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Where Sin Came from, How We Can Be Saved from It

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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:40 I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
00:42 I wanna thank you for joining us today.
00:45 Today's study is entitled "Where Sin Came From,
00:48 and How We Can Be Saved From It."
00:50 This lesson is number 16 out of 25 lessons
00:54 contained in this study guide by Brother Richard Bland
00:56 of the United Prison Ministries.
00:59 And this study guide is entitled
01:00 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier,
01:03 What The Bible Says."
01:05 We're excited to partner with Brother Richard
01:08 in turning his Bible study into full one hour sermons
01:12 with Pastor Kenny Shelton.
01:14 Each study has been a blessing thus far
01:17 as I'm sure that this one will be as well.
01:19 It is a study that anyone
01:21 who has ever been born on this planet must face
01:25 and that being the issue of sin.
01:28 Again, we will be studying where sin came from
01:31 and how we can be saved from it.
01:33 The truth of the matter is that if we are not safe from it,
01:38 we will die in it, we will die in our sins.
01:41 God has left us this information
01:44 in His Word,
01:45 His wonderful Bible, the Word of God
01:47 which He has so graciously preserved
01:50 for our salvation.
01:51 From His Word today,
01:53 we will find out who committed the first sin
01:56 and where this act was first done.
01:59 And just what exactly is the definition of sin
02:03 and what sin has cost?
02:06 What we must do to be saved
02:07 and finally, what awaits anyone
02:10 who refuses the plan of salvation
02:12 as so freely given and offered by our Savior.
02:16 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton
02:19 for this all important study,
02:21 let's visit 3ABN
02:22 and listen to a song that is entitled "Deep River"
02:26 as performed by Brother Kendol Bacchus.
05:25 Blessings, we're glad you joined us here once again
05:27 at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
05:28 And, you know, it's always nice,
05:30 I think to take a couple of seconds
05:31 and then thank every one of you,
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05:36 are just interested in the truth
05:37 getting out to the world.
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05:49 and reach the world over and over and over
05:52 that Jesus will come,
05:53 and we can be ready to meet Him in the clouds of glory.
05:56 Again, we're glad you joined us
05:57 and I want you to make sure you get your Bible,
05:58 pencil, and paper, sit down
06:00 and be able to jot some things down
06:02 because we're gonna be looking at subject today,
06:06 "Where Did Sin Came From,
06:08 and How Can We Be Saved From It."
06:11 What an interesting sermon title.
06:13 And we're gonna recover that
06:14 based on the Word of God in just a moment.
06:16 But first we have a quick prayer together.
06:18 Would you pray with me?
06:22 Merciful Father in heaven, again, we come to Thee,
06:24 we ask that Your Holy Spirit
06:25 will take possession of our hearts,
06:27 our lives, and our minds.
06:28 We asked for forgiveness of sin.
06:30 We wanna be covered by the blood.
06:32 We wanna be able to hear from heaven.
06:33 We wanna relay the message
06:35 that You have for Your people today.
06:36 We want the people to able to hear it.
06:38 Pray their ears or eyes will be open,
06:41 that they may understand
06:42 that which You are speaking
06:43 to the each one of us today.
06:45 Thank you, Lord, for hearing and answering prayer.
06:47 May these questions be answered and answer from the Word of God
06:50 and we thank you in Jesus' name,
06:51 amen.
06:54 Again, where did sin come from?
06:56 Well, that's probably a simple question
06:57 for many, many people,
06:59 but it's not for others,
07:00 so many have never really hardly ever opened
07:02 the Word of God.
07:03 So they're not really sure where sin came from.
07:05 They just hear you talk about it
07:06 when you go to church and so on.
07:08 But most of all, we know that sin developed.
07:11 But now I wanna know how we can be saved from it,
07:15 from this issue this thing called sin?
07:17 If you have your Bibles,
07:19 and you might wanna just turn to this passage quickly,
07:21 in James 1:14 and 15.
07:23 Now, there are 11 questions
07:26 that will be asked on this study.
07:28 You heard my wife talk about it in the beginning,
07:30 this is study, this is gonna be study guides.
07:33 If you don't have that guide, you're gonna need it
07:34 because more than likely we'll never get through all 11.
07:37 But if you have that guide,
07:38 you can go ahead and finish it on up.
07:40 But I want you to turn with me to James 1:14 and 15 first
07:44 and listen to the Word of God
07:45 speak to your heart, speak to mind.
07:47 James 1:14 and 15.
07:51 The Word of God says,
07:53 "But every man," every man is what?
07:55 "He's tempted," notice,
07:57 "when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
08:01 Verse 15,
08:02 "Then when lust hath conceived,
08:04 it bringeth forth sin, sin when it is" what?
08:08 "Finished, bringeth forth death."
08:12 Interesting when you look
08:13 at the passage of scripture here,
08:15 every man when he's tempted, it says here, huh.
08:19 Every man is drawn away of his own what?
08:22 His lust, his desire, this is what he's want,
08:25 he's drawn away from his own desire
08:27 from his own, may be his own longing,
08:30 he's enticed.
08:31 That means he's entrapped, he's deceived by himself.
08:35 The enemies come down the temptation
08:37 but what's happened?
08:39 He's deceived, he deceived himself.
08:41 And so we need to be very, very careful
08:42 when that's all played out.
08:43 What does the Bible say?
08:45 When sin is finished, notice this,
08:48 it bringeth forth death.
08:49 So we wanted to just discuss that a little bit today.
08:52 Would we agree,
08:54 would be possible that we would agree today,
08:56 that sin is the basic cause of all of our problems.
09:00 Sin is what?
09:02 Sin is the basic cause of all of our problems in the world
09:05 that we are having.
09:06 We want to blame Joe Blow over here,
09:09 and this person and that person and everybody else,
09:11 but sin is the real issue that we have to deal with
09:14 that's causing all this mayhem
09:17 that's going on in the world today.
09:19 Now I want you to think about just as we think about it,
09:22 it seemed like it ought to be a little more settled.
09:24 It seemed like that sin shouldn't be
09:26 as rampant as it is.
09:28 If you look around and I may just go a little far
09:31 with this right here, but it seems like
09:32 there's a church on every corner.
09:35 You know, it seem like wherever you go,
09:36 there's churches all over the place.
09:38 Amen.
09:40 Modern medicine,
09:41 you think about modern science,
09:44 countless hospitals,
09:47 wherever you look,
09:48 there's social
09:49 and there's governmental organizations
09:52 but they're still what?
09:53 There's still sickness, there's still disease,
09:55 and there's still death.
09:57 I mean, all of these thousands of institutions
09:59 that are out there,
10:01 there's still suffering, there's still death,
10:03 there's still fear,
10:05 there's still crime,
10:07 there's war,
10:08 there's the killing, murder
10:09 is going on every, every just a few seconds.
10:12 Someone's killed in this, in the United States alone.
