back to indexEV Training Class #5
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Okay, what Steve Lawson likes to say, this is where you go from taking someone to the 00:00:05.680 |
terminal and instructing them to get onto the airplane. 00:00:08.760 |
So it's either you're here, the airplane's about to take off, or you're there. 00:00:14.040 |
He said don't leave them in between thinking that the plane is still there when it's not. 00:00:20.420 |
So in the introduction, Roman numeral one, don't feel bad for asking comprehension questions. 00:00:27.520 |
So remember, you don't want to sit there and use them as a wall that you're just talking 00:00:34.080 |
You want to know truly if they understand what you're saying, and you want to be able 00:00:42.780 |
So if you use, we said this in the past, but try not to use the yes or no questions. 00:00:47.520 |
Ask them questions that will force them to display or expose their heart a little bit. 00:00:53.600 |
So you can ask, do you understand that, and then repeat what you said. 00:00:58.760 |
So let's say you said you were talking about a topic for one minute, and at the end of 00:01:02.600 |
it, even though they were nodding along, if you asked, hey, do you have questions about 00:01:06.840 |
this, or do you understand what I was saying, you'd be surprised. 00:01:10.880 |
They might have been nodding the whole time, and at the end they'd be like, I have no idea 00:01:19.240 |
And they'll start saying, oh, you know, when you said this, how does this work? 00:01:23.200 |
And then what happens is you begin to see where they actually are, rather than just 00:01:28.600 |
So A, B, and C were the first three points of the Gospel. 00:01:37.220 |
He is sinless and requires perfect obedience. 00:01:41.240 |
Somewhere down the line, and you ask, do you understand this? 00:01:44.840 |
Do you have any objection to the fact that God created you? 00:01:51.000 |
Or is there something about that that you don't agree? 00:01:55.720 |
So you kind of go down these lists of questions. 00:01:59.000 |
Let it be you're sinful, unable to save yourself, and you'll pay the penalty for your sin. 00:02:06.960 |
And as you go through, you'll see that even though they conceded to some things, all of 00:02:12.200 |
a sudden you find them back, like three steps back. 00:02:15.480 |
And you're like, hey, but didn't you say this? 00:02:18.600 |
And then they're going to have to say, oh yeah, I did say that. 00:02:23.800 |
So what you're doing is you're trying to put the line here, and you're trying to move them 00:02:29.360 |
And when they get to the line, you're trying to move them forward and get them to that 00:02:33.440 |
So when you get to that line, reemphasize that line. 00:02:38.900 |
So that if they drew back a few steps, then you say, hey, but didn't you say this? 00:02:44.880 |
And you say, OK, now we can move forward again. 00:02:48.880 |
Letter C, Christ, the sinless Son of God, paid sin's penalty for all who repent. 00:02:54.920 |
Christ, the sinless Son of God, paid sin's penalty for all who repent. 00:03:00.840 |
Do you understand that simply knowing these facts cannot save you? 00:03:04.880 |
Obviously, this is really tough to get to in what we did yesterday. 00:03:11.680 |
Again, the evangelizing that's with the strangers, and you don't know how much time you have. 00:03:20.280 |
This whole thing is actually most beneficial for what I would think to be relational evangelism. 00:03:26.680 |
But here, you can actually get to those points, though, with people. 00:03:30.400 |
You can leave and leave them, even though maybe even the entire gospel might not have 00:03:35.200 |
been fully displayed, and you feel uncomfortable about that. 00:03:38.200 |
You can still leave them in crossroad questions. 00:03:42.080 |
Do you understand that simply knowing these facts cannot save you? 00:03:45.000 |
Do you understand that if you do not believe this, what the Bible says is that you are 00:03:51.440 |
And you have to say that very carefully and very gently and with care. 00:03:57.600 |
But if you do, this is where you ought to leave them. 00:04:01.720 |
If this is what you want, because people are nice people. 00:04:06.800 |
Most people you come across are people fearers, and so you can actually use some of that to 00:04:16.540 |
If this is truly what you want, though, then you need to repent of your sins. 00:04:22.400 |
And while you don't want to leave them in that place of people fear, you want to bring 00:04:25.400 |
them and draw them to a place where they fear God alone. 00:04:29.120 |
It's still, when you think about being wise and shrewd, you want to use shrewdness in 00:04:36.120 |
Use whatever capability you have, not to manipulate them, but to draw them to the truth. 00:04:44.200 |
That's a little bit tricky, what I just said, so be careful with what I just said. 00:04:54.120 |
I'll field some questions after this section. 00:05:03.120 |
Repentance involves confession of sins, and then repentance results in forgiveness. 00:05:10.120 |
Okay, Marsha, can you read for us 1 John 1.9? 00:05:31.260 |
If we confess, then He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from 00:05:38.160 |
Many people we come across will concede to some type of brokenness. 00:05:42.760 |
And if you can draw them to an understanding of sin, you can say, you can actually repent 00:05:52.220 |
And many times we feel afraid to get to that point, but that simple offer, people will 00:06:03.080 |
And so if you give them an opportunity, it could kind of come out in a favorable response. 00:06:12.240 |
Is it important that it's a confession of sin, not sins, but sinful? 00:06:26.240 |
