1 00:00:35,244 --> 00:00:35,780 Praise the Lord. 2 00:00:35,812 --> 00:00:37,812 I haven't heard that song in a long time. 3 00:00:37,908 --> 00:00:41,428 And the Lord is my witness, I was just out in my yard the other 4 00:00:41,476 --> 00:00:44,252 day and the song came to my mind. 5 00:00:44,348 --> 00:00:45,732 I hadn't heard it in forever. 6 00:00:45,828 --> 00:00:48,356 And I was thinking to myself even then, just a couple days ago, 7 00:00:48,380 --> 00:00:51,140 what a good song that would be for one of our Wednesday nights. 8 00:00:51,172 --> 00:00:51,924 So thank you, Mrs. 9 00:00:51,964 --> 00:00:52,292 Peters. 10 00:00:52,348 --> 00:00:53,904 That was an awesome song. 11 00:00:54,364 --> 00:00:55,148 Love that song. 12 00:00:55,196 --> 00:00:57,244 The truth of it is, it hits home. 13 00:00:58,824 --> 00:01:04,280 All right, we are on Section 6, and we're going to jump right 14 00:01:04,312 --> 00:01:05,520 into it tonight. 15 00:01:05,712 --> 00:01:10,128 Now, if you want to grab that one piece of paper, the simple outline 16 00:01:10,176 --> 00:01:14,416 of the plan of salvation, someone asked me today, did I have 17 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,584 the whole thing on there? 18 00:01:15,664 --> 00:01:18,564 And that is only meant to be one page right there. 19 00:01:19,984 --> 00:01:24,124 And it is just a simple outline of the plan of salvation. 20 00:01:25,524 --> 00:01:28,108 I just put that on there so that you would have reference to 21 00:01:28,196 --> 00:01:33,228 the primary verses that I use when I'm witnessing to someone. 22 00:01:33,396 --> 00:01:35,052 And of course, there's a lot of others. 23 00:01:35,108 --> 00:01:38,860 That's why you have the notebook in front of you. 24 00:01:39,052 --> 00:01:42,104 But these are the primary verses. 25 00:01:42,444 --> 00:01:44,084 And at least it used to be. 26 00:01:44,124 --> 00:01:45,904 Now incorporated. 27 00:01:46,244 --> 00:01:49,204 And as you go about doing this yourself, you'll find your own voice, 28 00:01:49,244 --> 00:01:52,652 you'll find your own verses, you'll find your own illustrations 29 00:01:52,708 --> 00:01:54,116 to use along the way. 30 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:58,084 And so, once again, I certainly don't think I have a market 31 00:01:58,164 --> 00:01:59,844 on how to do this. 32 00:01:59,964 --> 00:02:05,212 I'm sure I can learn from many of you in here, but we're looking 33 00:02:05,228 --> 00:02:06,628 at the soul winner's message. 34 00:02:06,676 --> 00:02:07,532 That's section six. 35 00:02:07,588 --> 00:02:10,264 If you have your outline, it's page 36. 36 00:02:10,644 --> 00:02:12,004 And there are. 37 00:02:12,044 --> 00:02:12,364 I'm not. 38 00:02:12,404 --> 00:02:14,268 I'm just going to review real quickly. 39 00:02:14,316 --> 00:02:16,914 There are three basic components that we were talking about 40 00:02:17,084 --> 00:02:18,558 that needed to successfully. 41 00:02:18,606 --> 00:02:21,702 That we need to successfully convey a thorough salvation message. 42 00:02:21,758 --> 00:02:24,414 That was those three stops on the road to heaven. 43 00:02:24,454 --> 00:02:26,246 The why do I need to be saved? 44 00:02:26,350 --> 00:02:27,166 Who can save me? 45 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:28,630 And how am I saved? 46 00:02:28,822 --> 00:02:31,886 And as we said, as we consider that particular. 47 00:02:31,990 --> 00:02:35,190 Those particular questions, it's imperative that we first consider 48 00:02:35,262 --> 00:02:38,714 the role of the law in evangelism. 49 00:02:40,134 --> 00:02:41,750 For years, I didn't use the law. 50 00:02:41,782 --> 00:02:46,646 And then when it was introduced to me, I saw how biblical 51 00:02:46,710 --> 00:02:48,438 it was to use the law. 52 00:02:48,566 --> 00:02:49,614 And it works. 53 00:02:49,654 --> 00:02:52,114 And so I've been using it ever since. 54 00:02:53,414 --> 00:02:54,614 We made a couple of statements. 55 00:02:54,654 --> 00:02:57,502 We said regarding the law, that is the Ten Commandments, the 56 00:02:57,518 --> 00:02:58,334 laws of God. 57 00:02:58,454 --> 00:03:00,198 We said, number one, the law magnifies. 58 00:03:00,246 --> 00:03:01,470 It makes sin more obvious. 59 00:03:01,542 --> 00:03:03,238 Number two, the law intensifies. 60 00:03:03,326 --> 00:03:05,502 It increases the degree of conviction. 61 00:03:05,638 --> 00:03:07,582 We said, number three, the Law clarifies. 62 00:03:07,638 --> 00:03:10,434 It makes clear the nature of salvation needed. 63 00:03:10,874 --> 00:03:13,294 And then we jumped over to page 39. 64 00:03:13,674 --> 00:03:15,290 There were a couple of things that I mentioned. 65 00:03:15,322 --> 00:03:15,858 I said list. 66 00:03:15,906 --> 00:03:19,134 I said, jesus used this key because the law is. 67 00:03:19,834 --> 00:03:24,530 It's the key that opens the door of conviction to the heart. 68 00:03:24,682 --> 00:03:30,954 The Bible tells us that Romans 3:20 by the law is the knowledge 69 00:03:30,994 --> 00:03:31,762 of sin. 70 00:03:31,898 --> 00:03:36,618 And if we use the law as we're witnessing, then it will bring conviction. 71 00:03:36,666 --> 00:03:39,902 It's the key that opens the door and it brings conviction to 72 00:03:39,918 --> 00:03:40,494 the heart. 73 00:03:40,614 --> 00:03:42,286 I don't have to try to condemn them. 74 00:03:42,310 --> 00:03:45,110 I don't want anyone to ever feel like I'm condemning them or 75 00:03:45,142 --> 00:03:47,478 judging them when I'm talking to them about Christ. 76 00:03:47,646 --> 00:03:49,514 I don't ever want that to happen. 77 00:03:49,814 --> 00:03:52,398 God's a whole lot better at doing it than I am. 78 00:03:52,566 --> 00:03:55,126 I'll only make them mad, and I don't want that to happen. 79 00:03:55,190 --> 00:04:00,414 So using the law in a very discerning way. 80 00:04:00,454 --> 00:04:02,270 Be wise as serpents, harmless as doves. 81 00:04:02,342 --> 00:04:07,696 Using the law, being gentle but forthright, and God will do the 82 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:08,000 rest. 83 00:04:08,072 --> 00:04:08,764 Amen. 84 00:04:09,424 --> 00:04:10,776 Jesus used the key. 85 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,176 John used this key. 86 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,928 Paul used this key, James used this key. 87 00:04:15,056 --> 00:04:19,448 And then we began to look at those questions with the view of 88 00:04:19,456 --> 00:04:20,168 the law in mind. 89 00:04:20,216 --> 00:04:23,904 We said number one at page 39, why do I need to be saved? 90 00:04:24,024 --> 00:04:26,176 That was the first of those three questions. 91 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,304 Why do I need to be saved? 92 00:04:27,344 --> 00:04:28,696 We said letter A. 93 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,228 Because of our sin. 94 00:04:30,376 --> 00:04:32,084 Because of our sin. 95 00:04:32,204 --> 00:04:34,068 I majored on that last week. 96 00:04:34,196 --> 00:04:37,884 Because it's important that while we're witnessing to people, 97 00:04:37,964 --> 00:04:40,544 we don't soft soap it. 98 00:04:41,004 --> 00:04:42,516 We don't soft soap it. 99 00:04:42,580 --> 00:04:46,464 People need to know that they're sinners, but more than that, 100 00:04:47,284 --> 00:04:51,004 that they've sinned against a holy God, that they have offended 101 00:04:51,164 --> 00:04:54,344 a God by breaking his laws. 102 00:04:54,684 --> 00:04:58,270 And then we, in fact, we talked about the fact that all mankind 103 00:04:58,302 --> 00:04:58,894 were sinners. 104 00:04:58,974 --> 00:05:02,710 Then we said letter B on page 40, because our sin is against God. 105 00:05:02,782 --> 00:05:05,194 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 106 00:05:07,934 --> 00:05:11,006 And then this is where we bring the Ten Commandments into it. 107 00:05:11,030 --> 00:05:14,110 We show them that the law, the Ten Commandments, is God's standard 108 00:05:14,142 --> 00:05:15,274 for righteousness. 109 00:05:16,694 --> 00:05:17,134 If you. 110 00:05:17,174 --> 00:05:18,030 I forgot to bring the. 111 00:05:18,062 --> 00:05:21,158 I forgot to put out the tracts out there today and the bookmarks, 112 00:05:21,206 --> 00:05:22,374 the Ten Commandment bookmarks. 113 00:05:22,414 --> 00:05:23,222 But I've got them. 114 00:05:23,318 --> 00:05:27,358 I'll put them out there next week or you can hit me up for them. 115 00:05:27,366 --> 00:05:29,554 I'll be more than happy to grab them and give you some. 116 00:05:30,494 --> 00:05:32,942 But the Ten Commandments, the law of God is. 117 00:05:32,998 --> 00:05:33,638 That's God's. 118 00:05:33,686 --> 00:05:34,614 Standard for righteousness. 119 00:05:34,654 --> 00:05:37,902 You remember what Jesus said, Except your righteousness exceed 120 00:05:38,038 --> 00:05:40,414 the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you cannot 121 00:05:40,454 --> 00:05:41,514 enter into heaven. 122 00:05:42,334 --> 00:05:44,230 Well, exceed it. 123 00:05:44,382 --> 00:05:45,174 I mean, good night. 124 00:05:45,214 --> 00:05:49,406 And then he went on to commend how they kept the law, I mean, to 125 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:52,574 the nth degree, how they tithe on everything. 126 00:05:52,994 --> 00:05:55,114 And then he said, unless you're. 127 00:05:55,274 --> 00:05:57,934 And these guys are like, I can't do that. 128 00:05:58,674 --> 00:06:02,974 And what Jesus was trying to get them to see was that our righteousness, 129 00:06:03,714 --> 00:06:06,666 in order to get to heaven, our righteousness must exceed that. 130 00:06:06,690 --> 00:06:08,614 And the way to do that is to keep the law. 131 00:06:09,274 --> 00:06:11,014 That's the only way to do that. 132 00:06:11,634 --> 00:06:13,334 And we can't do that. 133 00:06:13,874 --> 00:06:15,762 And it won't take long. 134 00:06:15,818 --> 00:06:18,042 Going over those ten commandments, I always start with 135 00:06:18,058 --> 00:06:18,674 the ninth one. 136 00:06:18,714 --> 00:06:21,000 I always start with the one that's going to hit them right, right 137 00:06:21,032 --> 00:06:21,768 between the eyes. 138 00:06:21,856 --> 00:06:22,392 Always. 