Can You Lose Your Salvation?

1 00:00:00.420 --> 00:00:05.380 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to 2 00:00:05.380 --> 00:00:09.020 proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:11.240 Hey, what if you backslide? 4 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:14.240 Is it impossible for you to come back to Christ? 5 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:22.780 What if you are in church and you profess faith, but are you really a believer? 6 00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:24.280 Are you going to heaven? 7 00:00:24.980 --> 00:00:26.040 What does the Bible say? 8 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:29.920 Can you come back after you have fallen away? 9 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:32.080 Can you come back after you have sinned? 10 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:33.560 Let's see what the Bible says. 11 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:34.560 Let's see. 12 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.340 Let's hear what God has to say about this. 13 00:00:41.350 --> 00:00:46.970 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash 14 00:00:46.970 --> 00:00:47.690 podcast. 15 00:00:48.170 --> 00:00:52.910 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 16 00:00:52.910 --> 00:00:56.950 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 17 00:00:57.250 --> 00:01:02.690 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others 18 00:01:02.690 --> 00:01:03.290 to listen. 19 00:01:04.010 --> 00:01:07.070 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 20 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:08.970 Here is Jack Hibbs. 21 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:12.550 Well, everybody, welcome to the show today. 22 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:14.970 And we're glad that you're with us. 23 00:01:15.010 --> 00:01:21.750 And we want to always, always invite you to tell others if in any way, shape, 24 00:01:21.790 --> 00:01:26.250 or form that are getting together is something that communicates to you, 25 00:01:26.590 --> 00:01:30.610 something that's challenging, makes you think, makes you research the 26 00:01:30.610 --> 00:01:34.230 scriptures and or the news or whatever we might be talking about. 27 00:01:34.910 --> 00:01:41.550 Even though I'm a pastor and a Bible teacher, I don't want to limit my life in 28 00:01:41.550 --> 00:01:46.510 any way, shape, or form, but I want to take my faith everywhere I go and into 29 00:01:46.510 --> 00:01:47.930 every topic of life. 30 00:01:48.770 --> 00:01:54.610 I'm a big fan of full biblical immersion into all things of this world. 31 00:01:56.130 --> 00:01:59.470 I think I got that from Jesus and simply reading the Bible. 32 00:01:59.790 --> 00:02:01.210 I didn't read it in a book. 33 00:02:01.290 --> 00:02:02.310 I didn't hear it in a sermon. 34 00:02:02.770 --> 00:02:06.910 It just makes sense to me that everything that you and I experience in life, 35 00:02:07.110 --> 00:02:15.990 from breathing, to reading, to movie, to news, to you name the topic, you name 36 00:02:15.990 --> 00:02:21.770 the discipline, biology, archaeology, the sciences, I believe that the Bible 37 00:02:21.770 --> 00:02:22.470 leads the way. 38 00:02:22.970 --> 00:02:23.810 I really do. 39 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:32.450 And that said, if there's anything that we discuss to help your friends out or 40 00:02:32.450 --> 00:02:37.450 to even challenge your friends, or to maybe even, what's the word? 41 00:02:37.770 --> 00:02:39.710 Putting it nicely, exhort them. 42 00:02:39.830 --> 00:02:44.610 In other words, create a healthy argument about truth. 43 00:02:44.930 --> 00:02:46.510 Then we're all for that. 44 00:02:46.730 --> 00:02:48.430 And we're excited about that. 45 00:02:48.790 --> 00:02:55.690 So I want to go to a passage of scripture that I heard recently. 46 00:02:55.950 --> 00:02:57.530 It's been brought up numerous times. 47 00:02:57.670 --> 00:03:02.150 It depends on what's going on, but it's always been a very controversial 48 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:03.170 passage of scripture. 49 00:03:04.450 --> 00:03:09.090 It's again, something that should not be controversial. 50 00:03:10.170 --> 00:03:16.830 But when we read the Bible in its context, when we ask the diagnostic questions 51 00:03:16.830 --> 00:03:23.510 of either the book of the Bible that we're reading, or the author himself, it 52 00:03:23.510 --> 00:03:27.710 could be John, it could be Matthew, it could be Moses. 53 00:03:28.210 --> 00:03:29.490 What do we know about them? 54 00:03:29.570 --> 00:03:30.790 What can we know about them? 55 00:03:30.870 --> 00:03:32.230 What can we find out about them? 56 00:03:32.230 --> 00:03:33.490 When did they write? 57 00:03:34.730 --> 00:03:36.470 That's, by the way, you can know that. 58 00:03:37.130 --> 00:03:38.270 When did they write? 59 00:03:39.330 --> 00:03:44.350 What was going on in their world, in world history at that time? 60 00:03:44.430 --> 00:03:45.190 What was happening? 61 00:03:45.670 --> 00:03:46.870 What was the chronology? 62 00:03:47.330 --> 00:03:51.790 And what was the atmospherics of their age? 63 00:03:53.070 --> 00:03:54.950 For example, the New Testament. 64 00:03:56.230 --> 00:04:02.910 So what was life like in the New Testament era of the first, say, 200 years 65 00:04:04.190 --> 00:04:05.910 from the advent of Christ? 66 00:04:06.290 --> 00:04:08.690 Those things are extremely important to know. 67 00:04:09.010 --> 00:04:14.950 And when we don't know them, we wind up falling into ill interpretations of 68 00:04:14.950 --> 00:04:19.230 scripture that wind up often leading us to wrong conclusions. 69 00:04:20.550 --> 00:04:25.810 Please understand that God didn't give us the Bible to confuse us or mess us 70 00:04:25.810 --> 00:04:26.210 up. 71 00:04:26.690 --> 00:04:27.910 The exact opposite. 72 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:34.290 People get a hold of the Bible, and they wind up messing it up. 73 00:04:35.050 --> 00:04:38.430 You've heard me say it before that we should just let the Bible speak. 74 00:04:39.210 --> 00:04:43.870 And we let the Bible speak whenever we read it, and we read it in its context. 75 00:04:44.670 --> 00:04:51.050 Let me say this, I'm a real, I'm a real vociferous, is that the right word? 76 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:52.010 Outspoken. 77 00:04:52.350 --> 00:05:01.970 I am passionate about avoiding random, call it 78 00:05:01.970 --> 00:05:04.870 Bible roulette type of reading. 79 00:05:05.030 --> 00:05:10.530 If you get up in the morning and it's Monday, and you think, oh, I'm going to 80 00:05:10.530 --> 00:05:12.310 read John chapter seven. 