All right everybody may I have your attention please let's go ahead and get
started everybody quiet down we're gonna have a quick word of prayer and then
we're gonna get started all right dear Lord we thank you so much for the chance
to be here today Lord and we just pray that your word would be preached with
power and that every young person who's here today would listen very carefully to
the word that's preached in Jesus name we pray amen all right let me start out
here in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 I'm gonna start out by reading the
scripture to you then I'm gonna preach to you a little bit but the Bible reads
in 1st Thessalonians 4 furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you
by the Lord Jesus that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and
to please God so you would abound more and more for you know what commandments
we gave you by the Lord Jesus for this is the will of God even your
sanctification that you should abstain from fornication that every one of you
should know how to possess his vessel and sanctification and honor not in the
lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God that no man
go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because that the Lord is the
avenger of all such as we also have forewarned you and testified for God had
not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness the Bible says that God did not
call us to uncleanness he called us unto holiness everybody listen up today in the
year 2017 we are living in some times where there's a lot of wickedness going
on in our society in the United States and in Guyana both sin is abounding
wickedness abounds and there are a lot of really unclean sinful things going
around that we never would have thought possible when I was a kid but the Bible
says that evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse I just heard about this
thing that was going on recently in Guyana where a lot of young people are
committing fornication and they're even so stupid that they would not only
commit fornication but they would actually put a picture of that or a video
of that online now fornication is when you have sex outside of marriage and the
Bible tells us that any sex outside of marriage is a sin it's fornication God
has called us to be pure God has called us to be clean and to go to our wedding
day pure and we should only be with that one person until death do us part you
know I thank God that when I married my wife when I was 19 years old I married
my wife and I was the first woman that I'd ever been with I did not commit
fornication and listen to me the world today the world glorifies sin the world
glorifies evil and they're trying to deceive even young people like you to go
out and commit fornication and to be so foolish as to put a picture or a video
of something online now let me explain some to you once you put something
online it never goes away you see you upload a stupid picture you upload a
stupid video you say something perverted and someone's recording it on their
cell phone that's gonna go online and later you're gonna be ashamed and
embarrassed and humiliated by that but once it's been uploaded that'll never go
away now the Bible says that God's will for our lives is our sanctification that
we should abstain from fornication because every one of us should know how
to possess our vessel that's our body how to possess our vessel and
sanctification and honor you see we need to have respect and honor for our bodies
and not abuse our bodies not to misuse our bodies see the Bible says know ye
not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you and that
you're not your own but you're bought with a price therefore glorify God in
your body and in your spirit which are God's so our body belongs to God when we
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior we're purchased with the blood of
Christ and we belong to him and we need to not abuse our body now think about
this what if I were to rent a car let's say I rented a car do you think it would
be okay for me to rent that car and then just go ahead and just put a bunch of
bumper stickers on the back of it if it's a rental car put stickers all over it
and then maybe I could just change out the stereo system and then you know just
take out some of the seats so I could have some additional storage when I do
that with a rental car no or what if I rented a house you think I could just
kind of knock out some walls and just remodel and change everything no because
it doesn't belong to you and the Bible says know you not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you and that you are not your own but you're
bought with a price so we are supposed to be good stewards of the body that God
gave us we should not abuse our body we should not modify our body so for
example you shouldn't get tattoos on your body either the Bible says thou
shalt not print any marks upon your body that's what the Bible says do not print
marks upon your body and here's the thing about tattoos they're permanent
once you put a tattoo on your body you can't take it off again it's permanent
it's there forever once you go out and commit fornication you know you can never
necessarily undo the damage from that once that video is uploaded to YouTube
or uploaded to Facebook it's out there it's never gonna go away and once you
have picked up a disease from the filthiness of fornication you know
that's something that you're gonna have to live with for the rest of your life
and so you need to stop and think when you're young that you only have one
life you only have one body and you don't want to abuse it or misuse it you
want to take care of the body that God has given you and be a good steward of
the life that God has given you listen most people in this world the Bible
teaches are foolish the Bible says broad is the way that lead it to
destruction and many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate
and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that find it so
you have to decide are you gonna go along with the crowd and be a fool and
commit fornication and mess up your life or are you gonna be one of the few wise
people who listens to the word of God and realize that God has not called us
under uncleanness but under fornication now why did the Bible call fornication
unclean why did the Bible call it the filthiness of fornication because God
did not intend our bodies to be abused in that way where we're be physical
with someone other than our wife or our husband you're only supposed to be
physical with that one person otherwise you get all kinds of germs and diseases
and spread all kinds of infection you're supposed to be with one person and so
the Bible calls fornication unclean the Bible calls it filthiness the Bible
calls it sin the Bible calls it wickedness and we need to live a life of
cleanness and sanctification to honor God now every single one of us is a
