in the toilet.
Just over in the board
Just over in the glory land.
And with Kindred, Saint, there forever be.
Just over in the glory land.
I'll join the happy angel.
And just over in the glory...
I'll stand just over in the glory land.
When the blood was drawn, I will shout and sing just over in the glory land.
together, just to worship, to be freely in the house of the Lord this morning, to
sing praises to your name, to learn from your word. I just pray that today that
you would prepare our hearts each to become a better soul winner and to
really take the message that you've laid on Pastor's Heart to each of our hearts
and to take that with us as we go our separate ways to do great works for you.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Alright, for our second hymn this
whosoever meaneth me.
Two eleven.
Whosoever meaneth me.
We'll sing there right on the verse.
I am happy today and the sun shines bright.
The clouds have been rolled away.
we're actually going to be doing a soul-winning seminar. So raise your hand if you need a bulletin
and if you have not gotten a handout with the gospel presentation, that should be going to
every person. So raise your hand, the ushers will bring those around.
On the front is our Bible memory verse of the week,
Galatians chapter number one, verse 18.
Keep working hard on that memory passage there.
On the left of your bulletin,
you'll see our service times listed Sunday morning
at 10.30 a.m., Sunday evening at 4.30,
and our Wednesday evening Bible study at seven o'clock.
Below that, we have our soul winning times listed there, as well as our upcoming nursing home preaching ministry schedule.
And below that, you'll see our year to date statistics, 277 Salvation for the Year. Praise God for that.
upcoming events on May 10th there's going to be a Mother's Day brunch and all
ladies and their daughters are invited to that that's going to be at the church
building Saturday May 10th at 11 a.m. I did get a question about the soul
winning rally there's still going to be a soul winning rally that day but we
start at 10 so we'll be done and gone before the ladies event begins so still
soul winning that day
May 18th, that's going to be a men's preaching night for the evening service followed by a potluck
And so I'll make sure to get a sign-up sheet for that by this evening out
Below that is May 31st, a Durant Oklahoma Soul Winning Marathon with Steadfast Baptist Church,
and we're really excited to be teaming up with Steadfast for that.
Pastor Shelley did ask me to get him a headcount as soon as possible, so I do have a sign-up sheet in the back.
If you'd like to go to that event, please let us know so that we can get all of the food and everything ordered with the proper count.
Below that is June 28th. We're having a fellowship day at the Tinker Air Force Base watching the air show there.
And then the next day, June 29th, Brother Ben Naim from Steadfast is going to preach both services for us.
We're looking forward to having him.
August 27th through the 31st is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
It's gonna be an awesome conference looking forward to some great hard
preaching and lots of fun events and just seeing brothers and Christ down there.
I cannot wait. I'm excited. I hope you guys will join us for that. And lastly,
October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas missions trip and we're really
looking forward to that. On the back you'll see our prayer list. There's some
requests for this week. Please make sure you keep all of those in prayer. If you have any prayer
requests please email the church. I'll add those and there's also some information there below about
giving or if you'd like to update your information or if you're a first-time visitor. We'd appreciate
you to fill that out. It's going to be it for announcements this morning. We'll go and go to
212 212 Oh happy day. We'll sing there right there on the first
are being passed. Turn, if you would, to Romans chapter number one. Romans chapter number...
Romans 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated under the gospel of God
which he had promised before by his prophets and the holy scriptures concerning his son Jesus
Christ our Lord which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the
son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations
For his name among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ
To all that be in Rome beloved of God called to be saints grace to you in peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ
First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout all throughout the whole world
For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son
That without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers
Making requests if by any means now at length
I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come under you
For I long to see you that I may impart under you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established that is
that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Now I would not have you, Ignorant Brethren, that oft times I purposed to come unto you,
but was let hitherto that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other gentiles.
I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and to salvation,
to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith,
as it is written, that just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God has showed it unto them
For the invisible things of him for the creation of the world are clearly seen
Being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead
So that they are without excuse
Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.
Provesing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like unto corrupt to corruptible man into birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanliness, through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor
their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped
and served the creature more than a Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.
For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women to change
Likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lusts one
toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meat, and even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are
not convenient.
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whisperers, backbiders, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,
Who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death
Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them and them to do them. Let's pray
Gracious Lord, thankful to be here in your house thankful to have your word
I pray at this time you feel a pastor always with your spirit Lord help us to learn more about soul winning to sharpen our game
Or to always improve
Ready to be pleasing in your sight in Jesus name we pray
Amen. All right. Well, we are in Romans chapter number one and I want to point out in verse 14.
Let's start reading there. The Bible says I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians,
both to the wise and to the unwise. So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you
that are at Rome also, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
and also to the Greek title my sermon this morning is ready
to preach the gospel ready to preach the gospel of course here at the apostle
Paul's the author of
Romans and he's pointing out the fact that hey he's ready to preach the gospel to
those
that are at Rome and you know this is the attitude that all Christians need to
have
is that you can get to a place where you're ready to preach
the gospel we don't want to be people where
There's an opportunity to get someone saved
and pull them out of the fire,
and we just don't know how.
Or we're just not skilled enough to be able to do it.
This is something that is a calling
of every single Christian, man, woman, boy, and girl.
And so we're gonna be going through.
A very practical sermon this morning, it's not going to be like most sermons, it's just
going to be basically a soul winning seminar, we're going to go very practically step by
step on how to preach the gospel.
And at the end I'm actually going to open up to questions.
So if any men have any questions about soul winning, save those questions for the end
and I'll be happy to answer those for you.
Now just to give you an idea of where we're at as a church, since the day that this became
Praise God, we've had 342 salvations.
So that is great, really excited for that.
I'm really pleased and thankful to God for that.
But I will say that.
We have a lot of great soul winning opportunities coming soon and I want us to be as prepared as
possible to make the most of those opportunities because you know we have new people, we have
people who are new soul winners, we have people who have been out of soul winning for a while
and kind of getting back into it and of course we also have a lot of seasoned vets too but you
know iron sharpeneth iron I'm sure we could still learn some things you could always learn something
new about soul winning so I definitely want everyone to pay attention this morning now
What I'm going to be doing is I'm going to go through the exact presentation that I use
and that I've used for 12 years.
So if you are a new soul winner or you've been out of it for a really long time and
you're really rusty, I would just recommend that you follow this to a tee.
And again, if anyone doesn't have one, raise your hand again and Ash will bring you one
because this is important for the sermon.
you know, as you get more experienced over time, of course, you might tailor things to your liking.
There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever, but I just want everyone to have just a very simple
how to preach the gospel so that you could follow along with that. So this part isn't
going to be in your notes, but let's talk a little bit about the introduction
All right, we should be at someone's door being friendly.
Don't be overly just stoic and overly businesslike.
Now, of course, we wanna become all things to all men.
So I will adjust my attitude a little bit
depending on the type of person I'm talking to.
If someone's just really happy and really excited,
I'll kinda match them a little bit.
And if it's like some jacked bodybuilder
who's really stoic, I'll be a little more stoic with him.
But like your default outsole winning
be friendly, happy, not being a jerk,
not looking like you're super sad and miserable
to be out soul winning.
You want to greet people, friendly,
have a friendly tone in your voice.
And this is also important.
Make sure that you invite someone to church.
This is how you should start the gospel presentation
because we have those church invites for a reason.
And sometimes I've seen people, they just completely skip over this.
They don't do this, they're just like,
hey, we're here preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
First of all, it can come off as a little bit weird
from someone who's just like, you open the door and you're just like,
hey, I'm here to preach you the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It's a lot more socially normal if you're there to invite them to church.
That's number one.
Also, we want them to come to church.
We want them to be here so here you are talking with a stranger and you have an
opportunity to invite them to church. Invite them to church. It's very
important don't skip that step. Also this sets you up for the next question
that you should ask once you invite them to church is that you absolutely should
ask this question. Do you go to church anywhere?
