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Turn to your song books to song number 130.
Yesterday, today, forever.
Jesus is the same, amen.
Song number 130.
Song number 130 on that first verse.
Oh how sweet the glorious festive spirit.
Jesus never
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To a man!
And let's open up the service and we're to pray, shall we?
Father, thank you for this wonderful and beautiful night
that you're giving us.
What a privilege it is to be able to come and worship you
two times in one day and be able to give all glory to you,
Lord.
Father, I do pray for your Holy Spirit
to be upon the preacher that we may learn and glean
from your word, Lord.
And I do pray, Lord, that our singing glorify you.
We love you in Jesus' name.
Amen.
You may be seated.
Sound number 29, sound number 29, on that first verse.
Where I first saw the light and the burning of my heart
Rode away, rode away, it was there by me
I received my sight and now I am happy all the day
Great singing.
Excellent singing everyone, good evening.
Just some announcements before we sing our next song, which would be song number 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus
261
We would like to welcome you back to our Thursday night service at 7 p.m. We're going through the book of John
So many teams and times are here below
I want to give you guys an encouragement and encouragement on
Our mission that we have for our church our goal is to reach 2,000 salvations
And I want you guys to make that your mission
That's part of, that's our goal as a church, but make that your goal and the way you can do that is by obviously going soul winning, amen.
So the goal is to get 2,000 salvations for this year and we have seven teams and if we get, if each team gets seven salvations a week, we will be able to hit that goal and maybe go a little bit over.
So what that is is maybe just going one more time soul winning, you know, that won't hurt, amen.
But make that your mission and and and you know, I believe we're gonna hit this goal. Amen
Continue to pray for the expecting mothers salvation stat is there below for July?
That's an awesome number 168 to you want a mission strip August 30th Saturday at 9 15
If you have any questions about that you can reach out to brother Hernandez
And then men's per night will be September 5th Friday at 7 p.m. Lunch or excuse me dinner will be provided and then our church anniversary
Will be Sunday September 14th
Uh, please silence your phone to not be a disturbance to the service, and that's it
for the announcements.
Please open up your hymnals to song number 261.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
As the ashes come forth for the offering, please turn your bibles to Acts chapter 18, Acts chapter 18.
Good evening tonight, we're in Acts chapter 18, Acts chapter 18 the Bible reads
After these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
lately come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because the Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, and he came unto them.
Because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and wrought, provided their
occupation, they were tent makers, and he reasoned with the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks,
And when Silas and Samothias were calm from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them,
Your blood be upon your own heads, I am clean, from henceforth I will go into the Gentiles.
And he departed thence and entered into a certain man's house named Justice,
one that worshiped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
And Christmas the chief of the ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace for
I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for I have much people in this city
You continue there a year and six months teaching the word of God among them and when Galio
was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to
the judgment seat, saying, this fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. And when
Paul was now about to open his mouth, Galio said unto the Jews, if it were a matter of wrong or
wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you. But if it be a question of
words and names and of your law, look ye to it, for I will be no judge of such matters. And he
Then all the Greeks took Sothony's the chief ruler of the synagogue and beat him before the judgment seat and Galio cared for none of those things and
Paul after this tarried there a good while yet a good while
And then he took his leave of the brethren and sailed bents into Syria and with them Priscilla and Aquila
Having shorn his head in gentria for he had a vow
And he came to Ephesus and left them there, but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
When they desired him to tarry longer with them, he consented not, but bathed them farewell, saying,
I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem, but I will return again unto you, if God will.
And he sailed from Ephesus. When he landed at Caesarea and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
he had to spend some time there he departed and went over all the country of Galatia and Frigia
in order strengthening all the disciples and a certain Jew named Apollos born of Alexandria
an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus this man was instructed in the way of
the Lord and being fervent in the spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing
only the baptism of John and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue whom when Priscilla and Aquila
had heard they took them unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to
receive him who when he was calm helped them much which had believed through grace.
For he mightily convinced the Jews and that publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
Let's pray to your Lord God just thank you for your word Lord and these great truths out of your word Lord
And we thank you for this church. We thank you for pastor
Please bless them right now and bless the service Lord and may it be edifying to the brethren tonight Lord
And that we may have ears to hear the message that pastors prepared for us Lord
We pray this all in Jesus name. Amen
Amen.
Okay, we're in Acts chapter 18 this evening and the time of our sermon tonight is how
to sow in, how to sow in, how to win someone to Christ, how to preach the gospel, how to
participate in the discipline of sowning.
And the reason I started hearing Acts chapter 18 is because it's a great story to use in
order to teach the fact that, you know what, not all of us have arrived and there's always
room for growth, right?
born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus.
Now, Apollos, I believe, is referring to a saved person.
This is a person who is saved.
He apparently only knows the baptism of John and, of course, we know that the preaching
of John was that people were to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
It was in line with all of the other Gospel presentations that we see in the New Testament.
And it says here that he was an eloquent man, that he was mighty in the scriptures, meaning
talks about, or what the Bible talks about when it comes to salvation, he knows doctrine,
he knows diligently the things of the Lord, and he's fervent in spirit, meaning that this
guy is not a dead preacher, he's eloquent, he's fiery, he is excited about preaching
the gospel, getting people saved and so forth, and the Bible tells us that he's instructed
in the ways of the Lord.
So, I do believe that we're dealing with a saved person here who's already going out
And the difference is this is that, in this particular instance,
although he saved and he believes on the Christ,
he just doesn't know the name of Jesus as of yet.
And this isn't something that's abnormal during this particular time.
Because of the fact the people in the Old Testament,
if they were saved they believed on the Christ.
The difference is that if they transitioned into the New Testament,
they had to essentially concede to the fact that Jesus
is that Christ, because the Christ was preached about many times throughout the Old Testament.
It's prophesied of the Old Testament.
People in the Old Testament look forward to the cross,
whereas we in the New Testament look back to the cross.
People look forward to the Christ.
We look back to a more complete explanation of that,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
And so this man is an individual who is a great preacher.
He knows the Bible.
He's instructed them in the ways of God.
He's excited about preaching.
He's diligent about the things of the Lord,
even though he only has minimal teaching,
in the baptism of John, and it says in verse 26,
and he began to speak boldly in a synagogue
whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard,
they took him unto them and expounded unto him
the way of God more perfectly.
So, you know, Aquila and Priscilla,
they're listening to this guy preaching like,
wow, this guy's a great preacher,
but he seems to only be mentioning the Christ, right?
The Lord, and there's an element that's missing
with this presentation, and that's Jesus.
Now, although he's preaching the Word of God and his gospel presentation isn't necessarily wrong,
because he's in the New Testament, he needs to specifically address who the Christ is, which is Jesus.
And that was the case for many people in the book of Acts, going, transitioning from Old Testament to New Testament,
is that they had to understand and believe that Jesus was that Christ.
Well, once that element was added to his gospel presentation, man, he became that much more effective, right?
He was able to mightily convince the Jews, and in fact it says in verse 28,
for he mightily convinced the Jews and that publicly showing by the scriptures
that Jesus was Christ. What do we see here?
We see a man whose gospel presentation was perfected.
It was improved. It was made better.
And I believe this is a great passage to show us that there's always room for improvement
You might already know how to sow in, you know how to preach the gospel, you already know the verses,
but hold on a second, let me just remind you, there's always room for growth, okay?
And so this evening, as the pastor of this church, I want to make sure that I kind of give an overview
of how to properly preach the gospel, how to properly sow in so we can preserve the right way to evangelize, right?
The right way how to sow in. Why do this?
The longer our church is in existence,
the longer we go souling.
You know, the more people are just gonna have weird ideas
on how to preach the gospel.
People wanna get cute, they wanna get all creative,
they've been watching a little too much
rate comfort or rate comfort period,
or they're listening to other people
who claim to be soul winners, but they're not soul winners
because they're denying specific elements
of the gospel presentation that should be included.
And some of them are just puffed up arrogant.
And sometimes people who haven't been soul-winning for a long period of time think that they're the experts in the matter of soul-winning.
I don't know why, maybe they watch the 100 Hours of Pastor Jimenez's, you know, Gospel presentation, or they've seen Pastor Anderson's Gospel presentation 200 times over, whatever.
That doesn't make you an expert!
Okay, you know what makes you somewhat of an expert is when you're doing it for a long period of time and
You're able to perfect your sword. You're able to sharpen your share
Sharpen your sword and just do it over and over and over again, and let me just be really frank with you
I don't take so many advice from someone who's only been sown in for the last six months to a year. I just don't
Now, every man is my teacher, I learn from different soldiers, even though I've been
doing it for the past 18 years, I never feel like I've arrived at a specific point where
I feel like I'm just complete, I'm perfect in this matter, you know, I got everything
under my belt, I've learned it perfectly, there's always room for growth, but on the
other side though, I definitely want to take advice from people who've only been doing
it for the last six months or something.
