WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.700 Today, we're going to have another one of those 00:00:02.700 --> 00:00:08.960 heart -to -heart talks. Somebody says, oh, I 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:15.880 was hoping so. That's right. And I pray that 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.539 as you sit there with an open mind, but most 00:00:20.539 --> 00:00:25.539 of all, an open Bible, that our little heart 00:00:25.539 --> 00:00:28.480 -to -heart talk today will mean much to you. 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.460 the other morning and it was quite early because 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:37.460 we were coming into the office and mr loesch 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:41.619 was driving we were talking about something very 00:00:41.619 --> 00:00:48.159 seriously when suddenly i realized that there 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:53.039 was a car parked the side of the road and the 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:58.439 thing that got my attention first was the fact 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:04.500 that the hood of the engine was open, and I was 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:08.959 seeing the most beautiful engine I ever saw in 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:15.500 my life. There were two young teenagers standing 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:18.400 there looking at it, their hands on their hips, 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.780 but this engine, it was a masterpiece. I care 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:29.099 you so, help me. You never lifted the hood of 00:01:29.099 --> 00:01:37.019 a Rolls Royce and saw what I saw. Every part 00:01:37.019 --> 00:01:40.439 of that engine had been chrome -plated. It was 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.959 a beauty. The sun was shining, and I'm going 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:48.980 to tell you, that chrome shone. Oh, I saw a masterpiece. 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:58.459 And the engine looked so big. And the second 00:01:58.459 --> 00:02:01.099 thing that I saw were these three teenagers with 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:04.799 the look of despair on their faces. They were 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:10.259 the most forlorn, most dejected -looking teenagers 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:14.259 that I've seen for a long time. And I said, did 00:02:14.259 --> 00:02:19.259 you see that engine? Yeah, he said. I said, what 00:02:19.259 --> 00:02:24.039 was it? Oh, he said, it was one of those hot 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.460 rods. He said, those teenagers probably bought 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:35.939 it for $10, $15. And I said, a hot rod? Sure, 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:39.080 he said. I said, did you see that motor? Did 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.740 you see what I saw? Oh, sure, he said. He said, 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:45.960 the teenagers probably went out and got each 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:52.370 part of that motor chrome plated. I said, but 00:02:52.370 --> 00:02:55.069 why were they looking so dejected? He said, well, 00:02:55.129 --> 00:02:56.669 for pity's sakes, Miss Coleman, it's because 00:02:56.669 --> 00:03:05.110 the thing won't run. I said, Loach, I'm telling 00:03:05.110 --> 00:03:12.909 you, I have seen with my very eyes the best illustration 00:03:12.909 --> 00:03:18.909 that I can give of tens of... thousands of professing 00:03:18.909 --> 00:03:22.870 Christians. They've got the old hop rod. They've 00:03:22.870 --> 00:03:26.949 got the motor all chrome -plated. They go out 00:03:26.949 --> 00:03:30.569 looking like the first horse in the parade. They 00:03:30.569 --> 00:03:35.530 sing loud. They're all fixed up. On the outside, 00:03:35.909 --> 00:03:42.689 you would think they were saints of God, ready 00:03:42.689 --> 00:03:51.319 for the rapture. sit on little thrones, judging 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:57.900 everybody that comes near them. They can testify, 00:03:58.139 --> 00:04:01.199 they can sing, they can quote the scripture. 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:05.680 The only thing that's wrong with the hot rod, 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:12.919 it isn't running. There's no power there because 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:22.189 there's no life there. They're dead. No matter 00:04:22.189 --> 00:04:31.449 how they look, my friend, if the Spirit of the 00:04:31.449 --> 00:04:37.850 Lord is not there, if they are not a part of 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:47.790 His body, if... He does not abide within. If 00:04:47.790 --> 00:04:57.410 his words are not within, if they are not abiding 00:04:57.410 --> 00:05:07.050 in him, my friend, it's a dead life. And it's 00:05:07.050 --> 00:05:14.240 just like that. Mm -hmm. I left you in our last 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.459 little heart -to -heart talk in the sixth chapter 00:05:16.459 --> 00:05:22.120 of Hebrews. And we have a picture of one who 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:25.500 even tasted the things of the Spirit, so completely 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:29.399 enlightened. They have even tasted the good word 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:33.199 of God. They have tasted the powers of the world 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.560 to come. If they shall fall away, it's impossible 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.939 to renew them again unto repentance. Why? Because 00:05:42.939 --> 00:05:50.920 there's nothing more left. Nothing more. What 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:57.819 more can God do? Jesus offered himself through 00:05:57.819 --> 00:06:00.199 the Holy Spirit to God the Father to be given. 