sinner nobody's perfect right but we can at least abstain from major wicked sins
like fornication or adultery and things of that nature but here's the thing
there are some people who've already made those mistakes in their life right
and the Bible does teach that we have forgiveness through Jesus Christ but
that doesn't mean that the consequences of our sin go away you know even if you
have forgiveness for your sin you still might have that video floating around
online you still might have that STD you still might have those tattoos or or
whatever damage you received in your life or damage to your reputation or
damage to your character but let me explain to you this morning how to be
forgiven of your sins you know the most important thing that you'll ever do in
your life the most important decision that you'll ever make in your life is to
receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior that's the most important thing
because the Bible says what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul or what would a man give in exchange for his
soul so the first thing I want to explain to you is that every single
person is a sinner the Bible says for all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God but the thing about sin is that it always has consequences now
first of all sin has consequences in this life but sin also has consequences
after we die because the Bible says for the wages of sin is death but not just
the first death the Bible says death and hell were cast into the lake of fire and
this is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire that lake of fire is talking about a place
called hell and the Bible teaches that we've all sinned and the wages of sin
is death and that hell is the second death then the Bible in Revelation 21
has a list of people that are going to hell it says but the fearful and
unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and
sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death so it mentions a lot of
really big sins like murderers and sorcerers you know sorcerers are people
who are doing magic and black magic and incantations you know of course murder
would be killing someone and you might think to yourself well I've never
committed murder I've never been a sorcerer but the Bible said and all
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone
which is the second death now I don't know about you I know I've lied before
have you ever lied before yeah I know I've lied before I think everybody's
lied at one time or another because we were all sinners nobody's perfect and so
the Bible's teaching that because we've all sinned we all deserve to go to hell
because we've all lied or disobeyed our parents or done other things that were
against the Lord and his commandments but the good news is that God loves us
anyway even though we're sinners God loves us anyway the Bible says but God
commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for
us so even though we're sinners even though we've done bad things in our
lives God loves us anyway and because God loves us he came to this earth in
the form of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ was God in the flesh and he lived a
perfect sinless life that none of us could live and he also did a lot of
miracles and you might remember some of the miracles that Jesus did he he walked
on water he healed the sick he raised people from the dead he turned water
into wine he fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fishes but not only did
he do a lot of miracles he also preached the Word of God and when you preach the
Word of God people often get offended by that it makes people mad sometimes when
you preach the truth because they get offended you know let's say I preach
against fornication and somebody's fornicating they're not gonna like the
fact that I'm preaching its fornication or someone who's an adulterer or a
sorcerer they're not gonna like the fact that I'm preaching against that so Jesus
had a lot of enemies and so they arrested Jesus and not only they arrest
him but they actually beat him they spit on him they hit him in the head with a
stick they whipped him 39 times and then ultimately they hung Jesus on the cross
they actually nailed him to the cross and when Jesus was on that cross the
Bible says that he himself bear our sins in his own body so every sin that I've
ever done and every sin that you've ever done it was as if Jesus had done it
Jesus was taking the punishment for our sins and when he died they took his body
and they buried it in a tomb but his soul went down to hell for three days
and three nights three days later he rose again from the dead and he showed the
disciples the holes in his hands and the hole in his side just to prove that it
was really him risen from the dead now Jesus died on the cross for every single
person in the whole world no matter who they are Jesus died for you and everyone
else but is everybody automatically gonna go to heaven no because the Bible
talked about the fact there are people who are going to the lake of fire and so
the question is what must we do to be saved and that question is asked one time
in the Bible and Acts chapter 16 verse 30 what must I do to be saved and they
said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved on the house so
what's the one thing according to the Bible that we must do to be saved
believe the most famous verse in the Bible is John 3 16 for God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish but have everlasting life notice he didn't say whosoever is a good
person because we're all sinners there's none righteous no not one notice he
didn't say whoever joins my church or whoever joins your church or whoever
joins the church down the street he didn't say that he did not say whoever
stops sinning because you know what nobody is that perfect he said that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life and what's
eternal mean forever now the Bible says for the wages of sin is death but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord now is a gift free
or do you have to pay for it free now we've got some gifts here that we
brought we're gonna give everybody a DVD at the end of this and that's a free
gift right but what if we made you give us money for it at the door and we said
hey that's gonna be a hundred dollars is that really a gift then no because
gifts are free now the person who gives you the gift is the one who paid for it
so Jesus is the one who's giving us the gift of eternal life the Bible says the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord so Jesus is giving
us that free gift he paid for it with his blood when he died on the cross and
was buried and rose again all we have to do is just receive that free gift of
eternal life and the way the way that we receive it is just by believing on the
Lord Jesus Christ and we shall be saved we don't have to pay for it or earn it
and here's the best part about it he's not going to come and take it away from
