 If a person wanted to be saved, if a person wants salvation without question, all they have to do is to place faith in Christ. In other words, the statement that we say faith alone is all that's required for salvation. Let's be clear. Faith alone is all that is required for salvation. But good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon. Hope you all are doing well. I wanted to cover something especially for a segment of the crowd that I agree with who I think sometimes they might let me put it this way. There is a tendency sometimes to overthink things, to overanalyze things to especially in this YouTube world where you'll see someone who will say something and they'll try to extract everything that isn't quite like what they say and kind of make it into be something that it's not. In other words, if you talk about faith alone, which you should, faith alone is what's required. Believe pistols, that belief, faith, trust, confidence in Christ, completely work on the cross. That is what gets us entrance into the kingdom. That's the key to salvation. But if the first time, for some people, not all, but if in the first time that you say anything that remotely seems as though you are talking about what works they might have to do, then you could find yourself labeled as someone who has a works-based salvation. Now, a gospel that is predicated upon keeping the law, such as what Paul talks about in Galatians, that's a different gospel. A gospel that says that you have to strive to do something to become safe, that there's step one, step two, step three, step four, and then believe, then you are a Christian. That's a different gospel. If the gospel states that you have to believe and then do this or that, that also is a different gospel. If all a person does is recognize their fallen state, in other words, confess their sins, if you acknowledge that you are, that you have sin, and that you need a Savior, and Jesus is that Savior, and you place faith, you trust, you have confidence in what he did on the cross. I think it's more than clear what the Bible says, and that is enough. That is enough. So now, why are we having this conversation in, Corey? If it's that obvious to you and probably, I wouldn't say it's not obvious to everyone. There are some people who vehemently disagree. There are some that believe you have to do this, this, this, and this. Well, I'll tell you why. There is this tension between what some would call a workspace salvation. There is people that have a workspace salvation. There are. But there are some people who we consider, or we might accuse them of having a workspace salvation, and they don't. For example, when the canon of the Bible was being accepted, there was one particular book that a lot of, I wouldn't say a lot of people, but a decent number of people in the early church fought to keep this particular book out. Anybody care to take a guess what book that was? There was a book that people fought. We have in our canon, part of our New Testament, that people fought to keep out because they thought it was heresy teaching a different Gospel. It's not, when we look at it, when we read it, when we review it, that particular book is not heretical. That book belongs, but people just kind of misunderstood what was being talked about, and you absolutely right, the book of James, the book of James. Well, why is, why was the book of James considered by some not worthy to be in? Well, it's because of something that James said, and we're gonna look at that, and guys, it's it's not, it's not going against what the scriptures are taking or what the scriptures are saying. Now, by the way, let me just say this before I continue. I'd be remiss if I don't say, hey, Dinah, welcome back. Now, you got the answer wrong, but that's okay though. I am so glad that you're back. Hope you're doing well, sister. So, but yeah, it's the book of James. It's the book of James because of what he talks about in relations to works. Now, we'll get to that in a second, but if we say that faith alone is required, we got a problem. We got a problem. Now, before I get to that, I did a video fairly, what, a couple days ago. I did a video a couple days ago, and it was about knowing that you're saved or how you know you're safe. I can't even remember what it was called. And I said, well, two things that you can look for to try to see if possibly you are safe. There's two things. They are, do you magnify Christ? And when I say magnify Christ, I mean publicly and the sin bother you. Well, one person in the comments asked, well, had a little bit of concern and asked the right way. Do you mean this? Do you mean that? And I want to say this is the guy that has the YouTube channel Good Hope. He's got another one. I think it's in a different language or something like that. He asked, the right way. I said, no, I'm not, I'm not, I don't want you to think, I didn't say it this way, but the one you think that I'm teaching some sort of works, works-based salvation. But there's another guy whose name I'm not going to mention. He's got a got a small channel, small following, which is not a problem. But the guy, I'm going to just say that his integrity is being called into question. And so, and the reason why I say that is because in looking at the video, the YouTube short, he is saying that I'm