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This is Truth Time Radio.
So have you encountered anyone who seems to have the religion of me?
Hey, when we choose to follow our own will, it starts to become all about what we want,
what we think, how we feel.
And the truth is no longer objective, but subjective.
What's popular today is the religion of me.
It's subjectivism, which basically means to have an idea about something, but it's not an absolute.
It's simply relative to what you perceive, what you think, and how you feel.
So now, when these folks go to the Bible, God's Word, His absolute truth, they're faced with a problem, because when you approach Him through your own subjective lenses, with your own ideas, what you want, what you thought, and how you feel, His Word quickly becomes somewhat off-putting, offensive, because this is not the God of subjection you thought He was.
This is not the God you were looking for.
And it's then when man will start to tweak and twist, little by little, little here, little there, begin to change the Word of God, so it fits better inside the preconceived box that He created in His mind.
The box that's not constructed on God's Word, but rather on your own feelings.
If your expectations of what God is supposed to do for you in this life, if they're based on your desires and wants, and not based on the Word of truth rightly divided, you're setting yourself up for major failure.
When we wake up each day, living off our emotional subjective ideas, instead of living from the platform of God's objective truth, disaster is just ahead.
Count on it.
Society tells us, trust your heart, listen to your heart, just follow your heart.
God says, trust Me, listen to Me.
And where is He?
In His Word.
Don't trust your feelings.
Don't think God is involved in your day-to-day circumstances, therefore you're there waiting for Him to sway your situation this way, or sway it back over the other way.
Your daily life might be subjective, but your eternal life is not.
The plan of salvation is based upon facts, not feelings.
Oftentimes, but not always, but oftentimes the ones that doubt their salvation are the same ones who were never saved.
We've had listeners tell us that they were in church their entire life, but had never heard a clear message on how to be saved.
A lifetime of stumbling along, wavering in the faith, because they were never properly presented with a clear salvation gospel in the first place.
So sad.
But once you've heard it in its clearest form, and have through faith believed it and trusted that Christ completed the work on your behalf, there's no reason to ever again doubt your salvation.
None whatsoever.
So stop trusting your feelings.
Preachers design a little Sunday morning sermonette, hoping to move you and stir your feelings.
Sing some songs designed to tug at your heartstrings.
But in 2 Timothy 2:15, God calls the gospel of your salvation the word of truth.
Truth.
No feelings involved.
Just words of truth.
You hear it, the gospel, believe it, the gospel, and rest your faith in it.
That's salvation.
Religion will tell you it's about your feelings when it's the opposite.
It's about when you come to that point of time in your life, when you're tired of the feelings, when you understand that your feelings are not trustworthy, when you understand that your feelings sometimes lie, when you understand that objective truth is not based upon how you feel about it.
It's at that point that you decide to give up on self, trade self-love in for the love of God.
Then and there you decide to trust the gospel.
First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 1, the gospel by which you are saved.
How that Christ died for your sins.
He was buried and He has risen.
His death paid for your sins.
His resurrection is the receipt.
You can count on it.
It's the greatest assurance ever offered.
Ephesians 1:13, you trust Christ.
You hear the gospel, you believe the gospel, and at that moment, God seals you with that Holy Spirit of promise.
That's assurance.
That's truth.
That's objective.
It's not subjective, and it's not about how you feel.
You hear the gospel, believe the gospel, and you're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, how long unto the day of redemption.
If you're looking for a feeling, stop it.
We're never told to feel on Him.
We're told to believe on Him.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Not maybe, possibly, or hopefully.
It's definitive.
Thou shalt be saved.
You're not being saved.
No, at the moment you believe on Him, you are saved.
It's not that you're saved when you feel saved.
You may feel saved one morning, but unsaved the next.
Don't trust that.
No assurance.
No objectivity there.
There's no salvation certainty if you base it off your feelings.
Base it off God's Word.
Let His truth replace how you feel about it.
The Bible never tells us to look for a feeling to confirm whether we're saved or not.
No, we're told that we're saved through faith.
Saved through faith, not feelings.
Just open your eyes, unstop your ears, use a bit of discernment, and you'll notice the dramatic decline in sound biblical teaching today.
It's hard to find.
We've gone from theology to therapy.
From facts to feelings.
From a message that saves to a message that motivates.
Instead of the gospel, it's seeker-friendly.
It's ecumenical.
At its core, at its foundation, this new message you're hearing today is about selfism.
About self and how you feel.
It's not only selfism, it's leftism.
It's a socialist viewpoint that does not line up with a word of truth rightly divided.
OK, that'll do it for now.
Listen, you only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself.
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