following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church ask you help me to get focused and get beyond what i may feel at the moment to be able to get into your word and i thank you for the promise of your word i thank you for the power of your word and i thank you lord god that your word changes lives and so long i pray that you change life today in jesus name amen amen so we've been talking about faith and so last week we talked about faith relationships the week before that we talked about faith and finances today we're going to talk about faith and salvation army not in order to come a saving knowledge of jesus christ it comes by faith does it come by your works does not come by works it comes by faith so if you look at romans chapter ten versus ninety eight in this is if you confess with your mouth that jesus lord and believe in your heart is lord that word confess if you understand the greek word confess means that your confess that you agree with so when it says that you're confessing that means i agree with the fact that jesus is lord how many know that people can say a prayer something to say to him what you need to do is you just repeat this prayer after me and you have somebody repeat a prayer after them if you're not come fessing that prayer by faith if you're not saying i acknowledge what i'm saying that you are saying words says if you confess to you about the jesus lord if you say i believe i confess that jesus is lord how should you live your life as your lord shouldn't you so if you're living your life to totally  opposite of what the lord have you really confessed that jesus lord and saw how many people dig their same dead are going to die and go to hell because they've never truly allowed jesus to be the lord the turn around they may say yeah i believe these lord but even the demons believe his lawyer they're going to be in heaven so you could say that you believe that he's lord but you have to be that you did do the demons believe he's lord they kno lord but do they believe he's lord they rebelled against who god himself is so out of we need to confess with their messages lord and then we believe in our heart that god raised from the dead so to believe means to trust relied to depend upon it's not just head knowledge we hear the word believe when they get something but the head ology will believe really is is that you do lose your entire life is if it's true you're trusting you're relying o not because they're still questioning the bible they don't necessarily believe the bible is true so if you really believe the bible is true how can you have a relationship with christ so it says in the bible says the didn't god raised him from the dead and the bible talks about the from the dead it's not based upon feelings our relationship with christ cannot be based upon feelings how many's ever i've been in so if you've been a christian for years and years anybody ever been at a place where you've been discouraged and then the devil you're not really saved you're not really born again you really didn't make a commitment to jesus if you go by your feelings and if you don't feel like today was jesus really lord that today you don't feel like he really died and rose from the dream from the dead then you're probably and that it has to do is something to ask to be that we are solidified in our heart of hearts that jesus rose from the grave and that he purchased my cell they should so the question is if we believe that shouldn't we want to pray for others to have that same experience suing should we want to do whatever we can for others to be saved praying for salvation by faith if we have been saved born again going to heaven by faith then we should pray be praying with faith or does it become born again everything we do to reach out to law should be by faith that concept is is how many know you look at somebody and say i don't think they ever can get saved anybody ever seen that yet you know and i don't know that person ever gets saved is that faith you know so if you're going to pray for somebody get say what you have to believe that they'll get saved regardless of how they live and so out of it is that you have somebody and they're living for the devil they're just sort of for the devil they're just totally sold out to the devil you pray for them by face what you say well i don't know they they may may or not get say how effective are prayers that i don't know if my prayer will be effective or not any everybody to ever prayed like that and i also because i sleep on the couch whenever i'm sick i sleep on the couch so i don't make my wife up the whole times and moaning and groaning and everything else but the whole time is this is what i'm doing i'm praying lord touch my body lot where you make my immune system work properly make my lymph nodes to carry the disease out lord god you do miraculous healing but in the meantime make my body do ever it's got to do to i pray against every virus bug germ whatever it is i don't care what the name of it is begun and i'm doing that by face i'm not doing i hope that happens because i don't want to be sick for a week and wait you know people tell you why i had that for a week you know what i say good for you i'm not taking it for a week if you want to have a for a week that's fine i'm not taking it for a week i plan on tomorrow i'm going to be better but what faith and so what this same way for people when it comes yourself that you're praying for people that you believe are going to get saved today that they may not get saved today but if you don't praise that they're going to save today you probably are going to have a serious prayer well i hope they get saved some time how effective is that that is a lot of prayer for them today that today will be their da salvation rather happens or not you have the faith to believe that it's going to happen today and how many know that it is happening because god is working on them every day he's working a little bit more to get employees or so believe me that the day i got  there was no surprise to god he already knew and it turned the pastor that i was going to get saved is just a matter of