81 00:05:13.090 --> 00:05:16.910 And you read John chapter seven, and then you get up on Tuesday and you read 82 00:05:16.910 --> 00:05:18.310 Ezekiel nine. 83 00:05:18.790 --> 00:05:22.490 And then you get up on Wednesday and you read Revelation 21. 84 00:05:22.830 --> 00:05:27.510 And then you get up on Thursday and you read Exodus three, you are going to be 85 00:05:27.510 --> 00:05:29.050 so messed up. 86 00:05:30.430 --> 00:05:35.530 You need to avoid that because what you want to do is understand, first of all, 87 00:05:35.650 --> 00:05:42.070 that the Bible was never given with chapter verse references. 88 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:44.050 Now, don't get me wrong. 89 00:05:44.470 --> 00:05:45.870 Is there a book of Esther? 90 00:05:46.250 --> 00:05:47.730 Yes, there's a book of Esther. 91 00:05:48.270 --> 00:05:51.450 By the way, side note, Lisa and I were in Oxford, England, not all that long 92 00:05:51.450 --> 00:05:52.750 ago, and we went to a museum. 93 00:05:52.870 --> 00:05:59.330 There's many of them there, but we went to the Ashmelean Museum that is right 94 00:05:59.330 --> 00:06:00.850 next door to Oxford University. 95 00:06:01.830 --> 00:06:06.910 And it was awesome because as we're walking through this, we were looking at 96 00:06:06.910 --> 00:06:12.610 artifacts and things from the Persian Empire and from the Babylonian Empire and 97 00:06:12.610 --> 00:06:13.810 from Egypt as well. 98 00:06:14.070 --> 00:06:18.770 But one of the things that they had there, they had a section there on Esther. 99 00:06:19.330 --> 00:06:19.790 Isn't that great? 100 00:06:20.730 --> 00:06:22.090 Why do I think that's great? 101 00:06:22.210 --> 00:06:24.670 Because the Bible is a book of facts. 102 00:06:24.990 --> 00:06:26.730 The Bible is not a book of stories. 103 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.680 And in the West anyway, we get all weird about that because we grew up going to 104 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.560 Sunday school, listening to Bible stories, and that is very sad. 105 00:06:40.180 --> 00:06:41.080 That's not the case. 106 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:46.380 You went to Sunday school, but listen, you actually learned about factual 107 00:06:46.380 --> 00:06:46.960 events. 108 00:06:47.260 --> 00:06:49.700 They weren't stories, but we call them stories. 109 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.180 The church that I pastor, the staff, children's ministry, youth ministry, 110 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:01.980 pulpit ministry, I forbid the word story to be connected to the Bible. 111 00:07:02.460 --> 00:07:03.420 It's not a story. 112 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:10.180 And so listen, all that to say when we pick up, for example, the book of 113 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:14.000 Hebrews, and that's where we're going here in a moment. 114 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.680 The book of Hebrews, for those of you who don't know, is written in the New 115 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:19.080 Testament. 116 00:07:19.640 --> 00:07:23.140 The authorship has always been in question because the author does not name 117 00:07:23.140 --> 00:07:23.480 himself. 118 00:07:24.620 --> 00:07:31.240 There are some really good arguments for various authors that could have 119 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:31.700 written it. 120 00:07:32.580 --> 00:07:33.500 There are speculations. 121 00:07:35.020 --> 00:07:37.580 But if you're going to speculate, it doesn't matter. 122 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:43.860 But most scholars come to the conclusion that the book of Hebrews is known as 123 00:07:43.860 --> 00:07:52.960 being Pauline in its architecture, in its linguistics, its logic, its syntax, 124 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:59.820 the way that it flows, the introduction or the argumentation for a fact or for 125 00:07:59.820 --> 00:08:09.800 a doctrine in the book of Hebrews is extremely, extremely parallel to Paul's 126 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:14.360 arguments, for example, in the book of Galatians or the book of Romans. 127 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:16.560 But it doesn't matter. 128 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:17.880 That's not our point right now. 129 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:21.260 But the point that I'm making is that we should always dive into the Bible more 130 00:08:21.260 --> 00:08:21.720 carefully. 131 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.200 And here's the reason why you should, among many reasons, is that the more you 132 00:08:26.200 --> 00:08:33.880 dive into the depth of the Bible and unpack words that are found in verses, 133 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:39.380 that are found in chapters, that are found in a book, it matters. 134 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:46.100 So the early church, and I forget the year, forgive me, you can look it up, but 135 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:56.080 there was a time when the book, for example, of Joshua or Mark was divided up 136 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:02.500 into chapter number references with chapter verse references for memorization 137 00:09:02.500 --> 00:09:04.960 or location purposes. 138 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:11.400 So in the old days, right, when you picked up the book of Ruth, you didn't read 139 00:09:11.400 --> 00:09:15.120 chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, you read the book of Ruth. 140 00:09:15.900 --> 00:09:16.080 Okay. 141 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:20.700 So that said, when we read the book of Hebrews, you're supposed to pick it up, 142 00:09:20.860 --> 00:09:25.540 what we would call chapter one, verse one, but let's just say we pick it up and 143 00:09:25.540 --> 00:09:26.640 we read through it. 144 00:09:27.340 --> 00:09:27.780 Okay. 145 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:30.140 Very, very good thing to do. 146 00:09:30.280 --> 00:09:33.600 Stop looking at the numbers of reference. 147 00:09:34.420 --> 00:09:37.460 That said, what's the name of the book? 148 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:41.120 The book of Hebrews, but it's in the New Testament. 149 00:09:42.040 --> 00:09:43.940 That wouldn't, shouldn't it be in the Old Testament? 150 00:09:44.140 --> 00:09:45.080 No, not at all. 151 00:09:45.420 --> 00:09:55.360 Because the first century church was, was Jewish or Gentile in context, 152 00:09:55.880 --> 00:09:56.900 in its origin. 