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Podcast, where we turn the volume up on faith and kingdom living.
Today, we're diving into one of the most debated questions in the Christian
faith, once saved, always saved.
In other words, if someone has put their faith in Jesus, can they ever lose
their salvation? Are they secure in God's grace forever?
Some find great comfort in the idea of eternal security, while others point
to passages in scripture that warn about falling away.
So in today's episode, we're going to take a look at both sides of the discussion,
walk through some key scriptures, and ask the question, and what does the Bible
actually teach about the security of our salvation.
So without further ado, let's get into it.
What's happening, dog? Oh, man, what's going on?
Just chilling. Dude, I tell you what, this morning when I got up,
the cool crispness of the air, fall is near. It is coming down the home stretch.
We're rounding third, baby. It was fabulous. I loved it. Yeah,
Jess had the windows open and the screen door open. Yeah.
Yeah, fall is my favorite time of year. You know what else fall is?
Football season? Football season. Holler!
Hey, we're not biased on the podcast. Who are we kidding? Yes, we are.
And the commanders finally inked their deal with Terry McLaurin.
Terry McLaurin. Which, I mean, you know, is good.
I'm just glad it's over. Let's move on now. Yeah, thank goodness.
I'm tired of talking about it. My goodness.
Yeah, now we can quit hearing everybody talk about it. Speaking of football. All the time.
Fantasy Draft is this Thursday. Do we need any more teams or are we good?
I think we still need like one team.
I think we need like one team. One team. So let's get on. We got to get this
out so we can get somebody signed up. Let's get on it.
The winner will receive a Life on 11 podcast swag bag and the opportunity to come on the podcast.
Oh, yes. If they want. Do they get to pick the topic too? I mean,
I'm down with that. That could be interesting. I'm down with that.
Let's throw that out there. All right.
I think I picked the topic. Does that mean we purposely have to tank?
So we don't- Absolutely not. I don't tank for nobody. Oh, okay.
I don't even take for my kids. Whoa.
This ain't a participation trophy kind of household. Okay. I like it.
I dig it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Get Doug. Did you have a good week?
Yeah, it's been a good weekend and went to another one of my fall favorites, fall baseball.
It's pretty exciting. That means the playoffs are near. Who'd you go see?
We went and saw the Orioles versus the Astros.
Sick invite. Yep, yep. No, we had a really good time with some friends from
church who were big Astros fans.
It was a great game, though, but the Astros did get the W over the Orioles.
Nine, I think it was nine to eight. All right.
Most people are getting the dub over the Orioles this year.
I mean, yeah, that's true. But let me just say, I didn't get invited.
No. We put out a podcast last week about friendships, about homies, about dogs.
We also talked about how we needed some counseling during that same podcast.
Remember? I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
I must have missed my invite to the baseball game. It's in the mail.
Oh, it's in the mail. It's in the mail. Okay. Yeah, the check's in the mail, you know.
Yeah. It's in the mail. I'll believe that. What about you? What'd you get into?
We went to Kings Dominion.
Huh. Second invite. You were at a baseball game. You didn't.
Okay, yeah, you did know I was going to be at baseball. I knew exactly where you were.
We went to Kings Dominion, and we're quickly reminded why we never go to Kings
Dominion on a Saturday. Oh, I'm sure. Oh, man.
We had a great day at church on Sunday. I thought church was great.
Church was great. Church was great on Sunday. It was wonderful, wonderful.
Had a good time, had a good time. And then, you know, we got together with some
friends Sunday evening and watched a movie.
Oh, yeah. So that was fun. That was a good time. And I've been working pretty
hard trying to get this, trying to get the Lord's lair back in order.
I'll tell you what, it's really coming together.
It's coming together. For sure. It looks like a complete demolition zone. I mean, no, no, no.
It doesn't look like a demolition zone. And it just looks like some construction
has been taking place, but it looks like it's nearing completion.
I'm going to say, I think I might have it done by the weekend.
Okay. If nothing crazy pops off, I think by the end of this weekend, I'll be done.
Does that mean week one, commanders and giants?
Does that mean it's happening right here? I mean, it could be.
Is that what you're telling me? I mean, let's do it.
I find no excuse for it not to be. Am I inviting myself? You just did.
And you're always invited here. That's right. The door is always open.
That's true. Whether you're in here or not. That is true. I can come in.
That is true. Okay. All right. Cool. Awesome.
And hey, anybody else who wants to come now, you know that we're going to be watching the game here.
