news or whatever we might be talking about.2700:01:34.910 --> 00:01:41.550Even though I'm a pastor and a Bible teacher, I don't want to limit my life in2800:01:41.550 --> 00:01:46.510any way, shape, or form, but I want to take my faith everywhere I go and into2900:01:46.510 --> 00:01:47.930every topic of life.3000:01:48.770 --> 00:01:54.610I'm a big fan of full biblical immersion into all things of this world.3100:01:56.130 --> 00:01:59.470I think I got that from Jesus and simply reading the Bible.3200:01:59.790 --> 00:02:01.210I didn't read it in a book.3300:02:01.290 --> 00:02:02.310I didn't hear it in a sermon.3400:02:02.770 --> 00:02:06.910It just makes sense to me that everything that you and I experience in life,3500:02:07.110 --> 00:02:15.990from breathing, to reading, to movie, to news, to you name the topic, you name3600:02:15.990 --> 00:02:21.770the discipline, biology, archaeology, the sciences, I believe that the Bible3700:02:21.770 --> 00:02:22.470leads the way.3800:02:22.970 --> 00:02:23.810I really do.3900:02:24.410 --> 00:02:32.450And that said, if there's anything that we discuss to help your friends out or4000:02:32.450 --> 00:02:37.450to even challenge your friends, or to maybe even, what's the word?4100:02:37.770 --> 00:02:39.710Putting it nicely, exhort them.4200:02:39.830 --> 00:02:44.610In other words, create a healthy argument about truth.4300:02:44.930 --> 00:02:46.510Then we're all for that.4400:02:46.730 --> 00:02:48.430And we're excited about that.4500:02:48.790 --> 00:02:55.690So I want to go to a passage of scripture that I heard recently.4600:02:55.950 --> 00:02:57.530It's been brought up numerous times.4700:02:57.670 --> 00:03:02.150It depends on what's going on, but it's always been a very controversial4800:03:02.150 --> 00:03:03.170passage of scripture.4900:03:04.450 --> 00:03:09.090It's again, something that should not be controversial.5000:03:10.170 --> 00:03:16.830But when we read the Bible in its context, when we ask the diagnostic questions5100:03:16.830 --> 00:03:23.510of either the book of the Bible that we're reading, or the author himself, it5200:03:23.510 --> 00:03:27.710could be John, it could be Matthew, it could be Moses.5300:03:28.210 --> 00:03:29.490What do we know about them?5400:03:29.570 --> 00:03:30.790What can we know about them?5500:03:30.870 --> 00:03:32.230What can we find out about them?5600:03:32.230 --> 00:03:33.490When did they write?5700:03:34.730 --> 00:03:36.470That's, by the way, you can know that.5800:03:37.130 --> 00:03:38.270When did they write?5900:03:39.330 --> 00:03:44.350What was going on in their world, in world history at that time?6000:03:44.430 --> 00:03:45.190What was happening?6100:03:45.670 --> 00:03:46.870What was the chronology?6200:03:47.330 --> 00:03:51.790And what was the atmospherics of their age?6300:03:53.070 --> 00:03:54.950For example, the New Testament.6400:03:56.230 --> 00:04:02.910So what was life like in the New Testament era of the first, say, 200 years6500:04:04.190 --> 00:04:05.910from the advent of Christ?6600:04:06.290 --> 00:04:08.690Those things are extremely important to know.6700:04:09.010 --> 00:04:14.950And when we don't know them, we wind up falling into ill interpretations of6800:04:14.950 --> 00:04:19.230scripture that wind up often leading us to wrong conclusions.6900:04:20.550 --> 00:04:25.810Please understand that God didn't give us the Bible to confuse us or mess us7000:04:25.810 --> 00:04:26.210up.7100:04:26.690 --> 00:04:27.910The exact opposite.7200:04:30.170 --> 00:04:34.290People get a hold of the Bible, and they wind up messing it up.7300:04:35.050 --> 00:04:38.430You've heard me say it before that we should just let the Bible speak.7400:04:39.210 --> 00:04:43.870And we let the Bible speak whenever we read it, and we read it in its context.7500:04:44.670 --> 00:04:51.050Let me say this, I'm a real, I'm a real vociferous, is that the right word?7600:04:51.430 --> 00:04:52.010Outspoken.7700:04:52.350 --> 00:05:01.970I am passionate about avoiding random, call it7800:05:01.970 --> 00:05:04.870Bible roulette type of reading.7900:05:05.030 --> 00:05:10.530If you get up in the morning and it's Monday, and you think, oh, I'm going to8000:05:10.530 --> 00:05:12.310read John chapter seven.8100:05:13.090 --> 00:05:16.910And you read John chapter seven, and then you get up on Tuesday and you read8200:05:16.910 --> 00:05:18.310Ezekiel nine.8300:05:18.790 --> 00:05:22.490And then you get up on Wednesday and you read Revelation 21.8400:05:22.830 --> 00:05:27.510And then you get up on Thursday and you read Exodus three, you are going to be8500:05:27.510 --> 00:05:29.050so messed up.8600:05:30.430 --> 00:05:35.530You need to avoid that because what you want to do is understand, first of all,8700:05:35.650 --> 00:05:42.070that the Bible was never given with chapter verse references.8800:05:42.750 --> 00:05:44.050Now, don't get me wrong.8900:05:44.470 --> 00:05:45.870Is there a book of Esther?9000:05:46.250 --> 00:05:47.730Yes, there's a book of Esther.9100:05:48.270 --> 00:05:51.450By the way, side note, Lisa and I were in Oxford, England, not all that long9200:05:51.450 --> 00:05:52.750ago, and we went to a museum.9300:05:52.870 --> 00:05:59.330There's many of them there, but we went to the Ashmelean Museum that is right9400:05:59.330 --> 00:06:00.850next door to Oxford University.9500:06:01.830 --> 00:06:06.910And it was awesome because as we're walking through this, we were looking at9600:06:06.910 --> 00:06:12.610artifacts and things from the Persian Empire and from the Babylonian Empire and9700:06:12.610 --> 00:06:13.810from Egypt as well.9800:06:14.070 --> 00:06:18.770But one of the things that they had there, they had a section there on Esther.9900:06:19.330 --> 00:06:19.790Isn't that great?10000:06:20.730 --> 00:06:22.090Why do I think that's great?10100:06:22.210 --> 