Because at the end of the day, they still have a lot of room for growth.
They have a lot more learning to do.
And so it's important for us never to have this attitude, well, I've been doing it every
single week for the last eight months, and so I got it down pack.
Not necessarily there's always room for growth.
And I do want to encourage you this evening, if I mention something that goes against your
matter of gospel presentation, or if I mock your matter of gospel presentation, because
there's something wrong with it, just change it.
Amen.
You know, yeah, but I learned from this guy Norm de Amante.
Well, then you really have to change everything
about your gospel presentation.
Because we don't learn from heretics.
You know people who desire to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor of they affirm
Okay, and so this is important and obviously when we talk about soul winning
We're using the biblical terminology found in Proverbs chapter 11 verse number 30
Where the Bible reads that the fruit of the righteous is the tree of life and he that when its souls is wise
And this is how you can tell if a church is into confrontational soul winning using the
right gospel, is if they use the term soul winning, right?
This is often has a connotation of confrontational evangelism.
They're using the Romans road.
They are addressing the fact you have to call upon the name of the Lord.
And so this is a great term to use,
and this is a term that we use as well.
Now, there's nothing wrong with saying evangelizing.
You know, I'm not a big fan of outreach or whatever,
or whatever other terms that people have.
I think soul-winning is just a great phrase to use,
and I think it gets to the point here, okay?
Now, before I get into all my main points here,
let me just give you a couple things
about wave introduction.
First of all, if we're gonna learn how to soul-win,
we have to understand what soul-winning is not.
Okay, and number one, I would say this, you know,
soul winning is not lifestyle evangelism, okay?
Meaning you have to do confrontational soul winning,
confrontational evangelism.
Now, the best way to do this is to go with your church
at whatever soul winning designation there is
and talk to people face to face.
Now obviously in 2025, things have shifted a little bit
where now we can witness the people online.
We have Omi TV, which I started using this week
and it's a great tool, a lot of weirdos on there,
but hey, I got two people saved
just in a matter of 45 minutes.
It's great, but that's not taking the place
of my actual soul anywhere.
I'm seeing people face to face at a door, okay?
Oh, that's old though, that's so outdated.
No, it's not because we've been doing it for the last whatever since our church has been in existence eight years
And it's worked and even prior to doing that prior to me starting this church
You know, I've done it for years on end and guess what it works. It's always worked to get people saved, right?
And so no other way should ever replace this matter of
Confrontational so-winning at the door, but so-winning is not lifestyle evangel. What is that lifestyle evangelism is like?
Well, just let your life so shine before men
And then, you know, the tattoo John 316 is going to cause people to want to ask you about, you know, salvation.
They're going to say, what must I do to be saved?
Now, can that happen?
Possibly.
Will it happen?
Probably not.
Okay.
But even if it does, may that not take the place?
First of all, what are you doing with the John 316 tattoo anyways?
But here's the thing folks obviously we're to be a good testimony before the world and
We're supposed to let our lights so shine
Meaning that you know, we got to let our work show forth. We got to serve God
But that is not the way we get people saved. Okay. Well, if you would just see how bright I shine
They're just gonna beg for the gospel, you know, I've learned this, okay?
You know in 18 years of souling I've learned that if you consistently go out and preach the gospel
I'm talking about knock on doors
God will give you opportunities where people will actually come to you
and ask you what must they do to be saved.
But if you're waiting for that opportunity and you don't go out and doorknock, it's not going to come.
But if you do go out and doorknock and preach the gospel,
God will give you a treat every once in a while and the fish just start jumping into the boat.
I'll give you an example. You know, years ago at the old building,
You know, I can't remember what service it was, but it was on a sunny night and
church is about to start and
You know, we had a door at that time like a literal door and someone like knocked on the door and I opened this guy
He was there with his girlfriend and he said, you know, I want to get saved
And I said, okay great. I said, well, let me just tell you the gospel. He goes well
I know everything about the gospel
He's all I know I'm a sinner I deserve hell
I know that Jesus Christ down at the cross to pay for my sins that he resurrected on the third day that all I have to do is
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
I know I cannot lose my salvation and that I have to call upon the name of the Lord. I just need you to lead me in prayer
That's all he said. I
Mean I talk about like jump there putting the hook in his own mouth
like hopping in the boat, hopping on the frying pan, right?
I mean, that was the fruit was so low hanging.
I mean, there was like millimeters off the floor
kind of thing, you know, it was just like so close.
And I didn't have to do it.
I was like, okay, so you understand, it goes,
I know all that.
I just need someone to assist me to call upon
the name of the Lord, because that is the biblical
manner of getting saved.
I said, great, prayed and that was super easy.
But let me say this, that's only happened once.
Okay, most of the time, you know, I'm just trying to mightily convince people through the scriptures that Jesus is Christ
The salvation cannot be lost that it's not of works and so forth
So if you want a unique experience like that, you know, that comes every thousand doors. How about that? Okay?
And so lifestyle evangelism does not take the place of
confrontational soul winning.
Track drops are not soul winning.
Now we track drop.
Not intentionally as in we have a 10,000 track campaign or
something like that.
I'm saying we're all soul winning.
People don't answer the door.
We drop the track on their door.
And we've gotten visitors from that, that people have
gotten saved.
but that is not the primary manner of getting the word out.
We just leave a track hoping that they find
the address of the church, they come to church,
they get saved and so forth.
But that does not take the place of soul winning.
Now that's important to note
because a lot of churches do that.
And they call it soul winning.
Visitation, track drop where they go to a door
and they don't knock,
they literally just leave a track on the door
and they feel like that's evangelism.
That's mail dropping, okay?
Street preaching is not soul winning.
Street preaching is annoying.
Street preaching is obnoxious.
And the vast majority of the time
when street preaching is done,
there's a false gospel involved.
I have yet to meet a street preacher
who's actually preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
that it's not of works.
The vast majority of the time,
it's repent of your sins,
Turner burn, megaphone, jack-in-the-box,
sounding street preacher, false prophet type stuff.
Okay, I'm not interested in that. You're annoying people on the street. No one's listening to you. You look like an idiot
Okay, and the Bible specifically says that Jesus Christ is you're not gonna hear you you didn't hear his voice crying in in the streets
Meaning he wasn't a street preacher. Okay, so street preaching is not so winning and
Debating is not so winning either. Okay now debating is a major thing online right now
on social media.
I mean, I get messages virtually every day
saying, debate me, debate this person.
Would you mind going on this podcast to debate?
It's like debate, debate, debate.
But let me just tell you what debating really is.
It's two people who are not convinced of each other's
position, it will not be convinced of each other's
position, who are bringing a group of people
on each end who agree with them
and will leave agreeing with them.
They just want each group to essentially mow the other group,
to embarrass the other group, to checkmate the other group.
And let me just say this, even if they were to checkmate them,
they're still not going to be convinced of the truth.
There's a reason why the Bible speaks strongly against debating.
The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2.23,
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do gender strife,
and the servant of the Lord must not strive,
apt to teach, patient, and meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peraventure will
give them the repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of
the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will. So the Bible says that we
shouldn't strive, we shouldn't debate, we should avoid foolish and unlearned questions.
Anything to yourself? Well, I don't know, Pastor, you know, I know some people who
You know, it doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, it's the right thing to do
Because of the fact that at the end of the day there were reach in spite of that stupid method of being reached
You understand what I'm saying? And so it's important for us to realize we're not into debates
You're not going to the door to debate with someone just just because you have the Bible knowledge or whatever may be
And let me just tell you this,
you're never gonna catch me in a debate.
It's not gonna happen.
It's the most unfruitful thing to do.
And it's, of my opinion,
you could look up debates in the Bible,
it's completely against the Bible.
That's right.
The Bible's not for it.
It's a waste of time.
That is not soul winning.
Soul winning is when you realize,
when you go to a door,
you present them the gospel,
you ask them or you're 100% sure
that if you die today, you go to heaven,
and you're the one talking.
It is essentially one-sided because of the fact that the Bible commands us if this person disagrees with us
After the first and second admonition we're to reject them. Well, that's not that doesn't happen in a debate
And a debate is just like they're rejecting everything that you're saying, right?
And so let's move on from that.
The point that I'm making here is that
confrontational soul-winning is confrontational evangelism.
It's not these things right here, okay?
Let me also say this when it comes to learning how to soul-win.
And this, I'm sure you already know,
but you have to be saved to get someone saved.
So unsaved people can get people saved.
But unsay people can repeat the word of God.
