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Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P62 (03-11-25)

Don’t Come Under the Judgement of Anyone, Especially Those That Are Unspiritual

~ “Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind. He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.” Colossians 2:16-19

There are those today that will try and judge you, based on their fake hypocritical obedience to the law, and your living in freedom from the law. How many times have we heard the words spoken by people that you know in your spirit don’t even know the Lord, and they will say things like, “And you call yourself a Christian, yet you do this, or do that…” as though because they don’t do something (so they say) and they look at us as not obeying the law. It may even be something as those that think they are better than you because they go to a church on Sunday, and listen to Satan’s lies from false ministers of righteousness. They love puffing themselves up in front of you. And that is what Paul had to deal with too, when he went back to Jerusalem. He had to deal with people that thought they were better than others because of what they themselves did. When Paul went to Jerusalem, and these hypocrites that were attempting to trap Paul, just like they did with Jesus. They accused Paul with their word traps. “Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.” Acts 15:1-3 Doesn’t this sound just like today? Unless you are water baptized you cannot be saved is what they say. Or, unless you ask for forgiveness, you cannot be saved. Unless you go to “church” on Sundays, you cannot be saved. Unless you do do do this or that you cannot be saved. There is nothing new under the sun. People are still attempting to live under a law that they themselves nor their ancestors could ever keep. They are evil hypocrites that they themselves are NOT saved, and it is obvious that they don’t even know what salvation is. Salvation is LIFE.

“Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.” For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

“Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles;

I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says:

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again:

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,

and extol Him, all you peoples.”

And once more, Isaiah says:

“The Root of Jesse will appear,

One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles;

in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about Him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you, I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

The God of peace be with all of you. Amen. Romans 15:1-33

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “They’ve been informed. Now here’s just some guy that’s told about this great thing that God has done to the Gentile world, and all they can talk about is, do you see how many Hebrews are also saved, and they’re all zealous for the law, and they’ve been told that you teach the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, so they got after him immediately. About all they got out of their mouth was Praise God. Now let me tell you something, Paul, isn’t that just like people who don’t give a flip about what’s going on. It’s kind of like when you healed the blind man. All I can tell you, you spit on the Sabbath. Praise God, the blind man got to see, but you spit. You made mud on the Sabbath. And for that, I’m going to stone you. That’s all they can think about, is you broke my law, the law, the law, the law. Law, tradition, tradition, tradition. This is the way we do things. And so he said, they’ve been informed, Paul, that you teach all the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses. So you’re not only telling the Gentiles, but you’re telling the Hebrews who live among them turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our what? Customs. Do you see, folks? How deep customs get into your soul? Customs.” ~ Bob George

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They’ve been informed. Now here’s just some guy that’s told about this great thing that God has done to the Gentile world, and all they can talk about is, do you see how many Hebrews are also saved, and they’re all zealous for the law, and they’ve been told that you teach the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, so they got after him immediately. About all they got out of their mouth was Praise God. Now let me tell you something, Paul, isn’t that just like people who don’t give a flip about what’s going on. It’s kind of like when you healed the blind man. All I can tell you, you spit on the Sabbath. Praise God, the blind man got to see, but you spit. You made mud on the Sabbath. And for that, I’m going to stone you. That’s all they can think about, is you broke my law, the law, the law, the law. Law, tradition, tradition, tradition. This is the way we do things. And so he said, they’ve been informed, Paul, that you teach all the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses. So you’re not only telling the Gentiles, but you’re telling the Hebrews who live among them turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our what? Customs. Do you see, folks? How deep customs get into your soul? Customs.

We were talking to a little girl from France, it’s in a little deli that we eat in on Sunday and lot of other days and but she was talking about wanting to find a church, and she came out of a Catholic background, said she went to church there, didn’t like it, and then she went to another church. She said it just wasn’t like church. It didn’t have a pulpit. I was thinking to myself, Well, you wouldn’t like ours either way, do you came in saw this, but you know, people come into here and they say, this a church? Why? Because you know what a church is? A church is a place with a pulpit, a choir loft, pews, and that’s why they call them pews, or so many dead people are sitting in them, and so they’re Pew, pew. You don’t get to get that guys now, but that’s the church and stained glass. We do have a little of that got a high ceiling. That’s helpful. But people come in here and look at this and they say, this is weird. This is just plain weird. Tables, chairs, people sitting there with a is that a Dairy Queen thing? Yeah? Dairy Queen? Yeah, on a table in church. And that’s how people perceive church. Is this a place where you got to come be holy? And you know, you walk into places like that in European churches and places, man, it’s like a tomb. But that’s what church is. Those are customs, folks. And these are the very thing that they were saying, Paul, you’re teaching against those things. Well, I don’t think Paul was teaching against them at all. I just think they’re just irrelevant. They don’t make a difference. If a Hebrew, as an example, wants to celebrate a Day of Atonement, if they want to celebrate the day that that the Hebrews were freed from Egypt today as a Christian, nothing wrong with that. That’s celebrating my people, if I was a Hebrew, and that was the day that, years and years ago, my people got freed out of Egypt and sent into the desert, where they remained for 40 years before they ever went into the promised land. And I’m going to celebrate that. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a celebration. If I wanted to celebrate the day that my dad got his law degree, I could do that. Didn’t have anything to do with God, but I could celebrate it if we wanted to. We can celebrate Christmas if we don’t. No big deal. It’s just celebrating the day Christ was born, 25th have a significance to it? Probably not just a day. Anything wrong with celebrating it? Nothing at all, but it, it’s it ain’t going to make you closer to God. And that’s all Paul was saying. Is these traditions, they’re fine, but they’re not going to save you.

