Redeeming Love Bible Broadcast

Part 4 of our series "Rejected!"

We build on this foundation - the love between us and Jesus is essential and must be established, set, vibrant, alive. Out of that relationship, we bear fruit, we are supported. We need to have a remembrance of who Jesus is, what He has done, the words that have been spoken of Him and by Him. Though there are going to be mockery, persecution, rejection in these last times. Jude calls us to remember what Jesus said. Today we look at how much of our ministry in these last days will be toward those who reject.

Jude 1:17-21
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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Part 3 of our series "Rejected!"

There has got to be a mutual love between you and Jesus Christ. That's Biblical, it's what God wants for us, and it's critical as we walk through someone rejecting us because we share the Gospel or minister to someone.
There comes a point where someone may curse you, be angry at you, yell at you because you preach the Gospel. How are you going to "count" in that situation as Paul does in the verses below? 

Philippians 3:7-8
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...

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Part 2 of our series "Rejected!"

The relationship of love between us and Jesus is absolutely foundational. The obedience that naturally flows from someone who loves the living God is foundational. It's never about obligation, it's natural to someone who loves Jesus, and when you encounter rejection along the way, the love relationship with Jesus stands strong and even becomes stronger.

John 15:13-15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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As you go about in any sort of ministry capacity, sharing the Gospel, witnessing, any occasion when you are reaching out and bringing people to Jesus, what do you do with the inevitable rejection? The Word of God gives us answers for this. Abiding in Christ is absolutely critical as you do any evangelistic work. Jesus is the foundation for everything.

John 15:1-8
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

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John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

There is quite a lot said in the Bible that would be considered to be "hard." 
Jesus said, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Anything other than this is a result of sinful nature. We can see the mercy, love, and goodness of God in action throughout all of Scripture, through everything Jesus did. The foundation of all of this is His holy love. This is not hard, rough, harsh, difficult. 

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There's a whole lot of fear associated with evangelism, and that's from the devil.
It is Christ's desire that people hear the Gospel. Those that hear that Gospel may reject it, but they are not rejecting you, they are rejecting Jesus. He's not going to leave the church with the word to "go and make disciples of all nations" and not give the peace, and the equipping, and the resources to do that.

Revelation 1:17-18
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

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God is alive, He speaks, and we must not refuse Him that speaketh. God is something other than a set of logical propositions, He is something other than a narrative assembled across centuries. He is alive today and He speaks!

Hebrews 12:18-26
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

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Is the desire of your heart as a Christian, and the desire of your church "Oh that men would praise the Lord!" How deep the list of the wonderful works of God! By Him and through Him are all things. He shows His wonderful works every single day. Today, we look at this particular work - "Satisfying the longing soul and filling the hungry soul with goodness."

8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

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We begin a short series out of Psalm 107 and talk about how the Lord Jesus brings salvation. His goodness and mercy make salvation possible, because it is the will of God to reconcile, the will of God to redeem. It's God's heart to redeem, in response to sin, in response to rejection, in response to hatred, His mercy is still upon His enemies. 

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

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Psalm 90:1-2
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

God has moved in the past, God is moving in the present, and we will see Him continue to move in the future. There has been a passing from one generation to another of the precious Gospel of Jesus Christ. And there's a real ministry when someone from an elder generation is able to pass on, pour into, and disciple a younger generation. There's something special about that in the Lord, and if you don't have that, you need that. 

If the Lord tarries, we must be that for the generation after us. 

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Let's talk about the mind, specifically from the book of Romans.
God does not want you to be brainwashed.
God does not want you to be a mindless puppet.
God does not want you to be a soulless, spiritless, emotionless, dead machine.

Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Today, we continue in Romans 10, looking at verses 14 and 15:

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"

God not only desires that all men come to repentance, He made that possible. 

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You don't have to do a lot of religious ritual to find Jesus. 