153 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:58.260 Jewish. 154 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.960 The Jews, the gospel was first preached to the Jews. 155 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:05.720 The Jews got converted. 156 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:06.660 That is the Jews. 157 00:10:06.660 --> 00:10:08.100 Can I put it to you this way? 158 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:15.800 Judaism is what man has done to the Old Testament scriptures. 159 00:10:16.420 --> 00:10:18.700 So let's take the word Judaism and throw it away. 160 00:10:19.020 --> 00:10:19.780 Put it over here. 161 00:10:20.040 --> 00:10:26.260 If you read from Genesis through to Malachi and keep reading in Matthew, if you 162 00:10:26.260 --> 00:10:32.870 didn't have any chapter verse numbers, life would be so much easier because it 163 00:10:32.870 --> 00:10:40.350 would flow so perfectly that it makes total sense that these Jews having come 164 00:10:40.350 --> 00:10:46.010 out of the Old Testament, having read it, it's natural for them to come to the 165 00:10:46.010 --> 00:10:50.910 conclusion that the Messiah, the anointed one spoken of in the Old Testament 166 00:10:50.910 --> 00:10:56.970 was the one that was born in Bethlehem based on Old Testament doctrine. 167 00:10:58.150 --> 00:11:02.290 People think that the Christmas story, the Christmas account, the Christmas 168 00:11:02.290 --> 00:11:04.610 event is something made up. 169 00:11:06.030 --> 00:11:06.490 Nope. 170 00:11:06.710 --> 00:11:10.670 It's Old Testament prophecy fulfilled, recorded in the new. 171 00:11:11.210 --> 00:11:16.490 Having said that, when we keep reading, we come to the book of Hebrews and it's 172 00:11:16.490 --> 00:11:20.970 an amazing thing because if you're Jewish, it unlocks to you a deeper 173 00:11:20.970 --> 00:11:22.910 understanding of the book of Leviticus. 174 00:11:23.990 --> 00:11:29.230 It's this reporter's opinion that you'll never understand clearly either one of 175 00:11:29.230 --> 00:11:35.270 those books fully unless you read Leviticus and Hebrews and Hebrews and 176 00:11:35.270 --> 00:11:38.390 Leviticus because one answers the other. 177 00:11:39.070 --> 00:11:47.890 And in saying that, these were believers in Yeshua and they had come to faith 178 00:11:47.890 --> 00:11:49.850 understanding, wow, we get it. 179 00:11:49.910 --> 00:11:50.550 We got it now. 180 00:11:51.250 --> 00:11:52.470 He's the answer. 181 00:11:54.390 --> 00:12:01.030 And yet, like any group of people who watch my fingers believe, there are some 182 00:12:01.030 --> 00:12:06.650 who believe in the group and some who say that they believe in the group. 183 00:12:07.310 --> 00:12:09.630 It's true for the church that you attend. 184 00:12:10.810 --> 00:12:15.550 Wouldn't it be great if everybody at your church was a born again believer and 185 00:12:15.550 --> 00:12:16.050 going to heaven? 186 00:12:16.370 --> 00:12:18.310 The fact is you don't know that. 187 00:12:19.050 --> 00:12:21.430 They might all say they know the Lord. 188 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:25.310 They might all say that they're born again, but are they really? 189 00:12:25.570 --> 00:12:26.930 You will not know that. 190 00:12:28.410 --> 00:12:29.550 You will not know that. 191 00:12:29.610 --> 00:12:33.110 The only way for you to know that is for you to go home with them and see how 192 00:12:33.110 --> 00:12:35.850 they live their life behind closed doors for 30 days. 193 00:12:35.970 --> 00:12:38.590 And then you'll know if they're really followers of Jesus. 194 00:12:39.330 --> 00:12:45.610 Remember, church is a place we go to to get refueled in the truth of God and to 195 00:12:45.610 --> 00:12:50.670 use the gifts of the spirit that God has given us to minister to the body that 196 00:12:50.670 --> 00:12:56.570 sits around us in that community of friends and acquaintances that we see at 197 00:12:56.570 --> 00:12:56.990 church. 198 00:12:57.090 --> 00:13:01.330 If you notice you all sit together in the same spot, predominantly in the same 199 00:13:01.330 --> 00:13:02.670 place, challenge. 200 00:13:02.950 --> 00:13:05.750 Do you know the names of those people that you see every week? 201 00:13:06.190 --> 00:13:07.110 Get to know them. 202 00:13:07.470 --> 00:13:09.650 This coming Sunday, ask them out to lunch. 203 00:13:09.790 --> 00:13:14.210 Seems like we sit pretty close together most of the time. 204 00:13:14.270 --> 00:13:14.690 Let's go out. 205 00:13:14.750 --> 00:13:15.470 Let's go to lunch. 206 00:13:15.470 --> 00:13:16.710 Invite them out. 207 00:13:16.790 --> 00:13:17.730 Get to know one another. 208 00:13:18.890 --> 00:13:25.770 But until then, we assume that we are at a church that is full of believers. 209 00:13:26.370 --> 00:13:29.650 Look, I hope if the rapture happens today that there's nobody left at the 210 00:13:29.650 --> 00:13:30.410 church I pastor. 211 00:13:31.230 --> 00:13:32.250 That would be awesome. 212 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:40.190 But in reality, it's possible that the church that I pastor, there'll be a lot 213 00:13:40.190 --> 00:13:42.510 of people still coming on Sunday after the rapture. 214 00:13:43.150 --> 00:13:44.190 Wouldn't that be sad? 215 00:13:44.850 --> 00:13:48.090 It's possible, but we need to understand the scriptures. 216 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:50.670 And here's one of the big things that we need to talk about. 217 00:13:51.370 --> 00:13:55.690 For it is impossible, I'm sorry, Hebrews chapter six verses four, five, and 218 00:13:55.690 --> 00:13:56.050 six. 219 00:13:56.370 --> 00:13:58.330 Hebrews six, four, five, and six. 220 00:13:59.110 --> 00:14:07.490 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted the 221 00:14:07.490 --> 00:14:15.010 heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the 222 00:14:15.010 --> 00:14:18.950 good word of God and the powers of the age to come. 223 00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:25.510 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again 224 00:14:25.510 --> 00:14:30.610 for themselves the son of God and put him to open shame. 225 00:14:31.090 --> 00:14:34.770 So people have read that passage of scripture, Hebrews chapter six, verses 226 00:14:34.770 --> 00:14:35.830 four, five, and six. 227 00:14:35.990 --> 00:14:40.970 And they have somehow concluded that you can lose your salvation. 228 00:14:42.410 --> 00:14:48.850 I must admit that that at first glance is a simple, easy, lazy way to come to 229 00:14:48.850 --> 00:14:49.430 your conclusion. 