10:16 There's fire, there's floods,
10:17 we understand that storms,
10:19 there's earthquakes,
10:21 there's disaster on every hand.
10:23 This is what the Bible said.
10:24 All we have to do is look it up in Luke Chapter 12.
10:27 So few simple words, verse 25,
10:30 maybe that's 21.
10:31 Luke 21:25,
10:33 the Word of God is very, very clear.
10:35 It says, "Upon the," what?
10:36 "Earth distress of..."
10:39 "Upon the earth distress of nations," notice it,
10:42 "with perplexity."
10:44 So we live in a time
10:45 when men's hearts are failing them for fear
10:48 of what's coming up on this world.
10:50 Again, we have the churches, we have the hospital,
10:52 we have the science, we have all of these things,
10:55 but there's still some issue here.
10:56 Could it be the sin issue?
10:59 Sin and despair grips millions of people.
11:05 Remember,
11:07 we realize there's a real McCoy as it were, the worst things
11:10 we're to be concerned about.
11:11 There's other things
11:13 that we realized in God's hands.
11:15 And if we'd to believe that we are in God's hands
11:17 and He's gonna take care of all of these issues
11:20 that come our way,
11:22 but He's gonna do it in His time,
11:23 not necessarily the way
11:25 we would like for Him to handle it.
11:27 But it's gonna be for our very best.
11:29 We realize there's, for instance,
11:31 there's some people that get so things happen,
11:33 so many things happen to them,
11:35 that it's very difficult to bounce back.
11:37 Please do not ever get in this shape
11:40 because God is there to help us.
11:42 This is a story of a German man.
11:46 He gave his testimony
11:48 at the, right after the fall of Hitler
11:51 in World War II.
11:52 So he'd been in Germany all the mess that was going on,
11:55 all the disaster.
11:56 Here was this Christian man
11:58 and here's what he said after
11:59 it's all said and done, he simply said this.
12:02 He gave his testimony,
12:03 he said, "Well, life is horrible sometime."
12:06 He said, "My son was killed in the war.
12:09 My daughter, I can't even find her,
12:11 she's missing.
12:13 I lost my wife too.
12:16 My house is gone.
12:18 Everything that I've ever worked for,
12:20 all the property I own is gone.
12:23 I have clothes on my back
12:26 but they were given to me.
12:27 They're not even mine.
12:29 I've come to the point
12:31 in my experience
12:33 that I just can't even pray
12:35 anymore.
12:37 I can't even think
12:40 anymore.
12:43 I can't seem to go backwards
12:45 and I can't seem to go forwards.
12:47 I'm stuck.
12:51 I'm stuck because of all the things
12:52 that I've experienced.
12:57 It's just
12:58 no longer possible
13:02 for me to live the life that I once lived."
13:06 This man came to the end of his rope.
13:10 So many things that happened in such a short period of time,
13:13 it was too much,
13:15 or is it too much for God?
13:18 Was it too much for God?
13:19 Was all these things that happened to him
13:21 really the result,
13:23 in a nutshell, that sin has laid out in this world?
13:28 It was never to meant to be like this.
13:30 We were never meant to lose loved ones.
13:34 We're never meant to lose,
13:35 you know, they say, called by husbands, and wives,
13:37 and daughters, and homes, and property.
13:39 It's not the way God lined it out.
13:41 My first question then, somebody's responsible?
13:45 Somebody's responsible for this mess?
13:48 So our first question,
13:49 you know, as we have in our study guides,
13:51 and again, I mentioned there's 11 of them,
13:53 we'll go as far as we can.
13:55 Simply the first question, who committed the first sin?
13:59 Who committed the first sin?
14:01 Well, the Bible
14:02 simply tells the answer that you know
14:03 I'm sure found in the Book of 1 John 3:8.
14:07 Now remember,
14:08 we can always try to blame it on this one
14:10 and blame it on that one.
14:11 But we go back to the Word of God
14:13 and let God's Word speak to us and say,
14:15 who committed the first sin?
14:17 Who is the, you know,
14:19 who's the one that started this whole thing?
14:21 Bible said, notice this, in 1 John 3:8,
14:25 "He that committeth sin is of the," what?
14:29 Now you notice, it didn't just
14:31 limit it to the devil in this first line.
14:33 It said, "He that commits," what?
14:36 Sin,
14:37 that could be any of us, is that right?
14:40 "He that committeth sin is of the devil."
14:44 Now the Bible goes on and says, why?
14:47 "For the devil sinneth from the beginning."
14:50 Did you get it?
14:51 For the devil sinneth from the beginning,
14:53 so he would be the first sinner.
14:55 Does that make sense?
14:56 He's the first sinner right here, notice,
14:58 and it goes on and said,
15:01 for this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
15:06 that He might destroy the works of the devil.
15:09 Aren't you glad
15:10 there's just another part to that?
15:11 Now we've got it in our heads, the devil is the culprit.
15:14 He's the one that did the first sin,
15:15 he's the one decided he was going to go against God.
15:19 It says it.
15:21 And it's always perplexed me over the years
15:22 because it says, he sinned from the beginning
15:25 and I know there was eons of time,
15:28 least the best I can do
15:30 in looking at principle was study the Word of God.
15:32 There was eons of times in the heavens
15:35 that there was no sin.
15:39 God never had to give any mercy to anybody.
15:42 Did we get that? Why?
15:44 Because there was no sin.
15:47 But from the beginning it says,
15:49 here we have the old devil begin to act up.
15:52 That could certainly be in a couple of different angles
15:54 as we look at here
15:55 from the beginning of human sin
15:59 or from the beginning of his sin.
16:02 Did you get that?
16:03 Beginning here in the Greek,
16:06 it says, in order, in this order,
16:09 in time, and in place first,
16:13 kind of interesting.
16:14 He was first in order, and time, and place
16:17 to finally make the decision
16:19 he was going to go against God.
16:21 If we get no farther than that, we need to realize today,
16:24 you can't beat God.
16:25 You might think that you can out there.
16:27 Somebody say, "Well, I'll do my own thing
16:29 and I'll have my own way."
16:30 Oh, you'll get your own way all right.
16:32 That's not gonna be something you're gonna want.
16:35 We want to be on the winning side.
16:36 We want to be on God's side.
16:39 He said because of sin issue,
16:41 the world going down it says,
16:43 you know, down the drain,
16:44 that wonderful that Jesus was willing to come,
16:47 the purpose of Jesus' coming.
16:49 The manifestation of Him coming down here
16:51 simply meant His incarnation,
16:53 His willingness to come down here.
16:55 How awesome that is that He might destroy what?
16:59 The devil.
17:00 I like that, destroy the devil.
17:02 The works of the devil.
17:05 Aren't you glad that's gonna be destroyed.
17:07 Destroyed here means to be released from.
17:10 We can be released from the old devil.
17:12 We can be, notice this,
17:14 we can break away from the devil.
