 Question. What does it take for a person to be safe? What is the requirement for salvation? As a matter of fact, let's just do that. Let's do this. By the way, good afternoon, good evening, good morning. How are you all doing? But if I ask you, what is the requirement for a person to be safe? What would you say? How would you say it? And that's going to kind of lead us into what we're going to talk about tonight. Sometimes, if we're not careful, we might either overthink it or underthink it. It's pretty clear, but what's required? You've heard us, you've heard it say it, faith alone. Absolutely right. Believing in Christ. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. What would you say? One moment of belief in the gospel? I'm not sure what you mean by one moment of belief in the gospel, but I think I may, but we'll explore that a little bit as well as we go. But what's required? If I tell you, let me ask you guys a question. So let's just do it this way. Let's have a little bit of fun and then I'll upset some of you later. I'm probably going to upset some of you, but I'm going to explain why I'm upsetting you and then you'll see if you can go ahead and get past it. So if I said that faith or believing, same word, is required, would you all agree? How many of you would agree if I say that faith alone or believing is required is sufficient? You all would say so. Yeah, you probably say yes. Now, let me throw a bit of a curve. What if I say, if I have only asked for a one word answer for salvation, what if I say that you must be, you must repent in order to be saved? Salvation requires and the one word I use is repentance. Is that okay? How many of you all would agree with that word? With that being the case, if I say believe, is that okay? Now, I'm sorry, I believe, but repentance. Repentance. You must repent in order to be saved. And that's the one word I get. And I don't use belief, but I use repent. Is that okay? Some are going to say no, no, no. Some are going to say yes. Some are going to say I don't know. What if I say, what's another word? What if I say that you must be baptized in order to be saved? Some are going to say yes. Some are going to say no. Some are going to say after the fact. He says those are fruits of being saved. Okay. What about you must be a disciple? You must be a disciple in order to be saved. What about that? Let me just say this to every last one of you who said no to any of those. The answer to every last one of those is yes. Here's why. As Jesus is explaining these things to us, they all convey the same thing. When Jesus said to go and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Holy Ghost, why didn't he say believe? Make them make sure they believe. Make sure that they repent. Well, because you're going to find out throughout the scriptures that sometimes he'll say this thing different ways. Because the Bible knows of nobody who is a believer, knows of no Christian who is not repentant. We're going to see that in a second. The Bible knows of no person who is not a disciple. We're going to see that in a second. The Bible knows of no person who is not baptized. If you're not baptized, you are not a Christian. The Bible knows of no person who is not a believer who is not believing. So all of these are the, in many cases, it's the same way or different ways to say the same thing. If you believe, then you are repentant. If you're repentant, then you are baptized. If you are baptized, then you are a disciple. Now let's back up a little bit. I want to say something, and this is to a lot of you people. By the way, by the way, by the way, Jesus lover says discipleship is not salvation. Judas was a disciple. No, I'm not talking about any old basic disciple. I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about any old basic repentance. I'm not talking about any old basic belief. I'm not talking about any old basic baptism. That's not what I'm talking about. See, the issue is sometimes you guys get caught up some in many cases, in many cases, in many cases, too many people listen to a doctrine, a confession, a set of beliefs, and that dictates how I look at everything. Too many of you also, by the way, let's just put this out here, have labels, have titles, have a label about who you are to describe your understanding. I'm Calvinist, I'm Armenian, I'm dispensational, I am provisionist, I'm free grace, I believe in Lord's salvation. How about you all just cancel all that stuff and just follow what the Bible says and stop doing that because you're not supposed to? By the way, there's no good biblical, and I said biblical, no good biblical explanation for you to hold onto these labels. Now, if you say I kind of lean towards this in my thinking within fine, but if you say I am this, you're wrong. You're wrong. I believe this. Some of the things that have hurt us the most, that have hurt the body the most, two big things that have hurt us the most. Well, three, one, dead men's books. Some of these dead men that have written books, we sit and hold them in high esteem. We talk about Spurgeon and Pink and Tozer and these, forget them. I could listen. A guy told me, he said, why don't you, here, I want you to read this by Spurgeon. For what? For what? What is Spurgeon going to shine? What light is Spurgeon going to shine on me? What could he possibly give me that I don't have? Absolutely nothing. Because now what I'm doing is I'm going to start interpreting the book in Spurgeons through Spurgeons lens. I'm not going to do that. Or these different confessions. I don't care which confession. The Catholics have a confession. What about theirs? I'm not going to do that. Now, are they okay to see what someone else thought? That's fine. And someone's going to be upset, but they can't tell me why they're upset. You cannot, I tell you what you can't do. You can't give me a biblical reason. What I just said, you couldn't find one biblical reason for disagreeing. Couldn't do it. I bother you because you know why? Because some of you guys are used to turning on YouTube and pushing a button to hear from your favorite theologian. Let's just call it what it is. And so what ends up happening is, if I am, let's say I lean towards free grace. So when I go to YouTube or Facebook or wherever else, who do I want to listen to? Free grace people. And then I start interpreting the scriptures based on what I'm hearing from them. Most of you all couldn't determine or begin to describe how to give a description of the Trinity. But you've heard someone else say, well, how was the Trinity? Have you ever wondered how can we all, all of us, give the pretty close to the same explanation as to the Trinity? Have you ever wondered why do we do that? Because we lean not onto our own understanding, but to somebody else's understanding. That's a guy that was someone else's. Have you ever noticed that? Isn't that, is that right or wrong to do? That I would, I think that's wrong to do. So when I said what I said about those different things that are required for salvation, pick one, either one of them means the other. If you are repentant, you know what you are? You have believed. If you are a believer, you are repentant. If you are baptized, you are a disciple. If you're a disciple, you're baptized. If you've been baptized in the spirit, you are repentant. All of them go together. It's like trying to dissect all the different particles that make you up. That's you. So I want you to do your very best to try to move away from your confessions, from your doctrines, from your, move away from that. And let's just look at the scriptures. This is why I always say this. I always say this. Whatever I think or whatever I believe, I do my very best. You all tell me if you disagree, but I do my best to show my hermeneutic, the way I look at it. And folks are going to say, well, Cory, but isn't that kind of the same thing if you're leaning on a hermeneutic? No, because the hermeneutic that I'm leaning on is the exact same way that you guys read everything else. It's literally the same way. Now, the conclusion is different because folks with the same hermeneutic can come to different conclusions. And so I should debunk a confession. Give me a confession. Give me a confession so I can debunk it. Give me 689 confession so I can debunk it. That's what he said. Give me your confession. Email me your confession so I can debunk it. If I just pull apart one, then we're good. Right? Because here's a point. Here's a point. Is your confession biblical? Or is your... Oh, I'm sorry. Let me put it this way. Is your confession gospel? Is your confession on par with the Word of God? You better say no. Because if it is, if it is, if it is, if what you say isn't gospel, now you bring up a creed. If the creed is in the Bible, then guess what? That's gospel. That's Holy Spirit, right? 