All right, so thank you Rio for reading the text title of this message this morning is go
Soul winning raise your hand if you've heard the term soul winning before
so some people have never heard this term soul winning now a lot of
Terms that people have heard is the term of evangelizing and obviously they are the same thing and I'm going to explain how that is
the word
Evangelizing or an evangelist it's simply found in the two parts of the word
Evangelizing if you think of the word angel and you hear that word evangelize and what does the word angel mean?
It's just simply a messenger right you hear a lot in the Old Testament
That the Bible says that the Lord sent an angel and then they preached a message or they brought a message to people
So the word angel and the part in ev there is just the aspect of the good the good messenger is what an evangelist
Is someone who preaches the gospel is known as an evangelist, but not only that the Bible also uses another word known as soul
Winning you don't need to turn there
But it says in Proverbs 11 30 that the tree of the righteous is a I'm the sorry
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise
So someone who wins a soul to the kingdom of heaven the Bible says is a tree of life
So like I said the title of this message is go
soul winning
Matthew 28 is the very last chapter in the Gospel of Matthew and it's paralleled in mark 16
parallel passages are just passages that are bringing up the same sermon or the same message and
Notice what it says in Matthew 28 verse
18 it says and Jesus came on and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth
Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world
This is what's known as the Great Commission when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and showed himself unto the disciples
He gave them the final or the Great Commission the work in which the early church and us
today are supposed to be doing and the first wording you notice in verse 19 says
Go ye therefore not stay here and preach the gospel not wait till people come to you and preach to the gospel
But go ye therefore and teach now. It's like I said paralleled in mark 13
I'm sorry mark 16 and it says preach the gospel. So the Great Commission is threefold
Preach the gospel
Baptize them and then teach them to observe all things whatsoever. Christ has commanded now
The Word of God is big and there's a lot to be taught. There's a lot and as a matter of fact, it's it's innumerable
we can read this book and we will know this book for an eternity if you're saved and you read and read and read and
You will always learn new things
Why because Jesus Christ is the Word of God made flesh that what we hold in our hands
The Bible is known as the Word of God and it is timeless. It is infinite and it was it's people say it's it's a
Infallible mean it has no error. It's inspired mean God's spoken inspiration you think about
Just when holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and we also believe that it is preserved
See a lot of people today unfortunately do not believe in the preservation of God's Word
so at we
strongly
Promote the King James Version of the Bible in this ministry. Why because we believe in
Preservation of God's Word the title of this message is not to go into preservation
That's another sermon that will come to a theater near you
But if nevertheless we do believe that if you were to go and preach the gospel
We need to use the words of God not our understandings of them not our
Analogies of these words not in commentary on the explanation of these words
But Jesus Christ says these words that I preach unto you. They are spirit and they are life
Jesus Christ said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will not pass away
So in our English language, we believe that the King James Bible is the perfect preserved word of God
Inerrant perfect without error now, like I said, I'm not going to go into that subject today, but maybe in another time soonish
I'm just wanting us to understand the importance of going
Soul winning the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He that win his souls is wise
Paul says in elsewhere in an epistle
I became all things to all men that I by my all means save some
So the thing is we as Christians whether male female husband wife child
Adult grandma grandpa, whoever you are
The Great Commission applies to you go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel
Now nevertheless, it may not be feasible in our lives to go travel the planet and preach the gospel, right?
Not everyone has the financial ability to go across the globe
But understand this when this was mentioned in the time of Christ in the time of the early church
He says go ye there into all the world right and to the farthest places of the world if you look on a globe
Guess what is the farthest distance from Israel?
Hawaii if you take a pin needle and you go straight across the planet from Israel
What you're gonna land is somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and where are we?
We are in the farthest quarters from Jerusalem today
But you were here right now
So nevertheless you can be in the farthest place of the world preaching the gospel
Expounding on the things of God to go and preach the gospel to the lost
so I just wanted you to first understand that the term soul winning is
Just what it means to evangelize the Bible teaches that you know a pastor or a deacon or a bishop
Has to do the work of an evangelist
It says do the work of an evangelist meaning go and preach the gospel to the lost now
Unfortunately, a lot of churches will make the mistake and not go and preach the gospel
They'll stay in the church and have people wait to come to them to preach the gospel
Raise your hand if you've heard the term
What's the word I'm looking for where it's like they they they preach the gospel at church
The
Alter call you've heard those right where you're at church and the pastor says if anyone doesn't never known this
Please stand up or you know bow your heads raise your hand
If you've never heard this and pray this prayer with me and so on and so forth. I am not imposed to
People doing altar calls at all
I am not imposed of a church
Deciding to use the church the platform of the pulpit to preach the message of the gospel
Because the Bible says that the church is for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ
it is supposedly it's supposed to be that the assembling of our cells come together that
Fellow believers in the Lord Jesus Christ will come and hear the message of God
But in that midst you will get unsaved people people will want to know about the things of God and come to church
They're not saved and they need to hear the gospel message, but we do not rely on them coming to us
We are to go to them
But if a church decides to do altar calls
Ain't no problem with that unless they neglect the going aspect of the preaching of the gospel
We never replace the service of the Lord
we add it to the service of the Lord the Bible teaches that we sing psalms hymns and
Spiritual songs and make a new song with melodies in our heart
So obviously the bot we song hymns just earlier today, right psalms
hymns and
Spiritual songs and the Bible will then go and say make a new song
So if a church decides to sing new songs unto the Lord Jesus Christ
Nothing wrong with that
But if they neglect to sing the hymns and the Psalms
Now you are in a problem because the Bible says to be full of the spirit
You need to sing Psalms hymns and spiritual songs to grow in your faith
And if you decide to make a new song, that's great
But do not neglect what was commanded of you go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel
So the tree of the righteous are the fruit of the I've said that three times just now
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that win its souls is wise
So number one, let's understand the concept of what it means to be fruitful
The Bible says in the very first commandment given to mankind to Adam and Eve is what?