So going back to point 2 of the Gospel in humanity, biblical anthropology would state, 00:06:53.520 |
at this point, this is all assuming the previous points. 00:07:03.720 |
So with the understanding of trying to get people, everyone feels like they're sinful 00:07:11.560 |
And so trying to get them to understand, hey, it's not that you lie, it's that you are a 00:07:19.720 |
So getting them to that point will have already required you to have presented God's holy 00:07:25.280 |
It will already have required for you to show them you're so much worse than you actually 00:07:41.640 |
That's why this is really difficult in a cold evangelism setting. 00:07:46.940 |
So you have to make the call about whether in a cold evangelism setting you would still 00:07:53.080 |
say this is enough to give them opportunity to repent of something. 00:08:00.080 |
Because in a perfect world, you want them to have complete understanding before you 00:08:06.200 |
But sometimes I will go to the repentance portion, and then as they're laying down their 00:08:12.480 |
guard and saying I want to repent and confess over my sin, I'll take them back to a previous 00:08:19.080 |
I don't know how to explain it other than as you do this more and more, I think you 00:08:26.240 |
I mean, you guys probably evangelized way more than I did, I think. 00:08:32.360 |
I mean, I'm 15 years into Christianity, which is more than I realize. 00:08:38.480 |
When I say it out loud, I'm like, "Oh, that's longer than I thought." 00:08:40.960 |
I still feel like, in some ways, I still feel like a young Christian. 00:08:46.480 |
But yeah, you just have to kind of, it's case by case. 00:08:55.040 |
That's why evangelism class is a little strange. 00:08:59.760 |
You're taking someone linearly through this thing that's nowhere near linear. 00:09:07.640 |
It's like trying to think how you would raise a kid. 00:09:16.820 |
C.G., can you read for us Acts 8.22, and then we'll go back to Carmen for the next one? 00:09:54.120 |
This is a passage that I went back and forth in a lot in my previous years. 00:10:01.520 |
Because I got this, like, "Man, I grew up in such a nominal Christian setting that I 00:10:11.560 |
felt like the requirement for Christianity, you know, the count the cost portion, was 00:10:16.280 |
so astronomical that I really got that feeling of who then could be saved. 00:10:24.400 |
But then, in the midst of that, I think I really did forget the simplicity of it. 00:10:31.840 |
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes Him, and believes Him 00:10:39.200 |
who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed on in death 00:10:46.880 |
You don't want to make people run through hoops that you have created for them. 00:10:52.560 |
And because of my faithlessness to a kind of a degree, we might look and say, like, 00:11:02.680 |
But honestly, we have to kind of recheck it sometimes and really think, "Hey, is this 00:11:08.480 |
an opportunity where I could just say this passage?" 00:11:12.800 |
"Hey, if you're in some kind of brokenness here, but it says here, if you hear His word, 00:11:18.080 |
and if you believe in Him, then judgment is gone." 00:11:23.120 |
You can become a saved person for all of eternity, like in two minutes. 00:11:35.320 |
But I think we swing enough on the cautious side for me to be able to say confidently 00:11:42.040 |
to you guys, "Don't forget the simplicity of the Gospel." 00:11:50.120 |
"Turn your heart from all that dishonors God. 00:12:04.880 |
Although that is very, very much involved in it. 00:12:07.920 |
Actually, I like using the word sorry for people because repentants, they're like, "What's 00:12:15.840 |
They say, "Have you ever been sorry about something you did?" 00:12:22.680 |
And explain to me what that sorrow looked like. 00:12:26.120 |
And so they'll say, "Oh yeah, there's this time I did this, and then, oh man, I felt 00:12:40.720 |
I'm like, dude, I told the person I'll never do this again. 00:12:54.640 |
Ask good questions to help them draw understanding. 00:13:25.000 |
In good inductive study, what you want to do is ask the negative. 00:13:39.040 |
It's like, "Seek the Lord while he may be found." 00:13:41.080 |
That kind of gives us an air of like, "Oh, it's on me to go and seek him. 00:13:47.000 |
But actually what he's trying to say is like, "He won't be found for long." 00:13:57.240 |
"If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and 00:14:11.280 |
These are all opportunities to display the free gift of the gospel. 00:14:18.320 |
Because it says in Romans 6.23, "For the wicked sin is death, but the free gift of God is 00:14:25.040 |
As much as we're saying, "Count the cost, deny yourself, take up your cross." 00:14:29.520 |
I would say, always emphasize the "follow me" portion more than the "deny yourself and 00:14:35.840 |
The "follow me" portion is going to cause the "deny yourself, take up the cross" portion. 00:14:40.960 |
If we say, "You've got to give up everything and then here's Jesus." 00:14:50.800 |
And so when they look to their lives, all of a sudden, Philippians 3.7-11 happens, right? 00:14:55.840 |
They say, "Man, I count all things rubbish compared to the surpassing worth of knowing 00:15:00.880 |
All of a sudden, it's someone who says, "I found the pearl of great price." 00:15:04.320 |
Which is a story of the entrance into the kingdom, right? 00:15:10.640 |
The person who is able to see something of such great value that they would sell everything 00:15:16.120 |
If we're preaching, sell everything that you have. 00:15:23.840 |