And again, a lot of people skip this, but here's why it's important to ask this question.
Because the answer that they give back to you is going to give you a lot of important
information that you need to have to effectively preach them the Gospel.
So someone says, yeah, I go to St. Mary's Catholic Church.
You know, okay, this person is unsaved.
This person's going to believe in work salvation, super hardcore.
They're going to believe all this false doctrine.
or someone says, oh, I don't go to any church.
I'm an atheist.
Okay, I've seen people kind of freeze at this point
where they're like, oh, what do I do now?
Here's what you say to an atheist
or someone that just doesn't believe the Bible,
is you say, okay, well hey, more important than church,
we're just trying to give people an opportunity
to hear at least once in their life
what the Bible says it takes to get to heaven.
Can I show you that?
Because then you're not gonna be like,
oh, you don't believe, well, I can't preach to you.
Sometimes if you offer it like that,
Every once in a while an atheist will listen.
And I have gotten atheists saved.
Of course, they're not the most receptive group.
They're extremely unreceptive.
Most of the time they're not going to listen.
But I found that that question kind of gives you
a better chance to preach them the gospel.
But for most people, you're going to ask them,
hey, do you go to church anywhere?
And they're going to say, yeah,
I go to St. Mary's Church or whatever.
And then you say this, okay, well more importantly
than going to church, God forbid if you were to die today,
are you 100% sure that you'd be going to heaven?
That's the question that you need to ask.
And here's the thing, there's a couple of different things
that could happen in that situation.
Number one is that they could be honest and just say no.
And that's great because if they say no, you could just say like,
okay, well if you had to guess, what do you think someone would have to do to get to heaven?
And then they're going to give you some sort of answer. Or if they say yes,
again you ask the same question. Okay, what do you think that it takes for
someone
to get to heaven? They said yes, I'm sure. What does it take? Now their answer is
going to be
very important because if they tell you, oh, salvation is by trusting alone in
Jesus Christ and it's only by faith alone.
Sounds like that person saved, you know, and I'm not going to sit there and just preach the gospel to every saved person
I run into, you know, this is the Bible Belt. There's definitely a lot of saved people here
But if someone gives you that answer, there's nothing wrong with asking an additional question like, hey, you know
Once you're saved, you think you could ever lose your salvation
And if they say no once you're saved, you're always saved move on to the next person
You know what? I mean don't sit there and just preach the gospel to saved people all day long because I run into a lot of
Saved people in Oklahoma City. There's a lot of saved people here. There's a lot of churches out there preaching the gospel
But most of the time what they're going to tell you is oh, yeah, I'm sure what do you think you have to do to get to heaven?
Well, live a good life, be a good person, follow the commandments, repent of all my sins.
You know, and that should indicate to you that, okay, this person is not saved.
And if they just continue to give you a vague answer and you just can't pin them down, it's
very annoying when people do that, but you might want to consider asking this question.
You could just say like, okay well you know some people think salvation is by faith alone
in Jesus Christ, others think it's by living a good life, some people think both.
Which one do you think?
and you would be surprised at how just clearly they will answer that question.
And it'll just cut through all the confusion and you trying to pin down what they believe
and most of the time they will just straight up tell you both.
They'll just be honest and it's just like okay this person's not saved.
And when they answer that my goal is not to sit here and beat them up or make them feel stupid.
My goal is to get an end to preach them the gospel so they get saved.
So I usually in a very gently way say something like
You know, of course, God wants us to live a good life.
Of course, God wants us to keep His commandments, but when it comes to getting to heaven, the
Bible actually says it's a free gift.
Can I show you that? That's simple.
You know, you don't want to sit there and like,
obviously agree with their false statement,
but you also just don't want to be a total jerk,
which is like, that's completely opposite of everything that the Bible teaches.
It's clear you've never even read the Bible once in your life.
Can I enlighten you? You know what I mean?
Like, be friendly, be nice, but you do want to correct what they said
and offer them the chance to hear.
Now go to, if you will, John chapter number five.
I do think it's very important to ask permission to preach people the Gospel
because a lot of people are just too nice and they don't really want to hear,
they're not really listening, but they're maybe just too nice to tell you no
and sometimes you can waste a lot of time out soul winning by not asking that question.
You want to ask, hey, can I take a couple minutes and show you from the Bible
how you can be 100% sure you're going to heaven.
Or hey, God wants us to live a good life,
but the Bible actually says it's a free gift.
It has nothing to do with how you live your life.
Can I show you that from the Bible?
Ask that question because that's gonna cut through
to people who are actually interested in the gospel,
want to hear the truth,
versus people who are just too polite
and are just gonna waste your time.
John 5 verse two.
Now, there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market, a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water, whosoever then first after the troubling of the water was stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
and a certain man was there which had an infirmity 30 and 8 years.
When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had now been now a long time in that case, he
saith unto him, Notice this question, Wilt thou be made whole?
That is an important question notice Jesus is asking this person do you want to be healed?
Do you want to hear the Bible?
Do you want to hear the truth because there's a lot of people in this world that do not want to hear the Bible?
There's a lot of people here that do not want to hear the gospel, and we are just going
to go spin our wheels and waste a bunch of time without asking this question, preaching
to people who aren't interested, meanwhile, their neighbor is interested.
Meanwhile, the guy down the road is super interested, and he could get saved if you
just asked some wise questions to cut through between people who want to hear and people
who don't want to hear.
Now, let's go ahead and get into the gospel portion.
So you've introduced yourself, you've asked them, you've given an invite to church, you've
asked them what church they go to, you've asked them if they're 100 percent sure.
You've found out if they're saved or not,
you've asked permission to preach the gospel.
Now we're gonna get into the actual portion
of preaching the gospel.
And you don't have to use all the same verses as me,
but I do strongly, strongly believe
that you should follow the same order that's on your sheet.
Do this, in your gospel presentation,
you should cover sin first, hell second,
the gospel of Jesus Christ, third,
Faith alone, fourth, eternal, security, fifth, and calling upon the name of the Lord last.
Because man, I have seen some bad soul winning over the years where people will start soul
winning and they'll just start talking about, it's faith alone, it's faith alone, faith
alone.
Faith alone in who?
Faith alone in what?
Like you skipped the fact that they're sinners, you skipped hell, you skipped the death, burial
and resurrection of Christ, and you're just talking about faith alone, that is bad soul
You don't have to use all the same verses, but you do have to use this order.
And so this order is super, super important.
So number one, let's talk about...
Sin, Romans 3 verse 23 says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
So I'll say to someone, hey, you know, first of all, I just want to show you Romans 3
23.
The Bible says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Bible teaches that all of us have sinned.
We're all sinners, right?
And I'll ask for that confirmation.
And 99.999% of people are going to very quickly understand and agree with this.
as much time as is necessary on each point.
But don't go overboard.
Like if someone understands a point, move on.
You're not there to spend 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes with someone.
If someone understands what sin is and they believe that they're a sinner, move on like
that.
This is the quickest portion of the Gospel for sure.
Now if someone's a very young child, you might ask this question, you know, do you
know what a sin is?
And most people do.
Most people say, oh yeah, you know it's breaking God's commandments, doing something wrong.
And I'll quickly explain that to them if necessary.
There's verses that are just spelled out, and then there's verses that have a little asterisk next to them.
Those are just extra verses if you need to prove more points to them,
but quite honestly when it comes to the sins part,
I only use this verse and it usually takes a couple of seconds to get past this point.
If someone refuses to acknowledge that they are a sinner, there's not anything I can do for that person.
And what you have to understand, the Bible says that in heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.
If you get to a point in your Gospel where someone, it's not just that they're having a hard time understanding,
they're having a hard time grasping, but they're just vehemently denying the doctrine that you're showing them.
They're just rejecting the Bible. It's time to leave. Time to go to a different person.
Don't sit there and argue and debate with people. You're there to teach them.