139 00:06:22,528 --> 00:06:24,004 Have you ever told a lie? 140 00:06:24,304 --> 00:06:28,928 And everybody, everybody will always say, I get one out of 10,000 141 00:06:29,016 --> 00:06:30,616 will say, no, I've never lied. 142 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,404 Seriously, they're out there, they will say that. 143 00:06:34,024 --> 00:06:37,404 But for the most part, everyone's going to admit that. 144 00:06:37,944 --> 00:06:38,376 And then. 145 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:39,248 What's the next question? 146 00:06:39,296 --> 00:06:40,448 I'll tell you what's the next question. 147 00:06:40,496 --> 00:06:45,164 The next question is, well, how many lies do you have to tell 148 00:06:45,544 --> 00:06:46,724 to be a liar? 149 00:06:47,934 --> 00:06:50,726 Or actually, I won't even go that way because that can be offensive. 150 00:06:50,790 --> 00:06:54,754 I actually say, well, how many lies do I have to tell to be a liar? 151 00:06:56,254 --> 00:06:58,342 And they will just say, just one. 152 00:06:58,518 --> 00:07:01,670 How many cars do I have to steal to be a car thief? 153 00:07:01,822 --> 00:07:02,438 Just one. 154 00:07:02,526 --> 00:07:04,486 So you see, it's the word of God. 155 00:07:04,630 --> 00:07:09,606 The law itself is what's going to get them to understand that they 156 00:07:09,670 --> 00:07:12,354 can't meet God's righteousness for heaven. 157 00:07:12,724 --> 00:07:14,784 In order to get to heaven, we must be perfect. 158 00:07:16,004 --> 00:07:19,156 And so in order to help them to understand that, of course we 159 00:07:19,220 --> 00:07:23,300 show them your sin has separated you from God and that sin 160 00:07:23,332 --> 00:07:24,588 is transgression of the law. 161 00:07:24,636 --> 00:07:27,220 Pastor did a marvelous job last week at the end of the service 162 00:07:27,292 --> 00:07:32,724 breaking that down into one simplified commandment that Jesus 163 00:07:32,804 --> 00:07:33,684 brought it down to. 164 00:07:33,724 --> 00:07:38,070 And that is love God, love yourself, or love your neighbor as 165 00:07:38,102 --> 00:07:38,846 yourself. 166 00:07:39,030 --> 00:07:41,110 And the bottom line is selfishness. 167 00:07:41,262 --> 00:07:42,334 It's self centeredness. 168 00:07:42,374 --> 00:07:43,694 We don't love anybody else. 169 00:07:43,774 --> 00:07:46,574 I like what you said when we ask somebody. 170 00:07:46,654 --> 00:07:49,206 Remember I told you I said, anybody will say, well, yeah, I stole 171 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:50,314 when I was a kid. 172 00:07:51,654 --> 00:07:54,646 And we say, well, okay, well, stealing that pencil, stealing the 173 00:07:54,670 --> 00:07:56,518 pencil is not what's going to send you to hell. 174 00:07:56,646 --> 00:07:58,914 It's treating that Store owner. 175 00:07:59,654 --> 00:08:02,194 You didn't treat that store owner like you wanted to be treated 176 00:08:04,064 --> 00:08:05,084 selfishness. 177 00:08:05,864 --> 00:08:11,272 And so he broke it down into a tremendous New Testament command. 178 00:08:11,448 --> 00:08:12,888 But you can use any of these. 179 00:08:12,936 --> 00:08:16,614 And I always go to the Ten Commandments, James 2:10 is a great 180 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:16,845 one. 181 00:08:16,892 --> 00:08:18,234 I have that on page 41. 182 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:18,720 James 2:10. 183 00:08:18,752 --> 00:08:22,264 Whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one one point, 184 00:08:22,304 --> 00:08:23,240 he's guilty of all. 185 00:08:23,312 --> 00:08:27,168 But I promise you, if you go through these, you're going to find 186 00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:28,884 they'll be breaking more than one. 187 00:08:29,434 --> 00:08:32,242 I can usually get through four or five, and then I just stop right 188 00:08:32,258 --> 00:08:32,410 there. 189 00:08:32,442 --> 00:08:35,210 And usually I'll look at them and I'll say, look, we've only gone 190 00:08:35,242 --> 00:08:37,426 through four of these and you're already swinging 100. 191 00:08:37,570 --> 00:08:38,894 You're batting a thousand. 192 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,866 I've only gone over four, and they've already admitted to breaking 193 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:44,570 all four. 194 00:08:44,682 --> 00:08:46,494 And then I will repeat that verse. 195 00:08:47,274 --> 00:08:49,490 You can keep the whole law and yet offend in one. 196 00:08:49,602 --> 00:08:50,894 You're guilty of all. 197 00:08:51,394 --> 00:08:54,850 And so then I asked them, if you died today and you had to stand 198 00:08:54,882 --> 00:08:57,442 before God and He judged you according to his law, would you be 199 00:08:57,458 --> 00:08:58,574 innocent or guilty? 200 00:09:00,324 --> 00:09:01,444 I'm telling you the question. 201 00:09:01,524 --> 00:09:05,504 The answer is always, always, will I be guilty? 202 00:09:05,964 --> 00:09:10,144 Now, whether they say it with compunction is a different story, 203 00:09:10,924 --> 00:09:12,704 but at least they'll admit it. 204 00:09:13,724 --> 00:09:17,812 Alright, and that takes us to verse, to number, page 42. 205 00:09:17,988 --> 00:09:20,524 And so we're looking at why do we need to be saved? 206 00:09:20,564 --> 00:09:22,332 We said, first of all, because of our sin. 207 00:09:22,388 --> 00:09:25,918 Secondly, we said letter D because there is a penalty for breaking 208 00:09:25,966 --> 00:09:26,598 God's law. 209 00:09:26,646 --> 00:09:29,598 The penalty, number one under that is death. 210 00:09:29,766 --> 00:09:31,142 The penalty is death. 211 00:09:31,198 --> 00:09:32,502 Genesis 2, 16, 17. 212 00:09:32,558 --> 00:09:35,342 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the 213 00:09:35,358 --> 00:09:36,550 garden, thou mayest freely eat. 214 00:09:36,582 --> 00:09:38,510 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou 215 00:09:38,542 --> 00:09:39,854 shalt not eat of it. 216 00:09:39,934 --> 00:09:43,174 For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely 217 00:09:43,254 --> 00:09:43,914 die. 218 00:09:44,254 --> 00:09:48,494 Now, the New Testament counterpart to that verse to Genesis 219 00:09:48,534 --> 00:09:50,118 2 is Romans 6:23. 220 00:09:50,166 --> 00:09:51,834 The wages of sin is death. 221 00:09:52,454 --> 00:09:56,070 Okay, that's the New Testament counterpart to Genesis. 222 00:09:56,182 --> 00:10:01,350 Now, we understand, and it's helpful to explain this to them in 223 00:10:01,382 --> 00:10:01,954 brief. 224 00:10:02,294 --> 00:10:06,574 You don't have to go give them a full academic lecture. 225 00:10:06,614 --> 00:10:09,886 You don't have to go give them an exegesis of Genesis. 226 00:10:10,030 --> 00:10:14,590 But if you'll just give them a brief understanding of the fact that 227 00:10:14,702 --> 00:10:18,848 when they partook of the fruit, they didn't physically die, 228 00:10:18,896 --> 00:10:19,808 they didn't drop dead. 229 00:10:19,856 --> 00:10:22,520 I mean, you can ask them that, well, did Adam and Eve drop dead? 230 00:10:22,552 --> 00:10:23,824 The moment they ate the fruit. 231 00:10:23,984 --> 00:10:26,584 And even if they'd never been to church, they know enough to say, 232 00:10:26,624 --> 00:10:30,244 well, no, but the death process began. 233 00:10:31,024 --> 00:10:32,088 It began in them. 234 00:10:32,136 --> 00:10:33,656 The physical death process began. 235 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,584 But what did actually happen? 236 00:10:35,664 --> 00:10:36,360 Instantaneous. 237 00:10:36,432 --> 00:10:39,896 As soon as they ate that fruit, the penalty of spiritual death 238 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,444 was instantaneous. 239 00:10:41,784 --> 00:10:43,364 Their spirit died. 240 00:10:44,404 --> 00:10:47,812 Their ability to communicate with God, or God's ability to communicate 241 00:10:47,828 --> 00:10:49,784 with them through their spirit was gone. 242 00:10:50,164 --> 00:10:53,516 And so, of course, they were excommunicated from the garden. 243 00:10:53,660 --> 00:10:56,784 But look, I'm putting in this notebook for you. 244 00:10:57,484 --> 00:11:00,744 More than what you need to give them, most of this is for you. 245 00:11:02,004 --> 00:11:05,964 There's an understanding here that will help you to break it down 246 00:11:06,004 --> 00:11:08,012 into a simplified manner. 247 00:11:08,188 --> 00:11:12,002 But if you'll understand these truths, you can give it to them in 248 00:11:12,018 --> 00:11:16,146 a simple way, and it'll help you to really have more conviction 249 00:11:16,290 --> 00:11:18,654 when you're explaining it, when you're giving it to them. 250 00:11:18,994 --> 00:11:21,626 I always use, even though I only carry my New Testament, when 251 00:11:21,650 --> 00:11:24,722 I'm knocking doors or soul winning, I always refer to Ezekiel 252 00:11:24,778 --> 00:11:27,474 18, even though I can't show it to them, but I have it memorized. 253 00:11:27,514 --> 00:11:31,010 Ezekiel 18:4 says, Behold, all souls are mine is the soul of the 254 00:11:31,042 --> 00:11:33,098 Father, so also the soul of the Son is mine. 255 00:11:33,146 --> 00:11:35,442 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 256 00:11:35,618 --> 00:11:38,000 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 257 00:11:38,162 --> 00:11:39,676 And then I take them to Hebrews 9:27. 