us because the Bible says I give unto them eternal life and they shall never
perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand Jesus said I will never
leave you nor forsake you and in fact one day when people are cast into hell
Jesus will tell them depart from me I never knew you notice he didn't say I
used to know you he said I never knew you because once he knows you he knows
you once you're saved you're saved you have everlasting life and you shall never
perish you'll live forever in heaven with Jesus and that's not by being good
that's by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior it's by faith in
Jesus that we're saved not by works of righteousness which we've done it's by
our faith because it's a free gift so how do you receive that free gift of
eternal life just by believing in Jesus by putting all your faith and trust in
Jesus and if you just ask him to give you that gift he'll give you that free
gift today now if I were to ask you right now who here believes that Jesus
died on the cross for your sins raise your hand if you believe that Jesus
died on the cross for your sins and keep your hand up if you believe that he rose
from the dead okay and who believes that if you just ask Jesus to save you right
now he will save you if you ask him to just by believing in him and you'll get
that free gift okay put your hands down put your hands down here's what I want
to do right now I want everybody to close your eyes and bow your head right
now close your eyes and bow your head and if you want to ask Jesus to save you
right now if you want to receive Christ as Savior right now and look you only
have to do this one time in your life because once you do it you're saved
forever as long as you believe in your heart on Jesus as your Savior and you're
only trusting him you can repeat this after me and ask Jesus to save you right
now dear Jesus I know that I'm a sinner I know I deserve hell but I believe that
you died on the cross for all of my sins and rose again please save me right now
and give me eternal life I'm only trusting you Jesus amen all right now
if you if you meant that if you meant that and you believe on Jesus your Savior
then the Bible says you're saved because the Bible says that if thou shall
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that
God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved but here's the thing
about that when you believe on Jesus you're a child of God you're it's you
know God is your father you're his child now I have nine children at home who yeah
I have nine children this guy right here and the who's drinking the bottle right
there that's my oldest son but he has eight younger brothers and sisters now
my everybody listen up quiet down if my son disobeys me if he breaks the rules
do you think I'm just gonna look at my son and say that's okay son just do what
you want to do is that what you think I'm gonna do no if he breaks the rules
you're gonna be punished but am I gonna throw him out of the family and tell him
you're not my son anymore no I'm not it's the same way with God once you
believe on Jesus Christ you're his son you're his daughter you're his child if
you break God's rules he's gonna give you a whooping but that's gonna happen
in this life that happens on this earth but here's the good news he's not gonna
throw you out of the family he's not gonna send you to hell once you've
believed on him your sins are forgiven but he will still spank you he'll still
whip you when you disobey in this life and bad things will happen to you if you
live a wicked life if you go out and live a life of fornication if you get
involved in these videos that are going around online if you get around and
involved in either watching the videos or uploading the videos or sharing the
videos God is going to punish you God is gonna whip you and I guarantee you he's
gonna whip you a lot harder than I would whip my son God can whip you harder than
that okay so you need to understand that whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth the
Bible says and scourges every son whom he receives so you don't want to be
disciplined by God you better obey God's commandments now obeying the
commandments is not how you get into heaven you get into heaven just by
believing in Jesus okay that's a free gift into heaven but once you're God's
child you can either be a good child and be blessed or you can be a bad child and
get a constant whipping from God and I don't know about you but I don't want
God to constantly whip me in my life I don't want God to spank me I don't want
God to chastise me so I'm gonna keep his commandments you know I want to follow
the Bible and follow his word so it's very important that you understand that
right now the way that you live your life right now at this age is gonna
determine how you live for the rest of your life because right now you're
building habits and patterns and your personality is being developed you need
to decide right now that you're gonna serve God because let me tell you
something when I was your age that I'd already made a decision I want to live
for the Lord I already made a decision that I love the Bible I love church I
love God I want to obey Jesus I want to keep his commandments you have to start
making those decisions right now at your age if you want to live for him when
you're my age you got to start when you're your age and live for him now
before we let you go today we want to give you all a very special gift we
brought some DVDs from the United States some some Bible DVDs some Christian
DVDs and we want to make sure that every single person gets one of these DVDs
that we have for you and the purpose of this DVD is to help you grow in faith
and learn more about the Bible and we want who's got a DVD player at home put
up your hand if you have a DVD player or computer or something to play it on yeah
so I want you all who's everybody listen up I want you guys to decide right now
that you're gonna watch that DVD and learn more about the Lord all right so
these two exit doors right here we're gonna have our guys at each exit door
and on your way out make sure that you get a DVD on your way out is there
anything else from anyone and on the staff we'll go ahead and close it down
then all right let's close it in a word of prayer dear Lord we thank you so much
for the chance to be here and to preach Lord and and we thank you for those that
accepted Jesus Christ as Savior Lord I prayed that they would learn more and
grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I pray
that they would watch the DVDs and read their Bibles and learn as much as they
can and Lord help them not to be carried away in the sin and filth of this
generation the fornication the the homosexuality the pornography the
drunkenness Lord help them not to be caught up in any of that garbage but to
live a clean and righteous life for you and in Jesus name we pray amen
you