230 00:14:49.730 --> 00:14:51.890 It's like, oh wow, look at that. 231 00:14:52.610 --> 00:14:57.650 If you fall away, it's impossible for you to come back because you were once 232 00:14:57.650 --> 00:14:58.070 enlightened. 233 00:14:58.310 --> 00:14:59.590 You knew about the Holy Spirit. 234 00:14:59.910 --> 00:15:01.810 You saw the powers of God. 235 00:15:02.130 --> 00:15:07.490 And if you sin, if you fall away, it's impossible for you to come back. 236 00:15:07.570 --> 00:15:12.050 In other words, there's no such thing as a backslider because if you're 237 00:15:12.050 --> 00:15:15.950 backslidden, then you have fallen away and you can't come back. 238 00:15:16.950 --> 00:15:21.550 If you're a backslider, they would say you lost your salvation. 239 00:15:22.750 --> 00:15:29.390 Well, I would also argue from this angle, what assurances do we have when we 240 00:15:29.390 --> 00:15:33.310 look at this portion of scripture that the author of the book is simply given 241 00:15:33.310 --> 00:15:41.470 an exhortation that is very, very technical and reveals to us insights. 242 00:15:41.950 --> 00:15:48.790 He first of all says down at the bottom, at the bottom in verse six, he says to 243 00:15:48.790 --> 00:15:56.290 them that if they fall away, they're attempting to crucify for themselves 244 00:15:56.290 --> 00:15:58.030 again, the son of God. 245 00:15:58.150 --> 00:16:00.670 And by doing so, they put him to open shame. 246 00:16:01.470 --> 00:16:07.530 Herein is both the problem and the answer to the scripture that's before us. 247 00:16:08.070 --> 00:16:12.610 Whoever they are, they are of Hebrew descent. 248 00:16:13.210 --> 00:16:14.610 The book is written to the Hebrews. 249 00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:18.130 They have the Hebrew traditions in mind. 250 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:20.810 They have Judaism in mind. 251 00:16:21.750 --> 00:16:27.710 And what they know is this, that the warning that is going out in this 252 00:16:27.710 --> 00:16:34.850 exhortation by the author, it's that you better make sure that your faith is 253 00:16:34.850 --> 00:16:36.190 rooted and grounded in truth. 254 00:16:36.690 --> 00:16:40.830 You better know, listen, you better know what it is that you believe. 255 00:16:41.910 --> 00:16:49.870 So for example, if you say that you believe that John wrote the book of 256 00:16:49.870 --> 00:16:53.630 Revelation, why do you believe that? 257 00:16:54.510 --> 00:16:58.270 You should be able to answer this, that interrogation. 258 00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:06.310 If you say, well, I believe that you can be saved, born again, and then become 259 00:17:06.310 --> 00:17:09.450 unborn again and become unsaved. 260 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:12.010 Excuse me. 261 00:17:13.329 --> 00:17:15.390 You have to prove that in scripture, friends. 262 00:17:16.069 --> 00:17:20.010 Show me where the Bible says you can be unborn again. 263 00:17:20.930 --> 00:17:21.310 Okay. 264 00:17:21.869 --> 00:17:25.890 I can show you in scripture that teaches that once you're born again, you're 265 00:17:25.890 --> 00:17:30.770 sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption, that your name is 266 00:17:30.770 --> 00:17:34.970 written down in heaven and you're secure in Christ because you've been truly 267 00:17:34.970 --> 00:17:36.310 born again. 268 00:17:36.930 --> 00:17:38.890 You're not just a believer. 269 00:17:40.170 --> 00:17:47.010 Your belief has taken you to faith in God, faith in the scripture. 270 00:17:47.170 --> 00:17:50.830 And you know it, as the Bible says, these things have been written that you 271 00:17:50.830 --> 00:17:53.650 might know you have eternal life. 272 00:17:54.690 --> 00:18:00.950 Then when we look at this, whoever they are, notice this, that they are those 273 00:18:00.950 --> 00:18:10.530 who, if they fall away, it's impossible to renew them back for this 274 00:18:10.530 --> 00:18:11.050 reason. 275 00:18:11.830 --> 00:18:15.710 They're looking for themselves to crucify the son of God again. 276 00:18:16.450 --> 00:18:23.410 They're looking for some secondary blood offering. 277 00:18:23.630 --> 00:18:31.330 They're looking for atonement for their iniquity, and they're looking for blood 278 00:18:31.330 --> 00:18:36.090 or a blood sacrifice because they want to come back. 279 00:18:36.770 --> 00:18:43.130 They fell away and they saw the power of God while they were walking with you 280 00:18:43.130 --> 00:18:43.750 at church. 281 00:18:44.670 --> 00:18:47.530 They heard of the word of God. 282 00:18:47.670 --> 00:18:49.550 They saw the power of God in action. 283 00:18:49.890 --> 00:18:53.430 They sensed the presence of the spirit of God. 284 00:18:54.130 --> 00:18:56.670 They tasted of the good word of God. 285 00:18:56.790 --> 00:19:02.030 And they were brought to the place of having to think about and to contemplate 286 00:19:02.030 --> 00:19:06.570 and hear in a sermon that there is a forever coming. 287 00:19:07.470 --> 00:19:08.990 And they heard all that. 288 00:19:09.750 --> 00:19:19.310 And if they walk away from that, listen, if they walk away from it, this is not 289 00:19:19.310 --> 00:19:20.990 a backslidden group of people. 290 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:28.070 A backslider believes everything that you and I believe, but they wind up like 291 00:19:28.070 --> 00:19:29.010 the prodigal son. 292 00:19:29.090 --> 00:19:31.610 They wind up drifting off into the weeds. 293 00:19:32.810 --> 00:19:36.230 God says in his word, I'm married to the backslider. 294 00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:37.130 Did you know that? 295 00:19:37.890 --> 00:19:39.090 Go look that up. 296 00:19:39.250 --> 00:19:42.010 God says, I'm married to the backslider. 297 00:19:42.710 --> 00:19:46.190 Backslidden means you've stopped going forward with Jesus. 298 00:19:46.910 --> 00:19:53.330 And because of your detour of knuckleheadedness, you are backslidden in heart, 299 00:19:53.430 --> 00:19:56.910 or you're backslidden and you've wandered off. 300 00:19:57.890 --> 00:20:01.290 This here is speaking about apostasy. 301 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:08.790 To be an apostate is to traffic with the people of God and to even think 302 00:20:08.790 --> 00:20:12.690 emotionally that you are one of the very people of God. 303 00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:17.710 But down deep inside, the Holy Spirit may have been warning you. 304 00:20:18.190 --> 00:20:22.710 He may have been seeking to convince you that you're not right. 305 00:20:22.850 --> 00:20:30.970 There's been this nagging doubt that you have not been driven to answer the 306 00:20:30.970 --> 00:20:31.350 doubt. 307 00:20:31.850 --> 00:20:35.730 You've actually been more preoccupied with entertaining the doubt. 