And we would have to say, "Man, what kind of Christianity do I live if I'm presenting 00:15:32.880 |
But this "count the cost" portion is very important. 00:15:42.840 |
[Luke 14, "Now great ministers, you're going along with them and you say that thanks to 00:15:48.560 |
me, if anyone comes to me and does not believe in his Father and Mother and lies to him, 00:15:54.560 |
But whoever does not believe in Christ, he cannot be my disclaimer. 00:15:58.560 |
Whoever does not believe in his own past and comes after me, he shall not be my disclaimer. 00:16:06.560 |
And if one of you then wants to build a tower, but not in this system, and calculates the 00:16:15.560 |
With all this, this "count the cost" is so important. 00:16:18.560 |
If you display that to them, you have to remind them that as they go, that there is a great 00:16:26.560 |
And fleshing out the cost, there's so many facets to it. 00:16:32.560 |
You will have to display a God-centered living and all of that. 00:16:36.560 |
Next one, "Believe in Christ, follow him as Lord and Savior. 00:16:40.560 |
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." 00:16:47.560 |
"It is taking God at his word and obeying him." 00:16:50.560 |
Repentant faith is not merely a decision to trust Christ for eternal life, but a wholesale 00:16:56.560 |
forsaking everything else we trust and a turning to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 00:17:01.560 |
"Faith is not a simple recognizing certain facts or exercising mere mental assent. 00:17:06.560 |
This is more than just understanding the facts and assenting to the truth. 00:17:15.560 |
So, you want to be able to kind of take them through this. 00:17:20.560 |
"It is a conviction of the truth that responds in or manifests itself in obedience." 00:17:51.560 |
"For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus than to trust and obey." 00:17:54.560 |
Really, if you simplify the Christian life, I think it is trust and obey. 00:18:07.560 |
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus is the reason in your heart that God has raised 00:18:11.560 |
you from the dead to be with you today, so with your heart confess with your mouth the 00:18:15.560 |
Lord Jesus is the reason in your heart that God has raised you from the dead to be with 00:18:18.560 |
you today, so with your heart confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus is the reason in 00:18:20.560 |
your heart that God has raised you from the dead to be with you today, so with your heart 00:18:21.560 |
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus is the reason in your heart that God has raised 00:18:22.560 |
you from the dead to be with you today, so with your heart confess with your mouth the 00:18:23.560 |
Okay, great. Oh, Ephesians 2. Let's finish that up. 00:18:32.720 |
Oops, sorry. I hate doing that with Bible passages. Sorry about that. 00:18:44.000 |
Okay, so that belief is as simple as these things say, you know. Obviously it 00:18:51.240 |
requires a lot of thought, but man, it's pretty incredible how, you know, 00:18:58.960 |
John 3:16 when it says, "For God so loved the world that whoever believes in Him," 00:19:03.480 |
like we get confused by our theology sometimes and we say like, "How does 00:19:07.640 |
election and God, you know, His effectual calling like affect this?" You know, but the 00:19:14.520 |
Bible is, passage right there, it's clear, "Whoever believes in Him," you know. You 00:19:19.280 |
don't have to present like, "If you are elect, then you know, like the 00:19:24.680 |
opportunity is before you today." In our mind we might be thinking, "But if they're 00:19:29.160 |
not a regenerate person, then can they really accept?" Like honestly, you can't see 00:19:33.800 |
that. And that's not, those passages aren't meant to cause us hesitance. 00:19:39.480 |
Actually, many of the passages on election is meant to be the believers 00:19:43.560 |
comfort. So when we go evangelize and we have those theologies kind of 00:19:48.720 |
creating questions where they ought not to be, you know, maybe you should be more 00:19:54.200 |
familiar with these passages that tell you, "Hey, this is a free gift of 00:19:58.920 |
salvation. Hey, whoever believes in Christ will come to be saved." That 00:20:04.160 |
gives you the wings and the freedom. You're not an Arminian at that point, okay? 00:20:07.760 |
Like at that point, like it's, you're a Christian, you're a child of God, 00:20:12.400 |
you're a believer who is obedient to God's call to go and present a gospel 00:20:15.800 |
that says, "Come all you who are weary." Right? Anyone who wants to buy this milk 00:20:20.680 |
and this wine, come, it's free for you. Like that's our message. That's 00:20:25.880 |
why our feet are beautiful, you know, even though they're torn up. Okay, so 00:20:32.680 |
appealing to the unbelievers will directly. This is, okay, this is important. 00:20:37.200 |
So this is what you want to do. You want to go directly to the unbelievers will 00:20:41.400 |
and appeal to it. So don't appeal to their desired perception of 00:20:47.640 |
themselves. Don't appeal to how they've been presenting themselves. Like try to 00:20:53.040 |
go and dig in and now at this point you've heard so much about this person, 00:20:57.240 |
right? You know a lot more about what makes them tick. You want to go directly 00:21:02.280 |
to their will. So if you look at this, if you look at the, "Who is God? He is 00:21:06.240 |
Creator and owns everything. He is perfectly holy. He requires perfect 00:21:09.000 |
obedience. Humanity is guilty. Everyone has broken God's law. The penalty for 00:21:13.560 |
