Am I saved by Jesus Christ, how do I know for sure_ [The Bride of Christ]

This is a place where we talk about the bible. Jason Ryan Smurzynski looks into the Word of the Lord and just like you, desires to know what is actually going on. The Holy Spirit will open your ears to hear the truth and your minds to understand scripture. Together we will explore portions of the Bible that you don't normally hear at Sunday service at church. The veil will be lifted and the mystery of Jesus Christ will be explained.
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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hey guys, what's up? I am Dark Desert Highway. And today we have a guest speaker, Timothy Hall from Reverend Hall Ministries. Hello to you.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hi. Hi, everybody. Um I'm Reverend Hall, and uh everybody calls me TJ, so feel free to call me TJ.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Alright, I'll have to write that down so I remember to call you TJ. Um so today we're gonna be talking about our am I saved. Am I saved? And we we didn't really have a format for this, so we can go in any direction that we want. I would love to hear you start. Um that would be amazing. That way I could see where you're going with it.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Okay. Um well, I just want to say I thank you for the opportunity, you know, to be here and to uh be able to share the word. It's a blessing, it is a huge blessing, and I consider myself uh humbly privileged. Um thank you. I also want to say uh I'm in my truck and I I don't know, but if anybody out there doesn't have a Bible in their truck, get you a Bible, man. That is one of the things you gotta keep around with you, because you know, you gotta take the word of the Lord with you. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God, and you gotta have that with you at all times. You know, you're sitting in traffic, maybe you just want to read something, a scripture or something. It it's very good to have a Bible in your truck or your car. But anyway, um I've got kind of a little twist on this, and um because when we were talking the other night, this is the direction that the Lord told me to go with this. And so I'm gonna start with Matthew 6, 24, and um Matthew chapter 6 and verse 24, and it says, No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate one to one and despise the other. He cannot serve God and mammon. Heavenly Father, I thank you today for your blessings. I thank you for your goodness. Lord, I pray that you anoint this, and I pray that the Spirit of God would flow through me in your precious and holy name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

It says that no man can serve two masters. Well, what does it have to do with salvation? You cannot serve God and serve this world at the same time and expect to be saved. You cannot do it. And where does that come into play when our spiritual well-being is at is up for grab, so to speak, because when we look at this world and we look at everything that is going on around us, and you see all these things starting to come into order and all this evil presence, you can't even flick a bugger outside without hitting something evil anymore. I mean, there's ch it's just everywhere. And there's so many masters out there that people are trying to serve, whether you're trying to serve a Buddha, I I never did understand about rubbing his belly, but or that fella with all the arms and the legs, I I don't I don't know about that either. But you can try to serve whatever God you want, but you cannot expect to go to heaven, and you cannot expect to say that you are saved if you are serving these other gods. The only way that you can go to heaven and you can consider yourself to be saved is if you are a blood-covered Christian by God's son's blood. If you are covered, try saying that five times fast. If you are covered by the blood of Jesus, if you are covered by his forgiveness, of his mercy, if you have confessed in your life that Jesus Christ is Lord, then you can say you're saved. But you cannot dabble in the things of this world, which is the mammon part at the end there. You cannot serve God and mammon. What is that? Rich, wealthy, or material possessions. Okay, there's nothing wrong with having things. It's nice to have a roof over your head, it's nice to have a nice car to drive. There's nothing wrong with having nice things, it becomes an issue. It becomes an issue when we decide to put these things above God. When we decide that we want to keep these riches and wells, and that is our main focus in life, that is our goal. How many of us really would go to the extreme of sleeping on the sidewalk in the name of the Lord?