Be fruitful and multiply a lot of people unfortunately and even Christians today will equate good
Living as fruitfulness. This is what's known as lifestyle evangelism
Raise your hand if you've heard the term lifestyle evangelism
it's just basically saying that I'm going to preach the gospel through my
actions and how I live my life and what I do and keeping the Ten Commandments and going to church and all these other things but
The Bible says we must open our mouths boldly to make known the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven
So we do not use our lifestyle as the instrument to preach the gospel
But we do put on the breastplate of righteousness as the armor of God
we do not not shot our feet with the preparations of the gospel notice that the
Piece of equipment that God has given us is our feet shod going unto the lost
The feet are the tool in which we bring the fight to the enemy now, obviously the lost aren't the enemy
That's referring to false prophets and children of the devil and so on and so forth
But if we have the breastplate of righteousness the helmet of salvation the sword of the Spirit
Which is the Word of God in the shield of faith, which protects us from all the white wildly darts of the wicked
We will be able to fight the Lord's battle
But if you do not shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel, you'll be stationary
You can do nothing. You cannot be a good instrument for the Lord to use
For his work notice in the book of Acts the early church, right?
We start following the twelve disciples and Jesus Christ had just told them in the end of every gospel
Go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel. What was their problem that they did the twelve disciples
They decided to stay in Jerusalem
Elsewhere in the Gospel of John it says he came unto his own and his own received him not
Jesus says I have come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel
But while I am here Jesus Christ had a three and a half year ministry
While he was here to preach the gospel unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel
But then when he died buried and rose again
He told the disciples to now go and tell the world tell the Gentiles and go into the farthest parts of the world
And we need to follow that the twelve disciples are at that time actually the eleven disciples and notice of what it said
Chose not to do that. They stayed in Jerusalem
But then notice throughout halfway through the book of Acts around chapter 9 or so. We start following a specific person who?
The Apostle Paul why because he understood the importance of going onto the farthest points of the earth
We look at the epistles the epistles of the Ephesians the Philippians the Thessalonikians the Galatians
Romans and all these other people groups that needed to hear the gospel
It's one thing that my neighbor and the person down the street hear the gospel
It's another thing to go to the next island to go when you're on vacation
wherever you are and this is something that my wife and I will do not everyone has to but I think this is a good
practice for a
Christian to do if you decide to go on a vacation, let's say you choose Alaska, California name the place Africa
What you should use that for is
Evangelizing before you do extracurricular activity. I want to go to Australia to surf
After you've preached the gospel to a neighborhood in those in Australia. I want to go to
J Bay in South Africa because I know the waves are epic
I'm bringing up waves because that's where I would go if I were to vacation but whatever you decide to do
Let's say you want to do humanitarian work or or you just whatever the place do not neglect
The concept of going and preaching the gospel, but I'm trying to show us first that the fruit of the righteous
Fruitfulness as it says in the book of Genesis is the first commandment given to mankind be fruitful and multiply
People will think that the righteous living is the fruit that is required of us
No, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and heed that when its souls is wise
Living a good life is nothing wrong with that but do not neglect going and
Reproducing another Christian because the Great Commission says teach them to observe all things get them baptized and preach them the gospel
Preaching the gospel is number one
And if you do not preach the gospel open your mouth boldly you've not reproduced anything
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
So when you look at a married couple and they have five plus kids you would say that's a fruitful marriage
These people are really reproducing if you look at animals and say these animal or fruits at a tree, you know
It's the it's the fruit that will reproduce another tree. If a tree doesn't have fruit. Could you say it's fruitful?
