You got a praise email? I do. Well, share it with us. I'm so glad that God woke me up this morning. Amen. Started me on my way. Gave me another chance to get it right today. Amen. Who else got a praise? Mary? Yeah. My praise is that tomorrow I'll find out what is going on with my foot. Hopefully, with the help of the Lord. Doctors haven't said anything yet. They done run all the tests and said tomorrow I'm supposed to go in and find out the answer. I didn't know how to start treating me. That'd be good. It's always good to know. Yeah, I want to know. You still whining about that foot? She says, I'm going to whack you with that foot. I want everyone to pray for me. I'm having surgery on my eyes. Tuesday. Five o'clock in the morning. Pray for the doctor also. Yeah. Yeah. Who else? Josh. I want to pray to the Lord that he blesses with Trump, giving us four years of practice. Amen. Amen. He's not shy about interviews. He is not. He's not just reading the teleprompter. Alvin, you got your hand up? Yeah. Well, I'm kind of lucky West will be here. Okay. Got that right. I said the rest of it's really good, but that right there needed to be addressed. Yeah. Who else? Anybody else got a prayer plan? Met somebody at Rogers, a lady and her husband, and I got to talking to her while he was in the bathroom about his situation and trying to get him a job. that I'm gonna try to contact. I tried Saturday, they weren't open, but that can help teach him to be job worthy. I also pray that that works. Well, there's a scripture about what you're dealing with. All you gotta do to get a job is quit feeding them. Quit feeding them, yeah. Quit feeding them. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. I'll tell him you can't eat no more until you drink some water. Go ahead. Yesterday, I took my first ride with Dylan driving. Oh, my. And he did a great job. He drove on 517, down Highway 3, 646, back to Baycliff, and back home without any incident. And I watched him with all of his signals and how he approached the side of the road and the drainage ditches and all of that stuff. And he did a great job. Good. Didn't scare you too bad. That's good. Anybody else? Well, I've got a question for you today to discuss. You know, when you trusted Jesus. So I want to ask you, if you place your trust in someone, it's got to be for a reason. What did you trust Jesus for? You just say just to trust him in general or is there something specific that we trust Christ for? I trust him to lead me, save me from my sins. Save me from my sins. All right. Save us from our sins and protect us. So the word believe isn't just just how we look at it and the way we use it in a conversation. It means to trust. And the trust is to save us from our sins. Did you believe or trust that Jesus is enough to do that? Kind of part of it, isn't it? Well, I have another question for you now. If you believe that your salvation is up to you in some way or form, which means that, in other words, you believe that you could lose your salvation, did you trust him to handle it? No, if you believe that, no. So the person says, I believe that I could lose my salvation. Then you're not safe. That's kind of the equivalent of not trusting Jesus to handle it, isn't it? So, do you have any salvation to lose if you believe that? Alvin? Scripture says that my people perished for a lack of knowledge. If you don't have that trust, you don't have that knowledge. Well, that's not a salvation verse, but it makes sense. You can only get that knowledge through the Spirit. Before you even read the scripture I just quoted, you're probably going to be saved. Not in every case. So this idea that you can lose your salvation if you don't live good enough or if you don't endure or whatever. A lot of people look at it and, well, it's just semantics. It's just people just, you know, they're not saying it right. It's kind of more than that. If you break it down, start looking at it. Paul, here's what he wrote to the Galatians. He said in chapter three, verse one, he said, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. This only would I learn of you, received ye the spirit by the works of the law, by the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish, having begun in the spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet in vain? He therefore that ministered to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith, even as Abraham believed God, and was accounted unto him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. In the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen, through faith, priests before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, and these shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, curses everyone that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them." How many laws or commandments must you keep if that's what you believe, that you've got to keep commandments? Oh, that rich young ruler that tried to come to Christ. Christ said, keep the law. Well, Then he named a couple of them. And the young man said, all these have