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  SAVED BUT STALLED
  by Fred Tomlinson
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Summary: The sermon titled 'Saved but Stuck' delves into the theme of
being rescued by God but facing hindrances in experiencing His full
provision and blessings. It emphasizes the need for a deeper spiritual
experience beyond just being saved, highlighting the importance of
surrendering to God's power and receiving the Holy Spirit for true
transformation and freedom from spiritual bondages.

Topics: "Spiritual Freedom", "Surrender to God's Power"
Scripture References: Joshua 1:2, Judges 1:8, 1 Chronicles 11:4, Romans 8:2, Acts 1:8, Ezekiel 36:2

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The sermon titled 'Saved but Stuck' delves into the theme of being
rescued by God but facing hindrances in experiencing His full provision
and blessings. It emphasizes the need for a deeper spiritual experience
beyond just being saved, highlighting the importance of surrendering to
God's power and receiving the Holy Spirit for true transformation and
freedom from spiritual bondages.

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The theme, or the title for my message today is Saved but Stuck. But
before I actually begin unpacking that, I want to remind you that, well
this is, as have my own YouTube channel now, and if you want to see it,
the title is Turn to the Scriptures with Fred Tomlinson. And even as
recent as last night, I was told that we now have a podcast link.

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your support. It really means so much to me.

And while you're on that channel, you might want to also click on the
McKenzie Christian Fellowship website, and apart from anything else,
you'll be able to find out a little bit more about me there. Well let's
move on. I'm going to read a couple of verses from the book of Joshua,
and I'm reading in Joshua chapter 1. And the second verse of chapter 1
reads like this, Moses, this is God speaking, Moses my servant is dead,
now therefore arise and go over this Jordan, thou and all this people,
unto the land which I do give to them, even the children of Israel.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that I have
given unto you as I said to Moses from the wilderness and this Lebanon,
even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the
Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall
be your coast. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee, all
the days of thy life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I
will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

And I'll draw away from the text now, there's so much more that flows on
from that. It's all very, very wonderful. Essentially what's happening,
the children of Israel of course have been rescued by the Lord's grace
and power from their captivity in Egypt.

Forty years have transpired, so much has happened in between, but the
fact is they had been told from God through Moses that he had another
land for them, a land which he said by contrast to everything they'd
known in Egypt would be flowing with milk and honey. So here they are,
they're right on the threshold of entering into that land of blessing
and provision of the Lord. Moses has been taken, Moses was not permitted
to enter into the land of promise.

There are a couple of reasons for that, but primarily because he was the
minister of the law, and the law is that that brings us to Christ, and
it can't inherit the promises, and he represented the law. Also, he had
smitten a rock twice when he was told to smite it only once, and there
was a reason that that was incredibly significant that we can't take
time to discuss right now, but it's very profitable to think about. In
any event, now it falls to Joshua.

He's one of the two men that have made the entire journey from Egypt,
and they're about to go now into the promised land, and God is speaking
to him and reassuring him that he's with him, and as you saw from the
text there, God specifies the area of land, and he basically says to
them, this property is already allocated to you, it's already given to
you, God says, and the message here from the Lord is, go on in and take
it, no one is going to be able to stop you. As long as you keep me
central, you will have success. So that was the basis for the next step,
and for what should have been an ongoing process of entering into and
enjoying the provision that God had made for them.

What I'm going to do is turn over some pages into the next book here in
the Bible, which is the book of Judges, and when I read here, things
take a different turn. I'm in the 8th verse of chapter 1, where I read,
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken
it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Alright, I hope you've registered that.

God has made the promise that all this land is given already by God to
them, just go on in, wherever your footsteps, it's yours, no one will be
able to stand against you, that was God's promise and God's provision
for them, and here in this 8th verse of Judges 1, we've got the record
that Judah take the city of Jerusalem, which was of course central to
the area that had been allocated to them as a tribe. But then I'm
looking further down in the chapter, chapter 1 still, and I'm looking in
verse 19, and I read, And the Lord was with Judah, and he drove out the
inhabitants of the mountain, but he could not drive out the inhabitants
of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. And they gave Hebron
unto Caleb, as Moses had said, and he expelled thence the three sons of
Anab.

And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that
inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. Amen. What a turn of events.