689 or Westminster. That's not God inspired. I mean, are you following me? See, what happens is we have a tendency to want to defend our home turf or what we think is our home turf. I can promise you these old men's books and these confessions and so forth won't be with us in heaven. And it was not what God gave to us in the beginning. So my point is stop it. Now, there are going to be some free grace folks are going to come after me. I could care less. I really could care less. Get your Bibles out and let's put them up. As we say back in the day, we want to fight. Put them up. Put them up. Put up what? See, that's because you're young. Put up your dukes. Let's go. So let me do one thing real quick, guys. Let me fix something technically. Give me one quick second and I'll be right back. OK, sorry about that, guys. I'm back now. But what I want to do is I want to go ahead and jump to something. Now, faith alone is without question. By the way, I'll be looking at your question. So if you have a question, put a big gigantic cue or question, what have you. But everybody, I think, would agree that faith alone is required. In other words, if you have faith in Christ and what he's done, then you'll be safe. Now, if we're talking about mental ascent, meaning that all you have to do is, and this is what I was wanting, what you were asking, what you were saying, layman's seminary, if this person is having this mental ascent, in other words, accepting the facts, I understand. I understand an atheist can say this. A Buddhist can say it. I understand that Jesus died on the cross for sin. Anybody can say that. I believe that he did so. Does someone have a mental understanding of that and even say they believe that? Does that mean that they are saved? What we call mental ascent. I understand the facts and agree to it. Does that mean they're saved? Some of you all may have some cousin, some uncle, some family member, some friend who knows, who knows that it's wrong to murder. No, no, no, no, but I want to know what you mean by belief because I want to show you that even, and we've covered this before. And so I hope you guys that will disagree. Since I've covered this numerous amount of times, you can turn around and say, well, this is where you're wrong in that course. So you get your opportunity today. So I know some people that believe the same thing I believe. For example, I believe it's right. It's not right now, but or it actually was. I believe it's rainy outside, but so what? And I know that if I go outside, then I'll get wet. Some people believe it, but don't care afterwards. They just, you know what? They believe this, but they're more into themselves. Is it possible to believe, to really truly believe something, but also be more into yourself to where you nullify the belief? Because we find out throughout the scriptures, laymen seminary, that there are people who believed, who though they believed, are not considered as Christians. Now it could be though, and this is why sometimes it's also important that we stay away from the titles free grace, lordship salvation. Just if you're free grace, stop being free grace. If you're lordship salvation, stop being lordship salvation. If you're Calvinist, stop being Calvinist. If you Baptist, if you Method, stop being that. Because what has happened is you end up talking past each other and not even seeing the points. All people in free grace that has ascribed a free grace aren't, don't believe the same thing. Same thing with lordship salvation. Same thing with Calvinist. Same thing with dispensation. So you do yourself a solid and, of course, make yourself learn the scriptures even more so if people would judge what you're saying by your words instead of by your confession. So it could possibly be that we're saying the same thing. We're going to find out though. We're going to find out though, but a person can give a mental sense. If you think that's being saved or believing you're wrong. If a person has to repent first to be saving what I mean by repent first means that they got to stop sinning. Because what you mean by repent also mean also matters. So if you say that a person has to stop sinning first in order to be saved, you're wrong also. Well, so now we've got to come to a happy medium. Now it's possible to believe and not be saved. I know somebody's going to say I disagree with that, but I'm going to show you the scriptures. And guess what we're going to do, guys? I know people get upset with me, but hey, sorry, we are going to the Greek. We've covered this before. And so I want to cover it again because it cannot be that a person believes in Christ, but also believes more in themselves and lives how they want to. And then we say that person's safe. Now, is it possible that the person is safe but not look like they're safe? Sure it is. Sure it is. Because I've said this before guys that the Bible commands us to examine ourselves. But the Bible doesn't command us to prove ourselves to others. But by the same token though, the Bible does command us to judge others. Did you catch that? We are commanded to examine ourselves to make sure that we really do believe. How do I know if I really believe? But then we're also not commanded not to prove ourselves to others. But then by the same token, we're also commanded to judge others. Those very same people that you don't have to prove yourself to. They are also still commanded to judge you though. Hey listen, do you realize you having sex with these four or five different women and couple men is a sin, right? You do realize that, right? Well, who are you to judge me? I'm a Christian. You're a Christian so I can judge you. That is indeed if you are a Christian. Why do you guys think that these warning passages are in the Bible? Why are they there? Say for example, let me just, let's just go through here and use an example. No, no, metamorphosis. Is there a difference between salvific grace and sanctifying grace? No, there is none. Nope, same thing. But let's just say for example, let's say metamorphosis, I'm going to use you. Metamorphosis is, let's say she has a friend. Let's say Dutch. She sees Dutch and she's just very suspicious wondering is Dutch actually a Christian? I mean listen, Dutch, he sells drugs. He does drugs. He cheats on his wife and his girlfriend, both of them, and on his taxes. He lies all the time because it's like a sailor. He goes to church every now and then. And so for that reason, metamorphosis is just wondering. Just wondering, Dutch, I don't want to offend you but Dutch, I'm just wondering, is it possible maybe that you're not a Christian? And Dutch says, I'm a Christian because I believe, I believe that Jesus died for my sins. Huh, okay. And so, so metamorphosis is supposed to leave it alone, right? Is metamorphosis supposed to leave it alone? Dutch out there just doing all kind of stuff. Dutch is out there just living how he wants to live. Dutch the Bible Thumper is really kind of his street name. So when he's selling drugs, that's what he, you know, that's what... Or would you... Hmm. Now we're going to look at the scriptures and we're going to see what God says. I agree with you. That ain't loving your neighbor. So if I'm not sure, how do I... If I'm loving 1689 or Janice or anyone else, Monkey Moves, should I warn Dutch? Hey, Dutch, I know you say you believe the Lord, you love the Lord and so forth but... And so is it loving, is it right to warn Dutch? Is it right to warn them? Y'all thinking, okay, you guys think it's right to warn Dutch? Okay. Well, where do we get that from? We get that from the Bible. All of the... Now remember, guys, we do not believe, at least over here, that once a person is saved, if you're saved indeed, you are always saved. But the reason for these numerous warning passages in the Bible is for people like Dutch. Dutch didn't got it. Dutch didn't got all of his family on drugs. Dutch just got out of prison. He's got to connect in prison. He's sitting in drugs inside prison. So, yeah, it's right to warn Dutch. It really is. The Bible warns people. That's why Paul says, examine yourself. That's why the Bible says, if indeed you are, make sure, make sure. Why? Because a lot of you folks aren't. Now I'm not saying you guys. I believe that 99.7% of you folks in the chats definitely are. I believe that. I believe that. By the way, Byron, I'll push the wrong button. Where is it? By the way, Byron, that verse, you ever seen that red lies matter shirt that I wear? The white one or the red one? Do you know in the back of that? That's the description in the back. I just happen to see that. I just happen to see that. So, yeah, poor Dutch. But even worse Dutch, if no one tells, if no one warns them. So, the Bible, the Bible wants people to be warned. That's why Jesus makes this thing. You all run around doing all this other good stuff too. Just because you're also doing good stuff doesn't mean anything either. You do all these good stuff. You're in church every, every day. Matter of fact, the pastor can't get there before you do. You wait. Come on pastor, it's time to start praising the Lord. You're passing out tracks. You're ushering people. After you get through ushering, you run to the choir loft and start singing. That's you. You are a giant spot and then you go to hell because you never knew you. So, there's times where it looks like a person is saved and they're not. And there are times when a person looks like they're not saying they are. But the warning passes is still for everybody. Make sure. So, let's go ahead and jump into something. Let me ask you guys a question though. Because the super, super, super, super, super faith alone people. Hypergrace, some might might call them would say that there's no real big issue with. Now, I might say all, not all, but the sin matter. Let me just put it this way. Instead of imputing anybody, any group, does sin matter? Would you all agree that sin matters? If you don't think that sin matters, we've got a problem to know. Because, oh, I don't know. Didn't he destroy the world the first time? Because of what? Sin. What's he going to destroy the world again? In the end for sin. He chose Israel and then he put them out of their land. Why? Because of sin. He's going to put the spirit in a heart to deal with what? Sin. Now, we have dealt with, if you are truly a believer with the penalty of sin. But the problem of sin still persists, doesn't it? Hopefully, though, as a believer, you've seen a lot less than you used to. But again, and I'm not one of these guys who is a fruit inspector. They're looking and so forth. Unless we have a personal relationship and we end deep with each other. I told you all about Big Arkansas, the bully in prison. Again, you got to be telling, if you're a bully in prison, you're a bad guy. There's a big old dude. I told you about the guy. He choked out over a piece of fish, choked him out and just gently laid him down. He had an anger issue. He had a lot of issues happening with him, but you start seeing the Lord work in him. Not the day that he got saved. Did the cussing go away? Not the day that he got saved. Did the anger in the fight and go away? No, but you saw it getting chipped away. John makes a statement and this is a principle that was understood until we got to America. But this is a principle that was understood previously to the cross and even after. When John is baptizing, he's baptized in what? Unto repentance. And what does he say to them? He says, what fruits of repentance do you have to