John chapter 3 and we're gonna start a new series, but I decided to wait a week because the second sermon here
Today is very deep very complicated. It's definitely the meat of the word. So I want to preach a sermon here this morning
That's more of the milk of the word more of the basics and the name of the sermon is the basic
Elements of salvation the basic elements of salvation now obviously at this church
We believe and understand that salvation is by grace through faith. It's just by believing you don't have to change your life
You don't have to quit drinking. You don't have to do anything except believe on Jesus Christ
We understand Jesus Christ was God in the flesh
He was sent by the Father as a son to pay and die for the sins of the world
He was buried he rose again, but outside of that there's three basic elements
I want to look at here today and some of these things we don't really think about what needs to actually be there when a
Salvation occurs the moment a person gets saved. There's three basic elements
Okay, number one the spirit of God must be there when somebody gets saved the Holy Spirit of God
Must be there when somebody gets saved notice what it says in John 3 verse 3
Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again
He cannot see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him
How can a man be born when he is old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
And so Nicodemus is confused here in John 3 because he's thinking being born again. He's like I've already been born
How do you enter the second time into your mother's womb and get born again?
He's saying I don't get it but see there's a physical birth and then there's a spiritual birth
Okay, when a person gets saved you get the new man and your spirit becomes alive you are regenerated by
The Spirit of God it's a spiritual birth. Okay, so the Spirit of God must be there when this takes place
verse number five
Jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the Spirit
He cannot enter into the kingdom of God now a lot of religions like to stop at verse 5 and they'll say we'll see
Baptism you got to be baptized to be born again. Now. I don't know about you, but in my Bible
I don't see the word baptism. Do you it says except a man be born of water you say?
Well, what is being born of water?
Well, the next verse is gonna clarify that that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit
Is spirits see obviously when a mom has a child, you know the water breaks
Okay, so the terminology in the Bible being born of water. That's the physical birth and Jesus is answering Nicodemus
He's saying hey you were physically born but to be born into God's family. It's a spiritual birth
We're not talking about the physical birth being born of water
We're talking about a spiritual birth, okay
Verse number seven and what it said at the end of verse six is this that which is born of the Spirit is spirit
Okay, you're born again by the Spirit verse seven marvel not that I said unto thee
He must be born again the wind bloweth where it listeth and now hears the sound thereof
but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is everyone that is born of the Spirit a
spiritual birth
Generated by the Spirit of God now Jesus compares this to wind
The reason why it compares it to wind is because wind is not something that you can really grasp that easily
He says, you know, it's basically wind is coming and going
You don't know where it's coming from. You don't know where it's going and he's saying you know what?
It's the same as the spiritual birth because when we go soul winning we don't see the Spirit of God
Right when we go soul winning and we're explaining the Word of God. We don't see this visual evidence
Okay, I see the Spirit of God. So now this person can get saved
It's there, but we don't know what's going on when we go soul winning
Sometimes you're going through the gospel and you're about to explain eternal security and make sure they get it and everything
Then all of a sudden the phone rings or the baby cries the dog barks out of nowhere and look quite honestly many times
I think that's the spiritual battle that we don't really know what's going on
Because as we want to get somebody saved the devil does not want somebody saved and there's a spiritual battle though
We don't see with our eyes
But realize this when we go soul winning the Spirit of God is with us
And so the question is how much do you want to be filled with the Spirit?
Because see here's the thing if you're not really living for God very much
You're not going to be that filled with the Spirit and you're not going to be as effective out soul-winning you say why because the Spirit
Of God is necessary for a salvation to occur go in your Bible to Acts chapter 7 Acts chapter 7
Acts chapter 7 now, let me say this that this is the milk of the Word, but the first point
I don't really think people are going to argue with too much the second and third point here today
Oh people argue about this, especially a lot of Baptists. Okay, and so these are very basic things though
This is the milk of the Word
I mean
There's no question to get saved the Spirit of God must be there because oftentimes we focus on God the Father and God the Son
Right, I mean everybody thinks about Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid for our sins
And you always think about God the Father and everything but kind of the Spirit of God's kind of the the forgotten
Person of the Trinity right because we don't believe in a I don't know a duality
We believe in a Trinity God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost and there's a lot of religions out there
Since they don't understand the Spirit they think it's like a force or something like that
They think it's like Star Wars, you know
You got the good force and you got the bad force and it's just like this force that's kind of out there
No, it's a third member of the Trinity
Okay, the Holy Spirit is God
Okay, and so notice what it says in Acts 7 verse 51
Acts chapter 7 verse 51
It says ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Acts 7 verse 51
Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye. What is the Holy Ghost?
The Holy Spirit. This is the Spirit of God, right? And he says, you know what you're resisting the Holy Ghost
What is he saying? He's saying you know what we we wanted you to get saved
You heard the word of God the Spirit was trying to get you saved the Spirit wanted to regenerate you but you resisted that
Do you notice how you can resist the Holy Ghost?
Because there's this cute doctrine from the Calvinists called irresistible grace
It's like that's what they call it and the doctrine says this you cannot resist
The Holy Ghost they call it irresistible grace not me
It's like they made that term you cannot resist the Holy Ghost
Well, what did Acts 7 verse 51? I mean it uses the word resist
Okay, you can resist the Holy Ghost and when we go soul winning we would love everybody to get saved
And you what God would love everybody to get saved
But the truth is this although the Spirit of God is there and the Spirit of God wants to regenerate people
People can choose to resist the Holy Ghost
But what do you see? Well, you see the Spirit of God is there when salvation is occurring
The Spirit of God is what regenerates people go to first peter chapter three first peter chapter three
first peter three
Now here's what's funny about the Calvinists
The Calvinists would agree with this that you need the Spirit of God to get regenerated
Okay, but what they would say is all you need is the Spirit of God. That's all you need
Okay. Now look i'm going to show you many verses here that show the Spirit of God is necessary when salvation occurs
That does not mean that's the only thing that needs to be there when salvation occurs. Let me give you an example
Let's say you're drowning in the water
Okay, and let's say I have a life preserver i'm beside the water and I throw that life preserver in the water
And you grab a hold of it and then you you know able to swim to safety
Would it be accurate for me to say that I saved you?
Yeah
Because if I didn't throw that out in the water you would have drowned and died, right?