They can even memorize verses and sometimes because of their memorization can give the
right gospel, but they're not going to get anybody saved because everyone brings forth
after its own kind.
Everything brings forth after its own kind.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 3, 5, who then is Paul and who is Apollos, but ministers
Man, not only that, but in order to soul win,
you not only have to be saved,
you have to be spirit filled as well.
You know, if you're not spirit-filled, God's not going to grant you the boldness and the capability of opening your mouth boldly to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
This is why it's important that, you know, although sometimes we can become mechanical in our soul-winning presentation, meaning we memorize the script, memorize the verses,
it cannot be at the exception of praying for God to fill you with His power.
You don't understand how important this is until you come to a door.
where you meet someone, they're just like,
this is so weird, I was literally praying about this.
I was literally asking my friend about this.
I was literally thinking about salvation the other day
and I was kind of, I remember I knocked on the door
and this, I was with my wife and my kids,
this lady opened the door, she's probably in her 30s,
early 30s or so and she ended up getting saved.
And she was like, this is, and she started tearing up.
She's like so crazy, I was literally like praying to God,
like how do I even know if I'm really saved?
I don't know if I'm really saved.
And she's like, I was terrified of the thought that like,
although I believe in God, like I can't really say
with assurance that I'm gonna go to heaven.
Like I don't know if I'm saved.
And then she's like, and then you come the next day.
You know, coincidence, I think not.
You know, because prior to that, what am I praying?
Lord, lead me to someone who wants the truth.
Fill me with your spirit, help me to discern, you know,
help me to run into someone who actually wants the gospel,
and then you have these wonderful,
divine appointments with people.
And look, you're not always gonna have
those type of appointments, but the more you go,
the more you will, right?
So you gotta be spirit-filled, you gotta be saved,
and let me say this is that you gotta keep
a tender heart for the lost
if you're gonna sew one effectively.
You see, so many is about the numbers,
but it's not only about the numbers, right?
When we say so many is about the numbers,
it's like we're concerned with those 2,000 salvatians
that we're gonna try to get by the end of the year.
Why?
Because 2,000 salvatians is 2,000 souls
that are gonna go to heaven because of our efforts.
However, this shouldn't take away from the fact
that we need to be tenderhearted regarding the gospel
and have a love for people, right?
You know if you're gonna go soul-winning for the long haul go to Roman chapter 9 if you would Roman chapter 9
If you're gonna be soul-winning for the long haul
You need to make sure that you have a burden for the loss
Okay, and realize you know what I am making a difference in this life
I'm making an impact and someone out there like needs me to invest my time talents and treasures to
Invest time into like learning how to soul in memorizing the verses
You know, spending my gas, spending my time, doing all these things in order to present
the Gospel to this person because their eternal destiny depends upon it.
And so, you know, loving people is a great motivator to go out and preach the Gospel.
Look at Romans 9, verse number 1.
It says, I say the truth in Christ, I lie not.
My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.
I want you to notice, verse number two,
that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart,
for I could wish that myself were a curse from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh.
Now, that's what you call a burden, right?
And, you know, you may think to yourself,
like, ah, it's a little much,
but why don't you go ahead and think about
your unsafe family members for a second here, right?
I think all of us can attest to this type of emotion
where we worry about the
eternal security, the eternal destiny of our lost loved ones.
Maybe we have a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister, a son,
a daughter, a cousin, a close friend who we love dearly
and we don't want them to go to hell.
We have great heaviness and continual sorrow
in our heart for them.
Well, God not only wants us to feel that way regarding
our friends and family members,
He actually wants us to have that heart for just everyone.
All lost people.
And why? Because that propels us to go out there and give them the Gospel, you know.
It'll help you to overlook a lot of the flaws of those in public.
You know, when you're not going to the door and it's just like,
oh man, this person is just so closed, well they're just blind.
Oh man, this person didn't want to listen.
Well maybe, you know, obviously they're just lost, right?
Oh, this person didn't even have time?
Yeah, but the thing is, at the end of the day,
they're just blinded by Satan.
This person, you know, and I've told people at the door.
If they're just like, I don't have time
or they let me get halfway through,
I often tell them like, you know you can die
like after you and I are done talking.
You know, life is about a vapor, the Bible says, and it could be that God sent me to
you because of the fact that, you know, this is probably your last chance.
I'm not saying it is, but you know there's a possibility that that's the case.
And often that's led them to say, okay, finish up, you know what I mean, like, I'll listen
to it.
But there's other times that they don't, and you know what, I walk away sorrowful.
Because I'm not just saying that to just try to get them to listen, you know, just so I can preach the gospel and get a number under my belt.
I genuinely care for the salvation of this person, right? And I walk away and I'm just like, man, that's so sad.
Because you know this person it's possible that this person on the way to work might die and they will go to hell
And so it's important for us if we're going to soul in properly. We got to have the right heart
Okay, recognize numbers are important
But it's also important to have a tender heart for the loss and so go to Roman chapter 1 if you would
Now these are in no particular order I've already given you a lot of points so far
Let me say this when it comes to learning how to soul in
First and foremost, let me start off by saying that you need to be ready, okay?
Be ready to preach the gospel at a moment's notice, at the drop of a hat.
You need to make sure that you're always ready to preach the gospel. Why?
Because a person who's walking with God, a person who's serving the Lord,
will receive various opportunities throughout their week, today, tomorrow, to preach the gospel.
And one of the worst things that could ever happen to you is to have an opportunity to win someone a Christ and you don't know how to do it.
That's the worst thing, right?
It's just like, oh man, I wanna get this person to save it.
Repent on your sentence.
No, I'm just kidding.
You don't know what to say.
You're like, I don't know how to get this across.
I don't know how to do this.
And look, this is why we have teams in our church.
I believe having teams in a church
is one of the most effective ways
to teach people how to preach the gospel.
Because it gives a clear, concise objective
and helps people to have a goal to reach to.
You know, if a person's not so winning at all,
they've never preached the gospel,
we teach them how to give an introduction,
we then teach them how to get over that first point,
the second point, the third point,
to the point where they can literally
lead someone in prayer and get someone saved.
And we've literally seen people in our church
go from point A to point B to point C
within six months and be leading people to Christ.
I've seen it, and it's great.
You know because you want to be ready
Not just when you're with your team on a Sunday going out there and preaching the gospel
But what about when you're out at the gas station? What about with your neighbor?
What about your friends and family members? What about just a complete stranger you run into?
God leads that person to you. You want to be ready to give that person the gospel. Okay. Look at Romans 1 14
He says I'm a 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 Lord.
to the Greek. First Peter chapter 3 verse 15 says,
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts
and be ready always to give an answer to every man
to ask if your reason of the hope that is in you
with meekness in fear and fear.
What is the Bible telling us?
You know, we should be ready with the strategy,
with the plan, and yeah, may I say this,
with verses already memorized in our hearts, right?
And look, I remember when I first got saved
and I started learning how to sew in,
I thought to myself, man,
I'm not always gonna have a Bible with me.
You know, I know where the Romans wrote is.
I got my little tabs on my Bible.
But after a while, I was like,
you know what, I just need to memorize these verses.
Cause I just need to.
when the time comes and just be able to spit the gospel
when it's needed because I'm at work and I'm on break.
I don't have my Bible with me.
There's all types of young people that I'm working with.
I want to be able to go to them and just show them
what the Bible says on how to go to heaven.
I want to be ready and not just kind of half hazardly
present the gospel.
I want to have it organized, ready to go.
And look folks, in our church,
not just in our church, but in various churches,
we have what's called the Romans road.
And in my opinion, the Romans road is the most effective,
skeletal, you know, strategy to get people saved, right?
It just, you know, thank God for Brother Hiles.
Yeah, you heard right.
Thank God for Dr. Jack Hiles, who coined that Romans road.
And it's a step-by-step process from the book of Romans
on how to get people saved.
Okay.
Now, let me just say this regarding the gospel presentation in our church.
We promote the Romans road and we discourage starting in the book of Genesis.
Don't be a book of Genesis to Revelation gospel preacher because people at the door aren't
interested in how much Bible you know.
You know, I've seen this time and time again where people in our church and in other churches,
they just want to start with Adam, start with Eve, start in Genesis, and they want to go
over every single doctrine because they want to flex on people, how much Bible they know.
Folks, preaching the gospel is not about how much Bible you know, it's about just getting
them saved.
And look, if Jesus is saying that even a child understands, if you have the faith of a child,
all the story of the book of Genesis, okay?
Let's be basic here.
Bible talks about the simplicity that's in Jesus Christ.
And look, if you wanna flex your Bible knowledge,
get that person into church and then teach him in church.
But when we're out there preaching the gospel,
keep it simple, amen?
And so the Romans road is the way to go.
