WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.799 You guessed it. Another heart -to -heart talk 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:08.480 today. You knew it. That's the reason you were 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.519 all ready for me. And you had your Bibles open. 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:16.780 Oh, thanks for those nice things that you're 00:00:16.780 --> 00:00:21.219 saying about these heart -to -heart talks. And 00:00:21.219 --> 00:00:24.899 really, when it comes to the Word of God, His 00:00:24.899 --> 00:00:30.230 Word is very understandable. The Holy Spirit 00:00:30.230 --> 00:00:33.770 is one's teacher. And when you sit there with 00:00:33.770 --> 00:00:38.090 an open heart and an open mind, He is the one 00:00:38.090 --> 00:00:43.909 who is the great revealer of the Word. And even 00:00:43.909 --> 00:00:48.109 now, Heavenly Father, I pray that before we begin 00:00:48.109 --> 00:00:52.850 this little heart -to -heart talk, open our understanding 00:00:52.850 --> 00:00:58.689 to the deep truths of the Word. For Jesus' sake. 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:03.340 Amen. You know, we've been talking about this 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:10.739 wonderful inheritance. This great life of being 00:01:10.739 --> 00:01:14.799 a Christian. And that's exactly what it is. It 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:21.599 is a life. It isn't just one experience. It isn't 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.180 just a matter of stepping on your knees and praying 00:01:25.180 --> 00:01:29.060 a prayer of repentance. and then getting up and 00:01:29.060 --> 00:01:32.799 wiping the tears from your cheeks, and then going 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.760 out and living the same life that you lived before 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.700 you knelt. It's a whole lot more than that, believe 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.319 me. And as we've been talking about this wonderful 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:47.939 inheritance that God made possible unto those 00:01:47.939 --> 00:01:51.799 who accepted that Christ is their personal Savior 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:58.980 and Redeemer, in His great plan, For man, he 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:06.620 predestined that literally by adoption, man could 00:02:06.620 --> 00:02:12.780 become his heir and a joint heir with his son. 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:17.699 Now, remember something. The believer's relation 00:02:17.699 --> 00:02:21.800 to God as a child, this wonderful inheritance 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.580 that I've been talking to you about in these 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:27.930 heart -to -heart talks, results... from the new 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:32.289 birth experience just because you are a part 00:02:32.289 --> 00:02:37.310 of humanity just because you follow a code of 00:02:37.310 --> 00:02:41.050 ethics just because you live according to some 00:02:41.050 --> 00:02:45.409 doctrine just because you have accepted some 00:02:45.409 --> 00:02:49.110 creed or just because you are a member of some 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:55.669 church does not automatically place you in that 00:02:55.669 --> 00:03:03.189 position of being an heir of God. Remember, this 00:03:03.189 --> 00:03:08.729 wonderful relation to God as a child results 00:03:08.729 --> 00:03:15.370 from the new birth experience. That's what those 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:17.770 two verses mean in the first chapter of John. 00:03:18.590 --> 00:03:25.379 But as many... As received him. To them gave 00:03:25.379 --> 00:03:28.919 he power to become the sons of God. Even to them 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:33.259 that believe on his name. Which were born. Not 00:03:33.259 --> 00:03:37.460 of blood. Not of the will of the flesh. Nor of 00:03:37.460 --> 00:03:43.400 the will of man. But of God. Now the thing that 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:48.539 we all have in common. If you are a part of humanity. 00:03:48.860 --> 00:03:53.740 The one thing. that all of us have in common 00:03:53.740 --> 00:03:56.900 is the fact that we have been born of the flesh. 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:02.159 That first birth. But the Bible teaches a second 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:06.139 birth. The new birth. One is the birth of the 00:04:06.139 --> 00:04:10.039 flesh. The other is the birth of the spirit. 00:04:11.939 --> 00:04:19.399 That new birth experience. And just because you've 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.189 had the first birth, The birth of the flesh does 00:04:24.189 --> 00:04:30.850 not make you an heir of God. God is your creator. 00:04:32.509 --> 00:04:36.230 But you are not his heir and you do not become 00:04:36.230 --> 00:04:38.970 his heir until you've had that second birth. 00:04:39.310 --> 00:04:44.870 The birth of the spirit. And that's what we've 00:04:44.870 --> 00:04:48.490 been talking about in this personal word of God. 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:53.839 The first chapter of Ephesians. Oh, this is wonderful. 