unknown 5:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

How many of us would sleep on a bench if the Lord said, That's what I need you to do, to be able to see these people saved, to see their lives changed? How many of us would actually go to that extreme and say, I am willing, Lord, to sleep on a bench, I am willing to do whatever it takes to see somebody escape the damnation of hell? Honestly, I don't know. I I kind of like the roof over my head. That's kind of a nice thing to have. I like the air conditioning. It's pretty hot, it's pretty humid, it comes in handy. But if the Lord actually called us to do that, what if he told us, I need you to go there and I need you to do that? Would you be willing to give up your material possessions to serve God as it says? Because you cannot serve God and have and serve the riches or material possessions of this world. You cannot do it. You have to make a choice. You want to know whether you're saved, you want to know whether you're you're covered by God's blood. There's only one way to truly know, and that is to submit yourself unto God.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

I got a scripture for you that came up to my mind while you were speaking about that. Romans 616 says, um, don't you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one that you obey, either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Yes. Yes, that is right. I'm trying to get there. Um my Bible is really good, but it's you know, I'm getting old and it's a little tiny.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

You're you're gonna want to keep your analog, you're you're analog in the digital age, man.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

I mean, I mean, yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Yeah, so uh we can't w whatever we yield ourselves to, we make ourselves slave of, whether that's pornography or alcohol or drugs or women or men. You know, um, you know, so it's it's what we practice, and I and I keep bringing this back, it's what we practice in our daily lives. It 100% matters how we live our life. Every single time that Israel was captured, that Judah was captured, it was because of the way that they were leading their lives, and God brought the sword. It was the Lord who brought the sword, the watchman. The watchman um uh scripture uh says, you know, if you see the core sword coming, and that sword was the Lord's sword, that wasn't the sword of the enemy, you know. So it was his punishment on his people because they did not obey God, you know. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

That's right. And um there's a lot of times that we are so heart set and we're so s incredibly stubborn in our in our ways, and especially me, I have OCD, but I'm very stubborn in my ways just as a person, but it takes almost a mule kick sometimes to be able to get us to acknowledge that hey, the Lord's trying to tell us something, he's been trying to tell us something for a while. He's saying that our ways are not lining up with his ways, and something has got to change. And um, I had another scripture here I wanted to read, if that's okay. Yeah, um you adulterous people, it's James 4 and 4. Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, so whosoever wishes wishes and yeah, to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. If you are trying to befriend the world, you're trying to befriend the riches, you know, the the Bible talks about one time um with Peter that um I'm trying to think of his name, but he had a guy that was with him the whole time during his ministry. Or no, it was Paul, I'm so sorry. It was Paul. He was with him the whole time with his ministry, and the Bible says that he left him eventually, having loved this present world. He saw the lights and the things in the Yes, Demas was his name. He said he saw the lights and everything in the city, and he left Paul knowing now, knowing the goodness of God, knowing that he could potentially take away all the things that meant everything to his soul. Knowing all that, demons decided, I'm taking a turn and I'm going back. I I just I really like all the things I'm seeing. I want to get out there and I want to experience those things. And unfortunately, he did. He's only mentioned twice in the Bible. He's only mentioned twice because it says one time that um Paul was writing and he said, Demas is here with me, and we know that he was with him through his travels, and then all of a sudden He just took a took a turn, you know, and decided that, hey, I like this I like this world better than I do the the whole ministry thing. I like this world better than I do this whole this whole going around traveling, kind of a moving about lifestyle. I can't take it anymore. I'd rather just sit down, drink, be happy, be merry, and wait for death. You know, and that's really the mentality of people today. Drink, be merry, for tomorrow, we're all gonna die. They don't they don't think about the long-term consequences of their soul. Am I saved? I really hope so. I really hope you are.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

I got I got that scripture. Uh Ezekiel chapter 33 says, The word of the Lord came to me, Son of Man, speak to your people and tell them, suppose I bring the sword against the land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman. And suppose he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet to warn the people, then if anyone hears the sound of the trumpet but ignores the warning, and the sword comes to take him away, his death will be his own fault. So whose whose sword is it? It's the sword of the Lord, it's not the sword of the enemy. God is ready to punish disobedience, and that isn't that what he says. He says, uh you're storing up for yourselves wrath at the end of the day. You know. So I struggle. I struggle against the flesh myself, but I I make it a point to to not touch the thing. Don't touch the the idols, don't touch your don't touch yourself, don't touch anybody, don't touch anything. You know, just be holy. Be holy is the whole idea.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