I kept from my youth up. It was obvious that he hadn't. He says, I shall not covet. But the young man was, he was in love with his riches, which no one has kept all along. We could say no one but Jesus, but you know, Jesus didn't really keep the law. not according to the lawyers. Why did it not matter if Jesus kept the law? He was the law. He is the law. He wasn't under the law. He wasn't bound to the law. All things were made by him and for him. Yeah. He's not able to be bound to the law. Josh? What exactly was it that he didn't do besides what they consider to be work, which was healing? Other than that, what exactly was it that they said that he didn't do? He did that on the Sabbath day. That was it, just that he healed on the Sabbath day? Well, that's about all I can think of, but yeah, he definitely healed on the Sabbath day. He wasn't shy about doing that. I mean, the reason I use the scripture, lack of knowledge, perish, because the word perish is in there. If you're saved, you're not going to perish. And then, you know, over here in Galatians 3, of course, he's talking to that particular group of people. But, you know, but before faith, this Paul in Galatians 3, but before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up in the faith. shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So, even though the Lord knows who's already saved, you don't get it until it's revealed. How is it revealed? Through the Holy Spirit. No, it's not. It's revealed through the preaching of, the communicating of the gospel. Oh yes, the preaching of the word, no. Hey, lack of knowledge, I just said it. The tower in Siloam. There were several people that were killed when that tower fell. And the disciples wanted to know if it was because of something they did or not. They asked Jesus about it. Jesus said, I tell you nay, but except you repent, you shall also likewise perish. There's that word again. Likewise perish. How did they perish? They didn't say anything about their spirituality. They died. Physically died. That's what perish is used to describe in that verse. You can't just label that word and call it saved or lost. You have to go a little deeper and study what it means. People perish all the time for lack of knowledge. They perish both spiritually and physically for lack of knowledge. You drive 100 miles an hour in a 55, probably gonna perish. Same person drives 55 in a, or drives 100 miles an hour in a 55, that same person's likely gonna perish. Just as well as a lost person, but not spiritually. The question we're looking at today is, if we believe that we've got to do a certain level of holy living or whatever, however you want to describe it. Nobody believes it can define it, but there are a lot of people that believe that. Does that mean that they've not trusted Jesus? Paul is talking to the Galatians here. He's intimating that they have been deceived. He's asking, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? The truth is salvation is in Christ. He just got through saying that he does not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. I was in three, actually, reading right after that verse. I wanted to kind of insert something. Like you were talking about Paul talking to the Galatians and like you used the narrative of driving. Is that the same, that is the same that's happening now with Israel and the Palestinian led by the Palestinian. There could be someone there that believes in Jesus Christ but pairs right along with the rest of them. There are certain things you can't do after you get saved. People know that salvation is in Christ, but we seem to forget about what happens when we trust Him. We're declared righteous by the Lord. We're counted righteous like He did for Abraham. But according to Ephesians, we're made righteous. Our spirit, which is dead in sin, is made alive again. And that life is eternal life. And there's a change that takes place in our spirits. Where do you think the desire or the hatred of sin comes from that you seem to now have once you've trusted Christ? Yeah, that's where it comes from. Not the Holy Spirit, although your spirit is indwelled with the Holy Spirit when you got saved. But the Lord made your spirit righteous and is permanent. See, that's really the reason you can't lose your salvation, is because you can't sin. You can sin in the flesh, but your spirit doesn't sin. Whosoever is born of God doeth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. There are several scriptures that lay it out very clearly in that way. The Bible tells us that when we trust Christ, we are forgiven of sins of the past. It doesn't say anything about sins of the future. It took me a long time to see it, but I finally did. And the reason it doesn't say anything about sins of the future is because there aren't any. If your spirit is made righteous, Not everybody believes this, but if your spirit is made righteous, the Bible says that your spirit doesn't sin. Your flesh is the only one that sins. Sin is an activity of the flesh. Right. Josh? Going back to the question