00:04:54.540 --> 00:04:59.019 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, 00:04:59.379 --> 00:05:02.420 being predestinated according to the purpose 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:06.339 of him, who worketh all things after the counsel 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:11.300 of his own will, that we should be to the praise 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:19.740 of his glory, who first trusted... In Jesus. 00:05:22.740 --> 00:05:27.079 Every man and every woman who has had this second 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:34.420 birth, this spiritual birth, should live to the 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:41.199 praise of his glory. I want him to be proud of 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:46.240 me. I want to be an awful good representative. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.899 The family to whom I belong. I want to live so 00:05:51.899 --> 00:06:01.560 that... They can say, well, I have never seen 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:09.600 Jesus. But I've met one of his children. Yeah. 00:06:11.139 --> 00:06:13.040 I want that more than anything in the world. 00:06:13.779 --> 00:06:18.220 You see... Jesus isn't here on earth. He's at 00:06:18.220 --> 00:06:21.540 the right hand of God the Father. He holds a 00:06:21.540 --> 00:06:24.740 great position. The position of great high priest. 00:06:25.459 --> 00:06:29.759 I have a great high priest. All of God's children 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.160 have a great high priest. In the person of Jesus 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:42.819 Christ. Jesus is no longer here. Men cannot... 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:47.100 look upon him and see him in bodily form as they 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:53.040 saw him one day as he walked this earth. The 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:56.600 only Jesus that they can see with their natural 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:06.139 eye is the one who is his joint heir. And the 00:07:06.139 --> 00:07:09.120 greatest compliment in the world that can be 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.879 paid me is for someone to say, I want what you 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:22.040 have. I want that same wonderful spiritual experience. 00:07:23.180 --> 00:07:31.139 I see Jesus in you. I'm not a great preacher 00:07:31.139 --> 00:07:35.680 and never will be. I'm very limited in my ability. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:44.850 Very limited. I do not pretend. to have anything 00:07:44.850 --> 00:07:51.750 unusual when it comes to gifts. I don't have 00:07:51.750 --> 00:07:57.949 anything that is unusual. And nothing that you 00:07:57.949 --> 00:08:03.310 could say, regardless of how complimentary you 00:08:03.310 --> 00:08:07.790 want to be, wouldn't affect me one iota. I know 00:08:07.790 --> 00:08:12.459 my limitations. But the greatest compliment that 00:08:12.459 --> 00:08:17.319 you could pay was to say, we see Jesus in your 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:22.579 life. You live what you preach. There's something 00:08:22.579 --> 00:08:27.199 different about you. We know to whom you belong. 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:33.279 I told you the other day about Concordia Missouri. 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:41.940 You go to Concordia, Missouri, that little town 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:47.419 just off of Highway 40 between Kansas City and 00:08:47.419 --> 00:08:56.039 St. Louis. And I don't care where you would stop 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.600 in Concordia, whether it was at Krennicke's Drugstore 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:09.019 or Roman's Meat Market. Or even stop at the post 00:09:09.019 --> 00:09:15.419 office and say, say, do you know Catherine Kuhlman? 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.960 I'll promise you something. They'll come back 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:27.480 with this question. Do you mean Joe Kuhlman's 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:34.580 girl? Catherine Kuhlman really doesn't mean a 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:36.429 thing. Speaking to those folks in Concordia, 00:09:36.470 --> 00:09:39.470 Missouri. And Papa's been gone, my goodness alight. 00:09:39.669 --> 00:09:43.610 My Papa's been gone for years. My Papa, who was 00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:47.970 killed almost instantly during the holiday season 00:09:47.970 --> 00:09:53.269 through an accident, has been gone for years. 00:09:53.370 --> 00:09:58.049 And yet, to this very day, Catherine Kuhlman, 00:09:58.169 --> 00:10:04.080 even though thousands and thousands Know the 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:09.500 name Catherine Kuhlman. To that little town in 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:14.799 Concordia, Missouri, I am just Joe Kuhlman's 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:21.500 girl. It's Papa who is important. Beloved in 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:26.779 this family to which you and I belong. An heir 00:10:26.779 --> 00:10:32.539 of God. Remember, he is the one that... is important, 00:10:32.940 --> 00:10:36.799 and you and I dare not bring reproach on his 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.820 name. It means something to be a Christian, believe 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:45.879 me. We put him to open shame if we profess something 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:50.299 we don't live. We bring a reproach on the family. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.600 I want you to know that. Every time one of his 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:03.690 children does something that is against his principles 00:11:03.690 --> 00:11:08.129 and his laws and bring a reproach on him, I am 00:11:08.129 --> 00:11:15.570 ashamed. I am humiliated. For I am a part of 00:11:15.570 --> 00:11:21.070 that great family. Let's be careful how we act, 00:11:21.210 --> 00:11:25.429 what we do. And when it comes to this gross inheritance, 00:11:25.929 --> 00:11:32.419 remember something. It wasn't. in God's great 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:40.340 plan, that we should enjoy this wonderful inheritance 00:11:40.340 --> 00:11:44.539 because he had so much faith and confidence in 00:11:44.539 --> 00:11:54.059 you and in me. It said, who first trusted in 00:11:54.059 --> 00:12:01.899 Jesus. His faith and his confidence was in Jesus. 00:12:02.419 --> 00:12:06.419 When at that great conference table, they talked 00:12:06.419 --> 00:12:10.159 her over. And Jesus offered himself through the 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:14.659 Holy Spirit to be given to God the Father. And 00:12:14.659 --> 00:12:19.879 plans were made for redemption of man. And Jesus 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:24.320 came. And all of these things were taken care 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.779 of at the great conference table. And it was 00:12:28.779 --> 00:12:33.779 in the will of God that all men and all women 00:12:33.779 --> 00:12:39.980 should be redeemed. None should be lost in his 00:12:39.980 --> 00:12:44.240 glorious plan that through the shed blood of 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:50.379 Jesus, we might be adopted of the Father and 00:12:50.379 --> 00:12:55.279 be called the very sons of God. God approved 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:03.759 all. of this before Jesus came because he trusted 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:12.200 in Jesus. And he knew Jesus wouldn't fail. He 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.480 wasn't so sure about you and he wasn't so sure 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:20.559 about me. But he had complete faith and confidence 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:30.059 in Jesus. Now, Follow me a little closer. I want 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:34.440 to stop right here and bring you another portion 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.379 of the Word of God. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood 00:13:37.379 --> 00:13:44.399 portions in the Bible. Hebrews. I'm going to 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:47.580 give you just a second to find Hebrews in the 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:51.299 Bible, your New Testament. It's the sixth chapter 00:13:51.299 --> 00:13:56.110 of Hebrews. I'm going to begin with the fourth 00:13:56.110 --> 00:14:05.429 verse. For it is impossible for those who were 00:14:05.429 --> 00:14:09.029 once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly 00:14:09.029 --> 00:14:12.110 gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost 00:14:12.110 --> 00:14:16.830 and have tasted the good word of God and the 00:14:16.830 --> 00:14:19.970 powers of the world to come if they shall fall 00:14:19.970 --> 00:14:28.759 away to renew them again unto repentance, seeing 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.320 they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:38.799 and put him to an open shame. For the earth which 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.539 drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:47.379 and bringeth forth herbs, meat for them by whom 00:14:47.379 --> 00:14:51.639 it is dressed, receiveth blessings from God. 00:14:52.299 --> 00:14:58.039 but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, 00:14:58.299 --> 00:15:04.360 and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:11.120 burned. But, beloved, we are persuaded better 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:18.539 things of you, and things that accompany salvation. 00:15:24.229 --> 00:15:32.570 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things 00:15:32.570 --> 00:15:42.129 of you. He is talking to two classes of people 00:15:42.129 --> 00:15:50.090 here. He is talking to the unregenerated. And 00:15:50.090 --> 00:15:56.289 he is talking to the child of God. And I'm going 00:15:56.289 --> 00:16:01.470 to take this very slowly that you might understand 00:16:01.470 --> 00:16:10.990 it. First of all, remember something. It means 00:16:10.990 --> 00:16:22.269 something to be a Christian. It means much more 00:16:22.269 --> 00:16:29.669 than shedding a few tears. It means much more 00:16:29.669 --> 00:16:36.129 than going down to an altar and kneeling. It 00:16:36.129 --> 00:16:44.850 means much more than just signing a card. It 00:16:44.850 --> 00:16:59.940 means much I believe in church membership. I 00:16:59.940 --> 00:17:04.339 am not against the church when I make that statement. 