But wouldn't it be accurate to say that the life preserver was necessary for salvation as well
See multiple things can be necessary and look there'll be verses that say you're born again by the Spirit
Amen
We're not arguing that
Absolutely, that does not mean that that's the only thing that is necessary
I mean this idea that you can just be kind of I don't know taking a nap and then boom the Holy Spirit just regenerates
You that's ridiculous
Okay. Yes, that is necessary when salvation occurs. It's not the only thing necessary though
Okay, it's one of the things necessary 1st, Peter 3 verse 18 1st, Peter chapter 3 verse 18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh
But quickened by the spirits now the word quick is a an old-fashioned English word
It's a makalumang English word. Okay. There's an old movie called the quick and the dead
And what that means is the live in the the alive and the dead
Okay, because the movie it's like a western movie where people are shooting each other and I'm like, okay
Okay, it's like a western movie where people are shooting each other and I've never seen the movie
I've just heard this example used but it's not saying hey the quick and then the dead, right?
No, I mean it means alive or dead and when it's saying being quickened by the spirit
It's saying the spirit makes you alive the spirit
Regenerates you okay turn to John chapter 6 John chapter 6 in your Bible
Another example what I'm saying how multiple things can be necessary think about this
We would say that the blood of Jesus Christ saves us
Amen, that's why we have so many songs in the hymn of the blood of Jesus Christ saves us
But did you realize the resurrection also saves us?
Do you realize the fact that Jesus lived a perfect life also saves us?
Do you see how the Bible can highlight one thing that doesn't mean that's the only thing necessary though
Yes, the blood of Jesus Christ saves us. But yeah, you know what? Jesus had to rise again as well
Okay, and so when the Bible says the spirit regenerates you. Amen
I'm not arguing that what I'm arguing is that's not the only thing that needs to be there when salvation occurs
Okay, John 6 verse 63 John chapter 6 verse 63
It is the spirit that quickeneth
The flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you. They are spirit and they are life
So what is it that quickens it is the spirit that quickeneth?
Okay, it's the spirit of God that quickens somebody's spirit. So they become born again. They're filled with the spirit
It's the spirit of God that actually quickens that makes you alive. So when salvation occurs the spirit of God must be there
Okay, turn to second Thessalonians chapter 2 second Thessalonians 2
And look as I said, this is the most basic of these three points
This is the one people are not going to argue. But did you know that in these first 10 minutes?
I just disproved the pre-tribulational rapture
You say how you know, you didn't say anything about the rapture. Well, I'll show you second Thessalonians chapter 2
Say how did you disprove it? Well, you know the cute doctrine of the preacher of rapture what they teach is this
That basically out of nowhere everyone's going to be raptured
Okay, everybody who's saved is going to be raptured and gone and when people are saved they're filled with the spirit, right?
But they also believe the Holy Spirit is removed
Not just the saved people are removed and go to heaven
But the Holy Spirit of God is removed notice what it says in second Thessalonians 2 verse 6
And now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in this time for the mystery of iniquity doth only
Already work only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way
And they will look at this and say taken out of the way and they say it's the Holy Spirit of God that withholds
And then he's taken out of the way
So the Holy Spirit of God is removed
Okay. Now look that's that's foolish and that's a whole other sermon
We don't have time to go into this but but here's what i'm saying if the Holy Spirit was removed
And every saved person is removed that's filled with the spirit. How could anyone ever get saved?
Because didn't we see that the spirit of God is necessary for someone to get saved?
Didn't we see the spirit of God is what quickens people what makes people alive if everybody's gone and the Holy Spirit's removed
How could anybody be made alive because it's the spirit of God that does that?
God's not going to change his method. No, it's the spirit of God and if the spirit of God's removed
God the Father's not going to do it because he uses the Holy Spirit
Okay, that is what quickens you and makes you alive go back to John 6 go back to John 6 the verse we just looked at
John chapter 6 verse 63
So number one one basic element that is necessary for salvation to occur
Is the spirit of God?
number two
We also need the scriptures of God
We need the spirit of God
We need the scriptures of God the word of God. We need the spirit of God. We need the word of God the scriptures
Okay, John chapter 6 verse 63
It says it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you
They are spirits and they are life
See the words of God. This is a spiritual book
Okay
It's not a physical book. It's not it's not written by man. God used men to pin it down
But this is a spiritual book and this book has life
It's alive the bible says okay
And so the reason why the spirit of God can regenerate you is because we're using a book that's alive
And so when somebody gets saved the Holy Spirit of God will regenerate someone when they hear the word of God a living book
Not a dead book. So when you go soul winning you must use the word of God
Why because it's the words of God that have spirit and have life
Okay, turn in your bible to luke chapter 8 luke 8 luke chapter 8
And let me say this this point should not be controversial
But it is
Because a lot of people say you don't need the word of God to get saved. You don't need the scriptures
I mean they'll say well, you know somebody can get saved. They don't need to hear the word of God
They say, you know, you can just be driving down the road
And you look up at a sign that says Jesus saves and then boom man. I believe that and then you get saved
That's not what the bible teaches the bible teaches. You must have the scriptures
You must have the word of God not just the general message, but the words of God
Okay, the word of God is necessary. Notice what it says. You're in luke 8
Let me read you a couple verses as you're in luke chapter 8 second chronicle 17 verse 9
And they taught in juda and had the book of the law of the lord with them
And went about throughout all the cities of juda and taught the people notice in in second chronicles when they're going soul-winning
They had the book of the law of the lord with them
Why?
Because people need to hear the word of God when they get saved
Look if they didn't need the word of God, do you know how we go soul-winning without any bibles?
Why there'd be no purpose?
I mean, I don't need to say well look there's a christian walking down the road
I don't need to to make a show to people we bring this because we need it
If we could just explain in our own words without any bible
We wouldn't bring bibles, but you know people need the scriptures the word of God
So in the old testament and new testament
You'll see they go out with the book of the law with them when they go soul-winning you're in luke 8
Let me read you one more verse. It says in mark 4 verse 14 the sower
soweth
the word
Not the sower soweth the basic message the sower
soweth
The word what's that saying when we're going soul-winning? What are we sewing? We're sewing the word of God
Okay. Now. Yes, we explain those verses. I'm not saying all we do is quote verses and walk away
No, we we quote and show verses and then we explain those verses if you don't show them any bible
Guess what people are not going to get saved
Nobody could get saved if you don't show any bible
Okay, and the truth is usually people need a lot of bible when they get saved more than one or two or three verses
Usually they need 10
15 20 depending on the person because you got several points you're trying to show in the gospel and on all those things
Hey show the word of God
Especially if it's something that they're not sure about they need to see what the bible says
If they say I don't know if jesus is god or not show them god was manifest in the flesh
Show them how jesus is god you say why they need the word of god to get saved. That's what the bible teaches
Okay, luke chapter 8 luke chapter 8. This is a famous parable and it's it's it's it's very
Misunderstood and people are confused by it but realize in luke chapter 8 with this parable starting at verse 9
This is something that we as soul winners and as people that love god
We can understand this because he's talking about going soul winning and sewing the word. Okay
Luke 8 verse 9 and his disciples asked him saying what might this parable be?