teaching a works-based salvation. Can I ask you guys a question? Can I ask you, and maybe I've said something unbeknownst to me that has given someone the the feeling that I teach that you have to do this, this, this, and this in order to be saved. But it's about 200 folks of you on here right now. There'll be more than will come. And then the more that we'll watch later. Have you ever seen me speak about a works-based salvation saying that you've got to do all these different things? I just just for the folks that actually watch the channel. And I even encourage the person, this particular guy to just listen. I think you've got me misunderstood. I understand your desire to root out a different gospel. But I think you got me all wrong. Well, he deleted my comment and blocked me. And then I went and responded again to another video that he put up on a different my own account. And he said he didn't block me. But yeah, you did because I can't see that on any one of my three accounts that I have one for me, one for the there's a smart Christian one. There's a smart Christian one that has me and my regular one. And it's not on there. And then that one that I put on there, that got blocked. I said, well, listen, I'm not going to because he asked me to come on to his discord. No, I'm not going to discord. I don't even know know anything about you. I don't know your name or your face, but you can come here and tell me why you think that I'm teaching a workspace salvation and expose me or come and get a better clarification. That that got blocked, too. So which is fine. But just so this person is watching, the people have said, no, no, no, never, no, I don't think I do. I think probably the last person that would I would think that would teach that would be me. Lord knows as much stuff as I've done as as much stuff as I've been in. No, I do not teach that. A that's what I'm talking about with Sean. I can't recall. No, I do not teach that. And so I believe that if a person has faith, I don't care if they have faith for one minute before they die or for a thousand if you got a thousand before you die, you're pretty old. But I believe that you all you have to do is have faith, trust. And here's what I mean by faith and trust. Guys, you ready? I wish I could pan this camera down or I wish I could. I ought to just put another camera up and just show from this angle, which I don't know what that would do just to have a. It's just me. I don't know why I need to have someone say, Corey, you ought to put extra cameras up different angles for what? It's just me and this screen. I don't. So I don't know. Maybe one day I'll start messing around with something and put it up, but I don't need an extra angle. But on this case, no, I don't have three channels, Lisa. I don't have three channels. I have what? Technically, your your your name, Lisa Atkins, is is actually a channel. Also, if you sign up with Google, then that's your channel. So but I don't have three channels. I just got me. I've got one for it says that little smart Christian at Gmail. That's another one. But if I click on it, it'll have my name that's going to pop up. And then my regular one, which that's when I look at all kind of sports stuff and goofy junk, you know, so no, I don't have three channels. Just just this one. But if I could, I would I would put a camera here so that you could I could. Well, you know what, never mind me getting what I was going to get into. You all got me off off what I was talking about. Anyway, but here's the question. I would say that a person who wants to place their faith in Christ, you have to do one thing. And this is why I would say I would rather I would like to have the camera to show even more. So if I say this is my example, that I have faith in this chair alone, that's all I believe it. I'm so tired of this burden that I'm carrying. If only I can just find some place to sit down and rest my legs and take a load off. If only I can find what what do you know? Here's a chair. I believe that chair can hold me. I believe that chair can sustain me. That chair is built just right. I believe I believe I almost want to get my of my black Baptist shouting voice, hooping voice. I believe that if I sit in this chair, it will hold me and I can go to Hooping and so forth. But anyway, but if I never sit if I never sit in this chair, then I have not exhibited any sort of faith in the chair. I've stated that I believe kind of intellectually that I that that the chair will sustain me. But that's not the kind of faith that the Bible is talking about. OK, or if I say I really believe the chair can sustain me and then I duct take the chair down, I put some cables hanging from the ceiling to make sure that it holds me up. I put some braces in place so the chair would move. Am I am I and then I sit in it. Have I exhibited faith in that chair? No, I haven't. I've done some other things to make sure the chair can hold me. Are you all with me? Now, true faith, true faith is me sitting in this chair, not grabbing a hold of the table, just in case a chair fails, not sitting in the chair and then bracing my feet and always on the lookout, making sure is this chair going to fall. That's not true faith at all. True faith is me sitting down in this chair and relaxing, chilling, as we used to say. That's true faith. I can