00:06:24.670Because the Bible is a book of facts.10200:06:24.990 --> 00:06:26.730The Bible is not a book of stories.10300:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.680And in the West anyway, we get all weird about that because we grew up going to10400:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.560Sunday school, listening to Bible stories, and that is very sad.10500:06:40.180 --> 00:06:41.080That's not the case.10600:06:41.220 --> 00:06:46.380You went to Sunday school, but listen, you actually learned about factual10700:06:46.380 --> 00:06:46.960events.10800:06:47.260 --> 00:06:49.700They weren't stories, but we call them stories.10900:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.180The church that I pastor, the staff, children's ministry, youth ministry,11000:06:56.040 --> 00:07:01.980pulpit ministry, I forbid the word story to be connected to the Bible.11100:07:02.460 --> 00:07:03.420It's not a story.11200:07:04.720 --> 00:07:10.180And so listen, all that to say when we pick up, for example, the book of11300:07:10.180 --> 00:07:14.000Hebrews, and that's where we're going here in a moment.11400:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.680The book of Hebrews, for those of you who don't know, is written in the New11500:07:18.680 --> 00:07:19.080Testament.11600:07:19.640 --> 00:07:23.140The authorship has always been in question because the author does not name11700:07:23.140 --> 00:07:23.480himself.11800:07:24.620 --> 00:07:31.240There are some really good arguments for various authors that could have11900:07:31.240 --> 00:07:31.700written it.12000:07:32.580 --> 00:07:33.500There are speculations.12100:07:35.020 --> 00:07:37.580But if you're going to speculate, it doesn't matter.12200:07:37.740 --> 00:07:43.860But most scholars come to the conclusion that the book of Hebrews is known as12300:07:43.860 --> 00:07:52.960being Pauline in its architecture, in its linguistics, its logic, its syntax,12400:07:53.480 --> 00:07:59.820the way that it flows, the introduction or the argumentation for a fact or for12500:07:59.820 --> 00:08:09.800a doctrine in the book of Hebrews is extremely, extremely parallel to Paul's12600:08:09.800 --> 00:08:14.360arguments, for example, in the book of Galatians or the book of Romans.12700:08:14.860 --> 00:08:16.560But it doesn't matter.12800:08:16.680 --> 00:08:17.880That's not our point right now.12900:08:17.960 --> 00:08:21.260But the point that I'm making is that we should always dive into the Bible more13000:08:21.260 --> 00:08:21.720carefully.13100:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.200And here's the reason why you should, among many reasons, is that the more you13200:08:26.200 --> 00:08:33.880dive into the depth of the Bible and unpack words that are found in verses,13300:08:34.480 --> 00:08:39.380that are found in chapters, that are found in a book, it matters.13400:08:39.919 --> 00:08:46.100So the early church, and I forget the year, forgive me, you can look it up, but13500:08:46.100 --> 00:08:56.080there was a time when the book, for example, of Joshua or Mark was divided up13600:08:56.080 --> 00:09:02.500into chapter number references with chapter verse references for memorization13700:09:02.500 --> 00:09:04.960or location purposes.13800:09:06.000 --> 00:09:11.400So in the old days, right, when you picked up the book of Ruth, you didn't read13900:09:11.400 --> 00:09:15.120chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, you read the book of Ruth.14000:09:15.900 --> 00:09:16.080Okay.14100:09:16.560 --> 00:09:20.700So that said, when we read the book of Hebrews, you're supposed to pick it up,14200:09:20.860 --> 00:09:25.540what we would call chapter one, verse one, but let's just say we pick it up and14300:09:25.540 --> 00:09:26.640we read through it.14400:09:27.340 --> 00:09:27.780Okay.14500:09:27.920 --> 00:09:30.140Very, very good thing to do.14600:09:30.280 --> 00:09:33.600Stop looking at the numbers of reference.14700:09:34.420 --> 00:09:37.460That said, what's the name of the book?14800:09:37.700 --> 00:09:41.120The book of Hebrews, but it's in the New Testament.14900:09:42.040 --> 00:09:43.940That wouldn't, shouldn't it be in the Old Testament?15000:09:44.140 --> 00:09:45.080No, not at all.15100:09:45.420 --> 00:09:55.360Because the first century church was, was Jewish or Gentile in context,15200:09:55.880 --> 00:09:56.900in its origin.15300:09:57.720 --> 00:09:58.260Jewish.15400:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.960The Jews, the gospel was first preached to the Jews.15500:10:04.000 --> 00:10:05.720The Jews got converted.15600:10:05.920 --> 00:10:06.660That is the Jews.15700:10:06.660 --> 00:10:08.100Can I put it to you this way?15800:10:09.340 --> 00:10:15.800Judaism is what man has done to the Old Testament scriptures.15900:10:16.420 --> 00:10:18.700So let's take the word Judaism and throw it away.16000:10:19.020 --> 00:10:19.780Put it over here.16100:10:20.040 --> 00:10:26.260If you read from Genesis through to Malachi and keep reading in Matthew, if you16200:10:26.260 --> 00:10:32.870didn't have any chapter verse numbers, life would be so much easier because it16300:10:32.870 --> 00:10:40.350would flow so perfectly that it makes total sense that these Jews having come16400:10:40.350 --> 00:10:46.010out of the Old Testament, having read it, it's natural for them to come to the16500:10:46.010 --> 00:10:50.910conclusion that the Messiah, the anointed one spoken of in the Old Testament16600:10:50.910 --> 00:10:56.970was the one that was born in Bethlehem based on Old Testament doctrine.16700:10:58.150 --> 00:11:02.290People think that the Christmas story, the Christmas account, the Christmas16800:11:02.290 --> 00:11:04.610event is something made up.16900:11:06.030 --> 00:11:06.490Nope.17000:11:06.710 --> 00:11:10.670It's Old Testament prophecy fulfilled, recorded in