Obviously not it's not producing fruit
It cannot reproduce another tree
But this is where I'm saying people will tend to fall into
False doctrine is they'll say I know someone is saved because I see what they're doing
Well, here's the thing the Bible what if it's a tree a saved person who has no fruits
We all know the parable of the sower right you have four groups of people
There's one that sow seed and then the birds come and take it up and pull the seed out of the ground
This is him that was sown on the wayside and the care of the birds came and pulled the word before it could ever grow
Then you have the ones that are sown on stony ground now
They received the word meaning they accepted and believed it they grew up and when trials and persecutions arose
By and by they were offended we call this the Roman
Candle Christian because you ever had a Roman candle those fireworks you light and they do a big ol show
But then it's done. This is a sprinter. This is not a marathon runner
This is someone when tribulations as the Bible says yay
All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
Not everyone is going to allow or when persecution arises and occurs
Continue in the fight and continue in the work of God
They're gonna quit elsewhere Paul talks about demons have forsaken me having loved this present world
But then the next group of people are those that are when the seed was sown and it grew the cares of this world
Choked it out and it became unfruitful why because they're caught up in the things of this world
They're not caught up in the things of God. They're not trying to go into the lust they care about their career
They care about their hobbies. They care about other things the care of this world
Choked it out and it became unfruitful. It didn't reproduce another Christian
But then the last one is the seed that was sown on good ground and when it grew brought forth
30 60 and a hundred fold why because the heart of that person that believed on the Lord Jesus Christ
Understood the importance going and reproducing
Preaching the gospel the Word of God is a seed in the analogy or the parable of the sower
If you don't go and sow the seed nothing will grow
So the sowing of the seed is what it means to become a soul winner to be an evangelist
So we get it David we need to go
So in preach the gospel to the lost and I've already explained about the concept of opening our mouths
Boldly, but turn if you would to Romans chapter 10 just so you kind of see that the consistency of what the Bible is teaching
about the concept of
going
notice what it says in
Romans chapter 10
Verse 13 it reads
Actually, let's just start in verse 9 it says that if
condition
That if thou shalt confess with thine mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart
That God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth under righteousness and with the mouth
Confession is made unto salvation
For the scripture says now notice we're in the New Testament. So this is a emphasis that he's pointing to the Old Testament
This isn't new to the New Testament. This has always been the plan for the scripture says
Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord is over
For the same Lord over all is rich into all that call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
Shall be saved how then shall they call on him and whom they've not believed
And how shall they believe in him and who they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher
How shall they preach except they be sent as it is written?
How beautiful are the how beautiful are the feet of them that bring the gospel of good tidings?
So obviously the concept here is that?
No one will get saved unless you don't go and you need to go and preach and open your mouth to make sure they believe
What the Bible say what does the scripture say cuz like I mentioned earlier
It's the Word of God that has power the Bible says that the Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword
Piercing even into the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and it is a discerner and of the thoughts and the intents of man
So therefore what that tells me if I go and knock on the door and give someone the gospel and I don't ever
Quote one verse from the Bible that person cannot be saved
Why because this is the seed that needs to be sown not my explanation of it
Not an analogy of it not a commentary on this not me explaining it
Quoting the words of God holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
So open our mouths boldly go into the last use the Word of God preach the gospel
David I don't know how to preach the gospel. I don't know where to navigate. I don't know how to expound on these things
I am NOT as
Knowledgeable as they maybe should or want to be but you know what there is nothing wrong with that
The Bible talks a lot about how there are babes in Christ
There's nothing wrong with being a baby some wrong with being born. There's something wrong with being born in your family
No
There are times in our lives where people are novices and babies and young adults and so on and so forth and there's nothing wrong
Some people unfortunately because one of the qualifications of a deacon or a pastor or or a bishop is not a novice
Let's he be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine
That's just saying you're not a beginner the pastor the under Shepherd is not supposed to be some novice
but you have to start somewhere to get to an end goal if you do not I
Have a saying in my house if you do nothing nothing happens if you do something something happens
So if you do nothing you will not grow in your faith and the Bible is very clear that we need to be in
Our Bibles daily and doing the works not for salvation the works
But to grow thereby and the Bible teaches you don't need to turn there, but it says in Ephesians
4 11 12 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
Why for the perfecting of the Saints that the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body
There is a work that needs to be done. What is that work?
Going and preaching the gospel winning souls under the kingdom of heaven
Going and reproducing making new converts creating babies in Christ. What do we call someone who just gets saved?
They were a born-again
Christian the Bible says that there are three camps when it comes to who you are
They're the sons of God
there's the sons of mankind or the sons of Adam and they're the children of the devil or the Bible says children of the tears and
the elsewhere parable
Sons of God are those who have put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ once they've done this they are born again
They're born into the family of God. They are sealed in the day of redemption
They are passed from death unto life their sins are as far as the East is from the West and they shall not be
Condemned they are eternally saved and that's what we're gonna go into in just a moment
But if you decide to live a life of sin, you will be chasing the Bible says from the Lord loveth
He chased ineth and scourges every son whom he receiveth
If you've been received in the family of God, you are held to a higher standard than the rest of the world
Let me ask you this Rio when your daughter does something bad. What do you do?