God has given every human being a measure of faith - the ability to believe on Him unto salvation, the ability to hear the Gospel, to be drawn by God, and to respond with belief. Romans says "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." God has given this gift to humanity. 

There's so much confusion around getting the words right, getting the ritual right, how many times you pray, how you pray. It's not about where you are or how you hear... When Jesus is being preached it's about what is going on in your heart. If the mouth says "I believe Jesus" but the heart says "I don't believe Jesus," there is not salvation.

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Extraordinarily, gloriously, wonderfully, beautifully normal. The description of the work Jesus does in bringing a person to salvation.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." - 2 Corinthians 5:17

Jesus comes in and does this miracle in us, moving in and through someone who is lost and taking that dead spirit and quickening it.  If you don't know that miracle personally (or even if you do), this episode is a must-listen!

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We've seen a lot about Satan, about the demonic - how they move on people today in a ministry of deception, lying, murder. They are real and influential today, running interference against those who are hearing the Word of God.

Today, we look at Matthew 12. 
A lot of people believe Satan's accusations about God. They believe that God is a tyrant, that He is mean, that He is keeping people from discovering their "authentic selves." They believe God is evil, so they find a deception that suits them. The age old accusation of the Devil that God cannot judge, God has no right to judge, He has no right to say what is good and not good. This goes all the way back to when Lucifer fell and he persuaded 1/3 of the angelic host to follow him all because God judged him. And to this day, we still believe this accusation. 

It's all upside down, it's all twisted, but despite all of that, there's a reality that God is love.

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If you've missed the last four podcasts in this series, please do go back and listen to those. We'll be building on those previous episodes.

"Hath God said?" It's a very basic strategy the demonic uses to question the nature of God, the goodness of God, the wisdom of God, the power of God, the love of God. If you go back to Adam, when Adam fell, we were in Adam, so the fall literally changed our nature and we have a sin nature. Before salvation, we naturally see God and holiness and goodness as outside things. God has to reach in because we are strangers to holiness.  We view holiness as the weird thing, the scary thing, maybe oppressive, maybe "holier-than-thou", maybe questioning fear and accusation. However we see it, that is the way we are naturally pre-disposed as fallen man. Naturally, we question God. Naturally, we accuse God. Naturally, we sin, we lust, we hate authority. All Satan has to do is make that a little easier, fan the flames, awaken those passions, and he can easily do it with "hath God said?" 

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We've been talking about Jesus, the demonic, and evangelism, salvation, and soul-winning. 
The demonic is a very real thing in the lives of people today, whether you are a Christian or not. It's important to see that, and to see that soul-winning is not just a set of rules, or approaches, or questions that people need to answer the right way. It's a work of the Holy Spirit, a miracle of God. God is the one that does a work in a human. He is the one that makes all things new. And at the same time that God is real, we need to have an awareness that Satan is real and working in real ways in the world today.

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As we continue our series, we'll look today at 2 Corinthians 4.

"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." - 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

What is the Gospel? 
Who are the lost? 
Who is the god of this world and how does he blind these minds? 

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We continue our series on Jesus, the demonic, and evangelism, starting this week in John 6:44. We must first establish that salvation itself is a work of God. He is not willing that any should perish, and He acts on that in love toward people who are lost, dying, and bound in sin. He draws toward salvation, to Jesus.   

We can't wake up one morning and decide to be a Christian. 
Except God draws us, we cannot be saved. 
God Himself moves on the Spirit of a person, reveals lostness, and reveals His love. 

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The demonic is real, and we must be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. The devil is real, but so is the armor of God, and through Him we may walk in victory. 

Ephesians 6:10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Not "be strong in yourself" or "be strong in your own ability or strength." Be strong in the LORD! This is radically different than telling someone "just be strong and you'll overcome this, get through it, surpass this obstacle."

Ultimately, the strength of man is small. Even the most skilled among athletes has a limit. Our strength fails. The Lord's does not. 

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