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Thank you.

It's a tremendous privilege for me to be here this afternoon with you.

Before we begin with any further speaking, I would also like to go to the Lord in prayer.

And I would ask you to pray.

There's so much going on here this afternoon, so much that you don't understand.

But I'll tell you where I'm coming from.

I'll preach as a dying man to dying men. and women and youth.

And I will preach as though I will never preach again.

And I will tell you things that you will misunderstand.

And I will tell you things that make you so angry with me.

And I'll tell you things that you will deny.

And I will tell you things and you will say, I have no right to tell you what I'm telling you.

But before you come to any conclusion about what is being said here this afternoon, you ask yourself one question.

You see, preaching is a very dangerous thing.

It's dangerous for me because the Bible says that false teachers will undergo greater condemnation.

If what I tell you today is not true, I'm in a great deal of trouble and have every right to do this with fear and trembling,

because I will stand condemned before God.

But if what I tell you today is true, then you're the one with cause for fear and trembling.

because if I correctly interpret this passage of Scripture that I'm going to give you, it is as though God were speaking through a man.

And your problem will not be with me.

It will be with God and His Word.

So the only question that really has to be decided here this afternoon is, is this man before us a false prophet?

Or is he telling us the truth?

And if he is telling us the truth, then nothing else matters except conforming our lives to that truth.

Let's go to the Lord in prayer.

Father, Father, I am so small.

and so pitiful, Father, in so many ways.

You know, Lord, you know.

Oh, dear God, should false fire be the only thing ever placed on your altar?

Or could fire come down from heaven?

Amidst all the noise and the clamor and the activities, could fire come down from heaven?

Can these dead bones live?

You know, Lord.

In your sovereignty, I pray and I beg before the throne of God that you would be gracious to us.

That you would open up hearts and minds.

Lord, we can't wait for them to open up theirs.

They never will.

Open up their hearts and their minds and cause them to see biblical truth.

Breathe on them.

Grant them repentance.

Grant them faith.

Bring them into Your kingdom, Lord.

For Your own glory.

For the sake of Your own great name, do this thing.

Lord, as the brother said, Let it be so, Lord, so that no man will take credit for it, so that no man would lay his hand to the ark of God,

and if he did, that you'd strike him down dead, Lord.

Oh, God, move among us.

Please, because we have no other hope.

We have no other hope.

These children have no other hope except that you move.

Amen.

I will be teaching from Matthew chapter 7.

If you have your Bibles, follow with me.

Matthew chapter 7, verse 13.

Jesus said, Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

You will know them by their fruits.

Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?

So every good tree bears good fruit, but every bad tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

So then you will know them by their fruits.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven.

But he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter.

Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name

and in your name cast out demons and in your name perform many miracles, then I will declare to them, I never knew you.

Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.

Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine

and acts upon them may be compared to a wise man who builds his house on the rock.

And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and slammed against that house.

And yet it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine

and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

The rain fell and the floods came and winds blew

and slammed against the house and it fell and great was its fault.

I stand here today.

I'm not troubled in my heart about your self-esteem.

I'm not troubled in my heart about whether or not you feel good about yourself, whether or not life is turning out like you want it to turn out, or whether or not your checkbook is balanced.

There's only one thing that gave me a sleepless night.

There's only one thing that troubled me all throughout the morning, and that is this.

Within a hundred years, a great majority of people in this building will possibly be in hell.

and many who even profess Jesus Christ as Lord will spend an eternity in hell.

You say, Pastor, how can you say such a thing?

I can say such a thing because I don't do my Christian work in America.

I spend most of my time preaching in South America, in Africa and Eastern Europe.

And I want you to know that when you take a look at American Christianity, It is based more upon a godless culture than it is upon the Word of God.

And so many people are deceived.

And so many youth are deceived.

And so many adults are deceived into believing that because they prayed a prayer one time in their life, they're going to heaven.

And then when they look around at others who profess to know Christ

and see those people also just as worldly as the world.

and they compare themselves by themselves, nothing troubles their heart.

They think, well, I'm the same as most in my youth group.

I watch things I shouldn't watch on television and laugh about the very things that God hates.

I wear clothing that is sensual.

I talk like the world.

I walk like the world.

I love the music of the world.

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I love so much that's in the world.

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But bless God, I am a Christian.

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Why am I a Christian?

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I don't look any different than most of the other people in my church.

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Why am I a Christian?

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Because there was a time in my life when I prayed and asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart.

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I want you to know that the greatest heresy in the American evangelical

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and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in.

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You will not find that in any place in Scripture.

