Kingdom People Tell The Truth

This episode of All In with Pastor Jordan Easley has been made possible by the generous support of viewers like you. Welcome to All In with Pastor Jordan Easley. Today's message is about to begin, and we invite you to prepare your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from God's Word. We hope and pray for God to speak to you today as you seek to live your life all in for Jesus Christ. And now from First Baptist Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, here's Pastor Jordan Easley. You know, when I was a little boy, way back in the 1900s, if you were to say a bad word or if you were to talk back to a teacher, it was common practice that you would get your mouth washed out with soap. Anybody ever got your mouth washed out with soap? Yeah, man, I got a strong amen to start it out with. That's good. Hey, you remember in those days, maybe you had a parent or maybe you had a grandparent where if you misbehaved, you'd have to go outside and get a switch to get whooped with. Y'all remember those days? Anybody got whooped with your own switch? Amen. Hey, at school back in those days, if you disrupted class, you know what you would have to do? You'd have to write sentences on the board.

Or if you're real bad, you got licks in the hallway. I have vivid memories of both. But those were just different days back then, just a different era. You know, this week I was thinking back to those moments in my childhood, those shaping moments in my life. And I remember this one day where I got caught in school lying to my teacher. Now, this was a big deal back then. And here's how it worked. My teacher caught me lying. Then she embarrassed me in front of the class because she caught me lying. Then she took me out in the hall and she whooped me. Now, I'm talking about a whooping-whooping, like a paddle lifting me up off the ground kind of whooping. And I had a rule in my house growing up. If I got licks at school, I got licks at? Y'all had the same parents I had, amen. But that's what happened when I got home. My dad had already gotten word. The teacher had called my parents. And so he spanked me at my house. And then after that, he hugged me. He told me that he loved me. And after he told me he loved me, he went on to share with me a story that I bet some of you also heard when you were growing up back then.

The story was called, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Now, if you've never heard this story before, let me try to summarize it for you today. There was a young boy who cried wolf in the middle of town just to get a reaction from the people, even though there was no wolf. Now, at first, people believed him. But after he cried wolf several times and there was no wolf, sooner or later, they understood what was going on and they learned to ignore him. But then one day, a real wolf showed up in town. The boy saw the wolf and he's screaming at the top of his lungs, wolf, wolf. But what happened? Nobody even looked at him. Nobody paid him any attention. And because of that, the village suffered a bad loss that day. Well, here's what that story taught me as a young man, a truth that's still true today. And that is, words carry a lot of weight. Would you agree with this? Hey, your words carry a lot of weight. That's true today, but that truth goes all the way back to biblical times. Today, as we open God's word to Matthew chapter five, I want you to understand the setting that Jesus was living in in that day. You see, in Jesus's day,

the religious leaders of the time, known as the Pharisees, they were known for abusing the power of their words. They were in a powerful position and people automatically listened to them, but they were making oaths that they shouldn't make. They were making promises. They had no intention of keeping. But then Jesus shows up and he begins to dismantle their deception. And in doing so, Jesus calls us as his followers to live a life of radical truthfulness. See, he uses this illustration to teach us something about ourselves. And that is that God expects us to be truth tellers. And that's what we're gonna see today, beginning in verse 33 of Matthew chapter five. As Jesus is teaching on this mountain overlooking the Sea of Galilee, a famous sermon known as the Sermon on the Mount. Remember, he's speaking to first century believers, followers of Jesus, and he's explaining to them how following him means that we've been called to live a counter-cultural life. We've been called out of this culture, the culture of this world, and Jesus is clear to say we've been called into a new culture, a kingdom culture of following Jesus, which means if we're truly saved,

if we're following Christ, that our lives should be lived differently than those who are in the world. Jesus tells us we are the salt of the earth. Do you remember that? He said, you are the light of the world. the world and he tells us that our salvation comes through Jesus Christ, not through the law and not through obeying a bunch of rules. So today we're going to hear Jesus continue to speak and give us another example of what it is to live the kingdom life. And this is what he's going to say, kingdom people tell the truth. Get this today, kingdom people, us, if you're safe, we tell the truth, not just in our oaths, but in our everyday speech. Hey, Jesus makes his point very clear in verse 37. Read that with me, if you will. He said, let your yes mean yes and your no mean no. In other words, Jesus is looking at us today and he's saying, tell the truth all the time, all the time. If you cry wolf, there better be a wolf. He's saying, remember, this is a calling in your life. He's talking to believers here and in this message he's saying to us, it is inexcusable to live your life as a liar. In fact, in verse 34 he tells them, if you can't tell the truth consistently, check this out. He said, don't take an oath at all. He's like, if you can't tell the truth, just keep your mouth shut. An oath, by the way, would be like us raising our hand today, raising our hand and swearing on something to be true. Have you ever seen that? Like, I swear this is the truth.