the new.17100:11:11.210 --> 00:11:16.490Having said that, when we keep reading, we come to the book of Hebrews and it's17200:11:16.490 --> 00:11:20.970an amazing thing because if you're Jewish, it unlocks to you a deeper17300:11:20.970 --> 00:11:22.910understanding of the book of Leviticus.17400:11:23.990 --> 00:11:29.230It's this reporter's opinion that you'll never understand clearly either one of17500:11:29.230 --> 00:11:35.270those books fully unless you read Leviticus and Hebrews and Hebrews and17600:11:35.270 --> 00:11:38.390Leviticus because one answers the other.17700:11:39.070 --> 00:11:47.890And in saying that, these were believers in Yeshua and they had come to faith17800:11:47.890 --> 00:11:49.850understanding, wow, we get it.17900:11:49.910 --> 00:11:50.550We got it now.18000:11:51.250 --> 00:11:52.470He's the answer.18100:11:54.390 --> 00:12:01.030And yet, like any group of people who watch my fingers believe, there are some18200:12:01.030 --> 00:12:06.650who believe in the group and some who say that they believe in the group.18300:12:07.310 --> 00:12:09.630It's true for the church that you attend.18400:12:10.810 --> 00:12:15.550Wouldn't it be great if everybody at your church was a born again believer and18500:12:15.550 --> 00:12:16.050going to heaven?18600:12:16.370 --> 00:12:18.310The fact is you don't know that.18700:12:19.050 --> 00:12:21.430They might all say they know the Lord.18800:12:21.570 --> 00:12:25.310They might all say that they're born again, but are they really?18900:12:25.570 --> 00:12:26.930You will not know that.19000:12:28.410 --> 00:12:29.550You will not know that.19100:12:29.610 --> 00:12:33.110The only way for you to know that is for you to go home with them and see how19200:12:33.110 --> 00:12:35.850they live their life behind closed doors for 30 days.19300:12:35.970 --> 00:12:38.590And then you'll know if they're really followers of Jesus.19400:12:39.330 --> 00:12:45.610Remember, church is a place we go to to get refueled in the truth of God and to19500:12:45.610 --> 00:12:50.670use the gifts of the spirit that God has given us to minister to the body that19600:12:50.670 --> 00:12:56.570sits around us in that community of friends and acquaintances that we see at19700:12:56.570 --> 00:12:56.990church.19800:12:57.090 --> 00:13:01.330If you notice you all sit together in the same spot, predominantly in the same19900:13:01.330 --> 00:13:02.670place, challenge.20000:13:02.950 --> 00:13:05.750Do you know the names of those people that you see every week?20100:13:06.190 --> 00:13:07.110Get to know them.20200:13:07.470 --> 00:13:09.650This coming Sunday, ask them out to lunch.20300:13:09.790 --> 00:13:14.210Seems like we sit pretty close together most of the time.20400:13:14.270 --> 00:13:14.690Let's go out.20500:13:14.750 --> 00:13:15.470Let's go to lunch.20600:13:15.470 --> 00:13:16.710Invite them out.20700:13:16.790 --> 00:13:17.730Get to know one another.20800:13:18.890 --> 00:13:25.770But until then, we assume that we are at a church that is full of believers.20900:13:26.370 --> 00:13:29.650Look, I hope if the rapture happens today that there's nobody left at the21000:13:29.650 --> 00:13:30.410church I pastor.21100:13:31.230 --> 00:13:32.250That would be awesome.21200:13:33.110 --> 00:13:40.190But in reality, it's possible that the church that I pastor, there'll be a lot21300:13:40.190 --> 00:13:42.510of people still coming on Sunday after the rapture.21400:13:43.150 --> 00:13:44.190Wouldn't that be sad?21500:13:44.850 --> 00:13:48.090It's possible, but we need to understand the scriptures.21600:13:48.450 --> 00:13:50.670And here's one of the big things that we need to talk about.21700:13:51.370 --> 00:13:55.690For it is impossible, I'm sorry, Hebrews chapter six verses four, five, and21800:13:55.690 --> 00:13:56.050six.21900:13:56.370 --> 00:13:58.330Hebrews six, four, five, and six.22000:13:59.110 --> 00:14:07.490For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted the22100:14:07.490 --> 00:14:15.010heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the22200:14:15.010 --> 00:14:18.950good word of God and the powers of the age to come.22300:14:19.710 --> 00:14:25.510If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again22400:14:25.510 --> 00:14:30.610for themselves the son of God and put him to open shame.22500:14:31.090 --> 00:14:34.770So people have read that passage of scripture, Hebrews chapter six, verses22600:14:34.770 --> 00:14:35.830four, five, and six.22700:14:35.990 --> 00:14:40.970And they have somehow concluded that you can lose your salvation.22800:14:42.410 --> 00:14:48.850I must admit that that at first glance is a simple, easy, lazy way to come to22900:14:48.850 --> 00:14:49.430your conclusion.23000:14:49.730 --> 00:14:51.890It's like, oh wow, look at that.23100:14:52.610 --> 00:14:57.650If you fall away, it's impossible for you to come back because you were once23200:14:57.650 --> 00:14:58.070enlightened.23300:14:58.310 --> 00:14:59.590You knew about the Holy Spirit.23400:14:59.910 --> 00:15:01.810You saw the powers of God.23500:15:02.130 --> 00:15:07.490And if you sin, if you fall away, it's impossible for you to come back.23600:15:07.570 --> 00:15:12.050In other words, there's no such thing as a backslider because if you're23700:15:12.050 --> 00:15:15.950backslidden, then you have fallen away and you can't come back.23800:15:16.950 --> 00:15:21.550If you're a backslider, they would say you lost your salvation.23900:15:22.750 --> 00:15:29.390Well, I would also argue from this angle, what assurances do we have when we24000:15:29.390 --> 00:15:33.310look at this portion of scripture that the author of the book is simply given24100:15:33.310 --> 00:15:41.470an exhortation that is very, very technical and reveals to us insights.24200:15:41.950 --> 00:15:48.790He first of all says down at the bottom, at the bottom