17:17 He came down here to dissolve the sin issue.
17:20 Jesus came down to dissolve,
17:23 to break up this sin issue.
17:25 And I'm so thankful for that, I know in my own life.
17:27 John shows us quickly what God is doing.
17:30 John is showing us what we need to do
17:32 as Christians
17:34 in order to meet the requirements of God
17:37 and He does have requirements
17:38 as much as we don't like it.
17:40 Interesting in the world everything has requirements.
17:43 Are you there?
17:44 Now, look, what you go to do that has requirements.
17:46 I don't care if it's going to the store,
17:48 if it's going here, buying this, buying that,
17:49 but there's requirements.
17:51 And we don't have a problem with that,
17:53 but God has requirements.
17:54 Man, I can see more and more and more
17:56 why God has requirements
17:58 before we enter the kingdom of God
17:59 because such a wonderful place,
18:01 He's not going to let it go
18:02 and get carried away once again.
18:04 Not with sin,
18:05 won't rise up again the second time.
18:07 1 John 4:8.
18:09 1 John Chapter 4.
18:12 No, 1 John 1:8.
18:14 This is why you have a pencil,
18:16 'cause with the pencil you got an eraser
18:17 and you can always erase it and put down right
18:19 once I get squared away.
18:21 1 John 1:8, the Bible said,
18:23 "If we say we have," what?
18:26 "If we say we have no sin,"
18:28 we're doing what to ourself?
18:30 "We're deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
18:34 So if anybody's going around saying what?
18:36 Oh, oh, I have any, I don't have any sin.
18:39 Only Jesus can boast of that and He doesn't boast about it.
18:43 Only Jesus can be said,
18:45 is the only one who ever lived on this earth
18:46 without what?
18:47 Without sin.
18:49 Some people don't get it through their head.
18:50 They think that Mary the mother of Jesus was sinless.
18:52 Well, she was not, she sinned
18:54 because the Bible said every person, right?
18:55 "We've all sinned
18:57 and come short of the glory of God, "
18:58 that will be in our study.
19:00 Everybody, that's too including the pope and the pastors,
19:02 are you still there?
19:04 "We've all sinned and come short."
19:06 So we don't wanna go around and say we have no sin.
19:10 Because, you know, the sin issue to me
19:11 is something
19:13 that I need a continual cleansing
19:14 day by day.
19:15 Are you still with me?
19:17 We come to Jesus, we ask for forgiveness of sin
19:18 and then we just get up and people say,
19:19 I just go and live my life the way I want to.
19:21 You're making a mistake.
19:23 You're making mistake, we need a day by day
19:26 continual cleansing by the blood of the Lamb,
19:28 the recognition that I'm sinner,
19:31 and I need grace.
19:32 Well, this is wonderful news, and we will read it,
19:35 Manuscript 27.
19:36 It says here, 1886,
19:38 time is just flying by, notice this,
19:40 Manuscript 27, in 1886 says,
19:43 "There are those who claim to be holy,
19:46 yet are breaking God's commandments.
19:49 Their assertion that they are sinless is false
19:52 and should not be received."
19:54 Kind of an interesting thought and again,
19:56 this condition is you say,
19:58 who would even if they had that life of sinless
20:01 would go around bragging about it.
20:03 You wouldn't do that
20:04 because the closer you get to Jesus, what?
20:06 The more we see ourselves
20:08 for what we are is a dirty sinner.
20:09 Is that okay to say that?
20:11 Is a sinner in need of grace,
20:13 in need of help,
20:14 in need of encouragement?
20:16 We need Jesus
20:18 so we never want to come to the point,
20:19 there'll be a group,
20:21 sure absolutely before Jesus comes,
20:22 that lives the life of perfection
20:24 through the grace of Jesus.
20:26 Jesus face shines through each, every one of these individuals.
20:29 Is Christ within the hope of glory?
20:31 It's no longer their mind the mind of Christ,
20:33 there will be a group
20:35 but right now we're looking and say,
20:36 I need You, Lord.
20:38 Look at your own life now,
20:39 look in the mirror and say my, my, my,
20:40 am I what it's going to take,
20:42 is this going to heaven?
20:44 Might take another look and so my,
20:47 we need some help.
20:49 Now we've come,
20:50 now we've named the original sinner,
20:52 that's right, the Bible said, who is it?
20:54 The devil, he sinned right from the beginning
20:56 right here.
20:57 Now let's name,
20:59 let's get down to the, time of the original sin.
21:02 I believe the Bible kind of dictates
21:04 to where it originated,
21:05 how it originated and the timeframe of it.
21:08 First of all, in Revelation 12:9,
21:10 once again, lets us know.
21:12 It's referred to the, remember the great dragon.
21:15 Do you remember him?
21:16 That old serpent called the devil and Satan.
21:19 So we know Satan is the one
21:21 that sin came by him
21:23 we understand that, he made a choice.
21:25 But then as we look in Isaiah 14:2,
21:29 the Bible says in Isaiah 14:2,
21:32 he is called Lucifer here,
21:34 come on, we'll put in the nutshell as we can,
21:36 that means Son of the Morning.
21:39 So we see the time of his original sin was where?
21:44 Is that in the beginning?
21:46 In the beginning and that could be what?
21:48 Certainly near the time of creation
21:50 or from the time right we talked about there
21:52 from the beginning of the human sin,
21:54 it could be from the beginning of his own decision,
21:58 you see, to go against God.
21:59 So in the time of creation,
22:02 we have to realize that Satan was a created what?
22:06 He was a created being, interesting.
22:09 Question number two,
22:10 where was the first sin committed then?
22:13 Right, we've established, it must been,
22:15 it's from kind of from the beginning.
22:16 Satan's the one that did it.
22:18 Now where was it when the sin was committed?
22:20 Revelation 12:7, 8.
22:23 The Bible is very clear.
22:24 The Bible said there was war in heaven.
22:27 "There was war in heaven."
22:29 Think about this.
22:30 "Michael and his angels," did something,
22:32 "they fought, " you notice this,
22:34 "against the dragon,
22:35 and the dragon and his angels fought."
22:37 Did you notice that?
22:40 But notice I like verse 8
22:42 comes on Revelation 12:8 says,
22:45 "And prevailed not."
22:47 Did you notice that?
22:49 The angel, the dirty devil,
22:51 Revelation 12:7 and 8, it says,
22:53 "And he prevailed not,
22:55 neither was their place found any more in heaven."
22:57 You notice that because he failed.
22:59 Because of sin,
23:01 God said you can't stay here.
23:04 So is God gonna be taking us to heaven
23:06 while we still have unconfessed sin in our life?
23:09 No, He cannot, and He will not, He cast out the enemy, right,
23:13 Lucifer because he had what?
23:15 He rebelled against God's authority.
23:17 When you and I choose to do our own thing knowing like,
23:20 right, we're putting ourselves in the place of God.