show? In other words, how do we know you've repented? There should be some sort of fruits to it. You're saying that your heart is right, but shouldn't we see? Because you brew the vipers as he calls them. You're still looking at the same. God has a problem with sin. He's always had a problem with sin. As a matter of fact, where am I at? I can't find the passage I was in. Anyway, so I'll move past. Yes, I do. I had that passage. I do have that passage. Where is it at? Oh, there it is. In Ezekiel 18. Now we know this all throughout scriptures. In Ezekiel 18, he makes this statement. Let's put it on the screen. He says, therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct declares the Lord God. And look what he says. Repent and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block of you. Now, if you notice something, I want you to notice something. This word right here, shub and shub is actually in there twice. He says shub wa shubu. Shub wa shubu, which is turn and turn. Why? That's right. Gosh, dog it. Repent or the word turns in there twice. Why is the word turn in there twice in the Hebrew? This is important, guys. This is important. This speaks to us. Why is the word layman seminary? Why is the word turn and turn in there twice? Turn and turn. Shubu wa shubu. Exactly how you say it. Turn and turn. Does anyone know why it's in there twice? Turn your heart around and then the other part is turning from away from the dog on sins. In other words, get yourself right. Repent in inwardly and then leave that other stuff alone. In other words, the inward action happens first, but then there should be some actual turning away. Don't say you repented inwardly and then outwardly. Nobody, not even yourself, can see anything in your repented activity. Are you with me? There's going to be some. Is the actions what saves you? No. No one's saying that. No one. All of you people that might want to make a video, pay attention to what I just said. Not saying that it's the turning away from sin that saves you. Not saying that stop sinning is what saves you. Not saying that the works are what saves you. It's just after that. And I'm going to show you. I'm going to play a video of someone who disagrees, but then dog on it. Gosh, dog it seems to agree. Nope. It doesn't. It doesn't. It does not have the same forces. Amen. Amen. It does not. It absolutely does not, bro. It does not. It means. Let me say this confidently. And then allow you to try to prove it wrong. But it does not mean that it means to, it means there's this in returning and then this, this actual turning from your sin. Why? Because what, what does God have a problem with Israel? Their actions, what they're doing. But what does God also tell Israel to do? He says it from Deuteronomy all the way up to the time they brought, they brought back in. Get your heart right. Fix your heart right. That's why he says he tells them in Deuteronomy, you circumcised your heart. You, mister, miss, missy, missy poo, get your heart right. Turn away from that sin. Get your heart right. Then since, but he knows you're not. And so what does he say after Deuteronomy 10, after he tells them to get your heart right, he says I will fix your heart later in Deuteronomy 30. So he tells us or them to circumcise their heart. After they put out the land and so forth, what does God say he's going to do? He says, then God says that he in Deuteronomy 30, when he brings them back, he tells them to circumcise, that he tells them that he will circumcise their heart. So he tells them to do so, they won't. After he brings them back in the land and he will do so. Here's my question for all the free grace people and the Lordship salvation people and the Calvinists and the Baptists and the Methodists and the Episcopalians and the Anglicans and the Church of Christ, Church of God Church of God of the Northwest, Biblical God in Christ, whatever. Answer this question. Yeah, but see, this wasn't one of those layouts where they're just giving repetition of the word, layman, that's not what's happening here. That is not what's happening here. But answer this question, guys. Here's my question. Because I think what you're doing now, layman, is maybe you're trying to defend a point before there's a point to defend. Here's my question. In Deuteronomy 30, God does say that he will circumcise their hearts. He'll do the heart circumcision. Matter of fact, let's go to Ezekiel 18 where he tells them to repent and turn, which is why your translation says it that way, to repent and turn. Why? Why does he tell them to repent and turn? Well, let's go to Ezekiel 36. We've covered this before. What does he say? Then I will, this is actually he says he'll circumcise their heart. He says this also. He says that I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. And I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Here it is, guys. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. Why is God going to, not just with Israel, but also Gentiles, why is God going to put his spirit in us? It's literally there. You see why I hold to a literal hermeneutic? Why does he say that? What is his spirit in our heart going to do? Ladies and gentlemen, it is the easiest question. The easiest answer, I'm sorry. What is his spirit in our heart going to do? Let me drink my prison coffee while you guys get this. Matter of fact, let's put it back on the screen. Why is he going to put his spirit in our heart? Why? What's the reason? Well, what's been God's problem with mankind all along? What's been the problem? Guys, this is why you have to be a Christian to mess this up. You really have to be a Christian to mess this up. Let me just be honest with you guys. Let me just hold on. Matter of fact, let me set the mood. Let me set the mood, because I think you guys are getting a little too tense, a little too worried. Maybe you're getting confused. I don't know. Let me just set the mood and get you guys to feel better. There you go. That should do it for you right there. That did it for you. Now you're feeling good. You're feeling relaxed. You're feeling calm. You're feeling good. You got a big old smile on your face. You heard it. So now you're good to go. What has been God's problem all along, guys? Christians mess this up because we think too much. Guys, it's really easy. What has been God's problem with mankind all along? Let me help you out. It begins with the S, ends with the N, rhymes with pen. There we go. Dog on smart Christians. Dog on smart Christians. Dog on smart Christians. Let me just start putting them up there. Yes. Yes, sin. Sin. I know you are, CG. CG says I'm better now. Sin. Sin. Same thing, waywardness. Sin. Disobedience. Sin. Sin. Guys, that's it. That is it. So what does sin do? What did sin do, guys? Gosh, dog is right, Vic and May. What did sin do? What did sin do with our relationship with God? Mankind, I should say. We weren't there. We heard about it. We read about it. What did sin do with our relationship with mankind's relationship? You're God type. I mean, I'm talking about genius. Just a Christian genius right there. Separate us. Separate us. I rebuke the slow-mo. Separate us. And so, if we're going to be atoned for, now, by the way, sin also causes, hey, this guy wants to come back and heck with me because I heck with him on his. But it's okay, though. Soon enough, the Lord will bless you. He will bless you. So what does God want to fix? He wants to fix the very thing that caused the problem. So how does He do that? Buy this atonement. And what does atonement do? The covering cancelling brings about what? Reconciliation. He wants to be reconciled with us. But I cannot be reconciled with you if the dog on sin that you had in the beginning is still there. You can't keep bringing this sin in my face. I can't cover it. I know that we can be reconciled. That's what he wants to do. Does he do so? So when he puts his spirit in our heart, what does he say is the reason for us? Put it back on the screen to cause us to walk in our statutes. The word is, this from the Greek word, the Hebrew word, asa, to cause, to make, to do. And then to walk. Halak. Or in this case, to coup. Hebrew, the inflection in Hebrew is weird. So, he puts his spirit in us to cause us to walk in his teachings, in his commands. He teaches us, he wants us to do right. Now, some folks also out there, because you've read too much, you've thought too much, well, what does that do with free will? Forget free will. Who cares about free will? If free will sends you to hell, I don't care about it. Isn't it better to get rid of the thing that's going to take you to hell? Isn't it better to get rid of the thing that's going to take you to hell, leave it alone, and then go to heaven? It'd better do that. Abandon what takes you to hell. Abandon your will then. How about that? Yeah, but God wouldn't take away our free will. Say, let's find the scripture. And be quiet on your way to find the scripture, because you won't find that scripture. Your will is the problem. You have a contrary heart and nature. That's why he's trying to give you a new heart. But you want to fight, you want to fight what God's doing. Okay. Now, if he says he's going to do it, and he said when he does it, something's going to happen, you can bank on both of them. What's the it that he says he's going to do? Fix our heart. And then when he does, so why does he do so to cause us to walk in him? Now, what he's going to do in doing so is going to give us the very thing that we need. The faith. And I don't mean this basic funky old faith that everybody else has. And I ain't talking about this Oprah Winfrey faith. Oprah Winfrey faith. This Beyonce faith. You know, she gets emotional start crying and I just know what the Lord has done for me and so forth. No, not that kind of faith. Where you go on and do the church girl stuff and go to shake and stuff. No, not that kind of faith. No, not that kind of faith. No, no, no, no, no. Now you can try to figure out the degree to which some people believe, but the Bible tells us the Bible tells us as a matter of fact, let's put on the screen. We've covered this before that it's possible for people to believe