here in Galatians, so would it be just a lack of knowledge if they put their trust in Christ, that he saved them from their sins? and they're living by that trust, but then later are deceived by a teacher that comes in and tells them, hey, you gotta live too. Are they still safe, or are they just like this? That's the question I'm asking is, are these Galatians, is somebody that now has embraced the doctrine of having to live righteous enough, Is that because they didn't put their trust in Christ to handle it? Or is it just... There's a lot of people, some of you have got people in your family who believe this thing. I know that Sherry's mother, they've gone round and round about that for a long time, about losing salvation. My aunt, yeah. Yeah, your aunt. She's gone to heaven now. Well, is she or not? Yeah. Did she actually trust Jesus to handle it or was she dependent on her own efforts to handle it? I used to tell her all the time how many times you got to die on that cross for you. Only did it once, that's all it takes. Josh? I guess the real question is, were they truly saved? Because if they were truly saved, then this would just barely be a fleshly sin following the works. But if they didn't truly believe that, and now the truth will out, now that they're following this doctrine they never really truly put their trust in Christ and we don't know, we don't know that unless we know whether they truly trust in Christ in the first place. And can you actually even know that? No. You can't. But the answer can only come from them and their statement that they're depending on their righteous living to get them there. Speaks volumes about what their trust is in. If you trusted Christ to save you, can you stop trusting him to do that? It seems like you could, but I can't imagine how you would. How could you possibly stop trusting Jesus to handle that for you? Maybe you don't have all the information. You don't understand this forever. I can easily imagine someone coming to the place that they don't believe they deserve to go to heaven. Well, you're right if that happened. Would it happen to you? We don't deserve to go to heaven. It's not something that we deserve. It's not something that we earn. It is a gift. It's a gift. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. It's just a misinterpretation of the Bible, too. There's a lot of things that they got wrong, like speaking in tongues. You don't have the Holy Spirit unless you spoke in tongues. They told me that. They told my kids that. You can't get saved and have the Holy Spirit in your life unless you spoke in tongues. You know, so it's just, they don't interpret the Bible right, period. It's not the giver that's broken, it's the receiver. Elaborate. Well, I mean, you were saying, you were asking the question a minute ago about how can you feel, some people feel like, you know, they're not saved after they proclaim that they are. I don't know that I ever felt that way, but I sure felt many times that, uh, how, how could this be? I didn't say I didn't believe it. I just felt like, how could this be? You know, that, that you would die for me, just like the song says, you know, it's, it's a wonderful thing. You know, the guy, the guy on the road that said he did, he kept all that from his youth. It's almost comical. You can just see the Lord thinking, well, he just broke that one, you know. What he says, I've kept all these commandments from my youth, and he just broke one. So I got an idea, well, just go sell all your stuff and give it to the poor. That's what he tells us. It's always kind of comical, but that's our Lord from seriousness of torture to some of the most, you know, crazy things you ever heard, start straying out at night and swallow a camel. You gotta have some good humor to say stuff like that. But he was serious, that's what makes it not funny. He meant what he was saying. That's the only way I can elaborate, is I have never, I have never felt that I had lost my salvation. There were times when, many times, I was just like, man, I can't believe you'd put up with me. Yeah. Yeah, that's easy. Yeah. I expect we've all been there sometime or another. It is a conundrum. You probably have to look up that $2 word because a lot of people are, I hope I make it to heaven. You better move. You better move. Yeah. If you don't, somebody going to put you down when you're done. Josh. So every time I think about this and the people that say they don't know if they're going to be saved, I think of where it took me when I was out there and I was taught wrong ways. The only lead that led me to one conclusion was, well, if I'm not going to know whether I get to heaven or not, and I can live my whole life working hard as I possibly could and still not get to heaven, why would I? Why don't I just enjoy my life now and then worry about the rest then? And that was the conclusion I came to when I was out in the world with the same exact issue of how do I know if I'm going to heaven or not? Well, that's the conclusion I came to as a teenager. listening to the