308 00:20:36.190 --> 00:20:39.590 Like, well, you know, it's great being around these people. 309 00:20:40.030 --> 00:20:42.290 They don't rob and steal from you. 310 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:44.890 They don't take your husband or your wife from you. 311 00:20:45.510 --> 00:20:46.990 There are moral people. 312 00:20:47.110 --> 00:20:48.130 It's a good thing. 313 00:20:48.550 --> 00:20:49.270 It's wholesome. 314 00:20:50.030 --> 00:20:52.030 It's the American thing to do. 315 00:20:52.270 --> 00:20:55.990 Go to church on Sunday, you know, and that's good. 316 00:20:56.050 --> 00:20:56.630 It's good. 317 00:20:58.030 --> 00:21:01.890 Nice social group of people, whatever. 318 00:21:02.770 --> 00:21:06.790 And plus it fills in the little gap, the void of my religion. 319 00:21:07.010 --> 00:21:09.370 I need, everybody needs religion, by the way. 320 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:16.350 Well, listen, if you have trafficked and had eyewitness experience to the 321 00:21:16.350 --> 00:21:21.550 moving of God, I hope that the church that you go to, you would experience that 322 00:21:21.550 --> 00:21:22.710 on any given Sunday. 323 00:21:24.690 --> 00:21:25.670 I would hope. 324 00:21:27.790 --> 00:21:32.370 So you would say, well, for it is impossible for those who were once 325 00:21:32.370 --> 00:21:32.730 enlightened. 326 00:21:32.890 --> 00:21:33.930 You say, well, Jack, what about that? 327 00:21:33.950 --> 00:21:34.690 They were enlightened. 328 00:21:35.490 --> 00:21:35.710 Yeah. 329 00:21:35.890 --> 00:21:38.250 Listen, they, they, the light came on. 330 00:21:38.530 --> 00:21:41.650 Hey, that makes sense. 331 00:21:41.850 --> 00:21:43.350 Jesus died on the cross for my sins. 332 00:21:43.810 --> 00:21:45.530 They would say, that makes sense. 333 00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:48.870 They're being enlightened, informed. 334 00:21:50.230 --> 00:21:55.130 They hear that Jesus died on the cross for them, that he was buried on the 335 00:21:55.130 --> 00:21:56.610 third day, rose again from the dead. 336 00:21:57.130 --> 00:21:58.670 They can even tell you about it. 337 00:21:59.610 --> 00:22:06.190 But as you continue on, did that reality, did that enlightenment cause them to 338 00:22:06.190 --> 00:22:09.130 be changed at the core of their very being? 339 00:22:09.310 --> 00:22:12.490 It's, it goes on to say that they've tasted of the heavenly gift. 340 00:22:12.870 --> 00:22:15.090 They have tasted, they've sipped. 341 00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:22.370 They have sipped of the fact that salvation is God's free gift given to all 342 00:22:22.370 --> 00:22:25.130 those who repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. 343 00:22:26.370 --> 00:22:29.450 They might be even able to tell you what the gospel is. 344 00:22:29.610 --> 00:22:34.930 They might even be able to recite the gospel, but notice that they've tasted of 345 00:22:34.930 --> 00:22:38.550 the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit. 346 00:22:39.250 --> 00:22:40.470 Well, Jack, there you go. 347 00:22:40.510 --> 00:22:41.170 That nails it. 348 00:22:41.290 --> 00:22:42.750 That means they were actually born again. 349 00:22:43.690 --> 00:22:46.450 It's interesting that they were partakers of the Holy Spirit. 350 00:22:46.590 --> 00:22:50.590 They were, they were eyewitnesses to the workings of the Holy Spirit, but 351 00:22:50.590 --> 00:22:53.950 there's no evidence here that the Holy Spirit possessed them. 352 00:22:54.850 --> 00:22:59.110 They are partakers, but was the Holy Spirit a partaker of them? 353 00:23:00.230 --> 00:23:07.450 I believe that the Holy Spirit was not a partaker that is owning them unto the 354 00:23:07.450 --> 00:23:08.270 day of salvation. 355 00:23:09.470 --> 00:23:15.930 It says that they also experienced the powers of the age to come. 356 00:23:16.150 --> 00:23:17.350 Maybe they saw miracles. 357 00:23:17.450 --> 00:23:22.990 Maybe they heard about miracles being done, but it says that if they fall away, 358 00:23:23.710 --> 00:23:27.570 to renew them again to repentance, remember the meaning is it's impossible, to 359 00:23:27.570 --> 00:23:29.130 renew them again to repentance. 360 00:23:29.850 --> 00:23:30.890 Oh my goodness, really? 361 00:23:31.050 --> 00:23:31.530 So wow. 362 00:23:31.550 --> 00:23:36.690 If you read verse one and verse six, the issue is these are the, these are the 363 00:23:36.690 --> 00:23:37.430 ones who fall away. 364 00:23:37.530 --> 00:23:39.370 It's impossible to renew them to repentance. 365 00:23:40.330 --> 00:23:44.230 Then how do you explain the rest of the Bible that says if you have sinned and 366 00:23:44.230 --> 00:23:46.870 fallen away, repent and come back? 367 00:23:48.310 --> 00:23:54.130 First John 1.9 says if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive 368 00:23:54.130 --> 00:23:57.890 us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 369 00:23:59.010 --> 00:24:05.730 Did not Peter sin when he denied Jesus Christ and ran from Jesus? 370 00:24:06.410 --> 00:24:11.590 And yet Jesus is resurrected from the dead, and one of the first conversations 371 00:24:11.590 --> 00:24:17.110 he has is says, he says to them, tell my disciples, I'll meet them in Galilee. 372 00:24:17.430 --> 00:24:18.830 Oh, and make sure you tell Peter. 373 00:24:21.810 --> 00:24:22.430 Think about that. 374 00:24:22.690 --> 00:24:27.390 If you listen, if you think this means that if you backslide, you lose your 375 00:24:27.390 --> 00:24:37.390 salvation, then that is to say that you've never, you have never, uh, had a 376 00:24:37.390 --> 00:24:42.070 stagnant season of life with the Lord that you have always been progressing 377 00:24:42.070 --> 00:24:45.630 upward and onward with Jesus without any hiccups or bumps along the way. 378 00:24:46.930 --> 00:24:48.150 I don't believe you. 379 00:24:48.370 --> 00:24:52.270 If that's what you think about yourself, I think you're pretty impressed with 380 00:24:52.270 --> 00:24:58.470 you, but every single believer has their ups and downs, their seasons of, of 381 00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:00.830 flourishing and of desert experiences. 382 00:25:00.830 --> 00:25:04.330 And in some of those situations, you might even backslide. 383 00:25:04.490 --> 00:25:09.130 It may not even be visible, but your heart, for example, could be backslidden 384 00:25:09.130 --> 00:25:10.210 in worship. 385 00:25:10.570 --> 00:25:16.430 You show up before, just before the worship is over at church, you get your car 386 00:25:16.430 --> 00:25:20.950 in the parking lot and you say things like, yeah, we're doing, we're good. 387 00:25:21.030 --> 00:25:21.310 We're good. 388 00:25:21.370 --> 00:25:22.430 The sermon hasn't started yet. 389 00:25:22.510 --> 00:25:23.470 They're just doing worship. 