sin is eternal death and separation. Good works or intentions cannot save you." And 00:21:17.600 |
then, "Christ the Savior. Jesus came to earth as both God and sinless man. He 00:21:22.280 |
came to show God's love by dying on the cross to pay the penalty for sin. Jesus 00:21:26.600 |
rose from the grave and is alive today." If you sit there and you say, "Do you 00:21:30.480 |
believe this?" And they go, "Yeah." They're not a Christian, right? You actually have to 00:21:35.520 |
take them through the repentance, the considering, and then the belief, right? So 00:21:41.040 |
you must repent and believe. A) You can say this. Like if they say that they want 00:21:45.160 |
to do it, don't get the false assurance of like, "Oh sweet, there's their believer." 00:21:51.320 |
You know? You have to say like, you have to turn away from all that dishonors God. 00:21:56.320 |
Like will you do that? If they say no, then you're like, then like you haven't 00:22:01.440 |
seen it. You haven't seen the full picture of all these things. Now they can 00:22:07.880 |
say like, "Oh but like so I can't ever sin again? I can't like ever struggle again?" 00:22:11.760 |
Like no, that's not what we're saying. But right now, are you ready to 00:22:15.960 |
surrender everything and turn away from everything that you used to live for? 00:22:19.200 |
Because that's what's required to follow Christ, right? So it's, I don't know, you 00:22:26.360 |
know, it's kind of like when you get married and what is that thing? If you 00:22:29.680 |
get divorced and you have the thing where that tells you where money goes 00:22:35.480 |
and stuff? Prenup. It's like a prenup. It's like, wait, like so do you or do you 00:22:42.680 |
not want to give your life to God? Right now though, don't worry about the 00:22:47.920 |
future. Like where are you? And let's go from there, you know? So from there you 00:22:54.840 |
can kind of begin to describe what the Christian walk would actually look like 00:22:57.680 |
and entail. In the letter B, believe in Christ as Lord and Savior. And you can 00:23:04.640 |
ask that. Do you believe? You've understood now what Lord is and you've 00:23:09.720 |
understood now what Savior is. Do you believe that He is indeed that? Do you 00:23:15.040 |
believe that He is actually Lord? You cannot make Him Lord, but right now what 00:23:20.200 |
we're asking is for you to surrender before the Lord. Do you get all that? 00:23:25.560 |
So clarifying questions. Letter C. And then, hey, will you repent and believe in 00:23:31.280 |
Christ? So if they feel like they're kind of rolling, keep it rolling. Like sometimes 00:23:42.640 |
there might be times where it's beneficial to say like, hey, let's 00:23:46.880 |
talk again next week after you think about certain things. But sometimes it's 00:23:50.480 |
like just help them. Help them go, you know? It will make it easier in 00:23:58.280 |
the beginning. Ask, beg, command, persuade. Oh, so if it feels like they're 00:24:08.440 |
walking with you in this, like so they say like, oh yeah, yeah, like I think I 00:24:15.040 |
understand who God is. I think I understand that I'm a sinner before Him 00:24:19.240 |
and that, oh, Jesus came to die on the cross. And I think sometimes our 00:24:25.680 |
hesitance and saying like, do you really get it? You know, that'll like cause us to 00:24:31.800 |
stop. But keep trying to push them across those lines, right? So you 00:24:36.160 |
turn and like say, hey, like today then, if you're saying you believe that, 00:24:41.080 |
I don't believe that you believe, don't say this out loud, right? But in my mind I'm 00:24:45.320 |
thinking, I don't believe that you believe that until there's a response. If 00:24:49.640 |
there's no response to it, then there is no actual belief in it, right? And so I'll 00:24:54.360 |
ask the question, are you ready then to, if you say you believe these things, to 00:24:57.600 |
turn from your sin and to abandon everything for it? And you're like, I'm 00:25:02.680 |
not ready. Then I say, then you don't understand it, you know? You're not, you're 00:25:07.560 |
not, your belief is not real. Because belief is not an understanding of 00:25:12.600 |
conceptual facts that I've kind of pointed out. And you feel even some layer 00:25:16.200 |
of remorse inside of you, that's not belief. You know, belief will cause you, 00:25:21.120 |
like if you, if you're presented with something of such great enormous 00:25:25.600 |
magnitude and it's offered to you as a free gift, like there is nobody that 00:25:30.880 |
would not accept it. So there is some kind of obstacle here that's stopping 00:25:36.320 |
you from taking it, right? And so like these, these, like walking them down 00:25:42.880 |
these things, will you turn from your sin? Honestly at that point they should be, 00:25:48.840 |
like they should be able to, you know? So, you know, it was really cool. Yesterday one 00:25:56.040 |
of our college staff messaged the college, college staff group and they're 00:26:00.320 |
like, oh man, one of our students just like repented over their sin and they 00:26:04.600 |
became a believer, you know? Lord and Savior for the first time. And we're all 00:26:08.280 |
like, like crying. I'm so happy. And so, you know, like, like I know that she had 00:26:16.800 |
been kind of taking the student down for a while and some of our other students 00:26:20.040 |
and staffers have been taking this student for a while. It's Beverly by the 00:26:23.680 |
way. But, and you know, she, she understood, you know? And it took so long. But 00:26:31.840 |
constant crossroads was presented to her. Like we're making it very clear where you 00:26:35.840 |