So go listen to the podcast. You want to come over and be a part of the first
football game in the expanded Lord's Lair, then just let us know.
As long as you're not a Giants fan. Yeah, no Giants fans. Yeah, no Giants fans.
Do I know any Giants fans? I don't. I mean, I know one Giants fan.
I was about to say, I feel like Giants fans are kind of like Sasquatch.
Like, you talk about them, but I've never actually seen one.
I mean, for the longest time, most Redskins slash Commanders fans didn't really
want people to know necessarily because they were kind of. Absolutely.
Yeah. Absolutely. Wearing the bags over their face. Yeah, I actually had a few
hats that were undercover Commanders hats. Yeah.
You'd have to anyway so yeah so jeremy
we're talking about something pretty heavy tonight we definitely are
talking about something pretty heavy tonight we're talking about one saved always
saved yes man that's a that can be a hot button absolutely it can be there's
lots of opinions on it lots of thoughts lots of thoughts yep and we are always
open to thoughts yep and so we're gonna we're gonna kind of bat this thing around
between the two of us and some scriptures and things like that.
And then as always, I invite you all as listeners, if you have thoughts or reflections
or ideas or, hey, if you just want to tell us that we're wrong,
you can go ahead and reach out.
Knock yourself out. Knock yourself out. I'm not afraid to be wrong. Yep. You know?
I'm not either. No, no. So yeah. So once saved, always saved.
What's that mean to you?
So for me, the thought of once saved, always saved, let me start by saying growing
up, So once saved, always saved was, was never part of the equation in the church I grew up in.
It was like, I've talked previously about the fear aspect. Absolutely.
So it was more like the fear was more the driving factor, the fear of hell.
There wasn't like once you get saved, you don't have to worry anymore.
It was once you get saved, you got to keep doing all the things.
So there was still that level of fear that you keep doing the right thing.
So there was no once saved, always saved. That was never even talked about.
I never really even thought about it until I was older.
So personally, I mean, that's where I land. I don't subscribe necessarily to
once saved, always saved.
I know there's lots of other thoughts that will bat around, but for me,
once saved, always saved basically means you accept Christ as your Savior,
and whatever happens to you through the rest of your life, no matter what you
do, you're going to heaven.
Cool. That's mine. There's no continued repentance. It just kind of. You're good. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that that's pretty much to some varying degrees.
I mean, there's varying degrees of it. Yeah, same way as the friendship thing.
There's definitely a whole gamut of cards that can be played there.
Or Calvinist reformist theology would say eternal security, which also coincidentally
enough, I mean, really in some ways is related to predestination.
If you're predestined to be saved, then there's nothing you're going to do about it. That's true.
Especially from what I've experienced, I'm not an expert in Calvinism or Reformed
theology, but I've studied enough of it to feel like those two things probably go together.
Then you have more of an Arminian view that would say you can lose your salvation,
which for the most part, you grew up Mennonite and me growing up Breda.
There's a pietist theme that runs through Brethren in Midnight Theology, which is very,
like, that pietism is probably the root of work, I don't want to say workspace
salvation, but in a lot of pietist theology,
workspace salvation is a real threat to salvation,
eternal security, and things like that, because there is that,
like, I actually used the scripture on Sunday, you know, work out your own salvation
in fear and trembling, what does that mean?
And so, yeah, I, like you, I didn't give, like, it was never really taught.
That definitely was not taught yeah and so
the first time i wrestled with it was at when when
i went to liberty when i went to undergrad school oh okay that's the
first time i really wrestled with the i mean like i had heard about it and we
talked about it i was like the first time i actually had to wrestle with it
a little bit and like what what does this mean and yeah i i like you i'm i do
not support once saved always saved there are things about it like i think it's well we'll get into it.
I think it's harder to lose our salvation than we think it is.
I would agree with that. You know, I don't think like you sneeze and you lost it or something.
Yeah, for sure. It would be a genuine defiance of Christ.
Like you are against him. Yeah. So what would you do?
What would you say? Because there are those people who would say,
well, if you said you were a Christian and you backslid or you lost your salvation,
you were never saved in the first place. Yeah.
So that was a conversation I had with a pastor many, many years ago.
I was working with the youth at another church, and the kids had a lot of questions about salvation.
And, you know, they were hearing these things like, once you're saved, you're always saved.
Like, you can't lose your salvation. Like, and I said, okay, well, here's how I feel.
This is what, this is my opinion.