And then we'll swear on things. I swear on my kids. Some of you are like, I'll swear on them any day, it doesn't matter. I swear on my family, I swear on my mama, I swear on my whatever it is, I swear this is the truth. And the reason you take an oath is to verify that what you're saying is actually true. We still do this today. If you've seen a presidential inauguration, you've watched an incoming commander in chief place his hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, right? Have you ever seen that before? That's him promising on the authority of scripture that he's going to do what he is committing to do. The same is true in courtrooms all across our country. Every single day, people take the witness stand and they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me God, right? Any medical professionals in the room, if you're a medical professional, you've taken what's known as the Hippocratic oath, which is basically you promising to uphold ethical medical practices in what you do. These are all examples of modern day oaths that are taken in our world today. But that's not exactly what Jesus is talking about here in Matthew chapter five. In fact, just to get the full context of where we're going, let's just read the entire passage together beginning in verse 33 and then we'll start from there. Jesus is speaking and he says this, again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, you must not break your oath, but you must keep your oath to the Lord. But I tell you, don't take an oath at all, either by heaven because it is God's throne or by earth because it is his footstool or by Jerusalem because it is the city of the great king. Do not swear by your head because you cannot make a single hair white or black, but let your yes mean yes and your no mean no.

Anything more than this is from the evil one. Now, when you read that text, you probably noticed once again that certain words are actually bold. You see that in verse 33, Jesus gets to this point and it says, you must not break your oath, but you must keep your oath to the Lord. Why is that bold in the scripture? Because Jesus is quoting scripture. These are words that you see in the Old Testament and so as Jesus is speaking, he's referring to a text that everyone would have known because they've heard it in the law. These words right here are written multiple times in the Old Testament. You see these in Leviticus chapter 19, you see them in Numbers chapter 30, you see them in Deuteronomy chapter 23. So these are common words that they had studied in the law. So when Jesus began this part of the message, he was telling the people, you have heard these words because you've heard them in school. You've heard the Pharisees talk about these. You have heard their interpretation of what God meant when he said this. But then Jesus said, but I tell you something different. And when Jesus says, but I tell you, remember he's not denying the law. He's deepening the law and he's showing his followers a new perspective from the Messiah that explained to them, number one, God's position, but also God's expectation. This is something they weren't hearing from the Pharisees, but the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords shows up and he says, you need to understand what I'm saying to you right here. He said, you've heard the Pharisees talk about this. higher life, but their perspective doesn't necessarily reflect my heart. So you ask the question, what were the Pharisees teaching in that day? Well the Pharisees felt that an oath made to God, or an oath that was made on the authority of God, it had to be kept. So if you raise your hand and you're like, no, I swear on him, or I swear on the Bible,

or I swear on any of the things that he mentions, they believed that you had to be totally and completely honest no matter what. That kind of promise in the Bible days was referred to as a divine oath. I'm promising on his word or his authority. But on the flip side of that, the Pharisees, remember the religious leaders of the day, they not only believed, but they were also teaching that if you made another oath or you made another promise that was not divine, you didn't promise on him or his authority or his word, then that's just a promise or a commitment and those can be broken. If you didn't make the promise on God, all bets were off and you didn't necessarily have to do what you said you would do. So it wasn't necessarily what you said that mattered. It was only important how you said it that counted. Well, Jesus steps up in this passage and says, time out just a second. I've got a huge problem with that. And the reason he had a problem was because these were people that were following Christ. These were people that were following him and now they're living in a culture where lying is just a part of what they do. It didn't matter, honestly, if you were a pagan or a Christian, if you've made a commitment or a promise in that world, most of the time, you just didn't do what you said you would do. And because of that, even first century followers were now considered to be untrustworthy. No one knew if they were telling the truth or not. So they're speaking on behalf of Jesus. They're telling the stories of what Christ is doing. And people are looking at them and they're like, hey, that wasn't an oath made on God. Like, I don't know if you're telling the truth or not. Honestly, when I read about this, it reminds me a lot about our culture today. You know, a culture that's built off of, we don't know if they're telling the truth or not. In fact, I read a study this week that was conducted by the Institute for Behavior Motivation. And this study was very thorough. And they came with a result at the very end that said this, we've discovered that 97 out

