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Those are statistics.
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Book after book is being churned out by theologian and philosopher and sociologist alike.
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What has happened to the church?
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We find out that abortion in the church is just as prevalent as outside in the world.
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We find that divorce is just as prevalent.
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We find that immorality...
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You know as well as I do there are youth here right now who are practicing immorality
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and yet worshiping God in the same breath.
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You know there are youth here that are doing drugs and yet coming to youth group.
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You know watching and doing things that are not appropriate for a Christian, and yet they're coming to the youth group, believe themselves satisfied, believe themselves saved,
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and no one is saying anything except this.
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They're carnal Christians.
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They're really Christians.
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They're just carnal.
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That was a doctrine that started in a Baptist seminary that is not a Southern Baptist seminary.
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Several decades ago, it is not biblical and it is not historical.
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My dear friend, there is no such thing as a carnal Christian.
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You say, now wait a minute, Brother Paul.
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1 Corinthians chapter 3. Are ye not carnal?
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Paul said that.
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No, that's what Paul said.
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You need to read the whole book to find out what he meant.
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You see, one of our problems, youth, listen to me.
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Most of our Christianity is based on cliches that we read on the back of Christian t-shirts.
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Most of our Christianity comes from songwriters and not the Bible.
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Most of what we believe to be true is dictated to us by our culture and not by the Bible.
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The Bible never teaches that a person can be a genuine Christian
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and live in continuous carnality and wickedness and sin all the days of their life.
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But the Bible teaches that the genuine Christian has been given a new nature.
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The genuine Christian has a Father who loves them and disciplines them and watches over them and cares for them.
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My heart is breaking because you know as well as I do, young people, let's not be hypocrites about it, let's not hide it.
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There are so many.
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You know them.
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You might be one of them or you at least know that they're in your youth group.
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They come to youth group.
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They do all the stuff, but in their heart they're as wicked as wicked can be.
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There's no difference.
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There's no light.
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Everything that the world does, they do, and it's appropriate.
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It's okay.
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My friend, that's not Christianity.
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They're not in danger of losing their reward.
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They're in danger of hell.
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They know not God.
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What do we teach?
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When was the last time you heard someone say, there's not only a narrow gate into heaven, but a narrow way.
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Jesus indicates that one of the principal signs of being a genuine Christian is that you walk in the narrow way.
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Do you know what the sign for being a genuine Christian in America is?
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You prayed a prayer one time.
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Isn't that amazing?
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What are you asked if you doubt your salvation?
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Did you pray a prayer one time?
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What does Scripture teach?
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Examine yourselves, test yourselves in the light of Scripture to see if you're in the faith, because a Christian will be different.
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Now, am I saying that a Christian is without sin?
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No, because in 1 John we learn that Christians do sin, and if any man does not acknowledge a sin, he knows not God.
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He's not walking in the light.
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So what is the difference?
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What am I really getting at?
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What am I getting at is this.
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If you are genuinely a born-again Christian, a child of God, you will walk in the way of righteousness.
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as a style of life, and if you step off that path of righteousness, the Father will come for you.
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He will discipline you.
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He will put you back on that path.
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But if you profess to have gone through the narrow gate, and yet you live in the broad way, just like all the other people in your high school,
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just like all the other people who are carnal and wicked, the Bible wants you to know that you should be terribly, terribly afraid.
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But you know not God.
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I fear men who have spent most of their life telling other men that they are saved.
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I fear you if you've done that.
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You don't tell men they are saved.
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You tell men how to be saved.
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God tells them they are saved.
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What we have forgotten to believe is that salvation is a supernatural work of God.
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And those who have genuinely been converted, regenerated by the power of the Holy Spirit, is going to be a new creature.
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The Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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So we find out here in Scripture that there is a narrow gate in a narrow way.
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We go into verse 15, Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
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You will know them by their fruits.
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One of the things you need to realize is this.
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Something a wise man told me a long time ago.
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He said, Paul, your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.