Well, then the pastor happened to show up the same time that we were talking
about this. And we were like, Hey, let's ask this guy.
So, so we asked him and he, he was, he was more in the camp of, of what you just said.
Where if someone backslides or says they were saved and then start going against
Christ, then they weren't ever actually saved in the first place.
And I have a very hard time with that because I believe that people can be saved,
give their life to Christ, and through whatever,
circumstance life throws at them, they then denounce their salvation.
And I do believe that that can happen.
And that's why I feel the way I do, because I think that could happen.
So one of the ways, when I had to study this at Liberty, if I would have been
forethought enough, I would have seen, I probably can't pull up the paper that
I wrote because that was 20 years ago.
But my kind of thesis in the paper that I had, or the project I had to do for
this class was like, I don't believe you can lose your salvation because lose
implies that it's accidental.
Like if I lose something, I think I accidentally did something.
Fair right like i lost my wallet i lost my car keys yeah i don't think you can
lose your salvation i think you can forfeit your salvation okay i think that
you can make conscious decisions.
And walk away from the decision
that you made but i don't think it's lost like oh i accidentally did that like
i i think and so that's where i struggle with the whole idea of like you were
never saved in the first place because i think you can have a transform a transformational
moment with Jesus and you can, you can be saved and mean it with your whole heart.
And man, life is, life's crappy sometimes. It absolutely is.
And some people, you know, lose that footing.
And so, I mean, I, I know, I mean, boy, you look at some of the,
some of the, some of the folks that I know that, man, they, they know the truth
and they walked away from it and, you know, you pray they come back.
But again, that wasn't like that, that to me wasn't, it wasn't accidental.
It was, they formed a life path that took them, right?
I mean, yeah, kind of like how we talked about the unforgivable sin.
You can't ever accidentally commit the unforgivable sin. Right.
So the same thing, you can't ever accidentally lose your salvation.
Because we all admit, even though we're saved and we're Christ followers.
Sin is still in our DNA. Well, maybe not our DNA, but ever since sinâ Spiritual, yeah.
Sin is still part of our lives.
We have to continually repent and try to be better, try to be more Christ-like.
But because of the world around us, we are going to continue to fail. Right.
Well, one of the passages that many people use for eternal security comes from John chapter 10.
And it's Jesus talking about the sheep. And this is starting at verse 25 and going to verse 28.
Jesus answered, I did tell you, but you did not believe. The works I did in
my Father's name testify about me. But you don't believe because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me.
I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
It's that snatch word that gets me, right? Like, I don't think someone can snatch
you from the hands of Christ, but I think you can jump out.
Like, I think you could make the conscious decision to say, you know what?
I'm rejecting this truth.
And I think we've seen, I've seen folks who have done that.
And so, no, again, like, I don't think, like, I think when you are held in the
palm of Christ, the only thing that can get you out of the pile of Christ is
you. Is you. Absolutely. Yeah. Right.
And, and we've, I've seen that, you know, I've been there.
Like I've had moments in my life where I like the roughest parts of my life.
It's not like I didn't know what I was doing.
I knew, I knew that I was turning my back on Jesus, you know,
and by God's grace, my life wasn't, you know, taken.
So where I think if that would have happened, then I lost my salvation because
I had walked away from Jesus.
And by God's grace, you know, he found the lost sheep. He left 99 to find me.
And here I sit because of it. But it's not like when I was doing that stuff,
it wasn't like, oh, I didn't know any better.
Oh, yes, you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, you did.
And you may not have walked away. Like you may not have publicly said,
like I'm done with Jesus, but your life certainly. Yeah.
Your life speaks for itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What about Romans 8? Romans 8 is one of my favorite passages to share with people,
especially like in the hospital and stuff like that, you know,
neither height nor depth nor angels nor demons, powers, principalities,
nothing on all the earth shall separate us from the love of Christ that's in
Christ Jesus, from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus.
Great scripture, powerful scripture. Does that talk about eternal security to you?
I mean in a in a in a sense i guess it does because it kind of the same thing
about snatching away it kind of gives you that same that same thought where
oh man i just had this thought in my head this this is starting to happen to
me more often this is not good my brain's not working.
I don't know where I was going. Well, let me help. All right. Yeah, help me out.
I still don't see how that has to do with salvation for me. Okay.
And here's why. God loves everybody, period.
True. So even, again, the unforgivable sin.
If you commit blasphemy against God, it's unforgivable. But it doesn't say he stops loving you.