258 00:11:39,735 --> 00:11:42,321 I have that in your outline on page 43. 259 00:11:42,380 --> 00:11:45,848 And by the way, you ought to highlight Romans 6:23 and Hebrews 260 00:11:45,907 --> 00:11:46,172 9:27. 261 00:11:46,228 --> 00:11:49,684 These are ones that you should use as it is appointed unto men once 262 00:11:49,724 --> 00:11:50,060 to die. 263 00:11:50,092 --> 00:11:51,364 But after this, the judgment. 264 00:11:51,484 --> 00:11:52,596 Folks, I want to tell you something. 265 00:11:52,660 --> 00:11:57,156 That particular verse right there is a very powerful verse to 266 00:11:57,180 --> 00:12:00,624 use at this juncture in your soul winning conversation. 267 00:12:01,124 --> 00:12:05,326 Because once I tell them that they're sinners, once they've said, 268 00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:08,070 yeah, I'm a sinner, I agree, man, I'm guilty before God. 269 00:12:08,102 --> 00:12:09,518 I've broken his laws. 270 00:12:09,646 --> 00:12:09,998 Wow. 271 00:12:10,046 --> 00:12:11,294 The penalty is death. 272 00:12:11,414 --> 00:12:13,078 Yes, but let me ask you something. 273 00:12:13,126 --> 00:12:16,102 Let me show you this verse as it is appointed unto man once to 274 00:12:16,118 --> 00:12:17,954 die, but after this, the judgment. 275 00:12:18,294 --> 00:12:20,646 Now, I think I've shared this with you before, but I'll share it 276 00:12:20,670 --> 00:12:21,234 again. 277 00:12:21,814 --> 00:12:23,398 I can't tell you how many times. 278 00:12:23,486 --> 00:12:26,790 Thousands, literally, literally thousands of times I've 279 00:12:26,822 --> 00:12:31,512 showed this verse and I've asked them, I said, now, when a person 280 00:12:31,608 --> 00:12:35,496 dies, and if they're put in the grave, what happens to their 281 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:39,680 body after, oh, 10 years or so, however many years it takes. 282 00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:44,160 And most every single one of them will say, well, it decomposes 283 00:12:44,192 --> 00:12:47,656 or it goes back to dust or whatever, goes to the earth, it's 284 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:48,512 eaten by worms. 285 00:12:48,568 --> 00:12:49,684 They'll say, whatever. 286 00:12:50,384 --> 00:12:54,204 And then I say, okay, well, if that's true, then what goes to judgment? 287 00:12:56,834 --> 00:12:58,762 I'm telling you with my hand before the Lord. 288 00:12:58,818 --> 00:13:05,250 I have never, ever, ever had anybody ever say anything other than, 289 00:13:05,442 --> 00:13:08,294 well, my soul or my spirit. 290 00:13:08,874 --> 00:13:11,370 I'm telling you, they know it. 291 00:13:11,402 --> 00:13:12,778 They may never go to church. 292 00:13:12,826 --> 00:13:14,458 They may have never read that verse before. 293 00:13:14,506 --> 00:13:18,042 They may have never read the Bible, but it's in them. 294 00:13:18,098 --> 00:13:20,122 They know they are an eternal being. 295 00:13:20,178 --> 00:13:23,730 And they just know that when this thing is all over, you ask them 296 00:13:23,762 --> 00:13:24,178 that question. 297 00:13:24,226 --> 00:13:29,462 Well, if you die and your body decompose, than what goes to judgment? 298 00:13:29,638 --> 00:13:31,014 I'm telling you, thousands of. 299 00:13:31,054 --> 00:13:31,534 I can't even. 300 00:13:31,574 --> 00:13:33,074 I don't even know how many times. 301 00:13:33,454 --> 00:13:36,582 Every single time, without fail, they will say, well, my soul 302 00:13:36,678 --> 00:13:39,958 or my spirit, brother, you got them. 303 00:13:40,086 --> 00:13:41,062 And I don't mean you got them. 304 00:13:41,078 --> 00:13:41,622 The Lord's got them. 305 00:13:41,638 --> 00:13:44,110 But you know what I'm saying, it's going in the right direction 306 00:13:44,222 --> 00:13:46,726 because you want that conviction in their heart. 307 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:50,366 You want them to understand, man, I got to stand before God. 308 00:13:50,510 --> 00:13:52,222 I'm going to be judged before God. 309 00:13:52,278 --> 00:13:53,754 My body's going to be gone. 310 00:13:54,094 --> 00:13:55,710 This body is just the. 311 00:13:55,902 --> 00:13:58,206 It's just the vehicle of the soul. 312 00:13:58,350 --> 00:14:00,614 And every soul that sinneth, it shall die. 313 00:14:00,694 --> 00:14:03,958 And so then I have this in sequence here for a reason. 314 00:14:04,046 --> 00:14:04,976 Revelation 20. 315 00:14:05,037 --> 00:14:07,414 I always take them to Revelation 20 next. 316 00:14:07,454 --> 00:14:08,430 Look at it with me there. 317 00:14:08,502 --> 00:14:10,966 I won't spend a lot of time here, but look at verse 13. 318 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:12,486 But I do with them. 319 00:14:12,630 --> 00:14:15,574 I go through it from verse 12 on, I talk about, this is the great 320 00:14:15,614 --> 00:14:16,958 white throne judgment. 321 00:14:17,126 --> 00:14:19,886 This is when everybody stands, and it says right there, I saw the 322 00:14:19,910 --> 00:14:21,930 dead, small and great, stand before God. 323 00:14:22,062 --> 00:14:23,250 But then, look in verse 13. 324 00:14:23,322 --> 00:14:25,386 The sea gave up the dead which were in it. 325 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:28,010 Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. 326 00:14:28,122 --> 00:14:31,214 And they were judged, every man, according to their works. 327 00:14:31,954 --> 00:14:34,618 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 328 00:14:34,746 --> 00:14:36,018 This is the second death. 329 00:14:36,066 --> 00:14:37,554 I always stop right there. 330 00:14:37,634 --> 00:14:41,386 Every single time, I'll stop and I'll say, did you know that there 331 00:14:41,410 --> 00:14:42,614 were two deaths? 332 00:14:45,754 --> 00:14:48,930 And I'm telling you, if folks are not saved, they're going to say, 333 00:14:49,002 --> 00:14:51,964 no, I didn't know there were two deaths. 334 00:14:54,664 --> 00:14:56,404 And then I began to show them. 335 00:14:57,984 --> 00:15:01,424 Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast 336 00:15:01,464 --> 00:15:02,376 into the lake of fire. 337 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,824 Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 338 00:15:04,864 --> 00:15:06,164 This is the second death. 339 00:15:06,784 --> 00:15:12,304 So, yes, when you die Your body decomposes, your soul goes to 340 00:15:12,344 --> 00:15:12,944 judgment. 341 00:15:13,064 --> 00:15:18,066 You stand before God and without Jesus Christ you will spend 342 00:15:18,090 --> 00:15:20,614 an eternity in a lake of fire. 343 00:15:21,074 --> 00:15:22,654 That is the second death. 344 00:15:24,154 --> 00:15:25,854 And that's sobering, folks. 345 00:15:26,474 --> 00:15:29,530 Now I put on page 44, I'm not going to go through this. 346 00:15:29,562 --> 00:15:31,498 I'll give you the blanks, of course, but I'm not going to read 347 00:15:31,546 --> 00:15:32,306 every verse. 348 00:15:32,410 --> 00:15:36,770 This is for your benefit because I think it's important that 349 00:15:36,842 --> 00:15:39,854 we have an understanding of what hell is like. 350 00:15:40,514 --> 00:15:43,890 It's good for us to know, Paul said, knowing therefore the terror 351 00:15:43,922 --> 00:15:46,134 of the Lord, we persuade men. 352 00:15:46,504 --> 00:15:49,720 It's good for us to have an idea of what hell is, even if they 353 00:15:49,752 --> 00:15:50,096 won't. 354 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,976 I mean, it's the word of God, you can read it to them, but they 355 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,224 still don't have the spirit of God in them and they're not really 356 00:15:55,264 --> 00:15:57,244 going to understand it like you do. 357 00:15:57,784 --> 00:16:00,160 And so, but just look at what is hell like. 358 00:16:00,192 --> 00:16:04,120 And I've used Luke 16, the rich man and Lazarus. 359 00:16:04,152 --> 00:16:07,448 I've used that passage there to give you an understanding of what 360 00:16:07,496 --> 00:16:12,144 it is like, at least to a degree. 361 00:16:12,184 --> 00:16:16,178 So in Luke 16, verse 19 through 28, look at a letter A, one 362 00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:17,410 can see what is hell like. 363 00:16:17,442 --> 00:16:19,090 You can see in hell. 364 00:16:19,122 --> 00:16:20,458 He lifted up his eyes. 365 00:16:20,586 --> 00:16:26,074 Letter B, one can physically feel being in torments, Being in 366 00:16:26,114 --> 00:16:26,854 torments. 367 00:16:27,994 --> 00:16:30,494 Letter C, one can speak. 368 00:16:30,914 --> 00:16:34,666 He cried and said, father Abraham, have mercy on me. 369 00:16:34,810 --> 00:16:37,014 Letter D, one can remember. 370 00:16:37,634 --> 00:16:41,824 But Abraham said, son, remember that thou in thy lifetime. 371 00:16:41,994 --> 00:16:43,420 You know, it's a sad day. 372 00:16:43,532 --> 00:16:46,652 And if you want to incorporate this into your soul winning conversation, 373 00:16:46,708 --> 00:16:48,180 you can, you can show them this. 374 00:16:48,252 --> 00:16:51,500 Look, the Bible says that if we die without Jesus Christ, we will 375 00:16:51,532 --> 00:16:53,572 spend an eternity remembering. 376 00:16:53,668 --> 00:16:58,924 Every time somebody brought the gospel to my door, I will spend 377 00:16:58,964 --> 00:17:02,544 an eternity remembering how many times I said, no thank you, 378 00:17:03,244 --> 00:17:04,356 I don't need that. 379 00:17:04,460 --> 00:17:05,584 I got this. 380 00:17:06,284 --> 00:17:08,748 It's not a bad thing if you want to bring this up. 381 00:17:08,796 --> 00:17:10,508 People get saved for all different reasons. 