in verse six, he says to24300:15:48.790 --> 00:15:56.290them that if they fall away, they're attempting to crucify for themselves24400:15:56.290 --> 00:15:58.030again, the son of God.24500:15:58.150 --> 00:16:00.670And by doing so, they put him to open shame.24600:16:01.470 --> 00:16:07.530Herein is both the problem and the answer to the scripture that's before us.24700:16:08.070 --> 00:16:12.610Whoever they are, they are of Hebrew descent.24800:16:13.210 --> 00:16:14.610The book is written to the Hebrews.24900:16:15.250 --> 00:16:18.130They have the Hebrew traditions in mind.25000:16:18.730 --> 00:16:20.810They have Judaism in mind.25100:16:21.750 --> 00:16:27.710And what they know is this, that the warning that is going out in this25200:16:27.710 --> 00:16:34.850exhortation by the author, it's that you better make sure that your faith is25300:16:34.850 --> 00:16:36.190rooted and grounded in truth.25400:16:36.690 --> 00:16:40.830You better know, listen, you better know what it is that you believe.25500:16:41.910 --> 00:16:49.870So for example, if you say that you believe that John wrote the book of25600:16:49.870 --> 00:16:53.630Revelation, why do you believe that?25700:16:54.510 --> 00:16:58.270You should be able to answer this, that interrogation.25800:16:58.970 --> 00:17:06.310If you say, well, I believe that you can be saved, born again, and then become25900:17:06.310 --> 00:17:09.450unborn again and become unsaved.26000:17:11.210 --> 00:17:12.010Excuse me.26100:17:13.329 --> 00:17:15.390You have to prove that in scripture, friends.26200:17:16.069 --> 00:17:20.010Show me where the Bible says you can be unborn again.26300:17:20.930 --> 00:17:21.310Okay.26400:17:21.869 --> 00:17:25.890I can show you in scripture that teaches that once you're born again, you're26500:17:25.890 --> 00:17:30.770sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption, that your name is26600:17:30.770 --> 00:17:34.970written down in heaven and you're secure in Christ because you've been truly26700:17:34.970 --> 00:17:36.310born again.26800:17:36.930 --> 00:17:38.890You're not just a believer.26900:17:40.170 --> 00:17:47.010Your belief has taken you to faith in God, faith in the scripture.27000:17:47.170 --> 00:17:50.830And you know it, as the Bible says, these things have been written that you27100:17:50.830 --> 00:17:53.650might know you have eternal life.27200:17:54.690 --> 00:18:00.950Then when we look at this, whoever they are, notice this, that they are those27300:18:00.950 --> 00:18:10.530who, if they fall away, it's impossible to renew them back for this27400:18:10.530 --> 00:18:11.050reason.27500:18:11.830 --> 00:18:15.710They're looking for themselves to crucify the son of God again.27600:18:16.450 --> 00:18:23.410They're looking for some secondary blood offering.27700:18:23.630 --> 00:18:31.330They're looking for atonement for their iniquity, and they're looking for blood27800:18:31.330 --> 00:18:36.090or a blood sacrifice because they want to come back.27900:18:36.770 --> 00:18:43.130They fell away and they saw the power of God while they were walking with you28000:18:43.130 --> 00:18:43.750at church.28100:18:44.670 --> 00:18:47.530They heard of the word of God.28200:18:47.670 --> 00:18:49.550They saw the power of God in action.28300:18:49.890 --> 00:18:53.430They sensed the presence of the spirit of God.28400:18:54.130 --> 00:18:56.670They tasted of the good word of God.28500:18:56.790 --> 00:19:02.030And they were brought to the place of having to think about and to contemplate28600:19:02.030 --> 00:19:06.570and hear in a sermon that there is a forever coming.28700:19:07.470 --> 00:19:08.990And they heard all that.28800:19:09.750 --> 00:19:19.310And if they walk away from that, listen, if they walk away from it, this is not28900:19:19.310 --> 00:19:20.990a backslidden group of people.29000:19:21.690 --> 00:19:28.070A backslider believes everything that you and I believe, but they wind up like29100:19:28.070 --> 00:19:29.010the prodigal son.29200:19:29.090 --> 00:19:31.610They wind up drifting off into the weeds.29300:19:32.810 --> 00:19:36.230God says in his word, I'm married to the backslider.29400:19:36.390 --> 00:19:37.130Did you know that?29500:19:37.890 --> 00:19:39.090Go look that up.29600:19:39.250 --> 00:19:42.010God says, I'm married to the backslider.29700:19:42.710 --> 00:19:46.190Backslidden means you've stopped going forward with Jesus.29800:19:46.910 --> 00:19:53.330And because of your detour of knuckleheadedness, you are backslidden in heart,29900:19:53.430 --> 00:19:56.910or you're backslidden and you've wandered off.30000:19:57.890 --> 00:20:01.290This here is speaking about apostasy.30100:20:02.350 --> 00:20:08.790To be an apostate is to traffic with the people of God and to even think30200:20:08.790 --> 00:20:12.690emotionally that you are one of the very people of God.30300:20:13.390 --> 00:20:17.710But down deep inside, the Holy Spirit may have been warning you.30400:20:18.190 --> 00:20:22.710He may have been seeking to convince you that you're not right.30500:20:22.850 --> 00:20:30.970There's been this nagging doubt that you have not been driven to answer the30600:20:30.970 --> 00:20:31.350doubt.30700:20:31.850 --> 00:20:35.730You've actually been more preoccupied with entertaining the doubt.30800:20:36.190 --> 00:20:39.590Like, well, you know, it's great being around these people.30900:20:40.030 --> 00:20:42.290They don't rob and steal from you.31000:20:42.410 --> 00:20:44.890They don't take your husband or your wife from you.31100:20:45.510 --> 00:20:46.990There are moral people.31200:20:47.110 --> 00:20:48.130It's a good thing.31300:20:48.550 --> 00:20:49.270It's wholesome.31400:20:50.030 --> 00:20:52.030It's the American thing to do.31500:20:52.270 --> 00:20:55.990Go to church on Sunday, you know, and that's good.31600:20:56.050 --> 00:20:56.630It's good.31700:20:58.030 --> 00:21:01.890Nice social group of people, whatever.31800:21:02.770 --> 00:21:06.790And plus it fills in the little gap, the void of my religion.31900:21:07.010 --> 00:21:09.370I need, everybody needs religion, by the way.32000:21:09.970 --> 00:21:16.350Well, listen, if you have trafficked and had eyewitness experience to the32100:21:16.350 --> 00:21:21.550moving of God, I hope that the church that you go to, you would experience that32200:21:21.550 --> 00:21:22.710on any given Sunday.32300:21:24.690 --> 00:21:25.670I would hope.32400:21:27.790 --> 00:21:32.370So you would say, well, for it is impossible for those who were once32500:21:32.370 --> 00:21:32.730enlightened.32600:21:32.890 --> 00:21:33.930You say, well, Jack, what about that?32700:21:33.950 --> 00:21:34.690They were enlightened.32800:21:35.490 --> 00:21:35.710Yeah.32900:21:35.890 --> 00:21:38.250Listen, they, they, the light came on.33000:21:38.530 --> 00:21:41.650Hey, that makes sense.33100:21:41.850 --> 00:21:43.350Jesus died on the cross for my sins.33200:21:43.810 --> 00:21:45.530They would say, that makes sense.33300:21:45.930 --> 00:21:48.870They're being enlightened, informed.33400:21:50.230 --> 00:21:55.130They hear that Jesus died on the cross for them, that he was buried on the33500:21:55.130 --> 00:21:56.610third day, rose again from the dead.33600:21:57.130 --> 00:21:58.670They can even tell you about it.33700:21:59.610 --> 00:22:06.190But as you continue on, did that reality, did that enlightenment cause them to33800:22:06.190 --> 00:22:09.130be changed at the core of their very being?33900:22:09.310 --> 00:22:12.490It's, it goes on to say that they've tasted of the heavenly gift.34000:22:12.870 --> 00:22:15.090They have tasted, they've sipped.34100:22:15.490 --> 00:22:22.370They have sipped of the fact that salvation is God's free gift given to all34200:22:22.370 --> 00:22:25.130those who repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.34300:22:26.370 --> 00:22:29.450They might be even able to tell you what the gospel is.34400:22:29.610 --> 00:22:34.930They might even be able to recite the gospel, but notice that they've tasted of34500:22:34.930 --> 00:22:38.550the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit.34600:22:39.250 --> 00:22:40.470Well, Jack, there you go.34700:22:40.510 --> 00:22:41.170That nails it.34800:22:41.290 --> 00:22:42.750That means they were actually born again.34900:22:43.690 --> 00:22:46.450It's interesting that they were partakers of the Holy Spirit.35000:22:46.590 --> 00:22:50.590They were, they were eyewitnesses to the workings of the Holy Spirit, but35100:22:50.590 --> 00:22:53.950there's no evidence here that the Holy Spirit possessed them.35200:22:54.850 --> 00:22:59.110They are partakers, but was the Holy Spirit a partaker of them?35300:23:00.230 --> 00:23:07.450I believe that the Holy Spirit was not a partaker that is owning them unto the35400:23:07.450 --> 00:23:08.270day of salvation.35500:23:09.470 --> 00:23:15.930It says that they also experienced the powers of the age to come.35600:23:16.150 --> 00:23:17.350Maybe they saw miracles.35700:23:17.450 --> 00:23:22.990Maybe they heard about miracles being done, but it says that if they fall away,35800:23:23.710 --> 00:23:27.570to renew them again to repentance, remember the meaning is it's impossible, to35900:23:27.570 --> 00:23:29.130renew them again to repentance.36000:23:29.850 --> 00:23:30.890Oh my goodness, really?36100:23:31.050 --> 00:23:31.530So wow.36200:23:31.550 --> 00:23:36.690If you read verse one and verse six, the issue is these are the, these are the36300:23:36.690 --> 00:23:37.430ones who fall away.36400:23:37.530 --> 00:23:39.370It's impossible to renew them to repentance.36500:23:40.330 --> 00:23:44.230Then how do you explain the rest of the Bible that says if you have sinned and36600:23:44.230 --> 00:23:46.870fallen away, repent and come back?36700:23:48.310 --> 00:23:54.130First John 1.9 says if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive36800:23:54.130 --> 00:23:57.890us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.36900:23:59.010 --> 00:24:05.730Did not Peter sin when he denied Jesus Christ and ran from Jesus?37000:24:06.410 --> 00:24:11.590And yet Jesus is resurrected from the dead, and one of the first conversations37100:24:11.590 --> 00:24:17.110he has is says, he says to them, tell my disciples, I'll meet them in Galilee.37200:24:17.430 --> 00:24:18.830Oh, and make sure you tell Peter.37300:24:21.810 --> 00:24:22.430Think about that.37400:24:22.690 --> 00:24:27.390If you listen, if you think this means that if you backslide, you lose your37500:24:27.390 --> 00:24:37.390salvation, then that is to say that you've never, you have never, uh, had a37600:24:37.390 --> 00:24:42.070stagnant season of life with the Lord that you have always been progressing37700:24:42.070 --> 00:24:45.630upward and onward with Jesus without any hiccups or bumps along the way.37800:24:46.930 --> 00:24:48.150I don't believe you.37900:24:48.370 --> 00:24:52.270If that's what you think about yourself, I think you're pretty impressed with38000:24:52.270 --> 00:24:58.470you, but every single believer has their ups and downs, their seasons of, of38100:24:58.470 --> 00:25:00.830flourishing and of desert experiences.38200:25:00.830 --> 00:25:04.330And in some of those situations, you might even backslide.38300:25:04.490 --> 00:25:09.130It may not even be visible, but your heart, for example, could be backslidden38400:25:09.130 --> 00:25:10.210in worship.38500:25:10.570 --> 00:25:16.430You show up before, just before the worship is over at church, you get your car38600:25:16.430 --> 00:25:20.950in the parking lot and you say things like, yeah, we're doing, we're good.38700:25:21.030 --> 00:25:21.310We're good.38800:25:21.370 --> 00:25:22.430The sermon hasn't started yet.38900:25:22.510 --> 00:25:23.470They're just doing worship.39000:25:23.790 --> 00:25:24.550Oh my goodness.39100:25:24.690 --> 00:25:26.370That, that is backslidden at heart.39200:25:26.690 --> 00:25:32.610Or while the sermon's done, let's get up and leave real quick because they're39300:25:32.610 --> 00:25:34.490just going to do the closing worship song.39400:25:34.690 --> 00:25:35.230Oh my goodness.39500:25:35.310 --> 00:25:36.710That's to be backslidden of heart.39600:25:38.090 --> 00:25:38.530Wow.39700:25:38.990 --> 00:25:43.230Or to not care that people are going to die and go to hell that don't know39800:25:43.230 --> 00:25:43.530Jesus.39900:25:43.790 --> 00:25:45.370That's to be backslidden at heart.40000:25:46.230 --> 00:25:47.790It doesn't mean you've lost your salvation.40100:25:47.990 --> 00:25:49.070It means you're cold hearted.40200:25:49.130 --> 00:25:51.350You got to, you got to get back to him.40300:25:53.720 --> 00:25:55.660That's, listen, that is not you.40400:25:56.380 --> 00:26:01.860And these that are being described right here in scripture, it's my, it's my40500:26:01.860 --> 00:26:05.260understanding of scripture here of Hebrews six verses four, five and six.40600:26:05.400 --> 00:26:06.660They were never saved.40700:26:07.260 --> 00:26:11.920These people were never saved in the first place because you know what?40800:26:11.940 --> 00:26:18.560They're looking around a second time trying to find blood to cover their sin.40900:26:19.960 --> 00:26:26.260That means that the blood that Christ shed for them, they didn't take seriously41000:26:26.260 --> 00:26:27.060the first time.41100:26:27.960 --> 00:26:30.680They didn't believe in it the first time.41200:26:32.360 --> 00:26:36.140They had a belief, but it never took them to faith.41300:26:37.120 --> 00:26:42.620So friends, listen, when you read Hebrew six verse four, don't think for a41400:26:42.620 --> 00:26:45.260moment that it speaks about losing your salvation.41500:26:45.940 --> 00:26:49.240It speaks about, you better make sure you're saved.41600:26:49.500 --> 00:26:51.060That's what it's talking to you about.41700:26:52.140 --> 00:26:55.860This is not a verse to cause you to be insecure as a believer.41800:26:56.460 --> 00:27:01.260This is a verse that actually, if studied, results in the opposite.41900:27:02.140 --> 00:27:09.060If you study this to find out, do I know all about the heavenly gift?42000:27:09.500 --> 00:27:13.520Have I given myself fully to the Holy Spirit?42100:27:14.980 --> 00:27:21.260Have I not just tasted of the good word of God, but do I consume it and ingest42200:27:21.260 --> 00:27:23.020it into my life?42300:27:23.880 --> 00:27:28.900Do I live to have God's will lived out in my life?42400:27:30.120 --> 00:27:36.420You will never go around trying to seek some form of savior or salvation42500:27:36.420 --> 00:27:43.240through some other blood atonement, or go back and revisit the message of Jesus42600:27:43.240 --> 00:27:46.400to have him bleed again for you.42700:27:47.540 --> 00:27:50.940No, my friend, that's to not know the gospel at all.42800:27:51.620 --> 00:27:57.520The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that Christ died once and for all for42900:27:57.520 --> 00:27:59.340the forgiveness of sins.43000:28:00.320 --> 00:28:02.000Jesus is not suffering today.43100:28:02.640 --> 00:28:03.760He's not on the cross.43200:28:04.800 --> 00:28:08.560I think I've told you guys this before, but do you know the difference between43300:28:08.560 --> 00:28:13.840a Christian cross, a Protestant cross, and a Catholic cross?43400:28:15.340 --> 00:28:21.640Catholics believe that Christ has to suffer in the sacrament all the time.43500:28:22.680 --> 00:28:24.540But what does the Bible teach?43600:28:24.900 --> 00:28:30.540That Christ suffered once and for all, never to suffer again.43700:28:31.640 --> 00:28:37.820That's the view of the Protestant or the protestors view, because the Bible43800:28:37.820 --> 00:28:40.060teaches he only suffered once.43900:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.300Okay?44000:28:41.980 --> 00:28:43.300Very important you understand that.44100:28:44.140 --> 00:28:46.920A Protestant cross doesn't have Jesus on it.44200:28:47.840 --> 00:28:51.040A Catholic cross has to have Jesus on it.44300:28:51.940 --> 00:28:54.100One is saying we need more blood.44400:28:54.540 --> 00:28:55.620We need more suffering.44500:28:56.280 --> 00:29:00.860We need him to pay the price again and again and again and again.44600:29:01.380 --> 00:29:04.700That's not what the Bible teaches.44700:29:04.860 --> 00:29:06.320He paid the price once.44800:29:08.780 --> 00:29:10.260And so friends, listen.44900:29:12.100 --> 00:29:20.900To the Jew who came to the fulfillment of being a Jew, the book of Hebrews45000:29:20.900 --> 00:29:26.960announces, don't think of wandering away and look for some other blood45100:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.660sacrifice.45200:29:28.180 --> 00:29:32.400Make sure examine yourself that you are in the faith.45300:29:32.500 --> 00:29:36.220Notice the scripture doesn't say examine yourself to see if you're a believer45400:29:36.220 --> 00:29:37.740or that you believe.45500:29:38.020 --> 00:29:43.200The scripture says, the Bible says, examine yourself to determine, to make sure45600:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.440that you are in the faith, of the faith.45700:29:47.920 --> 00:29:48.920This is vital.45800:29:50.000 --> 00:29:56.500So there's a lot of people walking around today as I speak who actually believe45900:29:56.500 --> 00:29:58.200or think that they're going to heaven.46000:29:59.680 --> 00:30:08.140And they'll, they'll say, because I'm going to heaven because, and what follows46100:30:08.140 --> 00:30:08.960the because?46200:30:10.760 --> 00:30:16.180I'm going to heaven because, because of what?46300:30:17.560 --> 00:30:25.000If you have any other answer other than putting your faith fully upon Christ,46400:30:25.780 --> 00:30:34.440his work at the cross, his sanctifying victory over the grave, to put your46500:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.900faith in Christ and Christ alone, and in his merit alone, not yours, to believe46600:30:40.900 --> 00:30:44.120him to the point where you've put your faith in him.46700:30:45.680 --> 00:30:52.820To you, the scripture says, the doors of eternity of heaven will open up wide.46800:30:53.020 --> 00:30:55.140A great entrance will be granted unto you.46900:30:56.140 --> 00:31:03.840Your name is written down in heaven, that the Holy Spirit dwells within you as47000:31:03.840 --> 00:31:04.820he possesses you.47100:31:05.980 --> 00:31:09.880And you are sealed by the Spirit of God unto the day of redemption.47200:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.300That Jesus said, whoever will come to me, I will never turn them away.47300:31:15.860 --> 00:31:20.920And they are safe, by the way, in the hands of my father and in my hands.47400:31:21.020 --> 00:31:23.940John chapter 10, beginning at verse 28.47500:31:26.590 --> 00:31:31.730When he says to us in Romans, nothing shall be able to separate you from the47600:31:31.730 --> 00:31:33.350love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.47700:31:33.550 --> 00:31:40.570Nothing, death nor life, principalities or powers, things spiritual, things of47800:31:40.570 --> 00:31:43.910this world, things beneath this world, nothing.47900:31:45.930 --> 00:31:51.010Nothing created, nothing spiritual, nothing physical, a nuclear bomb.48000:31:54.630 --> 00:31:59.430Nobody, nothing can separate you from God's salvation if you're saved.48100:32:00.430 --> 00:32:02.930People don't go around and lose their salvation.48200:32:03.970 --> 00:32:06.670They never had it in the first place.48300:32:08.470 --> 00:32:09.370Think of that.48400:32:09.450 --> 00:32:13.670Well, my friend went forward at the crusade five years ago, but they never went48500:32:13.670 --> 00:32:17.670back to church, or they kind of sort of, they just, you know, I know they love48600:32:17.670 --> 00:32:21.570the Lord, but they're still doing a lot of their old stuff.48700:32:21.750 --> 00:32:23.050And, but I know they love the Lord.48800:32:23.130 --> 00:32:24.430You know why you tell yourself that?48900:32:24.770 --> 00:32:28.450You tell yourself that because you don't want to confront your friend who's49000:32:28.450 --> 00:32:29.910probably not a Christian at all.49100:32:30.930 --> 00:32:33.870They just got a little booster shot of spirituality.49200:32:34.550 --> 00:32:36.450They felt a tingle up their spine.49300:32:36.830 --> 00:32:41.470They tasted of the heavenly gift and of the powers of the age to come.49400:32:42.490 --> 00:32:48.070They went forward at the crusade or they raised their hand at church and49500:32:48.070 --> 00:32:49.270nothing changed.49600:32:50.670 --> 00:32:52.070They never changed.49700:32:55.090 --> 00:33:03.790The book of James answers that and says, if they're changed, there'd be good49800:33:03.790 --> 00:33:09.470works coming out of their life that bear testimony to their confession of49900:33:09.470 --> 00:33:09.790faith.50000:33:11.370 --> 00:33:12.410Think of it.50100:33:15.850 --> 00:33:20.650We give people, strangely, a lot of grace where there shouldn't be any.50200:33:21.950 --> 00:33:25.310We don't want to talk to them because we get nervous and we don't know what to50300:33:25.310 --> 00:33:27.150say and we want to assume they're saved.50400:33:28.350 --> 00:33:34.030So we'll just pat them on the back and we will credit them with, well, I know50500:33:34.030 --> 00:33:37.150they went forward seven years ago, but there's never been a change in their50600:33:37.150 --> 00:33:37.450life.50700:33:37.730 --> 00:33:38.950But I know they love the Lord.50800:33:39.130 --> 00:33:39.770No, you don't.50900:33:40.130 --> 00:33:41.210You're saying that for you.51000:33:42.550 --> 00:33:48.130They need you to have you come back into their life and say, hey, what's up?51100:33:48.250 --> 00:33:53.890I've noticed it's been seven years and you're no different.51200:33:56.550 --> 00:33:57.710You need grace.51300:33:57.870 --> 00:34:04.970You need to come back and you need to re-evaluate because, my friend, I don't51400:34:04.970 --> 00:34:09.989think that day or that night or that moment, when you said what you said, when51500:34:09.989 --> 00:34:12.610you did what you did, did you even understand what you're doing?51600:34:12.610 --> 00:34:20.190Did you actually repent of your sins and believe in Jesus Christ to the point51700:34:20.190 --> 00:34:21.610of putting faith in him?51800:34:23.150 --> 00:34:29.250How much has Christ been a factor in your daily thought process?51900:34:29.989 --> 00:34:38.110When you wake up in the morning, is not Christ Jesus a thought in your mind52000:34:38.110 --> 00:34:40.370within the first 30 seconds of waking up?52100:34:41.850 --> 00:34:43.170Do you not know that?52200:34:43.730 --> 00:34:47.210Do you not know that that's how a real believer lives?52300:34:47.389 --> 00:34:54.889That when you arouse from dreams or sleep and you wake up within nanoseconds of52400:34:54.889 --> 00:34:58.810time, there's actually a God thought in your mind?52500:34:59.090 --> 00:35:03.770Like something like, Lord, good morning.52600:35:03.890 --> 00:35:04.530Lord, thank you.52700:35:04.890 --> 00:35:06.910Lord, thanks for keeping me through the night.52800:35:07.110 --> 00:35:08.830God, I give you this day.52900:35:09.470 --> 00:35:12.910There's a consciousness and awareness of God.53000:35:13.530 --> 00:35:14.470Do you not have that?53100:35:14.830 --> 00:35:20.290If you don't have that, it's because you might be flirting with Hebrews chapter53200:35:20.290 --> 