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0:02 We wanna honor God because he sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today, we're gonna be talking all about the thief on the cross. You know, how does this thief on the cross fit into your theology? You know, I all I1:08 get asked this a lot. Like, what do you mean he just got to go to heaven the same day? And I'm thinking, you know, here he is on the cross. There's no fog machines, fancy church, church clothes, mission trips. No1:19 baptism.1:20 You know, you're not baptized.1:21 You don't1:21 get baptized.1:22 All of these things. There's no donuts, coffee. There's no, you know, worship music. There's nothing. And he couldn't even bend his knee or fold his hands to pray. And yet,1:34 he walked into heaven the very hour Jesus did. He just walked straight into heaven because he recognized him and he believed in him and he said1:46 remember me remember me when you enter your kingdom. He on the cross, the very last second of his life, he was able to recognize Jesus, his need for Jesus, and1:58 yet he saw that when the other guy, the other the third cross, the other person hanging on the cross was still mocking Jesus,2:09 was still blasphemy, was still all of that. So, you know, what is the difference? What happened? What happened to him that caused him to be repentant and to be able to walk in to2:21 heaven that very moment? It's amazing. We're gonna talk about that today.2:25 I love that. Well, here's what happened, I think. I mean, not that I have the answer here, but the Bible says that that the the thief that repented Mhmm.2:38 Had a reverence for God. Yeah. It the the Bible says that the beginning of wisdom is a reverential fear of God. So on 1 side of2:49 Jesus hanging on a cruel cross was a thief, and he deserved to be on that cross.2:56 They both2:57 And on the other side was a thief, and he deserved to be on that cross. So they both were sinners, but the thief on the cross that the Bible says that Jesus looked3:09 at him and said, today you'll be with me in paradise. Why did Jesus say that to him and not him? You know, because 1 was scoffing and3:20 mocking him and had no fear of God, and the other 1 realized his need for a savior.3:26 Yeah.3:27 And it is I don't care what you do. If you are a monk, if you beat yourself to try to be right with God like Martin Luther, you know,3:39 Martin Luther used to walk on his knee. He would he would, like, crawl on his knees. He would beat his back. He thought that he could, you know, earn his way3:51 to to God. There's no way to earn it, and the thief on the cross is cross is proof that you cannot earn your way to heaven. You cannot. Now faith4:03 without works is dead, so if you have some time before you before you die to serve the Lord, you you need to have works, but that thief is witness to all of us4:15 that you do not have to do 1 thing except to have a reverential fear of God, be sorry for your sins, and accept Jesus as savior.4:25 Well, he recognized him as savior and his need for a savior. And, you know, it wasn't about ego or arrogance. You know, there's so many people that think they're all fine with God and and4:37 I say all the time, you know, there's there's that scripture that says many will fall away. Many will fall away and that the highway to hell is very wide and the the roadway to hell is the4:48 narrow gate. And so many people who think they got this thing all figured out and they're they might know a few church words or go to church on Easter and Christmas. I'm telling you that it is5:00 about a repentance, it is about a recognizing that Jesus is Lord of your life and a savior. And if what you have is not causing your heart to turn, it's not causing your heart to5:12 want to do better, and and and if it's not have you're not having gentle convictions from the Lord that are just like, you know, that's not right, don't say that, don't do that. You know, those are5:24 those gentle convictions that are causing us to live in a new level of holiness. You know, this man did not do anything but recognize that he5:36 was a criminal, he was a thief, he was repentant and in need of a savior and recognized Jesus as a man. He, it says on there that he said this man, this man did nothing wrong, this man5:48 has done nothing wrong, And he was saying, remember me, remember me. And so just think about the panic and the urgency that he had in his heart to know, you know, once he finally figured it out, I'm sorry,6:00 remember me. Don't don't don't let me be thrown in hell. You know? This is this is the urgency that God wants us to live out our lives with, to be with our oils our oil ready in6:12 the lamps. We never know what day Jesus is coming back. But are you ready? Are you ready? Are we prepared? Like the the the thief on the cross, you know, again, just recognizing6:24 we can't do anything without our savior. Apart from him, we can do nothing. And we are in so need of a savior.6:31 Yes. And that's what he recognized. Yeah. He recognized that without this this man, Jesus, who he knew had done nothing wrong, He he recognized6:43 him as the sinless sacrifice. There is no repentance or forgiveness without blood. That's what the Bible says, and Jesus shed6:55 his blood on that cross, his powerful blood on that cross, and that thief recognized that that blood was all7:07 he needed to be saved. He did not have time to go out