move and everything I could. If you all want on camera, if I want on camera, I could spin around in this chair, pick my feet up and never have a second thought as to whether this chair can sustain me. I've got complete and utmost confidence. And you know how I demonstrated that I've got complete and utmost confidence? Can someone in the chat please tell me how can I or how can even you identify that I have complete faith, faith alone in this chair? How would you know that I truly believe in this chair? What would you what would be the thing that you could point to to say that Corey Miner has faith in this chair? I don't think it'd be that difficult. So just someone tell me what would be the key to let you know? Well, there it is, Lisa, by sitting in it, by sitting in it. Now, is my faith in the chair works based? Is my faith in the chair by me sitting in it? Is that workspace? No, it's not. No, no, it's not. My faith in the chair is demonstrated by what I did. And isn't that what the Bible says? How Abraham, his faith was counted? How do I put this? We are not saved by works, but we are saved to do some works. In other words, when we are saved, we will work something. Now, we don't we don't try to measure who's got the most works. We don't try to figure out who's got the most fruits, the best fruit, who's the best at this, the best at that. We don't do that. It's not that. Well, you know what? This guy over here seems this guy knows the Hebrew, the Greek, the Aramaic, this guy knows all about church history. This guy, I've seen him on the street corner, witnessing. This guy seems like he's got some serious faith because look at his fruit. Whereas this person over here is so quiet and reserved. They don't have as much faith. Well, no, we can't do that. We don't get to where we start comparing fruit. OK, we don't get to where we decide that, you know what? This person's fruit is better than that person's fruit. So that person is more safe. No, that's not how that's not how it works at all. God is not looking for the top 10 fruit producers on the planet to become Christian. Right? That's not that's what God is doing. OK, my faith, my trust, the fact that I recognize that I'm a rotten person. I'm a rotten person. And if you give me a minute, give me some time, give me a room, give me give me a blank slate, I'll prove it. I will prove to you how rotten a person I am. But I trust that Jesus is not in that what he did, that his his shed blood on the cross was enough that it covered my sins. That was what the day of atonement was all about, by the way, guys. And it wasn't so much in the blood of the animals that were shed. It was trusting that God said that's what was needed. Trusting that that's what God required and that God accepted. The same thing with us. So it's this trust in God that does so. Now, the question is the Bible tells us to examine ourselves to see if we have Christ. Now, if we say we have faith, how do we know? Let me ask you all a question. And if you all think I'm going down a rocky road, let me ask you all this question. Does everyone that say they have faith, are they do they actually have faith? Does every person that you can think of that says that they have faith in Christ? Do they actually have faith in Christ? Well, the obvious answer is going to be no, obviously, not everyone or else. Jesus would not have said not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord. And then he'll deal. What will he say? I never knew you. I depart from me. Not that I used to know you, but I never knew you. Paul says, let every man examine himself. To see if he has Christ. He also even talks about when we're taking communion, that to make sure that you don't take it in an unworthy manner. How do we know that our faith is that we do have faith? How do we know that we do have faith? OK, someone says to slow the chats down. Don't need to slow the chats down. So y'all give me a second. Let me let me close something. Yeah, everyone's saying slow the chats down. So if I can, I got to move stuff to slow the chats down. Hold on one second, guys. There it is. All right, y'all, y'all let me know if if that's slow enough or if if I need to slow them down. I don't know why the way you guys see it, even though stuff is moving here fast. I did go there and see one time that how fast it actually does move over there. And so I'm almost of the opinion that I don't get all the the messages on this software because over here it is it is zooming even even slow. It's still kind of moving a little too fast for me. So anyway, but I guess they know it's me, old old man with old glasses. And so if it goes too fast, then we'll be able to see that much. But I guess it's cool, though, because if it's slow and you can't you can only type every 30 seconds or 60 seconds, this case, 30 seconds. That means you got to listen to me because we don't do let's just be honest, guys. As Christians, we don't do a good job. So now I'm going to make you guys do some thinking. This is the thinking channel. You I can be wrong. I can be right. You can be wrong. You can be right, but I want us thinking. So how does a person who says they have faith? How does that person know that they do have faith? Now we're going to look at some scriptures and I want to show you why I say those two things, why I believe it