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You will not find that anywhere in Baptist history until about 50 years ago.

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What you need to know is that salvation is by faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ.

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And faith alone in Jesus Christ is preceded and followed by repentance.

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A turning away from sin, a hatred for the things that God hates and a love for the things that God loves.

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A growing in holiness and a desire not to be like Britney Spears, not to be like the world and not to be like the great majority of American Christians,

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but to be like Jesus Christ.

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I don't know why you're clapping.

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I'm talking about you.

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I didn't come here to get a man.

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I didn't come here to be applauded.

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I'm talking about you.

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People so many times come up to me and they say, oh, I'd love to follow you into Romania.

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I'd love to follow you into the Ukraine.

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I'd love to preach where you preached and planted churches in Peru in the jungle.

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And I tell them, no, you wouldn't.

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They say, yes, I would.

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I say, no, you wouldn't.

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Why?

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Because you'd be excommunicated from the church down there.

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What we need to see.

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I'm not trying to be hard for the sake of being hard.

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Do you realize how much love it takes to stand before 5,000 people

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and tell them that American Christianity is almost totally wrong?

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Do you know what it's going to cost me to never be asked back again to something like this? To be unpopular?

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Do you know why you do it?

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You don't do it because you get paid well.

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You don't do it because men love you.

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You do it because you love men and because more than that you want to honor God.

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I want to tell you something.

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We're going to go into Scripture and I want you to look at it as it really is.

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Stop comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians, who compare themselves with others who call themselves Christians.

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Compare yourself to the Scripture.

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When someone, a young person, comes to a pastor or a youth minister and says, I'm not sure whether or not I'm saved, the youth minister will usually throw out a cliche.

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Well, was there ever a time in your life when you prayed and asked Jesus to come into your heart?

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Well, yes.

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Were you sincere?

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Well, I don't know, but I think so.

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Well, you need to tell Satan to stop bothering you.

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Did you write it in the back of your book, the back of the Bible, like the evangelist told you when you got saved?

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Write down the date so that any time you doubted, you could point him to the Bible.

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what superstition has overcome our denomination?

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Do you know what the Bible tells Christians to do?

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Examine yourself.

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Test yourself in light of Scripture to see if you are in the faith.

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Test yourself to see if you're Christian.

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Do you realize if I dismissed us right now and told everyone to go knock on every door in this city, do you know what we would find out?

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99% of the people, at least in this city, believe their self to be believers.

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If you go back to your hometown and knock on every door, because I went back to my hometown after I got saved and knocked on every door, and you know what I found out?

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Everyone in my town is a Christian.

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85% of them do not go to church, and those who do go to church are not concerned about holiness.

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They're not concerned about serving.

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They're not concerned about being separate from the world.

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They're not concerned about the gospel being preached among the nations.

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But bless God, they're saved.

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Why are they saved?

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Because some evangelists who should have spent less time preaching and more times studying his Bible told them they were saved.

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And he did it so that he could brag about how many people came forward in his next revival.

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I love you.

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And there are men here who love you.

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And I want to go into Scripture now.

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Now that I've shocked you into life, I want you to listen to me.

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Listen to the Word of God and begin to ask yourself some questions.

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First of all, enter through the narrow gate,

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for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

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There is a narrow gate.

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And you know, historically, one of the reasons I'm a Southern Baptist is because the Southern Baptists have always been quick.

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When other denominations have failed to realize this, the Southern Baptists have always been quick to realize that there is one gate.

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There is one God.

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There is one mediator between God and man, and His name is Jesus Christ.

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It's not multiple choice.

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Not every road leads to Rome.

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As a denomination, we have always told people what Jesus told people.

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I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.

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So I praise God for that, that the only way any human being on this earth will ever be saved is through Jesus Christ.

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That is all.

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Because you need to realize the Bible says, For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and you have no idea what that means.

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That we were born radically depraved and God-hating.

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That we would have never sought God, never come to God.

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We have rebelled against God, broken every law.

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It's not just an issue that you have sinned.

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The issue is you've never done anything but sin.

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The Bible says in the prophets that even our greatest works are like filthy rags before God.

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And because of that, you know what we deserve?

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The wrath of God.

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The holy hatred of God.

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You say, now wait a minute.

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God doesn't hate anybody.

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God is love.

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No, my friend.

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You need to understand something.

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Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this, that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord,

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the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin.

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When I speak in universities, they're always quick to point out, no, God cannot hate because God is love.

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And I tell you, God must hate because God is love.

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You see, I love children, therefore I hate abortion.