Right? And so for me, like, this scripture just talks about the pursuing love
of God, which will always pursue us. and it will always be around us.
God loves people who aren't saved. Well, absolutely.
And so- I mean, and we are called to love them as well. I mean,
same thing. Absolutely.
And so I can't see how Romans 8 follows to there because I think that God loves
you because he loves you because he loves you because that's who God is. Yeah, okay.
And so I can't find Romans 8 relating to eternal security or once saved,
always saved because whether you're saved or you're not saved,
God still loves you and he's always going to love you. there's nothing you're
ever going to do. So that's just where I come out on it.
Okay. Okay. Fair. Fair. I guess what I was, maybe what I was getting at,
I had a thought from something earlier on.
Salvation is not, you know, it's not anything that we earn, right?
It's already given to us. All we have to do is accept it.
So like a gift, when you receive a gift, the only other thing that you could
do, you could give it away.
You know what I mean? So I think that, and you know, you purposefully have to do that.
You know that you're doing that. So that was the thought in my mind,
thinking of it as a gift. You receive the gift, but then you give it away for
whatever reason, whatever happened.
That's the only way that you can lose salvation is giving it away.
So if there is a scripture that I would say I think builds the best argument
for eternal security, I would say it's Hebrews chapter 6, verses 4 to 6.
If you're going to build this theology for me and get me to believe it,
this is where it's going to start.
Hebrews 6, starting at verse 4, it is impossible for those who have once been
enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming
age, and who have fallen away to be brought back to repentance.
To their loss, they are crucifying the son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
That's the one that if you're going to ask me, you know, I'm going to get tripped
up on one, that's one that I'm going to get tripped up on.
What about that scripture? Like, what's that say to you?
Yeah, that's, I mean, we almost have to go a little further back,
but just specifically looking at that,
I mean, obviously in the translation, it does say it is impossible for those
who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift,
who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
and who have fallen away to be brought back.
So that to
me almost makes it sound like you can
fall away but you cannot be
brought back is almost how that reads right right so if you versus once saved
always saved it almost contradicts that in a little a little bit yeah yeah yeah
and i think that goes back to that like so you can lose it And if you lose it, you never get it back.
Yeah, that would almost be the argument you could come from here in my just
short little review here.
Right. And, I mean, I definitely, boy, if that was the case,
then we would all be in trouble would be my thought. Like, I don't know about you.
Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, I think I was looking for this passage in this book. they.
It talks about how it says they tasted the heavenly gift.
That is, they didn't just sample the heavenly gift, but the word taste means to experience.
The word taste is multifaceted.
That if they experienced Jesus, if they tasted all that he has to offer,
if they became partakers in the Holy Spirit, that is, they shared a partnership
with the Holy Spirit and had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
If they did all those things, then they fall into apostasy, right?
That's different. There's a difference in backsliding.
And I think that is like, again, to me, people backslide.
We all do it. We all have seasons of it. There's a difference in being a backslider
and being an apostate, right?
So an apostate is someone who literally
believes falsehoods and practices deception and lies about Christ.
Like, again, I don't think like apostasy is a choice that you make when confronted
with the truth and confronted by your brothers and sisters in Christ.
You still go down that path anyway.
Sure. Okay. Right. Yeah. And so to me, that's what this is.
Like, this isn't talking about who you backslid a little bit.
Oh, you, you, you, you stopped going to church for six months or you did what it like.
This is like you, you were following Jesus with everything you have and you just plain walked away.
You have called God a liar to his face.
Right. That to me is the difference here. And maybe that's what people are getting
at when they say things like, well, if somebody said they were a Christian and
now they lost their salvation, they weren't in the first place.
Maybe that's what they're saying.
Like maybe if they had experienced Jesus in the most transformative way,
then they would have never gotten in the position to fall away.
I still, I don't see that, but I guess that's maybe where that argument comes from.
Yeah, it could be. You know, I was, I was reading a little, a little further,
further through in this passage in Hebrews.
So, when you get a little further down, when we speak like this,
dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case,
the things that have to do with salvation.
God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown
him and help people to continue with them.
We want each of you to show the same diligence to the very end so that what
you hope for may be fully realized.
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who,
through faith and patience, inherit what has been promised. So this is more
of like the make sure you're continuing to be diligent in your walk. Right.
So I think it's more of like a warning and a guide more so than, yeah.
And let's, again, like we are not debating whether or not God is able, right? Oh, yeah.