You're there to preach to them.
Do not allow yourself to get into a position
where someone's preaching to you.
Okay, you're wasting your time.
Make sure you're preaching to them.
So after this, after I've shown them Romans 3.23,
I will say simply, you know, the Bible says
that we've all sinned and because of that,
the Bible teaches that we all have a punishment
that we deserve because of that sin.
Romans chapter six, verse 23.
The Bible says, for the wages of sin is death.
Now, I usually stop reading the verse right there
because that's the only portion of the verse
that I wanna highlight at this time.
If you wanna read the whole verse, no problem whatsoever.
I just read that part, for the wages of sin is death.
And this is what I say.
I just say, when we die, there's one of two places
we can go, heaven or where?
And they always tell me the right answer.
Now, I've heard some people talk about when they go to this verse, they'll say, for the
wages of sin is death, and they'll say, now the first death is physical and the second
death is spiritual.
And I understand what you're thinking when you say that, but that is not biblically correct
And the first death is not physical.
The first death is spiritual.
The first death is your soul going to hell.
That's what this verse is teaching.
For the wages of sin is death.
Because we've sinned, we deserve hell.
Now what's ironic is that the second death
is actually what's physical.
It's physical and spiritual.
But those who have been in hell are resurrected
before the great white throne judgment.
And death and hell are cast into the lake of fire.
and it's a physical and a spiritual death.
Now look, don't go into all that out-soul-winning,
but I don't say that to people,
oh, the first death is physical, the second is spiritual,
because it's not true.
It's not what the Bible's teaching.
What the Bible's teaching here is that we deserve hell.
So that's what you should say to people.
Now the Bible says here,
for the wages of sin is death,
because we've sinned, we deserve to go to hell.
Now, this next question is super, super important.
I can't recommend enough that you ask this question after you got to this point.
Ask the person, hey, do you believe that hell is real?
Do you believe that hell exists?
Because to be saved, you have to believe that you're getting saved from something.
Look, if you don't believe heaven and hell is real, you're not getting saved, folks.
You have to ask the person, do you believe hell is real?
Do you believe hell exists?
This is a very important question because a lot of times people will just tell you, no.
And it's like, okay, well then you actually need to spend some more time on the hell portion
if someone has told you, no, hell doesn't exist.
Additionally, this question is very important as well.
After you've asked them, is hell real?
Ask this question.
How would you describe hell?
I want to know from their heart, how would you describe hell?
Because you know what I hear all the time? Well, we're in hell right now.
What are you talking about? That's definitely not biblical. It's not what the Bible teaches.
Or sometimes people will just say like, oh, you know, hell is like purgatory, where you get a second chance.
You know, they'll be preaching to get right with God or whatever.
Some weird Mormon doctrine or Catholic doctrine. There's people that believe that stuff.
And so ask the person, how would you describe
hell? And if they give you the right answer, move on to the next point.
If they don't, I would recommend going to Revelation 14 verse 10.
On your sheet there, the Bible says,
and I start reading on the highlighted portion there.
It says,
So I would only show this verse if the person didn't believe in hell or they didn't believe in a biblical hell.
I go there and I read that and I say, look, people in hell are on fire.
They're being tormented forever and ever. They have no rest day nor night. They can never escape.
It's a really terrible place.
I don't want to go there. I don't want you to go there. That's why I'm here at your door.
Then I'll say this, but you know, the Bible does give us a list.
of the type of people that will go to hell someday.
And this verse I do show every single person, Revelation 21.8.
The Bible says,
but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable
and murderers and hormongers and sorcerers and idolaters
and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death.
And so, I usually will highlight, hey, this is a really bad list of sins.
We probably haven't done all the things on this list, but I know for sure I've lied before.
Have you ever lied before?
And unless they're a complete, prideful moron, they're always going to say, of course I have.
You know, and you could even say like, hey, let's be honest, we've done worse stuff than
that too, but we definitely have lied.
And what this verse is teaching us is that because we've sinned, the punishment that
It's very important to use those type of words because we need to make sure we emphasize
that this is what we deserve is hell.
This is something that a lot of people don't believe, that are very prideful.
They think, I haven't done anything that bad to deserve hell.
Well, the Bible says that you do, and that I do.
And I always make it clear to them, hey, I deserve hell.
We all deserve hell.
The whole world deserves hell.
So it doesn't feel like I'm just picking them out and like making them feel bad.
No, I deserve hell.
We all do.
Go to if you would
Romans 5 Romans 5
Now I'll read for you 2nd Peter 3 9 the Bible says the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness
But is long suffering to usward not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
Repentance so of course we know that God does not want people to go to hell
And I usually ask this question after I've explained to them that we do deserve hell
I'll say hey the Bible says that we deserve to go to hell, but do you think that God wants us to go to hell?
Invariably they always say, no, of course not. I say you're right, because God loves us.
Now we're transitioning to the gospel portion of your gospel presentation.
Let me emphasize, this is the most important part of your gospel presentation.
Because Romans chapter 1 said that the power of God unto salvation is what?
The gospel of Jesus Christ.
You should take as long as necessary
on this portion of your gospel presentation as you need to.
Now, again, we live in the Bible Belt,
and a lot of these doctrines in this portion,
a lot of people know, and that's great.
You don't have to spend more time than you have to,
but be really thorough on this point,
because the power of the story of the gospel
will change someone's heart, it's very important.
So where I always start is Romans 5-8, the Bible says,
but God commended his love toward us
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
So I'll say, you know, you're right,
God doesn't want us to go to hell.
God loves us and God showed us his love
in a very specific way.
Cause that's what this verse is teaching,
that God commended his love towards us
in that the story of Christ.
That's how he showed that he loved us
is giving us his son.
So
I always explain the entire gospel point by point at this portion of the presentation.
I don't necessarily show a verse for every single thing I cover, but if the person has
not heard of it or does not understand it, then I will.
So on your sheet, you'll notice all these are listed as an asterisk there.
The virgin birth, God in the flesh, his sinless life, the miracles in preaching that Jesus did, Jesus' death on the cross, and Jesus going to hell.
Let me flip the page and see what else I have there. His resurrection.
So all of these things, I will verbally explain.
So I'll start off by talking about the virgin birth.
I'll say, you know, the Bible teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin.
So he had no earthly father because his real father was God in heaven.
Now most people, that clicks, they know that.
If they've never heard of the virgin birth, then I will go to Matthew chapter number one
and let's go ahead and turn there just to take a look at what I'm talking about.
And there has been times that I have had to do this,
where someone didn't understand this.
I took them to Matthew chapter number one,
look at verse 18.
Matthew 1 verse 18 the Bible says now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this
wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came
together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Look at verse number 23 it
says behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they
shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is
God with us.
So this is just a good place to know of in your Bible that,
hey, if someone doesn't understand the virgin birth,
you could turn here and explain this to them.
Now, super, super young children
are not really going to fully understand this doctrine,
and that's fine.
Just say what you can, explain the parts that you can.
It's not super big deal if a child can't fully grasp
what it means to be a virgin.
Don't explain that to them, okay?
But it's just like, hey, Jesus was born of a virgin.
He had no earthly father.
Every child's going to understand that.
He had no earthly father because his real father was God in heaven.
That part they will understand.
And then I always say this, because God was his father, because Jesus was born of a virgin,
Jesus was 100% man just like us.
But he was also 100% God in the flesh.
You gotta hit this part.
You gotta make sure that people understand and believe that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.
And I will always ask them, do you believe that Jesus Christ is God?
And a lot of times people say absolutely, yes, you know, here in the Bible belt, a lot of people believe that.
But if they don't, you've got to show verses on this. You've got to make sure they understand that.
So let's look at a few. I like to remember...