and get baptized. He did not have time to do good works. He did not have time to do anything7:19 but acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, and and he bowed his heart to Jesus that day, and he and Jesus in response, knowing7:31 the heart of men, man looks on the outside, and everybody around that thief was going, yeah, you deserve it. But Jesus saw his heart, and he saw through all of7:43 this sin, and he knew that that blood was powerful enough to forgive him. And that day, the Bible says, he was in paradise. So when we7:55 I love that. You know, when you lose a loved 1 that knew Jesus, you can know. The Bible says to be absent from the body is to be present from the Lord, and that's a scripture that will8:06 comfort you if you've just lost someone. Because when when that thief closed his eyes on this earth, he opened his eyes to paradise. To eye has not8:18 seen nor ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him. What are you waiting for? Jesus is the sacrifice that you need to8:30 make it to heaven. You don't have to work yourself to death or beat your back. Jesus is all you need.8:36 That's it. And we are gonna talk more about that when we come right back. Stay right there. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.8:44 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus, and that is the mission of Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.8:56 When you donate to Grace Grace ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the the9:15 hungry to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send9:27 in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road, number 1 22, Magnolia, Texas 77 3 5 4. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization.9:39 Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today. Give now.9:46 Welcome back to the program, Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Today, we're talking about the thief on the cross, and how does that all work? How does this guy who was literally a thief,9:58 you know, doing crimes and and you know, here he is hanging on the cross next to Jesus and yet recognizes his need for a savior and repenting right10:10 then and there and asking him asking Jesus to remember him that day, and he did. And he walked into paradise the same day as Jesus. And, you know, there's people ask me all the time.10:22 There's so many people that have suffered great atrocities. And in some of our prayer requests and some of the things that we get in our social media and on our website of people10:34 asking for prayer, and so many of them is is unforgiveness towards somebody who has really gone through something. Maybe it's been some kind of, you know, sexual molestation, child abuse, rape. There's been10:46 awful, awful things, divorce, betrayal. And how can I forgive them? How can I forgive them? And all I can think of is that there are many, many people in this world10:58 that we are are in religions, are in countries that are really not allowed to read the word or have the word or see the word. And they're they're taught certain things like that that if you11:09 if you do these atrocities, you'll you'll you'll be blessed when you die and all of these kinds of things. And so I think that from a perspective of of if you were that person, if11:21 you were somebody who didn't yet receive God, that you didn't know the word, that you weren't allowed to hear the word, or you didn't recognize the word, or you were so so hurt by things that you just believed there was11:32 no God because why would a God allow you to be hurt like that? And all I'm here to tell you is is that if you were 1 of these people and then you finally recognize that there is11:44 a a God there that loves you, would you how would you feel if it was too late? How would you feel if that was like, but I I already lived all this life now and now it's too late. I should have been11:56 doing all these great works to be able to get into heaven and it's really not about that. When you are able to recognize Jesus as your Lord and savior and your need for a savior, you repent of your12:08 sins, you repent and turn away of your sins, behold, he makes all things new. And then you get to start over, you get to start from that standpoint, and you are no longer a12:20 victim of your past hurts, a a victim of your sins. You get to move forward from that day on. God gives you that second chance through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ. And12:32 that's why the slate is there for all of us no matter where we are. So many people, Michelle, think they're Christians and think they're fine, and yet they're living in sin and they think they're fine.12:43 They do. They have a self righteousness. Yeah. Instead of having that thief on the cross mentality of realizing I'm a sinner Yeah. And I12:55 need a savior. And until you have that moment, until the Holy Spirit reveals that to you, you have not been saved. All you've done is show up at13:06 a church, or you've read a Bible, or you've, you know, said a couple of prayers, but your heart, you know as I'm saying this13:15 Yes.13:16 That your heart does not know Jesus. The Bible says that our spirit bears witness with his holy spirit that we are his children. It says13:27 that my sheep know my voice.13:31 Mhmm.13:32 So if you are not experiencing the presence of God, the the relationship with Jesus, then I encourage