You know, and the thing is they they think that I I don't know, I say they, but I mean as a uh whole, the whole Christian Christian community has this ideal that the preacher behind the pulpit has to be perfect. I'm not. Yeah, I'm not even close to being perfect. I am so far from perfect, I'm looking I I'd be happy just to swim and be able to see perfect on the other side of the ocean. You know, I mean I'm I'm trying my best every single day to live better than I was the day before. I'm trying to keep everything in check. I mean, I'm trying to do everything that I know that it's right, but I still fail. I'm still gonna make mistakes, I still have flesh, I still have things that are just gonna eat at me because we all have weaknesses. And I'm not saying by any means that nobody doesn't have a weakness at all because we are all gonna falter, we are all gonna fail, but the good news is that when we do, God is right there to hold us, He is right there to help us. No one has to die in sin. No one. That's what I'm afraid of, dying in my sin. Yes, and I am too. I mean, I'm afraid that one day, you know, that I know the Lord is so wonderful and so forgiving and so kind and merciful, but I'm afraid we let me put it this way. We've all sat there and said that I will we've probably all prayed the same prayer, I'll be faithful, Lord, to the end. Nothing is gonna stop me. Hold on, honey, the devil's coming your way.

unknown 14:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

Because the minute you say you're gonna try to be faithful to God 100% and nothing will stop you, you better get ready. Because by God's grace, nothing will keep you from the throne of the Lord, nothing will keep you from the feet of the cross. By God's grace and mercy, to you, none of that will happen. We will not falter, we will not go away. But the reality is I had a dark period where I did go away. I nothing went the way it should. Nothing in my life at the time. I was um proclaimed disabled, had a couple back surgeries, and that was the end of that, you know, you can't walk. Um well, you can walk, you just don't do it very good. Yeah. You kinda you kinda hob along. And the only thing I had left was the church. I lost that because they came to me and said we don't need a cripple. Wow. Okay. Wow. Yeah. And so I lost my job and I didn't have any money, lost the church, eventually lost my family. I'm sorry. Because the the oh no, it's fine. It's just that's kind of a series of events, you know, that caused me to go astray. Um, I couldn't I couldn't uh stay strong enough because I just felt like everything was ripped away from me. But then I realized I made a promise to God one day and I said, This is after you know, I had been astray for some time and I said, Lord, I will start just by reading one scripture a day, and I'm not saying anything else. I'm just gonna read one scripture a day and we'll just go from there. And it changed my life. Because those scriptures had the power of God behind them. What I'm saying is everybody's gonna make mistakes, everybody's gonna falter, everybody's gonna fail, you're gonna make mistakes, I'm gonna make mistakes, I do it all the time. Um it's part of human nature that we are going to falter, but I'm so glad that Jesus was born sinless, remained sinless, so I could accept salvation, so I could have a way of escape from the damnation of hell.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

Well, that reminds me of a scripture in uh first John 2 1, my little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father. Yes, Jesus Christ the righteous one. He himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, not only for ours, but also for the whole world. Yes, uh you know, and along our topic, how do we know we're saved? The next verse says this is how we know that we know him, if we keep his commands. That's right. Key scripture, keep my commands. I've been focusing on that scripture a lot lately. Yes. If you love him, uh if you love him, he said, Keep my commandments, and I will manifest myself. Me and my father will come and make our home with you.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