382 00:17:10,556 --> 00:17:12,984 Some get saved because they are afraid of hell. 383 00:17:15,484 --> 00:17:22,572 The Lord began to draw me to himself and he used a life that was 384 00:17:22,628 --> 00:17:25,224 just empty to do it. 385 00:17:25,684 --> 00:17:29,052 I was making good money, but at the same time, you know, you've 386 00:17:29,068 --> 00:17:29,692 heard my story. 387 00:17:29,748 --> 00:17:32,572 Drugs, alcohol and just the lifestyle that I was living. 388 00:17:32,668 --> 00:17:35,076 But you know, there came a certain time and even as a young 389 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:36,620 man, I'd been doing it for quite a while. 390 00:17:36,652 --> 00:17:40,042 But even as a young man at 20 years old, even at that point I came 391 00:17:40,058 --> 00:17:42,066 to a place where I said, there's gotta be more to life than 392 00:17:42,090 --> 00:17:42,490 this man. 393 00:17:42,522 --> 00:17:43,574 I'M tired of this. 394 00:17:44,474 --> 00:17:47,994 I get paid on Friday, do what I do on the weekend, and by Monday, 395 00:17:48,034 --> 00:17:49,174 I'm broke already. 396 00:17:49,874 --> 00:17:51,418 Where is it at and what's my life? 397 00:17:51,466 --> 00:17:55,522 And so the Lord used that to help me to see there's more to life. 398 00:17:55,578 --> 00:18:00,614 But then it was the accident, the totaling, the company truck. 399 00:18:00,994 --> 00:18:03,522 When I looked at that truck and I realized, man, if I'd have 400 00:18:03,538 --> 00:18:05,414 died in that, I'd have gone to hell. 401 00:18:06,054 --> 00:18:10,670 And that sobered me up enough to really want to mean business with 402 00:18:10,702 --> 00:18:11,846 God at that point. 403 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:15,914 So God uses all different things to lead people to Himself. 404 00:18:16,254 --> 00:18:18,462 One can speak, one can remember letter E. 405 00:18:18,518 --> 00:18:19,390 One can desire. 406 00:18:19,462 --> 00:18:22,190 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou wouldest 407 00:18:22,222 --> 00:18:22,994 send him. 408 00:18:23,734 --> 00:18:26,086 There'll be an eternity of regret. 409 00:18:26,270 --> 00:18:27,598 An eternity of regret. 410 00:18:27,646 --> 00:18:29,486 Maybe you want to share that with them. 411 00:18:29,670 --> 00:18:32,806 Look, you can remember every time that you heard the gospel, every 412 00:18:32,830 --> 00:18:35,412 time you laughed at church, every time you fell asleep, every 413 00:18:35,428 --> 00:18:39,612 time you scrolled on your phone instead of listening to the 414 00:18:39,668 --> 00:18:43,108 message, every time you looked at Facebook, instead of every time 415 00:18:43,156 --> 00:18:44,864 you laughed at the preaching. 416 00:18:45,284 --> 00:18:48,036 And not only will you be able to remember it, you're going to regret 417 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:48,704 it. 418 00:18:49,004 --> 00:18:51,504 You'll regret it for eternity. 419 00:18:52,084 --> 00:18:55,372 And then letter F, if you want to use this one. 420 00:18:55,428 --> 00:18:58,204 For those who believe that they're going to rule in hell with 421 00:18:58,244 --> 00:19:03,624 Satan, hell is the final prison for Satan and his followers. 422 00:19:03,964 --> 00:19:07,164 Revelation 20:10 says, and the devil that deceived them was cast 423 00:19:07,204 --> 00:19:08,620 into the lake of fire. 424 00:19:08,812 --> 00:19:11,452 And you might want to emphasize that word deceived the 425 00:19:11,468 --> 00:19:12,844 devil that deceived them. 426 00:19:12,884 --> 00:19:14,504 He's a master liar. 427 00:19:14,804 --> 00:19:15,644 He is a liar. 428 00:19:15,684 --> 00:19:17,264 He's the father of lies. 429 00:19:19,124 --> 00:19:25,684 His job description is, deceive, deceive the devil that deceived 430 00:19:25,724 --> 00:19:28,268 and was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast 431 00:19:28,316 --> 00:19:31,604 and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night 432 00:19:31,684 --> 00:19:33,854 forever, ever. 433 00:19:34,714 --> 00:19:38,014 So that's there for you if you want to incorporate it. 434 00:19:38,514 --> 00:19:43,418 I don't normally incorporate that into it, but it's there and 435 00:19:43,426 --> 00:19:46,294 I know it's there, and so I use it if the Lord so leads. 436 00:19:47,634 --> 00:19:52,154 But the fact of the matter is we will be challenged about the reality 437 00:19:52,194 --> 00:19:53,054 of hell. 438 00:19:53,514 --> 00:19:56,170 And obviously we haven't been there. 439 00:19:56,202 --> 00:19:57,162 This is all in your outline. 440 00:19:57,258 --> 00:19:59,666 We haven't been there, so we can't speak to its reality. 441 00:19:59,770 --> 00:20:01,090 But we trust in the word of God. 442 00:20:01,122 --> 00:20:04,186 We have faith in the Bible and trust that the Bible will bring conviction 443 00:20:04,210 --> 00:20:04,982 to their heart. 444 00:20:05,078 --> 00:20:07,510 I can't explain it because I've never been there. 445 00:20:07,622 --> 00:20:10,462 All I can do is share what the Bible says by the way can I say this 446 00:20:10,478 --> 00:20:10,750 to you? 447 00:20:10,782 --> 00:20:12,594 No one else has ever been there and back. 448 00:20:14,094 --> 00:20:15,278 And you've seen those. 449 00:20:15,326 --> 00:20:16,398 You've seen those. 450 00:20:16,566 --> 00:20:21,326 You've seen stories or heard people say or however, wherever, 451 00:20:21,390 --> 00:20:25,554 whoever they say they've been to hell and back, brother, sister, 452 00:20:26,094 --> 00:20:29,046 anybody who's ever been to hell and back, they're going to one 453 00:20:29,070 --> 00:20:29,966 or two things going to happen. 454 00:20:29,990 --> 00:20:34,644 They're either going to be a raving lunatic, seriously, because 455 00:20:34,684 --> 00:20:36,740 they're not going to be able to look into the portals of hell 456 00:20:36,772 --> 00:20:41,588 and come out of there sane, or they're going to be the world's greatest 457 00:20:41,636 --> 00:20:42,624 evangelist. 458 00:20:43,804 --> 00:20:49,304 How can you see that and not tell the world how real it is? 459 00:20:50,564 --> 00:20:53,388 So, all right, I'm going to move on because I'm going to try 460 00:20:53,396 --> 00:20:54,492 to make some headway tonight. 461 00:20:54,548 --> 00:20:54,901 45. 462 00:20:54,979 --> 00:20:56,904 Let's go to page 46. 463 00:20:57,934 --> 00:21:00,434 At the top of the page, I just want you to understand. 464 00:21:01,334 --> 00:21:03,878 Are you convinced that there is a hell? 465 00:21:04,046 --> 00:21:07,334 Are you convinced it is a place where those who reject Christ 466 00:21:07,414 --> 00:21:10,114 will spend eternity in torment? 467 00:21:10,734 --> 00:21:13,174 And so the Bible describes the fate of the lost. 468 00:21:13,214 --> 00:21:16,114 And I've written several verses down there for you. 469 00:21:16,854 --> 00:21:18,638 Daniel says, shame and everlasting. 470 00:21:18,686 --> 00:21:22,062 Matthew 24 calls it weeping and gnashing of teeth, Matthew 25, 471 00:21:22,118 --> 00:21:24,552 everlasting punishment, and so on and so forth. 472 00:21:24,678 --> 00:21:26,944 And I have a lot of verses there for you to read. 473 00:21:27,404 --> 00:21:29,828 And so it's important that we don't gloss over that. 474 00:21:29,876 --> 00:21:32,284 Listen, God is serious about judgment. 475 00:21:32,364 --> 00:21:34,784 God is serious about the judgment of sin. 476 00:21:35,364 --> 00:21:37,424 Our God is a perfect God. 477 00:21:38,724 --> 00:21:40,292 His love is perfect. 478 00:21:40,428 --> 00:21:42,064 His grace is perfect. 479 00:21:43,324 --> 00:21:45,252 His mercy is perfect. 480 00:21:45,428 --> 00:21:47,344 His forgiveness is perfect. 481 00:21:47,844 --> 00:21:50,868 But we must also understand, we must help others to understand 482 00:21:50,956 --> 00:21:52,124 who are going to major on. 483 00:21:52,164 --> 00:21:53,060 Well, God is love. 484 00:21:53,132 --> 00:21:53,812 God is love. 485 00:21:53,868 --> 00:21:55,498 He loves me and he's forgiving. 486 00:21:55,676 --> 00:21:58,086 Yes, well, he's also perfect in his justice. 487 00:21:58,190 --> 00:21:59,606 He's perfect in his holiness. 488 00:21:59,670 --> 00:22:01,594 He's perfect in his righteousness. 489 00:22:02,694 --> 00:22:05,950 And as a judge, he must judge perfectly. 490 00:22:06,062 --> 00:22:11,758 If he closed a blind eye, if he turned a blind eye to breaking 491 00:22:11,806 --> 00:22:13,914 his laws, he wouldn't be a good judge. 492 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,542 And we think we talked about that last week. 493 00:22:17,678 --> 00:22:20,954 A good judge will judge righteously. 494 00:22:22,184 --> 00:22:23,576 All right, let's move on then. 495 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,384 So question number one is, why do I need to be saved? 496 00:22:27,464 --> 00:22:28,560 Number two is this. 497 00:22:28,632 --> 00:22:29,928 Who can save me? 498 00:22:30,056 --> 00:22:31,404 Who can save me? 499 00:22:31,824 --> 00:22:35,568 So there's obviously the answer that you and I know. 500 00:22:35,656 --> 00:22:36,312 Only. 501 00:22:36,488 --> 00:22:37,136 Only. 502 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,072 Only the Lord Jesus Christ can save us from God's judgment. 503 00:22:41,248 --> 00:22:41,608 Only. 504 00:22:41,656 --> 00:22:42,764 That's letter A. 505 00:22:43,544 --> 00:22:46,232 I'll just put a plug in for I have one. 506 00:22:46,328 --> 00:22:47,644 I think I put a. 507 00:22:48,194 --> 00:22:50,874 I Think I put a piece of paper out there that says how to witness 508 00:22:50,914 --> 00:22:51,934 to a Hindu. 509 00:22:53,074 --> 00:22:54,454 And I shared that. 510 00:22:54,994 --> 00:22:57,266 And I'll just tell you that if you pick that up, I think it's back 511 00:22:57,290 --> 00:22:57,474 there. 