praying and out so we have we we pray for that individual by faith we pray that they have selfish that they come to a knowledge of jesus christ and that we believe that god wants to get them saved do you want your friends going to hell or heaven and the question is how often do you pray and who do you pray for and what about that person who don't want to get to heaven you know there's a few of those people always around i know that most of us don't want to god that's a death row to get saved because he deserves to die he does deserve to die fees and death roll but does he deserve salvation  say no then do you deserve salvation i would say none of us deserve salvation but god has chosen to jesus christ to give us all the opportunity for salvation so when you pray for the most wicked anybody here in the news when you pray for them they do something evil where you pray for them that they get saved that they get born again guess what the mass murderer is not going to be a mass murderer in heaven if he gets saved he's going to be transformed just like me and you and by the way my case has become to look more and more like jesus christ i mean not only that can happen is by faith because if you look at yourself you say i don't know i don't know but but much like jesus i don't much like jesus but by faith god's going to change me by faith god ability to act look talk like jesus so the question you have to ask yourself are you are you acting looking talking like jesus if somebody sees you with a habit i did with jesus might be like now this get real honest has anybody arrived in that area yet nobody anybody nobody's there yet anybody striving to be there anybody working and being there that's a lot make me more like jesus set me apart and was that set apart mean well guess what the bible says we're a peculiar people and the king james peculiar a strange people why would we be a peculiar people straight and edges and mean act weird there's plenty of act we're christians out there ok that is the main act weird but peculiar strange different means is that what's weird is we live in a robot if we don't live like the world we live in the robot we don't act like the world that's what being set apart is so when when i'm at the jobsite and their bodies tell a dirty jokes what am i doing if i'm a christian and i join an n no i'm walking away from it i try to bring something else into the conversation why because i'm set apart i'm different because of jesus christ now if you're in there in the end you're telling all the dirty jokes with them you have to say where's my relationship with christ what needs to change what  minister there why would say if you've been delivered if you've been set free next week we'll talk about being delivered going to talk about walking to victory if you're delivering a set free can you walk in a bar and not be affected by it absolutely but i deliver set free why am i in the bar on unless i'm going there to minister have a go that a minister should go by myself but do you think but it probably not a good idea to go by yourself so when you're set apart you're living different in the role and what happens is that people say you know what you're different and it isn't a bad thing it's a good thing and i duck to people all the time it hit me with the passersby can we talk about how those people you just meet and you say this person's got to be a christian they were in the grocery store and all of a sudden you see that clerk has got to be a christian to go in the bank that person is a christian you go the mechanic but that guy's a christian what is it about them that makes you think that they have a big sign that says christian on them to ted those who have all the jesus t shirts sometimes aren't the best christians but i would do ministry of capitol hill the drug addicts would tell me something i can't stand the kids that come from a certain bible college i won't say what bible college is in this surely isn't all kids that come from the bible college but i can't stand them i says why because they come here and they come undercover they act like they're not a christian and they smoke weed with us and they have to spend a week a smoking weed with us that they want to tell us about jesus and they said we think they're did i was just me i just came with me to jesus and out of it they all go around saying there's my pastor i say oh please don't tell people i'm your pastor get out my congregation i don't use my congregation i don't know what they are because i just was real with them that's what the role is looking for people to be just real with them so as we go to to minister to muslims so what we do is we go the first thing i do is i put on a little turban on my head so i can reach him or is that what i do no that's not what i do i'm not a muslim i don't wear turban so i got some but what i do is i say to him you need all get say because you're going to hell in islam the program that we're helping out with the afterschool program she says the biggest thing that you can do is just love on our people because what you would do is help her know that they don't have to be fraid of christians and white people she says i know that there are those that fear us but we fear you too because we're fearful that we will lose our rights in america we're fearful that you osias is as nothing but evil it christians say we have what we need to do is stop all muslims from coming into our country and we need ship all muslims out christians saying that tell me do you think that's jesus does a cell like jesus to me so the were peculiar because we love people who either say we shouldn't love and so out of it there's a second to go to send a part that goes on to cause us to be different than others that others want to know who we are  game that's exciting we're taking them is a very spiritual there's not the spiritual going to hockey but what did we get with them talking time to be able to connect with them to be able just t build trust with them to maybe speak something into their life someplace somewhere and i think that everyone those kids and you know another three months will get saved i don't believe that