390 00:25:23.790 --> 00:25:24.550 Oh my goodness. 391 00:25:24.690 --> 00:25:26.370 That, that is backslidden at heart. 392 00:25:26.690 --> 00:25:32.610 Or while the sermon's done, let's get up and leave real quick because they're 393 00:25:32.610 --> 00:25:34.490 just going to do the closing worship song. 394 00:25:34.690 --> 00:25:35.230 Oh my goodness. 395 00:25:35.310 --> 00:25:36.710 That's to be backslidden of heart. 396 00:25:38.090 --> 00:25:38.530 Wow. 397 00:25:38.990 --> 00:25:43.230 Or to not care that people are going to die and go to hell that don't know 398 00:25:43.230 --> 00:25:43.530 Jesus. 399 00:25:43.790 --> 00:25:45.370 That's to be backslidden at heart. 400 00:25:46.230 --> 00:25:47.790 It doesn't mean you've lost your salvation. 401 00:25:47.990 --> 00:25:49.070 It means you're cold hearted. 402 00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:51.350 You got to, you got to get back to him. 403 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:55.660 That's, listen, that is not you. 404 00:25:56.380 --> 00:26:01.860 And these that are being described right here in scripture, it's my, it's my 405 00:26:01.860 --> 00:26:05.260 understanding of scripture here of Hebrews six verses four, five and six. 406 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:06.660 They were never saved. 407 00:26:07.260 --> 00:26:11.920 These people were never saved in the first place because you know what? 408 00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:18.560 They're looking around a second time trying to find blood to cover their sin. 409 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:26.260 That means that the blood that Christ shed for them, they didn't take seriously 410 00:26:26.260 --> 00:26:27.060 the first time. 411 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:30.680 They didn't believe in it the first time. 412 00:26:32.360 --> 00:26:36.140 They had a belief, but it never took them to faith. 413 00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:42.620 So friends, listen, when you read Hebrew six verse four, don't think for a 414 00:26:42.620 --> 00:26:45.260 moment that it speaks about losing your salvation. 415 00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:49.240 It speaks about, you better make sure you're saved. 416 00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:51.060 That's what it's talking to you about. 417 00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:55.860 This is not a verse to cause you to be insecure as a believer. 418 00:26:56.460 --> 00:27:01.260 This is a verse that actually, if studied, results in the opposite. 419 00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:09.060 If you study this to find out, do I know all about the heavenly gift? 420 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:13.520 Have I given myself fully to the Holy Spirit? 421 00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:21.260 Have I not just tasted of the good word of God, but do I consume it and ingest 422 00:27:21.260 --> 00:27:23.020 it into my life? 423 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:28.900 Do I live to have God's will lived out in my life? 424 00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:36.420 You will never go around trying to seek some form of savior or salvation 425 00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:43.240 through some other blood atonement, or go back and revisit the message of Jesus 426 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:46.400 to have him bleed again for you. 427 00:27:47.540 --> 00:27:50.940 No, my friend, that's to not know the gospel at all. 428 00:27:51.620 --> 00:27:57.520 The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that Christ died once and for all for 429 00:27:57.520 --> 00:27:59.340 the forgiveness of sins. 430 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:02.000 Jesus is not suffering today. 431 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:03.760 He's not on the cross. 432 00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:08.560 I think I've told you guys this before, but do you know the difference between 433 00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:13.840 a Christian cross, a Protestant cross, and a Catholic cross? 434 00:28:15.340 --> 00:28:21.640 Catholics believe that Christ has to suffer in the sacrament all the time. 435 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:24.540 But what does the Bible teach? 436 00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:30.540 That Christ suffered once and for all, never to suffer again. 437 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:37.820 That's the view of the Protestant or the protestors view, because the Bible 438 00:28:37.820 --> 00:28:40.060 teaches he only suffered once. 439 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.300 Okay? 440 00:28:41.980 --> 00:28:43.300 Very important you understand that. 441 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:46.920 A Protestant cross doesn't have Jesus on it. 442 00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:51.040 A Catholic cross has to have Jesus on it. 443 00:28:51.940 --> 00:28:54.100 One is saying we need more blood. 444 00:28:54.540 --> 00:28:55.620 We need more suffering. 445 00:28:56.280 --> 00:29:00.860 We need him to pay the price again and again and again and again. 446 00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:04.700 That's not what the Bible teaches. 447 00:29:04.860 --> 00:29:06.320 He paid the price once. 448 00:29:08.780 --> 00:29:10.260 And so friends, listen. 449 00:29:12.100 --> 00:29:20.900 To the Jew who came to the fulfillment of being a Jew, the book of Hebrews 450 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:26.960 announces, don't think of wandering away and look for some other blood 451 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.660 sacrifice. 452 00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:32.400 Make sure examine yourself that you are in the faith. 453 00:29:32.500 --> 00:29:36.220 Notice the scripture doesn't say examine yourself to see if you're a believer 454 00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:37.740 or that you believe. 455 00:29:38.020 --> 00:29:43.200 The scripture says, the Bible says, examine yourself to determine, to make sure 456 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.440 that you are in the faith, of the faith. 457 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:48.920 This is vital. 458 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:56.500 So there's a lot of people walking around today as I speak who actually believe 459 00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:58.200 or think that they're going to heaven. 