You may discipline all right, I know it's hard to discipline
It depends on what she does right right again you have rules
And you're right. The Lord is quick to mercy and slow to wrath
But he has wrath as a parent has rules for their children and says, you know
Do your homework do your chores?
Come home at 9. It's one thing if the child does not do their homework
It's one thing if the child does not come home at night
It's another thing if that kid goes and robs a liquor store
They're held to a higher standard now the neighbor kid does not have those same rules because they are not your child
They are a child and you should
Try to give that kid the gospel
They're not your child
See the God God says unto whom much is given of him should much be required like salvation like eternal life
But then they got the sons of Adam that's in reference to the neighborhood kid
He's not your kid and you could make rules and say hey son or daughter
Do not hang out with so-and-so unless and fill in the blank. So God is the same way
He is wanting to save the world the Bible says for instance
Whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely
He's trying to get everyone saved
But here's the thing that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth not everyone believes in the Lord Jesus Christ
But then you have children of the devil and these are people who
Once they are condemned they are eternally damned the Bible says that they're twice dead
Plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea to whom has reserved the blackness of darkness forever
There are people in this world who are evil people. I know that's hard to understand
Obviously we know that the Bible teaches that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against
Principalities against the rulers of the darkness of this world
So obviously there is a group of people who are out trying to damn the world
They're out trying to get people to be dragged down to hell with themselves the Bible talks about of the Pharisees
He says you compass sea and land and made one proselytize, which is a convert one proselytize two more two more
Fold of a child of hell than yourselves meaning that you're a child of hell
You're trying to go around the world and preach your damnable doctrine to get other people to be condemned
You've compass sea and land and made one proselytize two fold more a child of hell than yourselves
And that's Jesus Christ speaking to the Pharisees and Sadducees. Why because they trusted in themselves if they were righteous
So I know I got into a little tangent there, but I just wanted to understand the thought of
Reproduction
Be a fruitful Christian preach the gospel go into the lost
Use the Bible use the words of God as your tool because you cannot get anyone saved without the words of God
So now we're gonna go into the one-on-ones of soul winning or evangelizing how David I don't know what to do
I don't know what to say
And so on and so forth I'm gonna give you a quick
Way
To be able to whoever you are no matter what educational background whether you're man woman boy girl child
Grandma, whatever whoever you are
You can just quote these words and expound on these things and you can get anyone saved if you go and do the work
Now the first thing I want us to understand is the concept of sin. I think everyone here knows that you're all sinners
and if you ever are
Wanting as the Bible commands to go and preach the gospel if you are trying to learn in that you need to maybe
Write on a flash card or something some verses that will help you navigate your Bible to be able to show people
These five major points and the first thing is sin. We are all sinners. I standing here right now. I'm a sinner
I'm not perfect. I've not reached perfection
The Bible doesn't teach sinless perfection that once someone puts their faith in Christ, they're always gonna do the right thing
That's not what the Bible teaches the matter of fact, we need to deny ourselves daily pick up our cross and follow after him
So the first thing is found in Romans 3 23 on your flashcard
Write Romans 3 23 and this will teach you about the thought of sin the Bible says in Romans 3 23
For all had sinned and come short of the glory of God. It's pretty simple to understand now, isn't it?
some of us have sinned all of us have sinned and
Come short of the glory of God God is a standard that standard is perfection
None of us are perfect because we have sinned so that should be easy elsewhere
If you wanted to use another passage, you can go to Romans 3 10 and in Romans 3 10
It says as it is written where in the Old Testament as it is written. There is none righteous
No, not one. I'm not righteous. You're not righteous
None of us are righteous
But nevertheless because we are sinner the Bible then says that there is a punishment for sin and you can take them to Romans
6 23 and like I said
Raise your hand if you've heard the term the Romans Road
The Romans Road is a coined term by this pastor named Jack Hiles who used these
Specific passages to help show people the plan of salvation now
I'm not gonna keep specifically give you the complete Romans Road. You can tailor it to however you want
I mean, there's a saying there's more than one way to skin a cat, right?
But nevertheless you have to get these major points across and the first thing is said and the second thing is
Understanding the punishment of sin and Romans 6 23 is one of those clear passages that help
Anyone to understand that if you send there is a punishment and it says in Romans 6 23
For the wages of sin is death
And that gives you a semicolon
But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So the first thing is what you want them to know
For the wages of sin is death wage a better way to explain it in our modern vocabulary would be to earn
You go to work and earn a wage, right?
You've heard the term minimum wage meaning the minimum time spent you have to make so much money
So we earn through our sin is to die. But when you dies it lights off
Is that it?