God's provision, God's promise, they make a start, and as you saw there,
this particular tribe, they took the city of Jerusalem, the surrounding
area, but when it came to Jerusalem, they had chariots of iron. But can
you still hear the Lord's words ringing in your ears? No one will be
able to stand before you. But they failed in that.

And at first there was this critical battle that had been fought and
won, but things were not going according to plan, so to speak, man's
plan that is, man's expectation, and they failed to keep the land that
they had taken, and they were unable to defeat the Jebusites, as is
described there in that passage. And time goes on from there, and I'm
sort of taking a swift journey forwards from there, covering a period of
probably around 400 years, and the focus is still on the city of
Jerusalem, which is referred to in another text I may read as Jebus. But
the people who were dwelling there, the Jebusites, they turned out to be
a very militant people.

And so here's my point so far. The fact of the matter is, and this comes
out of my own experience in my earlier life, it comes out of the
testimonies of many I've heard, and people that have opened their hearts
to me, many over these decades now. There are so many who live here in
this place, in this position where they're assured deep in their hearts
that they are saved, but they are indeed stuck.

I'm swinging back through time now, not 400 years I promise you, but I
was 15 years of age at the time, and I was attending a Christian youth
camp. It was an annual event in North Wales, and a group of assemblies
sent their young people to these camps, and I remember very, very
clearly this one evening in a big marquee where we'd been having a time
of hearing the scriptures read and some singing, and we were introduced
to the hymn, How Great Thou Art. I can remember the man who was leading
that part of the service saying that this hymn had only recently really
been brought into the UK, because he wouldn't have called it the UK back
then, don't think, and we sang it, and somehow during that, hearing that
hymn sung and trying to join in with it, God was doing something in my
heart, and the big marquee was surrounded by a number of many smaller
tents.