is necessary that a person testifies or witnesses or magnifies the same thing, same word. Why you have to do that? Why that is indication, an indication of your salvation and why why if why sin bothering you or not bothering you is also indication. OK, now let's go to what Jesus said. Jesus said, where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Oh, there it is. I'm sorry. I brought up John 15, 26. Jesus is telling the disciples, this course is him getting ready to leave. And he's telling them, the Holy Spirit is going to come in them. And what is the Holy Spirit going to do when the Holy Spirit comes in them and in us as well? He says in John 15, 26, but what when the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about who, about me. And you also will bear witness, he says, because you have been with me from the beginning. And we find out later that other believers are also going to bear witness and testify of Jesus. Now, when I say that you will do so publicly, I do not mean that you're going to get in the street corner that you're going to take every other day and go out witnessing. That is not what I mean. I mean that at some point in time in your walk, you are going to magnify Christ. You're going to testify of him. It might be something as simple as the Lord has been so good to me. I love Jesus. I love you. Something's going to come out to where you are going to verify who has saved you. The why? Because that's what the Holy Spirit wants to do. And so if the Holy Spirit is in you, then that's what's going to come out. Are you with me? That part should be clear. The Bible knows of no Christian who at some point in time, not again, it may not be as much as the next person, but at some point in time, if once every 12 years, I don't know, or once every 12 minutes or every 12 hours, 12 days. At some point in time, the witness of Christ is going to come out of you. Maybe it's just with your kids, with your spouse, but it's not going to be just by you huddle up in the corner by yourself. Well, then, huh? So when Paul says to examine yourself to make sure there's got to be something I got to look to see what all going to do. I really have faith. Have I really trusted him? Do I really? Because if I've got it, if I if he resides in me, something about him is going to come out. Are you all with me? I might say you have to do anything to get saved. We're talking about after you are saved, the things that can verify whether you are, if there are certain things that are missing. The next thing, if sin in your life, I'm not saying sin will be absent from your life. No, no, no, we know that. I'm saying when you do sin, will it bother you? If you can sin without impunity, we got now it might be that you're just still working your way through. I've seen some guys who are believers, they're new in the faith, and they're just there. They haven't hit their stride yet. They're babes. They're still trying to get this thing going right. I know some people who love the Lord, who still, you know, what a curse word to might come out. Sometimes it's accession. So. But we are told that by the result of the spirit in them, we will know them. Now, notice I use that phrase because the phrase typically that we look at is the we will know them by their fruit. This word, carpac, we're going to look at it in a second. Carpac means fruit. That's how we take it, but it really means the result of. Now, remember when John was baptizing and here comes those those good, cuddly, lovable, warm, welcoming Pharisees? And he said, you bunny rabbits and cute puppies and kittens. No, he said, you brutal vipers, you brutal vipers. What works of repentance do you have? In other words, what are you all here for? How do we know that you're here for the right reason? Why is that important? Well, because at some point in time, it's going to be evident. It's going to be evident. And so that's why I say if a person is a believer, he has a repentant heart. The Bible knows of no Christian that has not repented. What do I mean by repent or repentant or repentance? It doesn't mean that a person has stopped sin. No, no, as long as you're alive, there's going to be some sin in you. Now, hopefully, hopefully, nowhere near as much as it used to be. OK, if he's working in you, he should be working something that's sent out. You should you should not be doing the exact same sins 20 years into your walk with Christ. As you were before, and as a matter of fact, there should be a market decrease in the level of sin in you. Now, how do we measure that? We don't know. There's there's there's no real way to measure it. You can see it. And I guess those who are close to you can see some of it. Right. If if you've been saved, if you say you've been saved for 20 years and you going, you want to go to the club and sleep with this guy, sleep with that gal, sleep with gal and girl. I mean, girl and guy, you don't mind, you know, let's let's go ahead. Let's let's go and own cordae, sell us some drugs over here. Then let's let's go out. Let's go rob a bank. Why not? What the heck? Everything about you is sinful. And there's nothing about it. There's no remorse that you're not broken because of your sin. If you are not broken because of your sin, let's forget it. Let's listen. Let me just say this. If you think I'm teaching a workspace