I'm completely against, well, you know,
like I mentioned on Thursday,
it's a juice we gotta start in the book of Isaiah, you know?
We got to use the Torah for the Jew.
We got to use this, that, and the other for the Muslim.
No, just start with the Romans' road,
and if they reject that, then dust your feet off
and move on to the next person.
And so you need a systematic presentation.
when it comes to preaching the gospel.
And there's nothing wrong with getting your Bible,
getting a three by five or a half sheet of paper
and having everything already typed out
of what you're gonna say and just asking your team leader,
can I just practice the introduction?
Can I just practice my first point?
There's nothing wrong with that, okay?
You're being systematic about it.
And again, the Romans wrote is a great skeleton
where you can build the muscle upon.
Because here's the thing, look, I use the Romans road,
but obviously I use various verses
throughout the New Testament to reinforce doctrines,
but I start off with the Romans road.
And at the end of the day, I can take anybody's Bible,
it doesn't have to be my own Bible,
and get someone saved using someone else's Bible.
Why, because I've already built muscle
upon the skeleton of the Romans road.
But let me tell you this, every time I'm preaching
the gospel, I saw Romans 323.
I start with Romans 3.10.
Why? Because that's the bone.
And then I put muscle upon it,
going to various other portions of scripture
that reinforce those statements.
Now let me also say this,
is that the average gospel presentation
when using the Romans road,
I would say, and I'm talking about like,
they're listening, they are getting everything.
It's about 12 to 15 minutes, believe it or not.
You should not be taking 40 minutes.
Unless unless you face like hurdles where people who damn people are getting called out of here
Don't I got you brother and just I'll call him out in just a little bit. I got him on here, too
So, you know, you should not be taking 40 minutes to preach the gospel unless of course
Someone's getting hung up on something right now. Look. This is where discernment plays a major role
Because you don't want to just get stuck at a door
and the dude is just wasting your time on purpose.
How many of you have ever had that before?
And you know, because they're asking you all these questions,
you're like, oh, I know this, I know this.
And then literally you just wasted
your whole soul any time.
Your team members are getting two, three, and you got zero.
You just got into a big debate.
All you do is flexing your scriptural knowledge,
but you got nothing, you understand?
And so it's not worth it.
But there are other instances,
and I've been in this position,
where I've talked to people,
and they are sincere about not understanding
the particular points of the gospel,
so I had to spend more time on them.
And I literally remember, if you guys remember brother
Milo Knezovich, who used to come to our church,
he's that faithful word now,
him and I were all preaching the gospel in Omani,
and I was there for about 45 minutes, believe it or not.
And after a while I was just like, you know what?
This guy's pulling my leg, man, I don't think this guy,
but he was sincere.
And then I don't remember what verse it was,
but I gave him a verse, and then he's just like,
you saw the light bulb.
And then tears came down, he's like, I get it now.
I wanna be saved.
And I was like all right, and I got him say 45 minutes in you know what?
I would have spent two hours talking to that guy if I knew that he just was not understanding
But he wanted to understand right and so 45 minutes is worth it. But again, that's very far few and in between
Most gospel presentations, if it's fluid,
if you're not wasting time, you're not arguing,
you're not answering questions about the Flat Earth,
the Book of Enoch, Nephilim, all this other nonsense,
it'll be about 12 to 15 minutes or so.
The longest is like 20 minutes
if you're like a slow talker or something, okay?
The point that I'm making here is that it's very concise
and that's why I believe you can, in a receptive area,
And by receptive, I mean people are willing to listen.
A really receptive area is that they're listening
and they're getting saved.
You can get two to three salvations an hour.
That's like a really receptive area.
That's belief status right there.
Belief status is like you get two to three salvations
an hour, okay?
Because if you're doing a thorough job
preaching the gospel, so on and so forth,
that's what you're gonna get.
And so, go to 1 Corinthians 2, 1 Corinthians 2.
But you have to be ready.
And you know what?
I hope that the new soul winners in our church,
I hope you're getting ready.
I hope you're memorizing the scriptures.
And look, maybe you're like,
well, I already know how to preach the gospel in English.
All right, start learning in Spanish then.
Let's get some Mexican speakers in.
I'm just kidding.
Let's get some Spanish speaking gospel preachers
in our church.
Look, some of you can speak Spanish.
You're just being lazy about it.
Let me just be real frank with you, okay?
And you know what?
Some of you have the knowledge to speak Spanish.
You have the discipline.
You have the capability, but you're unwilling.
You have the look.
You look Mexican, you know, you need to start learning Spanish and let me just say this
I double my rewards in heaven because I speak Spanish
You know, I'm you know, I switched the pisa when once you know when someone answers the door and there's you know
I switched to to immigrant
You know, I'm like, yeah, I hate Trump too. Whatever you whatever you want to hear man, you know
Whatever you want to know, you know, cuz I'm just trying to get you saved
To the immigrant, I became an immigrant.
To the illegal, I became an illegal, you know?
I made all things to all men.
But let me say this, some of you need to start refining
your Spanish.
And you know what, you're smart enough,
you're intelligent enough.
You are capable of learning a second language
or at least the basics of Spanish
to be able to preach the gospel.
And even if you speak it like a gringo.
You know, hey, I'm all for it, you know brother Tim over here. You speak Spanish, you know
I feel like all these white people from the South you guys remember John
But you know what we used to call we used to call him a
Swanson he was the widest guy ever and yeah, he's from Alabama
Home of in Brent. I'm just kidding
I'm kidding I'm kidding. You know he's from Alabama, but the man spoke fluent Spanish and he could pursue gospel in Spanish
Hey, you know some of you Mexicans who don't speak Spanish
You need to take some notes from these white guys who are out doing you in this area, okay, and so
Obviously if you don't know how to learn a second language, you know, that's okay, but I think a lot of you can
Okay, and you need to start refining your skills,
start learning how to preach the gospel,
you're working on your introductions,
but the point is that you gotta have a plan.
And you may be sitting there thinking like,
man, how in the world am I gonna present the gospel
in six months?
Well, if you plan it out, you can do it.
That's right.
Okay, and let me just say this,
a dream without a plan is only a wish.
Okay, a dream without a plan is only a wish and you know
You can become a bona fide soul winner in three months if you wanted to if you put in the work for it
But it all starts with the plan look at 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 1 it says and I brethren when I came to you came
Out with Excellency of speech or wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God for I determined not to know anything among you
Save Jesus Christ and him crucified now. Wouldn't you agree that the Apostle Paul knew a lot of doctrine?
The man was very knowledgeable. He received revelations from God, but yet when he was preaching the gospel
He's like, I don't know anything but Jesus Christ
And that's the attitude we need to have when we're out there preaching the gospel.
We don't need to throw up all our biblical knowledge on them, a post-trip, a pre-rather,
replacement theology.
You know, we just need to make sure we preach Christ and Him crucified.
You're like, do people really do that?
Yeah.
I remember going soul-winning in South Central and there's a guy who's so obsessed with the
Jews, he just couldn't wait to get to the point where like Jesus was crucified and persecuted
by the Jews and it's the Jews that did this and Jews this and Jews that.
You know what?
But really, he just had this vendetta against the Jews and that's all he wanted to talk about.
I mean, you could cut down on your time of your presentation
of the gospel if you get off your hobby horse a little bit
and actually focus on Christ and Him crucified.
No, obviously, if they're just like, you know,
hey, do you think the Jews rule the rule?
Yeah, you know, actually, I'm gonna tell you this right now.
Just give me a couple minutes to talk.
And then maybe you can push a little replacement theology
on them and then get back on track and say,
but I can talk to you about that later.
Let me finish this up.
And let me just say this.
Anytime someone gets me off track,
Regarding the subject that I know a lot about I say yes, but let me tell you about that after I'm done with this
I always tell them that I said let me that's a great question. I tell them that's a great subject
Let me talk to you about that after I'm done with this presentation because this is more important than that and
90% of the time they're cool with that. Okay
The Bible says in Proverbs 16,
you don't have to turn there.
A man's heart devises it his way,
but the Lord directed the steps.
Verse 23 says, the heart of the wise
teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips.
Hey people, let me tell you this.
Memorize the Romans road.
Memorize it, front and back.
Memorize the verses.
Work on your introduction.
Work on being able to knock on the door properly,
introducing yourself properly.
being kind, gracious, likable at the door,
not rude, pompous, and arrogant.
Let me say this, you know,
your gospel presentation is important,
but your introduction is almost more important.
You say why?
Because if you have a horrible introduction,
no one's gonna wanna listen to you.
If you're a rude jerk, it's not gonna work.
You say, is that a thing?
Yes!