Each tent had about 12 young fellows in them, and I can remember after
that event was over, and I'd gone back to my tent, I couldn't rest at
all, and I remember standing up, and other men were like, other young
men they were of course, were sleeping, and I went to the doorway of the
tent, and I peeped out, and across the open area I could see there was
still a light on in the Padre's tent, and I will never forget going over
there, and just tapping on the side of the tent, and that man, I
remember his name, but I'm choosing not to mention it, he opened the
flap of the tent, and when he saw me he invited me to come in, and I sat
there in the tent, and I remember so clearly saying, Tim Padre, I want
to get saved, and his response was this, verbatim, he said, but Fred you
are saved, I know your Uncle Eric, now my Uncle Eric as a matter of fact
is still alive, he's in his 90s today, and my Uncle Eric of course a
wonderful man, and an elder in the in the assembly, but really what did
that have to do with my request that I was making, and then I'm thinking
of my younger brother, it was some years later when, if I'm correct, he
was attending the same camp, and he had been moved upon in his heart,
and he went to talk to someone who was one of the leaders there, excuse
me, and my brother shared his heart, and his sense of need, and I
remember my brother saying to me that this man said to him, but Dave, we
all have these kinds of problems, and then this didn't happen literally
I'm sure, but it's as though at the end of a talk and a statement like
that, he said, okay well now let's get on with the next hymn, let's sing
full salvation, full salvation, you know, these were good men that I'm
referring to, but frankly they didn't know what needed to be said on
that occasion, it reminds me of a verse I've quoted many times over
these years from Jeremiah chapter 6 and verse 14, where the Lord is
speaking an accusatory word to the priests and the prophets of the
nation at that point in time, and he said this, he said, you have healed
the hurt of my people slightly, saying peace, peace, when there is no
peace, they'd been, I've been just given a drink, they had healed the
hurt of the people, if you like, superficially, but they'd not told them
what needed to be said, and the real issues had not been dealt with, and
there lies the real problem, I believe, if those who are the leaders are
not presenting the message that needs to be heard by men and women, we
end up with a situation where, within the context of our evangelical
churches, where we can be theologically orthodox, but the message
somehow leaves huge numbers of believers struggling, struggling with a
huge inward contradiction, and basically they're being told, as I was
told, that, you know, this is how it is, this is the normal Christian
life, the man I talked to that I mentioned a few moments ago, one of his
questions after that was, are you baptized yet, and I said, well, no,
I'm not, he said, well, when we get back, you know, we'll arrange your
baptism, that was the best that he could do, but that baptism didn't
change me fundamentally, and I'm not against being baptized in water by
any means, but we're basically being told, this is the normal Christian
life, this is the normal Christian experience, and I'm here by the grace
of God to tell you that that is not true, it's not true, you know, going
back to the scriptures, I told you that I was going to take a jump
forward about 400 years, well, that would take me into the story of
David, now just let me bring this together, if you'll stay with me just
for a few minutes here, but David had been at home with his family, and
the prophet Samuel had come to their homestead, and he was there to
anoint someone, it was a very significant moment, everyone would know
this was very important, whatever it all would mean, and you'll remember
the story, I'm sure, how that the issue was, he needed to anoint one of
Jesse's sons, and so Jesse files out his oldest son, and the prophet
says, no, it's not him, and so the process goes on, I'd love to prolong
the story, but I mustn't, but the fact is, it gets all the way down to
David, and we're led to believe that David was probably about 15 years
of age at the time, and Samuel, the man of God, anointed David, he
anointed him unto the call of God, with the end result, which was going
to be that he would be anointed again, he was anointed three times
altogether, but he'd be anointed king over the whole nation of Israel,
there would be, there was a long period for this being worked out, it
would demand that he spent probably about eight years with the sheep,
and whatever that involved, probably there'd be time during those years
when he would wonder back to what had actually happened when Samuel had
anointed him, but in any event, the good thing, and it's to David's
credit, he didn't try and manipulate anything or try and work it out,
sometimes we're in such a hurry, if we have a sense that God is calling
us to do something, we need to get on and do something, and in so many
cases, if that involves Christian ministry, and very often it does, we
end up going out with a truckload, wheelbarrow load of wood, hay and
stubble, instead of gold, silver and precious stones, but David waited
and he was anointed over Hebron, and finally by age 30, he was fully
consummated into the role of king of all of Israel. Now here's my point
with all of that, during those years, these interim years, David had an
opportunity to think, and I'm sure he did an awful lot of thinking and
meditating, no doubt at all in my mind that he would meditate on the
history that he was familiar with, he would meditate upon the Lord's
dealings with his forefathers, no doubt he would meditate on words that
God had spoken, no doubt in my mind, among those words that God had
spoken, he would be thinking of how God spoke to Joshua, and how God
mapped out the area with the various parameters to the land that God had
allocated to this nation of people, and promised to them, no doubt at
all in my mind that as his thoughts continued along these lines, he
would review the kinds of things that we just read in Judges chapter 1,
and how that in the specific case, which was very relevant in this
unfolding story, that the folk had not been able to take areas that had
been of course promised by God for them, and they'd been defeated one
way or another, and in particular it was this area of Jebus, or
otherwise known later as Jerusalem, and I believe because of what we
know about David from his Psalms and other writings of course, but he
had a heart for God, do you remember how even God said I've found me
David, a man after my own heart, he really was after the heart of God
wasn't he, and he wasn't a perfect man but he had a heart for God, and
I'm sure as he anticipated that God was going to call him ultimately to
this role of overall leadership for the nation, he wanted to be familiar
with the history, and how God had worked with them, and where they'd
been defeated, and how they'd failed, and so on, and you know I believe
in my heart as I review it, this kind of thing, that David made a
decision, this is how I read this section of scripture, he made a
decision in his heart that when I finally have the privilege and the
honour of responsibility for this nation, I will take that land, that
area, that city of Jebus for mine, it shall be mine, and I believe he
lived with that growing passion in his heart, you know, you may feel,
you know, struck that, can I just put it this way, we're familiar with
the New Testament as we read these things, and that keeps colouring our
thoughts as we go forward, but the fact is that David would not know at
that time, he's referred to in the scriptures as Great King David, and
then there's a reference to Great King David's greatest son, of course
is the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's referred to and I want to inject this
as we go forward here, to our thinking, that just as David set his heart
on possessing that stronghold of Jebus, God in the person of Jesus
Christ has set his heart upon you, my beloved, whoever you are, whatever
your story is, wherever you're up to, whatever's gone right, whatever's
gone wrong, whatever you're feeling, whatever you're experiencing, the
heart of God is set for you. I love the way Paul says, if God before us,
who can be against us, and this is the exciting truth of course.

