Alright turn with me in your Bibles to Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 and go to verse 9.
The title of my sermon tonight is the biggest mission field is false Christians.
In this world today the biggest false religion is people who call themselves Christians
but don't actually believe in Jesus Christ, meaning they haven't put their faith and trust
in Jesus to be their Savior. I think total in the world there's like 2.3 billion Christians
but obviously we know a very small minority of them are actually saved. So the Bible says in
Romans chapter 8 verse 9, but you're not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit
of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his. Meaning if
you don't have the spirit of Christ the Bible says that you don't belong to Christ. Now how
do you receive the spirit according to the Bible? The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 1 in whom
you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth the gospel your salvation in whom
also after that you believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. So we receive
the spirit of God by believing in Jesus Christ and so there's a lot of people out there who
they grow up in church they grow up calling themselves a Christian they grow up you know
labeling themselves as a Christian they think that because they have Christian family members
or because they go to church or because they pray or whatever they go through all these
rituals they think that makes them a Christian but they haven't heard the gospel and they
haven't put their faith in Jesus and that's why the Bible says in Matthew chapter 7 verse 22
many will say to me in that day Lord Lord if now we prophesy in thy name and in the name of cast
out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them I never
knew you depart for me he that work iniquity right these people they have not trusted Christ
they're trusting in their works so these people even though they're calling Jesus Lord
because they don't actually believe in him in their heart they're not actually saved
they're trusting in their work now how does somebody get saved according to the Bible it
says in Romans chapter 10 verse 17 so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God so the way that somebody is able to put their faith in Jesus Christ is by hearing
the gospel preached by the word of God and that's where we come in we as Christians are
supposed to go out and reach the lost with the gospel by preaching them the Bible by preaching
them the gospel so that way they can put their faith in Jesus so the the point of trying
to make today or tonight is that the vast majority of people out there who call themselves
Christians they're not actually saved so it's our job to go and reach them with the gospel
now a lot of you know that there's some people in our church who go soul winning on a
campus of a so-called Christian university called Grand Canyon University which is in the Phoenix
area and it's by far in my opinion from what I've seen one of the most receptive places
ever I think in Arizona and I think just personally it's the most receptive place I've
ever been and there's some other people in the room who have been soul winning there and you
can testify to that and the reason why they're so receptive is because most of the people on
the campus they call themselves Christians so they'll claim to believe the Bible and you know
they're maybe sincere their hearts in the right place but they just haven't heard the gospel
yet and if they have the gospel preaching to them they're willing to receive it they're
ready to receive it and to get saved so that's why it's it's I think it's a great mission field
I think it's a great place to go soul winning but a lot of people they don't understand why
we go soul winning on a Christian university I've had people say both on the university and
also some family members as well make fun of me and say why are you going soul winning on
the campus of a Christian university they're already Christians no they're not because just
because they go to a Christian university that doesn't make them Christians in fact not even
everybody who goes there even claims to be Christian in the first place some people you
know they call themselves Christian and they're going to a Christian university but they don't
even claim to believe the Bible or maybe they do a little bit or they've gone to church
once or twice but you ask them do you know for sure you're going to heaven and they say I
have no idea so that's why we're supposed to go out and to reach them with the gospel
just as a as a last point I want to make the point that the people on the university
campus they hate us preaching the gospel because the staff members they're definitely not Christians
in fact I think those people are just complete haters of God wicked people because they're
trying to stop us from preaching the gospel I don't know if you know but Rob over here he's
a student at GCU and he was recently suspended for being a student because of soul winning
imagine that getting kicked off of the campus of a university that claims to be Christian
for preaching the gospel isn't that ridiculous so the reason why we go soul winning there and
they make fun of us and brother Jonathan who you know he's a guy who goes to our church
he's disabled I heard a story from Rob that somebody literally there's people on campus who
are literally making fun of him and bullying him and taking off the faithful word hat from his
his head and making fun of him and mocking him because of the fact that he goes to our
church and these people are not Christians they hate Jesus Christ they hate Christians
and so we need to reach them with the gospel let's pray
father in heaven please fill the next bridge with the spirit
thank you lord for the opportunity to preach in Jesus name we pray amen