of 100 people lie on a regular basis. I thought that sounded high, but that's what they came up with. 97 out of every 100 people lie on a regular basis. And not only that, they also said, and the average person in those 97 lies on average 1000 times a year. So look at the person next to you and just say, you're a liar. Amen? No, I'm just joking. Don't do that. I read another study, by the way, this is even better. This study was conducted by the Roper, the Roper organization. And they surveyed the public about their perceptions. And they asked the question, do you believe these people are telling the truth or not? Well, at the end of their study, here's what they discovered. They believe that clergy tells the truth 49% of the time. So the preachers, man, these are the, they are supposed to tell the truth. And the public said 49% of the time, they believe they're telling the truth. Doctors 48% of the time, 48% of the time. It also found that their best friends. We only think they tell the truth 26% of the time. I was like, you gotta get a new best friend. Amen. The local newspaper, 8% of the time. The president of the United States, 8% of the time, the leader of Congress, 3% of the time. All right. But I'm reading those. I'm like, man, we just live in a culture right now that questions everything. We question every word that we hear. And we doubt that people are actually telling the truth, but that is the perception of many

people in our country today. Why? Because we live in a culture where lying is considered to be normal. It's just a normal part of life. And you know what? The exact same thing could be said of the culture in Jesus's day. The Pharisees and others like them had forgotten the truth of Proverbs 12, 22. That verse says, lying lips are detestable to the Lord, but faithful people are his delight. Hey, in that verse, Jesus is talking about lying lips and he's talking about our words. But right here, he doesn't intend to stop there at our words. Jesus, like in other places in the Bible, takes it to another level. He takes it to the root of the issue. He's talking about our heart. See, telling the truth doesn't start with our lips or our words. It starts with our heart. And that's one of the main takeaways I want us to leave with today. So if you're taking notes, get this as number one, you ready? Truthfulness is a matter of the heart. It's a matter of the heart. And scripture talks about that all over the place. In Psalm 15 verse two, it describes the one who lives blamelessly. It's talking about the one who practices righteousness. And it says, this is a person who, look at it, acknowledges the truth in his heart and does not slander with his tongue. In Luke six verse 45, we hear Jesus echo that and say, whatever good or evil you store up in your heart, that will determine the words

that are gonna come out of your mouth. Look at it. Jesus said these words. He said, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. And so that leads me to ask the question, Jordan, what do you got in your heart, right? What are we feeding our hearts? Because ultimately what's in your heart will come out of your mouth. In Matthew five, that's what Jesus is saying. He's condemning lying lips, but he's actually pointing to our hearts. And he's saying honest lips result from a holy life. If our lips are gonna be honest, he's saying your life must be holy. Mark Twain once said, if you tell the truth, you don't have to remember a thing. Think about that. If you just tell the truth, you don't have to keep tabs and keep track. And that may be true. But when Jesus talks about truthfulness, he says that telling the truth is more than a convenience. Telling the truth is a calling. It's a calling. And have you been called is the question. And let me rephrase that. Have you been saved, yes or no? Have you been changed by Jesus?

Do you belong to him? When God looks at your heart right now, does he see someone that he calls righteous in the eyes of God? Because if those things are true, then God's word has a word for us. What does it say in Proverbs 13, five? It says the righteous, talking about us, the righteous hate lying, but the wicked bring disgust and shame. So what does that tell us today? Well, it tells me something about my words. It should tell you something about your words. Our words have a way of revealing to us the true state of our hearts. And that's what Matthew 15 echoes as well. It says, but what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart and this defiles a person. So when you look at all the things that Jesus is saying about our lips, our words, but ultimately coming from our heart, that tells us this, when Christ transforms our heart, he transforms our words. If your words never change, it should lead us to ask the question, has my heart ever been changed? Because this says when you speak as a follower of Jesus that's been transformed by God, you should be a person that tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So help us, God. What does scripture say? Number one, truthfulness is a matter of the heart. Number two, half truths are whole lies. Don't miss this part today. Half truths are whole lies. Hey, ask the question, why did Jesus have to say this statement? Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no. Why did he have to say that to the believers in that day? Well, the reason is because the religious leaders of that day had fine print behind everything they were saying. Do you know what I mean when I say fine print? If you've ever seen a document, it's like you have a million words and then you scroll down to the very bottom and you like scroll, scroll, scroll until you finally see that little box that says I have read the terms and conditions and you have to check the box, but you didn't read a single word in the terms and conditions. That's what I mean when I say fine print. Sometimes people hide things in the fine print that might actually change your decision if you knew what it actually said. And some people live their lives in that same way. They hide that fine print detail behind their words to make broken promises look justified.