stand. You are not a believer, you know? And like even in her little group, they 00:26:42.040 |
would all treat her as that, you know? Like not very nicely, you know? But it was 00:26:46.720 |
constantly that was presented that you got to turn from your sin. Like, like no, 00:26:50.280 |
you're not one of us. And then she considered, considered, thought through it 00:26:55.600 |
all and then, you know, she was asked like, are you ready to believe again? And 00:27:01.280 |
she did, you know, on Thursday. So it's cool. Like you're trying to move them 00:27:07.160 |
across this line, you know? So does that make sense? 00:27:12.400 |
To this, to confession, repentance, receive God's forgiveness, receive His 00:27:27.880 |
grace. I think, I think a lot of Christian churches nowadays are so good at 00:27:37.640 |
presenting points one, two, and three without helping people into an actual 00:27:43.160 |
thing. And so that's why it has caused the church to create many nominal 00:27:47.800 |
Christians. That's why baptism has been a very watered-down and diluted principle 00:27:53.480 |
or ordinance. And then I also think that's why people resort to quick fixes, 00:27:58.800 |
altar calls, raise your hand, come up, pray the prayer, because it gives some kind of 00:28:05.400 |
weird confidence. But really to help someone see like this is what it's going 00:28:09.240 |
to look like, like you have to receive it. That's why I like when we say then this 00:28:14.160 |
next part of ask, beg, command, persuade, you're doing everything possible for 00:28:19.840 |
them to receive this gospel message, like truly. That's, that's, that's, this is 00:28:24.360 |
our end goal here. Like we want to really get people, like here, we've been talking 00:28:29.200 |
about all these things, but until you get to this fourth principle, like you 00:28:35.080 |
leave them like on that fence, right? And so you have churches, you have pews filled 00:28:41.800 |
with people in the middle ground, like getting convicted. I'm not sure if I'm a 00:28:46.480 |
believer, but just because they're like playing the game, it fools them into 00:28:50.680 |
thinking, but maybe I'm okay. We need to be very clear like where this line is. 00:28:55.560 |
And you have to, until you help them across this line, like you have to be 00:29:00.480 |
very clear about that. You are not yet a believer. You have to, you have to turn 00:29:04.600 |
from your sin, you know. Okay, you can read these next three passages on your own. 00:29:13.240 |
Now here's some questions that might be helpful. Earlier you told me your hope of 00:29:17.280 |
eternal life was in the good work you do. Hey, are you ready now or do you want to 00:29:21.040 |
trust that God, trust God and believe in Christ? Another one, your faith was in 00:29:25.960 |
yourself, but the Bible says that for you to be saved, you must place your faith in 00:29:28.800 |
Jesus Christ as Lord. Will you repent of that and believe? So you're hearkening 00:29:32.760 |
back to something that they've already stated, right? You've said this, so this, 00:29:37.680 |
right? Like it's a, it's persuasion at its best. You know, it's like we've 00:29:44.720 |
already gotten here, so the next logical conclusion is here. Otherwise this thing, 00:29:49.440 |
you haven't even gotten there, you know. That's what Paul does in a lot of his 00:29:53.480 |
epistles. He says, here you have all these things, therefore this is how you ought 00:29:57.300 |
to look, this is how you ought to live, you know. It's like, oh yeah. So that's what 00:30:01.900 |
you're trying to do with people. Do you understand what Jesus has done to save 00:30:05.600 |
you? Would you like to repent and follow Jesus? So warning, the sinner's prayer, you 00:30:10.200 |
can go ahead and read through this on your own, but let me just point you to a 00:30:15.400 |
few things. Oh, what happened here? Understand that the act of prayer does 00:30:25.840 |
not save. Understand that the act of prayer does not save. So people are saved 00:30:32.600 |
without praying, like the thief on the cross, and people pray and are not saved. 00:30:36.360 |
Prayer is not the switch that activates salvation. All people are saved 00:30:41.640 |
completely independent of a sinner's prayer. There is no precedent for a 00:30:45.040 |
sinner's prayer in the Bible. It is an invention of man. This is not to say 00:30:48.760 |
sinners should not pray, but we are not saved by a scripted sinner's prayer. We 00:30:53.060 |
must not lead people to believe simply uttering a prayer secure salvation. There 00:30:56.920 |
are some who offer the sinner's prayer on a piece of paper and they sign and 00:30:59.920 |
date the paper after saying it. It's dangerous, but repentance will, this is 00:31:04.880 |
Roman numeral two, express itself in prayer. Huge difference. So people have 00:31:12.440 |
taken point two and then created point one as a result of that. They've 00:31:16.200 |
created sinner's prayer as a result of some kind of truth, but remember, 00:31:21.720 |
B flows out of A. B does not make A. Does that make sense? 00:31:26.360 |
Did I just do something weird there? A relationship with Christ has begun, but 00:31:31.520 |
salvation occurs the moment someone turns from his or her sin and places 00:31:35.200 |
their hope for salvation in Christ. This is based solely upon the empowering work 00:31:38.640 |
of the Holy Spirit and it is based upon Christ's finished work. A repentant person 00:31:42.760 |
must understand that the basis for salvation is repentant faith in Christ. 00:31:46.800 |