And he said unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god, but to others in parables
That seeing they might not see in hearing they might not understand notice verse number 11. Now the parable is this
the seed
Is the word of god?
The seed is the word of god
That's what we're sowing. We're sowing a seed. This is the analogy he's giving. What are we actually doing?
We're sowing the word of god
The word of god we're explaining that to them. Okay when we're going so winning it says the seed is the word of god
Notice this in verse 12 those by the wayside are they that hear then cometh the devil and taketh away
the word
Out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved. Do you notice how the emphasis is on the word?
In verse number 12, here's a person that does not get saved
He hears the word of god he thinks about it, but before he gets saved
You know what the devil takes that word out of his heart
Sometimes we go soul winning and we explain the gospel and they do not get saved
And you know what that person could still get saved over those over those next couple weeks
Is that word of god is sown there, but the devil is going to try to remove the word from their hearts
But notice what is sown in verse 12 is
The word of god, that's the emphasis verse number 13
They on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word
with joy
receive the word
With joy notice how the emphasis is on the word of god
Now we understand that jesus christ is called the word in the bible and yes, we're explaining jesus
But it's literally talking about the word of god here. Okay, when we're going soul winning we're sowing the word of god
And it says they receive the word with joy, what does that mean well that that's a person that believes on jesus
And that's a person who's very thankful when they believe on jesus because they receive it with joy
You can receive the word without any joy
Right if I gave somebody a gift if I gave brother marlin this gift and he's like, oh cool, right?
I mean he received this gift but not with joy
Right in the bible receiving the word with joy is saying you receive it and you actually do something with your christianity
Okay, this parable does not cover every single person we talk to it covers a person who doesn't get saved
Then two groups that get saved and actually are a little bit excited
But don't take that next step to be a soul winner then it covers one other group
But there's plenty of people who get saved that just never come to church
They receive the word but not with joy. Okay, but what they're receiving is the word of god, okay
Notice what it says in the rest of that verse and these have no root
Which for a while believe in in time of temptation fall away
And that which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard go forth and are choked with cares and riches
And pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection
But that on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the word
Keep it and bring forth fruit with patience
Notice how the emphasis once again is on the word of god and what is this parable about?
It's about when we're preaching the gospel and people are getting saved
It focuses on the word of god you say why the scriptures are necessary for somebody to get saved the word of god
Is necessary turn to hebrews chapter 4 hebrews 4
hebrews chapter 4
Now i'll tell you most most of christianity will tell you this is not the case
They'll say that you can get saved as long as you hear the general message and and you don't need the word of god
For salvation to occur but you know
It's it's interesting because you're not going to find soul winners that are going to say that
You say why because we see it in action every week
We show them verses we explain stuff and you know, sometimes I really love it when you're preaching the gospel
And you see that change in their face where they go from they're confused or they don't believe and then they're like, oh wow
That makes sense. We see it with our own eyes. You say what is the logical explanation for that?
There's no logical explanation. This is a spiritual book
There's no logical human explanation. This word of god is different than any book
I mean you go home and read whatever book you want. It's not going to make you feel guilty about your sins
It's not going to motivate you to live for god, but you read this book right here and it's like man
There are power in these words
You say why this book is alive and the spirit is going to make people alive by a book that's alive
Hebrews 4 verse 12
For the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword
Piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints of in marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts
And intents of the heart, you know when people try to attack our bible they go to this verse and they'll say
Well, my bible's not quick
It's not powerful. It's not bench pressing and lifting weights and everything. It's just like when it's saying it's quick and powerful
I didn't think anyone would be confused by powerful, you know, you say something has power. It doesn't necessarily mean they're lifting weights. Okay
But quick means alive. We already saw that. So what is the bible saying the word of god is alive and it's powerful
It's quick and it's powerful sharper than any two-edged sword
You say why because according to this verse a sword doesn't reach the inside like the word of god does
The word of god actually reaches on the inside and separates and the word of god is what has power
So what does that mean to us as soul winners? Well, when we go soul winning we better be showing them the word of god
Turn to james chapter 1 james 1
And so look if you're going soul winning and you're only using a couple verses in the bible, you know what you're doing it wrong
You're going to have a lot more power when you add some verses to that
Okay
Now look i'm not saying all we do is quote verses because that's not so winning either
We have to explain them because to them because they don't understand
But here's what i'm saying when we go soul winning make sure we're actually using a lot of bible one example is this
In the bible god gives us kind of examples that we can understand how easy salvation is. He explains that salvation is a gift
He explains salvation's like being born right we saw that at the beginning, you know, what's great about the example of a gift
Everybody has received and given gifts before so they understand it
You know, what's great about being born that example everybody's been born
And everybody understands generally what takes place at a birth, right? And those are the examples god gives sometimes I hear soul winners
And they'll use examples that are you know kind of complex and they make a lot of sense to them
But they don't necessarily make sense to everybody for example, you know my life growing up, you know
The two loves I had were soccer and math
Okay
And i'm sure I could come up with some complicated calculus example
About how easy salvation is and it might make sense to me and some people but you know
A lot of people aren't going to understand that
See here's what's great about explaining a gift. Everybody understands that
And see when you're trying to get people saved. It's not the wise words of men that get people saved
It's the simplicity in god's word that gets people saved because what we're explaining is very simple
You don't have to be a genius to be a soul winner
Look a five-year-old if they're saved could explain a six-year-old you say why?
You don't have to get a college degree to learn how to go soul winning
Why we're just explaining it's a gift and jesus died and paid for our sins
And if you know the verses to use and you explain them that has power it's not the power of your words
It's the power of the word of god
Notice what it says in james 1 verse 18
James 1 verse 18 of his own will begat us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures
Wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear so to speak slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh
Not the righteousness of god
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word
Which is able to save your souls now notice how in verse 18 it tells us the word of god is truth
It says he begat us with the word of truth
It's the words of god that begat you and then it said in verse 21 receive the engrafted
Word receive with meekness the engrafted
Word you say why is the bible specifically saying the word it's telling you the word of god is necessary for salvation to occur
Okay, turn to first peter one first peter one first peter chapter one
Now some of you might say brother stuckey i've heard this preached I already know this
Yeah, but you know as a church
We have to continually not just go to the meat of the word like we will in the second sermon
We got to show the milk of the word
Because we always have new people coming to church and things are kind of new to them
And we need to be rooted and grounded in what we believe
And so if somebody asks you questions about the bible you could say well, this is why we believe this
Okay, not just well, you know, just we always have to teach something new. We can't just always teach something new
We got to teach the basics over and over and over again
You say why because if you don't keep teaching the basics the basics are under attack from other people then
You must keep covering the things we already know and here's the reality we hear things but you know quite honestly
We don't always catch everything
You know when I preach this sermon there's probably going to be verses and you say man
That was a good verse that brother stuckey used
What book was that in?