460 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:08.140 And they'll, they'll say, because I'm going to heaven because, and what follows 461 00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:08.960 the because? 462 00:30:10.760 --> 00:30:16.180 I'm going to heaven because, because of what? 463 00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:25.000 If you have any other answer other than putting your faith fully upon Christ, 464 00:30:25.780 --> 00:30:34.440 his work at the cross, his sanctifying victory over the grave, to put your 465 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.900 faith in Christ and Christ alone, and in his merit alone, not yours, to believe 466 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:44.120 him to the point where you've put your faith in him. 467 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:52.820 To you, the scripture says, the doors of eternity of heaven will open up wide. 468 00:30:53.020 --> 00:30:55.140 A great entrance will be granted unto you. 469 00:30:56.140 --> 00:31:03.840 Your name is written down in heaven, that the Holy Spirit dwells within you as 470 00:31:03.840 --> 00:31:04.820 he possesses you. 471 00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:09.880 And you are sealed by the Spirit of God unto the day of redemption. 472 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.300 That Jesus said, whoever will come to me, I will never turn them away. 473 00:31:15.860 --> 00:31:20.920 And they are safe, by the way, in the hands of my father and in my hands. 474 00:31:21.020 --> 00:31:23.940 John chapter 10, beginning at verse 28. 475 00:31:26.590 --> 00:31:31.730 When he says to us in Romans, nothing shall be able to separate you from the 476 00:31:31.730 --> 00:31:33.350 love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. 477 00:31:33.550 --> 00:31:40.570 Nothing, death nor life, principalities or powers, things spiritual, things of 478 00:31:40.570 --> 00:31:43.910 this world, things beneath this world, nothing. 479 00:31:45.930 --> 00:31:51.010 Nothing created, nothing spiritual, nothing physical, a nuclear bomb. 480 00:31:54.630 --> 00:31:59.430 Nobody, nothing can separate you from God's salvation if you're saved. 481 00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:02.930 People don't go around and lose their salvation. 482 00:32:03.970 --> 00:32:06.670 They never had it in the first place. 483 00:32:08.470 --> 00:32:09.370 Think of that. 484 00:32:09.450 --> 00:32:13.670 Well, my friend went forward at the crusade five years ago, but they never went 485 00:32:13.670 --> 00:32:17.670 back to church, or they kind of sort of, they just, you know, I know they love 486 00:32:17.670 --> 00:32:21.570 the Lord, but they're still doing a lot of their old stuff. 487 00:32:21.750 --> 00:32:23.050 And, but I know they love the Lord. 488 00:32:23.130 --> 00:32:24.430 You know why you tell yourself that? 489 00:32:24.770 --> 00:32:28.450 You tell yourself that because you don't want to confront your friend who's 490 00:32:28.450 --> 00:32:29.910 probably not a Christian at all. 491 00:32:30.930 --> 00:32:33.870 They just got a little booster shot of spirituality. 492 00:32:34.550 --> 00:32:36.450 They felt a tingle up their spine. 493 00:32:36.830 --> 00:32:41.470 They tasted of the heavenly gift and of the powers of the age to come. 494 00:32:42.490 --> 00:32:48.070 They went forward at the crusade or they raised their hand at church and 495 00:32:48.070 --> 00:32:49.270 nothing changed. 496 00:32:50.670 --> 00:32:52.070 They never changed. 497 00:32:55.090 --> 00:33:03.790 The book of James answers that and says, if they're changed, there'd be good 498 00:33:03.790 --> 00:33:09.470 works coming out of their life that bear testimony to their confession of 499 00:33:09.470 --> 00:33:09.790 faith. 500 00:33:11.370 --> 00:33:12.410 Think of it. 501 00:33:15.850 --> 00:33:20.650 We give people, strangely, a lot of grace where there shouldn't be any. 502 00:33:21.950 --> 00:33:25.310 We don't want to talk to them because we get nervous and we don't know what to 503 00:33:25.310 --> 00:33:27.150 say and we want to assume they're saved. 504 00:33:28.350 --> 00:33:34.030 So we'll just pat them on the back and we will credit them with, well, I know 505 00:33:34.030 --> 00:33:37.150 they went forward seven years ago, but there's never been a change in their 506 00:33:37.150 --> 00:33:37.450 life. 507 00:33:37.730 --> 00:33:38.950 But I know they love the Lord. 508 00:33:39.130 --> 00:33:39.770 No, you don't. 509 00:33:40.130 --> 00:33:41.210 You're saying that for you. 510 00:33:42.550 --> 00:33:48.130 They need you to have you come back into their life and say, hey, what's up? 511 00:33:48.250 --> 00:33:53.890 I've noticed it's been seven years and you're no different. 512 00:33:56.550 --> 00:33:57.710 You need grace. 513 00:33:57.870 --> 00:34:04.970 You need to come back and you need to re-evaluate because, my friend, I don't 514 00:34:04.970 --> 00:34:09.989 think that day or that night or that moment, when you said what you said, when 515 00:34:09.989 --> 00:34:12.610 you did what you did, did you even understand what you're doing? 516 00:34:12.610 --> 00:34:20.190 Did you actually repent of your sins and believe in Jesus Christ to the point 517 00:34:20.190 --> 00:34:21.610 of putting faith in him? 518 00:34:23.150 --> 00:34:29.250 How much has Christ been a factor in your daily thought process? 519 00:34:29.989 --> 00:34:38.110 When you wake up in the morning, is not Christ Jesus a thought in your mind 520 00:34:38.110 --> 00:34:40.370 within the first 30 seconds of waking up? 521 00:34:41.850 --> 00:34:43.170 Do you not know that? 522 00:34:43.730 --> 00:34:47.210 Do you not know that that's how a real believer lives? 523 00:34:47.389 --> 00:34:54.889 That when you arouse from dreams or sleep and you wake up within nanoseconds of 524 00:34:54.889 --> 00:34:58.810 time, there's actually a God thought in your mind? 525 00:34:59.090 --> 00:35:03.770 Like something like, Lord, good morning. 526 00:35:03.890 --> 00:35:04.530 Lord, thank you. 527 00:35:04.890 --> 00:35:06.910 Lord, thanks for keeping me through the night. 528 00:35:07.110 --> 00:35:08.830 God, I give you this day. 529 00:35:09.470 --> 00:35:12.910 There's a consciousness and awareness of God. 530 00:35:13.530 --> 00:35:14.470 Do you not have that? 531 00:35:14.830 --> 00:35:20.290 If you don't have that, it's because you might be flirting with Hebrews chapter 532 00:35:20.290 --> 00:35:22.050 6, verses 4, 5, and 6. 