Now let me just read a passage of scripture here from from the book of,
where shall I go to, I could go into 2 Samuel, but I'm going to go into
1 Chronicles, and in 1 Chronicles I can read, where shall I read from,
let me just think here, my mind's, my mind has not got it all together
here, all right, I'm in chapter 11 and I'm in verse 4, then David and
all Israel went to Jerusalem, David is now king, this is the very first
thing he does that is recorded in scripture, and David and all Israel
went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
the land were there, the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, you shall
not enter here, nevertheless David captured the stronghold of Zion, that
is the city of David, and David said, whoever strikes down a Jebusite
first shall be chief and commander, and Joab the son of Zeruah went up
first, and so he became chief. Amen, and we could also read, as I've
mentioned already, we could read also in 2 Samuel and chapter 5, the
same account with a little other extra detail there, but the fact is,
picture this, that this group of David's army are there surrounding this
stronghold called Jebus, they're being they're being mocked by the
inhabitants that you will never be able to enter in here, such were the
walls, such was the sheer human impossibility of ever getting in, but
somehow, I don't know how, David became aware that there was in fact a
tunnel that led from a pool up right into the city, it was the way that
these people in the city got their water, and so David is basically
commissioning his people, he says if there's one of you here, that would
go up inside of that water tunnel and get into the city, I guess the
plan was ultimately that he'd get the gates of the city open for the
others to get in, and it was it was Joab who was the man who went ahead
and did that, and I want to stride forward quickly and just say here
that not only is there a greater than David here, but there's a greater
than Joab here, and let me tell you about him, something you know really
I'm sure, but he climbed into that dangerous dark gutter as it's
referred to in Samuel's writings, and he climbed up that bloody hill,
and he agonised the transcendent loneliness in that grievous tunnel that
he walked in or walked through that led him to the cross, and there he,
this greater than Joab, this greater than David, our blessed Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, he stood there as it were against the very gates
of divine judgment that was held, that held his people captive, and
there at those gates which basically forbade the possibility of
redemption and freedom and fellowship for the people that God had
chosen, but with his own blood as it were, he ripped off the locks and
the chains, he destroyed the works of the devil, and he cried, finished.
Glory to God.

The apostle John writes, and he says basically this, that for this
reason the Son of God appeared, he appeared in our world, he appeared in
our city, if you will, to destroy the works of the devil and to open
that steel forbidding door, he made a way for his people, as Joab made a
way for his people back then, he made a way for his people. You know the
apostle Paul writes, as he writes to the Colossians, and he reminds us
that this Jesus, he disarmed the evil rulers and authorities and he
shamed them publicly, we read, by his victory over them on the cross.
The apostle Paul writes again, writing to the Corinthians 15, 1
Corinthians 15 and verse I think 57, he triumphantly declares thanks be
unto God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. Love found a way and it was the only way and it was the way of the
cross. Amen.

Now today there's you and me and there's men and women that we're
meeting who have some kind of testimony of a beginning but somehow
they're not experiencing the freedom and the blessing of this full
salvation that God has made possible through the Lord Jesus. And I
believe that I can say that this same Jesus now through the ministry of
this Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, is focused upon your life
right now, even as I'm speaking, I believe this. And basically he's
saying, if you understand why I would say this, this city shall be mine.

I believe that is how he looks at your life. Again, with whatever
struggles and whatever is wrapped up in the bundle of your life, he is
saying this city shall be mine. Amen.

And it's a wonderful thing that he's not got in his mind that this being
his is going to be a never-ending struggle against the impossibilities.
And so this is a promise of the impossibility being acted out by the
grace and power of the Spirit of God. Amen.

This is a word that sort of overrules the words of the preacher or of
the counsellors that I've referring to obliquely earlier on, and so many
others in the day in which we live, who are basically saying, well,
brother or sister, you prayed the sinner's prayer, didn't you? You've
been baptised. And we all have these problems. You need to read your
Bible more.

You need to attend the meetings more. Essentially, they're saying to us,
you really need to get your act together and you'll make it. But this is
how it is.

This is the Christian life. And we're left with a group of people who
are precious souls, who are trying to do their best. And they want to do
that which is right, but they can't do it somehow.

And they hate themselves for doing other things, but they can't stop
doing them. And you know where those thoughts take me to the end of
Romans chapter 7, when Paul, having said so much along that line, he
says, oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of
this death? The situation was hopeless. Who? He's saying, who will do
it? Amen.