What chapter I mean my wife told me to bring a pin. Why didn't I listen to her, right?
It's like there's going to be things that you miss so we have to keep bringing them up from time to time. Okay?
First peter one verse 23. This was our verse of the week
Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible
By the word of god first peter one verse 23 by the word of god which liveth and abideth forever
For all flesh is as grass and all the flower glory of man is a flower of glass grass
The grass wither and the flower there fath away
But the word of the lord endureth forever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached on you
Notice the emphasis on the word the word when the gospel is preached. It's the word
It's the words of god the scriptures is what we're preaching the word of god, okay
Now notice what it said in verse 23
being born again
Not of corruptible seed
But of incorruptible by the word of god when it comes to the word of god
The bible says it cannot be a corruptible seed
It cannot be a corruptible seed you say what exactly does that mean brother stuckey?
Well when somebody gets saved we need the spirit of god
We need the scriptures of god, but the scriptures must be
Uncorrupted. Do you see that?
He said what does that mean brother stuckey?
Well turn in your bible to john
316 and i'll show you what it means john 316 and i'll tell you what our position is at church
And then i'll show this to you from the bible
But our position is that in the english language the king james bible is perfect
You say what do you mean by perfect? I mean 100 perfect. We're not going to change anything
Every word is perfect. It's great. It's the word of god. God gave in the english language now
This does not mean that you can't have the word of god in another language
God is outside of languages. He created languages and you could have a perfect word of god in any language. It could be created
Okay, and so in the english language, it's the king james bible now
Here's the thing about this before the king james. There were many other versions that came
And the thing about the versions before the king james is they were good bibles
You say why because it said what the bible actually says
There was only minor changes made when we got to the king james from those earlier bibles
You say why because the people that that that that translated those bibles were trying to do a good job
But it wasn't 100 perfect now after the king james
What we found is a lot of bibles out there on the market and they are not trying to do a good job
You say what are you saying? I'm saying they're intentionally corrupting the word of god
They're intentionally changing the word of god they are teaching different things you say why would they do that?
filthy lucre's sake
For money people buy bibles people buy bibles and they never use them, right?
And it's like you know what you want to make money make a false bible
And you'll make money because people buy it
This is the simplest bible to understand this will change your life and people will buy it and never read it, right?
But see what you have to understand is the modern versions. They have corrupted the word of god
You say what are you talking about? Well, i'll show this to you. You're in john 316
And I want you to look at john 316 because i'm going to read you from the niv, okay
The niv is outside of the king james the biggest bible out there of the modern versions the niv
The non-inspired version is the most popular version
Okay, and so that's what it says in john 316 and i'm going to read you from the niv. Okay for god so loved the world
That he gave his one and only son
He gave his one and only son. Now. Is that what your bible says?
No
The king james bible says only begotten son. You say what's the difference?
Look only begotten god the son is directly from god. He's got the nature of god
He's the only begotten son, but here's the thing about this in the niv. It says the one and only son you say what's wrong with
That well, are you a child of god?
Okay
I mean are you a son or a daughter of god?
Well, according to the niv nobody
Nobody can be a child of god according to the niv. Why because there's only one son
No, jesus is not the only son of god. He's the only begotten son of god. Okay, if you're saved
You are a child of god you say how do you know that because earlier in this chapter it talked about being born again
Talk about contradicting itself in the niv. It says you must be born again, but there's only one son
It's like what in the world? No, I mean god gave his only begotten son. That's what the bible says
Okay, let me read you from the nlt. I'm going to read you just the most common versions the nlt
the nlt
The new lucifer translation, I guess the nlt
For this is how god loved the world. So this is how god loved the world
You want to know how how he loved the world? He gave his one and only son. He gave his one and only son
So this is how much god loves the world. I'm going to make my son die on the cross
So nobody can become a child of god
Wow
You really love the world, right? This is teaching something different
You say I don't like this kind of preaching look. This is teaching a completely different doctrine you say
Oh, it's just a matter of semantics
No, if you actually believe and pay attention the words that are being said it's intentionally teaching something different
Why because they're not trying to do a good job. They have intentionally corrupted the word of god
See the versions before the king james they did not intentionally corrupt the word of god that's the difference
Okay
in the esv
It says for god so loved the world that he gave his only son
So once again only son, which means none of us can become a child of god. Look at john 336. John 336
Look, i'm just showing you the the most famous verses. I mean you could spend sermon after sermon after sermon on this topic
I'm, just showing you verses that we quote all the time out soul winning
I could show you worse errors in them. I could show you where in the niv. Jesus and satan are the same person
I could show that to you in the niv. I'm not going to we don't have time to go into this
It's already going to be a long sermon as it is
Anyway, i'm just showing you the salvation verses and we're talking about salvation and i'm showing you
No one can get saved from these modern versions why they have intentionally corrupted the word of god
No one's going to get saved from an niv and nlt and esv and don't worry that the new king james
Is coming here in a little bit, okay
Notice what it says in john 336. John 336. You're looking at john 336 in the king james or at least I hope you are
Okay
And i'll quote you from the nlt
And anyone who believes in god's son has eternal life anyone who doesn't obey the son
Will never experience eternal life but remains under god's angry judgment, okay
So look according to this anyone who doesn't obey the son
Will never experience eternal life. Do we have to obey?
God to go to heaven
We got to believe on jesus christ
You don't have to follow his rules. You don't have to come to church. You don't have to get baptized
Does god want you to do those things? Absolutely. You don't have to do those things to experience eternal life
What do you have to do? You have to believe on jesus christ
That's what it says throughout this chapter believe believe believe and look this verse doesn't even make sense in other versions because
The first half contradicts the second half the first half is like you got to believe on jesus the second half
Well, you got to obey it's like well, which is it?