Verses about the deity of Christ is just the number one John one
Hebrews one
Colossians one Titus one
Revelation chapter one like if you ever just like oh, I need a verse about Jesus being God
Just think of the number one because there's just a ton of them
But let's go to John chapter number one if you would and
This would be my go-to. This is the one that I'll just
Be my immediate verse. I'm turning to if someone needs to understand that Jesus is God
John 1 1 says in the beginning was the word
And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And I always skip down to verse 14,
and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Bible says that Jesus Christ was manifest in the flesh,
He was the Word of God in the flesh, He is God.
And the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
God.
Super, super clear verse explaining the deity of Christ.
Here's a few more.
Go to Hebrews chapter number one.
Hebrews chapter number one.
This one is really punchy as well.
Hebrews chapter one verse eight.
But unto the Son, everyone knows who that is right, but unto the Son he saith thy throne
O God is forever and ever. Wow. You have a verse in the Bible where God the Father is
Calling the Son of God, God. And it's like how do you get around that?
Well, you have to be a false prophet really to get around that because the Bible is very clear that Jesus is
God.
Go to Colossians chapter number one.
Colossians chapter number one, look at verse number 16, for by him, that's talking about
Jesus, for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all
And that's talking about Jesus Christ.
You could prove that by going back to verse 13, if you wanted to,
where it said,
who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear, what?
Son.
So it's talking about the Son of God.
Then it goes on to explain how he created the world.
He created everything, things that are invisible,
things that are visible.
All things were created by him and for him,
just proving that he is God.
Last one, go to 1 Timothy chapter number three.
And you know this one's easy to remember too because you got John 316 you got first Timothy 316
1 Timothy 3 16 says, and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh
Justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world
Received up into glory. Look if you show someone all those verses and they still deny that Jesus is God
You should just go to the next door because this is super super clear
but you have to believe that Jesus Christ is God to be saved.
You cannot transgress the doctrine of Christ.
You cannot believe damnable heresy, denying the record that God gave of His Son.
You have to believe these things to be saved.
So you need to show people that when you're trying to get them saved.
The deity of Christ.
Then I'll explain how because Jesus is God,
He lived His entire life perfectly, having never sinned.
He never stole.
He never lied.
He never cheated.
He never took the Lord's name in vain.
Jesus never sinned.
Most people here, they know that.
If you need a verse, I wrote one down there for you.
You could go if you'd like.
Don't turn there, but 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 talks about how Jesus became sin for us
who knew no sin.
It's a great verse to prove how Jesus Christ never sinned.
Then the next part I mentioned, so we've talked about his virgin birth, the fact that he's
I'll explain. When Jesus was about 30 years old, he started his ministry.
And in his ministry, he did a lot of great miracles. He rose people from the dead.
He healed people that were sick and blind and deaf. He walked on water.
He did all these great miracles to people. Now here's the thing. I won't really turn
and show them all those miracles because everyone's heard of the miracles of Jesus Christ.
Everyone's heard of them. I've never, never ran into someone they're like,
Everyone knows this, so I don't show those verses
because there's not really a need to.
If there was theoretically, you could,
but I don't really find it to be a necessity
in your gospel presentation.
But you should mention those things
because those things are important
and important witness to the fact that he's God
and that he's the Son of God.
So show them those things.
So, I'll talk about, you know, most importantly was that Jesus Christ preached the truth.
And because of the truth that he preached, people hated him, and they lied about him.
They had a false trial where they wanted to put him to death, and they put him up on
a cross, they spit in his face, they ripped out his beard.
they whipped him, they mocked him, they put a crown of thorns on his head and made him bleed.
They put nails through his hands and through his feet and hung him on the cross and ended up killing
him on the cross. You know, talk about the suffering that Jesus went through because I don't know
about you. When I think deeply and hear sermons about the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross,
doesn't it move your spirit?
Doesn't it just move your soul?
I mean, for me, the Lord's Supper is always very kind of an emotional service,
thinking about the suffering of Jesus Christ.
And you know what, that's powerful.
It's a powerful story, and you know what? Jesus went through it to move people's spirits.
When we preach the gospel to them, we need to make sure that we include that in our gospel
presentation. Take as much time as you need explaining that portion. There's some verses
there if you need to turn to those. 1 Peter 2 and 1 John chapter 2 talk about Jesus Christ dying
And I'll always ask them, you know, do you know why Jesus died on the cross?
Why did Jesus allow himself to go through that?
Most people will understand, they'll say, for our sins.
Amen, that's exactly right.
If they don't know those things, then I will show them those verses.
Even yesterday, lady, I got saved.
She kind of was stumbling around this point.
And I went to 1 Peter chapter two and showed her how Jesus bore our sins on the tree,
how he died for our sins on the cross.
Then I'll ask the person this question, okay, so you know Jesus died when his body was buried in the tomb
His soul went somewhere for three days and three nights, and I'll just ask the question
Do you think it was heaven or hell?
And there's actually quite a mix of answers on this.
I'm surprised at how many people do know this doctrine.
But most of the time people will say like, oh, he went to heaven.
And I'll say, well, let me show you something real quick in Acts chapter 2.
Look at your sheet, Acts chapter 2.
It says, he seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell.
neither his flesh did see corruption.
Sometimes people's eyes will get real big
at this part of the gospel.
Just like, I've never heard that.
That's crazy.
Why is the Bible saying it?
Or sometimes they'll even kind of look like
shocked and perplexed or whatever.
But I'll just say, like, you know,
you're probably thinking,
Why would Jesus have gone to hell if he's God if he's never sinned he's never done anything wrong
He didn't deserve the death on the cross. He doesn't deserve to go to hell
Why would Jesus have gone to hell and I'll just say well remember where is it that we deserve to go when we die
This is very important because you're reinforcing something that you already taught
And some people, man, they have a hard time understanding and believing that they deserve to go to hell.
And so it's kind of good to reinforce these things.
And Jesus going descending to hell for us, I think cements in people's minds like,
oh wow, I really did deserve that punishment.
If Jesus would go there for me, then that is what I deserve.
And it really highlights and showcases how much Jesus loved us.
that not only did he come to this earth to be born as a human being,
to live the human experience and to live the sinless life
and then to suffer the shameful, painful, torturous death on the cross,
but he also descended into hell for three days and three nights
to pay the punishment that you and I deserve.
That's moving for people.
People realize, wow, that's a lot of love that Christ had.
Wow, I really did deserve that punishment.
And then, of course, the most important part is I'll say,
You know, Jesus died, his soul went to hell, but he didn't stay there.
What happened to him after that?
And most, every time they'll say, he rose again from the dead.
Amen.
That is so important.
Don't skip this in your gospel presentation.
I've been with people that have done this.
It's like, folks, the gospel is the death,
burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This is super, super important.
So make sure you talk about it.
And I say,
Do you believe that Jesus rose again from the dead?
You need to make sure that they just don't have some sort of head knowledge of it,
that they believe it actually happened.
Now, if they don't, or if they've never heard of it, which I've run into people that have not,
I'll go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 15.
Go there if you would. 1 Corinthians chapter number 15.
1 Corinthians chapter 15 look at verse 3 the Bible says for I delivered unto you first of all
That which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he
Rose again the third day
according to the scriptures and if you want to you can even read a couple more verses and that he was seen of
Cephas then of the 12 and that he was seen of above
500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remain
until this present, but some are fallen asleep.
It's very important to show people that Jesus rose again from the dead and you know our faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Isn't incunningly devised fables or these weird extra biblical stories of Jesus that are out there
You know, there's these stories of Jesus that scholars want to claim is real and these books will talk about how like the cross
Spoke to people and Jesus like went up in the sky and became like this gigantic huge Jesus the whole world
Like there's all these crazy fables that are out there
But the Bible is very logical, it's very historical.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, is based off of a historical event
where there was over 500 witnesses at one time.
There is contemporaries within the first century AD
that have historical writings about Jesus Christ and about His resurrection.