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.680 That they might have life everlasting. That we 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.100 might have life everlasting. The pardon is there. 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:15.230 Then we have the Holy Spirit, the mighty convicting 00:06:15.230 --> 00:06:20.029 power. He is the one who sends mighty conviction. 00:06:22.329 --> 00:06:27.389 And after they have rejected the pardon, after 00:06:27.389 --> 00:06:33.350 they have rejected the Holy Spirit, there is 00:06:33.350 --> 00:06:43.550 nothing more that God can do. He has done everything 00:06:43.550 --> 00:06:50.209 in his power. The rest is left with the individual. 00:06:51.410 --> 00:06:57.529 Now, we come to this thing. But, beloved, we're 00:06:57.529 --> 00:07:01.509 persuaded better things of you. You who have 00:07:01.509 --> 00:07:06.569 been born again. You who have had that glorious 00:07:06.569 --> 00:07:14.920 new birth experience. There are two births. The 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.100 one thing that we all have in common as a part 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:23.420 of humanity is the first birth, the birth of 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:29.459 the flesh. That's one thing we all have in common. 00:07:29.740 --> 00:07:35.959 Rich or poor, regardless of nationality, we've 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:42.660 all come into the world the same way. That first 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:46.600 birth in the flesh. That which is born of the 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.100 flesh is flesh, the Bible says. But there is 00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:55.279 another birth that we do not all share. The birth 00:07:55.279 --> 00:08:01.339 of the Spirit. His Spirit. We call it the new 00:08:01.339 --> 00:08:08.759 birth experience. Explain it. I can't. It's something 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.949 you have to experience. It's something that's 00:08:12.949 --> 00:08:18.250 personal. That's why you will never hear Catherine 00:08:18.250 --> 00:08:25.709 Kuhlman ever say, there were 150 who were born 00:08:25.709 --> 00:08:29.370 again at the close of the service yesterday. 00:08:30.449 --> 00:08:34.570 You will never hear me say, oh, we had a great 00:08:34.570 --> 00:08:40.110 altar call. There were 200 who were born again. 00:08:41.899 --> 00:08:45.379 I'll never say it. I have no right to say it. 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.740 Perhaps there were a hundred and fifty who came 00:08:50.740 --> 00:08:55.580 forward and accepted the altar call. There could 00:08:55.580 --> 00:09:00.559 have been two hundred, three hundred who came 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.860 forward at the close of the service, responding 00:09:03.860 --> 00:09:07.840 to the altar call. The three hundred, the two 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:15.059 hundred, or the fifty. could have knelt. That 00:09:15.059 --> 00:09:23.840 many wept and wept bitterly. But only God knows 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:29.100 and the individual knows whether or not they 00:09:29.100 --> 00:09:32.980 were born again because it's a personal transaction. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.600 I can stand right there with my hand on that 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.299 shoulder of that one. I can pray with them. Dear 00:09:40.299 --> 00:09:46.000 Father, God, in Jesus' name, blot out their every 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.179 transgression in this moment. I can even weep 00:09:50.179 --> 00:09:54.700 with them. I can give them the handkerchief with 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:58.019 which they'll wipe the tears from their cheeks. 00:09:59.299 --> 00:10:02.460 I can be there and see them as they get up from 00:10:02.460 --> 00:10:08.980 their knees and walk away. But... I do not know 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:13.600 whether they had been born again. I do not know 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:19.720 whether they wept because they'd been caught, 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:25.220 whether they wept because of some emotion. I 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:30.299 do not know. Many a woman listening to me has 00:10:30.299 --> 00:10:39.200 had a husband who... has promised her time after 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.320 time that he's going to give up his liquor. She's 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:48.659 heard the same story. He has come home so drunk. 