It's like it's believe that's what our bible says
Believing it says in the esv whoever believes in the sun as eternal life. Whoever does not obey the sun
Shall not see life, but the wrath of god
Remains on it now turn to first corinthians 1 18 first corinthians 1 18
Look this is only one part of the sermon so i'm not going to spend forever on it
Eventually, i'll preach a whole sermon on why we're king james only but I will tie this into what it means to us here
In the philippines as english is not the only language here
But I want to show you the new king james because the new king james
I will admit is closer to the king james in the niv or the nlta or the esv
But it still is a corruption of god's word
It has still changed god's word, okay
first corinthians 1 verse 18
First corinthians 1 verse 18. This is what it says in the new king james first corinthians 1 18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to us who are being saved
Being saved is salvation a process
Does salva I mean when when a person gets born?
It's like oh man, it took 15 years for that baby to get born
It's like a fifth and I understand sometimes with labor it can take
On on occasions it can take multiple days if it's a really tough labor, but look, you know, it's not like well
I got I fit the next 50 years of my life. I'm working to be born
Right, that's what they're basically saying with salvation. No salvation occurs in an instant you believe on jesus christ
You get saved that is what the bible teaches turn to second corinthians chapter two second corinthians chapter two
second corinthians chapter two
Second corinthians chapter two
Now what's funny about this is there are a lot of baptist churches where they would love that translation
You say why because they will want you to be in fear of your salvation your entire life
It's like you can have no confidence or assurance in those churches because they're like man
You know you say you're saved but you know, you haven't been reading a lot of bible recently
You know, even though you've been at this church for 20 years and but you know, maybe it's just all fake
You know, if you're really saved you'd be walking the walk
If you're really saved, you never get in a fight with your wife if you're really saying what's funny
Is these people say this and it's like are you are you telling me that you just read the bible for hours every day?
It's like come on. They're just lying to you. Okay, second corinthians chapter two verse 15
For we're to god. This is not the king james what i'm reading
You're looking at the king james for we're to god the fragrance of christ among those who are
being saved
Being saved they make salvation a process
It gets worse than that turn to matthew seven matthew seven matthew seven
So in the new king james salvation is a process and that's what most churches want you to to to believe
That's what the catholic church teaches, right?
I mean you don't get saved in a moment in the catholic church. You got to keep the sacraments
You got to take, you know communion every single week
I guess unless you're in lockdown and then god changes his rules, right?
It's like you must take communion every week to be saved
It's like oh we can't let you get saved for the next five months
It's like wow your doctrine kind of went out the window didn't it?
And so notice what it says in matthew seven
verse 13
You're looking at the king james matthew chapter 7 verse 13 matthew chapter 7 verse 13
And i'm going to read you from the new king james
Enter by the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there there are many
Who go in by it not bad so far but notice the next part
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way
Which leads to life and there are few who find it according to the new king james. It is difficult to go to heaven
Now is salvation difficult or is it easy?
I mean, I remember three examples in the book of john about salvation and one of them
Jesus said in john chapter four was drinking a glass of water
Now, is it?
Easy or difficult to drink a glass of water?
Pretty easy, I mean in john 6 verse 48 the famous catholic verse where he says I am that bread of life
Did you know the verse before it is verily verily I say in you he that believeth on him hath everlasting life
You know, I might have misquoted a little i'm not not sure but the verse right before is believe
for everlasting life
So it's showing you that hey eating a slice of bread. That's like believing on jesus. That's how easy it is. Okay
Is it hard to eat a slice of bread?
In john 10, jesus said I am the door now, how about opening a door
Is that hard?
It's pretty easy, isn't it?
Those are things that a young child can do all of them
Right. I mean you can teach an animal to open a door
Right. It's a pretty easy thing to do. But according to the new king james, it is difficult to get to heaven
Now, is it true that few people go to heaven? Yes, it is true, but not because it's hard
Few people go to heaven because they're trusting the wrong thing to get to heaven. Okay, turn to psalm 12 psalm 12
So if my position and my belief and it's never changed ever since I became king
James only a long long time ago like probably 14 15 years ago or 16 or whatever
I don't think anyone can get saved from any modern versions
Any of them right including the king including the new king james, okay
Now look the new king james is not as corrupted as some of the other versions
and you know
if you want to try to make an argument about whether or not we can go into a dumpster outside and find a clean piece
Of bread and a clean piece of cheese and clean pita meat and put it together. We got a sandwich. I mean, maybe
Maybe you could find a piece of bread that's not tainted. But look everything i've seen it's tainted. It's corrupted. It's changed
Okay. Now here's the thing the versions before the king james though. Guess what people use those versions to get people saved
You say why they didn't corrupt god's word
Now look was god still in the process of purifying and making it perfect. Yes, but they weren't intentional corruptions
The modern versions are intentionally corrupted by the devil
Okay
Notice psalm 12 verse 6 psalm chapter 12 verse 6 and you know
What's funny about this people will show you like one verse in the new king king james that is similar to the king james
They're like well look at this verse. It's pretty similar. Yeah, but here's the thing when I go soul winning. I don't use one verse
Right
I mean I use many verses
It's like yeah, maybe you got one or two verses there
But did you know when you go soul winning you use 10 15 20 verses you don't use one verse
Okay, psalm 12 verse 6 psalm 12 verse 6
The words of the lord are pure words
As silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times thou shalt keep them. Oh lord
Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever god's promise here in psalm 12 is about purifying his word
And notice it says seven times and what you'll find is before the king james there were versions that were not perfect
But they still contain most of god's word and you could still accurately say this is god's word because they weren't intentionally corrupting it
Where there's some minor changes very minor
I mean you look at those versions and a lot of the verses were the exact same
Other than the fact that the spellings were different because we're talking the 1500s or whatever. Okay
Now turn in your bible to first corinthians two first corinthians chapter two
And so look the proof is in the pudding right and when the king james came out that was just universally accepted
By english speakers as the word of god now that does not mean that we cannot have the word of god in other languages though
Because look psalm 12 was written before english was even a language
I mean that was written before jesus died on the cross
And so look that promise is going to hold true in many different languages
I mean the word of god could be put in a lot of different languages. Okay. Now when we go sowing here
I'm, not telling you to only use english when you go sowing because look when I go sowing do I only use english?
No, I use tagalog
I quote verses in tagalog don't I I don't just quote them in english you say why because for some people it's easier to understand
Now I don't have time to go super in-depth in this but let me give you an example of a verse here in this bible
Now here is a side-by-side english in tagalog new testament, okay
Now I don't believe that tagalog is 100 perfect because I can see changes they made and all of us who have looked at this
Would agree on that that there's changes and things that are wrong that they've done and everything
But I still use this and I can still show them verses and explain salvation
I quote romans 323 from here and romans 310 and sometimes I take this one with me and show them
Let me give an example as what do we do as soul winners when it comes to this issue?