God can do whatever he wants. Whatever he wants. Whenever he wants.
And God's promises are always good, and they're always yes and amen, you know?
So it's not that the possibility of losing salvation has nothing to do with
God's word not being good enough.
It's our own intentions. And I mean, over and over again in scripture,
like, stand firm. You know, don't forget the calling that you've been called to.
You know, take heart. Like, all these scriptures that tell us that we need to
continue to walk these things out. Yeah, I mean, everything in Scripture thatâ,
went wrong so to speak was because a person messed up absolutely like that like it's always human.
Human disobedience or we are really good at messing stuff up yeah yeah we started
we started day well we don't know what day it was but very very very early in
the story it was very early in the story and we went into the first four chapters
i can i can tell you that we didn't at four chapters in.
So here, okay. And the other thing is, so here's my caution.
And this is where I think, man, this, this gets really interesting because if
you start saying once saved, always saved, do you know what I think it produces?
Really lazy entitled Christians. Absolutely. And I think that's why this passage
in Hebrews says what it does. Yeah.
Yeah. Diligent. Because if I can't lose my salvation, why should I not do these things? Exactly.
What is the point? And not necessarily like going off and sinning freely in
whatever you choose, but even such as trying to bring others to Christ.
You're like, yeah, you know, what's the point? I'm good. Like,
why try to save anybody else? Well, I even think the first one.
Like, I think that there are plenty of people who, like... You're right.
There very well could be. I mean, but it can be even not that serious,
so to speak. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Because, I mean, I've had those conversations with people where it's like,
you know, what's the scripture talk about? Like, a good tree produces good fruit, right?
And there are people where I'm like, hey, like, you know, we're missing you
at church, or Christians shouldn't do this, or you're doing this.
It's contrary to the word of God. Well, I'm saved.
You're saved. Well, yeah, back in 1972, I went to, you know,
the Big Tent Revival down in, you know, wherever, and I gave my life to the
Lord, and I went to the altar, and I accept Jesus as my Lord.
And I'm like, all right, then what happened?
You know, like, seriously, I mean, because now you find them and they are sexually
immoral and they are spiritually immoral.
And you're right. But they point back to this thing. They're like, well, I'm I'm saved.
And you're like, you know, maybe you maybe you were maybe you are.
I don't know. But I do know that it talks about keeping up with the fruits of
repentance, keeping up with the work of repentance and that your life should
reflect that at some level.
And so I do think that, you know, it can be, I talked about this in my sermon
a little bit on Sunday, like salvation is a gift.
Yes. And there is absolutely nothing you can do to earn the gift.
Correct. But once you get the gift, you are supposed to use it.
Correct. It is something that is supposed to produce action in your life.
And that's where I think the once saved, always saved thing can be a little tricky.
And are there people who maybe said yes to Jesus? And I will also say this,
when we get to heaven, there will be people there that we will scratch our heads
and be like, I did not see that coming.
Did not see that. Yes. Right. But the same will also be true.
Yes. And there'll be people out there. Excuse me. The opposite will also be
true. Yeah. We're so-and-so. Yeah.
You know? But seriously, like, so I don't want to make it sound like we are
the judgment keepers of, that's God's to do. No, that's 100% God's job. That is God's job.
We got nothing in that. But if I were to come across somebody and they were
like, oh, it's okay, I said this prayer 30 years ago, so I'm good,
I would be like, but what is that producing in your life, right?
Because there's the second, like, there's two questions, right?
The first question is, is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life?
The second question is, what did you do with what I gave you? Yeah.
Right? And so people forget, like there's a second question and we are given rewards and crowns.
And so let's not get those two things confused because you can be saved and
not be working it out and still get to heaven.
You can also think that you're saved and have walked away, right?
And get there and realize, I mean, what did Jesus say? for I
will tell you verily verily some will say unto me but Lord
we did all this stuff in your name and I will say depart from
me for I never knew you I mean those are people who are
working in the name of Jesus they're not just showing up to church we cast out
demons we did miracles we did all this stuff and Jesus like and thank you for
your service but depart from me I never knew you that to me talks about they
knew Jesus enough to yeah for his spirit to be using them in some way, right?
True. Tricky, dude. That is tricky. Yeah. You almost opened up another can of
worms right there, I think. You opened it up, not me. My bad.
My bad. Pastorally.
Trust in God's promises. Absolutely. Here's the thing.