512 00:22:57,514 --> 00:23:01,074 If you pick it up, it's not in depth, it doesn't tell you what verses 513 00:23:01,114 --> 00:23:07,642 to use, how to approach it, how to explain it, it doesn't tell 514 00:23:07,658 --> 00:23:10,654 you that, it just gives you some ideas on how they're thinking. 515 00:23:13,074 --> 00:23:17,710 And I only brought that one because in this area we have a lot 516 00:23:17,782 --> 00:23:20,354 of Hindus moving in a lot. 517 00:23:20,894 --> 00:23:23,654 And so if you want to grab that, I don't know how many copies 518 00:23:23,694 --> 00:23:25,822 are back there, but if you want to grab it, it'll kind of give 519 00:23:25,838 --> 00:23:29,078 you an idea of what, how they think religiously. 520 00:23:29,126 --> 00:23:34,354 And a lot of times, you know, it's not like you think they think. 521 00:23:34,654 --> 00:23:37,714 And so it'd be worth picking up and just reading through. 522 00:23:38,134 --> 00:23:41,994 So only the Lord Jesus Christ can save us from God's judgment. 523 00:23:42,684 --> 00:23:43,627 John 3:16. 524 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:44,763 Of course. 525 00:23:44,876 --> 00:23:45,899 John 3:36. 526 00:23:46,012 --> 00:23:47,092 John 5:24. 527 00:23:47,148 --> 00:23:50,116 Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on 528 00:23:50,140 --> 00:23:51,828 him that sent me hath everlasting life. 529 00:23:51,876 --> 00:23:54,468 Look, you can lead someone to Christ with these three verses, right? 530 00:23:54,516 --> 00:23:55,228 These three passages. 531 00:23:55,276 --> 00:23:58,388 John 3:16, you can take. 532 00:23:58,436 --> 00:24:00,372 That's the Gospel in miniature right there. 533 00:24:00,468 --> 00:24:01,356 John 3:16. 534 00:24:01,420 --> 00:24:04,404 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. 535 00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:07,384 See, you can stop right there and say he gave them for what? 536 00:24:07,974 --> 00:24:09,158 You could explain that. 537 00:24:09,206 --> 00:24:10,422 Why did he give His Son? 538 00:24:10,518 --> 00:24:11,870 Because we're all sinners. 539 00:24:12,022 --> 00:24:13,926 Because we've sinned against God. 540 00:24:14,030 --> 00:24:14,422 Alright? 541 00:24:14,478 --> 00:24:16,662 That whosoever believeth in him, Believeth what? 542 00:24:16,758 --> 00:24:19,830 That he died for your sins and that he resurrected. 543 00:24:19,902 --> 00:24:23,534 See, you can take John 3:16 and literally use that verse alone 544 00:24:23,574 --> 00:24:25,074 to explain the gospel. 545 00:24:26,654 --> 00:24:28,454 But we have more, thankfully. 546 00:24:28,494 --> 00:24:31,118 We have a whole bunch of gospel verses that we can use. 547 00:24:31,206 --> 00:24:34,670 Verse 36 he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. 548 00:24:34,742 --> 00:24:37,064 By the way, I want you to notice this in these verses. 549 00:24:37,104 --> 00:24:41,844 It doesn't say, it doesn't say anything about baptism, does it? 550 00:24:42,184 --> 00:24:45,832 It says he that believeth, he that believeth on the Son. 551 00:24:45,888 --> 00:24:47,856 Verse 36 Hath everlasting life. 552 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,384 And he that believeth not shall not see life. 553 00:24:50,424 --> 00:24:52,952 But the wrath of God abideth on him. 554 00:24:53,008 --> 00:24:55,724 The wrath of God abideth on him. 555 00:24:56,224 --> 00:24:59,976 John 5:24 he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent 556 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,294 me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into what condemnation 557 00:25:06,394 --> 00:25:10,014 it's worth showing them these verses and pointing out certain words, 558 00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:11,694 condemnation. 559 00:25:12,434 --> 00:25:13,874 Jesus said, I am the way. 560 00:25:13,914 --> 00:25:14,978 John 14:6. 561 00:25:15,066 --> 00:25:18,562 I am the way, the truth, the life. 562 00:25:18,698 --> 00:25:19,858 He didn't say a way. 563 00:25:19,906 --> 00:25:20,522 Right. 564 00:25:20,698 --> 00:25:23,914 So these are verses that you can use in a real powerful way. 565 00:25:24,034 --> 00:25:25,090 I mean, just use them. 566 00:25:25,122 --> 00:25:28,214 He is the not a way, not one way. 567 00:25:29,044 --> 00:25:30,028 Acts, chapter four. 568 00:25:30,076 --> 00:25:33,124 Neither is there salvation in any other, for there's none other 569 00:25:33,164 --> 00:25:36,388 name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 570 00:25:36,476 --> 00:25:38,924 Now, why is Jesus the only way of salvation? 571 00:25:39,084 --> 00:25:40,060 Now I will say this. 572 00:25:40,092 --> 00:25:43,744 What I'm going to show you right here is really, it's for you. 573 00:25:44,324 --> 00:25:48,948 If you need to incorporate it into your gospel presentation, you 574 00:25:48,996 --> 00:25:51,264 can, and it's certainly not going to hurt. 575 00:25:55,014 --> 00:25:56,590 I'm definitely for truth. 576 00:25:56,622 --> 00:25:59,462 And I don't think that ignorance is not bliss. 577 00:25:59,518 --> 00:26:02,874 And I don't think that there's any holy virtue in being ignorant. 578 00:26:05,254 --> 00:26:10,526 But I also, again, want to be careful that we don't overload somebody 579 00:26:10,590 --> 00:26:16,478 with stuff that they don't necessarily need to know right now 580 00:26:16,526 --> 00:26:19,394 and they will learn later if they get saved. 581 00:26:19,824 --> 00:26:22,456 And this is probably one of those things. 582 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,872 And I only say that. 583 00:26:23,928 --> 00:26:25,360 And we may differ, Pastor, may differ. 584 00:26:25,392 --> 00:26:29,032 I may differ from a lot of different, a lot of preachers and 585 00:26:29,128 --> 00:26:32,792 maybe because how we were brought up, but I was so ignorant, 586 00:26:32,888 --> 00:26:35,792 you know, I was so ignorant of the Bible and spiritual things when 587 00:26:35,808 --> 00:26:38,080 I got saved, I didn't know hardly anything. 588 00:26:38,232 --> 00:26:42,044 I did not know what I'm going to share with you here. 589 00:26:42,784 --> 00:26:46,600 But now that I know it, it helps me to be prepared to share 590 00:26:46,632 --> 00:26:48,970 it with others if I need to. 591 00:26:49,082 --> 00:26:51,162 Why is Jesus the only way of salvation? 592 00:26:51,298 --> 00:26:56,866 Because it was a man, Adam, our human head, who cast all of mankind 593 00:26:56,970 --> 00:27:00,474 into sinking, I mean into sin by breaking God's law. 594 00:27:00,554 --> 00:27:01,394 And you can share. 595 00:27:01,434 --> 00:27:02,810 And I have used some of these. 596 00:27:02,882 --> 00:27:03,682 Romans 5:12. 597 00:27:03,738 --> 00:27:06,266 As by one man sin entered into the world. 598 00:27:06,330 --> 00:27:06,946 And I've done that. 599 00:27:06,970 --> 00:27:08,570 I've said, now which man do you think that was? 600 00:27:08,642 --> 00:27:10,970 As by one man sin entered into the world. 601 00:27:11,042 --> 00:27:13,330 And sometimes they will have the right answer, and especially 602 00:27:13,402 --> 00:27:15,914 if they're already religious, if they're already going to church 603 00:27:15,954 --> 00:27:18,210 somewhere, you can absolutely use some of these. 604 00:27:18,242 --> 00:27:21,490 But if they don't have any kind of idea about church at all, 605 00:27:21,642 --> 00:27:23,574 this is kind of lost on them. 606 00:27:24,194 --> 00:27:25,330 Romans 5:18. 607 00:27:25,402 --> 00:27:28,890 Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men 608 00:27:28,922 --> 00:27:29,706 to condemnation. 609 00:27:29,770 --> 00:27:31,473 Even so, by the righteousness of 1. 610 00:27:31,524 --> 00:27:32,500 For at verse 19. 611 00:27:32,552 --> 00:27:35,866 For as by 1 man's disobedience, many were made sinners. 612 00:27:35,930 --> 00:27:38,506 So you know, it's not your fault, it's Adam's fault. 613 00:27:38,530 --> 00:27:39,250 That You're a sinner. 614 00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:40,394 You were born that way. 615 00:27:40,434 --> 00:27:42,290 You don't become a sinner by sinning. 616 00:27:42,402 --> 00:27:44,214 You sin because you're a sinner. 617 00:27:44,754 --> 00:27:46,054 Does that make sense? 618 00:27:47,154 --> 00:27:49,218 And that's what I asked them along the way. 619 00:27:49,346 --> 00:27:50,738 By the way, folks, let me do. 620 00:27:50,826 --> 00:27:51,266 Let me stop. 621 00:27:51,290 --> 00:27:55,498 And I want to emphasize that along the way, I will always, many 622 00:27:55,546 --> 00:27:57,914 times I will stop and say, does that make sense? 623 00:27:58,074 --> 00:27:59,322 Do you understand this? 624 00:27:59,378 --> 00:28:03,002 Because if they don't go back, we're not looking for a feather in 625 00:28:03,018 --> 00:28:04,094 our hat, are we? 626 00:28:04,394 --> 00:28:06,026 We're not looking for a notch on our belt. 627 00:28:06,050 --> 00:28:07,974 We're looking for understanding. 628 00:28:08,834 --> 00:28:12,090 And given the Holy Spirit an opportunity to work in their heart 629 00:28:12,162 --> 00:28:14,494 through understanding the word of God. 630 00:28:15,834 --> 00:28:21,154 So number two under there, if it must therefore be a man, because 631 00:28:21,194 --> 00:28:25,666 it was a man, Adam, our human head representative, who cast all 632 00:28:25,690 --> 00:28:27,858 of mankind into sin by breaking God's law. 633 00:28:27,906 --> 00:28:31,266 Number two, it must therefore be a man who keeps God's law perfectly 634 00:28:31,370 --> 00:28:34,152 in order to stand before God on man's behalf. 635 00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:34,892 Okay? 636 00:28:34,988 --> 00:28:36,244 And Jesus is that man. 637 00:28:36,284 --> 00:28:37,460 Letter C, write this in there. 