23:23 That's called sin.
23:25 We have to be very careful with that.
23:26 This is the question, notice here,
23:28 Letter 162, 1906.
23:30 So we've established there's war in heaven,
23:33 Satan, all that took his side were cast out.
23:37 Letter 162 written in 1906 says this,
23:41 "This condition of things
23:43 had existed a long period of time, "
23:45 you know notice it's talking about that before,
23:47 " before Satan was unmasked and the evil one expelled."
23:53 This condition did what?
23:55 He had it inside for a long time, didn't he?
23:59 And then, what happened,
24:01 but he begin to get little more bold with it.
24:03 That's what sin is.
24:05 That's how sin works on us, isn't it?
24:06 Sometimes it starts out kind of quiet
24:08 and not such a big deal and just kind of in our mind,
24:10 and then it begins to be worked out in our life
24:13 and some of we, we're deceived by that.
24:16 So this was going on a long time
24:18 before God decided to unmask him.
24:22 And let the other angel see,
24:23 let the world see for us to read about it today.
24:26 Now remember, question number three says this.
24:29 Was Satan sinful
24:31 when he was created?
24:33 We've established that sin was committed where?
24:35 The first sin was in heaven. Right?
24:37 The devil is the one
24:39 that started this whole issue here.
24:41 Now we're looking, was Satan sinful
24:42 when he was created?
24:44 People say, "Oh, yeah, he must have been,
24:45 he had in him."
24:46 The Bible simply says this,
24:48 it takes faith, right?
24:49 It takes faith, doesn't it,
24:50 to read Scripture and believe what
24:52 Scripture says.
24:53 Ezekiel 28:15 notice what it says,
24:57 this just finalizes for me.
25:00 I don't need anything else.
25:02 I don't need to try to debate it.
25:04 I don't need to think my mind's better than God's.
25:06 Or my ways are better than God's,
25:08 because the Bible starts out, Ezekiel 28:15.
25:11 Do we believe that Ezekiel was a prophet of God?
25:13 Oh, absolutely, we do.
25:15 Do we believe the Word of God is truth?
25:16 Yes, we do.
25:18 Then God write the Holy Spirit working through Ezekiel
25:20 penned these words,
25:21 Ezekiel 28:15,
25:23 "Thou was perfect." What was that?
25:26 "Thou was perfect."
25:28 Thou was without blemish.
25:30 Thou was sound.
25:32 Thou was without spot.
25:34 Thou was complete.
25:36 Thou was full.
25:37 Thou was perfect,
25:38 is what the Bible said here in the day
25:40 that thou was created.
25:43 Did you get it?
25:45 He was created notice,
25:46 "until iniquity was found in you."
25:49 Until he decided to go against God's authority
25:52 and His Word.
25:54 See, we can do the very same thing today.
25:55 I can read it in here
25:56 and I can decide
25:58 I want to go the opposite direction.
25:59 Well, my fate is just like
26:01 that of the devil and the enemy,
26:02 do you get it?
26:03 We're not gonna make it to heaven that way.
26:05 We cannot rebel against the Word of God.
26:08 In fact, we need to what?
26:09 "Take in every word that proceeds
26:10 out of the mouth of God,"
26:12 in Matthew 4:4, you remember that?
26:14 This is what God is talking about.
26:16 Every word is so important in the Word of God
26:19 and not leave some out
26:20 because it doesn't fit our lifestyle.
26:23 Lucifer then was what?
26:26 He was created in where,
26:27 he's created in heaven, was he not?
26:30 It says until iniquity was found in him.
26:33 That means before iniquity came out.
26:36 That means before iniquity came forth.
26:39 That means before iniquity occurred.
26:42 Satan was in heaven.
26:44 And now he was created in heaven.
26:46 Notice this.
26:48 This is where he lived.
26:50 This is where he worked.
26:51 It's okay to say that, this is where he worked.
26:54 This is where he served his Creator.
26:56 It's for a long period of time.
26:58 We don't know how long a period.
26:59 And it's not necessary I guess that we understand that.
27:02 But just, when I see this and understand
27:04 there's a long period of time
27:06 before God brought it to the forefront
27:08 is saying how merciful and how good God is.
27:11 Did you get it?
27:13 Because when we sin,
27:14 we're worthy of death and He could put us out,
27:15 couldn't He?
27:17 But He gives us grace period, doesn't He?
27:18 He gives us time to come back before it's too late.
27:23 Lived in heaven,
27:25 until iniquity was found in him.
27:29 And then the Bible said he was cast out of heaven,
27:32 woe unto the inhabitants of the earth.
27:34 Now this is proven, he was cast out.
27:37 This is proven that he lived in heaven
27:38 because you know why?
27:40 Because Jesus said so.
27:41 You remember reading that in Luke 10:18,
27:44 as Jesus said,
27:46 "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
27:50 What did Jesus, you got to believe this, right?
27:51 I have to believe this.
27:53 Jesus said that I beheld, I looked up,
27:54 and I saw Satan as he were falling as lightning
27:57 out of heaven.
27:58 So, boy, that makes it clear.
28:00 So here's the issue
28:02 that Satan was in the very presence of God
28:05 and Christ.
28:06 He was in the very presence of God and Christ.
28:09 You see why this makes it more binding as it were
28:14 or more difficult
28:15 as God looks at the enemy
28:17 because Satan you see,
28:19 he was in the presence of God.
28:20 He looks at, man he said, you've not been in my presence.
28:23 You haven't seen,
28:24 I need to extend more mercy to them.
28:26 But that's end of reason?
28:28 The enemy had a lot of edge, did he, he had a edge,
28:30 did he not?
28:32 Because he was there, in the presence of God.
28:35 The Bible is clear.
28:36 He saw God create.
28:37 He saw the majesty of God.
28:41 He trembled at the voice of God.
28:43 He knew what it was all about.
28:45 And yet he decided to go his own way.
28:47 And God looked at him and looks at mankind and said,
28:49 oh, they need some special help.
28:51 Why? Because they haven't seen me.
28:53 They're gonna learn from me from the Word of God.
28:56 They're gonna learn about me.
28:59 God is so fair, so just, and so good.
29:02 Huh.
29:04 So Satan was in the presence of God and of Christ
29:07 and I might say, the Holy Spirit
29:08 if you let me go.
29:11 Say, Satan want to be part of the what?
29:14 Of the Godhead.
29:16 But, you know, and as you look at it,
29:18 we always say, well, he was the fourth in,
29:20 you know, in power.
29:22 We'll never understand this life
29:23 till we get to glory,
29:25 we might understand of all the power
29:26 that he had.
29:28 I could say then simply put that he was next in line,
29:31 even though he was created.
29:33 He's not part of the Godhead.
29:34 Absolutely not.
29:36 He couldn't because he was created,
29:38 but he wanted to be.