you right now. In fact,13:44 I am begging you to rethink. Am I really saved? Am I saved? And if you're not, then I want you today to make sure that just like that thief on13:56 the cross that you say, Jesus, you're the only way I'm getting heaven. That is it. It's the blood. He's the only the blood he the Bible says, he is the way. He is the14:07 truth. He is the life, and without him there's no other way to heaven. Mhmm. No other way. You can be good. You can be a priest. You can be a preacher. You can be someone14:19 who spends day and night in a church and still not know Jesus because you've never ever decided that you were in need of a savior. You're trying to be your own savior by being good, and14:31 that is never going to be enough because Jesus paid the price of the torture of a cross. He died on a cross so that you could be saved. Why would14:43 God have to do that if you could be good enough? There's no way.14:47 Right? Yeah. Let me just tell you, I I know someone who recently attended a funeral of, of someone they worked with and hadn't seen in years, but that this person14:59 was a professed atheist. And when this person attended the funeral, they said it was just dark, that God wasn't mentioned anywhere, that it15:11 was just darkness. And so think about that. Think about somebody who would have lived their whole life, and supposedly this person was a very nice person, was just a very, very nice person.15:23 And so15:23 And they did good deeds.15:25 And so you think about that. That isn't gonna get you to heaven. That is not. The thief on the cross was not a nice person. He he he did he didn't, as far as we know, really do a whole lot of good things at all. He he15:36 was stealing. He was a thief. And so it's not about that. And think about that. When I was told this story, I thought, oh, the darkness. And you can just imagine that and just think about everyone in15:48 there and the family and how that that whole thing is going down. And it's like, I thought about, we don't know what happened on the deathbed of this person or whatever.15:57 We don't know if something They could have been sick. They You know,16:00 we don't. But all I'm saying is is that if that person didn't make a change and didn't didn't become saved, we know that he16:12 knows the truth now. You know? And so so we have to just know16:16 What would his sermon be today?16:18 Yeah. And so, you know, that's the thing. If if if the dead if if the dead knew, if if we knew what the dead know, like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, who wouldn't be16:29 running to Jesus? And so here's what I'm saying. It's like time is too short to get this wrong. You don't know what's gonna happen. There are just atrocities happening every day. There's been, you know,16:41 there's things that you could just be in a a car accident. You know, how many days do we pass car accidents on the freeways? And you don't have a lot of time. You don't know what day your number is16:53 up to get this wrong. You know, you there there are is 1 way, 1 way to heaven, and that is Jesus Christ. That is giving him your life. It is17:05 recognizing him as your Lord and savior. It is knowing your need for a savior and repenting of your sins and turning away from that and asking God to heal you,17:17 to deliver you, and just to just to tell him you wanna live for him and you want your life to be changed. Give your life to the Lord today. You don't know what's coming. And17:29 so we're gonna talk more about that when we come right back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right there.17:36 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.17:48 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the17:59 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging on18:11 to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 6315 b FM 14 88 Road number18:23 122 Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.18:35 Give now.18:37 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. Today, we're talking about the thief on the cross. We're talking about the thief on the cross that actually accepted Jesus as his18:49 savior, and Jesus himself told the thief on the cross who is unnamed, today you will be with me in paradise. And wouldn't that just feel so great? You know, you19:01 can know that you're saved. You can know that you're saved. You just have to have you have to recognize your need for a savior, your need for the blood that was19:12 shed on that cross. And, you know, sometimes people can be blinded and and it and and you don't realize that you you have a need for a savior. I remember19:24 visiting a patient at at his bedside, and I knew his past. I knew his past. It was wretched. It was evil19:36 and wicked. And I went to this old old man, and I said, you know, we knew he was dying, and I said, would you like to19:48 be saved and forgiven for do you need to repent of anything? And you know I knew I knew he needed to repent. I knew he needed Jesus, and he said, he he had a little bit of20:00 an accent and he said, baby, I never did anything wrong. And I was like, oh my god. There you go. Oh my god. Please reveal to him his need for a20:12 savior. Sometimes that need for a savior is not revealed. So if you don't have any feelings and you feel like you don't have need for a savior, I'm encouraging you20:23 today to ask the Lord. It says it says today if you hear