In the experience of I've seen people at the door just rude as the day is long to people banging on the windows
Instead of on the door, you know, just do you want to hear the gospel? I've literally heard people say that
And look they have a right gospel presentation, but the introduction sucked and therefore they weren't able to preach the gospel to anybody because of that
Work on your introductions, okay? Be kind and gracious learn how to smile at the door
You know don't just be like
Hi
We're from first works. Are you 100% sure you died today you go to heaven?
Hmm, you know just
It's like man just dead just you know like and by the way this goes back to my previous point of just loving people
When I run into people at the door, I'm generally interested in talking to them
Hey, how's it going?
Pastor me in first works you go to church anywhere made a chance. Are you still okay cool?
Which is did you used to go to all right? Well, you know more important than all that
Just know where you're gonna go when you die. I look them straight in the eyes by the way
Don't let your eyes wander
He got autism or something, you know, just look him straight in the eyes be sincere with them
You know have some love in your heart when you're talking to them, right?
And look people can can often like they they get that vibe from you, right?
And so important and by the way, don't give your testimony either
Okay, the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ is far more important.
No one cares that you used to, you know, smoke crack or whatever, you know.
I'm glad God delivered you from that and that you got over, you know, being a prostitute
and all that, great, you know.
But when we're preaching the gospel, we're preaching the gospel, okay.
You know, the gospel is the power of God into salvation, not your testimony.
Now look, I'm not saying, because look, obviously when we're talking to people, we don't want
Meaning they're like, like, oh, what do you think you have to do to be saved?
Oh, you got to be a good person.
Well, that's 100% wrong, okay?
That's really stupid, you know?
Yeah, let me just go ahead and tell you what the Bible actually says.
This is what I do when people give me a wrong answer,
because I'm not just trying to blow the person out of the water.
I say, you know what?
I actually used to believe the same exact thing.
I used to believe it was my works,
that you had to work, because it's true.
Didn't we all believe at one point that it was my works?
Like, no, I was always saved, yeah, whatever, you know.
Everyone believed at one point or another
that it was the form of works that got us saved.
So there's nothing wrong with telling them,
like, you know what, I actually believed
that I won time too.
And what is that?
That's a form of giving your testimony,
but the testimony centered around the gospel itself.
All right, like I was, you're basically telling like,
I was wrong on this point too.
And then he basically said that until someone showed me
what the Bible actually says about that,
can I share that with you?
And then go from there.
So, don't give your testimony about your being a drug addict, you stole from a cookie jar,
you know, whatever sins you used to do, no one cares about that.
What people care about, what people need to know is the Gospel, okay?
Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, 2 Corinthians chapter 5 if you would.
So have a plan.
And look, our church is designed in such a way that we have these teams and the team
can help you and train you to be a better preacher
of the gospel.
And may I say this, be humble about being on a team.
Don't be like the oddball out, like I don't need a team.
I know so and I already know how to do it.
You know, what you're showing is that you're not really
a student of the Bible, you're not a student
of being a solider.
Because a student is always learning.
And look, I go soliding with different people,
I go soliding with different pastors,
and I'm always learning something new.
I'm always like, you know what?
I'm adding that statement to my gospel presentation.
I've gone so many people in our church
and this is like, well, that's a good way to say this.
I'm gonna adopt that illustration.
I'm gonna adopt that statement.
Well, you know, I never thought about using that verse.
I'm gonna use that verse.
So if myself, the pastor of this church
is willing to humble himself
and learn from other people, so can you.
So don't it's not a demeaning thing for a team leader to correct you in your soul winning
You know be a humble individual and say you know what you're absolutely right
Let me try it that way and even if you think your soul winning teacher is wrong
You know what at the end of the day you both have the same gospel. Why don't you try what he told you to do?
Yeah, why don't you just try it?
You know and and the people that I've run into
They want to be like well we were trained by pastor Jimenez
Most of those people have no idea how to sew in,
and they're lying, they don't sew in like pastor ages.
Okay, I remember years ago,
there's this couple in our church,
and they were like,
they're better sewiners than Jesus apparently, you know?
They'd get like 30 salvations,
like in an hour or two hours or whatever,
and then when we confronted them about it,
they're like, oh, we learned from pastor Jimenez.
And I'm just like, well, this is first works by this church.
You know, sorry, there's no.
There's no, you can't push that weight here.
That doesn't work here.
So, you know, and the last time I checked,
you know, passory men is, or any of the passers,
they don't get 30 salvations in two hours.
Okay, so I don't know what you're, you know,
it's kind of weird.
You know, be humble and learn from other people.
Be humble and learn from your team leader.
And by the way, be a team player.
Hey man, man.
Don't be the odd ball out in your team.
And you're just like, oh, we just have to do this
because we have teams.
Why don't you just be a team player?
and say, you know what, I got a team.
I wanna be a blessing.
Why?
Because we can do more together.
There's no Ronan soul winners in our church.
Just rogue soul winners.
I just like to do my own thing.
I don't need nobody to shake up on me.
Why?
What are you saying?
Kind of gospel presentation you got there.
You know, I want everyone to know
what my gospel presentation is like.
Right?
I want everyone to hear what my gospel presentation is like.
I want everyone to know the verses that I'm using.
Why be cryptic about it?
You know like oh, you know when I go I just don't like to be paired up with anybody
Why the biblical motto is to be paired up together right for accountability so you're not saying anything weird
So you're not putting any weird situations and to just exhort you to continue to go out so and you just make good
Memories too when you're out with your soning partner, right?
Right let's move on here
talking about how to sew in have a plan use the Romans road ask your teacher to help you your
Your your your team leader to help you to teach you how to properly preach the gospel
Next point here use the Bible. I know that's basic, but it's necessary. Okay
Whether by memory or a physical Bible now
I do recommend everyone in our church that when you're out there preaching the gospel that you're using a physical Bible
Okay, because it's great to just point people the verses and show them what the Bible says I'm for the tabs in the Bible
The highlighted parts of the Bible. That's great
And in fact, we even have so many Bibles where the producer of the Bibles already has it emboldened for you, right?
You know, I think that's great, but the point is use the Bible
Look at 2nd Corinthians 5 18 and all things are of God who have to reconcile this to himself by Jesus Christ
and had given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
he says to wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world into himself,
not imputing the trespasses unto them
and had committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
What is the word of reconciliation
is referring to the Bible, right?
So we wanna make sure that we're using the word of God
when we are preaching the gospel.
Now there's gonna be instances
when you don't have a physical Bible with you,
this is when it's important to have it memorized.
Now this is what I did on Omi TV.
Okay, on Omi TV, I'm just like spitting verses,
I'm giving the references, I'm quoting it,
but there's other instances where maybe I'm out in public
and I talk to someone, I just give them the verses
from memory, there's nothing wrong with that
if you have the verses memorized.
And I would recommend that you get to a point
as a soul winner where you have all the verses
already memorized, okay?
I think that's great, but make sure that you are using
the word of God.
Turn with me if you would to Romans chapter 10 Romans chapter 10 1 Peter 1
23 says being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by
the word of God which liveth and abideth forever the Bible tells us so then faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God
The Bible also says in 1 Corinthians 2-13 which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth
But which the holy goat the holy ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Let me move on here
Next regarding soul winning. Let me say this have a clear objective
It's very important. Okay, probably one of the most important points of this sermon
What do I mean by that?
Well, you don't want to go haphazardly
into your gospel presentation,
not really knowing what you're going to do.
Like, you obviously know you want to get this person saved,
but what is the objective exactly?
Well, let me say this, the objective
at the end of the gospel presentation
is that they call upon the name of the Lord.
That is the objective, okay?
Let me spend a little bit of time on this.
Obviously, we want to emphasize the fact
that salvation cannot be lost.
We want to, our objective should be,
these are the truths they need to believe
in order to be saved, right?
But at the end of the gospel presentation,
the objective is this,
I need to lead this person in prayer, okay?
Now there's a foolish movement out there
of spiritual retards that believe
that you don't have to call upon
the name of the Lord to be saved.
just completely denying explicit scriptures
that command us to call upon the name of the Lord.
Just ignoring him.
Now let's read Romans 10 verse eight.
It says, but what sayeth it?
The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thine heart.
That is the word of faith which we preach.
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and
Shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved now
Let me explain something very elementary here, okay, and that is to be saved
We would generally say you have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and that is correct
But according to verse 9 if you believe in your heart you're gonna confess it with your mouth now
What does it mean to confess you with your mouth you're asking for salvation?
You believe these truths and in light of these truths that are believed you say God save me, right?
Now I want you to notice in verse 9
What it says we're supposed to use
Thy mouth
Says dying hard, but it also says thy mouth as well
Okay, and in case you missed it the first time look at verse 10 for what the heart man believeth unto righteousness
and what the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Now, a lot of people take offense to the sinner's prayer.