29:40 Bible says in Ezekiel 28:14,
29:44 it just tells us the closeness
29:46 that existed between God and Lucifer before sin.
29:51 There was a closeness there.
29:53 Interesting.
29:54 Notice how the Bible reads here.
29:57 God said to Lucifer,
30:00 He said,
30:01 "Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God."
30:04 Did you get it?
30:06 Ezekiel 28:14,
30:08 "Thou hast walked up and down
30:09 and in the midst of the stones of fire."
30:13 Other words he walked around, he was around God's throne.
30:17 Wow!
30:19 Daniel testifies to this in Daniel 7:9,
30:24 he says, "His throne was like fiery flames,
30:27 and his wheels as burning fire."
30:31 And then if that doesn't quite convince you,
30:34 the John the Revelator had something to say about it
30:37 in Revelation 1:13-15,
30:40 I'll kind of paraphrase a little bit, you read it on.
30:43 Notice it says right here,
30:44 "He saw the Son of man, "
30:46 notice this, "his eyes were like," what?
30:49 "Flame of fire."
30:50 Oh, boy, "His feet unto fine brass,
30:53 as if they were burned in a furnace."
30:57 Lucifer the Bible said full of wisdom
30:59 knows perfect in character,
31:01 perfect in beauty at one time.
31:03 He was the anointed covering cherub.
31:07 What a position to hold.
31:09 You ever think about this covering cherub.
31:12 What does that really mean here?
31:14 You remember over the ark in the earthly sanctuary,
31:18 the ark, there was a lid, there was a cover,
31:22 that covered the mercy seat,
31:24 Exodus Chapter 25.
31:26 Think along this that he was the covering cherub
31:30 of what?
31:32 Of the law of God,
31:34 and his job as it were to oversee
31:35 the holiness of God's law.
31:38 So he must have known it.
31:41 He knew where it came from.
31:43 He knew the holiness of it.
31:46 The law of God is divine basic principles
31:49 of God's government.
31:51 See, Lucifer understood all of this.
31:54 He understood that justice and the mercy of God.
31:58 Again, we're talking about the sin issue here,
32:00 but we have to look at and identify the first one
32:02 who sinned.
32:04 And what maybe was going through his mind,
32:06 why did he give his allegiance to himself as it were,
32:10 rather than into the God of the universe?
32:13 When all these things was revealed to him,
32:15 his allegiance to begin with,
32:17 what we say for eons of time was with God.
32:20 His allegiance was with Christ.
32:23 You remember what Satan want to do,
32:24 he didn't as it were want to take God's place.
32:26 Whose place did he want?
32:28 He wanted Jesus Christ place.
32:33 He gave his allegiance to God.
32:35 He gave his allegiance before sin.
32:39 He gave his allegiance to the Holy Spirit.
32:41 He gave his allegiance to the law of God.
32:44 He was the protector of it,
32:46 of the holiness and the reverence of it.
32:50 And then, certainly,
32:52 his allegiance was to the government of God.
32:55 But something happened.
32:58 Because I realized that I read the Word of God
33:00 that the law was designed to bring happiness.
33:03 Did you get it?
33:04 And freedom.
33:07 Not, oh, no, I can't do.
33:10 Oh, no.
33:12 God designed the law to bring happiness
33:14 to the universe.
33:16 One good test certainly would be
33:18 when it is in the world, other worlds of today.
33:21 It's all happiness and joy and peace
33:23 because they never transgressed God's law.
33:27 This is the only planet that has and look at it,
33:30 and look at it.
33:31 So it was designed to bring what?
33:33 Peace and happiness.
33:36 So any transgression against God's law would be sin.
33:41 And it would bring unhappiness.
33:43 Sin brings unhappiness, as the end result.
33:47 Might think you're happy,
33:48 might think things are all going wonderful
33:50 and great and God's overlooked in it,
33:52 but God does not do that.
33:55 He's faithful.
33:58 Before we talked about this transgression
34:03 there was, we talked about eons of time.
34:07 Where there was no sin and I think back to that,
34:09 I'll think how wonderful time that must have been.
34:12 No one knows how many,
34:14 tens of thousands, hundred thousand.
34:16 We don't just, we don't know,
34:19 that there was just perfect, perfect peace
34:21 in the whole universe in which there is no in.
34:25 Question number four, so what is sin?
34:27 We're looking at here, it makes you unhappy.
34:32 You have to give your allegiance to somebody else.
34:33 The Bible says in 1 John 3:4,
34:36 then our questions that we have,
34:37 what is sin?
34:39 The biblical definition and the only definition
34:42 that's given that's in Scripture is what?
34:44 Sin is the transgression of God's law.
34:49 Interesting, sin's a transgression of God's law.
34:53 When God created
34:56 angels and man,
34:58 He gave us the power of choice.
35:01 Isn't that wonderful?
35:02 Knowing the results,
35:04 see that's still beyond my mind.
35:06 So I know he's tried to figure it out.
35:08 He knew what was going to happen.
35:11 But he realized the importance of giving the individual
35:14 when you give them the ability to weigh evidence out,
35:19 that they're gonna be accountable
35:21 for their choice.
35:22 He knew what Lucifer would do.
35:23 That's the way He must have created
35:25 the angels of heaven, isn't that right?
35:26 The power of choice.
35:31 Bible religion is based on many numerous things,
35:35 but let me give you three of them quickly.
35:37 Bible religion is based upon three things
35:40 I'm just gonna use.
35:41 Number one, persuasion.
35:43 If you read the Word of God,
35:44 you're gonna be persuaded
35:46 by the power of the Holy Spirit.
35:47 Are you still with me today now?
35:50 Real Bible religion is based upon evidence.
35:54 There's evidence not only in the Word of God,
35:56 right left, but evidences in the world.
35:59 The digging, the things they've dug up from the earth.
36:01 There's evidence says that God exists.
36:03 There's evidence says that God's on the throne.
36:06 There's evidence that He's coming back.
36:08 There's evidence that the rise of nations
36:10 and the fall of nations is there
36:12 can be no excuse for us today.
36:15 And also number three,
36:17 there that we're talking about Bible religion
36:19 is based upon choice.
36:21 So we have the choice.
36:23 So we're gonna have persuasion, evidence and choice.
36:27 God gives us, we can choose
36:29 not force, never force.
36:33 If you're trying to be forced into something,
36:34 that's the devil's tactics.
36:37 God does not operate that way.
36:39 John, just a quick one, John 7:17,
36:42 the Bible said, "If any man will do his will,"
36:46 he's gonna know.
36:47 Did you get that?
36:48 If any man will do the will of God?
36:50 This, sister, what did I say?
36:52 I'm throwing this out to you.
36:54 You decide what you want to do, is that make sense somebody?
36:57 I'm throwing it out to you.
36:58 If any man, if any man will do the will of God,
37:00 that's what he says.
37:02 Revelation 22:17,
37:06 the Bible said, "Whosoever will."