Pentecostal preacher tell me how to get to heaven every week. You gotta live it. I didn't have a rat's chance of doing that. So I came to that same conclusion. What's the point? Alvin? Yeah, you know, familiar scripture, Romans 8, and nay, and all these things were in order to discover us through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." That's pretty heavy right there. Pretty heavy. Wow, probably ain't going to happen. Well, I have come to the conclusion, it's just my human understanding trying to do my job, that if you tell me that you've got to live it to get to heaven, I'm going to try to tell you, you need to get saved. And because that's not, you know, whether you're living it or not, it's not the problem. Problem is you're not trusting Christ to handle it. That's your problem. Amen. And like Paul here in Galatians, I do not frustrate the grace of God. It would be very frustrating to work as hard as you could about living right your whole life and end up missing heaven. Yeah. But that is According to what we know about a lot of people's testimony, that is exactly what's happening. Romans chapter 4 verse 4 and 5, Now to him that worketh his reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. A lot of people have the idea that I need to do both. I need to trust Jesus and do good works to make it. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says grace and works can't be mixed. If it's a grace, then it cannot be a works. And if it's a works, it cannot be a grace. And what it says right here, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him, Yeah, so if you're working at it, you got a problem. But I need to. Josh? I find it interesting, I've never made this connection to this class, but the Bible says that they will ask of the hope that lies within you. And I just kind of took that statement and never put it into practice. Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely hopeless. Why are you so certain you're going? That's the hope you're going to ask about. Because I'm not working at it. That's right. I just now made that connection. It goes on to read, it says, even as David, who also describes the blessedness of the man who unto whom God imputeth not righteousness, or unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. That's Psalm 32. Blessed is a man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. I can understand if I'm offering to give you help of some kind, you might say, well, I think I need to work for that. Well, that's your pride and culture kicking in. So I understand that. When God is trying to give you his free gift of perfect righteousness, and you wanna work for it, what are you gonna give him? What are you gonna trade? What are you gonna do? Here, here's some filthy rags, that's all I got. I don't think the Lord wants our rags. I could be wrong, but I don't think he does. Well, if you got a loved one, trying to be good enough somehow or another, trying to work at it. You need to tell them that they need to quit working at it. Take them to Romans chapter four if you need to. You need to quit working at it. I know you're working at trying to conquer your besetting sins. Your spirit is in the business of trying to get you to do that. but not to get to heaven. It's probably to make you smell like you've been, less like you've been to hell in some cases. I used to smell like hell all the time. Three packs a day work. God helped me out of that mess. That was a long time ago. Well, We go back to Galatians and see what's next in this chapter. Paul hammered this issue through Galatians, through Ephesians, through, I mean, he hammered it. He didn't just mention it in passing, he hammered it. And the people that are teaching this doctrine to others, they're not just wrong, although they're wrong, The Bible says that they are ministers of Satan. Yeah. 2 Corinthians chapter 11. So I know I probably come off a little bit strong sometimes, especially about this issue. That's how it looks. Then it's just exactly how it looks. I don't think I could possibly be as strong as Paul has hammered this. The good news is I think almost everyone in our church shows up out of gratitude because we're grateful of our Lord. Don't that make sense? I don't know because I feel like I have to. It does. Yeah, I think you're right. It should be that way anyway. Yeah. I'm stunned every day that I am saved. And so I want to be here when I can. And it's out of gratitude. I don't feel anyone cracking a whip on me. Well, the more I teach, the more I've studied the Bible, the more I understand from the scriptures, the more I believe with all my heart that this particular doctrine is as basic as you can get in scripture. It's either trust Jesus to handle it or not. Whatever the knot is, however you want to describe the knot, that's the one that's going to hang it. Because Paul said, as he started teaching these Galatians, he said, as we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed. If you want a strong word that means you're lost, that's a strong word that means you're lost.