638 00:28:37,492 --> 00:28:38,940 He is the God man. 639 00:28:39,092 --> 00:28:40,944 And it's okay to say that. 640 00:28:41,804 --> 00:28:43,704 It's okay to say that to them. 641 00:28:44,084 --> 00:28:46,264 They probably never heard that before. 642 00:28:47,324 --> 00:28:50,836 They may have heard God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy 643 00:28:50,860 --> 00:28:53,436 Spirit, but I doubt they've ever heard anybody call him the God 644 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:54,104 man. 645 00:28:55,764 --> 00:28:59,220 But the fact is, he is the virgin born, sinless Son of God and 646 00:28:59,252 --> 00:29:04,074 God the Son, who came into the world as a man for this very purpose. 647 00:29:05,214 --> 00:29:06,038 Page 49. 648 00:29:06,086 --> 00:29:10,998 I have a bunch of verses there for you that you can use to emphasize 649 00:29:11,086 --> 00:29:13,142 the fact that Jesus is God. 650 00:29:13,198 --> 00:29:16,854 And I like verse 10 of John 1, verse 10. 651 00:29:16,894 --> 00:29:22,678 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world 652 00:29:22,726 --> 00:29:23,358 knew him not. 653 00:29:23,406 --> 00:29:24,782 I mean, boy, you've got so much here. 654 00:29:24,838 --> 00:29:27,006 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 655 00:29:27,030 --> 00:29:31,122 But to as many as received him, to them gave he the power to 656 00:29:31,138 --> 00:29:33,946 become the sons of God to as many as received him. 657 00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:35,210 We're going to get down to this. 658 00:29:35,242 --> 00:29:35,898 When we come to. 659 00:29:35,946 --> 00:29:37,694 How do I get saved? 660 00:29:38,034 --> 00:29:40,574 By receiving Jesus Christ. 661 00:29:41,434 --> 00:29:43,574 By receiving Jesus Christ. 662 00:29:43,994 --> 00:29:45,202 I'm so glad. 663 00:29:45,378 --> 00:29:50,090 I'm really, really so glad that Buddy Howard, that day, April 664 00:29:50,162 --> 00:29:50,434 18th. 665 00:29:50,495 --> 00:29:51,950 Actually, I guess it was. 666 00:29:52,011 --> 00:29:53,194 Yeah, April 18th, 1984. 667 00:29:53,234 --> 00:29:55,650 When I came down to that altar and he took me into another room. 668 00:29:55,682 --> 00:29:58,962 He knelt down with me and Buddy Howard said, james, why are 669 00:29:58,978 --> 00:29:59,354 you here? 670 00:29:59,394 --> 00:30:01,290 I said, well, I just. 671 00:30:01,442 --> 00:30:02,362 I'm not saved. 672 00:30:02,418 --> 00:30:04,266 And I know I need to be saved accordingly. 673 00:30:04,290 --> 00:30:06,530 I only knew what David had told me hours before. 674 00:30:06,602 --> 00:30:08,530 What Salvation was what getting saved was. 675 00:30:08,562 --> 00:30:09,850 And I said, I want that. 676 00:30:10,002 --> 00:30:11,226 So I said, I need to get saved. 677 00:30:11,290 --> 00:30:16,362 I'm so glad Buddy Howard didn't say to me, okay, well, you 678 00:30:16,378 --> 00:30:18,374 need to ask Jesus into your heart then. 679 00:30:18,714 --> 00:30:20,374 I'm glad he didn't say that. 680 00:30:21,114 --> 00:30:22,242 I'm so glad he didn't say. 681 00:30:22,258 --> 00:30:23,814 Now repeat this prayer after me. 682 00:30:24,494 --> 00:30:25,674 He didn't do that. 683 00:30:26,254 --> 00:30:27,414 He didn't do that. 684 00:30:27,574 --> 00:30:28,350 You know what he did? 685 00:30:28,382 --> 00:30:30,074 He introduced me to Jesus. 686 00:30:30,774 --> 00:30:33,046 He said, do you believe that you are a sinner? 687 00:30:33,230 --> 00:30:35,074 I had no problem with that. 688 00:30:36,534 --> 00:30:37,590 Yes, sir. 689 00:30:37,782 --> 00:30:40,950 He said, do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for 690 00:30:40,982 --> 00:30:41,914 your sin? 691 00:30:42,494 --> 00:30:43,434 Yes, sir. 692 00:30:44,534 --> 00:30:48,526 And then he said something that is left out of so many gospel 693 00:30:48,590 --> 00:30:49,528 presentations. 694 00:30:49,726 --> 00:30:53,744 Do you believe, James, that he rose from the grave? 695 00:30:55,164 --> 00:30:59,436 Do you know how essential that is to our gospel presentation? 696 00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:00,356 I said, yes, sir. 697 00:31:00,380 --> 00:31:02,332 And I was so ignorant, I didn't really know much about it, 698 00:31:02,348 --> 00:31:03,292 but I believed that he did it. 699 00:31:03,308 --> 00:31:05,304 And I said, well, isn't that what Easter is all about? 700 00:31:05,644 --> 00:31:06,692 That's what I said. 701 00:31:06,788 --> 00:31:08,184 He said, yes, it is. 702 00:31:08,524 --> 00:31:10,948 He said, james, if you want to get saved now, you're just going 703 00:31:10,956 --> 00:31:14,084 to have to ask God to forgive you and receive Jesus Christ as your 704 00:31:14,124 --> 00:31:14,894 Savior. 705 00:31:15,084 --> 00:31:16,094 And I did. 706 00:31:16,994 --> 00:31:18,094 And it took. 707 00:31:19,034 --> 00:31:19,538 Amen. 708 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:20,374 It took. 709 00:31:21,634 --> 00:31:22,374 Phew. 710 00:31:24,794 --> 00:31:29,010 And so to as many as received him. 711 00:31:29,162 --> 00:31:30,974 I emphasize that so much. 712 00:31:31,554 --> 00:31:33,934 I'm not opposed to people praying a prayer. 713 00:31:34,234 --> 00:31:35,338 I have helped people. 714 00:31:35,386 --> 00:31:38,162 I've actually had people say to me, will you help me pray? 715 00:31:38,258 --> 00:31:39,986 I've actually had people, what am I going to tell them? 716 00:31:40,010 --> 00:31:41,362 No, no, you got to do it yourself. 717 00:31:41,458 --> 00:31:44,470 No, I will help them if they ask me to, I will. 718 00:31:44,662 --> 00:31:44,966 And. 719 00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:45,894 But I'll do it like this. 720 00:31:45,934 --> 00:31:47,434 I'll kind of say something like. 721 00:31:47,854 --> 00:31:54,326 I will say something like, jerry, I'm going to pray. 722 00:31:54,390 --> 00:31:59,274 Kind of like I prayed back April 18, 1984. 723 00:31:59,694 --> 00:32:01,998 But it wasn't that prayer that saved me. 724 00:32:02,166 --> 00:32:04,754 It was me believing what I was saying. 725 00:32:06,654 --> 00:32:09,124 What saved me was my faith in Jesus. 726 00:32:09,254 --> 00:32:11,924 But I prayed kind of like this, and I think it's important. 727 00:32:12,744 --> 00:32:13,632 I got saved. 728 00:32:13,688 --> 00:32:16,672 I believe in the truck that day, in the van that day when we 729 00:32:16,688 --> 00:32:19,776 were going around Luke 6:10, and he shared with me what it meant 730 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,304 to be saved. 731 00:32:20,344 --> 00:32:21,624 And I said, man, I want that. 732 00:32:21,664 --> 00:32:22,232 I need that. 733 00:32:22,288 --> 00:32:25,632 I truly believe with all my heart that I got saved that moment 734 00:32:25,768 --> 00:32:29,672 in the van about 8:15 in the morning, going around Luke 6:10. 735 00:32:29,768 --> 00:32:32,600 I went to the church that night and I prayed that little prayer. 736 00:32:32,752 --> 00:32:34,992 And that kind of put it in concrete in my heart. 737 00:32:35,048 --> 00:32:38,524 It kind of solidified it for Me, but looking back in retrospect, 738 00:32:38,844 --> 00:32:41,324 I got saved in the van, but I needed that time. 739 00:32:41,484 --> 00:32:42,864 I needed that time. 740 00:32:43,164 --> 00:32:46,076 And I'm not opposed to anybody walking an aisle and coming down 741 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:46,756 and praying a prayer. 742 00:32:46,780 --> 00:32:48,228 I'm not opposed to that at all. 743 00:32:48,356 --> 00:32:50,500 But it's not a prayer that saves, is it? 744 00:32:50,652 --> 00:32:51,700 It is a person. 745 00:32:51,812 --> 00:32:53,668 It is receiving Jesus Christ. 746 00:32:53,756 --> 00:32:55,188 He is that God man. 747 00:32:55,276 --> 00:32:57,781 And then you can take him through John 1, and you can take 748 00:32:57,826 --> 00:32:58,948 him through Galatians, chapter 4. 749 00:32:59,036 --> 00:33:02,036 When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made 750 00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:04,668 of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the 751 00:33:04,676 --> 00:33:04,988 law. 752 00:33:05,076 --> 00:33:06,724 I want to tell you one of my favorite verses. 753 00:33:06,764 --> 00:33:08,784 Look at the next page, page 50. 754 00:33:12,724 --> 00:33:17,264 He came to pay a debt that mankind owed for breaking his law. 755 00:33:18,564 --> 00:33:21,580 And of course, I will simplify it as I. 756 00:33:21,612 --> 00:33:23,932 And what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to try to do a role 757 00:33:23,948 --> 00:33:25,164 play for you when we. 758 00:33:25,284 --> 00:33:29,484 To show you how actually simple I take it, without making 759 00:33:29,524 --> 00:33:30,984 it overly simple. 760 00:33:31,874 --> 00:33:33,754 But I will take Romans 6:23. 761 00:33:33,794 --> 00:33:35,290 For the wages of sin is death. 762 00:33:35,322 --> 00:33:36,898 And I will use that word, wage. 763 00:33:36,946 --> 00:33:37,738 What is a wage? 764 00:33:37,786 --> 00:33:39,626 It's a payment for what you do. 765 00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:42,786 When you work eight hours a day, you work 40 hours a week, you 766 00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:45,242 get a wage, you get paid. 767 00:33:45,378 --> 00:33:48,882 Well, the Bible says here, the wages of sin. 768 00:33:49,018 --> 00:33:54,218 What you do when you sin, you're earning something, you're 769 00:33:54,266 --> 00:33:57,020 earning a penalty, and that penalty is death. 770 00:33:57,132 --> 00:33:58,732 The wages of sin is death. 