Romans 6 23 and you can turn there actually turn to romans 6 23
I'll read you here in tagalog here in a second turn to romans 6 23
And in the second half of romans 6 23 it says the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord
Right the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord now in this bible that we have here
It says in tagalog
Okay, when I quote this verse I do not say
You say why sounds too much like
And people are like I agree you got to do the will of god to be saved
Yeah, we're on the same page. I thought we weren't now I quoted as
Um
You say why because
Is more clear to people
Everybody understands that okay. So look when I use this and there's many verses
I don't make any changes, but I quote as
Now i'm not saying that the other one is an intentional corruption of the word of god
But i'm just saying that's how I say it
Right now here's the thing about this after it says
Um
Now let me ask you a question what if this changed it to
Is that a corruption of
It's the same thing
Do you understand what i'm talking about in the king james in the english language?
That's not a corruption to say
Um
It's the same thing. Okay. Look the versions before the king james they weren't corrupting god's word
Was there slight differences? Yeah, like
That's not a corruption on god's word and they're both fine
Okay
Now obviously we have the king james bible
We're not changing anything
But what I want you to understand is the ones that have come since then have changed and intentionally corrupted god's word
It's it's not the same as the king james at all
Okay now turn back to first corinthians two first corinthians two. Why is this important?
Because even though we're king james only we don't want to go crazy about this
Because some people go so crazy that they think you have to learn english to get saved
It's like you have to learn the english language to get saved
What about before the english language existed?
They seem to think salvation is designated to one language
What we teach and believe is god's word is just as powerful in any language when it's translated correctly
It is just as powerful whether it's english or spanish or french or whatever language now obviously at soul
As soul winners, we need to do our due diligence to make sure what we're showing them is correct and is proper
And we understand that but this idea that you must learn english to get saved is ridiculous
The word of god can be translated into any language and realize this
So winners that lived 600 years ago and 700 years ago
Did you realize most of them probably didn't have a bible in their hands?
I mean in today's world everybody has a bible
But did you realize that for most of human history people did not have bibles you say why?
It would cost like 50 000 pesos to buy a bible
Right now you buy this thing for a couple bucks. So everyone has a bible
I mean I have lots of bibles at my house
But you know it used to be you would literally save up a year's salary instead of buying a car before cars were around
You save up a year or two salary to buy a bible. That was your family bible
Nowadays we all go so so what did soul winners do?
600 years ago when they didn't have a bible
You know what because here's the thing many people in the past spoke many languages and you know what they would get people saved in various
Languages they would translate the gift of god into another language. So someone would understand and guess what?
It's not hard to translate the gift of god
Right, it's not like it took me two years of studying tagalog to figure out
I mean that's kind of like day one sort of material. Okay, it's pretty easy. Okay, so yeah, we're king james only here
We believe it's perfect. But you know when we go soul winning can people get saved through tagalog or another language?
Absolutely
As long as it's the same words of god, okay
first crantheons chapter two first crantheons two
So number one, we need the spirit of god to get saved
Number two, we need the scriptures of god to get saved number three
We need the soul winner to get saved the spirit of god the scriptures the soul winner. Okay, first crantheons two verse 12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world
But the spirit which is of god that we might know the things that are freely given to us of god
Which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the holy ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness onto him
Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned in verse 14. It says the natural man
Does not understand the bible that's what it's teaching the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god
You say why this is a spiritual book
And the natural man the unsaved person the person that is not regenerated
They cannot understand a spiritual book unless they have the spirit of god inside of them
The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god the bible says okay turn to acts chapter eight acts eight
You say well, how do they get saved? They get saved through a soul winner
That's what we're going to see you need a soul winner for salvation to occur
You say what if there's the spirit of god and there's the scriptures because this is a spiritual book
And the the spirit of god is upon this book and I agree with that
What if somebody read this book on their own they could not get saved
That's what i'm saying. You need a soul winner. You need the spirit of god
But you also need more than the spirit of god. You need the scriptures of god
You need the spirit and the scriptures, but you also need more than that
You also need the soul winner for a salvation to occur everyone in this room who's saved
You got saved because somebody showed this to you
Someone explained to you the gospel acts chapter 8 verse 30
And philip ran the other to him and heard him read the prophet isaiah and said understandest thou what thou readest. Do you understand this?
And he said how can I?
Except some man should guide me and he desired philip that he would come up and sit with him
Do you realize that unsaved people if they were to read this book, they'd be like I don't get it
It doesn't make sense to me
Why they don't have the spirit of god inside of them?
But did you realize that when you get saved you need not that any man teach you
You can read this book on your own and understand there's nothing I preach in sermons that you can't learn on your own
Everything I learned from the bible it is possible if you put in the time and the effort
And you learn and you memorize and you read you could learn the exact same things that i've learned
Why because we have the same spirit of god and we have the same scriptures the same word of god, okay?
Acts chapter 8 verse 32
The place of the scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before
His shearer so open he not his mouth in his humiliation
His judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth
So what is this man reading here? Well, he's reading isaiah 53. He's reading a prophecy of jesus christ
Here's a man who fears god who's reading the word of god
And he's reading about a prophecy of jesus christ and he's like I don't get it
If it were possible for someone to get saved without a soul winner this man would have done it
Because he's reading about jesus christ. He's reading exactly what he needs to read and he's like I don't get it
You know, is he prophesying of him or some other man? I just don't understand this
Why because he's not because he doesn't have the spirit of god to understand these things verse 34
And the eunuch answered philip and said I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man
Then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached onto him jesus
Why because a soul winner is required for someone to get saved now in this story the spirit of god sends?
Him to preach the gospel
Did you realize that god didn't just come down and preach the gospel himself?
The spirit of god doesn't preach the gospel himself you say why because you cannot get saved unless you have a soul winner
Turn to acts chapter 10 acts 10
Acts 10
Acts chapter 10
Acts chapter 10 verse 1
And it you know, it's what's funny about this is
You're going to rarely hear people argue this if they are a soul winner, right?
I mean the people that don't go soul winning and have never gotten someone saved
Well, I mean, I think god could get anyone saved. I don't doubt god's power. It's just like
I mean have you have you not read
Because here's the thing god gave a method
Okay, he's not going to change that method you never see god coming down from heaven and just preaching the gospel to all these people
When I mean, how did you get saved?
Did you see a bright light up in heaven and then all of a sudden god came down you saw several angels and you know?