533 00:35:22.590 --> 00:35:26.090 You might be religious, but you don't know him. 534 00:35:27.070 --> 00:35:30.770 Oh my goodness, friends, this might be the most important podcast in history 535 00:35:30.770 --> 00:35:36.470 regarding you and your future, because if you think you're going to heaven 536 00:35:36.470 --> 00:35:42.850 because, and that answer is something other than faith alone in Jesus Christ, 537 00:35:43.410 --> 00:35:51.870 which has resulted in the transformation of your life, then you may be very 538 00:35:51.870 --> 00:35:52.770 self-deceived. 539 00:35:52.890 --> 00:35:56.050 And I don't say that funny, and I'm not saying it to be mean. 540 00:35:56.050 --> 00:36:01.910 If I'm hated by 10,000 people and you, whatever you do, you dislike me or 541 00:36:01.910 --> 00:36:08.770 defriend me, or you cross me out or cancel me, I could care less if one person 542 00:36:08.770 --> 00:36:12.330 on this podcast says, holy cow, I think I'm that person. 543 00:36:12.470 --> 00:36:15.110 I think I'm almost a Christian, but I'm not. 544 00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:19.250 That's what matters. 545 00:36:20.290 --> 00:36:23.630 So you may not like my honesty, but I'm telling you straight up. 546 00:36:26.050 --> 00:36:28.270 You need to make sure that you are a follower of Jesus. 547 00:36:29.810 --> 00:36:33.470 So please check and see. 548 00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:39.630 Is it possible for you to be a believer? 549 00:36:42.310 --> 00:36:45.070 Is it possible for you to have faith? 550 00:36:47.050 --> 00:36:51.430 Or is it impossible for you? 551 00:36:51.570 --> 00:36:58.570 Because the one who paid the sin debt for your life to you was not enough. 552 00:36:59.490 --> 00:37:01.530 He wasn't effective enough. 553 00:37:01.610 --> 00:37:03.650 He wasn't worthy enough. 554 00:37:03.730 --> 00:37:05.130 He wasn't powerful enough. 555 00:37:05.950 --> 00:37:10.470 He wasn't enough for me to let him have total control of my life. 556 00:37:10.550 --> 00:37:13.810 And so I'm looking around for something else to add to my life. 557 00:37:14.510 --> 00:37:17.190 For you, Jesus wasn't enough. 558 00:37:19.430 --> 00:37:22.770 And may God's grace, may God's mercy be upon you. 559 00:37:23.210 --> 00:37:27.930 May you find repentance in your heart to turn to him. 560 00:37:29.910 --> 00:37:32.210 Maybe right now, this is for you for real. 561 00:37:35.740 --> 00:37:38.500 It's not the prayer I'm going to lead you in that will save you. 562 00:37:39.240 --> 00:37:40.720 A prayer cannot save you. 563 00:37:43.060 --> 00:37:52.660 It's what you now are deciding to believe, that you are now going to put faith 564 00:37:52.660 --> 00:38:00.240 in Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, not the Jesus of the 565 00:38:00.240 --> 00:38:08.480 cults, not the Jesus of any other group or thing or place, but Jesus of 566 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:14.620 Nazareth, Jesus, the Christ, Jesus, the son of David, Jesus, the son of God, 567 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.820 Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the 568 00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:25.260 last, the one who was, who is, who is to come, the almighty Jesus. 569 00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:36.430 Father, we come before you right now in this very, very serious moment, and we 570 00:38:36.430 --> 00:38:45.490 confess in full belief, not in a fable, not in a fairy tale, not in a story, 571 00:38:50.120 --> 00:38:57.000 but we now choose to believe the facts that Jesus Christ died in my place, 572 00:38:58.700 --> 00:39:05.180 ordained and engineered by God himself, that 2000 years ago, the Lamb of God 573 00:39:05.180 --> 00:39:13.000 had an appointment with the law of God, with the righteousness of God, with the 574 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:17.740 holiness of God, that the Lamb of God had an appointment with the wrath of God 575 00:39:17.740 --> 00:39:21.860 2000 years ago, with the judgment of God 2000 years ago. 576 00:39:22.740 --> 00:39:31.020 And that Lamb was so perfect that as the wrath and indignation of God was 577 00:39:31.020 --> 00:39:38.580 poured out upon him, which was owed to me, he took upon himself. 578 00:39:41.720 --> 00:39:43.600 Justice was applied. 579 00:39:45.220 --> 00:39:47.860 Justice was satisfied. 580 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:52.520 Righteousness was established. 581 00:39:54.580 --> 00:39:56.840 Salvation was purchased. 582 00:40:00.160 --> 00:40:02.680 Redemption was made complete. 583 00:40:05.660 --> 00:40:08.100 An eternal life made available. 584 00:40:10.020 --> 00:40:17.520 That if I would right now say, Lord God Almighty, I come now in the name of 585 00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:24.140 Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, I divorce myself from myself. 586 00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:32.180 I divorce myself from my works, from my deeds, from my morality, from whatever 587 00:40:32.180 --> 00:40:34.040 is in the way. 588 00:40:34.640 --> 00:40:41.120 And I repent of my sins, my pride, my arrogance, my self-righteousness, my 589 00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:46.200 disgusting, putrefying pleasure of myself. 590 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:51.780 I now despise what I am and who I am. 591 00:40:52.580 --> 00:40:57.840 And I'm begging you, Almighty God, apply the blood of Jesus Christ to my life. 592 00:40:58.140 --> 00:40:59.440 I don't want to taste anything. 593 00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:01.280 I don't want to sip anything. 594 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:03.620 I don't want to be near anything. 595 00:41:04.080 --> 00:41:05.620 I want to be all in. 596 00:41:07.060 --> 00:41:16.160 Take my life completely over, dear God, and save me and put your spirit in my 597 00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:16.540 life. 598 00:41:17.140 --> 00:41:24.660 Own me that I will never look back, but now live for you forever, with you, 599 00:41:25.220 --> 00:41:28.360 now, as a true follower of Christ. 600 00:41:30.020 --> 00:41:31.620 In Jesus' name, I pray. 601 00:41:32.560 --> 00:41:33.000 Amen. 602 00:41:34.520 --> 00:41:36.140 I pray that that's your prayer. 603 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.040 If you've prayed that prayer, we'd love to hear from you. 604 00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:41.220 You can reach out to us at Jackhibbs.com. 605 00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:42.680 Let us know. 606 00:41:43.080 --> 00:41:43.820 Send you a Bible. 607 00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:53.180 And if 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