in and not be a saving faith to have faith, but not be a saving faith to believe and not be the saving kind of believe why he gives us. I cover this over and over again so that you guys can see that we can all get this right. Luke 8. He gives the parable of the sword and they asked for an understanding and then look what he says. Verse 11. Now the parable is this the seed is the word of God. Okay, cool. We got that. Those beside the road are those who have heard have heard then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart. You mean the word actually made it to their heart? The word actually made it I didn't write it. Luke is writing it but Jesus is telling it the word makes to their heart and the devil takes it away. Huh! So they did kind of believe, huh? And in case you're wondering or thinking well let's just wait to use the word believe. The word believe is going to show up as well so that they will not believe and be saved. Now I'm going to come back to this word right here for believe. I'm going to come back to this word right here and highlight on your screen for believe in just a second. We're going to get real nerdy. Those on the rocky soil are those who when they hear they receive the word with joy and these have no firm root. So you mean you have to have some root? Yeah, why? Because he says they believe for a while and in the time of temptation they fall away. So they actually believe. So it's possible to believe and not be saved. I would just say a true salvation but the word for a Pistosh believe and trust, same thing. Believe, trust, confidence, same thing. Same thing. Faith, believe, trust, it's literally the same word here. So they believe they believe it's possible according to this passage and oh by the way Jesus is the one telling the story it's possible to believe and not be saved. So this simple belief that we're thinking about cannot be it and I don't know if it's intellectual belief. It doesn't sound like intellectual belief. How do I know that it's not just intellectual belief? Why do I say so? I don't think it's intellectual belief because it says they heard it and they received it in their heart and he says so with great joy but when the time of temptation came but in the time of temptation they fall away. They depart from what they're believing. It's going to deal with this word in just a second. The seed which fell among the thorns these are the ones who have heard and as they go on their way they are choked with the worries and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to maturity. But, but, but the seed on I see a prevailing word but the seed on the good soil these are the ones who have heard the word how did they hear the word? How did they receive the word? It's right there on the screen. They heard the word in an honest and good heart. What happened to our heart? What kind of heart must we have? The one where God puts his spirit in and gives us a brand new heart circumcises our heart, regenerates our heart washes, cleanses our heart, have our hearts born again, born from above that kind of heart. So when the word hits that kind of heart done. Good. Good to go. And that person will bear fruit with perseverance. Guys, it's not one of those 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles. It really isn't. It really is not. Bit time go. That's hard to say. Thank you for the super chat. I appreciate that. But let me answer this question. An individual is born again. Is there any scripture that directs the believer to confess their sin? Does 1 John 1 not apply to... Okay. This person that's born again is... the confessing is just really acknowledging. This is why we see that the Bible tells us salvation and it might use different words. This repentance is this confessionist acknowledgement because you cannot accept the fact that you are a sinful person, that you are a rotten person and it bothers you. That's what the repentance part is. It's not that you've actually done something about all the things that you're upset about. You lie, you fight, you cuss, you steal, you do all these different things. No, it's not that you've done those things that you've turned away from those totally. It's that in your mind, your heart is just now it's against it. I hate that I do those things. I'm bothered by that. I'm grieved by that. That's what the repentance part is. You don't get a chance to do any of those things unless... Why is she right there? You don't get a chance to do those things unless your heart is repented. Hold on one second. Hold on one second, guys. Let me take care of this. So, they go hand in hand. So when I say a person has confessed or another word we could have used, that person that has confessed or acknowledged their sin and Christ, it goes hand in hand because anybody can acknowledge that that they are a sinful person, that they're bad and they need help. Muslims do that. Even atheists do so. Are we confessing... We're acknowledging it. Now, do you have to go and acknowledge it to this guy or to her or them? No, you're just making this affirmation before him. Lord, this is really... I need you. The only reason why you can place your faith in him is because you know that no longer can you place your faith in yourself and you need him. You don't place your faith in him and confess him if you haven't rejected or renounced you if you haven't acknowledged the fact that the only reason I need saving is because I need saving. Are you with me? So, now, I want to cover something else. We talk about this word today. This word for believe, I said this before. There's a reason why this word is here. Let's put it back on the screen. Now, we are going to get nerdy for a second. There are different types of... Let me throw this word out. I haven't used this word a lot. Aspects to the word believe. We talk about tense. We talk about a verb and there's different tenses to a verb. Past, present, future, and so forth. We understand that. But when we talk about this belief that we're having, we need to deal with not just the tense of the verb, but the aspect. I'm going to get there in just a second. So, when we look at this part since they believe for a while, excuse me, these are the ones they heard and as they go the way... No, I'm sorry. Oh, here it is. I'm sorry. You see this word right here? This word right here, he says that the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, henna me pis susantes in order that not they will be believing. This is the heiress active participle. Now, you've heard me say that when we talk about a believer, think about the participle, ing. We don't believe we are believing. Now, I want to give you the difference between tense and aspect. Because ours, our faith deals with this word aspect. Before I go there, I want to cover a passage that we all know. John 3.16 You all know this passage. For God so loved the word that he gave that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Now, this word believed, we've covered this before. It is the word pistouan and the reason for that is the present active participle is the believing, the state of continual believing the state of continual belief is what's required. Are you with me? Now, it might not make sense until I tell you a little bit more. Let me go ahead and read something from you guys from Daniel Wallace who actually is covering this and he's going to bring up something that might be a bit nerdy. I'll start from the nerdy side of town and then kind of work our way back down to the normal side of town. He says the actual the aspectual force of the present hapistouan, that's the believing one seems to be in contrast with the hapistus, that's the one who believed Duh in the past. Believed. Can you stop believing? No, you cannot. 34 freeze move. No, you cannot. I'll show you that in a second. He says this is in contrast, the believing one is in contrast with the one that believed Duh. He says the heiress is used only eight times not the longer end of your mark, so really six times and a couple of those times you have to use it in the heiress tense. I won't cover that right now though. The heiress seems, I mean the heiress is sometimes, by the way when I say heiress the word heiress is kind of our E.D. or E.S. it's a past tense action. I'll make this clear in just a second though. The heiress is sometimes used to describe believers as such and thus has a generic force. Mark 1616 for 2nd Thessalonians Hebrews 4-3. Now, let's drop down. The present the believing occurs six times as often 43 times. Most often, let me say it's in sotirological context. Now, let me read this part then I'll bring it back down a little bit so you all can kind of understand what I'm saying. Thus, it seems that since the heiress part of simple was a live option to describe a believer they didn't use it. It could have been used, but they didn't. Describe a believer it is unlikely that when the present was used it was aspectually flat. I might be confusing you but I'll fix in just a little bit. The present was the tense of choice most likely because the New Testament writers by and large saw continual belief as a necessary condition of salvation. Along these lines it seems significant that the promise of salvation is almost always given to the high pistol one. It's almost always given to the believing ones. The one that's believing the Bible knows of a Christian that is believing almost never to the one that believed duh. Now, what does that mean? Let me give you some examples of tense and aspect. Let's say if I say I watched right that's past tense watched ed. But what if there's a way that I can say that I can use a past tense but add a little bit more to it add aspect to it so to speak if I instead of saying he watched if I say he was watching both in the past but the other one does not convey an end. So if he was watching what does that convey that he ever stopped watching? No, but he watched does show that he stopped watching. Are you with me? What if I say he believed well believed would be past tense but what if I say believing or if I say I believe that can convey possibly an end but believing that aspect added to it signifies that it is ongoing are you