I mean, there's so many witnesses and proofs to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It's not silly or crazy to put your faith in it, it's logical.
and you still need to make sure that people are actually trusting and believing that Jesus actually did physically rise again from the dead.
And I even usually mention that, that he physically rose again from the dead, that he showed the disciples the holes in his hands in his feet to prove that it was really him.
That he really did rise again from the dead and I'll say, do you believe that? Then they'll usually say, yes I do.
Then we move on here.
To another very very important part of your gospel presentation. I'll ask people this question
Okay, just because Jesus died and was buried and rose again. Do you think that means everybody?
Automatically goes to heaven no matter what so now we're transiting from we've gone to sin
We've gone from hell. We've gone from the gospel now. We're going to transition to the doctrine of faith alone
They believe Jesus is real, they believe He's God, they even believe He rose from the dead,
but now we need to make sure that they're trusting in Him alone for salvation.
So they'll say, no, you know, oh no, not everyone's going to heaven,
and sometimes they'll even throw, you gotta be a good person, you gotta keep the commandments.
And I love it when they say that because I'm like, well, actually there's a verse that says
it's only one thing we have to do to be saved. And this is always where I start Acts chapter number 16.
Acts 16 verse 30. The Bible says, and brought them out and said,
Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And sometimes I'll stop here and say, hey, we have a group of people here that are
asking, what does it take to be saved? And what they're asking is,
what does it take to be saved from hell? How do you get to
heaven? Verse 31, and they said, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved
house. And I'll even stop the people usually and ask this question. Does this say go to church and
you'll be saved? Does this say live a good life and you'll be saved? And sometimes I'll even joke
around with them. Does this say you have to walk old ladies across the street and you'll be saved
or feed the homeless or save cats out of trees? No, it says believe, right? And the wheels start
turning a little bit in their head. They're starting to understand this a little bit. But
this is super important. When you're preaching the gospel, do not just read verses, explain verses.
explain what they mean.
We know Philip, when he's preaching to the Ethiopian eunuch,
you know, he's like, understand us thou with Thou, read us?
And he's like, how can I accept some man should what?
Guide me.
It's very important as you're reading these verses to explain what it means.
Now, what does it mean to believe?
I always explain this to people.
What does it mean to believe?
It does not simply mean that you believe he exists.
I mean, the whole world basically believes that Jesus was real, folks.
And the Bible talks about how the devils believe that there's one God.
So there's devils that acknowledge the fact that God is real, that God exists.
Does acknowledging the fact that Jesus was a real person save you?
No.
You know what you have to do is you have to trust believe means trust
Putting your confidence in putting your faith in the fact that his death his burial and his resurrection
Is the only thing that could take you to heaven not the things that you do
Not the things that I do and sometimes I even use this illustration
I said hey if there was a bunch of cops over here
We could look at them and we could see that they're real we could believe that they're real
But does that mean that I automatically trust them and we go soul-winning in the ghetto and they're like no
They that resonates with them right away that hey just cuz cops are real
We don't just immediately trust those cops and then it's like ding you just understood what it means to believe in Jesus
It means that you're trusting Him.
You're putting your confidence in Him.
You're putting your hope in Him,
not just that you're acknowledging facts about Him.
This is a strawman argument against what we believe.
Some people will accuse us of saying that to be saved,
you simply have to acknowledge facts about Jesus.
Said no Baptist ever.
No, we have to put our faith in what He did for us.
Now, after this, I like to go to Ephesians 2,
which is on your sheet there.
explain verses as I'm reading them.
So I like to go like this, the Bible says,
for by grace, and I'll tell them,
that means something we don't deserve.
For by grace are ye saved through faith,
that's your trust in Jesus Christ.
And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,
not of works, lest any man, excuse me, should boast.
And so I'll then I'll tell that person the Bible says hey salvation has nothing to do with you
It has nothing to do with me
It has nothing to do with our good works like going to church praying reading the Bible
Otherwise, we'd be able to boast or brag and then I'll use this example. I'll say, you know ma'am or sir
I don't believe this, but let me use this as an example
What if I said to you, hey, I'm going to heaven
because I'm such a great person, I live a great life,
I go to church, I read the Bible, I pray,
I take care of my family, I love my neighbor,
who would I be trusting in?
Jesus or myself?
And they're always just like yourself.
Why?
Because I just got done telling them,
I, I, I, I, I.
And it's funny because this is what people
are trusting in today.
And when we ask them, what do you have to do to go to heaven?
What do they always say?
Live a good life.
Well, I do good things.
Well, I haven't murdered anyone.
Well, I go to church.
Well, my grandma was a pastor.
Well, my cat was a pastor.
It's like, dude, it has nothing to do with you.
It has nothing to do with your works.
It has to do with where you're placing your faith.
Then I'll give them the opposite example.
I'll say, OK.
Now what if I say hey, I'm not a great person. I'm a sinner and I'll be a lot more serious in this portion
I'm not a great person. I'm a sinner
But I believe that Jesus died for my sins that he was buried and that he rose again from the dead
And I'm only trusting in that to get me to heaven now who am I trusting in and they're like Jesus
God and I'll say exactly this is all we have to do to be saved is change where we're putting our trust
You have to stop trusting in yourself or in your church
or in your good works, and you have to put all of your trust in what Jesus Christ did
for you on the cross.
And this is going to start, you know, making the wheels spin in their head and start getting
things clicking with them.
That salvation is by faith.
Now I'd like to go to John 3.16.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
And I'll even say, hey, you probably know John 3.16.
Everyone's heard this verse, but I want to highlight something to you
about a lot of things people don't understand about this verse.
What does it say it takes to get to heaven?
Whosoever believeth on Him.
And I'll just tell them over and over and over again.
The Bible emphasizes the fact that salvation is by believing in Jesus Christ.
Now if someone's just getting this, they've just got it, I've asked them questions to
ensure that they understand this, then I can move on at this point.
Or if you feel like you want to emphasize some more verses on this, great, no problem.
If you're struggling with someone who's really adamant into work salvation, I put plenty
of verses there for you.
It's good to go to John chapter three because you could show them three really powerful
Back to back, John 316, John 318, John 336.
You can flip the page and go to John 6.47.
Then we have Romans 3.28, Romans 4.5, Romans 11.6, Galatians 2.16, Ephesians 1.13.
I mean, you have no shortage of ammunition to prove that salvation is by faith alone
because the Bible teaches it's by faith alone.
When you got all these strong verses on your side, it's because we have the truth on our
side.
It's because it's what the Bible teaches.
Now I will actually have us turn to one of these verses.
because it is very important to emphasize what believe means.
Believe means trust. Believe means putting your confidence.
And if you need to prove that to someone, Ephesians chapter 1 is a very great place to do that.
Ephesians 1 verse 13, the Bible says,
After that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after
that ye what, believed, ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise.
The Bible teaches that believing in Jesus means trusting in Jesus, because here's what
false prophets like to say, well believing means doing good works.
Nope, not true.
But that's what all the false prophets love to say.
Well, believe means you're going to do all these great works.
Believe means you're going to keep His commandments.
No, believe means trust.
And if someone says that to you,
there's another verse that I put on there.
Go to Romans chapter number 11.
Oh, believe means good works.
Believe means you're going to follow His commandments.
All right, let's see what the Bible says about that.
Romans chapter 11, look at verse six.
It says, and if by grace,
Then is it no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace look if grace
Actually means work then grace isn't grace
It's just a meaningless word at that point grace means no work. Okay, let's keep reading the next part of this verse
It says but
If it be of works, then is it no more grace?
Otherwise, work is no more work.
I mean, the verse just turns it on both sides of the coin for you to really try to emphasize
that works and grace are opposite.
You cannot say you're saved by grace, oh, but I mean, you've got to do the works.
You're not making any sense.
You're just denying reality at this point.
No, salvation is by faith alone, by trusting in Jesus Christ.