relation, I mean salvation, because I'm saying you ought to be broken over your sin, then we got a problem. If anybody should be broken and bothered by sin, it should be Christian. Not saying that you're going to all of a sudden be sinless, but you got mad at somebody and after OK, fine, in the heat of the moment, I get it. But later on, you went back and it didn't bother you. You cussed this person out about or or or the sin of other people when you see other because guess what, guys, if you enjoy watching somebody get beat up on YouTube, I got to I question your heart. I questioned. Yeah, you say you said you got saved. You said you believed Jesus. Well, you know what? Even the demons believe that Jesus died on the cross. The only fools around here running around saying that Jesus didn't are atheists and Muslims. Yeah, they're the ones that believe that Jesus. Well, I'll put a fast one and that wasn't really Jesus. OK, fine, but as believers, if sin doesn't bother you, if sin doesn't break you, I'm questioning your salvation. Did you really have faith? A pair of lips to say anything so you can say, yeah, I love Jesus. I love I love Jesus with all my man. I love Jesus while you're firing up a light of a fat one, right? Why are you about to run some lines? Some of you, I know what running lines are. Some of you are I love Jesus. I love you. You got a Jesus's dope shirt. Why are you going and buy some condoms to go over that girl's house? Yeah. So. Save it for somebody ain't been there. I listen all the crap, all the junk, all the lies, all the excuses, all the crap, the BS, whatever you want to call it. I've been through it, lived it and hung up with guys. These were the guys that I witnessed to. These were the guys that I mentored. These are the guys that I labored with who were struggling, who maybe someone else didn't want to. And I'm going to be real and honest with you. Listen, you still looking at porn and you don't want to stop it. You think it's OK? You still lying? You still fighting? You still fussing? You still cussing? You still stealing and cheating? I'm a wonder. I'm going to wonder. Now, let's deal with this issue of repenting. Repenting is not a changing of your actions. It's a changing of your thinking. Are you with me? It's a it literally means to change your thinking. Meta, the Greek word with or could be after the pen and point, what case it's in, and Noe, which is to know. So it says after thinking. What after thinking what now? We don't know the order, how this goes, but I believe that a person who is repenting think about this. How can a person place their faith in Christ for salvation if they don't care about their sin? So I think after the heart as the heart is regenerated, that happens. When the heart is regenerated, like, wow, by the way, by the way, it is interesting that the Hebrew word for heart, love is also the same for mine and same thing for cardiac in Greek also refers to not only just the heart, but also the mind, the well-being so to the suitcase, soul and so forth. So it's all interrelated. So I can say my mind and my heart, the Bible kind of use it together. And so if I'm going to say, I trust you, Lord, for my salvation, then don't that doesn't that necessarily mean if I'm trusting you for my salvation that I believe I need salvation and the only way to believe I need salvation is to believe that I have sin. I don't want anymore. If there's another way of looking at y'all, show me if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But the door is open. Tell me, tell me where I'm wrong. While you're doing so, I want to go ahead and look at some things that Jesus said as well as the other scripture said. Jesus says this is for a believer. Matter of fact, way to say before I do it, let's go to let's go to this issue of repenting so you all can see that the Bible knows no of no such Christian who has who does not have a repentant heart. So let's go to acts to matter of fact. I know that the famous passage that I've covered, I won't cover it right now, but acts to 38 where it says that repent every every one of you and be baptized for the mission of sin. And you shall be baptized every one of you and you shall receive the Holy Spirit. And I said that's the exegetical chai in place where it's all encompassing. It's not three different acts that are happening. There are one explained in different ways, ep exegetically. So repent, that's this heart changing. And as that does, you are baptized. OK, that is you being baptized because, again, there's no such thing as a Christian who's not repentant. And Paul tells us that there's no such thing as a Christian who hasn't been baptized. So if you are a believer, the moment you are a believer, you are you are repentant, your heart is repentant and you've been baptized. But now, if we're thinking that repentance to say to repent is is kind of is kind of works baseless, put up some passages. So acts 2620, let me let me go to 19. Paul is saying, therefore, O King of Gryppa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea and also to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God. Look what it says, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. Wait a minute. Why would he say they should be performing deeds in keeping with their repentance? Why? Because if your mind has