with me? So when I say that believed or was believing or believed or is believing the believing part that's what he's speaking of that's how the Bible describes us as believers are you with me? So when we talk about the aspect or the force that's added to this word this tells us that when the Bible talks about a person who believes he means as a Christian someone that is believing not believed or believes are you with me? Because they just could have easily added the believed but instead as a believing are you with me? Are you guys with me? So let me know if I lost if I lost to you guys on that because this is very very very very very important okay now oh by the way this believing let's not forget the genesis of this believing for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God now we cover this before this word right here where man of my Greek this word right here this two time we need to figure out what is the gift right the gift is either salvation being saved or faith we can figure this out pretty easily for example words have gender not like today gender actually means something here you've got masculine feminine and you've got neuter masculine if this word this or it is in the masculine and there is one of these words either salvation or faith is in the masculine then it's referring to that that's being saved if it's in the neuter then if one of these words is in the neuter then the same thing or if it's in the feminine are you with me now here's the point when we look at this passage as we look at it the it that we're referring to is in the neuter so let's see if what salvation or faith is in if we go to salvation you don't have to know Greek just look below the picture of me and you'll see that this is a masculine words in the masculine so the it might not be referring to salvation because it's in the neuter and that's in the masculine faith if we go to faith faith happens to be in the feminine is that a problem that this or it is in the neuter no as a matter of fact it clarifies because it's in the neuter it encompasses that entire first passage so it is the faith and the salvation both that are the gift why is that important because what are we talking about we're talking about our faith we're talking about our faith that was given to us let me see if I can make this even better if I go to acts it says when they heard this they quieted down and glorified God well well then God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life so this repentance that's been given was given to them by God the desire the want to to repent comes from who from God God grants this repentance the desire to want to do so what we get that from well this faith again you're going to find out that these words end up sometimes becoming interchangeable faith repentance baptize not water baptize I mean spirit baptize being disciple all of those those are all synonymous with our being saved are you with me and we're getting this issue about work would play a part into this okay by the way what does the Bible the Bible tells us in Acts 238 matter of fact let's put it on the screen Acts 238 famous passage you've heard it before he says repent they said what shall we do brethren repent each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the Holy Spirit now if faith alone does faith not repentance not being baptized if those are different things if those if that's what's required for salvation well then Peter got it wrong didn't he well Peter didn't get it wrong Peter did not get it wrong notice he didn't say believe but it'd be in believing necessary sure isn't believing necessary for salvation yes that's what Peter just said no he didn't Peter just said he said repent and be baptized he said do these two things and you get the Holy Spirit no he didn't this is what we call when I said before this is what's exegetical repent each one of you be baptized repent which is you being baptized namely brings about the Holy Spirit these are all together he would not say repent but don't believe if repent and believe are two separate unrelated things he would not say be baptized if it has nothing to do with repentance or have anything to do with faith are you with me all of this goes together all of this goes together if you believe you can't believe in Christ without being repentant you can't get this stuff without being baptized what does Jesus do? John baptized you in water but what does Jesus do? baptized you in the Holy Spirit now is there a millisecond after what happens? I don't know the people that write the big books they'll say that maybe it works this way they'll give like a little timeline for it and even then they don't know we're just guessing but the funny thing is we'll find passages where he says you have to be baptized to be saved we'll find passages you have to repent to be saved we'll find passages you have to repent to be saved or passages you have to believe to be saved or to confess to be saved which is it? all of that I think that sometimes we get too busy holding stakes in our own beliefs and we begin missing each other because I'm so used to let's say faith alone or belief alone that if I hear something other than the word the word verbally stated belief or faith then my my intent is go up and I'm ready to fight but the person literally said the same thing now if we're talking about repent we're not talking about you have to stop sinning in order to be saved no then if you could stop sinning if you could do that then there would be no need for you to get saved actually this would be but you get my point no he's not saying to stop doing what you could never do in the first place without his help no he's not saying that the whole idea of sin bothers you the whole idea of sin bothers you as a matter of fact let me put another let me put another passage on here there's another passage I want to cover there it is wait a second I thought I put it up here and I did not I did not second Corinthians I want to put this passage up here as well for the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret without regret leading to salvation this sorrow this repentance brings about salvation faith brings about salvation are you with me so in many cases it might be the same it might be saying the same thing a different way are you with me now I want to play a clip I just saw this yesterday as a matter of fact I saw this I saw this thing yesterday that's okay well let me let me deal with this let me let me deal with this now I like the guy I really do I like I like this young fella he is free grace through and through but he says something I'm wondering is he I'm not I'm hmm now he disagrees with what I'm saying how do I know because in this video the thumbnail has a picture of me and he's kind of correcting he's kind of correcting me but in the end he says what I say but I want to play this and I want to deal with this as he goes and I want to see if you guys can pick up on one him leaning too much on the doctrine of free grace rather than the scriptures and I don't this isn't a put down but you can read the scriptures while leaning on your doctrine and all you see as you read the scriptures is your doctor are you with me it's like it's like someone back in the back in I don't know back in the 1920s or back in 1840s or whatever some some slave driver as he reads the Bible he's reading slavery into it right and we can take our positions in life and read into it we can take our political persuasions in life you find some liberal person today read the Bible they're going to read progressive stuff all in you find some conservative person read the Bible they're going to read every conservative thing they can and are you with me and so you're reading it but you're reading it through the lens of whatever your doctrine is and so as he's as he's reading like okay I see what you're saying no it's not you no it's not you know layman I happen to see layman because I just typed in my name one day and layman's got like 47 videos on me layman's got like 47 videos on me and I don't know why you do layman let me just say this layman stop doing videos on me on youtube shorts make just one big long video I'm not watching all 47 videos I might watch one video but so anyway I don't have a problem with that but it's like it's just don't do the shorts anyway no it's not you though it's not you it's uh I can't pronounce the guy's name on on orado I can't pronounce his name I can't pronounce his name but let's play the let's start playing the video and let you all look at it first and foremost it is imperative that we identify the audience being addressed the author is clearly speaking to the sons of god which is a title consistently ascribed to believers throughout the word of god Galatians chapter 3 verse 26 says for ye are all the children of god by faith in christ jesus of course john chapter 1 verse 12 says but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of god even to them that believe now he's reading out of he's starting off out of first john 3 so we'll go there uh and just a little bit of what we're going to do is read first john um chapter 1 2 and 3 they're not very long as a matter of fact a matter of fact if you read greek you start learning greek and you are going to spend a lot of time reading first john matter of fact john period john is the easiest to read really and so if yours if you if you learn greek in the past and you want to brush back up when you agree you're going to start reading john first second third john um uh regular big john not so much not so much revelation the reason is because he brings in some words that you haven't you haven't seen her before so anyway laura thank you for the super chat thank you thank you so he's in first john let's let's listen what he says and i want to see if you can if you can pick something out on his name jump down to verse 6 of first john chapter 3 the bible says whosoever abideth in him notice this sineth not whosoever sineth hath not seen him neither known him a dichotomy is introduced between one that sineth not and one that sineth no that's not the dichotomy that's presented there matter of fact so let's go to first john 3 and