00:35:22.0506, verses 4, 5, and 6.53300:35:22.590 --> 00:35:26.090You might be religious, but you don't know him.53400:35:27.070 --> 00:35:30.770Oh my goodness, friends, this might be the most important podcast in history53500:35:30.770 --> 00:35:36.470regarding you and your future, because if you think you're going to heaven53600:35:36.470 --> 00:35:42.850because, and that answer is something other than faith alone in Jesus Christ,53700:35:43.410 --> 00:35:51.870which has resulted in the transformation of your life, then you may be very53800:35:51.870 --> 00:35:52.770self-deceived.53900:35:52.890 --> 00:35:56.050And I don't say that funny, and I'm not saying it to be mean.54000:35:56.050 --> 00:36:01.910If I'm hated by 10,000 people and you, whatever you do, you dislike me or54100:36:01.910 --> 00:36:08.770defriend me, or you cross me out or cancel me, I could care less if one person54200:36:08.770 --> 00:36:12.330on this podcast says, holy cow, I think I'm that person.54300:36:12.470 --> 00:36:15.110I think I'm almost a Christian, but I'm not.54400:36:18.150 --> 00:36:19.250That's what matters.54500:36:20.290 --> 00:36:23.630So you may not like my honesty, but I'm telling you straight up.54600:36:26.050 --> 00:36:28.270You need to make sure that you are a follower of Jesus.54700:36:29.810 --> 00:36:33.470So please check and see.54800:36:36.250 --> 00:36:39.630Is it possible for you to be a believer?54900:36:42.310 --> 00:36:45.070Is it possible for you to have faith?55000:36:47.050 --> 00:36:51.430Or is it impossible for you?55100:36:51.570 --> 00:36:58.570Because the one who paid the sin debt for your life to you was not enough.55200:36:59.490 --> 00:37:01.530He wasn't effective enough.55300:37:01.610 --> 00:37:03.650He wasn't worthy enough.55400:37:03.730 --> 00:37:05.130He wasn't powerful enough.55500:37:05.950 --> 00:37:10.470He wasn't enough for me to let him have total control of my life.55600:37:10.550 --> 00:37:13.810And so I'm looking around for something else to add to my life.55700:37:14.510 --> 00:37:17.190For you, Jesus wasn't enough.55800:37:19.430 --> 00:37:22.770And may God's grace, may God's mercy be upon you.55900:37:23.210 --> 00:37:27.930May you find repentance in your heart to turn to him.56000:37:29.910 --> 00:37:32.210Maybe right now, this is for you for real.56100:37:35.740 --> 00:37:38.500It's not the prayer I'm going to lead you in that will save you.56200:37:39.240 --> 00:37:40.720A prayer cannot save you.56300:37:43.060 --> 00:37:52.660It's what you now are deciding to believe, that you are now going to put faith56400:37:52.660 --> 00:38:00.240in Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, not the Jesus of the56500:38:00.240 --> 00:38:08.480cults, not the Jesus of any other group or thing or place, but Jesus of56600:38:08.480 --> 00:38:14.620Nazareth, Jesus, the Christ, Jesus, the son of David, Jesus, the son of God,56700:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.820Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the56800:38:20.820 --> 00:38:25.260last, the one who was, who is, who is to come, the almighty Jesus.56900:38:26.420 --> 00:38:36.430Father, we come before you right now in this very, very serious moment, and we57000:38:36.430 --> 00:38:45.490confess in full belief, not in a fable, not in a fairy tale, not in a story,57100:38:50.120 --> 00:38:57.000but we now choose to believe the facts that Jesus Christ died in my place,57200:38:58.700 --> 00:39:05.180ordained and engineered by God himself, that 2000 years ago, the Lamb of God57300:39:05.180 --> 00:39:13.000had an appointment with the law of God, with the righteousness of God, with the57400:39:13.000 --> 00:39:17.740holiness of God, that the Lamb of God had an appointment with the wrath of God57500:39:17.740 --> 00:39:21.8602000 years ago, with the judgment of God 2000 years ago.57600:39:22.740 --> 00:39:31.020And that Lamb was so perfect that as the wrath and indignation of God was57700:39:31.020 --> 00:39:38.580poured out upon him, which was owed to me, he took upon himself.57800:39:41.720 --> 00:39:43.600Justice was applied.57900:39:45.220 --> 00:39:47.860Justice was satisfied.58000:39:49.980 --> 00:39:52.520Righteousness was established.58100:39:54.580 --> 00:39:56.840Salvation was purchased.58200:40:00.160 --> 00:40:02.680Redemption was made complete.58300:40:05.660 --> 00:40:08.100An eternal life made available.58400:40:10.020 --> 00:40:17.520That if I would right now say, Lord God Almighty, I come now in the name of58500:40:17.520 --> 00:40:24.140Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, I divorce myself from myself.58600:40:24.460 --> 00:40:32.180I divorce myself from my works, from my deeds, from my morality, from whatever58700:40:32.180 --> 00:40:34.040is in the way.58800:40:34.640 --> 00:40:41.120And I repent of my sins, my pride, my arrogance, my self-righteousness, my58900:40:41.120 --> 00:40:46.200disgusting, putrefying pleasure of myself.59000:40:47.080 --> 00:40:51.780I now despise what I am and who I am.59100:40:52.580 --> 00:40:57.840And I'm begging you, Almighty God, apply the blood of Jesus Christ to my life.59200:40:58.140 --> 00:40:59.440I don't want to taste anything.59300:40:59.820 --> 00:41:01.280I don't want to sip anything.59400:41:01.920 --> 00:41:03.620I don't want to be near anything.59500:41:04.080 --> 00:41:05.620I want to be all in.59600:41:07.060 --> 00:41:16.160Take my life completely over, dear God, and save me and put your spirit in my59700:41:16.160 --> 00:41:16.540life.59800:41:17.140 --> 00:41:24.660Own me that I will never look back, but now live for you forever, with you,59900:41:25.220 --> 00:41:28.360now, as a true follower of Christ.60000:41:30.020 --> 00:41:31.620In Jesus' name, I pray.60100:41:32.560 --> 00:41:33.000Amen.60200:41:34.520 --> 00:41:36.140I pray that 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