37:09 We could read all the verses,
37:10 but we can't because of our time,
37:11 "Whosoever will."
37:13 Sounds like a choice to me.
37:14 Brother Levi, it's got to be a choice now.
37:17 And certainly,
37:19 the one the standby always is,
37:20 it's found in the Book of Joshua 24:15.
37:24 It says, "Choose you this day, whom you" what?
37:28 "Whom you will serve."
37:29 The choice is yours.
37:30 The choice is mine.
37:32 What kind of choice are you making today?
37:34 What kind of a choice am I making today?
37:36 May I make this statement?
37:38 Sin was not necessary.
37:43 Man, that's heavy duty.
37:45 Sin was not necessary,
37:48 but it was possible.
37:52 And at the beginning it wasn't,
37:53 for a long time it wasn't.
37:57 But it was possible.
38:00 Man may choose to do good or he may choose to do evil.
38:05 But you know what?
38:06 Angels have to choose between good and evil.
38:10 Same thing, did you get that?
38:11 Angels have to choose every day,
38:14 interesting thought.
38:16 This has been very true
38:17 from the very beginning of time.
38:20 And it's gonna be what?
38:21 Be true from the very creation of the first angel.
38:27 And God was prepared to meet this sin issue
38:31 we know that before it happened.
38:34 My Matthew Chapter 25,
38:35 which we go through all and read and we can't,
38:37 Matthew Chapter 25.
38:38 Ephesians 1:4,
38:41 we find in Hebrews 4:3,
38:44 I think it is,
38:45 there's another passage there, 1 Peter 1:20,
38:48 he's talking about, "He knew
38:49 before the foundation of the world."
38:51 God knew all of these things would exist.
38:53 But you know what? He had a plan.
38:55 I'm glad He had a plan, if not we'd be down the tomb.
38:59 You need to plan and I need to plan.
39:03 We cannot be defeated by the devil
39:06 unless you want to be defeated by him.
39:08 You want defeat today and you want to live in defeat,
39:10 that's your choice.
39:12 I choose not to be defeated by the devil.
39:14 I choose by the grace of God to rise up and fight.
39:16 I choose by the grace of God to put forth an effort.
39:19 I choose by the grace of God right to fight
39:21 the good fight of faith.
39:22 Because what are the choices are left for?
39:25 Can I say for Pete's sake what else is left?
39:28 But the doom and gloom of the old devil,
39:29 and I refuse to live in that by the grace of God.
39:33 This is what we're looking at here in this time
39:34 because sin and what it cost
39:36 and what it's doing to millions and countless of people
39:38 in the world today.
39:44 This is simply the risk that God took,
39:49 when He made man with the power, intelligence,
39:52 and the power of choice.
39:56 You know, other worlds have to choose, you know.
40:01 You read that in Spirit of Prophecy.
40:02 I know there's other worlds
40:04 and I'm not talking about Martians
40:06 and freaky things going on, somebody with me.
40:11 Yeah, aliens or whatever you want to call them.
40:14 I'm talking about other angels,
40:16 other worlds,
40:17 or maybe millions, and trillions.
40:19 I don't know.
40:20 But there's no end to the universe
40:22 and God is not limited.
40:25 None of them have ever sinned.
40:27 None of them,
40:28 let me just read you something here is true.
40:33 Do you believe that they have a tree?
40:37 Do you believe they have a tree of life,
40:38 when they're home?
40:40 Do you believe they have the tree of knowledge
40:41 of good and evil?
40:42 And if they take of that and eat, they will fall?
40:44 Absolutely, will be.
40:45 Why?
40:47 Because it's still an ongoing test
40:48 even in other worlds.
40:49 This is the miserable place in the universe is right here,
40:53 this old World.
40:55 Let me read you something
40:57 if you haven't read it in a while,
40:58 Early Writings, page 39 and 40.
41:02 It says, "The Lord has given me a view of other worlds."
41:06 Whoo, somebody needs to pick up on that one.
41:09 Yeah, just in my mind's view, my eye view,
41:12 you know, I'm thinking about these other worlds
41:14 and the sinlessness and the kind of people
41:16 that live up there, and how happy they are,
41:20 and what they even look like.
41:22 She was given, notice, a view of other worlds,
41:25 "The inhabitants," notice this, "the inhabitants bore,
41:30 they bore the express image of Jesus."
41:35 Someone may jump over a pew if you want to.
41:39 The people who lived in the other world,
41:42 they bore and expressed image of Jesus.
41:45 Why?
41:46 Because that's all they were ever beheld.
41:48 They just behold Jesus like we did,
41:49 we become like him. Notice this.
41:53 We live. Notice this.
41:55 She asked, asked the angel the question,
41:58 what is it, what's going on here?
42:00 How come you don't look like the world
42:01 that I came from?
42:02 The angel said to her, notice,
42:04 "We live in strict obedience
42:06 to the commandments of God, and have not fallen.
42:10 Then I saw two trees, yes,
42:13 looked much like the tree of life
42:15 but one of them they could not eat.
42:18 They had power to eat both,
42:21 but were forbidden to eat of one,
42:23 if they would eat, they would fall."
42:27 I mean, to me that's just very interesting.
42:31 So god is fair, just and good, is He not?
42:33 They make it fair for everybody,
42:35 He put in the Garden of Eden, He put the tree, right?
42:38 There's one little thing just don't eat that,
42:39 you're gonna be okay.
42:44 The man began to think he was smarter than God,
42:46 that God was withholding something.
42:49 Question five.
42:50 What does the reward? Huh?
42:53 What is the reward of sin?
42:54 You know, what it is, in Romans 6:23 says what?
42:58 "For the wages of sin is good is death."
43:01 I like the last part of what?
43:02 "But the gift of God is eternal life
43:05 through Jesus Christ our Lord."
43:07 The wages of sin is death.
43:09 Sin is the transgression of God's law.
43:11 You've got the 10 of them right there.
43:13 It doesn't take very smart person.
43:15 There's 10 right there.
43:16 If I transgress just one.
43:18 James 2:10 "If you offend in one point,
43:20 you're guilty of all."
43:21 People walk around proud as peacocks
43:23 today running about, I keep the law of God.
43:25 Well, we don't keep the fourth commandment,
43:27 I'm just going to lay it out as the way it is.
43:29 The fourth one, but remember the Sabbath day
43:31 to keep it holy.
43:32 We just crossed that out and say we don't have to.
43:34 That's right in the middle of the law of God,
43:36 we must, that's just as important
43:37 and more than all the other ones.
43:38 Are you with me?
43:40 That's what the Bible says.
43:43 And we live in an hour,
43:44 which that's our job is to give this to the world.
43:47 They're not gonna like you for,
43:50 they're not going to appreciate it.
43:52 But God has commissioned us to give, why?
43:54 Because He loves them and we should love them enough.
43:56 We tell them way that it is, you can't just say,
43:59 I keep nine, and I'm going to make it to heaven.