let's put it on the screen he said everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness and sin is lawlessness you know that he appeared in order to take away what what huh wait it says what i said earlier he appeared to take away sins and in him there is no sin now does that mean he's taking away all sin or the effect of sin it's really the effect of sin because still he has a problem with sin but no one no one who abides in him sins no one who sins has seen him or knows him the dichotomy isn't between the one that does sin and doesn't sin that's what the person does the dichotomy is the one who abides in him first the one who this other person so we got this one person who's abiding in him who oh by the way does not sin and then this other person who oh by the way does sin who doesn't know him but sins okay so let's put it on the screen now no one who abides the one that's by the way this is the one may known which is he is remaining in him the person that's remaining in him the one that's in him is not sinning and the one who is sinning this person is this is a present active participle so this person is in this lifestyle of sinning and this is a person who has not seen him so the contrast is the person that has that is with him and the one that has not that has not with him the one that has seen him the one that has not seen him that's the that's the contrast of dichotomy and then what do they do what they do is the one that's in him doesn't keep sinning the one that has not seen him and has not in him what does he do he sins thank you Alpha I appreciate that so let's go back to what he's saying it's a real big point off of that but again but if your focus is the Senneth not versus the Senneth here me using the King James version then you're going to start again you can kind of see him reading the scriptures through a free grace eyes through a free grace lens Paul speaks to this in detail in Romans chapter 7 notice the distinctions drawn verse 18 says for I know that in me that is don't miss this sin my what? flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me I find then a law that when I would do good evil is present with me for I delight in the law of God after the inward man notice that I'm getting there are some that believe this he may or may not but I think he does that is inwardly me I can't sin my flesh sins but that ain't me that's my flesh that seems to be where he's going and so if so he's done we've got a problem but I see another law in my members or in my body warring against the law of my mind bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members or in my body O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord so then with the mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin Paul differentiates between the body of this flesh and the born again spirit neat little graph and so here's a person and this person he's divided the person up it's like the good part of the person the bad part of the person that doesn't sin the bad part of the person that does sin well I don't think God makes such a distinction I don't believe God makes a distinction the outward man and the inward man the old man that which sins and that which cannot sin this dual nature of the believer is imperative to understand in order to rightly divide the word of truth especially the book of 1st John for this purpose the now y'all see what he's saying so if I sin if I CG Spider-Man if I come and slap you it ain't me it's not me it's this flesh that seems to be what he's getting at seems to be what he's getting at and I don't find a scriptural basis as a matter of fact I find punishment and consequences if you do that if I sin God's not saying hey that's not you because who's getting punished who are the consequences for who gets benefits and blessings for doing right and then get certain consequences for doing wrong this very whole person this very me all of me the son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin why because he is born of God so we're going to look at this in context we're going to look at this obviously in the language but does this mean that we cannot sin because if you take it to that extreme that we cannot sin I did not I vehemently disagree with that I know we can sin I know I can sin I can plan to sin I can make an appointment to sin should I would I so no no I'm sorry yeah it is it is kind of like that too legit law almost like the devil made me do a kind of defense it really is and that is too much to the extreme in other words that you place your faith in Christ you believe but then you do what you want to do then what was the purpose of the Holy Spirit being in us why did why does then God doesn't have a big problem with sin if God wants to eradicate sin I don't I can't I can't see that I can't see that my body is not born of God and therefore it serves the law of sin the new man the inward man the new creature is born of God and therefore it cannot sin if the lights in what the law of God let me answer this question someone says Corey why don't you ever pray in your video stream some well sometimes I do but why don't you ever pray in the chats what's your friend I do but it's really just for time's sake now as a matter of fact every visitor every person that comes on knows this that I pray before going on as well and so I don't want you to think that that because I've said this before let me just say this and I want to answer this question I don't know why I stopped the answer squads happen to see it but prayer to me is not an event are you with me that sounds weird Corey that sounds weird what do you mean prayer is not an event here's what I mean prayer is not now it's special it's wonderful but I don't make it out to be some sort of big monument okay let me get myself prepared let me myself ready let me go down to prayer let me get my if I'm wanting my prayer shawl on let me let me go pray no I'm already praying when I'm walking to the stove when I'm going to the backyard when I'm I am speaking it's not because what ends up happening is have you ever think about this let's say let's say let's say me and Larry are walking Larry Melvin hey Larry how you doing and I like what you said Larry says it's a lifestyle amen so let's say me and Larry are walking would it be odd how odd would it be Larry you and I are walking and every time I talk to you I call you by your name hey Larry Larry and you say hey you hungry I say yes Larry I'm hungry Larry want to be weird because it kind of seems like I left you and came back so I keep calling your name no no what I'm doing is I'm keeping the lines of communication open so I'm talking now are there times where I go even further and I might I get on my knees or I'm talking to you a lot longer well then amen yeah but I don't want to be some sort of special event to where I'm almost even nervous about it not quite sure what to say are you with me Tampa Supreme says this title is a false gospel what do you mean help me understand what is the fault see you guys put these things out there these words out there I have no idea what do you mean by that I'm willing to engage Tampa what do you mean by it's a false gospel the title is a false gospel what the the free grace part or the cheap grace and why did you put the cheap grace what's the what's the cheap I haven't seen anyone ask that question yet but why why is the cheap grace in that why cheap grace I want to get to the cheap grace part in a little bit but if that's what you're asking tell me tell me what you meant by that Mr. Supreme Tampa Supreme that is I just want to know by the way guys if you put comments like that it's hard to go anywhere with that because I can't I have no idea what you're talking about grace is free grace is free but you know what it better not be it better not be cheap it better not be cheap and that was and I'm gonna get to that in a second I'm gonna get to that in a second so let me let me let me let him finish he says something and I'm thinking well don't I say the same thing haven't I haven't I said the same thing again whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin every believer has these two natures the outward man the inward man the old man the new man the body of this death which is prone to sin and that which is born of God that cannot sin the flesh and the spirit and these two are contrary the one to the other my friend I have no idea what he means by by the part that we cannot sin I really don't have any coconuts in here now y'all coconuts in here I'm pretty listening the whole broadcast just falls apart coconuts in here okay coconut coconut just left I don't know how does she open the door this dog this dog has too much this dog has free grace this dog has free grace anyway but I don't know what he means by that we as believers have to make a choice on a daily basis either to walk in the spirit or to walk in the flesh do not be discouraged do not think do not give up do not quit walk in the spirit choose the spirit and he shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh so when he says that we need to make a choice to walk in the spirit to not sin any kind of almost eradicating his whole whole his whole argument I think so I think so he is referring to the new nature that cannot sin well here's what we know for a fact every man can sin but that that's the point we can sin we can sin tell tell me who in the tell me what person in the Bible can't sin other than Jesus Paul did Peter did Peter Peter gets rebuked for his sin so that's just the point and I think what we read these scriptures because our doctrine might be superimposed on the text as we're reading it now I want to point something out what is the one criteria the one thing that you must do in order to be saved we said believe we said repent we say be back we said all these different things right there's this one thing there's one thing there's one thing that must be let me just stop let me let me settle a beat Corey you beef with too many channels for reviews and subs okay then why do you keep coming back then first of all if you'd have been here sooner the man made a video about me some time ago I just saw it and I was just