Repentant faith will communicate to God in prayer. There's a clear prayer of 00:31:52.560 |
repentance. I like, I really like having this one in my mind. I think it shows 00:31:57.120 |
such a clear picture. Luke 18 13, "Be merciful to me a sinner." Ultimately 00:32:02.880 |
that's what you want to see in someone in a nutshell. Jesus's comment in verse 00:32:08.160 |
14 reveals that he was saved. Total abandonment of any works contrast to the 00:32:13.200 |
Pharisee and crying out for God's mercy will bring salvation. Conclusion. 00:32:19.800 |
Repent, which is turning from sin to God and have faith in 00:32:26.840 |
Jesus Christ. Present the two together. Continual confessing or agony over sin 00:32:33.000 |
without faith will lead to sorrow and mere legalistic resolutions. Faith 00:32:37.160 |
without confession is unfounded optimism that leads to self-deception. J. I. Packer 00:32:42.640 |
says, "Mere credence without trusting and mere remorse without turning do not save." 00:32:47.120 |
That would be worldly sorrow and not godly sorrow. Do not be juked. Do not be 00:32:51.740 |
fooled by worldly sorrow. It is important to prompt the repentant person to tell 00:32:56.240 |
God all they have learned. Let them use their own words. So it's helpful. First 00:33:01.720 |
quarter I took someone through like walking down the steps and helping them 00:33:06.960 |
like if you believe this like you can we pray together and ask them to pray and 00:33:11.840 |
I said can I pray after and then listening to how they pray will even 00:33:16.880 |
help you see do they understand it's pretty cool but when you hear it like 00:33:21.840 |
you want to sob like when you hear the real prayer you want to man there's 00:33:26.840 |
nothing like it those are the times when I personally as a pastor in ministry it 00:33:31.240 |
makes everything worth it okay well obviously we're not gonna do this so 00:33:38.040 |
we'll give I wanted to do this with everybody so we'll do the activity next 00:33:41.720 |
time but we're gonna do a different activity does any does anyone know what 00:33:45.320 |
the order salutus is okay so this is called the order of salvation this is in 00:33:53.720 |
Latin so I'm going to oh I guess we can't keep recording we have to try to 00:34:01.960 |
place this in order okay so what do you guys think comes first in this list 00:34:09.360 |
a different kind of quiz you can't get adopted into your call right regeneration 00:34:37.920 |
I'll just go through it just see if you're right we'll talk about that okay 00:34:55.960 |
so oh all right these are easy right predestined before the before the 00:35:05.080 |
creation of the world Ephesians chapter 1 we have election also there that these 00:35:10.120 |
happen concurrently when does the calling occur there's two two 00:35:16.840 |
possibilities either from the moment you're born or sometime before you 00:35:23.000 |
become a believer it doesn't happen before you're you're born though okay 00:35:27.760 |
there's no calling okay and then there's regeneration so Karen you asked a really 00:35:33.040 |
good question don't you repent and then you're regenerated but can someone repent 00:35:37.480 |
without being regenerated can someone see their sin and cry out for God 00:35:42.640 |
without regeneration this is like really let's like play with this idea what do 00:35:59.920 |
this is I don't know so you would think maybe call okay cool yeah so the reason 00:36:26.840 |
why this is really hard is because one two three four five this all happens in 00:36:31.240 |
an sometimes in an instant so even though we're putting it linearly here 00:36:36.720 |
it's just it happens but regeneration would still probably precede faith and 00:36:41.800 |
repentance the reason for that is because this idea of effectual calling 00:36:45.480 |
that's that right there effectual calling when God calls he needs to he 00:36:51.120 |
needs he's calling someone but that person needs to have ears to hear and 00:36:56.720 |
eyes to see before they can do anything right so in Ephesians 2 when it's an 00:37:02.400 |
Ephesians 2 chapter 1 when it says you were dead in your trespasses and sins 00:37:05.840 |
that you want once you once walked you know you were you were living in 00:37:09.400 |
accordance to not all the world only but under its influence under its power 00:37:14.280 |
under everything right and so then is there any ability for you to choose God 00:37:20.200 |
there is it there is there any ability for you to to even cry out for a savior 00:37:25.000 |
there is it right there might be something that echoes it or shadows it 00:37:29.800 |
or is a shell of it but what we're doing that's what we're doing as an unbeliever 00:37:33.840 |
every day of our lives we're looking for a savior somewhere you know and so when 00:37:38.960 |
God calls then he needs to actually bring you alive in order to receive him 00:37:43.400 |
you know it's a it's very interesting it actually is important without it being 00:37:49.880 |
very it doesn't change much about how we live though 00:38:16.560 |
right we have we have we're saying we're trying to get them here because we can't 00:38:21.520 |
do anything about there right so actually we can't do any of that so 00:38:26.840 |
we're we're hoping that God is using his words through us to call right that's 00:38:32.200 |
that's our hope now this right here the reason why I bring it in today is 00:38:35.880 |
because when we go out to evangelize this isn't the the our this isn't our 00:38:43.520 |
anchoring truth this is our what do you call it it's not the truth that's going 00:38:50.440 |