Somebody gave you the gospel and you got saved. Okay, acts chapter 10. Let me give you another example
Acts 10 verse 1 acts 10 verse 1
There is a certain man in cesarea called cornelius a centurion of the band called the italian band
A devout man and one that feared god with all his house which gave much alms to the people and prayed to god
Always here is a man who fears god the bible says
This is an unsaved man who fears god and he fears god with all his house. What does that mean?
Everybody in his house fears god the entire house fears god and nobody is saved
Did you know it's possible to fear god as an unsaved person?
Did you know not every unsaved person is a reprobate child of the devil?
Okay, it's possible to fear god and try to just do what's right even as an unsaved person
But what's not possible is to get saved on your own?
If anyone could get saved on his own it would be cornelius because it said he feared god
With all his house, which means he was doing a good job raising his family verse number three
He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of god coming into him and saying onto him
Cornelius and when he looked on him, he was afraid and said what is it lord?
And he said unto him thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before god
And now send men to japan call for one simon whose surname is peter now, let me ask you a question
Why doesn't the angel just preach the gospel?
Because god uses humans to preach the gospel
That's why the angel doesn't preach the gospel. The angel says we're going to send a soul into your direction
But it's not a job the angel can do a soul winner must be there
Verse number six. He lodges with one simon a tanner whose house is by the seaside
He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do go down to verse number 22 verse 22 verse 22
Verse number 22
And it says in verse 22 and they said cornelius the centurion a just man and one that fearth
God and a good report among all the nation of the jews was warned from god by an holy angel
To send for the end of his house and to hear
words of
The do you notice the emphasis on the word of god again?
He's hearing words from you not the gospel in the sky or or the wordless book
Right. I mean like the wordless book this like coloring book that people show it's like well well kids can't understand
They don't understand a gift. So you got to show and if you don't know what i'm talking about
It's like well, that's that's good. It's like it's this bizarre technique from baptist where they they take a book with no words
And it just has colors
Hey, here's the color black and I could be getting this wrong
I've never used this but here's the color black, you know, your sin is like black and bad or whatever and here's red
You know, you got the blood of jesus and you can be they'll show you white you can be white as snow
And here's gold you can walk on the streets of gold one day and they don't use any bible
Boy they wouldn't like this sermon and by the way, you might not realize this he did not invent this book
But the man who popularized the wordless book was charles spurgeon
That great man of the faith, you know 150 years ago. He's the one who popularized that book
Yeah, so much for being a great soul winner. It's like anyone who's read the bible knows you need the word of god
You never see them showing it. It's just like I will show the colors whereby thou might be saved
I mean what in the world? It's like you're never going to see that in the bible
What you see is words that is how someone gets saved
Look at verse 36 verse 36
The word which god sent unto the children of israel preaching peace by jesus christ. He is lord of all that word
I say notice how the emphasis is on the word the word the word you say why god is trying to drive home a point
You say brother sucky I get it. Well, i'm trying to drive it home just like god is
Okay that the scriptures are necessary for salvation the soul winner uses the scriptures
What happens the soul winner uses a spiritual book that is alive?
And the spirit of god can make people alive when the soul winner is using a spiritual book the words, okay?
verse 43 verse 43
To him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins
While peter yet spake these words the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the word
Okay now go to acts 11, let me just prove to you real quickly that these people
In acts 10 they were unsaved until peter preaches the gospel
Okay, acts chapter 11 and the second sermon today is is complicated, but it's shorter. Okay. So this first sermon is simpler
But it's longer. Okay, so we will be a little bit over time this first term. The second sermon is a lot shorter
Acts 11 verse 13
And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house which stood and said on to him
Send men to japa and call for simon whose surname is peter who shall tell the words?
Whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. So peter's the one who got him saved. Okay
It wasn't the angel
Peter's the one who preached the gospel now go to romans 10 romans 10 romans 10
romans chapter 10
And we'll look at just a few more places here romans chapter 10
And of course romans 10 is the famous passage on calling upon the lord and there's a lot of great verses in there and everything
And I want you to notice in verse number 13 verse 13
Where it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved
How then shall they call in him in whom they have not believed?
So you got to believe first right and everyone who believes is going to call the bible says but you must believe okay
First and then it says and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not hurt?
How can you believe in something unless you've actually heard it right?
And how shall they hear without a preacher? Do you notice in verse number 14?
How are they going to hear without a preacher?
Now realize when it says a preacher there, it's not saying like a pastor or someone preaching a sermon that would apply to a
Six-year-old that's preaching the gospel to someone whether they're male or female. It's saying anyone who's preaching the word of god, you know
I'm we're not saying preaching a sermon but you can preach the gospel if you're saved
Okay, whether you're young or old male or female you can preach the gospel
And so how are people going to get saved unless there's a preacher?
And then notice in verse 17 how the bible is consistent. So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god
Once again, you need the scriptures to get saved. Okay
So, yeah, you have a soul winner you have the scriptures and you have the spirit of god now go to matthew seven matthew seven
matthew chapter seven
Let me just talk about one more kind of side point here real quickly because here's a question you get asked
Are you here from time to time like what if there was an unsaved person?
Who was using the word of god?
He was using the scriptures and he explained the gospel just like you and I would explain the gospel, but he was not saved
Could he get somebody saved
And the answer to that is no
He could not get somebody saved now
Here's the thing i'm going to prove this to you from the bible and it doesn't matter what your personal thoughts are
It matters what the word of god says
But you say brother stuckey. I mean, there's the soul winner
There's the scriptures and you got you got the spirit. So why couldn't they get saved? Wait a minute. How's there a spirit?
How is there the spirit of god from an unsaved person?
Unsafe people are not indwelled with the spirit of god
Save people are indwelled with the spirit of god. So that's what's the wrong there's no spirit
That's the problem. You got two out of three and here's the thing
You need the scriptures. You need the soul winner. You also need the spirit of god and an unsaved person
They don't have the spirit of god
And here's what you find. There are people that end up being bad people like judas iscariot
Look, I will tell you I promise you judas iscariot
Had a good gospel presentation
He didn't get anybody saved but I guarantee you it sounded really good say how do you know that brother stuckey?
Because here's the thing if his gospel was terrible and jesus said one of you is going to betray me
Everyone's going to be like
It's that guy
It's like I never thought he was getting anybody saved
It's like he'd skip points and you know, it was all over the place and no nobody knew you say why?