changed, at some point in time, your actions are going to show for as well. OK, I'm saying that with this broken heart that you get as a result of your heart being regenerated as a result of, as John, as Jesus said in John 3, being this Genethianothem, which being born from above. As a result of that, that changes. That he does the work first and then you just say, you know what? I'm broken. I'm bad. I'm horrible. And then you make the decision. And so it would just defy that again, it just could be my little brain not having the understanding, but it would defy my logic, understanding how could a person place faith in Christ and not have a repentant mind, repentant heart. How how could that be? I'm I'm I'm at a loss. And we're going to get this word in a second. Another passage. Also in the acts acts 319, he says, repent therefore and turn back that your sins may be blotted out. So there is a requirement for sin. I mean, for repenting in order for your sin to be blotted out. But it's not a it's not an action. It's not a work again. Remember this, guys, I'm not saying that it's a work that you have to do. It's what happens as a result of you being a believer. Are you with me now? We can get back and forth into who's doing the heavy lifting you or the Lord. I believe it's the Lord that's doing the heavy lifting. I believe it's him in the in the in the in the changing of your heart, the regeneration. As you just said, this connect, they know them. I believe it's that. And then you make then you place faith in Christ. And but only after he does that, we won't deal with that right now. But that's how I look at it. Now, there's a passage that we look at. Don't want to pull it up. There's a no no confessing isn't a work. That's not what they mean by by work. The word for for working is play that that's never cognizable under your mind being renewed. That is so so no. So when someone says, well, wait a second, well, isn't professing faith in Christ? Isn't that a work? No, no, no, no, no, no. That's that that goes against what the even what the word means or is intended to mean. So no, that's not a work. And if you think that you have to work for it, then you have missed the boat. It's like you were this close to get to to getting on the plane and you missed it. You missed it because you kept reading over the manual trying to parse the words. I wonder if they mean my departure is at four thirty. I wonder, do you mean four forty five? So. Now, Paul says, you know, before I get to Paul, let's go to James, the book that almost there was this fight to get out of it. James says, y'all don't want to talk about James two eighteen. He says, but someone will say you have faith and I have works. James says, show me your works, show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my work, my faith by my works. You believe that is that that God is one. You do well, even the demons believe in shutter. Do you want to be shown? You foolish person that faith apart from works is dead. I mean, it's useless. Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar. So but there's something I want to I want to show you. Let's see. OK, here it is. Look, look on the screen. At the end of verse 18, he says, show me your works apart from your faith. And look what James points right here. Now, I want now, listen, I want you guys to really see this. I want you all to see what he's saying. And I'm going to put this on the screen. I want you to see the words that that he uses. He says, show me your faith apart from your works. And then look what he says, and I will show you my faith. Now, he says by my work. But now look over here. The word by is actually it's not really it's not necessarily by. It is the word act. The word act is a preposition, and it means out of or from. Did you hear what I said? The word act is the word out of or from. So James is showing I will show you my faith out of or from my works. In other words, what I do is the result of my faith. The actions that come about as a result of my faith, those are the words. The things I do in the Lord are only because of my faith. Now, a famous passage that we bring up oftentimes. We don't think about this is in Galatians 5.22 and put on the screen. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, again, such things. There are or there is no law. Now, this word here fruit is the Greek word. The Greek word Karpos. OK, you see it. Y'all see that this word right here highlighted in green on the right. The inside is the word Karpos. We say fruit, but what the word actually means is the word result of now. Let me go ahead and highlight this so you all can see the word Karpos. And let's go to the B. Dagg the word Karpos and then let's open it. Let's get a further clarification. Let's make this a bit bigger so you all can see. And let's see the word Karpos. Now, do y'all see this word in the bottom left hand corner? It is the product or outcome of something. Are you with me? So the fruit of the spirit is the outcome or the result of having the spirit. Now, those things will show up in an action in a work. Are you with me? And so James point and this have a church reconcile this James point is that if I've got faith, the outcome, the result is work some sort of work. Now, it's not the exact same work as this guy. It's not the same work as that person, but