His voice do not harden your heart because today is the day of salvation.20:35 We could leave this place today and get in a wreck or have a heart attack or have something happen and we will have crossed a threshold20:48 where we are in our a our permanent and eternal destination. And if we have not said just like that thief on the cross21:00 that we need a savior, that it's only by the blood of Jesus that we can be saved, then we will have crossed into either hell or we will cross into heaven depending on our choice.21:11 And today is that day.21:14 Well, in that here's the thing, if you're if you're sitting there going I don't do anything wrong and I don't you know Yeah. You know, our thoughts come from 1 of 2 places and, you know, whatever's good, whatever is is21:25 kind and and and gentle, that's the Lord, your thoughts the good thoughts, but you know all the arrogance and and and the the evil thought, I'm fine, I don't need that, like that that is prideful21:37 and haughtiness, You know, that's not coming from God. You know? I I feel like sometimes, like, I get the gentle conviction. Like, it's everything. Like, I could be in a store, a clothing21:49 store, where there's, like, clothes, like, that fell off the rack, and I'll just kinda walk by, and I will literally hear the Holy Spirit say, pick that up. I'm and I wanna say, but I didn't put it on the ground. Like,22:00 you know, like, it's like I almost but it's like I feel like when you walk in a new level of hope, I'm not saying trust me, we I you know, every day I'm in a need of a savior, but I feel22:12 like I listen to the little things. Bringing your cart back, if it's raining, if I have high shoes on, I always wanna bring my cart back. You know, when you are faithful in the small stuff, you know, when22:24 you hear God and listen to his voice in those little things, it matters because then you're hearing him in the big things. You know, you don't wanna miss God on anything. I want to live so close to him that I'm22:36 constantly hearing his voice over every little thing, and I know myself. Like, if you're ever upset about something or mad about something, and and you and I will talk because we'll be praying and we'll say and I'll say,22:48 you know, and I'll say, never mind. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna shut up right now. And I know that's not that polite of a word, but I want I don't wanna speak the problem. I don't wanna say things. I don't wanna do22:59 anything, with your tongue. Like, you don't wanna go outside of what God has for you. We have to live with a new level of holiness by asking the Lord Jesus himself23:11 into our lives to create in us a clean heart, oh God, and to show us where we need to have something change, pluck out things, take and remove from me things that are not good,23:23 that that are maybe in my heart where I've let my heart be hardened over something. And that's where you need to go because sometimes when you do that, you have now stepped away and walked away through a hardness, and23:35 it's hard to hear from the Lord. So be grateful if he's telling you to pick something up or put something back, or do something right, because that's you hearing from the Lord, and when you practice that you're gonna23:46 hear him in all of23:47 the big things too. Exactly. And if right now while we're speaking you hear his voice, and and and God is drawing you, then that23:59 is the Holy Spirit. And and the Bible says no man comes to the Father unless he's drawn. Yeah. And so if you feel that urgency then we are encouraging you right now to pray.24:10 Yeah. Because he's God is is his word is truth. He he means what he says. And when he says there's only 1 way, then we need to know and understand that that24:22 is that is the truth, and there is only 1 way to heaven. And we're gonna pray and give you an opportunity to make sure that you know that you will be in paradise with Jesus when you die.24:34 And if you're a young person and you think I've got all the time in the world, no you don't. Nobody knows that. You may, but you might not. So we're asking you today if you hear his24:46 voice right now pray with us. Yeah. Lord Jesus, come on. Let's pray. Lord Jesus, I believe that you died on the cross. I believe that you rose from the dead, and I believe24:58 that I need you as my savior because I cannot make it to heaven without you. And just like that thief on the cross, I say, Jesus is the Messiah. And and I25:09 know that as of now, because you are Lord, I am going to go to paradise to be with you. I am going to get to go to heaven all throughout eternity. From25:21 this moment on, I will be born again. In Jesus' name we pray. Thank you, Lord.25:26 Amen. We have to remember our life here on earth is like a vapor. It is gone, but think about eternity, which is infinite. Billions and billions and billions of years that you will get to spend25:38 with Jesus with the in in the heavenly realm with our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.25:45 Think about the thief. You know the Bible says thousands upon thousands and 10 thousands upon 10000 of angels are saying holy holy holy is the Lord who was and is and is to come. And you know what?25:57 That thief is joining in with them. Isn't that amazing? Worshiping the26:00 Lord, and so it's not too late. Repent and turn from your sins. 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