to cause us to move it's the truth that is going to cause us to persevere that's 00:38:55.000 |
the way I'd like to say it okay so what I mean by that is like we're not gonna 00:38:58.320 |
constantly think like ooh but you know like like how effective is our 00:39:09.320 |
evangelism like what's what is the efficacy in this if if we're not if we 00:39:15.360 |
can't see certain things right but for us we're saying that all we're trying to 00:39:20.760 |
do is we're trying to be in the process and being used by God to to do this and 00:39:25.640 |
then when we're trying to think about are they actually a believer we want to 00:39:29.240 |
see like do we see some of these things happening in them I don't know if that 00:39:35.680 |
was clear so let's use the word salvation and say this is salvation this 00:40:00.080 |
whole thing like you a lot of people might even think here up to here at 00:40:03.280 |
least right and this is like you know a promise but actually the whole thing is 00:40:07.960 |
on that's why you know when we think of justification sanctification 00:40:10.920 |
glorification many times we think of it very linearly God doesn't see it as such 00:40:15.320 |
how God sees it all what's the passage but he says you have been sanctified 00:40:20.520 |
right and that like throws you for a loop you're like what I'm being 00:40:25.560 |
sanctified right he says you have been sanctified it is a complete done deal 00:40:30.440 |
sometimes he'll say you have been glorified Ephesians chapter 2 is weird 00:40:34.760 |
right because it says you were Daniel trespasses but God being rich in mercy 00:40:38.320 |
because and he says you have been raised with him right and you have been seated 00:40:43.520 |
with him up like you're like isn't that past tense that's a past perfect so it 00:40:52.000 |
happened but I'm here and Jesus is up there you know it's kind of weird but 00:40:57.920 |
it's because of the way God sees things versus the way we see things so we're 00:41:02.600 |
trying to linearly put something into into play to see how kind of it works 00:41:07.120 |
logically speaking but what we're saying is God when he looks at it he it's 00:41:13.000 |
because of the gravity of the truthfulness of this character okay so 00:41:17.000 |
when he says I will save you he sees everything instantaneously as if it was 00:41:21.840 |
like done now right because it's that like it's as good as done that's a word 00:41:26.040 |
that's a phrase we use right like even though like it's as good as yours even 00:41:31.120 |
though I still have it I'm saying I'll give it to you later but you just 00:41:34.120 |
consider it yours because like that's how good my word is here like for God 00:41:37.880 |
it's all of that right so so the questions are really good but this is 00:41:47.960 |
where I don't want us to be so so what I'm saying is like the reason why I 00:41:53.360 |
point this out is because it is important but it doesn't we shouldn't be 00:41:57.400 |
trying to think of this in the evangelistic sense but what with the 00:42:02.000 |
reason I bring this up is because we this is what we're trying to hit I we 00:42:05.920 |
want to see regeneration in them okay but we do have this past Friday we had a 00:42:10.120 |
meeting after Bible study and what I was saying was hey there are people who like 00:42:14.160 |
we're trying to get them to have faith and to repent right like we want to see 00:42:18.080 |
that we can't tell them to regenerate though right but we can say like hey can 00:42:22.080 |
you repent of your sin we can say that and so when you look at this it's it's 00:42:29.040 |
really cool because I think there is a kind of sorry just five more minutes 00:42:35.680 |
guys if you need to leave you can leave but I think there is a really secure 00:42:42.160 |
comforting type of thought when you realize that maybe they are in the 00:42:48.120 |
process of regeneration sometimes you get confused right you want to draw the 00:42:52.120 |
line so clear that you're standing here and you're saying until they have faith 00:42:56.600 |
and repent that they are not a believer but I think there's a lot of comfort to 00:43:00.360 |
be had when you see someone changing and even though you're not sure and you 00:43:04.560 |
shouldn't say they're a believer you can take take like man are they I might see 00:43:08.680 |
regeneration right now I think that's appropriate to maybe like at least think 00:43:13.400 |
about it sometimes that's what gives me that final like when you're exhausted 00:43:17.680 |
in ministry you know we're all exhausted in ministry when you're exhausted 00:43:21.600 |
hopefully when we're exhausted in ministry that's like that final push 00:43:27.120 |
sometimes that makes me like go again and I go again there's like I'm like I 00:43:32.080 |
feel like I'm seeing something here you know like and I'll pray God like like is 00:43:38.160 |
that is that are you regenerating them and and so I'll go and I like you know 00:43:44.080 |
try to try to get them draw them back to the line and see sometimes you'll get to 00:43:49.240 |
that line again and they just completely reject it you know like sometimes like 00:43:53.720 |
they'll crumble at that line you know and they'll move over and that's really 00:43:59.040 |
cool and so and maybe this was a bad idea I didn't want to derail this but 00:44:05.360 |
just just to kind of follow through God opens your eyes to see to give you 00:44:10.760 |
repentance or a faith right and so you need faith even before you repent that 00:44:16.760 |
makes sense right you can't repent unless you have faith if you try to 00:44:21.120 |
