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Speaker 3:Father, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for this opportunity to be able to come together, father, god, to fellowship not only with you, lord, but to be able to fellowship one with another, to be able to get into your word, be able to praise the song of the Lord, god, and to be able to just have a good time. Lord, we ask that you bless us and strengthen us and be with us and bless the speaker today for the word of life that he's going to bring us. Lord, we ask that, in Jesus' name, amen, amen Would you be free from your burden of sin.
Speaker 1:There's power in the blood, power in the blood. Could you walk in the love of every man? There's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, power. What a worthy power. In the blood of the Lamb there is power, power. What a working power in that precious blood of the Lamb. Would you be free from your passions and cries? There's power in the blood, fire in the blood, from the forest planted to Calvary's fire. There's wonderful power in the blood. There is fire, fire, fire, fire, fire In that blood of the Lamb there is fire, fire, fire, fire back where the birds have been found.
Speaker 1:And that precious blood of the land is going up for free. Would you be fired? There's fire in the snow. There's power in the blood, power in the blood Since they were lost, and it's like a human bone. There's wonderful power in the blood they were lost and it's like giving hope. There's wonderful power in the blood. I got the cord. There's power, power, power, power. What good would it have in that blood of the light? There's power, power, power, power. What good would it have in that precious blood of the land? Number four 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 42, 45, 47, 48. Thank you In that precious blood of the Lamb.
Speaker 1:Hey, now In that precious blood of the Lamb One more time In that precious blood of the Lamb. Praise God.
Speaker 3:You know there's a whole sermon in that song there is From the front to the back.
Speaker 2:There's a whole sermon in that song. That was a beautiful song that had me fired up.
Speaker 3:Man, I can almost get saved after singing that song. I'm telling you, people have Right God.
Speaker 2:Yes, they do. Millions Praise God Want to get into some scripture.
Speaker 3:Good Get you some word yes, I've missed being here. Then we'll jump to a song, we'll do some scripture and then jump do some scripture.
Speaker 2:Nice, let's do that. So I'm a little rusty, but here we go. Right, God is good. Right, God is amazing and I was talking to an individual lately before I get into scripture about the Lord last week. And Paul says let there be no other gospel in Galatians.
Speaker 2:The only way to know the gospel is to study the gospel and to have fellowship with God, have fellowship with Christ and let the Holy Spirit infill us. And I was just talking to this man. I said who do you think Jesus Christ is? He was a new Christian. When I say new, probably about three years, but I was kind of looking at it in the context of our conversation. I go well, who do you think Christ is? Because we've been talking for about a month and he keeps shying away from Jesus. Every time I said Jesus deserves worship. We should be in love with Jesus. Jesus is our sacrifice for us and God sent him so we can be an inheritance to Christ. So the man looked at me and goes well, I'm not going to worship Jesus. And I said well, why not he? Not, he goes.
Speaker 2:Well, he's my brother and I'm gonna worship Mother Earth and I prayed to Mother Earth, right. So he had all these different types of spirituality mixed in with Christ, and so I kept pointing out scripture after scripture after scripture Revelations 1, john 1, colossians 1, hebrews 1 about the deity of Christ, and I said do you have a problem with that? And he goes I do, I do have a problem with that. I said so. You believe in another gospel. I said in Galatians, paul prohibits believing in another gospel because you're not saved if you believe in another gospel. I told him this. I said you don't have the blood of Christ covering you and I love him, and we even tell each other we love each other every day. And I said you know what, brother? And he goes. What I said? I'm going to say something that's that's very hard for you to hear, and he said are you?
Speaker 2:willing to hear it. He goes yes, I go, that's idolatry. And he said you can't say that to me. And I said but the scriptures says it is. And I said is it a pride issue with you that you want to look at Christ as merely human and you want to invent your own gospel? And he goes well, then I think so.
Speaker 2:And what I'm getting at is when I present the gospel to people, a lot of times they don't disagree with the logic and I'm not saying I'm going into this rhetorical situation and this big old speech and using words they can't understand. A lot of times when I just preach this gospel, I've had people look at me literally and say I don't disagree with you. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I don't want the gospel you're preaching. I want my own gospel, I want to pour into it what I'm pouring into it. And I told him I said this is why the world looks the way it looks. This is why you can't really tell in America the average Christian from a pagan. This is why I've asked people can you point out the Christian and the pagan in this atmosphere? And a lot of people said no.
