Telling The TRUTH
040211 Telling The Truth 28 Minute Program
[music] You're listening to "Telling the Truth" from Triple T. Christian Youth Ministries, "Telling the Truth to and Through Teenagers." Here is Triple T. founder and president, George Dooms. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God gave Noah specific instructions to keep things going forward after the flood. Listen, "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female, two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female, also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth, Genesis 7, 2 and 3 New King James. God always knows the future. He is omnipotent and omniscient, and because he is all knowing we can trust him with all of our hearts. God has something for you to do specifically, and he wants you to listen carefully to his word. He wants you to have compassion on the people who don't know him, and he wants you to know him personally and then share your faith in him with others who don't know him. He wants you to have fellowship with other believers, to pray diligently, to read his word and to take the gospel to a world that needs to know Jesus. What will you do with Jesus? Will you tell others about him, how they can know him too? Christ died for our sins. He was buried, and he rose again on the third day. Tell people to believe. Listen to what God says in Genesis 7, 4, New King James Version, "For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made." Noah had been given very special information. He knew what was going to happen before it transpired, and he was ready. He had done what God asked him to do. He had gathered the animals and the birds, and Noah was going to protect God's creations because everything else as God had promised would be destroyed. God is not a respecter of persons. God's will is going to be accomplished, but he wants to do it through you and through me. Are you willing to say, "Lord, make me usable"? Have you trusted Jesus Christ personally as your Savior, your Redeemer? Are you willing to be what God wants you to be, to do what God wants you to do? Are you willing to pray, to read God's word, and to share his glorious gospel with people who need to know him? You can tell people that Jesus Christ died for them. He was buried, and he rose again, and he wants to live inside every person who will open his or her heart to him. Tell people. Noah was a very special person in God's sight because he was obedient to the Lord. Listen to Genesis 5-7, New King James, and Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. And then verse 6 says, "Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was on the earth." 600 years old. Today if somebody makes it to 100, they almost always have their names. Sometimes their pictures and their family's pictures in the newspaper. If they love beyond that, then of course everyone knows about them. Today sin is rampant in the world, and people far younger than Noah, and his family, are falling because of sin. But God has a plan for you no matter how long your life will extend. Every day should be given to the Lord. Only one life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. For me to live is Christ, the Apostle Paul said. What about you, are you living for the Lord every single day? Is the day God's day as far as you are concerned? Are you going to trust him right now? Are you going to share your faith with those who need to know him? I hope you will. God loves families, and because of this love for people, listen to Genesis 7-7, New King James Version. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. One family, father, mother, three sons, three sons' wives, eight people from all the population of planet Earth would be saved to repopulate all of the Earth in the days ahead. God wants us to trust him. He wants us to know that he cares. He cares about you and your family. Are you praying for every member of your family? Are you lovingly sharing your faith in Jesus Christ with them? Do all of them know the Lord? Are you telling them how much God loves them, that Jesus died so that each one, by believing on him, could have life that would last forever? God wants you to start where you are, to use what you have, to do all you can to keep on keeping on sharing your faith in Jesus Christ, reading his word, heeding his word, praying diligently and specifically by name for people who need the Lord. How do you know who doesn't know him? Will you pray and then will you go? God bless you as you do. It was the very first animal parade. Maybe it was a circus atmosphere. I don't know how it happened specifically. I just know why it happened. God's Word tells us in Genesis 7, 8 and 9 New King James, of clean beasts, of beasts that are unclean, of birds and of everything that creeps on the Earth. Two by two, they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. There you have it, the parade of the creatures that God had put together for the future of civilization. What God was going to do for those eight people who would obey the Lord by going into the ark would be to save them from damnation, from destruction, because God had a plan for their future. God has a plan for your future, and He wants you to understand that He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come through repentance. Are you doing something to share God's plan of salvation with people who will perish unless they know the Lord? I hope you are. I trust you well. The gospel is dynamic, life-changing, and totally rearranging the hearts and lives of people who will believe. But first they have to hear, they have to be told how much God cares and why Jesus died. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7, 10 and 11, near King James Version. Details are important to the Lord. God is totally in charge, and He knew what was going to happen, when it was going to happen. He took a man named Noah and he allowed him to be his servant, and he saved Noah and his family for the procreation of mankind. Today people in our world need to know the truth. I remember as a seventh grader being challenged in a science class about the flood. I was not at all taken off my moorings because I had been reared in a Bible-believing church in Sunday school. I knew the Bible, I knew what it said, and I believed it totally. So I stood up and shared my faith in Christ in class. I was looked at as scans, but I was true to God's Word. I believed then, and still do today. Do you? I hope you do, and if you do, tell others. