PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EXPERIENCE: WHAT IS SOTERI0LOGY: Episode 85

What is Soteriology? This word is one that we will all come to deal with at some point in our lives. This is the Theology of Salvation. In this post I share how I came to understand its importance and make a decision in my life. We have investigated 10,000's of thousand's of cases and this report on this case is the most important I have ever written. I hope this information will be informative to you and help you make a decision as I have. Thank you for liking, sharing and subscribing so more can read this report. 

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Hello, this is a Private Investigator Experience podcast and I'm your host, Phil Little on this channel. I talk about cases that I have worked on over the last 50 years, and then I look back even further to our founding in 1922. For a lot of cases. I think that I have probably have seen about every type of case or problem someone could find themselves in. Part of my thought process that has developed over all these years is that if I have information that I have learned in my work that would help society, I should share it. But would you help me by liking, sharing, and subscribing to help build a channel so more people can hear these reports? I've been thinking a lot about life since longevity, and I checked on the lifespan of a man in America. Am I borrowed? When I see or hear about men in their fifties or sixties, suddenly dropping over from a stroke or heart attack or similar serious illness that causes me to think about my future. Maybe it does. You too. I suspect that many of you, like me, hadn't heard about the thought or title for this post Soteriology Soter is the first part of it, but it will affect each one of us at some point in our lives. When I started my career and would be doing public speaking and. All kinds of groups, events, NGOs, government organizations. Many times after it was over and I would be talking to people, I would get asked, are you a Christian? I hadn't talked about religion or God, but some would say it was well just in my delivery and attitude towards life. I've had the opportunity to work around the world with so many. Different diverse countries. I was raised in a Christian country. I'm obviously in America. Started my work in knowledge around terrorism in Israel and Southern Lebanon, and then I spread out to the four East with all different kinds of backgrounds and religions. Then finally, I wound up in the Muslim world and I learned a lot about life and societies and the difference in people. Even when I was in a lot of these different countries, I would be asked, what is it that's different about you? I just sent something different. What really surprised me, because I wasn't trying to be different, I was really just trying to fit in. When I asked, I heard variations like it seems like there's a light or lightness around you, and you seem so peaceful. Some would say, I feel that you care about me and you aren't trying to sell me anything or change my way of life. What does that all mean? When I wasn't trying to be a certain way, I was just living out how I was raised. As I've been reflecting on my life and my journey, it makes me think about what is life for me and at this time in my life, in my years past the life expectancy about six years. There a God, we've had conversations all over the world in all the countries I've mentioned where people would ask me that question, do you believe in God? And then they would say, what is your God? Like many times we would have deep probing talks about that. Many people would tell me, I don't believe in God. When I hear that, I remember being told by some atheist who had discovered God that it took more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God. I wanna think about that. I think the question is there life after death? What happens when we die? And I think that question probably comes to us more as we get older in. Many of us come to the point in our realization that when we look back at our life expectancy, we're living on borrowed time. Then the next question is there hope after death had anyone know for sure that they will spend aton with God in heaven? Easter just passed. And in a Christian religion, the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb is a foundation and cornerstone of the Christian faith. Without the resurrection, there isn't any Christianity, and I wouldn't be sharing this post today. In a recent post I showed the story of two atheists who set out to prove that God wasn't real. Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel two very. And as they set out over a two year journey to prove that there wasn't a God, they proved that there was without a doubt. As an investigator, all I can do is share the facts and it is up to the client or the wisdom to determine if the facts are true For me, I became a believer at an early age, just I grew up in a Christian home. Now, what prompted me to say yes to God? That I believe in Jesus Christ was God's son who came and died on the cross from my sins and rose from the grave and now sets at the right hand of God interceding for me. I heard a pastor on the radio present a claim to me about who Jesus was, and I said, I wanna accept and receive this free gift of salvation, my testimony. Is that except for the grace of God, there go I, God's been faithful to me, to forgive me when I didn't deserve it. Maybe you can relate to that too, and maybe that's kept you away from God. He's brought me back from the edge of destruction to time and time again, even when it was my fault. Why would he do that? In just a few minutes that I have, I don't wanna make this long. I want to share what Soterilogy really is. It is a doctrine of salvation. Yes, it's a doctrine. Many of us don't want to hear about that. We don't wanna hear about religious terms, but this is not man's word. This is from the scripture of God, the Bible, and interesting to note. We call it the Bible today, but it wasn't a Bible until the fourth century. Prior to that, it was called the scripture or God's word. In these few minutes, I just wanna give you some things to think about, to help you decide where you will spend eternity. I'm just gonna look at seven things quickly that helps tie all this together. The question I would ask, do you know for sure. If you were to die tonight, that you would be in heaven with God. If you aren't, I have some very good news for you on how you can know for sure. There's a list of seven things I have that really describes Soterilogy the doctrine of salvation. First is depravity. We don't wanna hear that word. What do you mean depravity? It means all our sinners. All of us. And I don't think there's any doubt if you look at a small child, a little bitty baby, they suddenly developed mine, mine. And they developed