00:10:49.860 --> 00:10:52.980 And he has said to her, Anna, this is the last 00:10:52.980 --> 00:10:59.179 time. This is... So I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:03.460 It's almost like... Putting a record on, she's 00:11:03.460 --> 00:11:06.419 heard the same thing over and over again, and 00:11:06.419 --> 00:11:11.000 he goes out and he does it again. Beloved, being 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:15.519 sorry isn't enough. It's when the old boy comes 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.580 home and he's so sorry that he's not going to 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:26.539 do it again that he changes. And it's like that. 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:31.799 Mainly a person cries when he's caught. It isn't 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.700 because he's so sorry for his sin. It isn't because 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:40.320 he's so sorry he did the same. No, really. He 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:44.100 enjoyed what he was doing. And he'd be the sorriest 00:11:44.100 --> 00:11:48.220 person in the world if that sin was taken away 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:50.659 from him because he's had so much pleasure in 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:57.120 the sin. He weeps because he was caught. He weeps 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:58.960 because he's afraid his wife's going to leave 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:03.509 him. He weeps because he knows he's going to 00:12:03.509 --> 00:12:07.429 have to pay the price for his sin. Tears, oh, 00:12:07.649 --> 00:12:17.450 tears are so cheap sometimes. My friend, it is 00:12:17.450 --> 00:12:21.610 only when that somebody comes, the Lord Jesus 00:12:21.610 --> 00:12:28.169 Christ, and is so sorry for his sin, he is so... 00:12:28.889 --> 00:12:33.129 Sorry for his sinful life. He wants Jesus so 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:39.149 much that he'll turn not halfway, but he'll make 00:12:39.149 --> 00:12:43.610 a complete turn. A hundred and eighty degree 00:12:43.610 --> 00:12:50.470 angle and he comes all the way over. And he says, 00:12:50.590 --> 00:12:54.970 I want a new master. I'm tired of serving the 00:12:54.970 --> 00:13:00.740 devil. I want a new life. I want Jesus Christ 00:13:00.740 --> 00:13:05.700 to forgive my sins. I'm so sorry for my sin that 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:10.620 I don't want to sin anymore. I'm sick of it all. 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:16.200 And in that moment, the blood of Jesus Christ, 00:13:16.299 --> 00:13:21.419 God's Son, cleanseth that one from all unrighteousness 00:13:21.419 --> 00:13:25.919 and that one becomes a new creature in Christ 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:30.690 Jesus. That's what we call being born again. 00:13:31.470 --> 00:13:35.830 Old things pass away and behold, all things become 00:13:35.830 --> 00:13:45.090 new. How much do you want Jesus Christ? How much 00:13:45.090 --> 00:13:50.049 do you want to be born again? It's what's in 00:13:50.049 --> 00:13:54.309 the heart and only God knows the heart. And I 00:13:54.309 --> 00:13:57.860 put out a challenge right now to any man. Any 00:13:57.860 --> 00:14:01.940 woman who wants to be born again, you can be 00:14:01.940 --> 00:14:05.539 born again this very moment. Do you want to be 00:14:05.539 --> 00:14:08.460 delivered from sin? You can be delivered this 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:14.519 very moment. I don't care how sweet in sin you 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:18.200 may be this very hour. Do you want to be delivered 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:24.019 from liquor? Don't come to me and say, I just 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:29.299 can't. I'm weak. I get so sick of these people 00:14:29.299 --> 00:14:35.440 who come to me and they use their weakness, their 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:41.519 physical weaknesses, as an excuse for living 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.940 a victorious Christian life. I don't care what 00:14:45.940 --> 00:14:49.320 your physical weaknesses may be. I don't care 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.919 what... with this you have inherited from your 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:59.100 father or your grandfather. I promise you upon 00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:05.000 the authority of God's word and watch. You can 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:10.320 be set free from the power of sin the very moment 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.299 you are willing to surrender to him lock, stock, 00:15:15.379 --> 00:15:22.350 and barrel. But many a person enjoys his physical 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:26.610 weakness so much. Many a person enjoys his sin, 00:15:26.730 --> 00:15:32.570 his living in sin, so much that he really doesn't 00:15:32.570 --> 00:15:39.389 want to be delivered from the sin. Therefore, 00:15:40.070 --> 00:15:43.830 who am I to say 200 people accepted Jesus their 00:15:43.830 --> 00:15:47.610 Savior? That's the reason there are thousands 00:15:47.610 --> 00:15:52.759 who are prof... testing Christians who have never 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.259 been born again. But I'm going to tell you something. 