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In America, we have become so thin-skinned that no one can rebuke us.
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No one can tell us we are wrong.
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And ministers and leaders alike have bought into this lie.
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We do not want to offend.
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We want to be seeker-friendly.
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What you need to realize is there is only one seeker and his name is God.
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And if you want to be friendly to somebody in your church, you need to be friendly to God.
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And you need to be more concerned for the glory of God than you are the attitudes of men.
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But another thing you need to realize is the person who loves you most will tell you the most truth.
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One of the greatest distinguishing marks of a false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear.
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He will never rain on your parade.
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He will get you clapping.
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He will get you jumping.
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He will make you dizzy.
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He will keep you entertained.
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And he will present a Christianity to you that will make your church look like a six flags over Jesus.
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And keep you so entertained, you are never addressed with great issues such as these.
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Is God working in my life?
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Am I growing in holiness?
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Have I truly been born again?
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Listen to me.
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If everyone in this town believes themselves saved, and we know that's not true by Scripture because the Bible says that few will enter in, how do you know that you're saved?
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How do you truly know that you are saved? Because someone told you?
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Because you prayed a prayer? Because you believed?
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But let me ask you a question.
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How do you know you believe?
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Because everybody says they believe.
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How do you know you're not like them?
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Do you know how the Bible teaches you that you know you are saved?
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Do you know how Baptist theology up until about 50 years
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ago would have told you how you know you have been saved?
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You know you have been saved because your life is in a process of being changed.
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And your style of life is one of walking in the paths of God's truth.
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And when you step off those paths in disobedience, as we all do, God comes for you and puts you back on the path.
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One of the greatest evidences that you have truly been born again is
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that God will not let you talk as your flesh might want to talk.
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God will not let you dress as the sensual world and the sensual church allows you to dress.
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God will not allow you to act like the world, smell like the world, speak like the world, listen to the things that the world listens to.
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God will make a difference in your life.
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He says here, as we go on, verse 17, so every, or let's go to 16,
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you will know them by their fruit.
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How will you know a false prophet in the wider application here in all of Scripture?
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How will you know if someone is a genuine Christian?
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By their fruit!
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By their fruit, my dear friend!
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Look at your life!
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Look at the way you walk!
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Look at the way you talk!
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Look at the passions of your heart!
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Is Jesus in there somewhere?
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Or is He just some accessory that you add on to your life?
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Is He just something you do on Wednesday or Sunday?
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Is He something that you give a mental assent to?
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You see an accessory or you see the very center of your life.
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And what is the fruit that you're bearing?
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Do you look like the world, act like the world?
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Do you have and experience the same joys that the world experiences?
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Can you love sin and relish it?
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Can you love rebellion and relish it?
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Then you know not God.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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God has the power to change them.
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Let's imagine for a moment Jesus teaching this passage.
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And you're sitting out there listening.
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And He looks at you.
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He says, thistles, thistles.
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Do you find thistles on on fig trees
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and you respond of course not Jesus I mean you're not
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an agriculturalist you're not a farmer I mean you're a carpenter
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but I mean everybody knows Jesus you don't find thorns on fig trees well
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well then let me ask another question do you find Find figs, good fruit, on thorn trees.
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Why no, Jesus, that's absolutely ludicrous.
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I mean, you're never going to find thorns on a fig tree, and you're not going to find figs on a thorn tree.
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Jesus, to say that that could be possible, anyone who tells you that, Jesus, you can mark it down.
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They're either crazy or they're a liar.
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And then Jesus responds to you,
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Well then, those who call themselves my disciples and bear bad fruit
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would not it be the same to say that they were either lying
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or out of their mind to make such a statement
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let me take it a little further let's imagine
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that I show up late and I run up here on the platform
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and all the leaders are angry with me they say brother
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Paul don't you appreciate the fact You're given the opportunity to speak here and you come late.
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And I said, brothers, you have to forgive me.
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Well, why?
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Well, I was out here on the highway and I was driving
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and I had a flat tire and I got out to change the tire.