this nature. They didn't caught that. It came with that as we all did, and depravity that we're all sinners being more, than that. But simply put. Listen to this. Without God's mercy, we fall extremely out of being able to approach a Holy God. So we're all sinners. None of us can save ourselves. None. Holy, God's a holy God. Then there's a wrath of God. Wow. What are you talking about, Phil? These are heavy things. This is a judgment of a holy God against all sin, but there's good news. God made a way for us to avoid his wrath, and I found that in my life, and I know lots of other people that have to. It's made me a better investigator by having God as my chief investigator. The wrath of God is a judgment of a holy God against all sin. You say Phil, how can have hope? Next comes the love of God. God has mercy on you and me and all his people. He didn't want us to have to live a life without him or spend an eternity without him. God had made angels and he made all these animals and all these other creatures, but there was none that had us soul or had a free will. When he decided to make man, and he made a man and a woman that he just said I want them to have free will. I know this is a gamble, but I'm going to allow them to choose me. I don't want'em to follow me like the Angels and obey or not have a free will. I'm going to trust them. I'll give him the freedom to say even no to me. You have that freedom. I have that freedom. But God says, I've made a way, and I'm gonna tell you about that in just a minute. Then there's the atonement. What is the atonement? God, in the Old Testament, prior to Jesus had a blood sacrifice. And every year there had to be a perfect animal sacrifice. That was. Forgive the sins of the people, and the priest would present that in the hallway of hallways. But he said, I don't want that to have to continue. I need to have a perfect sacrifice that for one time and for all time, it will be that the people receive that sacrifice, accept it, then they won't have to pay the price by shedding their blood because without the shedding of blood. There is no atonement for sin. Then the next part of God's love for us and the theology of salvation is the forgiveness. Forgiveness. Our debt is canceled by the sacrifice of Jesus. All those things we've done wrong. Every little thing I've had so many people tell me, Hey, Phil. I don't really I'm not that bad. I haven't done any major sins or crimes. I, I mine some of, but I try really hard. I try to treat people right and all that, not good enough. Even one little lie is too much. God cannot accept you or me. He's forgiven our debts, canceled our sins. Called justification. It's caused allowing Christ and his righteousness and the price he paid on the cross to be transferred to us. What did God do? God said, I'm gonna send my son. He's perfect. I wanna put him in the form of a man. He was born to a Virgin Mary and he was born stable. He lived a life of 33 years on this earth, and for that first 30 years, he was just a normal man growing up. He was a young man. He did all the things that any young man would do in that time, and he worked with his father who was a carpenter, and he made one difference. He never sinned. He was tempted as we were, but he was able to avoid that by knowing his God with therefore him. And he had so much trust in his God and faith in his God as Father God, that he didn't want to disappoint him. And when he got to the age 30, he started the ministry of telling people why he came, that he came, that they might have life and have it more abundantly, that they might have eternal life. And he chose willingly to go to the cross to pay the price for your sins and mind. And that was what last weekend was about on Easter Sunday. On Friday, he was put on the cross at three in the afternoon he died and he was put in a tomb. But on Sunday morning, he rose again. He came out of the tomb's empty. And in that last post I did about that, you can, if you want to check that out, you can find the fact that proves that the resurrection really happened. So Jesus paid the price for your sin and for mine. Everything we've ever done or thought about doing. Then comes sanctification. What is San Sanctification? If we receive Jesus is our Lord and Savior and he paid the price for our sins. It's the first day. That's the first step every day. Then we grow and learn more about him. Wanna serve him better, wanna do things for him. Now I like this. It's not my works of righteousness that we have been Saved Nothing that we can do could be good enough. But listen to this, I think this fits it pretty well. We're not saved by work. But we saved to work our deeds that we do. What I'm sharing with you here doesn't get me any points in heaven. I'm just doing it because I found something that changed my life. I found something that set me free. I found something that's. to spend with God and with all of those of my family and everybody I know that already knows Jesus. That's all. Nothing that we can do to make God love us anymore. So, remember, we've all sinned. fall short of the glory, God, all of us need a savior. It's this information and it's really condensed. I know, but if this has prompted you, it makes some sense to you. You want to know for sure if you were to die tonight, that you would be in heaven with God right now by asking you pray something. God, I believe you are the creator of all things that you love me and made a way for me to be forgiven of my sins. I believe that Jesus, your son, came to earth, lived with the band, went to the cross and shed his blood for my sins. He died that I might have to. I repent of all my sins and I turn from them. I ask you to come into my heart. He might savior your Lord. I give my life to you and ask you to help me from the day forward, but live for you. Thank you for your gift of eternal life. If you prayed that prayer and ask God to forgive you, and it came from your heart. Your name is written in the Lamb's book Life now. This is the first day of the rest of your life and if you've made this decision, I would love to hear about it, be able to pray with you. Send me that my. email@plittlepi777@gmail.com or you can leave comments on any of the platforms. Now if you have questions you're not really sure and you would, that's something you would like to hear more clarification about, send that to me on the platform or at my email and I will be happy to get back to you. Share anything I can that might help you understand. I love my work in investigations counter-terrorism intelligence gathering and traveling the world. These facts I have presented to you today, the most important report I have ever written if it's been helpful. Would you like, share, subscribe. So more can hear the report. Remember, God loves you. I pray that God will bless you, your family, and give you hope for your future and for your life with him.