Redeemed & Regenerated Podcast Alex Mateo

In this episode, I proclaim what the Bible reveals to us about the One and Only God, creator of the Universe.
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The greatest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most important fact about any man is not what he at any given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.” - A.W. Tozer
Every man must line up his thinking with each aspect of God’s person. If one does not see God rightly, he cannot see himself rightly either.
The reason that we want to have a right understanding of God is because there are some people who do not believe in God. There are also people who wrongly believe about God. That is, they have misconceptions about Him. This is true even in Christianity.
Believing the wrong thing about God is idolatry.
Idolatry is simply thinking something about God that is untrue of Him. It is postulating anything about God that is not right. In its fullest stage, it is creating a god of our own imagination. It is also making the God who is, into something that He isn’t.
In Psalm 50:21 God says, “You thought that I was just like you”
And that’s precisely what men have done in idolatry, made God into their own likeness, or into imaginations that belong to their own minds. The essence of idolatry is entertaining thoughts about God that are unworthy of God, it comes in a lot of forms.
Therefore, we must declare who the God of the Bible truly is!

Today’s episode is called “Lost and Found”. 

I will be sharing my testimony of how God’s amazing grace saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see! I was a prodigal son who was enslaved to sin and squandered God’s estate in loose living for 28 years. 

BUT when the Gospel of Jesus Christ penetrated my heart, I came to my senses. I realized I was sinning against a Holy God. 

Being rich in mercy and like the Father in the story who felt compassion for his son, God granted me repentance and forgiveness for my sins. 

Instead of receiving condemnation and the wrath that I deserved, God gifted me His grace and justification through faith in Jesus Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection. 

I repented and believed!

Ephesians 2:1-10 says:

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Beloved friends, I invite you to do the same. 

Answer the call to Salvation! 

One day every knee will bow and confess that Jesus is Lord, you have the opportunity to bow today, don’t wait another day for tomorrow is not guaranteed, today is the day of Salvation!

In this 1st episode I will be proclaiming what the Gospel is and answering questions such as:  What is the truth?   What is the Gospel and why am I not ashamed of it? What is sin?   What is the Law and what is the purpose of it?  How can God who is just and holy cover our sin and allow us into His presence for eternity?  What must one do to be saved?   The gospel is bad news and good news. Bad news, that God is Holy and Just, we are ALL sinners who have broken His perfect moral laws, we deserve punishment and His wrath. The good news is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived the perfect life we could not live, He died on the cross for our sins and rose again on the 3rd day. Jesus is eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who repent and believe, but only everlasting life in Christ!   Paul Washer: "Shocking Message" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8&t=61s   https://heartcrymissionary.com/ Voddie Baucham: "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaj7tBY2UGI https://www.voddiebaucham.org/ Ray Comfort: "Hell's Best Kept Secret"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2tKj7zdqQ&t=1341s https://www.livingwaters.com/