The Bible says it's appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment
So then you can take them to a place like Revelation and Revelation 21 8
references and as a matter of fact turn if you went to Revelation 21 8 so you can see because
When you go evangelizing enough and when you go soul winning enough
99% of people are gonna say yeah, I know I'm a sinner. I know I've done wrong and I know I'm bad
But then you ask them. Okay, where do you think sinners go and they die?
And most people will be like they're gonna go to hell where they go to a bad place and so on and so forth
And that's true. But then you ask them. Okay. Do you believe you deserve to go to hell for your sin?
You know what? Most people say that I've noticed
I'm not that bad. I'm not done that bad of things. I'm not that bad of a person. I'm not Adolf Hitler
I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer. I'm not this I've never killed anyone. So no, I don't think my sin is that bad
Here's the thing whose standard are you using yourselves the gods?
The Bible will teach us in Revelation 21 8 a list of sins
That will condemn people to hell and notice what it says on the list the very first thing
It says in Revelation 21 8 but the fearful
I've been afraid and
unbelieving and the abominable and the murderer and the whore monger and the sorcerer and the idolater and watch this one and
all liars
Shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death
the Bible calls the lake of fire or hell a
Second death because it's appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment
We are all going to physically die one day
But after the death of the body if the spirit has sinned it will go to a second death or what we know as hells
When you show this to people some people still aren't convinced because then you ask them have you ever been afraid?
Yeah, I've been afraid. Have you ever been a liar?
Well, yeah, I've said white lies from time to time. Okay, so according Bible, where shall you have your part?
you shall have your part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone and
Some people will bristle at that and understand that when you go out preaching the gospel like I said before
Yeah, all that live godly in Christ Jesus not live godly live godly in Christ
Jesus as he has told us to go and preach the gospel. Yeah, all that live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution
You don't think I've been threatened at the door door slammed on my face who the hell are you to tell me that I'm on?
My way to hell if you love them tell them these things because I'm not wanting you to go to this place
But nevertheless, I'd be doing you an injustice if I didn't tell you that according to the Word of God the Bible
if you die in your sin, you will see the lake of fire and
If they bristle at this if they get upset about this
You know, once again you ever heard the saying don't shoot the messenger, why do you think they killed the Apostles?
Why do you think they crucified Jesus Christ himself because he went around telling them a good message
Yes, but part of that good message is the concept of the wages of our sin
So nevertheless if they understand this and and I'll leave you on those one point before we move forward
Do not beat a dead horse
If someone understands they're a sinner move to the next point don't drill them and on how horrible of a person they really are
Because let's face the fact most people aren't that horrible with people
But it's true if you've broken the law in one place you you're guilty of it all
Because I have not killed anyone and I'm not gonna ask for a raise of hand if anyone has killed someone here
But I doubt anyone has killed someone here. But here's the thing
The Bible teaches very clearly that the thought of foolishness is sin
Being afraid of anything other than God is a sin
If you're about to fall off your surfboard and drown that's considered sinful because you're afraid to die
The Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
So if you're afraid of what the judgment of God is you're on the path to wisdom
Understand you're a sinner understand the penalty for sin
Then you move on if they get that move on to the next point don't park it there
Don't drill them on the thought of like you're a horrible wicked
adultery
fornicating lying murdering, dude
Not a lot of people are that bad. Okay, but nevertheless in the sight of God we are sinners period
So the next point is that I usually tell people you're a sinner you deserve to go to hell for your sin
But do you think God wants us to go to hell?
No as it said elsewhere
God says whosoever will let him come and take the water of life freely whoever wants to
Can take the word of life freely?
So what did God do for us so that we do not have to go to hell and most people will all and like I said
You'll you'll experience this as you give the gospel to different people
Is that most people know about who Jesus is and what he has done, but they don't understand what that means
I say what does what did God do for us so that we don't have to go to hell?