That's right. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. It is truly such a wonderful thing to know that regardless of all the garbage that comes against us, that we have an advocate with a father, that when we do mess up, when we have those moments where we're gonna have lust for mammon, you know, where you just want a little bit more than what you got now. The Bible tells a story of a certain rich man that just kept getting so much stuff and so much stuff and so much stuff, and instead of helping people with all the stuff that he had, he decided to big bigger bigger and better barns to be able to store the stuff. And the Bible said Jesus said that day your soul will be accounted for you. That day you're gonna have to give an account of your soul because why? All you care about is rich, wealth, material possessions. That's all you worried about. You didn't care about serving the Lord. You can't serve two gods in one quack. And the way I'm pertaining this to I am I saved. You can know you're saved when you're serving the Lord. You know you're saved when you don't have any other master but God in your life. When he is truly everything to you, you know you're saved. It's more someone asked me, debated with me a while back about um how do you actually know the proof of salvation. I said, it's more than just a euphoric experience. It's more than a drug high that you can get. It is a spiritual change inside of you. It is something deep in you that you cannot explain to anybody. It's something that just completely takes your life and makes it into something brand new. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

I like um one of my scriptures I chose for this was Ephesians 1 13 through 14, which says, In him you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession to the praise of his glory. So the res the receiving of the Holy Spirit is our first evidence of our salvation toward toward the Lord. When we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, and we believe in our hearts that God rose rose him from the dead, we receive a gift. God gives us the evidence that what we came to believe and know about God was true.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

That's right. Give us the Holy Spirit. The Bible says he comes as a comforter, and that Jesus said, Whenever I go and I must go to prepare a house for you, you know, um, I'm not gonna leave you comfortless. I'm gonna send a comforter, that Holy Ghost. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Amen. So we got um uh do you have uh another scripture to throw out there?

SPEAKER_00 21:48

I don't. That's what I had. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Okay. All right. Well, I got um that I did Romans ten, nine, and ten. Uh let's see, uh first John five. One through five says everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. This is how we know that we love God's children when we love God and obey his commands. There it is again. For this is what the love of God is to keep his commands, and his commands are not a burden, because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that has conquered the world, our faith. Yeah, I already did that. I got it. I got it on here double. Um first John four. And he in us, he has given us of his spirit. So the Holy Spirit is a is a major component to our salvation. Um and and like I said, um God gives us these evidences to let us know that what we had faith in um is i the the reality uh of of his existence. But he asks us to have faith first. Have faith, and I will provide you with the evidence of your faith in the form of the Holy Spirit. And then every once in a while you get to see behind the veil. As you grow up in the knowledge of God, you realize that you know, Stephen, when he was being stoned, he said, I looked up and saw heavens opened, and there was the Son of Man standing at the right hand of the Father. And um so he got to see behind the veil. And where was he? He just looked up, he's right, he's right there, you know. I mean, we got we got the angels, um, they're all around us. We got the demons, they're all around us. I'm I'm telling you, you can hit heaven with a rock if you threw it at, you know. Um, so it's very close. And that's what he said. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, you know. We just we forgot how close heaven was when when when the people asked for a king, that's when they gave up the Lord as the the authority over that people group, Israel and Judah. Um the people the people asked for a king. And actually, um, yeah, yeah. So um so they substituted the knowledge of God's kingdom and the the proximity of God's kingdom for a king that they could see. And what did God say to uh Samuel? He said, Look, don't be mad with them, they're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Yes, they are, and it goes right along with what I was saying, you know. Um, because the spirit of the Lord is what will show you and keep you from committing some of these sins, you know, of the world. When you have certain um things in your life that try to come up and try to um like you're not say you're an ex-alco alcoholic, you know, the devil will just put that right in your way. He will put um drugs right in your way, he will give you all the opportunity that anyone ever needs. But the spirit of the Lord inside of you will sustain you until the day of his coming. And we know this because we feel the conviction every time we start to even think about going back that way. It is just incredible because there are so many different things to that the Lord does with the Holy Ghost. I mean, it's just it's amazing, completely amazing.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

So let's see how we we get the Holy Ghost. Let's see that. Let's look in uh Acts two. Um, because if this is a major component of our lives, I believe the people need to know how do I receive him? Let's look at Acts 2, 38 through 39. Did you want to read that one?