And so here he is going in to give a great report on all the Gentiles who’ve come to Christ, and immediately they’re in his face. Well, he said, that’s what they’re saying about you, Paul. So he said, Now what are we going to do? Because they’re going to hear you’re here and you’re going to be in some big trouble, so they will certainly hear that you’ve come. So do what we tell you to do now. Here’s the church telling Paul we’re now, here’s you’re going to do what we tell you to do. Well, they probably had a better idea as what was going on there in Jerusalem that Paul did, who just came back to Jerusalem after a long journey. And so he said, there are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men. So he said these, there’s some guys here that have made a vow. I want you to take them, join in their purification rights and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. So whatever a haircut was back in those days, they wanted Paul to pay for it.

Now, if you turn back to the 18th Chapter of the book of Acts, you’ll see in the 18th Chapter, where Paul had also made a vow, and it talks about the fact that he made a vow, and it talks about the fact that he had his head shaved at that time, or a haircut. It, and it talks about that in that 18th Chapter of the book of Acts. So he had already been through a so called purification right. Now, he said, What is this vow? And the answer that is, nobody knows, and there isn’t anybody that can tell you what those vows were. But people would sometimes make a vow. They would shave their head, and then they couldn’t do a sacrifice for 30 days. So there was a there was a tradition to these vows that seemed to show that you were a devout Hebrew. And so he paid for these people. I don’t think he had his head cut necessarily at that time, because he had already made a vow back in chapter 18. But he said, If you go with these men, you’re going to show that you acknowledge what they’re going to do and pay for their haircuts, so to speak, then everybody will know that there’s no truth in these reports about you, that you’re against the traditions and the traditions of man and against the teaching of Moses, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. Now that’s what they said that will show.

Now, Paul was thinking to himself, I don’t care whether that shows that or not, if that does and that can give me a little bit more time to proclaim the gospel to these poor, lost souls. Why I don’t mind doing this at all. I don’t mind going through a tradition in order to get the gospel out. Remember when Paul said, when you’re in Rome, do as the Romans do. So to speak, he said to the people who were under the law, I became like one under the law, although I’m not under it. And to the Gentiles who do not have the law, I became like one not under the law. He said, I will become all things to all people in order to get the gospel out. So doing some of these tradition things didn’t bother him at all. It would be like if I wanted to save somebody in a Catholic church, or I wanted this, and I went in and crossed myself a deal. No big deal. No big deal. Do that. If you want to, want to go down, light a candle. Go light a candle. No big deal. Doesn’t mean anything, does it? Got a little light in the place, so on these kind of things. It means nothing. But so if you can do that, and in so do it saying, Hey, I’m not against that. Why? Because I want to tell you what’s real. I want to be able to get with you without a stumbling block and tell you the truth of the gospel about Christ, Jesus. So a lot of times, we get all hung up on these peripheral issues that have no meaning to them at all, and we just act as if it would just be terrible if we ever did in heaven. He’s saying, it’ll make endurance, whether you do it or not. It’s like sacrificed idols. And I know there aren’t any idols. He said, no big deal. We know better than that. But if you if somebody really believes that there are idols and there’s been a sacrifice made to him, don’t eat in front of them. It’ll be a stumbling block. You see the law of love that he’s talking about here? And so they said, everybody will know the truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. As for the Gentile believers is for them. He said, we’ve written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrifice to idols, even though Paul said, we know there’s not idols, from blood from the meat of strangled animals. In other words, don’t drink the blood of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. That’s the only thing we’ve asked the Gentile Christians to do. And you know that those are pretty easy for some people to abstain from food, sacrificed to idols, from drinking of blood and from sexual immorality.