Oh, this is to save anybody.
I got saved, what are you talking about?
Amen.
Oh, you're trying to get someone to pray
a sinner's prayer, no one gets it.
What are you talking about?
I've been saved for the last 18 years.
Well, if they get saved they live a wicked life thereafter and they come to you call upon the name of the Lord
Well, I've called upon the name of the Lord and I've been serving God for the last 18 years. What now and
That doesn't mean I don't sin because I'm a sinner but hold on a second. You're using this example
Oh, you know, what if you sinned or I've sinned after salvation, but I'm still saved and I've been serving God for the last 18 years
What now?
Folks, let's defend the sinner's prayer now obviously there's an extreme
Opposite to this, where people do this one, two, three
prayer after me thing, and that's on biblical as well.
I've known fundamental Baptist churches
that they're not thorough.
They literally give the gospel presentation
in five minutes or less,
and they just tell people to pray with them,
and then they just count that as a salvation.
That person did not get saved, right?
You know, people have to believe with their heart.
They're so focused on confessing with their mouth,
they disregard the believing in their heart.
because there's certain truths that they have to believe
in order to be saved, okay?
But on the flip side, we wanna make sure
that we don't discount calling upon the name of the Lord
because it literally says in verse 13,
for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
Now, typically the response to this is like,
oh, what about a mute person?
Does that mean a mute person can't be saved?
Of course they can be saved.
Just like a blind person can get saved
without reading the Bible.
Without actually, you know seeing the verses for themselves with their eyes
You know if a person is mute, and I can't believe I'm even addressing this because it's so stupid
If a person is mute, right they can't speak
Well, they're still calling upon the name of the Lord for salvation in their heart
Right they're asking God to save them in their heart gave me you know
Right
I'm not trying to be funny here. This is fact. This is what they would do, right?
You know, but let me say this that's like never the case though
That's like a very very
You know rare case or someone in general what the Bible's teaching here is that if someone believes these truths
They're gonna ask off isn't that what Jesus said in John chapter 4
That's how newest the gift of God who it is to save them to thee
You know regarding the living water that that should has asked of him and he would have given the living water asked of him, right?
You would ask for salvation
And so we need to make sure that we keep this
doctrine preserved in our church
because it is a possibility that people come into our church
not believing this and doing bad souling.
And if this is what you do, stop, okay?
And this is what you do and I find out about it,
you're getting preached against.
Plain and simple. Here's your warning and that not that I've heard about anybody doing this
But I need to make sure we keep this thing under control to make sure that no foolish doctrines come through this church
Well, there's a guy who has 300,000 subscribers say you shouldn't call upon the name of the Lord. Yeah, he's called the devil
Broad as the way yeah, if someone tells you to not do what the Bible tells you to do I
Mean come on
I know it says call upon the name of the Lord,
but you don't have to call upon the name of the Lord.
You're a devil.
You're a false prophet.
And who cares how many subscribers you have?
Since when does that validate any person?
Doesn't matter how many followers of subscribers you have,
brought us away, my friends.
You know, I'm sure,
I'm sure Joel Sting has like a million followers.
I mean, look how big his church is.
Does that mean his message is right?
No.
And you know what Norm Diamante is still a devil.
He's a wolf in sheep's clothing and you are a retard.
Plain and simple, plain and simple.
I don't care how many people agree with them.
I don't care what he claims,
how many people he's gotten saved.
If you deny calling upon the name of the Lord
you're a heretic because the Bible literally lays it out
in Romans 10, 13 that that's what you're supposed to do
to get saved.
The clear objective when we preach the gospel
is that we lead them in prayer.
Go to 1 John chapter 5 1 John chapter 5
The clear objective is that we help them to call upon the name of the Lord
The clear objective is that we need to aid them in believing that salvation cannot be lost
right
Look folks eternal security is the gospel
It's not part of the gospel. It actually is the gospel. Okay. Look at 1 John chapter 5
And verse nine it says if we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater
For this is the witness of God which he had testified of his son
He that believeth on the son of God had the witness in himself
He to believe it's not God has made him a liar because he believed it's not the record that God gave of his son
And this is the record that God has given to us temporal life
No, it says eternal life. What is eternal security? It's the fact that salvation can never be lost because it's eternal
Saying that salvation is eternal, but then saying you can lose it is an oxymoron doesn't exist
Okay, they can't their contradictory statements
Reason we believe in eternal security is because the Bible teaches eternal life
Once you have it ye shall never die. No man shall pluck you out of his hand. I will in no wise cast you out
It's it's bringing finality
To your position in Christ that you're saved eternally forever. There's nothing you do to lose it. Okay, and
So that's important go to Titus chapter 3 Titus chapter 3
So there needs to be a clear objective the objective when I get to the door is
I need to know what their church background is
Because look, folks, we're not just making small talk
with people.
You know, when we say, do you go to church anywhere?
They say yes.
We say, what kind of church do you go to?
They say, you know, Saint, Jezebel, whatever,
some Catholic church or whatever, automatically like,
oh, this person's not saved.
Because they go, now there's a possibility
that they're saved because they might have gotten
saved somewhere else.
But in general, the judgment that we make
is this person's probably not saved.
But look even when they say that I said well, you know
Are you a hundred percent sure that if you die today you go to heaven and say then what I think to myself?
This person's for sure not safe. Yeah, if they're like
Maybe I think so
It's possible. I've done you know any kind of answer without any actual security. It's like okay. This person's not safe, right?
And so that's important.
We need to make sure that they understand
what the Bible says regarding salvation,
and I'm not gonna go into the details
of the actual Gospel presentation itself,
but let me also say this.
Don't waste your time.
And I know I've already emphasized this,
but this is very important, okay?
Do not waste your time.
The Bible literally says in Matthew 7,
not to cast your pearls before swine.
Meaning, what you have is valuable, don't waste 30 minutes, 40 minutes just arguing
with someone, just wasting your time, look at Titus chapter 3, verse 9.
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law
for they are unprofitable and vain.
It's not worth discussing the book of Enoch.
It's not worth, it's definitely not worth
discussing the flat earth.
It's not worth strivings about the law.
Now there are instances where, you know,
I've rebuked people because they're just getting too wild
or crazy and it's just like, I'm just gonna leave you
with this, you know, according to the Bible,
you're going to hell, you know?
Cause they were a false prophet.
I've talked to people who are Jehovah's Witnesses
and they're false prophets and it's just like,
oh, okay, you're a false prophet, you're going to hell.
And he's just like, see you later, you know?
Or there were a sonomite, okay?
And I've had to let him have it, you know?
But again, that's very few far and in between.
And at the end of the day, I try to stay away
from unprofitable and vain conversations.
And in fact, look what it says in verse 10.
A man that is a heretic after the first and second
admonition reject knowing that he that is such
as subverted and sin is being condemned of himself.
You know, I admire the soul winners in our church
that I've gone with.
Where they're like being unprofitable in vain and someone's like alright. Thank you for your time. Just walk away. That's it because in my flesh
I'm like not bro. Let him have it
Just let him have it, you know, you got the answer, but then some people are just like, thank you. All right. See ya
No ego
right
Because I know the person I'm so willing with,
I know that person can just completely demolish
that person's argument, but they're just like,
okay, well, thanks, see ya.
Anyways, you know, and they just kinda move on
with their lives.
This is an execution of Titus chapter three,
that you reject this person, you move on with your life,
and you don't waste your time with this individual.
Okay, you know the Bible tells us in Matthew chapter 10 verse 14,
whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words
when you depart out of that house or city shake off the dust
of your feet. Just move on with your life. You don't need to waste your time there.
Satan is trying to get you off track to waste time so that you don't preach the
gospel to others.
Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4.
2nd Corinthians chapter 4. So you got to be ready.
Know what the Romans wrote is memorize the Romans wrote don't waste your time
Make sure that you have a clear objective that clear objective is to get them to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved, right?
But let me also say this you need the right doctrine. I know that's like obvious
But you do need the right doctrine
And we're getting to a point where it's just like in times past
it's like the Romans road, it's pretty self-explanatory.
But now because there's so much vein jangling out there
and a complete perversion of doctrines,
now we gotta get specific about what the Romans road teaches.
You gotta have the right doctrine.
What do I mean by that?
Well, let me just say this is that, you know,
if you're gonna preach the gospel,
you gotta, there's certain elements of the gospel
that need to be present, okay?
I already mentioned eternal security as being one of them, right?
They have to know that salvation cannot be lost.
So let me ask you this class.
If a person at your gospel presentation claims to believe in Jesus, they're like, oh, I
trust in Jesus Christ, but they believe they can lose their salvation, can that person
be saved?