SPEAKER_00 26:44

38 through 39. Yeah. And it says, and Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, everyone, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and he and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, everyone who the Lord our God calls to himself absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing. Baptize everyone in the name of Jesus and the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the Holy Spirit. It's right there for anyone that wants to receive it. It's a promise that God gave us that if you want to receive the Spirit of the Lord, you want that Holy Ghost inside of you, then He is not hesitant to baptize His people in the Holy Ghost, and there's evidence of it.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Yes, yes. Um Ezekiel thirty-six, let's look what what God will do for us, twenty-five through twenty-seven says, I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean, and I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols, and I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will place my spirit within you, and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances. I got a lot of scriptures here. Uh, not not too many, maybe like four more. Second Corinthians chapter one, twenty-one through twenty-two, if you want to read that one. One uh what? Twenty-one through twenty-two. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Um and it is God who established us with you in Christ and has anointed us, and who hath also put his seal on us and given us his spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Mine says down payment, you know. And I like that down payment verse. You know, this is this is the down payment of your salvation. So having the Holy Spirit is a great indicator of whether we're saved or not. And I believe that, see, I can feel the Spirit. Like He comes around. I know that He lives in us, but every once in a while he'll he'll touch me and I'll be like, Whoa, the Holy Spirit's here, you know?

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Yeah. Yeah. And there's it it happens at the randomest moment sometimes, you know, when um and I find myself um, you know, like even when I go watching TV or something, and the Spirit of the Lord will say, you know, no. That's don't do it. Don't watch that. And I'm sitting there thinking, it it says it's clean. And you know, I don't know about you, but I've debated with the Lord before over many things. It's like, but Lord, it it's really good. It's kind of my favorite actor. No, you know, I mean, we try to negotiate with the Spirit of the Lord sometimes, and we try to, you know, get the Lord to almost change his mind, but he knows what is so much better for us. And I'm so thankful for those moments where he tells us um those things to change our mind and change our heart because he knows how to protect us. And that's one quality of the Holy Ghost. You know, he's not only um a into the spirit of the Lord or into the ways of God, but he's also a protector. He gives you conviction at the moments when we need them the most. So thankful for it.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Yeah, I uh I recently uh kind of f felt feel disconnected from the Holy Spirit personally. I need to read my Bible more. I need to chase him. Aren't we leaky vessels? You know, we we get filled. I had an experience with the Lord, and I was like I was full of testimony because he got so close to me. I was like, I was like overflowing, it was just pouring out of my mouth. I couldn't I couldn't stop talking about him. And um you know, and lately I feel a little bit distant from him. I know he's there and the connection is there. Um so um but but I have to continue seeking him. I have to search for him, and I think that's not what that's that's what I'm not doing. He says, if you search for me with all of my heart, all of your heart, you will find me. You know, so um he's he's ready to be found, but I need to put it in my my I need to position myself to seek after him, and then when I do that, he'll be found by me.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

That's right. I like the word the one word in that you will will it it's not just you could possibly be better off, you could possibly um find me. No, you will find me. Exactly if you seek for me, you will. Praise God. That's powerful. Exactly. That is powerful.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

But you know, I I also like your point. Um, you know, uh that we can't get sidetracked by the world. Um, you know, the things that we practice, um, you know, they have an effect on us. They they create distance between us and God, you know, in our relationship with Him.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