Now, does that mean that they can’t do those things or to we’ve written a decision that they should abstain. Was that good information not to be drinking blood. Yeah, that’s good. Nothing wrong with that sexual immorality. Is that functioning in love? No, that didn’t function in love. You’re involved in sexual immorality. So all he’s doing here is say is follow the law of love. Now the next day, Paul took the men, these four men that he was talking about, and purified himself along with them, went through probably baptismal waters of purification, and then went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end, as I said, and then the offering would be made for each and every one of them. So there was about a 30 day span between the day a vow was made and where you could not offer a sacrifice. So they would announce the day that the day of purification began, knowing that 30 days later they’d be free to make a sacrifice. When the seven days were nearly over, some Hebrews from the province of Asia, they saw Paul at the temple. Now, you can imagine, all of a sudden, Paul was a well known man by now. He was a man who had was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He was a man who, all of a sudden, said he had a experience on the road to Damascus and saw Jesus. And his whole life was changed. A man who was a persecutor of the church now became an advocate of people to come to Christ, Jesus, and in so doing, they thought was teaching against Moses and against the traditions of the Hebrews. And he was an enemy. He was a hated enemy, just like Stephen was a hated enemy. Why? Because he loved people. Isn’t that something they hate. Somebody over they hate they love people. Talked about Jesus, talked about being free. People in bondage hate that kind of a message. They don’t like freedom. We like bondage. And so they stirred up the whole crowd, and they seized him, shouting, Men of Israel, help us. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people. Now, this is a Hebrew. If he was teaching against our people, he would be teaching against himself. He wasn’t teaching against the people. He was teaching against their stupid religious system that they were hung up on without ever seeing the meaning behind it. Jesus had been in front of these people calling them white voice sepulchers, explaining to them that you know what the law says, but you do not know what it means. And he explained the meaning of the word of God to in order to show people that God’s looking on the heart. Man’s looking on the outside. That’s where you’re looking, but God’s looking on your heart. He’s looking to see what’s going on down underneath the skin where you live. And so Jesus had already been in this crowd for three years teaching these people, and Paul was back doing the same thing, and they said that he’s teaching against our people. This man teaches all men everywhere, against our people and against our law, our law as if it belonged to them.

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See what God gave them now became ours. And so there’s, it’s, it’s possession. It’s pride of possession. God gave me the law. Isn’t that funny how we like to be God’s special kid. You know, it’s it’s not, it’s not good enough to just be a child. I want to be the special child. I want Daddy to like me best. I want Mommy to like me best. And that is that in us or not? Yeah, I want to be the special one. I’m the one mommy and daddy really like better than the rest of you. Just like the smothers brother, they don’t like that. So he says that he’s out there teaching people against us and against our law that’s ours, and against this place, in other words, against Jerusalem. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defied the holy place. Now, when you went into the temple area in the outer courts was called the courts of the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were not allowed into the inner courts. And so here they’re telling a lie, because that is not true. Paul came with Gentile converts, and again, he was with them when he. Is explaining all the wonderful things that God had done to the Gentiles, and all they could think of was that he brought Greeks, Greeks, into the temple area, and defiled the holy place. So in other words, if you and I walked into that temple and we got in the wrong place, we would defile it. That’s how bad we are as Gentiles. We would defile the temple. That was not true, but that’s what they were accusing him of. And they had, it says, they had previously seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city, with Paul, and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area. So that was an assumption. Now the whole city, it says, was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, took him out of the temple area, and immediately the gates were shut. They shut it so nobody could get in and while they were trying to kill him. Isn’t that something? Now the Romans had granted to the Judaziers permission to kill someone who had defiled the temple. It was prohibited by the Judaziers of having an execution, and that’s why the Judaziers took Jesus to the Greeks or to the Romans to crucify Jesus. They were prohibited from doing that. They could not exercise a death sentence on somebody, but if a Gentile defiled the temple, the Romans had said to them, you are free to kill. And so as a result of that, they were perfectly within their legal rights. They were trying to kill him. Got to kill him in the name of God. We’ll just get rid of this guy now again. What had Paul done? Preached the Gospel of love. Told people that Jesus loved him, told people that God was in Christ, reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you, teaching them as God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life, teaching that when you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ, He forgave all your sins, teaching them that it’s the grace of God that teaches us to say no to unrighteousness and to live self controlled, upright lives in this present generation, while we wait for the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, teaching terrible things like that. And they want to kill him for it. Want to kill him for it. And so they were trying to kill him. And news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar, and that was the thing that the Romans tried to avoid at all cost. Was an uproar, an insurgent uproar, in the city, especially with the Judaziers. And he, at once took some officers and soldiers and he ran down to the crowd, and when the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, there were probably around 200 soldiers that would go on that type of a journey, they stopped beating Paul. The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. Some of the crown shouted one thing and some another. And since a commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, it said he authored ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. When Paul reached the steps the violence of the mob was so great that he had to be carried in by the soldiers.

