Shadowing Practice: You Were Dead: Voddie Baucham (sermon jam) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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We don't think we need good news, we think we need good advice.

We don't need the gospel.

We just need 10 ways to have a happy life and 5 ways to reduce stress.

Because that's our problem.

We don't believe this and this is why we say, we hear preachers say it all the time.

There's a guy down my way down in Houston smiling Joel.

And Joel says, sinners don't need to be told they're sinners.

They know they're sinners.

No, they don't.

They don't.

They look at the guy on the news who hacked somebody up and they say, that's a sinner, not me.

They don't sin.

They make mistakes.

You sin, but they don't.

They make bad choices.

They have bad patches.

They have bad habits, but they're not sinners.

They're not individuals who pursue their own fleshly desires at the expense of everyone

and anything else unless they can be helped in their fleshly desires.

They're not sinners who are under the influence of this world because this world is giving them exactly what they want,

which is not God They're not sinners who are under the influence of the prince of the power of the air

Because they love the prince of the power of the air.

They're just people who sometimes make mistakes Bible says that they're children of wrath And so were we.

If you understand that you're a child of wrath, you understand that you don't need good advice.

You need good news.

Because there is no good news in this.

This is all bad.

There's no hope whatsoever.

I'm dead.

And I'm under the influence of this world that opposes God.

and the prince of the power of the air who opposes God.

And what's worse, my flesh, my body, my mind, they like it and they want it and they don't want God.

And I'm an enemy of God and I deserve God's wrath.

I love to ask people, you know, even if you know you need to be saved, do you know what you need to be saved from?

God.

You need to be saved from the wrath of God this holy and righteous and just God

but God being rich in mercy because of the great love with

which he loved us even

when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive together

with Christ by grace we've been saved I left there's no

room there there's no room there there's there there's nothing there

there's nothing God saw in you it's just not there there's nothing in you

that rose up above the rest it's just not there the answer is

but God you're dead I don't care how many times you've

heard the illustration you're sinking you're drowning you're about to go down for the last time

and God throws you the life preserver but you got to grab it dead Dead men don't grab.

You are not almost dead.

You are not nearly dead.

You're dead.

Which means that the only hope is the grace of God. But watch what happens.

You were dead and now you get life.

God made us alive together with Christ.

You were dead, but now you're alive together with Christ.

This is important.

This is the doctrine of regeneration.

This is God making us alive.

This is God making us born again.

And no matter how many times we hear out there in popular evangelicalism that we sort of born ourselves again,

you can no more born yourself again than you've born yourself the first time.

Being born again is an act of God.

Being born again is a supernatural act.

Being born again is something that you don't ask for, you don't have sense enough to ask for, you're dead.

God does this.

And it's by His grace that He does this.

And it's for His glory that He does this.

It is because of Christ that he does this.

It is by grace alone.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 68 sentences and 669 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:40. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

wrath /ɹæθ/ (noun) — Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
oppose /əˈpoʊz/ (verb) — To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
glory /ˈɡlɔːɹi/ (noun) — Great beauty and splendor.
pursue /pɚˈsu/ (verb) — To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
mercy /ˈmɝsi/ (noun) — Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/ (noun) — An action performed on a regular basis.
expense /ɪkˈspɛns/ (noun) — A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
sink /ˈsɪŋk/ (verb) — To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
flesh /flɛʃ/ (noun) — The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
patch /pæt͡ʃ/ (noun) — A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a…
gospel /ˈɡɑspəl/ (noun) — The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion…
whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/ (adverb) — In any way; at all; whatever.
doctrine /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/ (noun) — A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/ (noun) — Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/ (noun) — The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

ask for (verb) — To request; to order.
hear out (verb) — To listen to someone until that person has finished speaking; to thoroughly consider all aspects of someone's argument.
look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
rise up (verb) — To ascend to the surface.
see in (verb) — To show (someone) in: to introduce (someone) to the inside of a place.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 37 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, they're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: flesh /flɛʃ/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, supernatural /ˌsu.pəɹˈnæ.tʃə.ɹəl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like wrath, oppose, glory.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be told · can be helped · be saved
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've been saved · you've born

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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