And, and I guess this is what I would say to somebody who's saying,
what about once saved, always saved? I would say, if you're walking in faith,
you don't have to worry about it anyway.
Amen to that. That's true. You're right. Right. You may like for your loved
one, maybe, but for you personally, if you are following after Jesus,
once saved, always saved or not, it doesn't matter because you're pursuing Jesus.
Yep. Okay. Yeah. Why, why, why take the chance? Yeah.
Why take the chance? Yeah. And so, you know, rest in the promises of God,
because as we talked about, it sounds like both of us are of the opinion that,
yes, one can forfeit their salvation.
But you're going to have to kind of intentionally do that.
And so if you are even sitting there going like, hmm, am I in danger of losing my salvation?
Probably means that you're spiritually aware enough to understand.
Sure. you know that either you're asking that question because you know there's
something in your life needs to be taken care of or there's somebody in your
life that you need to go reach because,
you know i mean i don't sit around at night shaking in my boots thing i'm gonna
lose my salvation because it's not mine it's it's not it's not my job to be
jesus saved me yep so it's his job to keep it to keep it active it's my job
just to walk with him and be faithful when we get there.
And if half the people in the church spent as much energy working out their
salvation as they did wondering about their salvation, that's a game changer.
That is a game changer. Things would change immensely for sure.
I'm not going to lie. So I really, I would really encourage everybody to get, I really,
I feel like this passage in Hebrews has really got me thinking a lot more about,
you know, especially this last part, 11 and 12.
We want each of you to show the same diligence to the very end so that what
you hope for may be fully realized.
We don't want you to become lazy, but imitate those who through faith and patience
inherit what has been promised.
I really like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. And I love this right here.
This little line, whether you lean to eternal security or conditional security,
the question isn't just was I saved, but am I walking with Jesus right now?
Because if, I mean, if you're not walking with Jesus right now,
then there's something to be done about that. And you can fix that problem like right now. Yeah.
You know. Like right this minute. Right this minute. Pause the podcast. Come back, please.
But, you know, get that right first and then come back and finish the podcast. Yeah.
So, overall, like, and again, like, I know that there's going to be people listening
to this, but I guess I think we're off our rocker. That's cool.
I mean, people thought we were off our rocker before they started listening
to this. I guess about this particular subject. Oh, okay. Sorry,
I should have been more specific.
Can you get more off the rocker than off the rocker? Oh, I get more off the
rocker every day, baby. Okay, all right, all right. Yeah, I'm like four acres off that thing by now.
Good. Now you might as well throw that rocker away. I'm looking for a new rocker.
Lose that one, too. But all that to say that we hope that you are trusting in Christ.
And today, if you have any doubts about your salvation, any doubts at all,
then we invite you to say the prayer and invite Jesus to be your Lord and Savior and then walk that out.
And for goodness sake, I mean, if you don't have a home church,
then reach out to one of us.
I'd be happy to talk to you about Jesus. But if you can't lay your head down
on the pillow at night and say, I know that I know that if World War III breaks
out and they drop a nuke on this place, I'm going to be with Jesus.
If you are not 100% sure, man, make today the day that you are 100% sure. Amen.
Because, man, there's no better
way of living than knowing no matter what happens here, I'm with Jesus.
I feel sorry for the people I leave behind, but I'm good.
I'm good. I don't want to leave Jessica, you know, a widow and I don't want
to leave my kids fatherless.
But I mean, if something happened to me, I'm going to be with Jesus.
And, you know, the one request I've had for Jess, and this is going on the podcast, so it's official.
Oh, no. If Jesus calls me home, okay, and you got to find another man,
he just can't be funnier than me.
He's definitely going to be better looking than me. Without a doubt,
he's going to be smarter than me.
He's probably going to be much more socially acceptable than me. Okay?
Just don't let the man take my jokes. Okay? I always want to be the funniest
man you've ever married. I think that's a reasonable request.
I don't. I got nothing. That's a reasonable request. I got nothing for that. All right?
I got nothing. Okay, so if something happens to me tomorrow and you're funny,
leave my wife alone. Okay.
If you're rich, come find my wife so you can provide a good life for her and
my kids. Oh, my goodness gracious.
Do not. How in the world did we get here?
What brought you to that? I was talking about if I died tonight.
I'm going to be with Jesus. All right. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to be with Jesus.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like, yeah.
Yeah. Don't take a chance on believing in once saved, always saved. That's it.
Live it out every day. Work it out today. Yep. It's been a good podcast.
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