Absolutely not.
Because to believe on Jesus Christ is to believe the witness of God that salvation is eternal.
Okay, so it's just like well, I think you know, I think they got saved because they believed on Jesus Christ
Well, then you got to admit that they didn't believe on the Jesus Christ of the Bible
Because the Jesus Christ of the Bible gives life eternally good good catch by the way
And so you saw how I caught that too
Eternal security is important. I got you brother address, right?
Eternal security is important, but how about this?
Hell, gotta talk about hell.
I'm not saying you gotta send them straight to hell
with all your illustrations and just like tell them
that they're a piece of trash or whatever,
but hell needs to be mentioned.
It's not figurative, it's not a separation from God.
We need to make sure we address the verses
that talk about hell.
And let me just say this, we don't custom fit
Our gospel presentation, like I'm talking to a Buddhist,
or I got to start someone in creation,
Romans wrote for everyone across the board,
but there are certain elements of the gospel presentation
that are more heavily emphasized
based upon what person we're talking to.
For example, if we're talking to a seven-day Adventist
or a Jehovah's Witness,
and we know that we're talking to a person like that,
we do have to emphasize hell.
Why, because they don't believe in hell.
So they might concede to Jesus Christ being their savior and you might be deceived to think all this person could get saved
But hold on a second. They you need to make sure they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God
He's God and look anytime I talk to the Jehovah's Witness after I'm done giving them
You know the fact that salvation cannot be lost and you know, it's not of works
I said you do have to believe that Jesus Christ is God
And you know, let's just rip off the Band-Aid
Like, by the way, Jesus Christ is God.
Do you agree with that?
And I've talked to Jehovah's Witnesses like,
yes, I believe that.
Okay, which means that like, he wasn't created.
Okay, he's God.
He's the Son of God, but he's also God.
And people are like, I believe that now.
But I've witnessed other Jehovah's Witnesses
who are like, I don't agree with that.
I'm like, okay, this person can't be saved then.
Yeah, but he says he's gonna trust in Jesus Christ,
but he doesn't believe he's God.
And so, that's another Jesus.
Or they can, you know, confede to all other truths of the gospel, but then reject hell.
What's the point of him getting saved?
He's called the Savior because he's saving you from, he's saving us from our sins.
No, he's actually saving you from the consequence of your sins.
Okay, you know, we'll be saved from our sins at the resurrection.
I don't even know this right now, we all struggle with sin.
Okay, so we're not fully delivered.
We're being delivered from eternal damnation.
So if a person doesn't believe in fiery eternal damnation,
they cannot be saved, my friends.
So we need to make sure we emphasize that.
Now in general, everyone believes hell
and they believe in the concept of hell.
They believe in the biblical teaching of hell.
They understand that.
I'm just saying, when you talk to people and they come from a specific religious background,
right, that you know maybe denies one of these aspects of our gospel presentation that needs
to be emphasized, you know, look, how about this, you know, believing in Jesus Christ
exclusively to be saved.
I give you the example a couple of weeks ago that I witnessed to a guy.
And I went through the entire Gospel presentation.
He said, you know, I believe that Jesus Christ is my savior.
I believe he died on the cross to pay for my sins.
I mean, he conceded to everything.
He said, you're right.
And then when I asked him to pray,
and I said, and I knew he was a Catholic,
because I knew, I knew, we were talking,
and I knew he was a Catholic.
And I said, I told, I said, repeat this.
I believe on Jesus Christ exclusively to be saved.
What did he do?
He laughed.
And then I open my eyes, he's like, yeah, see that?
I can't really, I can't do that.
He's like, because I believe in the Virgin Mary.
And I'm thinking to myself, ah ha!
You know, I'm just like, but you know, bad soldiers
are like, what's okay, just keep, just pray, you know?
Oh, he's trusting in Mary for salvation.
And look folks, Catholics are the purest form of idolaters.
Even worse than Buddhists and Hindus.
Anybody, why?
Because they not only worship saints,
they trust in them for salvation.
And so he scoffed the day, he mocked it, he's like,
yeah, I can't do it because I believe in the Virgin Mary.
I'm like, so do you, I say, okay,
I just need you to admit this though,
that you're denying what the Bible says.
He's like, well, yeah, that's, yeah,
I hold to my traditions.
I'm like, all right, that's all I need you to hear.
By the words, I'm just kind of, I'm just like, you know,
giving this so God can record it, you know what I mean,
for later, you know, by the words I shall be justified,
by the words I shall be condemned.
I said, so I just need you to admit right now
that you're basically saying,
you believe in your traditions more than the Bible.
Well, that's all I got to say, you know?
Just read the track, hopefully nothing happens
to you anywhere to work.
I just left them with that.
You say, oh, that's cold.
Well, I'm being honest here.
And look, I don't know what happened.
But let me tell you right now, if he died,
bro, when he's split hell, he just like,
he just went and then, you know, he's thinking about me.
He's like, that guy was right.
Oh, that's so unloving.
What do you mean?
I give him the truth.
That's right.
I took time out of my schedule to go tell him the truth
so he can be saved.
And you know what?
An unloving soul would have just bypassed that
and said, oh, that's okay if he believes that.
Just pray this real quick.
No, I didn't finish the prayer with him.
Why?
Because it's essential for him to believe
that Jesus, that believe on Jesus Christ
exclusively to be saved and nothing else.
And look, when I give that part of my Gospel presentation regarding believing in Jesus Christ,
I tell them, that means you can't add anything to believing in Jesus.
And I put the cookie on the bottom shelf.
This is what I tell people all the time.
I say, so let me give you this example.
If I told you, I'm going to heaven,
because I believe in Jesus,
but you also have to be a good person.
Am I adding something to believing in Jesus?
And they're just like, you are.
What am I adding?
Being a good person, exactly.
And I go through like three different examples.
And this is what I tell them.
This is what it means to believe on Jesus Christ.
It means you can only trust in Jesus for salvation.
And at the end of my gospel presentation,
I tell them, what do you have to do to be saved?
They're like, believe on Jesus Christ.
Can you add anything to that?
They're like, nope, because if you do,
you cannot be saved.
I'm like, that's absolutely right.
You gotta have the right terminology, right?
You know, I'm not again saying accept Jesus Christ
into your heart or as your savior,
but believe on Jesus Christ.
It's superior.
Trusting in Jesus Christ is superior, right?
Getting saved is a superior terminology to use, okay?
Definitely not giving your life to Christ, okay?
Because that implies works.
Now, I'll be honest with you, I've talked to people
who have used that terminology, and when I dig further,
they actually believed in the true gospel,
but they're probably going through some watered down
liberal church that uses that terminology.
But let me tell you why it's a works-based term,
because of the fact that it's salvation
is that Jesus Christ gave his life for us,
not the other way around, okay?
All right, but let me tell you another element that's very important to add into your gospel presentation
And most of you already do it without even knowing it
But I need to emphasize this because it's important and that is the deity of Jesus Christ needs to be talked about
You say what I don't know enough about all that talk like well if you have a prosper proper gospel presentation
You're gonna mention it
Okay, let me give you an example. You know when I witness the people and I talk about Romans 5a
God commended his love toward us and that while we were he had sinned as Christ died for us
I say God the father
Sent his son Jesus Christ who was born of a virgin
Automatically, I've already covered two doctrines there the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the fact that Jesus Christ is sinless
Because he's born of a virgin, right?
Virgin birth equals the sinless nature of Jesus Christ
And the fact that I'm making a distinction between Jesus and God the Father is showing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
His Father is also God, and therein we find the Trinity.
So yeah, what are you trying to say? I'm saying that you have to mention the Trinity in your Gospel presentation.
Now do you have to go down deep? No, you don't.
Just like we don't go down deep with any other doctrines that we mentioned in our Gospel presentation unless it's necessary.
Let me give you this example, you know, obviously we talk about the forgiveness of sins in our gospel presentation, right?
Like Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins once you get saved you get forgiven of all sins past present future
That's pretty basic and in fact, I'll be honest with you like I don't necessarily show a bunch of verses on that
You know the fact that I show them that Jesus Christ died on the cross for their sins
I explained that but I don't really go any further than that
Now what's a deeper dive into that particular subject? Well, how about
Now, most of you are like, impute what?
Impute what?
Imputation is what Romans 4 is talking about.
It's like a deeper understanding of the forgiveness of sins
because righteousness has been imputed unto us.
His record is placed upon us.
So when God looks at us, he sees us through the perfection
of Jesus Christ.
We don't necessarily need to explain that at the door.
That's like a deeper understanding of the subject,
right?
Well, in like manner, the entire doctrine of the Trinity does not need to be explained,
but you do need to give some rudimentary explanations of the Trinity through explaining
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that God the Father sent him.