Well he died on the cross who died on the cross well Jesus who is Jesus
Because raise your hand don't you know that there are lots of people who believe that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God
There are there are faiths all around the world that do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
He was a prophet. He was an evangelist. He was a good teacher the Bible says that he is the Son of God
He is God manifested in the flesh. It says in Hebrew 1 to the son
He says thy throne. Oh God is a scepter of thy righteousness
So the Bible and I tend to point them to first on five seven to just emphasize who Jesus Christ is
Because in first John five seven if you would turn there it
explains the doctrine of the Trinity in one verse
first John
1 7 says for there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are
One
So first on five seven explains the doctrine of the Trinity the word Trinity just simply means try unity
There are three that are one three what three people the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and they are one God
There's not three gods. There's one cry. There's one God and Jesus Christ is that one God
He is the second member of the Godhead, but he is not the father and I use the family analogy
Like it let's say if my wife and I had a son right I would tell people like am I my wife
No, is my wife my son. No is my son me
No, but we are the keifers you looked at us you'd say oh, there's the keifers
so that's what God is like there's one God composed of three people and
You know not to get into a different subject, but the by the Bible is very clear after the first and second admonition
Reject a heretic
So if you're going to expounding on these things and they're trying to challenge you
Don't cast your pearl before a swine if they're trying to understand
Show them one passage show them a second passage after the first and second admonition
I'll even give the benefit of the doubt and sometimes do a third passion passage if they're not understanding this
Bible says kick the dust off your feet and move on because we're not there to park it
Unless they're trying to truly understand what the message of salvation is they're trying to debate you
Jesus Christ isn't the Son of God look my Mormon book says that he is a you know a created being of
Elohim the Father or I am a Muslim and it says that he's a good prophet blah blah blah
The Bible says that he's the Word of God
Manifested in the flesh he says that I and my father are one give him one two if they don't want to hear okay
I'm sorry you you don't believe that just here to show you I'll go and move on you're not supposed to
Argue with people we're not here to argue. We're here to show them the plan of salvation and then the subject of who Jesus Christ is
Unfortunately confuses a lot of people
Teach everyone their sinners teach everyone the penalty for sin
Explain to them that God loves us that he sent his son Jesus Christ the Word of God
Manifested in the flesh to come and die for us elsewhere in the Bible
It says he who knew no sin he became sin for us that we may be known as the righteousness of God
John 1 1 the famous passage that a lot of people know in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the
Word was God, and then you look at verse 14
And it says and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us
So when you go in to explain that you then ask him
What did Jesus Christ when he went around telling everyone that he was the son of God and doing all these miracles?
What did they do to him they killed him they put him to the cross they crucified him and at that moment when he died
This is what the gospel is the word gospel means good news
The bad news has already been established the good news or the gospel is found in John 3 16 the most famous
passage in the whole Bible
There are so many people there's a someone holding up at a football game
So it's on the bottom of the cup of the in-and-out burger or the in-and-out burger cup
John 3 16 is pretty well known around the planet
But what's funny is no one tends to understand what it really means because it says simply for God
So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Jesus Christ
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, and I've had it time and time again
Where you're showing them the the gospel the good news of Jesus Christ that as you're quoting this they'll finish the quote for you
But they just blow right past what it takes to have eternal life. You'll start saying no
You know it says right here for God so low. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I get it that whosoever believeth in him shall
There to everlasting life, so what does someone have to do to have everlasting life be a good person go to church
What does it say?
Whosoever believeth in him, and that's the gospel the death burial and resurrection of Christ
Whosoever puts their faith or trust in him will have the present tense eternal life
So the first is sin second is penalty for sin third is getting them to understand the gospel
Which is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
Came and died and rose again for them and then in doing so if you believe this you will be given something
Now notice what it says for God to love the world that he gave his only begotten son
And then it says in Romans 6 23 that passage that you brought through them earlier
It says for God's will or the wages of our sin is death
But the gift of God is eternal life to emphasize what it means to be given something
If I were to give someone a phone and say give me five bucks
Is it a gift?
It's not because you would have bought it. What if I said you could have my truck, but you got to wash it
Is it a gift?
No, you earned it by washing it
What if I said you could have my house? Here's the key to my house?
But you have to be a good person to have this house. Is it a gift?
There's contingency you have to be good to have the house if you're not good. You won't have the house
So we got to emphasize what a gift is a gift is freely given who pays for the gift the giver of the receiver
Obviously the person giving it if I bought a
House and I give it to someone they didn't have to pay for it
I paid for it as Christ paid for the punishment of sin
The gift of God is eternal life, which is life that will never end the two parts of that word
Eternal eternal comes from a root word to terminate and II that prefix there is against not going to terminate not gonna stop
Everlasting life eternal life. So if someone is given eternal life, it's theirs forever
You cannot lose it because you were not good enough to have it in the first place
But once you have it, you cannot be bad enough to lose it
This is what the Bible says when it says the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
It's by Jesus Christ's death burial and resurrection only can anyone be saved not in works of righteousness
Which we have done but it's according to his mercy are we saved and sometimes
you'll get people who are confused on the thought of
What it means to have faith alone in Christ
They think that if you believe you will have to continue in a life of good deeds to maintain your salvation
the Bible never teaches that to
Continue to be saved or to maintain salvation. You must obey the commandments go to church fill in the blank
because
You weren't good enough to get it
But once you have it your sins are as far as the East is from the West you have been passed from death
Unto life. Your name is written in the book of life and you will never die
I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, but this is what people tend to make mix up
I mean, I don't know about you guys, but so much when you preach this
Gosh the gospel of Jesus Christ people will say yeah, but if I do not see someone living a good life
That means they never believed
Who said that?