So, now at this point we've thoroughly explained the doctrine of salvation as far as believing
in Him alone for salvation, it being a free gift, and I'll usually even do a recap with
them at this point, because again, I think it's good to kind of emphasize some of the
things that you've talked about in your presentation.
So I usually say, you know, so far I've explained to you that we're all sinners, we all deserve
to go to hell, but God doesn't want us to go to hell, Jesus died for our sins, He was
and all we have to do to be saved is put our trust in Him.
We don't have to do works, it's by faith alone.
And then I'll say usually this.
Now, not only is it just not, not only is it by faith alone,
but the Bible also describes this salvation as a free gift.
Romans 6-23, now I'm transitioning into eternal security.
For the wages of sin is death, that's the bad news that we deserve hell,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And I like to explain this verse.
The Bible says that God wants to give us a gift.
This gift is called eternal life, but you can only get it through one person, Jesus Christ.
Then I like to use the illustration of the gift that I'm sure most of you have seen and
used.
It's a great illustration.
I say, hey, if I were to give you my Bible here as a gift, but I said you had to pay me
$100, would that be a gift?
And there, of course, is saying no, because you have to pay for it.
And I'll say, why?
Oh, because you have to pay for it.
What if I said, hey, I want to give you this Bible as a totally free gift, all you have
to do is wash my car.
Is that a gift?
And they're like, no.
Why?
Because I'm working for it.
I'm doing something for it.
And I say, exactly.
It's the same thing with salvation.
God is offering to us the free gift of eternal life.
And God is not saying to you, hey, here's a free gift.
All you have to do is repent of all your sins.
Believe, repent of all your sins, live a good life, go to church, pray, read the Bible,
help old ladies across the street.
Does that sound like a gift?
No.
Gifts are free, right? Who pays for the gift? The giver or the receiver? The giver does. Who paid for the gift? Jesus Christ did.
How did he pay for it? By shedding his blood for us. By dying on the cross. By being buried. By raising again from the dead.
That's how he paid for the gift. He offers it to us freely. All we have to do is accept that gift by putting our faith in him.
How long does eternal last for?
I always ask them that question.
How long does eternal last for?
They always say, well, forever.
Last for forever.
And then I say, exactly.
Now, let me ask you this question.
Do you think that there's anything someone could ever do after they believe to lose
their salvation?
Or I'll even give them a specific example, but let's just hold with that for a minute.
I'll say, hey, do you think it's possible for a person after they've trusted in Christ,
If they say no, make sure that they understand it, but a lot of times people do believe you could lose your salvation.
Now, my favorite verse to go to on this is John chapter number five, John chapter number five.
And before I read the verse, I'll usually do a little bit of logic with them.
I'll say, if they told me that they think they can lose their salvation, I'll say, all right, hold on for a second, let's think about something for a minute.
When Jesus died for our sins, did he die just for our little sins or also for our big sins?
And they all say they died for all sins. Jesus died for all of our sins. Like exactly right. Jesus didn't just die for our little sins.
He died for all of our sins. He died for our sins past present and future.
It's not like he just died for the sins of you before you turned 15 or something like that or 20.
No, he knows the sins that you're going to commit today and tomorrow and 20 years from now.
Jesus died for all of those sins. And then I asked them this.
Did the Bible say that to get to heaven you have to stop sinning and do all these good works?
Or did it say it was by faith alone?
They're like, oh yeah, it was by faith alone.
I was like, okay, did the Bible say that you're getting temporary life?
Or did the Bible say it was eternal life?
Oh yeah, eternal life.
Now, even without showing them a verse, I've practically already convinced them.
Why? Because eternal security is just logical.
It is illogical to say,
oh, I have eternal life, but I could lose it.
That's not eternal.
It's not what eternal means.
It means it lasts for forever.
But I do that logic with them that helps them understand.
Then I say, hey, Jesus actually taught three times in one verse
that you can never lose your salvation.
And that kind of piques their interest.
Like, all right, let's see what that is.
John 5 verse 24.
The Bible says,
everlasting life and I'll say notice Jesus says that if you believe if you've put your trust in him
You have everlasting life right now
He doesn't say, you'll get it someday, present tense, right now you have everlasting life.
So if I have everlasting life today, will I have it tomorrow?
Yes.
Will I have it 10 years from now?
Yes.
What about a million years from now?
Yes.
And then it's clicking in their mind.
Oh yeah, that's what everlasting means.
It's forever, right?
Then I say not only that, it says, and shall not come into condemnation.
So if you believe in him you have everlasting life and you'll never come into condemnation condemnation means hell
Last part of the verse says but is passed from death unto life
So if you believe in him you have everlasting life
You'll never go to hell and you are passed from death unto life right now
This is a good point to re-emphasize, hey, salvation's not a process of cleaning up your life.
It's not a, I hope to get saved someday if I've done enough good, if I've refrained from enough bad.
No, the Bible says we could be 100% sure that we're saved because when we've put our trust in Jesus Christ,
the Bible says we are past from death unto life.
Not that we're going to someday if we're good enough.
Right now, in this very moment, if you put all of your trust in Jesus Christ, you're past from death unto life.
you're saved. There's nothing you could ever do to lose that. Now, there's plenty of verses I
added there, John 10, 27 through 29, John 6, 40, John 6, 47, Romans 8, 38 through 39, Titus,
chapter 1, verse 2. Feel free to use those additional verses if you need to help someone
understand this doctrine, but do not, do not pray with someone that does not believe eternal security.
If someone does not believe in eternal security, they are not saved, folks.
And you know, we had people come into this church that don't believe in eternal security.
When that happens, you keep preaching them the gospel because they're not saved.
We need to make sure we keep emphasizing eternal security
because what it's revealing is that you're saying with your mouth that salvation is by faith alone.
But by denying eternal security, you're saying, I have to keep living a good life
and I have to keep doing good works, otherwise I'm going to lose my salvation.
It's work salvation.
That's what it means to believe you could lose your salvation is to believe in works
salvation and people that believe it are not saved.
So spend as much time as you need to convincing people of that.
Now, eternal security can sound kind of too good to be true.
And so we want to also balance in people's mind the truth about this situation.
Go to John chapter number one.
Now, I usually am soul winning with my kids and I'll point to them.
I said, these are my daughters here.
And my daughters, when they sin or when they do bad, do you think I'm happy about that?
And they'll say, no.
I'll say, but are they still my daughters?
Yes.
How long are they going to be my daughters?
Forever.
I said, if my daughters want to have a good relationship with me, they have to obey my rules.
They have to do good and I'll be pleased with them.
But if they disobey my rules, if they sin, if they do wrong,
I'm going to punish them.
I'm going to discipline them.
And do you think I do that because I hate them or love them?
So you love them, of course.
But I'll say this, but of course, no matter what my daughters do,
they'll always be my daughters.
It's the same thing with God.
And then I'll go to John chapter 1 verse 12.
But as many as received him to them gave he power to notice become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
The Bible teaches that once you've put all your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, you're
born again, you're born into the family of God, and you become the son of God, or daughter
of God.
A lot of people think that, oh, we're all God's children, that's not true.
You become a daughter or a son of God by putting all of your faith in Jesus Christ.
Now God as a loving Father, when he sees us sinning, when he sees us doing something
wrong, you know what he's going to do?
And then I'll read for them Hebrews 12.6 where the Bible says for whom the Lord loveth, he chaseneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
My daughters, I love them, and so when they do wrong, I'm going to spank them because I love them.
Because they need that correction from their loving father, but they're still always my daughters.
Same thing with God once we believe in him
We are always his sons or daughters
But if we step out of line if we disobey his commandments if we are souring our relationship with him
He's gonna spank us on this earth
And as we learned in the last couple of weeks, God can punish us pretty severely.
And I'll even use a pretty severe example when I'm soul-winning.
I'll usually say, hey, if I went out and committed the sin of adultery,
that would be a serious sin, right?