in this or you get saved another three months you know what i know though the seeds that are planted into their life so who is it can you can pepsi's into their life by the life you live so if you look at sanctification is an ongoing process we've put our faith in christ becomes sanctified percent cation is a lifelong process we should be drawn to christ we should be looking more and more like jesus so i have a question for you are you looking more and more like jesus are you trusting god to get you to look more and more like jesus  trusting god to get you where you need to be or your chest in jesus to take you to the next level and you believe that god could take the next level to the next level to the next level to the next level so you're more and more looking like jesus do you want that do you really want n we should want every single person on earth to go to heaven and we should find ways that we can do that any way possible that we can do that and the question is what drives you does your own salvation drive you to see others saved or the super bowl so people can focus on god now instead of on the seahawks and i joke about that but i have friends and they are today told my pastor long time ago they said you just need to know we have season tickets to see ox and you will not see us at church until the games are all over think about that what kind of relationship is that with christ the seahawks and more important that you have to go to church every every sunday if you if you miss a sunday service where you go to hell they will all get to go you won't get to go to hell by mista sunday service but if you never get fellowship with believers who are you fellowshipping with if you not feel a shipping with  rs and so then you have the people that say well i get fellowship by watching t v i watch t v n i rush they start yeah you get some word in you sometimes you get the false word with heroin addiction goes back and forth to get clean for three years they'll go back to using get clean for five years go back to using for two years back and forth and he called me up in the first day i said to him i says drag up surprise your life a laugh he says i knew that was going to be the first words out of your mouth i says the reason though because every three years as if i don't hear from you and then i was sudden i hear from you i says and you're still i says i can't believe you're still alive i says i'm serious surprise you still alive and then he starts telling me and the last two months the hell that he went through starts telling me of having demonic beings chasing him to tell me all the stuff that's going on just career fix stuff and he said all i knew to do is say jesus help me jesus help me jesus help me the paramedics come to getting somebody it laced is heroin with meth really messed him up royally going  psychosis everything else and he says all i can say is jesus help me jesus help me jesus help me jesus help me and out of that i look at greg and i says greg here's your problem you do really good and you love god with all your heart but then what happens is you don't get plugged in you don't get connected with other believers and what happens you get back into the rules again and that's what happens if you don't get plugged in with other the greyhound right at the greyhound is somebody used to do drugs with and he says to the guy says the guy starts talking say i was doing are you doing drugs no no i buy i'm getting cleaned up again and the guy says ya ya i'm i'ma go in for methadone too and the guy turns around and starts lighting up his crack pipe hey degrade says well oscillator good bye but he's always going to have that temptation in front of him and what does he need to do he needs to get plugged in and really get into fellowship and be used by god and i would say that if you really have faith in jesus christ that faith to motivate you should compel you to get plugged in with christ get plugged in with the body of christ and then reach out and touch other people's  questions about christianity the let you know step by step out accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope he or there is there is hope to god or also want you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always get your call toll free any time one eight six six one god see upper door churches our vision is loving god loving people loving life now that's a vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god and you say god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me that i just love you have what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love yeah what can i you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him anybody know that the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second gr commandment is what the father said yourself so loving god lisa loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do it says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person  here almost all you start loving people start loving god you don't think that you have some fire in you you know that you have some love in you that you start loving life you're excited about life can i tell you one reason most people aren't excited about life most people aren't excited about life where they're chasing the chasing after dick but you love life there's accent about life and there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire and me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try it if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god help me to love people and let me tell you you will be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god alone i am my life and i'm a dead beat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i boss blowing christian there is gonna change me ok you know what i'ma start loving people well so you start loving people file people on loving you start to love people and they backstab you so what do you do with that give up yes you loves you you can't help but give back and love people so that's our vision life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty nine street in period next to the southwest courthouse