Speaker 2:I had a friend recently come to me and say hey, joshua, I thought you were judgmental and too hard and I thought you were a jerk. Because you told me before and many times, if I keep Christ to myself, am I really a Christian? And I got angry at you and I said if you got the medicine, if God has given you the medicine, the vaccine, and people are dying, I just don't understand why you would keep it all to yourself, why you would keep it a secret. Well, you go to school and you do all this and the rest that doesn't matter. We're all evangelists. Every woman, every man alive is an evangelist. God fills us with the Holy Spirit to proclaim the gospel and to take part in the Great Commission. Some people might be able to get up on stage and express theology very well, but I always say maybe a person that just comes alongside another person and tells them what Christ did in their life can do a way better job than I can do.
Speaker 2:Right, so, I ask this one question before we get into this song, and I've asked a few friends this. I said is it that you're ashamed of Christ? Is it that you're ashamed that you don't speak His name? What?
Speaker 2:I mean by that is is the reason why you're quiet is because you think people are going to be judgmental. And if you're scared of people being judgmental, are you ashamed of Christ? And I said think about that for a minute. And a brother at work said I've been, I've considered myself a Christian for 15 years and had a man walk up to me and say hey, I heard you're a Christian through the grapevine. I had no idea. And he goes how is it? I've been here 15 years and nobody knew I was a.
Speaker 2:Christian and I said because you're ashamed of Christ, there is no other answer. So we're going to get into a song, but I want to read what Paul says in Galatians, chapter 1. And maybe this has to do with the Jews wanting to reimplement Judaism in the church and circumcision, but this goes to the point and drives the point home. We need to take pride as having God as our Father, boast in our Father, boast in the works of Jesus Christ, and not put a lap under a basket when the world is dying and it's full of darkness. And I'm not judgmental and I told my friend this, I go. We already have too many of these preachers out here. There are cookie cutter preachers, they're everywhere. You can go anywhere in America and turn on TV and on the TV and you can hear what pastors want to tell you to hear every single day and tickle our ears. But the word should make our heart alive within our chest. And Ezekiel wrote. He said in the last days, god will take that heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. Now that comes by the regeneration of God, conviction, repentance and living a life to God, you know. So I believe the preacher nowadays needs to be like a John Baptist crying as a voice in the wilderness, and it fascinates me. It utterly fascinates me. When one does, he's considered non-tolerant and criticized because he says things people don't want to hear anymore. That's the culture we live in.
Speaker 2:I was talking to my wife recently and I said let me ask you a question. I was talking to my wife recently and I said let me ask you a question. If people would just give God a chance, come under his authority, do you think that would change society? Do you think it would change families? Do you think it would change lives? Do you think it would reverse a lot of our current situations that we're in right now and our problems? I'm going to tell you something fascinating, don. This is really fascinating. I just told somebody this the gospel is utter importance.
Speaker 2:There are drastic dire consequences for not being in Christ Right now. I'm finishing up a degree in psychology, christian psychology. Now I understand you say that Lord and a lot of people panic, don't bring the world in. But one fascinating thing is this Unresolved sin and a person that does not repent actually can create psychosomatic conditions that can be debilitated and they can create such a mindset. When you don't resolve sin. Disorders come from it. So when a person fails to repent, they can become so spiritually sick that they can actually develop mental illness.
Speaker 2:That is how powerful unresolved sin is. Romans 1 calls it a darkening of the mind, so on and so forth. But I told my brother, I said I said, well, you're not my brother, but I love you and you're in the most dangerous situation you could be in. Accept the gospel. Accept the truth, get rid of all that other stuff and don't accept any other gospel. Accept the truth, get rid of all that other stuff and don't accept any other gospel but that which Christ and the apostles preached. You know and I see people drowning spiritually Every single day in my life, and my number one job Not even I don't want to say job my number one purpose of existence is to try to tell people hey, god's trying to throw you a life preserver, you're drowning. There's a way out of this being certain of the gift that we have in the gospel salvation, having the Holy Spirit, worshiping God. Let's Holy Spirit, lord, shipping God. Let's go to a song, god before we get into Scripture.