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.400 But there are tens of thousands of people living 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:15.839 this very hour who have their names on church 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:23.890 records, who joined the church. who have never 00:17:23.890 --> 00:17:33.869 been born again. There's many a person who feels 00:17:33.869 --> 00:17:40.990 that they're absolutely secure because they belong 00:17:40.990 --> 00:17:46.009 to the Catholic Church. There are thousands who 00:17:46.009 --> 00:17:50.569 feel they are absolutely secure because they 00:17:50.569 --> 00:17:58.289 are a Good Episcopalian. There's many a person 00:17:58.289 --> 00:18:03.509 this hour who feels just because they sit in 00:18:03.509 --> 00:18:07.829 that pew, the same pew, week after week in that 00:18:07.829 --> 00:18:11.630 Presbyterian church, and God help anyone else 00:18:11.630 --> 00:18:16.589 who dares to sit in that same pew. It's theirs. 00:18:17.970 --> 00:18:25.819 It's an unwritten law. It's... But they've never 00:18:25.819 --> 00:18:32.180 been born again. You can be the greatest church 00:18:32.180 --> 00:18:38.960 member in the world and not be born again. There 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:43.680 are literally thousands of Baptists. I know. 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:48.160 I can say this because I still have my name on 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.480 the record at The Baptist Church in Concordia, 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:58.559 Missouri. It's still there. I'm a Baptist. But 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:02.880 there are thousands of Baptists who have never 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.920 been born again. Oh, sure. You've been immersed 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:14.940 in water. Sure, you've been baptized. But water 00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:18.319 isn't going to save you. Just because you were 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.279 immersed. doesn't mean you've been born again. 00:19:22.140 --> 00:19:26.500 Just because you were sprinkled as a baby doesn't 00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:29.839 mean that you've been born again. Just because 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:32.359 for generations you've all been Roman Catholics 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:38.599 doesn't mean that you've been born again. Just 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:40.740 because you go through all the ritual of the 00:19:40.740 --> 00:19:44.640 Episcopalian Church doesn't mean you have been 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:55.220 born again. I am convinced that there are thousands 00:19:55.220 --> 00:20:01.920 and thousands of people in the world today who 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:08.059 are being grossly deceived by their own self 00:20:08.059 --> 00:20:16.539 -righteousness. There's many a preacher's son 00:20:16.539 --> 00:20:20.799 and daughter who have never been born again. 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:27.200 They were brought up in the parsonage. They were 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:29.960 forced to go to Sunday school. They were taken 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.920 to church when they were only a baby in arms. 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:36.720 And they've just taken for granted, because dad 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:41.559 was a preacher, mom was a wonderful woman, they 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:45.339 were brought up in the parsonage, that they automatically 00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:52.529 are Christians. There's many a man in the pulpit. 00:20:53.450 --> 00:20:58.630 We talk about Dr. Jarman, a man in the pulpit 00:20:58.630 --> 00:21:06.170 for over a half century. Preaching. Eloquent 00:21:06.170 --> 00:21:11.569 in his delivery. A personality to be envied. 00:21:12.430 --> 00:21:22.309 A vocabulary that one would envy. And yet, as 00:21:22.309 --> 00:21:28.069 he said, it wasn't so much what he said as what 00:21:28.069 --> 00:21:34.630 he left unsaid. Sure he could quote the Bible. 00:21:36.049 --> 00:21:40.789 I have sat across the table from Dr. Jarman and 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:46.690 have heard him quote chapter after chapter. With 00:21:46.690 --> 00:21:51.970 his Bible closed, word for word, and yet that 00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:58.589 man preached from the Bible without having been 00:21:58.589 --> 00:22:08.269 born again for over a half century. In our next 00:22:08.269 --> 00:22:11.769 Heart to Heart Talk, I'm going to explain to 00:22:11.769 --> 00:22:15.089 you under the inspiration guidance of the Holy 00:22:15.089 --> 00:22:20.500 Spirit, the meaning. of the sixth chapter of 00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:23.079 Hebrews. God bless you.