Well, because judas probably had a pretty good gospel presentation. It was probably pretty convincing
He probably said all the right words and you know, what made judas so deceptive is the fact
He was probably a pretty zealous soul winner and he really sounded like he knew what he was talking about
That probably added to why he was so deceptive and look in the same thing in today's world bad people could go through the motions
Because here's the thing the devil doesn't have to worry about somebody getting saved from an unsafe person
So they can go and preach the gospel a million times and people are gonna be like man
That guy's like the most zealous person that guy's like the best christian here and then oftentimes those are the bad people
I mean the bible says about the pharisees that they compass sea and land to make one
Proselyte and when they make him they make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves
They compass sea and land. What does that mean? They put in great effort just to convert one person to their damnable heresy
So, you know what that indicates bad people can be some of the most zealous people
Okay
Notice what it says in matthew seven matthew seven in verse 15
Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves
You shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit
So the bible is going to give us two different types of trees
There's good trees and there are corrupt trees a good tree brings forth good fruit a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit
Did you know there's trees that don't bring forth any fruit?
Right
We're talking about good trees and corrupt trees. There could be a tree that produces nothing
In fact, most people that are safe produce no fruit, right?
So here's what it says and you don't have to turn there but in proverbs 11 30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise
So when you cross reference with that terminology of being a tree when it's talking about a good tree that's referring to the soul winner
Okay, a good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit
So what it's saying is, you know what we're going to see these trees. What does it bring forth?
Now if it's not bringing forth anything, then you can't really tell
But if you see corrupt fruit coming forth, then you can tell okay
Notice what it says in verse 18 a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. It's not possible for a good tree to bring forth evil fruit
What does that mean?
Look when you go soul winning you don't have to worry about accidentally converting someone to being a muslim
I mean if you're explaining the bible and someone says man
You just convinced me. I believe in mohammed now. I didn't before but I believe allah is my god
It's like man, you convinced me. I'm just going to put a red dot on my head. I'm a hindu now
It's like man, it all made sense when you showed me john 3 16. That's not going to happen
Okay
If you're a saved person, is it true that we can preach the gospel and they don't get saved
Yeah, that's true, but you can't make somebody lose their salvation. You can't make somebody become, you know, just another religion
Why a good tree doesn't bring forth corrupt fruit
But also a corrupt tree doesn't bring forth good fruit the bible says
And so an unsaved person they're not going to bring forth any good fruits
Now they can go through the motions and pretend like they believe it or whatever
But there's no spirit of god that's working in that conversation
And here's the thing you say what's more important the soul winner the scriptures or the spirit they're equally important
Because all are necessary. You can't say the spirit of god's more important than the scriptures
Why they're both necessary. You can't say the spirit of god is more important than the soul winner. Why they're necessary
All three of these things are necessary for a salvation to occur
Verse 19 every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire
Wherefore by their fruits he shall know them the bible says we can see bad people we can tell by their fruit
Okay, go to romans one. I'll show you one last verse romans chapter one romans chapter one
Romans chapter one
Now, let me just say this I have personally
Seen somebody preach the gospel and you know, i'm not going to name the name
Some of you would know who it is. Some of you don't there's someone from the u.s
And this person turned out to be a false prophet
And I heard this person preach the gospel and they had a very good gospel presentation
But they turned out not to even be saved themselves
It's like I heard them preach the gospel and it was very good and when I say very good
Here's the thing, you know when when people are explaining all the points in the gospel i'm saying i'll say yeah
They did a good job. But here's what i'm saying. It's one of the best gospel
Gospel presentations i've ever heard i'm just saying the timing on everything just everything just explained very clearly
He did a really really good job and the guy isn't even saved himself
Here's the thing
He didn't produce any fruit no matter how eloquent his words are you say why because it's the spirit that regenerates people
And if they don't have the spirit of god, it doesn't matter if it's the greatest sounding thing you've ever heard
No one can get saved why you need the spirit of god
Romans 1 verse 16. I'll show you one last verse to prove this romans 1 verse 16
For i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ
For it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the jew first and also to the greek verse 17
For therein is the righteousness of god revealed
from faith
to faith
As it is written the just shall live by faith. You say what does that mean?
It's saying whether it's a jew or greek red and yellow black and white whatever country
Salvation occurs when somebody of faith
Passes it on to somebody else and then they receive that same faith from faith
To faith that is how soul winning works. That is how soul winning has always worked
There's not a single person who has ever lived who got saved on their own
And look i'm saying you can go back to adam and eve
You say well, how did adam and eve get saved doesn't the bible say that they heard the lord walking in the garden in the midst
of the day
They heard because somebody preached the gospel to them
and then ever since that you know how salvation has been passed on from adam and eve to
Abel not to kane right to able
passed on to seth
And passed on from that
Okay, a soul winner has always been necessary and god is not going to change his methods
This is how it's been. It's always been from faith
to faith
So look if we don't go soul winning
There's not going to be god coming down from heaven and preaching the gospel to these people
Now here's the thing god wants them to be saved, you know more than we want them saved
He would love it for everybody to get saved. He's not going to force them to get saved
And he's not going to do it himself. You say why he's given to us the ministry of reconciliation
So look when a salvation occurs what is necessary? Well, one thing is the spirit of god
The spirit of god needs to be there
And so if we want the spirit of god to work through us more we need to live a more godly life
I mean if you're going out if you went out last night and you committed adultery
Then you come out soul winning today
Good luck with an unclean vessel how the spirit of god can really use you in a big way
You need to be living a godly life. We need the spirit of god when we go soul winning
That's why we pray for god's power
That's why we believe in a spiritual battle that's taking place that we don't see with our eyes
It's like the wind that you don't see with your eyes when somebody gets born again
Okay, there's that spiritual battle the spirit of god is necessary also necessary are the scriptures of god
This does not mean it has to be in the king james bible because in this country people get saved in tagalog all the time
You could use a tagalog bible and show them. I mean make sure those verses are correct and accurate and saying the same things
But it's not like god is just designated to only one language
He's outside of languages. It says forever. Oh lord thy word is settled in heaven
God created the languages and people can get saved in any language, okay
But there's also necessary is the soul winner. Let's go to the word of prayer
Dear heavenly father. Thank you for allowing us to be here today and just getting to see your word and uh,
Kind of a foundational topic in regards to salvation
but this is an important topic god help us to all understand this and be able to teach other people and prove this and know
What we believe because you know here in the philippines, you know
Most baptist churches would probably disagree with a few of the things I said here
But these are things that are very clear in the bible god and help us to understand the importance
Of going out so winning with the spirit of god upon our lives
And help us understand the importance of using the scriptures using the word of god when we go soul winning
And help us to understand how we as soul winners are necessary for salvation to occur
No one is going to get saved unless there are soul winners preaching the gospel. Let's go. We we pray this in jesus name. Amen