And that's what the Pharisees were doing in that day. They were swearing by things like heaven, I swear on earth, I swear on Jerusalem. They were making these big oaths that sounded super spiritual and holy, but they were actually just loopholes to avoid real commitment. And that's when Jesus shows up and he's like, hey guys, why don't you just tell the truth all the time and live a life of integrity instead? That's what he calls us to as believers, people that live their life with integrity. That word integrity, by the way, it comes from a Latin phrase that means whole or complete. Integrity has no fine print, get this today. It has no fine print. What you see is what you get when you're talking to a person that lives their life with integrity. Integrity is saying what you'll do and then doing what you'll say, right? And that's the kind of life. in which Jesus calls us to live. We may not realize this, but half-truths and omissions and even exaggerations are just as destructive as outright lies. And I use that word destructive because these things cause people to question our integrity. Remember, Jesus is talking to first century believers and he's saying, hey, if you're gonna be entrusted with the gospel and telling people about me,

people need to know that when you speak, you're telling the truth. And the same thing is being said of us today. You know, the apostle Paul tells us in Philippians one, that we should be pure and blameless in the day of Christ. We should be pure and blameless. Let me ask you, do those words describe your words? Pure and blameless. That word pure is also translated sincere, sincere. It comes from a Latin phrase that means without wax. You ever heard that before? Without wax is that definition. I gotta be honest, I looked that up last week. I was like, I gotta figure out what that means. Without wax. I thought it had to do something with your ears. It doesn't, it doesn't have anything to do with your ears. But I looked it up and when you look up without wax in the original language, you find out that in those days, in biblical days, there were merchants in the Holy Land that were selling a very fine porcelain product. And this porcelain was extremely expensive. It was highly sought after by the elite people in that day, the wealthy individuals. But oftentimes in the production stage, the fire in the furnace would get too hot and the heat would cause these hairline fractures in the porcelain product that they were producing. And so when you have these hairline products

in that process, some of the dishonest merchants, they began to fill the cracks with this pearly white wax and they would cover those cracks until it was very smooth. And then they would reheat it in the furnace until you couldn't even tell that it was fixed. And so it would look like every other porcelain product until you held that porcelain up to the light of the sun. And once it was held to the light, it would reveal that the cracks had been filled with wax. Well, people began catching on to what they were doing. And so the honest merchants on the other side of the street, they began to mark their flawless porcelain, their perfect porcelain with a label. And that label was this Latin phrase, sine sera, sincere, pure, without wax. You know, when I read that this week, I thought to myself, you know what God's expectation of me is? When my words are held up to the light of God's holiness, Jesus said, my words should be pure. They should be sine sera, they should be without wax. Jesus said, let your yes mean yes, let your no mean no. Let me ask you a question, are your words pure? Are they without wax? You say, Jordan, no, I gotta be honest, I lie. I exaggerate, I omit things from time to time. Well, look at what the word says in this. Let your yes mean yes, your no mean no. And Jesus said, anything more than this, check this out, is from the evil one.

You say, does that mean when I lie, when I exaggerate, when I omit things, when I don't tell the truth, when I cover things up, does that mean that those things are from the devil himself? Yeah, that's what it means. That's exactly what Jesus is saying. Jesus in this text tells us that the evil one is the source of every lie. He is the source of every lie. In fact, Jesus calls him, in John 8, verse 44, the father of lies, he's the daddy of all lies. So when you lie, guess what you're doing? You're doing something the devil wants you to do. And Jesus points this out, he said, when you lie, you're like him. In fact, I want you to read this whole verse, John 8, 44, and see what Jesus says about the devil in this verse. Jesus said, he was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand on the truth because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature because he is a liar and the father of lies. Man, that verse right there, that should speak to every single one of us. Every one of us who are in the 97 of 100 people that lie from time to time. And what that verse tells us is this, that you are never more like the devil than when you lie. You're never more like him. And I believe this is why Jesus is so adamant