You know, there's a message that such people need to hear. I thank God
that by his grace, I was able to hear it. Many of you that are listening
to me have heard it also.

There are many, many more who need to hear it. And keep in mind, as I
proceed a little further here, that I am not a Pentecostal and I'm not a
charismatic. But I read my Bible and I love the Lord Jesus and I love
the gospel.

And according to scripture, I am able to say to you that the real need
is for a true baptism in the Holy Spirit of God. Don't forget, I'm not
pushing a line, I'm not doing, I'm really quoting what John the Baptist
said. Do you remember? He said the reason that this one who was coming
after him was coming was so that he could baptize men and women in the
Holy Ghost and fire.

That's the Old King James translation. And Jesus, as a matter of fact,
authenticated that statement of John. You'll read that in the first
chapter of the book of the Acts of the Apostles.

Amen. And you say, well, well, I believe in the Holy Spirit. Of course,
we were all told that when we prayed that prayer, we received the Holy
Spirit.

So that's it. That's the end of that issue. Well, yes, it's great.

And we do need to believe the truth concerning the Holy Spirit. But you
know, there's something else we need to face squarely. We need to
receive him.

You know, your doctrine may be orthodox, but it must include experience.
God wants to do something inside of us. He wants to work mightily, we're
told, inside of us.

And the spirit of life is here. And Paul says this, for the law of the
spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death. You know, that's Romans chapter 8 and verse 2. It's interesting,
in Romans chapter 6, as Paul has been working through some very
important things, I find in making statements like this, for he that is
dead is freed from sin.

Again, he says in the 14th verse, for sin shall not have dominion over
you. But you are not under the law, but you're under grace. In the 22nd
verse of the same sixth chapter, Paul says, but now, when is that? Now,
right now, he said, now in this life, he said, but now, being made free
from sin, that is your slavery to sin, and having become the bond slaves
of God, you have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.

And then, of course, we've got the verse I've already quoted, for the
law of the spirit of life, the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made
you free from the law of sin and death. These are gracious, mighty
promises or declarations of truth. Amen.

And this is the answer for us. This is that which is the solution. We
hear the words of Jesus ringing in our ears from Acts chapter 1 and
verse 8, but you shall receive power, you shall receive deunamis, after
the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall, he didn't say go and do
witnessing, he said, you shall be witnesses unto me, wherever you go,
and he mentions those different areas.

Glory to God. So the issue really before us is not that the Christian
life is one of struggling to hold on. The message of the gospel is God
has chosen you.

This is clearly taught. And he's apprehended you. Whenever I think of
that, this is quoting Paul from Philippians chapter 3, but I can
remember the very first time I was on the street with a group of other
police officers, and there was a gang of men standing quite some from
us.

We were in a car, and they needed to arrest one of those men. And I
remember we were in plain clothes at the time, and the sergeant who was
with us here, he said, look, 168, that was me, you need to get out and
go and arrest that man. He knows us, but he doesn't know you.

He knows this car. But you go, you get in, and we'll come down there
after you. So I can remember walking down, and as I got closer and
closer, my heart's pounding.

This is the very first time I was at training college and everything.
I'm on the street. And as I get closer, because I had my short hair cut
then and whatnot, and there must have been something about me that,
because I remember one of them looking down and said something to the
others, and they all just ran.

And I ran. I ran like I couldn't run today. And I ran, and I ran, and I
ran, and I apprehended him.

I got hold of him, and you can be sure I got hold of him so tight. And
the next thing I was, it seemed far too long than it really was, it was
really only seconds, was the screaming engine of the car as it come
racing up alongside me, and the other officers came out, and of course
everything was easy from there on. But I had apprehended him, and the
fact of the matter is that he, Jesus, by the Holy Spirit of God, has
apprehended you.

He's got hold of you. And you remember what Paul said in that
Philippians chapter 3 about this. He said, and I've got hold of him for
the reason that he originally got hold of me.

He said he started it all. He got hold of me, and now I'm holding on to
him. That's how it works.

Amen. The Spirit of life is here in Jesus' name to bring men and women
such as you and me, that he already has got his eye on. He has you in
his crosshairs.

You're in his heart. He's apprehended you. Hallelujah.