And everyone knows what that is usually.
Hey, if I went out and committed adultery, God could cause me to lose my house,
my money, my job, my family, even my life.
I say that to people, that God could even take away my life.
But he'll never take away my salvation.
Why?
Ask them that question. Why?
Make sure that they in their heart understand
why you cannot lose your salvation
and they'll usually say something like
because you've believed
or because it's a free gift
or because you're the Son of God now.
Exactly.
We want to make sure we understand and emphasize to people
salvation, faith alone.
Can you live however you want to get to heaven?
Yes, you can.
But will you have a fun time while you're on this earth?
No, you will not, right?
And I want to emphasize this to people
because not only do I want to get them saved.
Of course, that is my primary goal.
But I do want them to fear God.
I want them to want to serve God after they get saved.
I want them to come to church.
I want them to get baptized.
I want them to read the Bible.
I want them to become soul winners.
And so I want them to realize like,
hey, you can get into heaven.
Exactly how you are right now, as long as you put your faith in him.
But you know what, you should live a good life after salvation.
You should follow his commandments after otherwise you're going to be punished.
This brings balance to the gospel and doesn't make you sound like an insane person.
Don't use insane people, examples out soul winning.
Where it's like, you just want the person
to be giving you a wrong answer it feels like.
And so you're like, if I went and shot up
a thousand elementary schools, but I believe in Jesus,
where am I going?
And they're like, hell.
And you're like, you're a rapper maid,
you don't believe internal security, you're going hell.
It's like, dude, don't use these absolute,
over-the-top, wacko, weird examples.
Now, here's some good examples you could use, adultery, murder, how about suicide?
That's a pretty good one, especially with Catholics who believe that it's like the unpardonable
sin or something like that.
Use actual realistic examples.
Don't use reprobate examples, because guess what?
These people that go up and shoot up all these schools, they're a bunch of sodomites, they're
reprobates, and yeah, they're not saved.
Now let's talk about ending the gospel presentation now before I go to Romans chapter 10
want to make sure that the person understands every point and I want to
make sure that I've covered every point properly. Now I ask this question I say
all right before we go to this last passage I want to show you I want to
make sure that I hit everything. The reason I say it that way is I don't want
to come at them be like I want to make sure that you understood everything that
I taught you. It's better to just be like hey before we wrap up here I just want
to make sure that I hit everything. You know in the beginning I told you that
Where do we deserve to go because we've sinned?
And they'll say, hell.
Okay, we deserve to go to hell,
but God doesn't want us to go to hell, right?
So what did God do for us that way
we don't have to go to hell?
Oh, he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins.
And I was like, exactly, he died for our sins,
he was buried, and then what happened after that?
He rose again from the dead.
And they'll say, okay, great.
Now, what is it that we have to do to get to heaven?
Believe on Jesus Christ.
Amen, exactly.
Once we're saved, how long are we saved for?
Eternal, oh, we're always saved.
Can you ever lose that?
Ding, every single point has been covered.
They understand every single point.
If any of those points they don't understand
or they give a wrong answer, that indicates to me,
okay, we need to go back and clear something up.
And before you wrap up again, ask the questions,
make sure that they've got everything.
Don't pray with people until you are confident
that they understand all the points.
We are not trying to play a video game here,
we just rack up high scores
without actually getting them saved.
Hey, I want as much numbers as possible.
I want the biggest numbers as possible, but I do want those numbers to be real.
I do want us to be thorough. People falsely accuse us of being, you know,
really just one, two, three, repeat after me out, soul winning. If you've ever been soul
winning with me, and I could say the same for a lot of soul winners here,
we are very thorough in our gospel presentation. We're not playing games here.
We're trying to make sure people actually understand. And it's like, oh man, soul winning
doesn't work. How can me explaining everything that I just explained to someone not work?
I mean, how can me explaining everything about sin and death and hell and the gospel and faith and eternal security, how does that not work?
Didn't it work for you? It worked for me. No soul winning works.
But you know, people like to criticize it who are lazy, who don't want to go out and do the hard work of actually learning how to do all these things I'm talking about and learn how to do them well.
But we're at the end. I do the recap.
I make sure I ask them all those questions, and then before I read Romans 10, I'll say this,
hey, so far I've told you that all we have to do to believe in Jesus Christ is believe,
believe, believe. But the question is, how do we believe?
How do we put our faith in Him?
This is how, Romans 10 verse 9,
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart,
that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness,
and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
It's very important to have both of these aspects.
And of course, you know, wicked people love to hate on the doctrine of calling upon the name of the Lord,
people that don't do a lot of soul winning or do no soul winning whatsoever,
love to hate on this doctrine.
But it's like, what does the Bible say?
It talks about believing in your heart and saying it with your mouth.
Oh, what if they don't have a mouth? What if they're mute?
Okay, idiot, they could say it in their heart.
I mean, it's so stupid, the straw men that people come up with, and I just love, I just
love so much sarcasm, okay?
I just love this preaching lately where we just emphasize the exception and not the rule.
Just my favorite thing.
No, it's actually retarded and it pisses me off.
Just so you know, I'm so sick and tired of people emphasizing the exceptions instead
of the rule.
What's the rule?
Raise your hand if you have a mouth in here.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
You don't have a mouth?
All right, we all got mouths in here, right?
It's so stupid to come up with these ridiculous ideas.
I've never been in soul winning and encountered someone that didn't have a mouth.
I've never even encountered someone that couldn't speak.
Now there are people that can't speak
and they can call upon the name of the Lord out of their heart.
But I have never, ever run into someone that did not have a mouth
in 12 plus years of soul winning
so we could stop focusing on the exception.
We could focus on the rule.
Then look at Romans 10 verse 13.
The Bible says,
For whosoever, and I always emphasize this to the person,
that's me and you.
For whosoever, that's me and you,
shall call upon the name of the Lord,
shall be saved.
This verse is in your Bible for a reason.
You want to know what the reason is?
It's so that you could be saved.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
And you know, I hear this idea that's just saying like,
no, that's adding works to salvation,
that you have to call upon the name of the Lord.
It's like, was it works salvation?
When the thief on the cross is like,
rememberest thou me when thou comest into thy kingdom?
Is that works salvation?
I mean, is it work salvation if I'm like,
hey, here's a sign up sheet for a free meal
and you like sign up on the paper, are you paying for it?
Are you doing works by like saying I'll be there?
It's like saying, Lord, I believe in you,
Lord, I believe the gospel is not work salvation.
And it's like, you have to interpret the Bible
to where all of it is true.
You have to interpret the Bible
to where all of it is true.
Romans 10, 13 is a true verse in your Bible.
And any doctrine that says you don't have to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved
is to deny this verse and is to say that it's not true.
Here's how this could both be true.
Salvation is by faith alone. Amen.
Of course it's by faith alone.
Salvation is by calling upon the name of the Lord. Amen.
How are these both true?
You know how you put your faith in Jesus Christ?
By calling upon the name of the Lord.
That's how you believe and for some people it could be like, you know
They're watching a video or something and they're listening to the Bible way to heaven and they're praying along in their heart
They're calling out to God in their heart God. I believe this God saved me
It could be something that's done in their heart
But you know what I like to do because I can't see people's hearts is I want to help them say that with their mouth
And you know when I called upon the name of Lord
I did it with my mouth and every single person that I've ever gotten saved
You know they called upon the name of Lord is with their mouth
Don't get confused by deceivers out there that want to downplay the importance of this doctrine.
The Bible says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Period. End of story.
And so we want to make sure we emphasize this to people out soul winning.
For whosoever that's me and you shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and I'll say this to them
Hey, if you believe the things that I've shown you today if you want to be a hundred percent sure
You're going to heaven
Can I say a word of prayer with you and ask him for that free gift ask him for that salvation because that's what you're doing
You're calling out to him. You're wanting to be saved. You're desiring to be saved
And so that's the point where I will pray with them.