771 00:33:58,828 --> 00:34:06,748 And so obviously I say now that's bad news for the wages of 772 00:34:06,756 --> 00:34:07,036 sin. 773 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:10,460 I mean, look, Jerry, up to this point, all we've ever done is 774 00:34:10,492 --> 00:34:13,284 talked about what a terrible sinner you are, how that you've broken 775 00:34:13,324 --> 00:34:16,624 God's law, you've offended him, you're on your way to hell. 776 00:34:18,084 --> 00:34:19,904 Would you say that's good news? 777 00:34:20,764 --> 00:34:24,302 And folks, I talk to them like this and they will say, no, I'll 778 00:34:24,318 --> 00:34:24,918 say, you're right. 779 00:34:24,966 --> 00:34:25,886 That's all bad news. 780 00:34:25,950 --> 00:34:26,510 But you know what? 781 00:34:26,542 --> 00:34:28,834 It's bad news that makes good news good. 782 00:34:30,414 --> 00:34:31,874 Without the bad news. 783 00:34:32,454 --> 00:34:35,254 You have no idea that there's actually any good news. 784 00:34:35,414 --> 00:34:38,262 The fact of the matter is In Romans, chapter 6, verse 23, the 785 00:34:38,278 --> 00:34:43,558 Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 786 00:34:43,606 --> 00:34:45,438 life through Jesus Christ. 787 00:34:45,486 --> 00:34:48,086 Now taking Romans 5, 8, God commended. 788 00:34:48,150 --> 00:34:51,526 He demonstrated his love toward us in that while we were yet 789 00:34:51,630 --> 00:34:54,488 sinners, we've been majoring on sin. 790 00:34:54,536 --> 00:34:58,008 They already have a conviction that they're sinful, that they've 791 00:34:58,056 --> 00:34:59,272 offended God. 792 00:34:59,448 --> 00:35:00,880 The wages of sin is death. 793 00:35:00,992 --> 00:35:01,488 But God. 794 00:35:01,536 --> 00:35:02,457 Romans 5:12. 795 00:35:02,588 --> 00:35:04,410 Is that right? 796 00:35:04,541 --> 00:35:05,061 5:8. 797 00:35:05,192 --> 00:35:07,080 I already 5:8. 798 00:35:07,232 --> 00:35:09,040 But God commended his love toward us. 799 00:35:09,072 --> 00:35:11,760 He demonstrated his love towards in that while we were yet 800 00:35:11,832 --> 00:35:15,728 sinners, Christ died for us. 801 00:35:15,896 --> 00:35:17,104 He paid that debt. 802 00:35:17,144 --> 00:35:18,832 Number two at the top of your page 50. 803 00:35:18,928 --> 00:35:23,644 He paid the debt that mankind owed for breaking his law. 804 00:35:23,984 --> 00:35:31,064 And now I was trying to look for that verse. 805 00:35:31,104 --> 00:35:32,244 Where is that verse? 806 00:35:33,064 --> 00:35:34,248 Well, let's go to letter D. 807 00:35:34,296 --> 00:35:35,312 I'm going to get to it. 808 00:35:35,448 --> 00:35:39,016 Okay, so because Jesus, the son of God, God the Son, died to 809 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,044 satisfy the debt God commanded. 810 00:35:43,904 --> 00:35:48,810 Okay, we were talking about who can save me? 811 00:35:48,882 --> 00:35:49,754 Only Jesus. 812 00:35:49,834 --> 00:35:50,362 Why? 813 00:35:50,498 --> 00:35:52,370 Because he is the God man. 814 00:35:52,482 --> 00:35:53,770 He's the only way of salvation. 815 00:35:53,842 --> 00:35:54,858 He's the God man. 816 00:35:54,946 --> 00:35:59,562 And because he is the one who died to satisfy the debt that God 817 00:35:59,618 --> 00:36:00,414 demanded. 818 00:36:01,234 --> 00:36:08,034 And do I have blanks in those verses there? 819 00:36:08,074 --> 00:36:09,018 Matthew 27. 820 00:36:09,106 --> 00:36:11,814 Are there blanks there or is it just underlined? 821 00:36:12,184 --> 00:36:12,872 Okay, great. 822 00:36:12,928 --> 00:36:14,112 I'm not going to go through them. 823 00:36:14,248 --> 00:36:15,672 Let's go on so you can. 824 00:36:15,808 --> 00:36:18,564 So Jesus satisfies the debt. 825 00:36:19,104 --> 00:36:21,044 Everybody understands debt. 826 00:36:21,704 --> 00:36:23,528 Everybody understands debt. 827 00:36:23,696 --> 00:36:27,096 One of my favorite things to do One of my favorite things to do 828 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,384 when I'm talking to somebody and I get to this point, the wages 829 00:36:29,424 --> 00:36:30,144 of sin is death. 830 00:36:30,184 --> 00:36:31,760 But the gift of God is eternal life. 831 00:36:31,832 --> 00:36:32,536 And Jesus paid. 832 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,896 The wages of sin is death. 833 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,712 I like to go to, I ask them, I say, do you have a car? 834 00:36:36,848 --> 00:36:38,788 And most everybody will say, yeah, I have a car. 835 00:36:38,896 --> 00:36:41,108 And most everybody still owes on the car. 836 00:36:41,276 --> 00:36:42,316 Most everybody. 837 00:36:42,460 --> 00:36:44,804 So I'll ask my what do you still owe on your vehicle? 838 00:36:44,844 --> 00:36:45,244 Yeah. 839 00:36:45,324 --> 00:36:52,516 I said, what would you think if I took the exact amount that you 840 00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:56,516 owed and I went down to the bank and I paid that for you and 841 00:36:56,540 --> 00:37:00,516 then told you, hey, I have a gift for you. 842 00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:01,268 And that gift. 843 00:37:01,356 --> 00:37:04,620 I just, I paid your car off and you don't owe me anything. 844 00:37:04,652 --> 00:37:05,268 It's just a gift. 845 00:37:05,316 --> 00:37:07,680 It's a gift and I don't want you to do anything for me. 846 00:37:07,712 --> 00:37:08,724 It's just a gift. 847 00:37:09,504 --> 00:37:11,912 And they're like, okay, well, yeah, that'd be awesome. 848 00:37:11,968 --> 00:37:16,856 I said, now what would they say if you called down to the bank 849 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,496 or if you went to the bank the next day and you said, here, I'm 850 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,736 here to make a payment. 851 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,324 What would they say? 852 00:37:25,984 --> 00:37:27,324 It's already paid. 853 00:37:28,144 --> 00:37:29,604 I use that illustration. 854 00:37:30,624 --> 00:37:32,378 It's, it's, it works. 855 00:37:32,576 --> 00:37:34,234 And you can come up with your own. 856 00:37:34,574 --> 00:37:35,558 But debt. 857 00:37:35,686 --> 00:37:37,430 And somebody paid that debt. 858 00:37:37,622 --> 00:37:41,798 And especially the more they owe, the greater the satisfaction, 859 00:37:41,846 --> 00:37:43,514 the greater the appreciation. 860 00:37:45,094 --> 00:37:50,846 One of the things that I will use is I'll Talk about somebody committing 861 00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:51,470 a heinous crime. 862 00:37:51,502 --> 00:37:52,638 I'll say, let's say that you. 863 00:37:52,686 --> 00:37:54,286 I'll say, jerry, I'm using Jerry today. 864 00:37:54,310 --> 00:37:58,862 So let's say, Jerry, Jerry, let's say that you committed a heinous 865 00:37:58,918 --> 00:37:59,158 crime. 866 00:37:59,206 --> 00:38:00,150 I mean, it was horrible. 867 00:38:00,222 --> 00:38:00,814 All the guilt. 868 00:38:00,854 --> 00:38:01,958 You're guilty, you're in jail. 869 00:38:02,006 --> 00:38:03,648 In fact, you're on death row. 870 00:38:03,846 --> 00:38:05,304 You're on death row. 871 00:38:07,324 --> 00:38:10,732 And then the judge actually comes up and says, look, Jerry, I 872 00:38:10,748 --> 00:38:11,944 don't want you to die. 873 00:38:12,804 --> 00:38:17,024 I'm gonna let my son die in your place and you're free. 874 00:38:17,844 --> 00:38:22,684 Now, obviously it's not gonna happen, but if it could, Jerry, you're 875 00:38:22,724 --> 00:38:23,304 free. 876 00:38:24,124 --> 00:38:27,756 And so you get out and you go back to your home boys and they're 877 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:29,020 like, jerry, what are you doing here? 878 00:38:29,052 --> 00:38:30,516 How'd you get out of jail, man? 879 00:38:30,540 --> 00:38:31,156 You're on death rate. 880 00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:32,692 You were scheduled to die. 881 00:38:32,828 --> 00:38:34,064 How did you get out? 882 00:38:34,674 --> 00:38:36,570 And then you said, well, you know what? 883 00:38:36,602 --> 00:38:38,154 I was a model prisoner, man. 884 00:38:38,194 --> 00:38:40,054 I was on the trustee system. 885 00:38:40,554 --> 00:38:43,682 They just, everybody, I was just such a good prisoner. 886 00:38:43,858 --> 00:38:44,810 They liked me a lot. 887 00:38:44,842 --> 00:38:46,074 And they said they're going to give me a break. 888 00:38:46,114 --> 00:38:47,214 They let me out. 889 00:38:50,674 --> 00:38:54,930 And I look at Jerry as I'm talking to him and he knows that 890 00:38:54,962 --> 00:38:56,014 that's not right. 891 00:38:56,874 --> 00:39:00,482 And I look at him and I say, jerry, if you were to do that, that 892 00:39:00,498 --> 00:39:04,704 would be the slap in God's face. 893 00:39:06,884 --> 00:39:11,224 Because God sent his son to die in your place. 894 00:39:12,084 --> 00:39:14,424 You were condemned to hell. 895 00:39:15,884 --> 00:39:16,828 And for you to. 896 00:39:16,916 --> 00:39:20,476 And for you to walk around and tell everybody, well, I'm going to 897 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:22,504 heaven because I'm such a good person. 898 00:39:23,644 --> 00:39:25,864 I'm going to heaven because I go to church. 899 00:39:26,694 --> 00:39:28,874 I'm going to heaven because I got baptized. 900 00:39:29,974 --> 00:39:32,750 And you can come up with illustration after illustration and 901 00:39:32,782 --> 00:39:33,358 every time. 902 00:39:33,446 --> 00:39:35,550 Listen, I'm for illustrations. 903 00:39:35,702 --> 00:39:39,558 Illustrations are windows that open up their windows that shed light 904 00:39:39,606 --> 00:39:40,270 on your truth. 905 00:39:40,302 --> 00:39:41,374 And every time that you. 906 00:39:41,494 --> 00:39:43,554 I promise you, it's slapping him. 907 00:39:46,414 --> 00:39:49,054 Especially if you get somebody who does say, well, I got baptized 908 00:39:49,094 --> 00:39:51,806 or I go to church and they're self righteous in and of themselves, 909 00:39:51,870 --> 00:39:54,434 you can use that illustration and help them to understand. 