commenting on this topic this very topic that was coming up and I said well let me just I like the young fella so but sometimes folks just impugn your motors I don't know why but if you feel that way and you might be you know what you might be right you might be right because I still struggle with sin you might be right if I were you I would avoid I would avoid me that's what I would do if if that's what you think I would avoid me I would I would never come around look someone who's just in it for subs and views and this I just I just wouldn't be personally you know why because you know what else is free every other channel on YouTube I think so personally well why you say can I ask you a question tamper may I ask you a question how many of the other videos have you watched this is what I want to know I just want to know how many of well see it's hard to stay focused because I'm actually engaging with the chat this is what I like this is what I do differently than I think a lot of others do I want to engage with the chat as we go watch the other videos that deal with the stuff that have nothing to do with other people but again this stuff is out there and so we got to deal with it we got to deal with it because how did you come in you came in blasting free grace so sometimes you guys are funny yeah but what'd you say I need to do another you're right there we go you all should be settled down now y'all should be settled down now you should be good to go now anyway so there's one thing that is required I don't care if you are lordship salvation I don't care if you're free grace I don't care what your theological bent is if it's more towards Calvinism if it's more towards the new one provisionism if it's more towards if it if you are dispensational if you are covenantal doesn't matter there's one thing by the way again as I said earlier I would if I were you guys I wouldn't be any of those I wouldn't be dispensational I wouldn't be covenantal I wouldn't be Calvinist nor Armenian nor provisions I wouldn't be any of those things because you end up finding yourself beholden what you want to be what you want to be is what this passage says right here this is the one requirement that you have to do that you have to have in order to be saved this right here if you don't have this if you don't do this because do we have to do some work no you don't have to do any works but works will proceed you know what's required in order to be saved the greeting is in my own hand Paul if anyone does not love the Lord he is to be accursed if anyone does not love the Lord he is to be accursed let me just read it again if anyone does not love the Lord he is to be accursed if anyone does not love the Lord he is to be accursed do you love the Lord it's the question do you love the Lord If you love the Lord, let's go to 1 John chapter 1. Starting verse 6, if we say that we have fellowship with him and he had walked in darkness, we lie and do not practice sin. By the way, this word practice, we'll see this word all throughout the 1 John. This word practice is Puehumen or to do Pueh. You're going to see this word over and over and over. We do not practice the truth, but if we walk in the light as he himself is a light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus. His son cleans us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, if we say that as the brother said that we have no sin, what does he say? We are deceiving ourselves. We do have sin and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us and cleanse us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, and by the way, if we say that this is the Pueh perfect, active and negative. So this is kind of an ongoing sin. It's not just a past tense sin. Are you with me? So if we say that we have not been sinning, it's probably a little bit closer to the better way of putting it. We make him a liar and his words are not in us. In other words, we are sinning. Can't come back and say, well, no, he meant that we, if we haven't sinned in the past. No, he's talking about even now, my little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. I'm writing these things. And I may ha-mark, ha-mark that I tell you, which is in order that you do not sin. This is a subjunctive. I don't want you sin. I don't, that you may not sin. And a certain one, if anyone of you do sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ. Who does what? What did we talk about yesterday? He is making, he is making intercession for us. And he himself is the perpetuation of our sins. Uh-oh. I'm so, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, 1689. He's making a payment for our sins and not only ours only, but also everybody else's. I'll leave that alone, but I'll leave that alone. By this, we know that we have come to know him. How do we know that we have come to know him? How do we know that we do know him? Because remember what Jesus says in Matthew, he says, he's in all these things, but I never knew you. But how do you, how do you know that you know him? He says, by this, we know that we've come to know him if we are keeping his commandments. This word right here is Teromen, which is this is a present active participle. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Present active subject that we may be keeping his commandments. The one who says, I have come to know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar. And the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word in him, the love, uh-oh, the love, what we're supposed to do, required love, the love of God has truly been perfected. By this, we know that we are in him. The one who says he abides, the one who says he's remaining in him ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked that is Jesus. Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have heard from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard. To do what? What's this old commandment? On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is in darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling. But the one who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him. I am writing to you little children because your sins have been forgiven for my name's sake. He has an issue with sin still. I am writing you, Father, because you know him who has been from the beginning. I am writing you to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I am writing you children because you know the Father. I have written to you fathers because you know him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the Word of God abides in you and you have overcome evil one. Here we go. Do not love the world. Know the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all the things that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the boastful pride of life is not from the Father. You cannot say that you believe that you are believing him, that you believe God, that you have faith and you love the world. Those two cannot be. They can't hang out on the same street corner. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, but also it's lust. But the one who does the will of God lives forever. The one who is doing, here's that word again, poion, which is to poie to do, to make the one who is doing the will of God. So there in lies, once you have this change in you, there are going to be things that you are going to be doing. Children, it is the last hour and just you have heard the Antichrist come. Let me just drop that. I don't want to get caught up in the Antichrist talk because somebody in the chat might get caught up in there. So let's go down to 23. Whoever denies the son does not have a father. The one who confesses this homilical on which is or is confessing or acknowledging the son has the father also. As for you, let that abide in you, which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you and you will abide in the son and in the father, this is the promise which he himself made to us. The promise is what? Eternal life. These things I've written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you have received from him abides in you and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him. Now little children abide in him so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from his name. It is coming if you know that he is righteous and that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him. Who practices? What's the practices? Pasapoy and all those that are doing the righteousness. Those are the ones who are born. So who's born? Who has been born of God? Those that have been born of God do what? They are the ones that are doing or practicing righteousness. Are y'all following me? See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we would be called children of God and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us because it does not, it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know what when, I'm sorry, we know that when he appears he will be like, we will be like him because we will see him just as he is and everyone who has this hope fixed on him purifies himself just as he is pure. Here we go. Everyone who practices, what do you think this word practice is? Every, excuse me, everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness. What do y'all think this word for practice is here? The same word we, I said we're going to keep covering this word Poye or in this case Poyon. So to say everyone, all the ones Pasapoyon, the ones that are practicing righteousness, I mean practicing sin, also Poye practices lawlessness. And sin is, so if that's what you do, you keep on practicing it, you are not saved. You are not his. I don't care what sort of belief you said you have, if this is you, you keep practicing these things, you make it your aim, you make it your lifestyle. It's a present active participle. It's a state of continually doing these things. You have not believed. Okay, what you say? You know that he appeared in order to do what? Here's the point guys to take away sin and in him, there is no sin. No one of, now, does this mean just simply the effects of sin? No. Look what he's contrasting it with. The effects of sin, we get