repent in order to receive faith that's does that make sense no I think 50% 00:44:28.880 |
hundred viewers and shake their head okay you need to have faith in order to 00:44:34.200 |
repent because think about the words that happen at repentance dear God would 00:44:40.640 |
you forgive me of my sin there is nothing good in me I need you doesn't 00:44:46.480 |
that sound like faith that sounds like faith right faith actually leads into 00:44:50.800 |
repentance and then after repentance justification we always think because of 00:44:57.540 |
the Reformation during the time of Martin Luther this became the crown jewel 00:45:01.200 |
of the Reformation justification and people say this is this is salvation and 00:45:05.160 |
you would say no this is salvation if you say this is salvation man that is a 00:45:11.240 |
one-dimensional salvation there's so much it's so much more than that there 00:45:15.680 |
are so many more jewels like a diamond that'd be like a one-sided diamond right 00:45:19.360 |
you want to see all the facets of it it shines like justification is great but I 00:45:25.560 |
personally agree with the Puritans who believe that adoption is the crown jewel 00:45:29.800 |
of salvation because if you think about everything you're all now we're we're 00:45:34.440 |
not talking about evangelism anymore okay you know what I'm gonna stop I'm 00:45:42.240 |
justification is paperwork in heaven and justification is legal it says it 00:45:58.240 |
declares your edges and that's that's awesome that's like someone being in the 00:46:03.680 |
court and then the judge saying you have to be right here to absolve of your of 00:46:07.640 |
your crimes but you'll cry there right especially if like the destination of 00:46:12.880 |
punishment was like a great punishment so if you can free from that but but 00:46:17.200 |
that's it that's a moment in time where it's been like like in heaven says that 00:46:22.000 |
you're declared righteous this is how God sees you know it's been nailed to 00:46:25.720 |
the cross is one more but adoption is Wow like adoption you know I love 00:46:32.320 |
talking about adoption because this is song that's saved into the kingdom of 00:46:36.320 |
God and this is not your daily living this is your identity and no one's 00:46:40.440 |
sister and my lives with the identity of just like constantly thinking like I've 00:46:46.840 |
been absolved of all my sin and like the paperwork we actually like our daily 00:46:51.240 |
living so that criminal was like not freed and becomes like all kinds from 00:46:55.760 |
the record the way they live now is different you know and that's more like 00:46:59.800 |
adoption and adoption describes is so great because justification will get 00:47:04.760 |
into the kingdom of God but adoption gets you into the courtroom of his house 00:47:09.160 |
you know it's like man I would love to get in as a beggar like the prodigal 00:47:15.160 |
son says right so I just want to be a slave a servant in your household oh 00:47:19.800 |
please you know I would beg for that but for him to say like now I call my son 00:47:26.360 |
that's that's like tear-jerking you know oh man anyway and then 00:47:33.640 |
sanctification obviously is the movement into that adoption says like this is 00:47:38.360 |
this is who you are this is your identity sanctification will get to that 00:47:42.080 |
no person you know we can't go into all of that so okay so something I did I 00:47:54.520 |
used to do last week was to think about someone you're going to be sharing the 00:47:57.240 |
gospel so what I'd like to ask you to do on the top of sheet five or evangelism 00:48:03.920 |
custom of five that's the today's worksheet and you can you write down the 00:48:13.600 |
somewhere we ran out of time so share with like a person or two who got like 00:48:20.640 |
just the name of a person and try to try to get like a green next week a like a 00:48:28.600 |
deadline for yourself so I don't normally like to set that 00:48:33.640 |
lines on things like this but for the purpose of this class for accountability 00:48:37.720 |
to you at least to get yourself out there into a place of an uncomfortable 00:48:42.600 |
situation if you can share that deadline with someone so next week we're going to 00:48:50.880 |
be moving very quickly please come very much on time I'm just gonna be forthright 00:48:55.520 |
with you there is no place next week so just just do all the homework God thank you for 00:49:00.320 |
so great a salvation God that the more we study it the more we oh man I just 00:49:09.360 |
think you have adoption again thinking of everything you've done from the top 00:49:15.280 |
to bottom to monitor just simply safely but there is there is nothing there's 00:49:20.400 |
nothing I'm boasting for all of us God there is nothing that we can boast and 00:49:24.640 |
you have saved and you alone and father that is our prayer as we go out that 00:49:30.160 |
that this salvation has been given to us is something that we cannot retain 00:49:33.760 |
inside our own hearts got it it needs to erupt out of our lips it needs to be 00:49:38.880 |
something we live all our lives for we don't all need to be pastors and 00:49:42.360 |
missionaries but God we do indeed need to pastor and we do indeed need to be 00:49:46.520 |
mission and so father I pray for every Christian that we would go out to the 00:49:50.680 |
ends of the world to share this gospel and God it will be very close to us as 00:49:55.120 |
we talk to people and father that it would cause us to the fallen and needs 00:49:59.040 |
to pray for the people that we share the gospel with knowing that you alone can