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7, 12, near King James. The forty-day factor is important in God's scheme of things. Consistently, He uses that link of time to accomplish His purposes. It was forty days and forty nights that Jesus found Himself in the wilderness, tempted by Satan, but He didn't give in. Today, I don't know what's going to happen in the next forty days, but I do know this. That time frame is going to be very, very special because it is going to reveal the last days of Jesus' life on earth. And then after the resurrection, God kept Jesus here, sharing, being with people for forty days before He ascended to the right hand of God the Father. So make certain that that time period that you invest is specifically utilized for God's glory. The next forty days can be important in your life, and I hope they will be. It's up to you. You can share your faith with lost people in forty days. You can pray diligently, specifically by name for them. You can fellowship with other believers, and together, you can go with God's good news. Jesus died for our sins, and He is alive. Every Saturday at 7.27 p.m., you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T, thirteen thousand U.S. forty-one north at Booneville in Harmony Road, midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday, a good news club for those in first through fifth grades is available in a separate area. For more information call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org. Why did Jesus really die? The greatest question man's mind can comprehend is that. Dave Breeze, one of the great Christian communicators, scripturally answers that question. It is a privilege to be a special friend of Christian Destiny, and of Carol Breeze, the President, and I want to give all credit to the Lord for inspiring Dave to share these thoughts with you. The resurrection and you, the prophesied blood sacrifice. Listen, Dave says it seems to me that one of the most dramatic events in the history of the world took place in the life of Jesus Christ. In Matthew chapter 21, we have the story of how Christ instructed His disciples as to how they should find a donkey and bring that animal to Him. If the keeper of the donkey objected, they would simply say, "The King needs Him." They brought the donkey, Christ climbed astride that donkey and rode into the city of Jerusalem. The Bible says that a great company of people shouted, "Hosanna in the highest." They took palm leaves and laid them before Him as He came into the city. Matthew 21, 1 through 9 tells the story. During this day, we celebrate that event as Palm Sunday. But you'll recall that upon arriving in the city, Jesus quickly presented Himself as the Son of God. He threw the money-changers out of the temple. In a very short time, that tide of acceptance turned and became a reverse tide. Stunningly, the city of Jerusalem rejected Him. They rejected Him to the place where they cried, "Crucify Him." The Bible says He was taken to a place called Calvary, there He was nailed to a cross, there that body hung between earth and the sky, there He died. Dave continues, "Atonement by blood." Now Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and when we realize the awful thing that took place, that Christ gave His life on that cross, we must ask why? What was the cause so great? That was the motivation so strong, what was the need that made it essential for Christ, the God of the universe, to die on the cross? The answer to that question when understood should produce a profound change in every one of our lives. To discover why Jesus died, we must go back through the arches of the years, back to the very first men and women who lived in the world, whose names, as you know, were Adam and Eve. A God created Adam and Eve in His own image. He gave them instructions about life, and one of the things that He told them was that all that they needed to do to experience success and prosperity and wonderful things in life was to obey Him. But of course, it becomes the touchstone that makes our story understandable. Adam and Eve were told that they could partake of every one of the trees of the garden except one, the tree of knowledge, of good and evil. And the Lord God commanded this man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Genesis 2, 16 and 17, New King James. Keep those verses in mind. It was a very hard but very simple prohibition that was placed upon Adam and Eve, and they fully understood the rules. You can do anything except eat of the forbidden fruit. That one act will open the door to death. While the time came when a being called the serpent, the devil entered the garden, he tempted Eve and he got her to eat of that forbidden fruit. That dramatic moment came when she reached out a hand trembling with heinous anticipation. He took of that fruit and she ate, and she gave to Adam and he also ate, and the Bible teaches, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3, 23. What then can we do about this matter of sin? Well the Old Testament once again gives us the answer when it says, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood," and I have given it to you up on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. That's Leviticus 17, 11. God came to visit Adam in the garden after he had sinned against him. God listened to Adam's confession of how he had disobeyed him. There was a lot of rationalization there, but Adam and Eve confessed to the fact that they knew better and disobeyed God. Dave continues, and he asks this question, "Listen, do you know better? Have you disobeyed God? Look at what happened with reference to Adam and Eve. God went and got an innocent animal out of the field nearby where he talked to Adam and Eve. God took that innocent animal and killed it, and when he did, the blood was shed. Out of the death of that innocent animal, God also made coats of skin. He made them for Adam and Eve because they knew they were naked. So the answer to sin in the life of Adam and Eve was the shedding of blood. Without shedding of blood, there is no remission. Hebrews 9, 22. No one can be saved unless blood is applied to his account and the awful scourge of death done away with. That blood was first shed by God himself on behalf of Adam and Eve. But the picture, an innocent animal from the field, was put to death because of the sin of man. What God has ordained, that is the way it must be. The blood of an innocent party must be shed, or you can never do away with your sin. Not by high-purposing, nor by promising to be better. It takes the cleansing of the blood of an innocent animal. That's the way it was back in the early chapters of Genesis. In another chapter early in Genesis we