There's a thing that's going on in churches today, especially among the independent Baptists.
They're straying from the right way, which is soul winning, which is going out house
to house, preaching the gospel, winning people to Christ, preaching the message of believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, preaching the message of salvation
by grace through faith, preaching the message, therefore we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without the deeds of the law, preaching the message, blesses the man to whom the Lord
will not impute sin, for it to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
be ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, preaching the message of therefore being justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, preaching the message of
the who shall believeth in him, should not perish but have eternal life in him.
And they're straying from that, and they have these new methods of sowing.
Let me tell you some of the people that are guilty of it, this thing that's on TV, and
I don't watch TV, I don't have a TV, but people told me about seeing this on TV, a program
called The Way of the Masters, who's ever heard of it?
It's put on by these Hollywood stars and people, and supposedly it's all about getting people
saved and winning people to Christ.
You know what, I'm sorry, but it's not The Way of the Masters, it's The Way of the Bastards.
Because anybody who's preaching works salvation is a bastard and not a son according to the
Bible.
Now, The Way of the Masters is teaching this kind of soul winning, and they consider this
boldness to go to people and tell them what a piece of trash they are, tell them what
a wicked, filthy sinner they are, and that somehow some imaginary thing called conviction
is going to come over them and they're going to fall on their knees and get saved.
Now it's not true, it's a lie, and it's not what the Bible teaches.
You see, many of these preachers, and they believe that you have to repent of your sins
in order to be saved, like you have to be willing to turn away from a wicked life, turn
away from drinking, turn away from smoking, turn away from drugs, turn away from fornication.
The Bible does not say that any work as a prerequisite for salvation.
It's as if thou believeth with all thine heart thou mayest, and so, salvation is by faith,
not works.
Salvation is by faith, not the works of the law, or keeping God's laws by not sinning,
or willing to keep God's laws.
Now, some of these preachers, you know, they've got this new method of soul winning, and this
is spreading like wildfire across America, I hear about it all the time in churches cropping
up, and you know, my grandma was going to a church that she liked, and all of a sudden
they said, we're changing the soul winning, and they came out with the soul winning program,
it was a completely false doctrine, and she ended up leaving the church, thank God.
Thank God an 86 year old woman had more sense than some people who would just continue to
go there and just drink the Kool-Aid.
And so, she separated from that church because they changed the plan of salvation and changed
the gospel.
And they don't emphasize the good news of salvation.
Now my Bible says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it, to the Jew person also to the Greek.
So what's the power of God to salvation?
It's the gospel.
What does the word gospel mean?
Put your dictionary away.
What does the Bible say the word gospel means?
Well in Luke chapter 4, Jesus Christ quotes Isaiah 61.1, and Isaiah 61.1, he says, the
Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to
the me.
And in Luke chapter 4, Jesus said, he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
So what does gospel mean according to the Bible?
Glad tidings.
Good news.
Right?
The good news is what the gospel is all about.
What's the power of salvation?
The good news.
Now many of these preachers, they've missed the boat because they think the power of salvation
is how wicked you are.
As long as you realize how wicked you are, that's going to make you get saved.
That's not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible teaches that the gospel is the power of God in salvation.
The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to 1 Corinthians
15, that he died according to the scriptures and was buried and three days later was raised
from the dead according to the scriptures and that we have salvation through the name
of Jesus Christ.
Hey, that's the gospel.
That's the good news.
But many of these new, so many methods involved, and this is what they involve, going through
it, I'm just going to name it out and tell you exactly what it is so you can know exactly
what I'm talking about.
They say you need to go through the Ten Commandments with people and show people that they've broken
every single one.
Now can you imagine going to somebody's door and just pointing out all the sin in their
life and doing this through all Ten Commandments?
Now where's my, anybody have one of the invitations to our church?
Andy, you got one?
Anybody?
Anyone, anyone?
Thank you.
Now look at the back here.
It has a, it says the Bible way to heaven, right on the back, and it has some verses
explaining salvation, okay?
Number one, admit you are a sinner.
Admit you're a sinner.
Now that, you say, well is that part of salvation?
Yes it is, because the Bible says in 1 John 1-10, if you just memorize it, we say that
we've not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us, okay?
And so you must admit that you're a sinner for all of sin and come short of the glory
of God.