44:01 No, by the grace of God we can't keep any,
44:03 by the grace of God we can keep them all.
44:06 Bible is clear being free from sin.
44:10 Yeah, isn't that wonderful?
44:11 This passage after passage,
44:14 that just realize, but again,
44:15 we're looking at ourselves all the time,
44:17 and we're just going to be more than failures.
44:19 And so I says look to Jesus,
44:20 the author and finisher of our faith.
44:22 Trust in Him on what He says from His Word, Letter 22.
44:25 I'm quickly hurrying on.
44:27 Notice 1900 says this,
44:29 "When transgression came, when sin came."
44:31 notice this,
44:32 "It placed the whole world in jeopardy
44:34 but under the death sentence."
44:36 Oh! "But in heaven, there was somebody shout,
44:39 there was heard a voice saying, 'I found a ransom.' "
44:44 How exciting, the whole world was under death decree.
44:47 There was no hope for mankind.
44:49 But that voice loud in heaven said,
44:51 God said, "I found a ransom."
44:53 See, that's exciting to me. It gives me goose bumps.
44:56 I found a ransom.
44:57 Who was that ransom?
44:59 Oh, had to be the Lamb.
45:01 Revelation 5:12.
45:04 It says, "With by the blood what it worthy
45:06 is the Lamb that was slain."
45:09 In this verse, worthy is the Lamb,
45:11 the voice was heard, it was the Lamb.
45:13 He was the only one that was worthy.
45:15 He's the only one that could stand.
45:18 He's the only one that could give His life.
45:21 Not even the sinless angels could do it.
45:22 Only Jesus could do it.
45:25 And he was willing to do that.
45:27 Hallelujah. I found the ransom.
45:29 You know, today I say my, brothers and sisters,
45:30 you found, I pray you found a ransom.
45:33 I found that ransom and I know his name is Jesus.
45:36 This is what it's all about.
45:38 I found that ransom.
45:39 There's only one ransom. You may have this.
45:41 You may have that and all the stuff of the world
45:43 that's not going to help you.
45:44 You have to have Jesus,
45:46 you have to have Him deep in your heart.
45:47 You have to have Him deep in your mind.
45:49 You have to be willing to put Him first.
45:51 Be willing to go whatever it takes
45:52 to make it to heaven.
45:53 This is what it's all about.
45:55 Has everyone sinned...
45:57 Question number six, has everyone sinned.
46:00 We just read their advice on the death penalty.
46:02 Romans 3:23 says,
46:03 "We've all sinned and come short of, " what?
46:06 "Short of the glory of God."
46:08 Patriarchs and Prophets says 338 says,
46:13 "Through Satan's temptations,
46:15 the whole human race
46:16 has become transgressors of God's," what?
46:19 "His law."
46:21 But notice this,
46:22 the most dangerous falsehoods are those
46:24 that are mingled with truth.
46:27 There it is.
46:28 The most dangerous
46:31 thing that the enemy have is,
46:32 is taking a mingling.
46:34 See, he loves error,
46:36 but he takes a little bit of truth
46:37 and he gets it because people who don't know the word of God,
46:39 they're gonna be suckered in.
46:42 Well, I know what it says but never...
46:44 There's no buts in the cause of Christ,
46:46 there's no buts in the Word of God here.
46:49 Exceptions to the rule God lays it out clear for us.
46:52 We need His help.
46:54 All have sinned. Question seven.
46:55 Why did Jesus come to this earth?
46:57 We've got to cover this in about eight minutes
46:59 or so left, so please stay with.
47:01 Why did Jesus come to this earth?
47:03 Was there a reason He came?
47:04 Absolutely there, 1 Timothy 1:15 says,
47:08 "Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners."
47:12 Notice this.
47:13 Paul said of, "Whom I'm chief."
47:16 Most people don't want to talk about that today,
47:19 oh, I'm the chief sinner, oh, I'm worse than you.
47:21 We always say, well, I'm better than he is,
47:22 I'm better than she is...
47:24 No, Paul, a man of God wasn't he?
47:28 There's no doubt about a man of God.
47:30 Jesus chose him personally to do a work,
47:34 the faith that the man had awesome,
47:37 but he get that faith by hearing the Word of God
47:41 and close communion with Jesus Christ.
47:43 He had that faith.
47:44 He said, I look in the sinners, oh, I'm the chief,
47:47 I'm the world's worst.
47:49 Somebody says, you are low down culprit.
47:52 Yeah, that I am.
47:54 You realize there would be very little argument
47:55 if nobody getting mad...
47:57 I will, you dirty thief. Yeah, that's exactly.
48:00 The one time or the other we might have stole some,
48:01 we might have, blah, blah, blah, you know.
48:03 If not, we may be stealing time,
48:04 we may be stealing a lot of things
48:06 we don't even count as money and...
48:07 Are you still there?
48:08 Yeah.
48:13 Paul had...
48:14 Lord, help us to have the humble opinion of ourselves
48:17 the way Paul had of himself.
48:20 He was highly honored of God.
48:23 Yeah.
48:24 I tell you, he was not a boastful man at all
48:26 when it came to himself at all, wasn't?
48:28 No, he wasn't even self confident.
48:33 We don't need to be self confident.
48:35 We don't need any kind of self.
48:38 We need more of Jesus.
48:41 He saw himself of the worst of the worst.
48:44 However bad that can get, the worst of the worst.
48:47 He said that's what I am and he was not a liar.
48:50 I believe he meant it from the bottom of his heart.
48:52 It's easy for me to say,
48:53 I'm the dirtiest of the dirt
48:55 and then not really believe that I am.
48:59 But you really look at your life,
49:00 there's nobody more filthy, look how we had...
49:02 You know, broken the laws of God,
49:04 time and time again,
49:05 how we've done wrong,
49:07 we knew better that only by God's grace
49:08 and His mercy.
49:10 But note, regardless of how Paul's life,
49:12 he preached Jesus and Him crucified.
49:15 This is where the victories at, we're talking about sin
49:18 and be able to what?
49:19 The originator of sin and how?
49:21 By the grace of God we overcome sin
49:24 through Jesus Christ.
49:25 Can any other person save us?
49:27 Can any other being save us in this world?
49:29 Question eight.
49:31 No, there's no other name,
49:33 Acts 4:12.
49:34 The Bible is so clear,
49:35 "Neither is there salvation in" what?
49:37 "In any other for there is none other name
49:40 under heaven,
49:41 given among men whereby we," what?
49:43 "Must be saved."
49:44 What does that say?
49:46 There's no other way that you can be saved
49:47 or I can be saved,
49:49 other than accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
49:51 And don't cross hairs with it.
49:54 You need to do today.
49:55 Well, I know who He is, and I kind of love Jesus.
49:57 We're either in or we're out.
49:59 It's either 100% or it's not.