in this message. I believe it's why he's urging his followers to be. truth tellers because in doing so he's reminding us that every single time you lie every single time you slip into sin you'll look like him you look like the evil one you look like that old person in that old nature and that shouldn't be the case not if you've truly met the Lord because now he's saying you've been saved you've been set free you've been set apart I mean Romans chapter 6 says you're no longer a slave to your sin do you believe that today look at what he says in Romans 6 for we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin since a person who has died is freed from sin verse 18 of that same chapter says and having been set free from sin you became enslaved to righteousness he said you used to be a slave to sin that used to be your go-to that used to be your nature but you're not a slave to sin anymore you're a slave to righteousness now Jesus has changed you from the inside out you're a different person so what is Christ reminding us of today he's saying who you follow will determine how you live who you follow will determine how you live so don't miss this he's saying if you live in the world and you follow the devil you're gonna live a life of sin but if you follow Jesus then he's gonna lead you away from sin and lead you to a life of holiness and righteousness set apart from the culture of this world and that's what he's telling us about today he's saying if you're saved you've been what crucified with Christ and you've been set free from your old way of life that's why Paul says this in Colossians 3 best verse of the whole day check this out he said do not lie to one another since you have put off the old self with its practices do not lie because you're different now the Bible says this lost people are supposed to lie but God expects saved people to tell the truth why because you've put off the old self you've put off those old practices and the old devil can now be kicked to the curb because of what Christ has done in your life somebody say amen to that come on now listen truthfulness he said is a matter of the

heart he said even those half-truths man they're whole lies but don't miss the last point and that is small lies lead to big losses small lies lead to big losses what many people call fibs or little white lies Jesus calls sin and you know what sin is sin because he he knows that small deceptions they lead to major destruction he in Jesus is emphasizing this for a reason it's not because he sees this as a small sin no Jesus see sin is sin have you ever been in a leaking boat I have anybody ever sunk a boat anybody just me okay that's fine whatever if you've ever been in a sinking boat here's what you know you know that a tiny hole may not sink a boat immediately but over time if you allow that hole to remain water will eventually fill that boat and pull it under now in my case it wasn't a boat it was a jet ski and the plug was not in the jet ski it also had a crack in it my in-laws put me on it it was their jet ski they put me out in the middle of a massive body of water I think they were trying to kill me be honest with you but they sent me way out there and and I started to sink I thought it was a lowrider I didn't know what was going on but before you know it I mean all you can see is the nose of the jet ski and me up here just going hey what in the world is happening right now you want to guess where the jet ski is it's at the bottom of the lake that's where it's at right now they tried to pull me out but it just didn't work it's at the bottom of a lake and as far as my in-laws are concerned they're still not real happy with me about that but you know I just think how did that happen it didn't happen like that I mean it took a while the water had to come in the water had to take over and at the end of the day the water won and Luke chapter 16 verse 10 we read this verse whoever is faithful in the very little is also faithful in much and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much say we think little sins are no big deal to God but God's Word shows us every major collapse begins with a small crack every major collapse begins with a small crack that statement takes me back to a day I'll never forget I was sitting in my first grade classroom in 1986 when my teacher flips on the TV in the corner of the room and we as a class we watched a live

event take place that I'm sure Many of you may have been watching at the same time on that day The challenger took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and all of us first graders. We watched we were leaning in We were excited about this day and we watched the launch take place But you may also remember 73 seconds after the launch occurred that space shuttle exploded on live television On that day seven astronauts and crew crew members died in that explosion And as the world watched everyone is wondering the exact same thing. We were all asking how could something like this happen? What was the cause of this major? Catastrophe. Well, here's what experts have discovered in their investigation since Prior to that launch NASA engineers knew that there was an issue with the o-ring gasket on that space shuttle We now know that they were fully aware that there was some kind of problem But instead of admitting the risk Instead of delaying the launch Instead of replacing that $3 piece of equipment on a very expensive space shuttle. They downplayed their concern They compromised in doing what was the right thing to do? And what was the result? Well a minor problem Led to a national tragedy Hey every major collapse Begins with a small crack and that's true whether you're talking about a jet ski with a missing plug Or a crack in the hole That's true. If you're talking about a space shuttle with the faulty o-ring, but it's also true regarding your life It's also true regarding who we are if we have small sins like lying that we consider to be no big deal Listen small sins are a big deal to God. I Mean that's been the theme of this whole series so far You walk through Matthew chapter 5 and this is what you hear Jesus say we call it lust no big deal God calls it adultery We say it's hate. That's not that big of a deal. God says hey your hate is murder We call it a little white lie God calls it a sin that comes from our heart in Galatians chapter 5 verse 9 We read these words a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough

You see what he's saying to us today He's saying hey that little bitty sin in your life can lead to destruction if you're unwilling to address it You know It's easy to get fired up and to to to say amen in sermons where we're preaching about big sins that all of us are Against if I preach on adultery man, I'll have people clapping and cheering like go get them preacher But when we start talking about the little sins that affect the masses That's when we get real quiet. I Think those are moments where God's telling us turn inward and consider how true what I'm saying to you is Listen sin leads to destruction period Big sins and small sins in the eyes of God are sins and his word to us is this unaddressed Unconfessed sin in your life will destroy you So the question we've got to ask is this how can I avoid destruction if what Jesus is saying is true? Then what do I need to do next? I want to give you a simple four-step process coming straight from the Word of God Hey, if you've got small sins in your life today, number one I want you to recognize your sin. The last thing you can do is act like it doesn't exist Recognize that this is something that you need to address. The second thing repent from it. Don't just recognize it turn from it And so if you're saying this is something I've done in my past Turn from it and say I want to head in a different direction with Jesus, but don't only repent from your sin Hey refuse to return to your sin There are moments where we like to slip back into those little sins and Jesus said no keep your eyes focused Put your blinders on follow me and trust me Which leads me to number four and that's remain on the path of righteousness Jesus has given us a clear path and he can he can keep you away from the sin that you're being tempted by But Jesus said you've got to turn from it You've got to refuse to go towards it and you've got to remain on the path of righteousness Pursuing Jesus and the better way that he has for you But how about when it's related to our words today Jesus had a word about our words So what are some practical action steps that we can take regarding this sin problem number one?

Make sure your words match your Christian character. Hey as a believer I think this is a an assessment time for all of us and that is when I speak is the the character of Christ revealed Number two live with integrity in every part of your life. That word means through and through it's consistent. It's without wax There's no flaw that I'm covering up What you see is what you get Number three tell the truth tell the truth even when it's difficult to do so. Tell the truth, be upfront. Never say anything that would make people question if you're telling the truth or not. Number four, we learned this from the Pharisees, don't manipulate people with your words. When you speak, make sure that you are being honest and upfront and that you're not using words to move people in the wrong direction. And number five, be known for truthfulness. Be known for truthfulness. And remember, the words you speak represent the God you serve. The words you speak represent the God you serve. I believe the main question that's being asked today is not do you tell the truth? I believe the main question being asked today is do you know the truth? There's a big difference between the two. You see, you won't tell the truth until you know the truth. And what is the truth? Hey, who is the truth? Who's a better question? Jesus is the truth.

He said of himself in John 14, six, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. And nobody comes to the Father except through me. So let me ask you a question. This isn't a sermon on behavior modification. This is a sermon about do you know the truth? Because if you know him, if you follow him, then he will create in you a desire to use your words in a way that represents him well. I'm not asking, do you tell the truth? I'm asking, do you know the truth? Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? Listen, I may be speaking to someone today that says, I've never asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. I've never given him my life. And that's why my words have never changed. May I just introduce you to the God who can change your life forever? You say, pastor, how can I begin a relationship with him today? Can you just pray this prayer right where you're at? You say, Jesus, I wanna be a child of the King. And today I'm asking you in the best way I know how, to save me, to change me, and to make me new. Lord, I turn from my sins and I turn to you, trusting that you truly are the Savior of the world and able to save my soul. I want you to give me the courage to live for you and follow you all the days of my life, starting right now. May I never be ashamed of this decision.

Thank you for loving me. Thank you for saving me. And it's in Jesus' name I pray, amen. As we wrap up this episode, I have a question for you. Do you fully understand the world of AI? I don't either, but I do recognize that this revolutionary technology is being used to advance the gospel. One of those advancements is the ability to take the message that I just preached and to convert it into various languages. Sound too good to be true? Let me encourage you to visit our website at goallin.tv and look at the messages link in the menu. There you can find audio versions and now even video versions of my messages in eight different languages. That's right, AI has now enabled us to take the message that I just preached in English and convert it into all sorts of languages spoken around the world, allowing people to hear and understand the teachings of Jesus and this message in their native tongue. The incredible feat that we're just talking about is made possible by the generosity of people just like you who've connected with All In and have decided to partner financially with our ministry. Part of our mission is to spread the gospel around the world.

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