it's something when someone says let's just pretend it's time for me to go ahead. Someone said, listen, I'll give you a billion dollars if you renounce Christ. Now, I don't think anyone's gonna do that, but someone says I'll give you a billion dollars or a million dollars like what's the guy? The ball head guy in the million dollars and all that was enough. I forgot that. What's his name in the little awesome powers? What's the mean guy? I forget the guy's name. Anyway, if someone offered you a million dollars, a billion dollars to renounce Christ, you wouldn't do it because I've got faith. I believe what he Dr. Evil. I believe what he's told me. I believe in Christ. I believe him. How does the old song say I listen? I know some of y'all ain't ain't been through ain't been at these churches, but how do we say you can't make me doubt him? I know too much about him. Guys, I stand on that. If you if you don't know anything about me, I stand on you can't make me doubt him. In other words, you can't change my faith. You can't make me doubt him. I know too much about it because of what he's done. And so because of that, I do what I do. I just can't I really just can't believe this guy had the audacity to make me make two videos. As a matter of fact, saying that I'm teaching a workspace salvation. I want to you ever just want to just grab somebody by the neck and you just want to hug him. I want to strangle. I want to strangle. I don't want to hug him. I just want to hug him to you aren't watching. You aren't watching. But how do I know since since about 60% of the people in America profess to be a Christian? Yeah, that Eddie, that's who it is. That's who it is. Eddie and he has deleted my comments and so forth, which is fine. Okay, fine. And I asked him to come on board and have a conversation to see where I'm talking about where I'm coming from. If I believe this, I point out the other the other the good hope brother. He asked. He said, Hey, I just want to make sure we the other guy could have been so he didn't. And then I told him to brother and I said it in a nice question. I should have the screen. I did a screenshot of the other ones. I should have the screenshot of the first was saying, listen, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm not I'm I'm not teaching a works. I'm saying for someone who wants to know how does a person know that they are a believer? How does a person know that they have faith? Jesus makes a statement. Jesus makes a statement. Would y'all like to hear what Jesus states about us? Supposedly having faith at least what our jobs are our the work that we should do. Let's put on the screen. He says in Matthew 5 verse 13. He says you are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? Look what Jesus says. He said it is no longer good for anything or good for nothing except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by people politically says you are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a stand and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others about to see heresy alert heresy alert. We're going to see something that some people may call heresy, but this is coming out of Jesus mouth. Look what he says. He says, let your light shine before others that they may see what what's this word here? What is this word here? Uh oh, somebody stopped the presses. What is this work here? The Greek word is air guy. The English word is works. Let someone see your good works and give and then they will give God glory or give glory to your father who's in heaven. Our works important. Sure, you better believe it. If. If you as a Christian have no works, you are a useless Christian. Let me let me just say it again and I don't know who I'm talking about and if I happen to be bowling down your alley. Sorry, but if you as a Christian have no works whatsoever, you are a useless Christian. You're taking up good Godly space. Get somewhere and say that move out the side because we are called to do something. Again, it's not the same for everybody. One person's working may be just going and praying for someone helping someone else. Another person working might be evangelizing. Another's might be just, you know what? Let me fill out. Thank you cars for someone coming to church. Let me just make gift best. Let me go and just sit with the poor the dying. Let me do that. So. Our works are poor again. We are saved not by works, but we are saved in order to do work to do work of who to do the work of the Lord for the benefit of bringing folks into the kingdom to share. What do you do? Why do you do what you do Corey? Why do you do what you do John? Why do you do Bob? Neland, why do you do what you do? KL? Why do you do what you do? Mike caps? Why do you do what you do? I need to know Wendy, why chest champ Brian? Why do you? Why do you do what you do? It has to be. It has to be your love of the Lord which is produced by your faith in the Lord. Joe, why do you do what you do Joe? I kind of just feel like it. Now there are some people who are in the ministry because they see it as a means of gain. Yeah, but then the rest of us will do because I just want to let folks know how good God is, how much I love him. I want to glorify him. Well, you know what you're doing? You are literally testifying of him. You are magnifying him, you're