Episode 218: Do I Have Salvation?
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2023
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In this episode we talk about the assurance of salvation. You can know whether or not you are saved! We talk about how you are saved, and how to help others know they are too!
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Can’t wait for y’all to host Tori and Chad Masters that would be amazing. I appreciate your ministry and how you have impacted me personally. God bless you all!
May the Lord bless everyone from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! Being saved comes from a real trust in God!
Incredible!! This has helped give me much more clarity. The devil can whisper so many lies but hearing truths is very helpful.
We are like homeless teenagers who CHOOSE to live on the streets when our parents have invited us back home IF we simply follow house rules.
I wear that shirt to work every week
So i have asked Jesus to be my Lord and savior a million times. I have begged for his forgiveness. Yet i still chose pornography KNOWING its wrong. I still use the F word from time to time. I still listen to secular music. I still lie from time to time. I dont always want to serve. I ask forgiveness for all of this but i still do it. So I have asked Jesus for the holy spirit. Yet I dont see the evidences of it in my life. If there is its tiny. I feel like im trying to be good for acceptance ny behavior. Yet I dont know what else to do. I have blasphemed the holy spirit in thought and even spoken it do i may be sealed for doom as in hebrews. I am really at a loss. I have even questioned his existence at times. I am just worried that no matter when i die God is going to say you never meant it. How do i change my own heart? Im worried im just trying to be good and the holy spirit is not in me. So then what else can i do? Its been 5 years and I feel like my heart is just too hard now. Its almost like numbness now no matter how hard I try. So again im at a loss. All my church has prayed for me and tried to help me. Yet im still willing to do things like look at porn and call it an addiction (which it is) but its not acceptable to God.
Hey man, this is a bit late but the good news is it’s never too late to become one with Jesus. Addiction is a tricky thing. But there’s a key word you used: chose. Every time you sin it’s an active choice to turn away from God. A choice to do evil. You know how sin makes you feel; like a snow cone it’s fun for a second but then you get a brain freeze and it melts and your left with nothing but sticky hands and a soggy piece of paper. Sin (or addiction) gives you that temporary gratification, but once you’ve done it you realize you’ve messed up and you’re flooded with guilt, remorse, low self esteem, no self worth, and worse, the idea that since you’ve already done it you might as well do it again. These are lies from the devil, friend. YOU are Gods child. YOU are my sibling and I know you can do better. Hold yourself to this standard. GOD is worth EVERYTHING. It’s hard to love what you don’t know and it’s easy to turn away from someone you don’t love. Read your Bible, start with John, then all the other Gospels. Spend time with him. The more you know God the more you will love Him and the more you love him the harder it is to turn from him to face your desires. I know it’s easier said then done. I am not perfect. I am clean only by his grace. But I know that you can fight this fight because I fought too and in His name we can win against evil. You’re loved. You matter. But you can’t keep doing this, friend. I also think the more that you understand Jesus and what he’s done for you, you may want to do better to please him, not just to avoid punishment. To hear someone you love say “well done good an faithful servant”. You will never be perfect. But I promise, the second you stop thinking about yourself and “what if I’m punished, what can I do” and start thinking about “God designed me, look what he did”, you’ll realize it isn’t about what you want but what he’s suffered because of you and what you owe him in return. Not because you have to earn the gift, but because the LEAST we can do is reciprocate the love he gives us. Keep fighting, pray that God guides you, put locks on your phone, stay at someone else’s house, do what you need to do to remove yourself from your sin. If you want to change then do it. Hold yourself accountable and keep praying. Everyone has a fight, friend- this is yours. Don’t GIVE up, GET up and run towards Jesus. If you stumble it’s okay, just keep running towards him and never turn back around, he knows his children and he knows your battle. The difference between Christians and others isn’t that Christians don’t sin, it’s that Christian’s FIGHT AGAINST sin while others feed it. To struggle with sin is to battle it, not to let it have its way. Love you.
@renwilson3456 thank you bro. Better response coming. I'm grateful for you. I know everything you said to be true. I've been in and out of recovery for 5 years for porn and i know it is always my choice. I fear, honestly my heart is so hard I can't love Jesus the way he deserves. I feel like I'm faking it a lot or if I feel like I mean it it always goes back to am I being real or not and the truth I can't tell. My mind is messed up bad.
@@renwilson3456i know you were replying to someone else but thank you!! I needed to hear that too and I’m really grateful I saw this comment, God bless :)