00:15:56.779 --> 00:16:04.960 If you have ever really been born again, you'll 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:11.220 know it. You will know it. And there will be 00:16:11.220 --> 00:16:19.159 the evidence. It's a Day by day proposition. 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.139 I want you to read something with me. Turn, if 00:16:24.139 --> 00:16:27.919 you will, please, to 1 John. You know, there's 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:35.179 1 John, 2 John, 3 John. It's 1 John, the second 00:16:35.179 --> 00:16:41.740 chapter, the fourth verse. He that saith, I know 00:16:41.740 --> 00:16:47.490 him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar. 00:16:48.509 --> 00:16:55.490 And the truth is not in him. But whosoever keepeth 00:16:55.490 --> 00:16:59.509 his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. 00:16:59.909 --> 00:17:05.609 Hereby know we that we are in him. If you say 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:08.150 you're a Christian, if you say that you've been 00:17:08.150 --> 00:17:12.809 born again, and you do not keep his commandments, 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:18.420 I didn't say it. The Word of God says. You are 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:24.779 a liar, and the truth is not in you. And the 00:17:24.779 --> 00:17:28.019 only person that you deceive, if you really think 00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:33.059 that you are a Christian, and yet you're not 00:17:33.059 --> 00:17:36.500 keeping His commandments, you're living exactly 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:42.380 as a man on the outside, the man of the world. 00:17:42.750 --> 00:17:47.930 the unregenerated man, if you are living exactly 00:17:47.930 --> 00:17:54.410 as he lives, then, my friend, the Bible says 00:17:54.410 --> 00:18:01.009 you are a liar. The truth is not in you, and 00:18:01.009 --> 00:18:07.190 the truth is that you are not a Christian. This 00:18:07.190 --> 00:18:10.960 is so plain a child can see it. That's the reason 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.720 I'm telling you. It means something to be a Christian. 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:16.420 This is exactly what Jesus was talking about 00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:19.140 when he said, working out your own salvation. 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.720 All right. You've had the experience of being 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:29.299 born again. You've accepted that Christ is your 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:36.400 personal Savior. From there on out, you work 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:42.890 out your own salvation. How? By keeping his word. 00:18:43.809 --> 00:18:49.549 Keeping his commandments. God isn't going to 00:18:49.549 --> 00:18:53.670 force you to do it. That's one thing about it. 00:18:53.670 --> 00:18:58.130 To the very end, to the last day I live, to the 00:18:58.130 --> 00:19:01.670 last breath that I breathe, one thing I know, 00:19:01.829 --> 00:19:08.250 God will never force me to do a thing. I am not... 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:11.460 forced to give my life as a living sacrifice 00:19:11.460 --> 00:19:13.819 unto Him. I preached the gospel all these many 00:19:13.819 --> 00:19:18.400 years. I can walk away from this microphone right 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:23.819 now and never preach another sermon. I am perfectly 00:19:23.819 --> 00:19:28.000 free to walk out of this studio right now and 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:34.000 never again open the Word of God. I am still 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.940 a free moral agent. I can exercise my own will 00:19:39.940 --> 00:19:45.579 anytime that I want to. I am free to either keep 00:19:45.579 --> 00:19:50.779 his commandment or live contrary to his word. 00:19:52.119 --> 00:20:01.039 And so are you. But my friend, you cannot be 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:06.599 a Christian and think that you are still. a part 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:11.740 of his body, a part of the body of Christ, a 00:20:11.740 --> 00:20:19.839 member of his church, and not keep his commandment, 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:24.400 and not keep his word. I'm saying something. 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.160 Oh, I know you'd rather that I preach on the 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:33.019 love of God, but my friend, this is necessary. 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:37.259 I pray that right now the Holy Spirit will speak 00:20:37.259 --> 00:20:40.980 to your heart. I don't care what you profess. 00:20:42.259 --> 00:20:49.380 You may be partakers of the Holy Spirit. You 00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:57.819 may be partakers of the things of God. But if 00:20:57.819 --> 00:21:04.039 you are not keeping His word, if you are not 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:09.539 keeping His commandments, then you're a phony. 00:21:09.779 --> 00:21:15.019 It's a false life that you're professing. And 00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:20.000 the Bible says you are a liar and the truth is 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:31.240 not in you. That is the Word of God. Amen.