witnessing of him. I didn't say you got to go out and ask somebody on the street, hey, if you die today, where would you spend eternity? Now you can do that and we ought to be doing more of that. But I'm saying you have to, if he's in you, if the Holy Spirit wants to magnify Jesus and you're not magnifying Jesus, well then what's the problem? Is it the problem with you or the Holy Spirit? Well, it ain't the Holy Spirit who may not be in you. Again, I'm not saying that you got to go out and do it, get a box, stand on the street corner, stand up high and that's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying go do some street preaching. That's not what I'm saying. Faith alone saves you. Without question, faith alone saves you. But if all you have is faith and there's no work that comes after that, then now we've got a question, did you have faith? Now, the tricky part is somebody might have faith and they may not start exhibiting certain works or certain fruit for some time, which is why we wanna be careful about not being fruit inspectors. And so Mary gets saved today. She becomes a believer today. What's the date? Thursday. Thursday. And she doesn't show, she ain't shown not one strand of one piece of fruit for the next four years, but then in four years she just takes off. Okay, amen. Amen. Or she's shown a few little things. In other words, maybe she crawled a little bit longer, but maybe Wendy, when she became a believer, it was like she was walking already. We develop at different stages. And so that part, I can't understate that. I can't overstate that anymore. We develop at different stages and so we will all bear some fruit, some more than others. Matter of fact, there are some times where I might bear more fruit than let's say chess champ today, but then next month, chess champ has got like bushels and bushes of fruit and I got one rotten apple coming out. It works that way. They're ups and downs to our life, to our walks, okay? And the reason being, I think the reason why God even allows us to have these ups and downs, these bad, this and that is because he used that also for us to help someone else who's having these same issues or who's been through something. Somebody had a drug problem. They'd been delivered from that. Matter of fact, they were even a Christian while they were struggling with drugs and they were able to help some other person come to Christ through that. They testified what God has done for them. Happens all the time. So yeah, the final analysis has to be and if anyone ever says that I am teaching and the reason why it bothered me for someone to say that I'm teaching this kind of workspace salvation because that's what Paul says is a different gospel which is no gospel. And so I take exception to when someone says that I'm teaching some heretical gospel. Oh no, and that's why I invited the person to come on. Yeah, you said the name of the language. I didn't wanna say his name because I really didn't want anyone to even go check out what he said. I didn't wanna give too much. And the only reason I just, you know, YouTube just put something on your screen. I turned on, I went to YouTube and look at something. Oh, I was going to check out and see what they talked about the cults. That's what it was. And I saw pictures of my face. Just adorable. Can you imagine waking up at five in the morning? Can you imagine waking up at five in the morning with my cults official phone? And seeing this adorable face, just harmless, adorable face. I was like, what in the world is, okay, I know it was something bad. And he said I was bewitching people or something like that. I said, okay, fine. All right, let me just click on it and see what he's talking about. And I said, well, no, brother, listen, I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but like, are you trying to pick a fight with it? First of all, I beat you up. No, I'm kidding, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding, I ain't gonna beat you up. I might. No, I'm kidding, I'm not gonna beat you up. I don't even wanna fight you. I don't wanna fight you. I do not wanna, if we're saying the same thing and I'm trying to get you to see that I'm not saying what the opposite of what you're saying. So I don't know what the point is that he was trying to get unless he was just trying to, hey, let me just go ahead and hit this guy and wrangle him, but I don't know what the deal was. And then to delete my comments and then I invite you on, okay, fine, whatever. All right, okay. I love you, brother. I don't know what your name is. I don't know what your angle is. I don't know what you're about. I don't know, I don't know, but I'm not your enemy. I'm not fighting you. Even to say, I don't, I think he said, I doubt that he's a brother. Okay, that's fine. We'll let daddy decide if I'm a brother or not. If I'm, well, no, we'll let daddy decide if I am one of his children. So, but I want you all to be clear that I do not hold to anything other than faith alone for salvation. If all you got to give is your belief in Christ, then that's all that's required. That's all you need. So if you think that there's anything else you need to do to become safe, then you are mistaken and that's a different gospel. Faith is what's required in Christ. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Amen.