Who said that if you do not continue in a good life, you're not saved. You're not sealed into the day of redemption
You should do good works. You should keep the commandments. You should pick up your cross daily and follow after Christ. You should
Not lie, you should not steal. You should be good to your parents. You should
Be a good husband be a good wife
You should do a lot of things but only one time in the whole Bible is the question asked
What must I do to be saved? What do I have to do to be saved and the answers were simple
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and you might if you believe he will give you eternal life
Emphasize the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer because if people do not understand this
They cannot be saved because then they think that something they have to do maintains their salvation
It's not Jesus Christ's death burial and resurrection plus be a good person. It's Jesus Christ's death burial and resurrection
What are we just seeing this morning?
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing, but the blood of Jesus. It's the
Lamb of God that was slain from the foundation of the earth. That is how we are saved
with that being said
You people will get me this is one of the major doctrines that people will get mixed up in
And you don't want to debate people at the door if they're if they're sitting there trying to argue with you and like no
I don't think that faith is enough or just to believe you also have to be good
Give them one two admonitions a third. Hey, you know what God bless you
And I hope you put you understand salvation by faith alone because what does it say in Ephesians 2 8 9?
For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourself?
It is the gift of God remember that gift and it is not of works as any man should boast
and the one major nail in the coffin to disprove the doctrine of
Maintaining good works to be saved or some people think you have to repent of your sins to be saved
Which what does the word repent even mean?
See some people when they hear that word repent just put into it
Sin, did you know that nowhere in the King James Version of the Bible? Will you find the term repent of your sin?
Now, why do you think that is?
Because you do not have to repent of your sins to be saved
And this is that nail in that coffin that disproves that turn if you would to Jonah
See it's not just the New Testament teaching this this is consistent with the whole Bible the thought of
Salvation by faith only
Anyone be saved Jonah is one of the minor prophets after Habakkuk after Malachi
I'm sorry, not after Malachi
It is after Obadiah
Jonah chapter 3 if someone says well, I understand what you're saying that even though we deserve to go to hell
I still think I have to stop sinning and then put my faith in Christ
I need to repent of my sin take them to Jonah 3 verse 9 notice what it says
Who can tell if God will turn so we just are defining what it means to repent turn from what?
Who can who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away his fierce anger that we perish not and God saw
their works
So what did he look down at he saw what they did?
That
They turned from their evil way
So God says that when you turn from your evil way, that is a work in the sight of God
It is not of works
That's any man should boast and God saw their work that they turned from their evil way and God
Repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them and did it not
So God changed his mind about destroying these people why because they stopped sinning
That is not how they got saved that is a preventative of God's wrath on the nation of Nineveh, so once again
simply understanding this
the five major points of the gospel if you decide to put it on your flashcard or
You want to help navigate your Bible when you're going and preaching the gospel you need to first help them to understand that
We are all sinners that we all deserve to go to hell for our sin the punishment of sin
Teach them the gospel that Jesus Christ
died buried and rose again and that when you believe in that you will be given the gift of eternal life and
Once you are given eternal life. There's one last point
We need to understand turn if you would back to Romans chapter 10 and we'll end here because
This is the thing that tentatively will prevent a lot of people from being saved
Because
While you're turning to Romans 10
I'm gonna turn back to Romans 4 just to show you the consistency of what the passage but the Bible teaches the
Inerrancy the D without error perfect word of God it says
What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh has found for if?
once again the condition for if
Abraham were justified by words he hath were after gory, but not before God
For what safe the scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness
Now the him that worketh not is a reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt
But the hand that worketh not but believeth on him that justifiest the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
Even as David described it also the blessedness unto the man under whom the Lord will not impute
impute righteousness without works saying blessed are those whose iniquities are
Forgiven and who sins are not imputed unto them once you believe your sins will never be imputed unto you
Because you will continue until this flesh is gone have sin in your life
What did Paul say his famous quote the things that I want to do
I can't do them the things that I don't want to do I do them
Why a wretched man that I am who will deliver me of the body of this sin cousin when it is
I that sin and is no longer I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me
Oh wretched man that I am so we have to daily try to live a righteous life
Not for salvation
But to be pleasing unto the Lord to be good obedient children to be able to be used by the Lord Jesus Christ to be
able to get people saved and
Notice what it says in Romans 10 where we last well we read this earlier
But this is the last thing you need to understand is calling upon the name of the Lord
How shall they hear and lest they be sent notice what it says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth?
If
No word it says right here that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus
confessing with your mouth and
Believe in thine heart because that's the prerequisite
But God has raised him from the dead thou might be saved
Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth under righteousness and with the mouth is
Confession made unto salvation so what does that mean?
Let's say I represented the Lord Jesus Christ and this Bible represented eternal life
And I give this analogy almost all the time at the door it really helps click it over with people
And I go up to them, and I say sir or ma'am or whatever their name is
If I represented the Lord Jesus Christ and this Bible represented eternal life, and I said hey John
I have something for you. It has your name right here
I want to give this to you all you have to do is ask me, and I will give this to you
But until you ask I am going to hold on to this
Does that person have to ask for it?