But you know what?
You don't have to admit that you're a filthy, vile, wretched, wicked, disgusting, filthy
animal in the sight of God.
But that's what these preachers are preaching.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
I mean this kind of preaching that says, you know, in order to be saved, and I had a pastor
tell me, he was kind of going into this whole repentance fad, you know, it's like a fad,
he's catching on, it's like a tie, it's like a trend, you know?
And so he's going into this repentance thing, both feet into it, and he said, you, in order
to be saved, a person has to see themselves as a putrefying sinner in the eyes of God.
Putrefying, you know what putrefying just means like, ugh, gross.
Now look, where in the Bible does it say that?
That you have to believe that you're disgusting in order to be saved.
It just says you have to admit that you're a sinner.
It says if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not easy.
Now has every human being in the world broken all 10 of God's commandments, of the 10 commandments?
Not that those are the only commandments, but no, I don't think that my children have
ever committed adultery.
That is one of the 10 commandments, isn't it?
My children never committed adultery.
It says, thou shalt not commit adultery.
Well, if you lust after a woman, you've committed adultery with her.
They haven't done that either.
They're little kids.
Has every single person on the face of the earth taken God's name in vain?
No.
Has every single person in this world made a graven image or bowed down themselves to
it to worship it, either of those two things, encompassed by the second commandment?
No.
Has every single person in this world had another God before Jesus Christ and Jehovah?
No, not necessarily.
Name the false god that my kids grew up worshipping.
Has every single person in this world broken God's commandment, remembered the Sabbath
to keep it holy, which does not even apply to us today, according to Hebrews chapter 4?
No.
Couldn't even break that.
What if he tried?
Do you see how silly this is?
And the same pastor told me this.
He said, you've got to spiritually undress them in order for them to be saved.
Show them how wicked they are.
Now look, you're not going to get very far.
And remember, why am I talking about this?
Because we're talking about boldness.
But first I want to make sure that you don't walk out of the service and say, I'm going
to be bold and go out and be an obnoxious jerk.
And that's what many people are doing.
And they go to somebody's door and they say, you know, and they go through the 10 commandments.
They say, thou shall not have any other gods before me.
Have you ever put anything in your life first before God?
Now is that what the commandment says?
No.
And then they get to take a graven image.
Have you ever had an idol, like a car, that you put more important than God?
Now look, I don't know about you, but the second commandment never mentioned the word
idolatry.
It mentioned making a graven image and valuing out of yourself in worshiping.
Now idolatry in the metaphorical sense would be covered in the 10th commandment, which
is thou shall not covet, because the Bible teaches that covetousness is idolatry when
you worship money or cars or things above God.
And so they'll go through this.
Have you ever taken God's name in vain?
They'll just say, have you ever said a cuss word?
Now look, is saying a cuss word taking God's name in vain, a so-called cuss word, a four-letter
word?
That's not God's name.
Last I checked, God's name was not a word for manure.
OK?
And so no, that's not taking God's name in vain.
God's name in vain is saying, oh my God, or Jesus Christ, and throwing God's name around
in that way.
But they'll say, have you ever cussed?
And then they'll get to the fourth commandment.
Have you ever knocked on the church on Sunday?
Which, again, it's not what it says.
It's Saturday, Saturday, of course.
And Saturday, Salvador.
Anybody speak Spanish?
I want to know that, Father, did you ever disobey Mom and Dad?
Did you ever steal?
And I stood at the door while somebody did this soul-winning method.
And I was the silent partner.
And there was a guy standing at the door.
His wife was standing right behind him.
And he said to this guy, thou shalt not commit adultery.
He said, the Bible says if you look on a woman to lust after her, you've committed adultery
with her or her.
Have you ever lusted after another woman besides her wife?
Now, this guy was embarrassed.
Now, some people may not be as embarrassed by that, but this guy was.
And he's standing there, and he's like, uh.
And his wife's looking, and I'm like, uh.
And he's like, uh.
And the guy at the door was bugging.
Like, come on.
You know you've done it.
Come on.
You know you have.
And the guy's like, uh.
That's stupid.
You know, why would somebody want to listen to you come to their door and tell them how
wicked and evil they are?
Now look, people later on, you know, they need to grow in grace and in the knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Hey, that's what church is for.