That's the point where I've already made sure
they understand everything.
I've asked the clarifying questions.
I've made it come out of their own heart.
I didn't lead them and give them, you know,
answers for them to just repeat back to me with their own
heart.
I made sure they believed all those things
and I asked to pray with them.
You wanna know why I ask?
For the same reason I asked to preach the gospel.
You need to make sure that they truly desire to be saved because if someone does not want to pray and if someone does not want to call upon the name of the Lord with you,
it's an indication that they might not believe it, that they might not desire it because go to, if you would, John chapter number four.
John chapter number four.
Now, I don't know why people have a problem with this because
99.999% of people, I preach the entire gospel to and have asked all these questions to and
have gotten all the way to Romans 10, they want to pray.
They want to call upon the name of the Lord.
Why?
Because they believe it.
Why?
Because I was thorough in my gospel presentation.
So maybe these people will just have such an issue with asking this question.
Maybe there's not being thorough enough and that's why people are constantly telling them,
no.
Jesus answered and said unto her if thou newest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink notice
Thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water
Look, you must call upon the name of the Lord to be saved if you believe in Jesus Christ
You will call upon the name of the Lord
If you don't you won't and so someone's not wanting to pray with you. That should be an indication to you
Did I skip something?
Is there something they're not understanding?
Or have they just rejected it?
People reject the gospel?
Have they just decided,
no, I don't want to believe in that.
I don't want to put my trust in that.
I want to keep being a Catholic.
I want to keep being a Muslim.
I want to keep being an atheist.
You know, people do that.
But you want to make sure they call upon the name of the Lord.
Super, super important.
There's no specific words that you have to say.
It's not a magical prayer.
It's not, you know, an incantation, a set of words that you use.
It's simply someone calling out to God and putting their faith in Jesus Christ.
That's what calling upon the name of the Lord is.
It's super, super important.
Go to first Peter chapter number three, first Peter three.
First Peter 3, look at verse 15, the Bible says,
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts
and be ready always to give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you
with meekness and fear.
You know, God wants you to be ready
to give an answer for your faith.
God wants you to be a person that is prepared
to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have so many great opportunities coming up with soul-winning marathons,
Bahamas mission trip, which like our whole church is going to it basically,
and you are going to have some of the best soul-winning opportunities on this earth coming up,
and you need to be ready to do a good job. You need to be ready to preach the gospel of Jesus
Christ, and I'm telling you, I'm not saying I'm the greatest soul winner. I'm not saying that
there's not a ton that I can't still learn. I want to learn more, but I'm telling you,
This is simple, this is easy, this is logical.
You will get lots of people saved by following this.
If you're a new soul winner,
look, first of all, everyone, those are yours to keep,
keep those, but especially if you're a new soul winner
or you desire to get into soul winning
or you've been out of it for a long time,
take this home, study this, mark up your Bible.
Make a plan use this. I don't care if you literally just take this
You know, I like I want you to bring your soul winning or I want you to bring your Bible along with you soul winning
But like if you're just getting into this and you want to practice
Bring this this is fine. This has everything you need to get someone saved
And I wouldn't even care if you just brought that paper alone
But one thing I'd really want to emphasize again
The order of the gospel is very important
Make sure, even if you do have your own custom plan,
even if you've been soul winning for a very long time
and you're already a great soul winner,
at least make sure that you have the order correctly.
Sin, hell, gospel, faith, eternal security,
calling upon the name of the Lord.
Make sure you do those things.
Now, before we close in prayer,
If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer those.
If anyone has any soul winning questions at all,
anything you're thinking of, I'm happy to answer those.
Or you guys are already just solid, super good to go.
I'm happy to hear that.
Yeah, go ahead, brother.
I will verbally mention the Trinity at the point where I talk about Jesus being God,
you know, because I'll talk about how, yeah, Jesus was born of a virgin,
he had no earthly father, because his real father was God in heaven,
so that made him 100% man and also 100% God.
So I'm kind of hitting on that there, and I will also usually verbally explain,
you know, the Bible teaches the concept of the Trinity, the father of the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Is that something that you believe? And 99% of people I run into do believe that,
but that is a good point, that's something good to mention as well.
Does anyone else have any questions?
Go ahead, brother.
So I always wondered this, I never used it.
And I don't know that you should, but Matthew 26.13.
Matthew 26.13?
Jesus says, barely I stand to you,
where I serve and I'll push out your fruits.
And the whole world, where it shall also be,
is that this man and my family,
he's whole from the bottom of the earth.
Just because I see a handsome old man.
So that's a good question. If anyone didn't hear the question, so he was asking about Matthew 26 verse 13, the Bible says,
Verily, I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her.
And the question, the idea is like, should we be including this in our gospel presentations? I would say no, because the gospel has a wider meaning than just
us preaching the gospel, right? So there's the definition of gospel in the
sense of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then we
have like the gospel of Matthew, like the whole book, or the gospel just
referring to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. So we're saying like this
is always going to be told for Memorial of her, hey, when we're preaching in
church and when I'm preaching through Matthew 26, you know what we're going to
talk about?
We're going to talk about this great act that she did,
and that is fulfilling what Jesus said is going to happen.
But I don't think he's necessarily
referring to the gospel presentation
that we do out soul-winning.
So I hope that answers your question.
Any other questions about soul-winning, the gospel, verses?
OK.
All right.
Well, I'm really excited for the opportunities
that we have coming up.
And like I said, we'll head over to Travis.
Getting people baptized, wow, that's hard.
I wish I was a pro at that.
I wish there was some sort of formula that I knew of
where it's just like, if you say the right thing,
they'll come in and get baptized.
It's super hard to get people to come to church
and for people to get baptized.
I do talk to people about it.
I'll go to Romans chapter six.
I'll go to Acts chapter eight if I need to.
But yeah, it's hard to get people in church.
If you find out an awesome way, share it with me.
And I'll share it with others because yeah,
I'd love to get more people baptized and in church,
but really to serve God, you have to want to serve God.
We can't force people to have a zeal for God.
I wish we could.
Just like in my preaching,
I can't force people to, you know,
obey the hard preaching and follow the way
that the Bible says live.
But all I could do is preach it.
You at the door, all you could do is say,
hey, you should get baptized.
God wants you to get baptized.
God wants you to come to church.
Come soul winning with us.
Come learn how to do what I'm doing with you.
All that stuff is totally great.
I am for people encouraging people to come to church.
I'm for you if you want to offer a ride to someone,
if you want to be a blessing, do those things.
But yeah, I don't know of a way that's just like,
oh man, always works, I got them.
So great question.
Anything else before we close?
Okay.
Awesome.
Well, like I said, I'm really excited for the great soul winning opportunities that
we have coming up.
We've had a lot of salvations already this year.
Oklahoma City is very receptive.
We've had four people start soul winning for the first time in our church, or people
who have visited our church, getting their first salvations.
I'm super excited about that stuff.
I think that the upcoming trips this year, we're just going to blow our numbers out
of the water, and this is what we should do.
We should, number one, work on our soul winning.
Don't think that you've arrived.
Don't think that you can't learn anything better.
And here's something super important you could help me with
and help the church with is pray for more laborers.
Man, there's a lot of work out there.
There's a lot of doors to knock.
We need more laborers to do it.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Lord, we thank you for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We thank you for the ministry of reconciliation
that you've given to us.
Thank you that we're ambassadors for you.
I pray that you'd help us to be effective ambassadors.
Help us to do a good job preaching the gospel.
Help us to be thorough.
Help us to preach with power and boldness.
Help us to train others to preach the gospel.
We love you in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Alright, at this time we'll go to our last hymn for the morning.
Turn, if you would, to 392.
392 a soul winner for Jesus if you want to be a soul winner after that sermon
then I want you to sing this song out loud and mean it 392 a soul winner for
Jesus we'll sing their starting on the first
are dismissed.