Speaker 3:I thought you'd find that interesting. Yeah, that's cool. Why don't we do number 25? 25. 18. 19.
Speaker 1:By the way, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25 25, 25, 25, 25, 25 25. Jesus is mine, oh, what a pure taste the glory divine there in salvation, purchase of mine Born of His Spirit washed in His blood. This is my story.
Speaker 2:This is my story.
Speaker 1:This is my song Praising my. Savior all day long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior, all praising my Savior. The Lord is with me. Think about the words Perfect submission, perfect delight. The hands of rapture now burst on my side. Angels descending, breathed from above, now burst on my side and gives me sinning pain from above. And gives a mercy.
Speaker 1:This is the Lord. This is my story. This is my song, praise him, my Savior, all day long. This is my story. This is my song, praising my Savior all day long. Number three Perfect salvation, perfect grace I am my Savior and happy in grace. Watch me when I'm rainy looking at rose In His goodness. Christ is risen this is my story this is my song Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song I'll take my Savior all the day long.
Speaker 3:I messed up on that third one.
Speaker 2:No, you did beautiful, but isn't this?
Speaker 3:blessed assurance Jesus is mine. You know we get so blessed to be involved in serving him.
Speaker 2:This is miraculous. I'm in awe To be a part of God's plan and to be saved and be considered a child. I sit here and try to think of it with my small little brain sometimes, and I can't even wrap my mind and my thoughts around God's beautiful plan that there's a way out. There is a way out of all of this sin, suffering, pain, hell, and we get to spend eternity with God. So Paul says in chapter 1, verse 8. And I look at this and I compare this to the world that we're in.
Speaker 2:If Paul was sitting here today, he would probably have some words with the church, A lot of words. Christ was here. Can you imagine Jesus and the doors opening and he walked into the modern day church and you saw Christ walking in. You would hear, just you would hear gasp. I mean people would be. You want to talk about repentance? You would see it that day. Paul says I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel. So he said you were in the grace of Christ and you are turning into a different gospel, into a different gospel.
Speaker 2:I want to discuss that word grace real quick, because I think it's thrown around loosely sometimes and people don't really understand what it means. When I was doing a word study of what the word grace means in Greek, when it's used in scripture and even this particular scripture, when the Bible talks about grace in the Greek, it talks about persuasive. Now have you ever watched a debate? We watch the debates on TV, presidential debates, debates in the church and people try to persuade one another to come to this side and listen to me, right, and a lot of us sit back and say, okay, you're not doing that great of a job, right?
Speaker 2:But Paul, when he talks about grace in the Greek, he says God's grace is irresistibly persuasive, that it's so strong that God in a sense wraps his arms around you with it and loves you with it, and and loves you with it and cherishes you with it, Exponentially infinite. It's that powerful. So the Greek word here when he talks about persuasive grace, it's not like we use it in human terms, and I just told a colleague recently I go. All I know is the moment I was saved is there was no fancy theology, there was no eloquent words being spoke as I was in the worst place and demise in my life and I was an addict.
Speaker 2:I was an addict. When I experienced God and I asked him to help me and he came into my life with such force and such grace. All I could do was weep. That's God's grace. He don't cause us to weep, it's so loving and it's so great. So Paul says how could you experience this grace and then accept a different gospel? That's what I tell people when I talk to them personally and preach. It's like you heard this gospel, you heard this grace. How could it have taken you away so fast? Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. We live in a world bent on distorting the gospel of Christ, bent on distorting the gospel of Jesus. You know, I was even told recently that's your truth and this is mine. And this was in the context of talking about the gospel and who Christ is in the gospel. And I said how could you say such a thing? You read your Bible every day. Well, that's how I interpret it and that's how you interpret it.
Speaker 2:And then I was asked another fascinating question before we go into some scripture. He was sitting there thinking and I go, I know what you're thinking. I said the Holy Spirit is telling me in my heart, it's moving my heart. I know what you're thinking, I just know it. I said can I challenge you? I can't read your mind. I said this is not mind reading. I'm not a psychic, I need to be careful with this. But I go. Can I challenge you on what the Holy Spirit urged me with? Your thought is right now? And he goes yes, and I go.