They don't they can decide to not ask for it wait on it and the Bible says
Today is the day of salvation. You don't know when we're gonna die you can choke on a chicken bone at dinner
Airplane can come and crash on you you can drown in the ocean if you serve
We're not promised any one second from now. This is what it meant by you know we need to compel them
We need to urge them to understand that you are not promised any one second from now
And if the Lord Jesus Christ is offering you grace and is extending his hand of mercy
Unto you all you have to do is ask him
And he will give you eternal life and once you've done, so it is yours forever
And you were never good enough to get it, but once you have it
He will not get take it back from you because he says I will never leave me nor for safety
An analogy I tend to use for some people is the concept of holding on to someone if God or Jesus Christ
Extends his hand of grace unto us for by grace
Are you saved through faith if I reach out my faith and grab on to his grace?
And he says no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand my father
Which gave them he is stronger than on no man is able to pluck them out of my hand if I grab on to the Lord
Jesus Christ cuz he extended his hand down to me, and I decide to try to run away from his grace
He is stronger than me. He I am sealed unto the day of redemption
Once they understand this help them to ask for the gift of eternal life
And this is what we do through the prayer haven't you heard the term the sinner's prayer
This is the thought of when you explain this all to him his house shall they hear and lest they be sent
Right if they don't know these things the natural man receives not the things of the spirit and neither
Can he know them because he is spiritually discerned these words that I preach unto you
They are spirit and their life the words of God are what able to help that person get saved
He's easy you the vessel the instrument to preach the words unto them you need to go unto them expound these things
And then they will be given eternal life
You don't need to turn there, but it says in first John 5 13 these things have I written unto you
We're almost at the end of the Bible these things have I written unto you that
Believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life
Does it matter what I think that you have eternal life
Does it matter what what a church thinks that you have eternal life does it matter what a pastor says does it matter who anyone?
says hope of eternal life that God that cannot lie
promised before the world began if the person if you help lead them into the Lord and pray the sinners prayer with them and
Help them to call upon the name of the Lord for salvation
They're sealed they're on their way to heaven no matter what and that is what it means to go you there into all the world
and preach the gospel unto them after that baptize them in the name of the Father the Son and Holy Spirit and
Then teach them to observe all things
Whatsoever Christ has commanded that is why the Great Commission is threefold
But the first thing is preach the gospel elsewhere in the book of Revelation
It talks about not forsaking the first works or the first love because the first thing we do is preach them the gospel
Let me ask you this if someone puts their faith in Christ and never gets baptized. Are they going to heaven?
of course
because baptism
symbolizes the death burial and resurrection of Christ
They're making an outward profession saying I believe that Jesus died
Was buried and rose again to the symbolism of baptism immersion through the water and that's another message for another time
But what if a babe in Christ puts their faith in that never gets baptized and never reads their Bible
Never steps foot into a church and has becomes a horrible person
God will chase in them here in this earth
But they will never see the lake of fire as parents will never throw their children in an oven
God will not throw his children in the oven
So the importance of the message that I wanted us to understand today is go
Soul winning go and preach these words
Not in words of wisdom, which we have preached and pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe
I'm not great. I don't care how eloquent how
Smart how unique how dynamic of a person you are?
It's the words that God uses the foolish things of this world to confound the mighty
So we need to make sure that we go and preach the gospel and in doing so
we'll be pleasing unto our Father which is in heaven, but
if you never do that, you know, you're ashamed of the cause of Christ not because
Maybe you don't know but nevertheless we need to in our life pick up our cross daily deny ourselves
I can find a million things to do throughout a day. Trust me. I can go surf I can go work
I can fill in the blank
But if we do not if we neglect the time to go preach to the lost
We're gonna be in the sight of God at displeasing to him
But you're still saving you're on your way to heaven and we need to make sure we never forsake this work
I know I said this already but this truly is the last thing I'm gonna say in Act 5 it says they just beaten and
persecuted the disciples it says and
In the temple and from house to house they cease not to teach Jesus Christ
If the governor if the president if the mayor if a guy with a gun
Says do not preach in this name. They cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ
So I'm not going to either and we need to understand the importance of how many people died
Doing this very thing and preaching the gospel to the lost
And I hope to God that throughout your week throughout your life
You learn to serve God and to preach the gospel to the lost
And with that being said, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer to make sure that we never neglect this
crucial Great Commission
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day. Thank you so much for allowing us to hear your word preach
Please help fill us with the Holy Spirit to make us bold to be able to go out to preach your word to
Get those who have not heard of your gospel to be saved and
To remember that we honor and glory you in everything that we do and in Jesus Christ name we pray
Amen