910 00:39:55,144 --> 00:39:55,856 Or what? 911 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,184 Sometimes I would use the illustration, Jerry, I gave my son. 912 00:39:59,224 --> 00:39:59,856 Or you gave what? 913 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,924 If you gave your son for me and I walked out and I told everybody, 914 00:40:05,064 --> 00:40:08,032 how would you feel if I walked out and told everybody, well, I got 915 00:40:08,048 --> 00:40:09,528 out because I was such a good prisoner. 916 00:40:09,616 --> 00:40:12,336 How would that make you feel, Jerry, if you gave your son to die 917 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,864 in my place, right? 918 00:40:13,904 --> 00:40:14,924 And so just turn. 919 00:40:15,464 --> 00:40:16,960 It's a slap in God's face. 920 00:40:16,992 --> 00:40:17,528 When we tell. 921 00:40:17,576 --> 00:40:20,364 When we tell others that we got there on our own. 922 00:40:25,084 --> 00:40:26,268 I was really hoping I could. 923 00:40:26,316 --> 00:40:28,660 I was actually going to try to finish this tonight, but it's just 924 00:40:28,692 --> 00:40:29,276 not going to happen. 925 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,884 But I'll give you these, I'm going to give you these blanks on 926 00:40:31,924 --> 00:40:36,132 these next couple of pages and then we'll stop and on page 54 and 927 00:40:36,148 --> 00:40:37,636 we'll be done next week for sure. 928 00:40:37,740 --> 00:40:40,796 And I want to do some role play next, next week for just a few 929 00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:41,424 minutes. 930 00:40:42,684 --> 00:40:48,392 So on page 51, there's no, there are no blanks there. 931 00:40:48,448 --> 00:40:49,432 You can read through that. 932 00:40:49,488 --> 00:40:50,480 Please do, please do. 933 00:40:50,512 --> 00:40:54,524 Because all of this is helpful when you're witnessing to someone. 934 00:40:55,624 --> 00:40:58,872 Okay, here's one of my favorite verses on page 52. 935 00:40:58,928 --> 00:41:01,856 The whole idea of a sacrifice is that an innocent would take the 936 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,528 place of the guilty. 937 00:41:02,576 --> 00:41:03,920 First Peter 3:18. 938 00:41:04,072 --> 00:41:07,440 I love to use this when I come down to this portion of the soul 939 00:41:07,472 --> 00:41:08,504 winning presentation. 940 00:41:08,624 --> 00:41:13,706 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the 941 00:41:13,730 --> 00:41:17,174 unjust, that he might bring us to God. 942 00:41:20,114 --> 00:41:21,970 I kind of let that hang there. 943 00:41:22,122 --> 00:41:24,194 The just for the unjust. 944 00:41:24,274 --> 00:41:26,054 Jesus Christ, the innocent. 945 00:41:27,394 --> 00:41:28,354 And then letter E. 946 00:41:28,394 --> 00:41:31,098 Because Jesus Christ resurrected from the grave. 947 00:41:31,226 --> 00:41:33,014 He resurrected from the grave. 948 00:41:33,474 --> 00:41:35,654 I tell you, you can't leave that out. 949 00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:37,146 I need to focus on that. 950 00:41:37,170 --> 00:41:39,018 Maybe we'll pick up right there next week as well. 951 00:41:39,146 --> 00:41:40,694 You can't leave that out. 952 00:41:41,354 --> 00:41:42,642 I used to leave it out. 953 00:41:42,698 --> 00:41:44,306 I used to skim right over it. 954 00:41:44,410 --> 00:41:47,898 Or else just gloss over it real quickly and just wouldn't emphasize 955 00:41:47,946 --> 00:41:49,050 it like it needs to be emphasized. 956 00:41:49,082 --> 00:41:49,874 But look quickly. 957 00:41:49,914 --> 00:41:54,082 Just look what he says in First Corinthians 15, verse 1. 958 00:41:54,138 --> 00:41:55,970 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel. 959 00:41:56,002 --> 00:41:56,610 What is the gospel? 960 00:41:56,642 --> 00:41:57,026 Verse 3. 961 00:41:57,050 --> 00:41:59,586 How that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. 962 00:41:59,690 --> 00:42:02,426 How that he was buried and that he rose again the third day 963 00:42:02,490 --> 00:42:03,738 according to the Scriptures. 964 00:42:03,866 --> 00:42:04,850 Now look what he said. 965 00:42:04,922 --> 00:42:06,774 I declare unto you the Gospel. 966 00:42:07,174 --> 00:42:08,634 What did Paul say? 967 00:42:09,094 --> 00:42:12,262 I am not ashamed of the what of the gospel. 968 00:42:12,318 --> 00:42:13,126 Romans 1:16. 969 00:42:13,190 --> 00:42:18,190 I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for what it is the power 970 00:42:18,262 --> 00:42:20,030 of God unto salvation. 971 00:42:20,222 --> 00:42:24,694 The gospel is the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus 972 00:42:24,734 --> 00:42:25,102 Christ. 973 00:42:25,198 --> 00:42:30,114 You leave any of those out, you haven't given them the Gospel. 974 00:42:31,934 --> 00:42:34,314 One final thought, and I'm going to shut it down here. 975 00:42:37,694 --> 00:42:41,022 If there be no resurrection, he says in First Corinthians 15:13, 976 00:42:41,078 --> 00:42:44,270 if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 977 00:42:44,462 --> 00:42:45,550 If Christ be not risen. 978 00:42:45,582 --> 00:42:47,074 And you can read those verses. 979 00:42:47,414 --> 00:42:50,790 Look at the end of that paragraph right there on the bottom 980 00:42:50,822 --> 00:42:51,654 of page 52. 981 00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:54,278 I have actually spoken with people who claim to be born again, 982 00:42:54,326 --> 00:42:58,054 but were hesitant to say that they believed the resurrection of 983 00:42:58,094 --> 00:42:58,958 Jesus Christ. 984 00:42:59,086 --> 00:43:01,964 I did not hesitate to tell them they were not saved. 985 00:43:02,664 --> 00:43:05,584 You cannot be saved and not believe in the resurrection of Jesus 986 00:43:05,624 --> 00:43:06,184 Christ. 987 00:43:06,344 --> 00:43:09,384 Paul just said, if there be no resurrection, you're yet in your 988 00:43:09,424 --> 00:43:09,712 sins. 989 00:43:09,768 --> 00:43:11,204 Your faith is vain. 990 00:43:11,584 --> 00:43:13,568 We must not leave out the resurrection. 991 00:43:13,616 --> 00:43:17,768 It's so important that we preach the whole gospel to the lost 992 00:43:17,816 --> 00:43:19,048 sinner if we want them to be saved. 993 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:19,432 Amen. 994 00:43:19,488 --> 00:43:20,840 All right, we'll finish up there next week. 995 00:43:20,872 --> 00:43:24,044 Let's pray together and then we'll have a verse of invitation. 996 00:43:24,624 --> 00:43:27,488 Our Father, once again, we just come before you and we ask you 997 00:43:27,536 --> 00:43:31,196 to print these truths indelibly upon our heart so that 998 00:43:31,220 --> 00:43:34,904 when we are given the opportunity to share with others 999 00:43:35,484 --> 00:43:38,604 people that you've dealt with, people who are ready to hear the 1000 00:43:38,644 --> 00:43:39,300 truth. 1001 00:43:39,492 --> 00:43:43,620 Lord, help us to be so convinced of this ourselves that 1002 00:43:43,692 --> 00:43:48,684 and so full of passion about it and compassion that people can't, 1003 00:43:48,844 --> 00:43:50,444 they can't turn away from this truth. 1004 00:43:50,524 --> 00:43:53,724 Of course, obviously we want you, the Holy Spirit to be working 1005 00:43:53,764 --> 00:43:54,100 in them. 1006 00:43:54,132 --> 00:44:00,554 But Lord, I pray that you would help us to not skim over sin 1007 00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:05,574 and the penalty of sin, hell and the lake of fire, and certainly 1008 00:44:05,614 --> 00:44:08,394 not the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Savior. 1009 00:44:08,814 --> 00:44:13,238 Lord, use this in our lives to make a difference in us and to help 1010 00:44:13,286 --> 00:44:15,714 others see the truth and to get saved. 1011 00:44:16,014 --> 00:44:17,838 We ask it in Jesus name. 1012 00:44:17,966 --> 00:44:21,174 Let's all stand together just for a moment or two with heads bowed, 1013 00:44:21,214 --> 00:44:24,306 just for a moment as the music plays and Brother Caleb sings through 1014 00:44:24,330 --> 00:44:25,814 a verse or two of invitation. 1015 00:44:26,474 --> 00:44:28,594 I want to give you an opportunity to come. 1016 00:44:28,714 --> 00:44:29,370 I really do. 1017 00:44:29,402 --> 00:44:31,426 I mean, look, maybe you're lost. 1018 00:44:31,490 --> 00:44:32,514 Maybe you never heard this. 1019 00:44:32,554 --> 00:44:35,898 Maybe you never got were under such conviction about sin before. 1020 00:44:35,946 --> 00:44:36,106 Never. 1021 00:44:36,130 --> 00:44:37,734 You really thought about it before. 1022 00:44:38,834 --> 00:44:42,170 Maybe you doubted the resurrection and now you need to 1023 00:44:42,202 --> 00:44:44,914 say, look, look, that's been a problem for me and I want to settle 1024 00:44:44,954 --> 00:44:46,306 that, whatever the need is. 1025 00:44:46,330 --> 00:44:50,492 And then again, those of us who are saved, maybe you just want 1026 00:44:50,508 --> 00:44:53,956 to make an altar out of your chair or come down here tonight and 1027 00:44:53,980 --> 00:44:55,444 say, I want to get in on this. 1028 00:44:55,524 --> 00:44:57,584 I want to lead people to Christ. 1029 00:44:57,924 --> 00:44:59,428 I want to be a soul winner. 1030 00:44:59,556 --> 00:45:00,624 You come tonight. 1031 00:45:12,924 --> 00:45:14,744 Be seated if you would, please. 1032 00:45:15,094 --> 00:45:17,622 I'll do a tagline, as I did last Wednesday night. 1033 00:45:17,758 --> 00:45:21,166 One of the things we know as Christians is we're to grow in the 1034 00:45:21,190 --> 00:45:21,854 knowledge of Jesus Christ.