You’ve seen that kind of violence to have we not in news reels recently that you’ll see of the the Arab world in this violent state of anger and that would just have been a tip of an iceberg of what you would have seen from the Judazier people in regard to their attitude toward Paul and the crowd that followed.

They kept shouting away with him. In other words, crucify him. Get rid of him. As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barrack, he asked the Commander, may I say something to you? And he obviously said that in Greek. And so the commander said, do you speak Greek? He replied, aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led 4000 terrorists out into the desert some time ago? So the commander thought that this was a guy that was a terrorist like we hear about today. And Paul said, No, I’m a Hebrew from Tarsus in Cecilia, Cilicia, a citizen of no, ordinary city. Please, let me speak to the people. So, having received the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and. Motion to the crowd, and when they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic. Now, Paul was not a he was not exactly what you would call a non educated person. He had just spoken Greek to the commander, and now he’s going to speak Aramaic to the crowd. So he was a linguist. That’s why he said, I speak in more languages, probably than all of you. I commend to you. He said, our sister Fobbi a certain of the church in Centuria, Centuria, and I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a worthy way of the saints, and to give her help that she may need from you. He said, under the meal, I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. Paul is just sitting down and saying, Look, guys, I understand your zeal, but I want to tell you I’m just as zealous as you ever thought of being. I persecuted the followers of the way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison as also the high priest and all the Council could testify. So he’s saying your adherence to the law and your enthusiasm for the traditions of the Hebrew probably doesn’t even hold a candle to mine, and I was zealous for the persecution of this, what I called sect called Christianity, and I persecuted the followers of the Way. And the High Council can testify to that I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished, he said. About noon, I came near Damascus, and suddenly a bright light from Heaven flashed around me, and I fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? Who are you Lord? He recognized it was the Lord, and he said, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting. My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me. What shall I do Lord? Isn’t that typical? We ask what you want me to do? And it’s like the Lord said, I don’t want you to do anything. I want you to believe something. Get up, he said, and go to Damascus, and there you will be told all that you have been assigned to do. My companions led me by the hand into Damascus because the brilliance of the light had blinded me. And a man named Ananias came to see me, and he was a devout observer of the law again, and highly respected by all the Hebrews living there. He stood beside me and said, Brother, Saul, receive your sight. And at that moment I was able to see him. Then he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now, what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance, and I say the song, and I saw the Lord speaking quick. He said to me, leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me. Why? Because God gives grace to the humble and he resists the proud. What does being the observer, the innkeeper, so to speak, of the law do? It creates pride in us, and God says, If you don’t get rid of your pride, you’re never going to be ready for me, because pride comes before the fall, and pride says to Jesus, to Jesus, if you’re not going to accomplish for me, what has to be accomplished if I’m going to live eternally, it ain’t going to get done. And he said, Lord, these men know I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you, and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him, And the Lord said to me, go and I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

Now, folks again, here’s a man that has gone through unbelievable terror in his life. There’s no question about that. He was beaten on numerous occasions of just one stripe away from death, and then would come back and come to and go right back into the city and proclaim the gospel again. He was devoted to the proclamation of good news he lived to give out the good news of the gospel. And folks, I ask ourselves the question, should we do less? When you stop to think of the devotion of this man and. The reason we’re here today is because of the devotion, one of the reasons of this man, we have to ask ourselves the question, how devoted are we to getting the gospel out? Are we open at our work, at our play, where we live, in our neighborhood, wherever it might be. Are we open to the proclamation of the gospel to people? Are we open to give an account for the hope that lives within us? Are we? Are we anxious to meet people so that we can talk with people long enough to find out where they’re hurting and what their misunderstanding is about truth, and to be able to therefore give them truth that will save them, and to realize that people that do not come to Christ will spend eternity in hell, where those of us who do know Christ will spend eternity in the presence of God. Shouldn’t that really put some sort of a sense of urgency in our hearts to at least begin to reach out to people and guys I’m not talking about chasing people at flag poles with a four law booklet or the Born Free book. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about just being yourself, just living and in so doing, you’re going to meet people, and you’re going to talk to people, and then to be willing to as you talk to people, to ask God to give you the discernment to to identify a person’s need, where they where they are, and then to be able to give truth to that need. They may not accept it, but if they don’t, why that’s their problem, is it not? And to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leave the results to God, because we can’t get results. I’ve heard people sometimes say, well, you’re better at sharing the gospel than I would be. I don’t care how good you think that somebody is in regard to sharing the gospel, if a person’s heart isn’t open, they’re not going to receive the gospel. It doesn’t make a difference who they are. Whether you give a good presentation or a bad presentation is irrelevant. God’s Spirit is one that converts people.

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