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\"A<\/a>Last night Bailey and I went to the Juvenile Camp a few miles from here, where we have been going every Thursday to build relationships so that we can have an audience when we return on Sunday. We have been teaching through the Bible chronologically and are just now beginning to see some growth. Tonight we were especially encouraged as some of them started to understand their sinful position, and their separation from God. Please pray for these six guys who are beginning to have their eyes opened.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night we reviewed Noah and the flood, taught about the \u201cTower of Babel\u201d which shows how man once again decided to come to God in his own way and how sin continued to infest the world. We showed how the sickness of sin was prevalent and that the people were acting just as Satan wanted them to, \u201cthey wanted to be like God.\u201d We ended a little early and opened the time up for discussion.<\/p>\n

For the next forty minutes the questions came at us like a flood. They were still seeing sin as individual offenses toward God that could just be overlooked by God\u2019s love. As we reviewed the past stories it became clear to most of them that the sin is the sickness and the individual sins are the symptoms of a disease that has separated them from a just God.<\/p>\n

We talked about what had to happen for sin to be paid for and how man is helpless to save himself. We told how the way that God provided would become clear as they continue to read about God\u2019s plans through Abraham and Sarah and they will see that God alone provided the promised redeemer.\u00a0 Salvation is because of what God alone has done. We simply stop trusting in our way and trust God\u2019s way\u2026just like Noah trusted God\u2019s way and was saved from judgment.<\/p>\n

One of the guys, who didn\u2019t take his eyes off of Brian the whole time, said, \u201cSo what do I do to pay for my sins, do I have to kill a bird or something?\u201d He was serious! It was evidence that he understood that something had to take his place if he was to be accepted by God. We reminded him that God provided and accepted one sacrifice once for everyone. Those sacrifices that happened before Jesus came were just in anticipation of the coming redeemer. He doesn\u2019t have to do anything but trust that God\u2019s way is the only way. I wish you could have seen the look on his face as it began to sink in that God would do this for him.<\/p>\n

In honor of their dinner schedule, we tried to leave on time, but they told us to sit back down! They weren\u2019t finished with their questions. We stayed late and answered all we could, but left them hungry for more. It was so encouraging to see God start turning lights on as these 15-17 year old guys begin to include a Holy, Just and Loving God<\/a> in their world view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSo what do I do to pay for my sins, do I have to kill a bird or something?\u201d I would have expected to hear this question from a man deep in the jungle, but not from this guy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,4,126],"tags":[29,723,303,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-co-pilots-corner","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-shop-talk","9":"tag-bible","10":"tag-penalty","11":"tag-sin","12":"tag-struggle","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}