Speaker 2:Why is it so complicated? Why is Christ the only way? Why can't all roads lead to Christ? Why is it we can't worship in all these different religions and believe we're going to be saved? And he goes that's exactly what I'm thinking right now and I go. I'm going to ask you another question, a philosophical one, right now, and I go. I'm going to ask you another question, a philosophical one Is it so complicated because God has removed himself from history, from time and from our lives? Or is it so complicated to you and to other people because we've chose to remove God from history, time and our lives? You know, and he thought about it and he was so private. He goes I don't know. I said you do know We've removed God from everything. So it seems we're in a world that God is hard to find Because man wants to please himself with his pride. So Paul says I cannot believe that you left Christ when God showed you his loving grace. But he says this but even if we, talking about him, the apostles or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you. Let him be accursed. You know, this is no joke. Paul is saying, in other words, let the person be damned, let the person be removed from God's grace, let the individuals preaching another gospel have no part in the book of life written in Revelations. I even had a friend tell me don't you just think you're too hard with this stuff? And I go well, don't you? He's a Christian, brother of mine, I go.
Speaker 2:Don't you think you're not being hard enough? I'm not out there trying to condemn people. You know, if somebody, if I have a person that's even practicing homosexuality and I've been called to suicide situations, I'd travel 500 miles if I had to for one person. The issue is not about being mean or not tolerant. The issue here is about salvation.
Speaker 2:I remember a story before we get into this song, we had RC Sproul and JJ Packer in a room, two of the greatest theologians in our time FF Bruce might have been there and JJ Packer he writes all these commentaries and he made a statement and he said what's the big deal? And RC Sproul jumped up on the table and started yelling and pointed at him and said it's the biggest deal ever. Salvation is the biggest deal we could ever worry about. The gospel is the biggest thing that's ever been. So don't ask what's the big deal.
Speaker 2:Ask how you can be faithful to Christ and never trade this gospel for anything worldly. You know what Don I always tell people? This is the American problem, the American paradox. The issue isn't if you're a bigger sinner than I am. The issue is, if I'm a bigger sinner than you are because it can go either way.
Speaker 2:The issue is are you under the covering of Christ? That's the issue. You know what Paul says. If God would mark iniquities, who would stand? That's called a general, axiomatic truth. It's rhetorical. Nobody would. We would all be doomed and we'd all be suffering in hell. That's the question. You know, I even tell people I might be a bigger sin than you. It's not the point.
Speaker 1:Not that I'm just going out there willingly sinning.
Speaker 2:But that's not the point of the gospel. The point of the gospel is accepting Christ and the gift of salvation. And if anyone I don't care how fancy he is, how big his church is anyone preaches a different gospel, don't let him steal Christ away from you. Son, daughter, child, mother, preacher, boss, ceo, don't let anybody steal our God away from you. What's left after that, todd? There's nothing left. So many people are willing to give him away. How do I know? Because I talk to people every day and they just give him away. You know Whether they go through a traumatic situation and they just give him away. You know Whether they go through a traumatic situation of a loss of a loved one, a divorce, loss of a child, just losing hope in the sense of believing in a secular hope, and they just trade God away.
Speaker 4:He is jealous for me, loves like a hurricane. I am a tree bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy when, all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions, eclipsed by glory, and I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are for me. Oh, how he loves us all. Oh, how he loves us, how he loves us, how he loves us all. And he is jealous for me, loves like a hurricane. I am a tree Bending near the weight of his wind and mercy when, all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions, eclipsed by glory, and I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are for me. Oh, how he loves us.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he loves us. Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves, and we are his portion and he is our prize, drawn to redemption by the grace in his eyes, and his grace is an ocean. We're all sinking and heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest. I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way, oh, how he loves us, how he loves us all, oh, how he loves us, how he loves us all, how he loves yeah, he loves us.
Speaker 1:Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us.
Speaker 4:Oh, how he loves. Oh, what love. Yeah, he loves us. Yeah, he loves us, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us all.