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And when I was changing the tire, the lug nut fell off.
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And I wasn't paying attention that I was on the highway.
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And I ran out and I grabbed the lug nut.
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And as soon as I picked it up in the middle of the highway, I stood up and there was a 30-ton logging truck going 120 miles an hour, about 10 yards in front of me.
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And it ran me over.
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And that's why I'm late.
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Now, there would only be two logical...
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I know no one studies logic anymore, but there would only be two logical conclusions.
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One, I'm a liar.
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Or two, I'm a madman.
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You would say, Brother Paul, it's absolutely absurd.
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It is impossible, Brother Paul, to have an encounter with something as large as a logging truck and not be changed.
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And then my question would be to you, what is larger? a logging truck, or God?
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How is it that so many people today profess to have had an encounter with Jesus Christ, and yet they are not permanently changed?
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Let me give you a few things to think about.
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You know I'm telling you the truth.
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How many times do you go and rededicate your life over and over and over again?
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How many times do youth groups go to things like this
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and get fired up and go back to the church and it lasts about a week and a half?
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And yet, oh, it was a great move of God.
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No, it wasn't.
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If it doesn't last, it wasn't a great move of God.
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It was emotion.
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There were so many things, but it wasn't a great move of God.
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Has God worked in your life?
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Is God working in your life?
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You will know them by their fruit.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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Now we go on.
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Verse 19, Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire, so then you will know them by their fruit.
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Look at this.
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You need to understand something about Hebrew literature.
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When you and I want to emphasize something, do you know what we do?
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We raise our voice.
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If we're writing, we put it in bold letters or we capitalize it.
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But to a Jew, it's different.
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When he wants to emphasize something, he repeats it, and he repeats it.
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That's why you find Hebrew parallelisms in the book of Proverbs.
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The wicked shall not live in the land.
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The wicked shall be destroyed.
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He's saying the same thing, just in a different way to give greater emphasis.
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That's what Jesus is doing over and over again here.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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You will know them by the path that they walk in.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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And He says, anyone who does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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What is He talking about?
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But my dear friend, he is talking about the judgment of Almighty God that will one day fall upon the world.
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That will one day fall possibly upon you.
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Oh dear friend, I cannot look into your heart.
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I am so easily deceived by my own heart.
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But there is one who is not deceived.
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There is one who is not deceived, and he's not deceived by a contemporary Christian culture.
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He knows.
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You will know them by their fruit.
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And then he goes on.
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He says this.
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Verse 21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven will enter.
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Do you know what your profession of faith in Jesus Christ is worth?
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Absolutely nothing.
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Yes.
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Did you read that passage?
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Study it.
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Not everyone who comes to me and says, Lord, Lord, not everyone who professes, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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There are many people who are going to profess, Lord, Lord, but they are not going to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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My dear, precious child, are you one of them?
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Lord, Lord.
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Now, again, let's go back to Hebrew literature.
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He said, Lord, Lord.
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He didn't say, Lord.
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He said, Lord, Lord.
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What does that mean?
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This fellow who is making this profession, he is not someone who just all of a sudden decided it's judgment and I better profess him to be Lord.
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This is a person who emphatically declares to other people that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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He walks around saying Lord.
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He dances up in front while the musicians are playing saying Lord.
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He sings the songs Lord.
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But Jesus said to him, depart from me, I never knew you.
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Do you know Billy Graham is one of the kindest, lovingest men?
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Yet Billy Graham has said he believed that a great majority of people who attend Bible-believing churches are lost.
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He said that he would be happy
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if even 5% of all the people who made professions of faith in his campaigns were even saved.
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When I'm in Nigeria, I was there last year visiting a mother whose son was in our church
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and was martyred by the Muslims.
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In northern Nigeria, when someone professes faith in Jesus Christ, you pretty much know it's true.
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Why?
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They can die because of that profession.
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But in America, oh, consider the cost.
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Think, examine your life in light of Scripture.