that point, but also the actual doing of sin, because he just got through talking about, stop doing, stop practicing these sins. I'm going to answer a question in a second, I'll answer a question in a second. You know that he appeared in order to do what? To take away sins. Now, so he takes away the sin and so what? So you want to keep on sinning? What does the Bible say? Shall we continue in sin? That grace or just because grace abounds? No, certainly not. No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has seen him or knows him. You cannot continue. And he's not talking about this other man sins, but that's not you. That's no, no. Who could you try that with? Well, it really wasn't me, Your Honor. Your Honor, Your Honor, I promise you, wasn't me, it was the old me, it was my sin nature. Okay, well, you and your sin nature got 20 years coming. It's not going to work out, is it? Verse seven, little children, make sure no one deceives you, the one who practices. That's how we know. He's talking about the actual deeds of it, the one who practices it. What's the word again? Puyon to the one that's doing or practicing righteousness is righteous just as he is righteous. The one who practices sin, Puyon, sin is of the devil for the devil has sin from the beginning. Now, the point is this guys, here's the point. Grace is free. There's no if ands, buts about it. How you became a believer started with him and then you made a move. He moved first, you moved second. And then he's moving permanently in your life because your heart has been changed. Your desire is to do for him. Your desire is him. You want to live for him. So the question is, what if you repent and fall back into sin? Well, two things. What do you mean by falling back into sin? Meaning that you've done some sins or let's say you've had some moments where now you're sinning. Well, the Bible doesn't say, hey, you got 12 sins before that's it. Doesn't say that. The Bible doesn't say you can only do this so many times or to this degree or you can do this sin 20 times. But if you do that one sin, you're in trouble. No, it doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. Remember what I said earlier. What you have, the Bible says for everyone to examine himself, you are commanded to examine yourself. I don't know if you are truly of the faith. You do. The Bible does not command us to judge you. I mean, not to judge you, but the Bible does not command you to prove your faith to us. It commands you. Let me just let me just use Ray. He commands Ray. I'm a rare you. You know what I don't know if you're a woman or a man. I'm going to assume you're a woman, but just so I don't get too messed up. Let me use monkey moves. The Bible has commanded monkey moves to examine himself. The Bible is not commanding monkey moves to prove to me that he say, but the Bible has commanded me to judge monkey moves. Are you with me? Those three things are true. I am to judge him. I am to hold him accountable, but he didn't have to prove anything to me, but he does have to examine himself, which we have all these different morning passages. So if your faith is the kind of faith that allows you to live how you want to live. If your faith is the kind of faith that says I don't care what Jesus, I know what he's done, but now it's my time. You don't have free grace. You have a cheap grace. You have a grace that doesn't mean anything. That's what I mean by cheap grace. If you can send with impunity, if you can send with disregard, not bothered, didn't hurt you, didn't mean anything to you. Oh, well, whatever I'm safe still. The Lord knows my heart. You don't have free grace. You have cheap grace. You have cheapened what the Lord has done for you. You have no desire to please him. Those of us that have been born of him want to, when we overcome sin, we want to overcome him and we want to live for him. We have a desire for our fellow man, but we want to please him. We live for him. We don't have a desire to walk in darkness. And it's not like sin is so strong that it holds us back. Let's just be honest. Tell the truth. Shame on devil. Most of us sin because we want to. Most of us sin because if I told you, how many of you, if I told you that if you prayed four times as often as you do now that that will stop you from sinning, most of us still wouldn't do that. Most of us still wouldn't do that. If we, if there was a formula for not sinning, read and pray for one hour a day, read for an hour, pray for an hour. And that was that I'm not saying it does. I'm just, I'm just throwing out a goofy formula. But if we found out that that was a way to do so, if we read for an hour every day and prayed for an hour every day and that would eliminate sin in our lives, we still wouldn't do it. We still wouldn't do it. And then we act like, well, I couldn't help but sin Lord. I could stop it. Stop. Now some of us would, I'm not saying none of us would, but some of us would do that. But God has not taken away the, the punishment for our sin. Now he does so eternally, but the consequences here are still here. You can be saved sin and get killed for it. You can be saved sin. And I don't know, get, catch a sickness for it. You can be saved, go out there and mess around with the wrong person, sexually and catch something. Oh yeah, you can. You can go out there and you can go out there and rob a rob a bank or rob a liquor store and go to jail or get shot. You can do, there are consequences to what you do and being saved does not invalidate that. Now, how straight are you supposed to walk? I can't judge that. Again, I'm not, I'm not called to count fruit, but I am called to, to say, Hey, listen guys, there's a standard and God has called us to that. You can't tell me you're in him and you can't do that. You're defeated. So yeah, you know, I'm going to sin. I'm going to sin versus how about saying I'm not going to sin with the, what's, what's the old saying? If you believe you, if you believe you can or believe you can't, you're probably right. If you, the point is, don't you believe that you can go without sinning? Okay, try it. Give it a shot. Give it a shot. Give it, give it the old college try. Well, how do you do so? Get closer to God. I just said something there. That is, I can't tell you how profound that is guys. Can't tell you how profound that is. If you just get closer to him, just get closer to him and then watch how often. Now, can I just be honest and then we'll go ahead and get up out of here. Sometimes they just say it ain't, it ain't really cool. It ain't really fun. Getting close to God. It's not really cool or fun. I don't, you know, getting close to God because then I can't go hang out with this girl. I can't go over here and get with this guy. I can't wear this, these tight pants or this dress that I wanted to wear. I can't watch what I wanted to watch because I'm hanging with him. Come on now. Let's, let's be honest. But how about we just do what he's laying aside every weight and sin that so easily entangles us. Just move closer to him. Move closer to him and then cause some of us, what it really is, we don't want to get rid of the desire to want to sin. We want to be able to have an excuse, a built in excuse. Lord, I just got weak for a moment. I got weak for a moment. Lord, you forgive me Lord, forgive me for giving my sins out. You know, I'll do better next time. We like, we like the ability to make an excuse for sin. But what if there was a way to get rid of the excuse for sin? We don't, we don't, we don't cause do you, does anybody believe this? Anybody believe it's possible to draw closer to him? Does anybody believe it's possible to draw closer to him? Now, if you don't believe it's possible to draw closer to him, I submit to you, you're not safe. And if you don't think that you should draw closer to him and you say that you got grace, you got cheat grace, you're not safe. You should at least want to. I know some guys that I, listen, I wanted to work out and just I didn't get stronger or I wanted to do this. It didn't work. I tried, it just didn't work out. That's different. That's different. But too many of us Christians, look for excuses. No, you're not blocking this channel. Wait a second. No, no, no, no, no, no, you're not blocking this channel. I'm going to leave you up there too to make sure that Jamie, you are not blocking this channel. If anybody blocks just me, if anybody blocks just me or you're not blocks, we are. I just haven't seen that. So why don't we do this? Why don't we do this? Let's, let's, let's give hours. By the way, what you could do though, some of y'all it just clicked in my mind. It just clicked in my mind. You all know I got like eight things going on one time. If you type in too fast because of slow motors on, it won't show. So that's why that it might have been that. So, so you can't be too excited to type because it won't show all of that. That happens sometimes. Someone, one of the moderators told me that one time before. So, Carol, who told you I'm closing? I'm, listen, I got, I got some coffee in my hand. All gone. I'm getting a second win. No, I'm kidding. I'm getting ready to go. I'm getting ready to go. But how about we do this? How about we do this? Free Grace's. Hyper Grace's. I just made that up. No, I didn't. Lordship salvation people, Hyper Lordship people, Calvinists, Methodists, Episcopat, Buddhists, Atheists, Church of God and Christ, Church of Christ, I'm not putting you on the same category. Church of Christ, scientists, whatever, Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hindus. Why don't we all do this one thing? Because it works for everybody, for every single group I just named. Why don't you make it a promise to move closer to Jesus? I promise you, if you move closer to Him, Mormons too, did I forget about the Mormons? Mormons too. Lord knows. Definitely Mormons. I'm kidding. Move closer to Him. Because us Christians who don't have a close proximity with Him, it's the same problem with the rest of the world. It's the issue of proximity. Do that. Love Him like you say you love Him. We don't have to worry about what sort of grace it is. It's good grace. Not that cheap grace. Amen.