Amen. And isn't this wonderful? This is the one who climbed that
transcendent gutter that I was referring to earlier. By his Holy Spirit,
he's got hold of you, even as I speak to you, wherever you are and
whatever your story is.

Amen. And he's saying to you, whatever's gone on, whatever you're
longing for, he said, but when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you'll
receive power from on high. Amen.

Beloved, maybe you who've made a beginning in Christ, but somehow you,
like those of old, have been unable to maintain the victory, and the
enemy is defying your progress spiritually, and somehow it's causing
your testimony to be contradicted by the very way that you're living,
because it's not right. It's not godly. You're travelling with baggage.

You're travelling with baggage that might look like bondages and hang-
ups. It might be fears. It might be insecurity.

It might be pride. It might be impurity. It might be moodiness.

It might be stubbornness. I don't know what it is. And it reminds me of
another verse of Scripture in Ezekiel 36, in verse 2, where God says,
I'm speaking to you, who hears the enemy say against you, Aha! Even the
ancient places are ours by possession.

That's how the enemy speaks to men and women today. He says, you want to
be free? You think this is going to be the answer? No, no, no, it's not
going to work. I have you in my hold.

Glory to God. But God went on in that great 36th chapter, didn't he? And
he spells out wonderfully what he was going to do. Never mind what the
enemy's saying.

His word eclipses all of the lies of the devil. The lies that he may be
speaking into your heart, like, well, I've tried this. I've been here.

No, no, no. God, if God is speaking to your heart, if you sense him
somehow whispering in your heart right now, it's because he's chosen
you. It's because he's apprehended you.

It's because he wants to do something more in your life at this time.
Isn't that a wonderful prospect? I wonder if you, like David of old, are
sensing that this is that day of destiny that you've looked for, some of
you, for maybe decades. And you just long for that day to come when
somehow the final, it's not the final thing in the ultimate sense, I
understand that, but when that real work of God breaks the bondages and
liberates you to live as a true son of God.

Amen. You know, you might say to, if you're able to do it, you might say
to me, well, what do I do now? What do we have to do? Let me tell you
what you have to do. You have to do nothing.

At this point, all you have to do is believe his word. Believe that this
is the Lord speaking to you, that he loves you, and he wants to fill you
freshly with his holy life, with his holy spirit. And all you need to
do, my dear friend, is fall into the arms of his love.

And lo and behold, the spirit of truth will set you free. Amen. Do you
remember what I read before? The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, you
shall not enter here.

Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion. And so it goes on.
Isn't that wonderful? Just so matter of fact.

I want to tell you this is how it works in the spirit. It's not matter
of fact. It's by the power and grace of God.

But when we come to that point, it's the truth that brings freedom to
us. We hear that this is the truth of the gospel of God. It's a gospel
of power.

It's a gospel that promises transformation of our inward parts and the
prospect of a new chapter, a new phase in our lives, phase of joy and
fellowship with God and freedom from the slavery of sin that's held us
and bound us for so long. Isn't that wonderful? And I'm going to pray in
just a moment. And if you're with me in your heart, you open your heart
up to God, will you? Even as I do that.

Amen. Father, we thank you. We thank you for the grace of God and for
our Lord Jesus Christ and for the blessed ministries of the Holy Spirit
of God.

We thank you. We thank you, Lord. Thank you that you've not just sent us
out into this world to try and believe mere words, but we thank you for
the reality of the Holy Spirit of God that causes those words to find
their fulfillment in the experience of your promise working in our
lives.

Father, you know exactly who you're speaking to this morning. And I
pray, Father, for each one whose heart is open to you, even as I've been
speaking and sharing these thoughts and words, I believe you gave me to
say, Lord, meet that precious soul right now, Father, by your Holy
Spirit, come upon that one, Lord, and let them know this endowment of
power from on high that makes everything new, Lord, makes everything
fresh and, Lord, that unites the human spirit with that Holy Spirit of
God and we find union and fellowship with you. Father, answer this
prayer, I pray in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. If you did respond in that way and continue to respond like
that, be sure to let someone know.

If you like, let me know. Comment on my site or communicate with me in
ways that you'll find to do that, but tell somebody, share the precious
truth that Jesus saves, he truly saves, and he loves you and me. Amen.

God bless you. Amen.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/ZbxeJ2s3KhY.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/fred-tomlinson/saved-but-stalled/
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