have the picture of Adam and Eve's two sons, Cain and Abel. They knew that they had to bring blood, the blood of a lamb, the blood of an innocent animal to be a sacrifice for sin. They knew that, but one obeyed and one did not. Cain and Abel made their altars of sacrifice before God. Abel's sacrifice was a spotless lamb, while the sacrifice of Cain was the first fruits of the field, corn and beans and squash and other things that he had grown. It probably was beautiful, but God rejected Cain's sacrifice and he accepted Abel's because it takes the blood of an innocent to cleanse us of sin. Dave continues, "We can bring that paradigm down to the very present moment. A God will forgive you of your sin and me of my sin if we categorically accept the blood of Jesus Christ as the price, the payment for our sin. However, if we don't do that, it doesn't matter if you or I do all kinds of good works and make all kinds of new promises before God. I can promise to straighten out my life will be of no avail. The righteous deeds of an unrighteous man are an abomination to God. The message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, "His salvation is available to you by faith, alone, if you will believe on the finished work of Christ on Calvary's cross." Dave Brace, Christian communicator, talks about the foreshadowing Christ. The blood of bulls and goats was shed on a million occasions in the Old Testament for man of the center. Now what we must remember is that the blood shed by the innocent animals in the Old Testament not only became a covering for sin before the days of the early ministry of Christ, but also it became a foreshadowing of what God would do. As we move on through history, it foresaw what would take place with reference to Abraham and to all the world. Listen to what the Apostle Paul says, Galatians 3, 6-9, New King James. Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. In the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel to Abraham beforehand saying, "In you, all the nations shall be blessed," so that those who are of the faith are blessed with believing Abraham. That same faith which Abraham expressed and manifest indeed when he listened to God and trusted in the divine provision of the Lamb would spring forth through the seed of Abraham and become a blessing to the whole world. In the Old Testament, the saints offered blood sacrifice in faith, looking forward to the Atonement that would come through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Today we can accept that Atonement by believing the message that Jesus, as the spotless Lamb of God, died for the sins of man. Stay tuned for more. Have you discovered your destiny? Dave Breeze has written a book by that title. Discover your destiny. We want to offer that to you free. All you have to do is contact us. You can call us, area code 812-867-2418, I'll repeat, area code 812-867-2418, or you can write to us. George Dooms, TTT Christian Youth Ministries, 13,000 US Highway 41 North. It's 1-3-0-0 US Highway 41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 4-7-7-2-5. Get your copy of Discover Your Destiny. Begin a journey, an exciting journey you will never forget, not to a new place, but to a new life. In Discover Your Destiny, Dave Breeze takes you on such a journey. First, back in time, as Dr. Breeze traces God's relationship with his most beautiful yet tragic creation, man. The journey then becomes a personal experience. God has not confined a history, but he earns to establish a relationship with each one of us today. Get ready for the most important and exciting journey of your life as you discover your destiny as a child of God. Write for your copy of Discover Your Destiny or Call. If you want to tuck something in to help us reach teenagers for Jesus Christ, every ten dollars lets us get the gospel to another 10 to 19-year-old, and we would really appreciate your prayers and your support, but the book Discover Your Destiny is free without obligation. Please get yours. Again the address, TTT Christian Youth Ministries, 13,000, that's 1-3-0-0, US Highway 41-North, Evansville, Indiana, 4-7-7-1-1. Let's listen to more of the words that Dave Breeze has shared from his heart that will help you understand what God has done in the Lamb that was slain. So he has established a proposition that atonement being able to be at one with God is by the blood of Christ, the sacrifices of the Old Testament foreshadowed what Jesus would do for us on the cross, which is the wonderful fact that the blood of the Lamb was shed for us. Do you realize what Christ did when He died on the cross? When it was on that cross, God reached out to every dark heart and every lost life and every despairing spirit and every sinful soul. God gathered that awful package of human sin and He placed it upon His Son. The Bible says, in 2 Corinthians 5-21, New King James, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." The blood of Jesus. Because of the death of Christ on Calvary's cross, the shedding of blood by the Son of God, you and I, representative of that death, are cleansed from sin and given what the Bible calls "the righteousness of God," imputed righteousness. Just think of it. By virtue of our faith in what Jesus did for us on the cross, we are totally clean and pure and accepted before God and trusting in His blood to take us all the way to heaven. Salvation, therefore, is not of human works. Titus tells us, 3-5, New King James, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. That is the promise of the Word of God, and that mercy was expressed by the finished work of Christ on the cross. So it is the work of Christ, the lamb that was slain that makes it possible for us to be saved. Now expanding out from that, the Scripture indicates that the blood of bulls and goats in the Old Testament in the last analysis could never take away sin. Hebrews 10-4 says, "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sin, but they foreshadowed the application of the blood of Christ on the needy, desperately sinful souls of wicked men." So that it is the blood of Jesus Christ that covered sins in the Old Testament, but the blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin entirely and completely. It is faith on what He did for us on the cross. Not faith in our own good works are promising to be better in the days to come that produces the gift of God which is everlasting life. And so Dave Breeze has shared with you, through me, this very, very important information. So again the question, why did Jesus really die? Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.