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If I love that which is holy, I must hate that which is unholy.

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God is a holy God.

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That's something that the Americans have forgotten.

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Many of the things that you love to do, God hates.

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Did you know that?

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Pray for revival.

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You're going to have a youth meeting.

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You want God to move.

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But before you go there, you watch programs on television that God absolutely despises.

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And then you wonder why the Holy Spirit hasn't fallen on a place

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and why you have to create false fire and false excitement.

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Because God's not in it.

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God is a holy God.

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And the only way you

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and I could ever be reconciled to a holy God is through the death of God's own Son, when He hung on that tree.

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Now listen to me.

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If you're saved here tonight, you're not saved because the Romans and Jews rejected Jesus.

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You're not saved because they put a crown of thorns on His head.

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You're not saved because they ran a spear through His side.

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And you're not saved even because they nailed Him to a cross.

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Do you know why you're saved? if you are saved?

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Because when Jesus Christ was hanging on that cross, He bore your sin, the sin of God's people,

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and all the fierce wrath of God that should fall upon you fell upon His only begotten Son.

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Someone had to pay that price.

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Someone had to die.

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It was God the Father who crushed His only begotten Son, according to Isaiah 53.

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It says it pleased Yahweh to crush Him.

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People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth.

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That's not true.

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The cross is a sign of how depraved we really are.

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That it took the death of God's own Son.

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The only thing that could save a people like us was the death of God's own Son, under the wrath of His own Father,

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paying the price, rising again from the dead, powerful to save powerful to save.

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This is the Gospel of Jesus.

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Now, what are you called upon to do?

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You say, you go through the narrow gate.

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How do you do that?

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Jesus said, the time is fulfilled.

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The kingdom of God is at hand.

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What must you do?

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In Mark, he tells us, repent and believe the Gospel.

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You say, Brother Paul, I got saved by praying and asking Jesus Christ into my heart, and I'm sure you did.

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But you weren't saved by a magic formula or some words you after someone else,

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you were saved because you repented of your sins and you believed.

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And not only did you do that in the past, you continued to do it even until now.

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Because when Jesus, a proper translation of that verse He gave is this, the kingdom of God has come,

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the time is fulfilled, now spend the rest of your life repenting of your sins and believing in Me.

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Conversion is not like a flu shot.

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Oh, I did that.

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I repented.

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I believed.

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The question is, my friend, are you continuing to repent of sin?

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Are you continuing to believe?

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Because he who began a good work in you will finish it.

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He will finish it.

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Now, we as Southern Baptists preach that you're supposed to go through that own one and only gate, which is Jesus Christ.

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But we as Southern Baptists have forgot something, and I want youth ministers and pastors and everyone to listen to me.

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Parents, we have forgot a very important teaching in the gospel.

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It says that not only the gate is narrow, it says the path is narrow.

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What we basically do is lead someone to Christ, lead someone in a prayer, and then they spend the rest of their life living just like the world.

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And if you deny me on this, I can bring the statistics to prove you wrong.

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Gallup poll, Barnum polls, every kind of poll you can possibly look at,

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when it questions the morality of the church in America against the morality of those who claim to be lost in America,

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the polls find no difference.

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Now that is statistics Has nothing to do with religious interpretation Those are statistics Book after book

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 268 sentences and 3118 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:41. The speaker talks at a natural 151 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
gate noun	/ˈɡeɪ̯t/	A doorlike structure outside a house.
preach verb	/pɹit͡ʃ/	To give a sermon.
pray verb	/pɹeɪ/	To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
narrow adjective	/ˈnæɹəʊ/	Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
compare verb	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
prayer noun	/pɹɛɚ/	A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
sin noun	/ˈsɪn/	A violation of divine will or religious law.
poll noun	/poʊl/	A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
gospel noun	/ˈɡɑspəl/	The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion…
prophet noun	/ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/	Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
wrath noun	/ɹæθ/	Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
knock verb	/nɑk/	To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
pastor noun	/ˈpæs.tɚ/	A minister or priest in a church.
clothing noun	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to…
sake noun	/ˈseɪ̯k/	Cause, interest or account.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
open up verb	To open.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
turn out verb	To end up; to result.
ask back verb	To invite an interviewee to a further interview.
come up to verb	To approach.
cut down verb	To cut downward.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has overcome · I've shocked · have always been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being said · be decided · are not gathered
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	everyone who says · everyone who hears · man who builds

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: wrath /ɹæθ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: morality /məˈɹælɪti/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, rebellion /ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/, sovereignty /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like gate, preach, pray.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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