And the ideal was um, am I saved? Well, you cannot consider yourself to be a Christian just because you go to church, or you cannot consider yourself to be saved just because you post something on Facebook that says something spiritual. Salvation comes from true repentance. Salvation comes when we do as Peter did. Whenever Peter heard, denied Jesus three times, cursed, then he heard the rooster crow. Okay? What did he do? The Bible says he went out and he wept bitterly, not just said a little five-second prayer, but he wept. I mean, he wanted God to know and Jesus know that I am so sorry for not being there in that moment that you needed me the most. That is the biggest key to repent and know that we truly are serving a loving God. How do you know you're saved? How do you know that you're on your way to heaven? Nobody can tell you you're saved. I can't. I can't sit here and tell you you're saved. I can simply tell you how to get there and I can tell you how to receive the Lord, but I can't tell you you're saved because that comes from the Lord of God Almighty. He is the Savior. How do we know? How do we know then? We have the evidence of the Spirit of the Lord. We have the evidence that we know that when we prayed, that we prayed not only to Jesus, but we prayed through and got to the throne of heaven. You know, I like it when they talk about the woman with the issue of blood. He was surrounded by people and put one person, you know, he there was people touching him all the time, and that would be enough to drive me crazy. But uh anyway, there was people touching him all the time, and but yet he said, Someone touched me. Someone broke through, and they actually touched me because they needed me, and that's the difference. That's what makes the difference.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

Amen. I agree with that.

unknown 35:22

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

I I like uh uh Second Corinthians chapter six, it says, What agreement does six verse sixteen? What agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore, what are we supposed to do? Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Yes. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

The next verse says, So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and sp and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Yes. I love them, and I will welcome you in that wonderful. Since the since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. Holiness to completion. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. That is so wonderful. So wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Amen. So I'm out of scriptures. Um uh and um I I just wanted to let you know. Um I wanted to let every anybody who's who's listening to this know that that God is is alive. Jesus is alive. He died and rose again. Let's look at Romans chapter 10, verse, verse um uh nine and ten. You want to read that one?

SPEAKER_00 37:15

If I can get there in time.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So uh how do we how do we do it? What prayer do you pray? What what conclusion do we need to come to in order to invite Jesus into our life? In Romans 10, 9 and 10, that's how I was saved. I was saved by 10, 9 and 10, and I didn't even know the scripture. I just did what the scriptures said to do.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

That's right. And it says, Because if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead, you will, there's that word again, will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth, confession made unto salvation. And then it goes down to verse 13, which I like. It says, For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And at the end of every sermon I do, I always say, All you have to do is call upon the name of the Lord anytime, any place, and he's right there for you. You don't have to be in an old-fashioned altar. You you know, you don't have to be surrounded by, and there's nothing wrong with that. I praise God for him. But anytime, any place, God is right there for you. He is trying his best to do the things that he came on earth to do. You know, the salvation, he's trying to see people saved. And he chose preachers and teachers to try to bring that message about. How do you pray the prayer? It's simple. You just believe it in your heart. That's what it says. Believe in your heart and confess it with your mouth. If you confess it, well, then let's be honest. You can confess things all day long and it's not gonna mean anything. I can confess that I can run ten mile, you know, ten miles, and the reality is I'd be lucky to run one or run down in the mailbox and back. Yeah, well, I got a big hill going down mine, so I I don't know if I could make I might I might could roll down there, but we can confess things with our mouth all day long, but we can't honestly say that they're gonna do us any good, and they may not be true, and they may not be factual. The only way is to believe it in our hearts.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

Amen. Amen. So it was great to have you here. Uh, I really enjoyed our talk together. Um, you don't need to you don't need to hang up right after here, but I'm just gonna say goodbye. Go ahead and uh do you have any conclusions for this? I just want to pray.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

Can we do that?

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Yeah, let's pray.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

Uh Heavenly Father, I thank you today. And Lord, I pray that these words minister to each and everyone that hears it. Lord, anybody that needs a touch from you, anybody who's questioning, am I saved? And Lord, I pray that you would touch them in a precious and mighty way. And Lord, I pray if there's one person out there that heard this message and that knows that they felt some conviction in their heart, Lord, that they felt something different inside of them, and they want to be saved. Lord, we pray together that they would pray this prayer with us, that if they believe in their heart that you are the Son of God, that you came to earth, was crucified on a cross for us, Lord, and you came and you died and you rose again on the third day. The Bible says if we confess it with our mouth and believe it in our heart, then we are saved. Praise God, praise God. Amen. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

Amen.