50:01 Matthew 12:30,
50:02 "He who is not with me is against me."
50:04 There's none of us brooding around and saying,
50:05 "Well, no, I'll tell you, it's not going to be."
50:07 It either is or it isn't, you either get in or get out.
50:10 This is where we're at in earth's history.
50:12 Time's telling us right now we've got to do it.
50:13 Why?
50:15 Because God wants to use you do something great in this world.
50:17 He wants to use you,
50:19 let's not get on the edges and never make that decision
50:21 and choice for Him.
50:23 Man, I tell you, remember the arrest of...
50:26 Was it Peter and John.
50:28 You know, they were questioned by the religious leaders.
50:31 They asked them, by what power,
50:35 what name, had they been able to do good
50:37 to this impotent man?
50:38 Do you remember? Oh, they laid it not.
50:40 How could this miracle work right here,
50:41 how could they do this?
50:43 How could it be done?
50:45 And what did they do?
50:47 The men of God's that they boldly proclaim.
50:49 It was done in the name of Jesus.
50:52 This is what it's all about.
50:54 There's no other name given among mine, it's a name.
50:56 It's given to me, his name of Jesus.
50:59 Jesus is the answer.
51:01 Did you notice that?
51:03 They proclaimed loudly,
51:08 Acts 4:7-9, it says,
51:11 "They boldly proclaimed
51:13 it was done in the name of," what?
51:14 "Of Jesus."
51:17 But you know what? They didn't quit there.
51:19 They said, it's done in name of Jesus
51:21 whom you crucified.
51:23 Man, they weren't afraid of the enemy.
51:25 To whom you crucified.
51:27 Wow.
51:29 And he's the one that were proclaiming
51:31 that God raised him from the dead.
51:33 You notice this.
51:36 This miracle was done in the name of Jesus,
51:38 and there is no salvation outside of Jesus Christ.
51:42 And the Bible said all the people standing around,
51:44 all of them were listening to him.
51:46 They knew that the disciples had been with Christ.
51:49 How's it in your life and my life?
51:51 Your neighbors and your friend know that
51:52 you've been with Jesus.
51:54 This is the way it was
51:55 when Jesus was really living in their heart.
51:57 Are they looking at your face or my face today and my doings
52:00 and whatever and they're saying
52:01 that Christ's can't live within,
52:03 they don't know Jesus.
52:04 See how important it is that we lift up the name of Jesus,
52:06 Acts of the Apostle, page 594 says,
52:10 "As the disciples proclaim the completeness of Christ,
52:14 the risen Savior,"
52:15 notice, "Their words moved hearts,
52:19 men and women were won to the gospel."
52:22 Why?
52:24 Because they had been with Jesus.
52:25 You see, and the Holy Spirit begins to work,
52:28 people make decisions.
52:31 See, there could be something wrong
52:32 in our own hearts and our life,
52:34 say God, I want to get straightened out today
52:35 because I want to be a soul winner.
52:37 The place should be filled up,
52:39 should be standing with Him only,
52:41 should be out building another building.
52:45 This what we must do to be saved.
52:46 Only two minutes I can do, there's four points
52:48 and I'm gonna go just quickly as I can.
52:50 What must we do to be saved from the sin issue?
52:53 Four, Hebrews 11:6,
52:56 "Without faith," what is it,
52:58 I can't go in, go to all the...
52:59 "Without faith is," what?
53:00 "It's impossible to please God,
53:02 'cause we must believe that He is."
53:05 Number two, 1 John 1:9 we must do, what?
53:09 "If we confess our sins,
53:11 He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin."
53:13 So we have to by faith believe that He is.
53:15 We have to confess our sins.
53:17 And then number 3, Isaiah 1:18-19.
53:21 He said, notice "Come now and let us reason together,
53:24 saith the Lord: though your sins be as," what?
53:27 "Scarlet, oh, they shall be white like snow,
53:30 though they be red like crimson,
53:33 they shall be as wool."
53:36 But then that verse goes on and said,
53:37 what do you mean three,
53:39 "If ye be willing, and obedient,
53:41 ye shall eat the good of the land."
53:44 Become right, have faith to believe.
53:48 Faith to believe in Jesus, we confess our sins.
53:52 They lay them out before Him and he said,
53:53 "I'm going to clean you up,
53:55 but you have to be willing and obedient."
53:58 And number four, Acts 16:31 says,
54:02 "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
54:03 and thou shalt be saved."
54:05 You noticed that. "And all thy house."
54:08 Man, how wonderful that is today, think about it.
54:13 That as we close, we close the day
54:14 what we should be crying out.
54:16 Lord, what must, I must I do to be saved?
54:19 Sin issue is a horrible thing.
54:23 The enemy sinned from the beginning,
54:25 he started this whole mess.
54:27 But you came to seek and save that which was lost.
54:29 That was me.
54:31 I'm the vilest of the vile.
54:32 We need to be able to say that from the grace of God,
54:34 but because of Jesus,
54:36 He's going to clean me up whiter than snow.
54:40 My life does need to stay the same
54:41 as it's always been.
54:43 It can be new in him today.
54:46 Today is the day of salvation we choose
54:48 by the weight of evidence.
54:50 The evidence is here, Jesus coming,
54:52 evidence is He's come to put, get rid of sin or sinners.
54:56 So I want to turn that sin over to Him.
54:58 So He can take me to heaven. How about you today?
55:01 Anyone would like to decide
55:02 before we have closing prayer together.
55:03 I want to be taken to heaven. I want sin to go from my life.
55:06 Oh, God help me to do that. Let's pray quickly.
55:08 Last 15 seconds we have.
55:10 Father in heaven,
55:11 thank You for Your precious, precious,
55:13 precious promises You've given us.
55:14 Thank You, You said, I will come again.
55:16 We cast our care on you, for You care for us,
55:18 in Jesus' name.
55:20 Amen. God bless you.
55:22 We look forward to seeing you next time.
55:26 Hello and welcome back.
55:27 How good is our God,
55:29 He has left absolutely no stone unturned.
55:33 He instrumented the very first GPS,
55:36 global positioning system through His Word, the Bible.
55:40 He's laid out the path of sin from its roots
55:44 and how it affects which path of life
55:46 that we choose to travel down in our final destination
55:50 unless we choose to make a turn and to take that straight,
55:54 that straight and narrow road that leads to eternal life.
55:58 All of heaven was emptied in the gift of Jesus Christ
56:03 coming as a Lamb of God to make propitiation
56:06 for our sins.
56:07 Without this ultimate sacrifice of love,
56:10 there would be absolutely no hope of salvation
56:14 for any one of us.
56:16 What a solemn thought?
56:18 The King of the universe lay down His life for you
56:23 and for me,
56:24 in order that we may someday have a home
56:27 and eternal life with Him in heaven.
56:30 Today's message again is entitled,
56:32 "Where Sin Came From
56:34 And How We Can Be Saved From It."
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