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Do you know the Lord?
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Do you know the Lord?
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Because not everyone who says to Him, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
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But what does it say here?
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Look what it says.
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Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but He who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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What is the sign that someone has become a genuine Christian?
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I wish that we would start teaching this again.
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What happened to our theology?
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What happened to our doctrine?
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What happened to our teaching?
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It went right out the window.
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No one wants to study doctrine anymore.
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They just want to listen to songs and read the back of Christian t-shirts.
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What happened to truth?
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Truth tells you this.
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The evidence, the way that you can have assurance
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that you are genuinely a born-again Christian is that you do as a style of life the will of the Father.
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You say, oh, you're talking about works.
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No, I'm not.
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I'm talking about evidence of faith.
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And it goes like this.
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Your profession of faith is no proof that you're born again because everybody in this whole country professes faith in Jesus Christ.
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Barnard tells us that 65 to 70% of all Americans are saved.
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Born again Christians.
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Most godless country on the face of the earth.
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Kill 4,000 babies a day, but bless God, 70% of us are born again.
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How do you know that that faith you have is not false?
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a style of life that is concerned about doing the will of the Father, that practices the will of the Father, and when you disobey the will of the Father,
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the Holy Spirit comes and reprimands you either personally through the written Word of God, through a brother or sister in Christ, and God puts you back on the path again.
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If you're a genuine Christian, you cannot escape Him.
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Let me give you an example.
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If I was your pastor, and you were, let's say,
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14 years old, And I came back from preaching at 1 o'clock in the morning
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and I saw you standing out there in a park
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or on a corner with a bunch of hoodlums doing things you shouldn't be doing.
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And you were a member of our church.
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I would tell you, get in the car.
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I would take you home to your father.
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I wouldn't be mad at you.
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I'd be mad at your father.
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I would tell him, sir, you are a derelict father that you would allow your child to be out in such circumstances.
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I want you to know something.
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God is not a derelict father.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Lord, Christian, fruit, Jesus, saved. This video has 303 sentences and 3200 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:38. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 59 of its 303 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| profess verb | /pɹəˈfɛs/ | To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. |
| carnal adjective | /ˈkɑɹnəl/ | Worldly or earthly; temporal. |
| wick noun | /ˈwɪk/ | A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a… |
| deceive verb | /dɪˈsiːv/ | To trick or mislead. |
| thorn noun | /θoɹn/ | A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike. |
| thistle noun | /θɪsl̩/ | Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with… |
| prophet noun | /ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/ | Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. |
| doctrine noun | /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/ | A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters. |
| tire verb | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | To become sleepy or weary. |
| derelict adjective | /ˈdɛɹəˌlɪk(t)/ | Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken. |
| immorality noun | /ɪməˈɹælɪti/ | The state or quality of being immoral; vice. |
| relish verb | /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/ | To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing. |
| righteousness noun | /ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəsnəs/ | The quality or state of being righteous. |
| seeker noun | /ˈsikəɹ/ | One who seeks. |
| sensual adjective | /ˈsɛn.ʃu.əl/ | Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| cut down verb | To cut downward. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| step off verb | To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers. | |
| come back from verb | To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc. | |
| do over verb | /ˈduˌoʊvɚ/ | To cover with; to smear or spread on to. |
| fall off verb | To become detached or to drop from. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are you asked if you doubt your salvation?
- Did you pray a prayer one time?
- What am I really getting at?
- Am I growing in holiness?
- How do you know you're not like them?
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 happened · has been given · have spent |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being churned · is based · is dictated |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are · men who have · those who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 46 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, they're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thorn /θoɹn/, thistle /θɪsl̩/, theology /θiˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: relish /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/, sensual /ˈsɛn.ʃu.əl/, salvation /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/, assurance /əˈʃʊɹəns/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: immorality /ɪməˈɹælɪti/, seminary /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/, theology /θiˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, agriculturalist /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəlɪst/
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 profess, carnal, wick.
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