If you don't mention that, your Gospel presentation is toast.
It's not a Gospel presentation.
And I'm not trying to be a police here, the Baptist police, but I will say this, you better be saying that in your gospel presentation.
And you're like, well, I've got people say I've never mentioned that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Oh, so you've got no one saved.
If you're not even mentioning that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you've got a sucky presentation of the gospel.
What kind of gospel presentation does it mention that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
It's crazy.
It's a lazy, half-hazard, almost said the other word, half-hazard presentation of the
gospel.
You've got to mention that.
How do you not mention that God, God the Father, sent Jesus Christ his Son?
How do you not mention the virgin birth?
What are you even saying in your gospel presentation if you're not mentioning that?
That is probably the most thorough aspect of our gospel presentation is when we talk
And so, and look, don't try to gaslight me or others
into saying, well, you're saying that we have to like
really be thorough in our Trinity explanation.
That's not what I'm saying.
Right, man.
Okay, we don't need to do all that.
I didn't say we have to do all that.
But a rudimentary explanation of it needs to be stated
in your gospel presentation,
just for the fact that it's just a basic understanding
of it, right?
Look, folks, we can go deep into eternal security too.
That's a deep subject in the Bible
But all they need to know is that you just never lose it
If he's in a super say through night is sufficient
And when they come to church, they'll learn more about it and have a greater appreciation for it and a more thorough understanding of it
But they just simply need a rudimentary understanding of this particular doctrine and look someone someone said this a
While ago, they said oh like do we have to debunk every damnable heresy for someone to get saved? That's a stupid question
Obviously that's not the case, but hold on a second.
We do have to mention specific key doctrines
in our gospel presentation in order to get someone saved.
Absolutely.
And look, the biggest amenable heresy out there
is that you can lose your salvation.
And you know what?
That's something we address in our gospel presentation.
Do we have to mention every amenable heresy?
Just the ones that pertain to the gospel itself.
Like a trinity right virgin birth folks if someone tells me they don't they believe that Jesus Christ was not sinless
They can't be saved
Look, I ran into another Catholic. This is years ago
You know Catholics, but they claim to believe in Jesus Christ and he's the son of God
But this guy literally believed that Jesus sinned by rebuking his mother Mary
It's laughable
My bus captain was just and my bus captain had asked him this question
You know thinking that this guy had enough common sense
He thinking that he had two brain cells to rub together
It was like a rhetorical question and he was just like he's like I mean Jesus rebuked his mom
Do you think he's in and he was expecting like well of course not but this guy's like no yeah
He did sin for doing it for sure
I'm like picking up my jaw off the floor.
Cause I was like a brand new Christian.
I'm like, what the heck?
This guy just say what I think he said.
And then my bus captain was like, all right,
I'll see you later.
You know, there's the invite and he walked away.
And I walked away like, why did my bus captain
just, he should have just mowed at him.
But my bus captain understood,
you don't waste time with heretics.
That was a major heretic.
So if a person believes that they can't be saved.
The point that I'm making here is that there are essential doctrines that do need to be mentioned and no
You don't have to do a deep dive to understand them yourself per se
But if you have a thorough gospel presentation, they will be mentioned
Look at 1st John chapter 5 again
It says in verse 7 for there are three that bear record in heaven
The father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one and look
If you have a thorough gospel presentation you will mention that it's God the Father who sends Jesus Christ his son.
What about the Holy Spirit? Well after you get saved then you have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you until the day of redemption.
Plain and simple. Unless you don't know where those verses are at. Unless you don't know those yourself.
But that's basic my friend. Ephesians 1.13-14 explains it right there.
Let it roll off the tongue.
It's super simple.
And in fact, it's a great passage to reinforce
the doctrine of eternal security.
Cause you're sealed onto the day of redemption
that he's the earnest of our inheritance
onto the redemption of the purchased possession
into the praise of his glory.
There you go, the trinity.
And you don't have to say,
by the way, that's the trinity.
You just explain it and they understand it.
Okay.
And so this is important.
Obviously the resurrection needs to be emphasized, right?
And let me say this, the bodily resurrection has to be emphasized.
You don't have to be an expert in false religions and cults, but just have a basic understanding
of what they believe.
Because if you're dealing with a Jehovah's Witness, off the bat, you already know this
person denies the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ after a hardcore Jehovah's Witness.
And so they need to understand and believe that.
And don't tiptoe around the tulips either.
Just be like, you have to believe this in order to be saved.
Don't be like, hey, I know you, we disagree on this,
you know, and I know you have different views on this.
You just tell them like, the Bible says that Jesus Christ,
and I've literally said this to the Jehovah's Witnesses,
the Bible says that Jesus Christ
bodily resurrected from the grave.
And in fact, I literally ran into someone a couple weeks ago
and you know, he was this black guy
who's a Jehovah's Witness.
And, you know, I knew he was a Jovo's witness because one of our other soreners had to run
into him, like the week before or something, and he tried to come to me, and he was just
like, oh, you guys are out again, and he was really nice and cordial.
And then he's like, yeah, I think we agree on a lot of stuff, you know?
And in my mind, he's like, you liar, you know we don't agree, you're a heretic.
And then he's just like, he's like, you know, there's only one thing, it's just, you know,
the resurrection.
I'm like, well, yeah, we believe, or actually, no, I'm sorry, he didn't say that.
He says, we agree on a lot of things.
I was like, yeah.
Well, you know, we believe in the bodily resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
We believe that Jesus Christ bodily arose from the grave.
And he's like, I don't know if the Bible really teaches that.
And I told him, I said, Jesus Christ
said to feel his hands, his wounds,
and his side for a spirit hath not flesh and bone
as you see me to have.
And then this is the way that he went.
I didn't know that.
I have to look at that.
I'm like, we believe in the bodily resurrection.
And that's it.
And I walked away, because he didn't want to talk any further.
But I knew he was a denier of that, because he's a Jehovah's
Witness.
And he tried to say, oh, I'm going to church right now, too.
And in my mind, I'm like, you're not going to church.
You're going to some congregation of Satan.
That's what the Jehovah's Witnesses are.
They're false Jehovah's Witnesses.
And so, the point that I'm making here is that if you have a thorough gospel presentation,
these elements will be included.
Oh, that's so much to know, though.
Oh, well, we wouldn't want you to do anything hard now, would we?
Oh, I'm sorry if I want to make you a thorough solaner.
Amen.
Oh, I'm sorry if I want to make you a bona fide preacher of the gospel that's not lacking
anything.
I'm sorry if I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry that I want to make you a higher caliber of a preacher of the gospel
We want to produce higher caliber preachers of the gospel in our church
Thorough in their presentation. They know what they're talking about. They're not lazy
Well, I'm not trying to go to the training here because I don't think they have to believe if you don't think a person has to believe in
The training to be saved then guess what possibly you're not saved
You know, and you've got no one saved.
Oh man, I just, you know,
I think you're being a little overboard on that.
Yeah, why don't you go to a church
where they underboard it then?
I like to go overboard on this stuff.
It's necessary.
Because we, in 2025, there's a myriad of false doctrines out there.
Society and churches are permeated with heresy, and you know what?
We need to make sure that we dot our I's and cross our T's and do a thorough job
because false doctrine abounds, and we don't need lazy soul winners out there.
We don't need half hazard, there I go again, almost saying the word,
half hazard soul winners out there.
preaching a watered down gospel
because you just want to be as efficient as possible
and you just want to get out the door real quick.
No, just be thorough about it.
Just be thorough.
What's the sermon?
I'm just showing you how to solve it.
And obviously this sermon is not exhaustive,
although I went beyond my time.
You know, but I am trying to tell you,
if you get anything, get this.
Just be thorough.
And look, you can be thorough in 12 minutes.
Because you're like, well, you said thorough, but you said I can't spend 45 minutes. No, be thorough in 20 and 12 to 15 minutes
You can't I'm not saying you have to start in Genesis
You can literally just let son of God roll off your tongue
You know, you can literally say that God the father sent his son Jesus Christ and that they're sealed with the Holy Ghost and boom
There you have the Trinity you can literally say talk about and you do have to spend time on eternal security
You can talk about people, you know them deserving to go to hell
Cause look, let me say this, I don't move beyond that point
if they don't agree with me.
If I say, you know, the Bible says this is what you deserve.
Do you agree with that?
And they're just like, eh.
I'm like, why would you not agree with that?
Isn't this what God says?
Isn't that what the verse is saying?
Well, yeah, that's true.
So you agree with it?
Yes, I agree with it.
Okay, now we can move on.
I pressure them for sure.
Cause I'm right.
I'm not just like, oh.
I'm not trying to know if I knew or anything like that.
I'm just like, the Bible says we deserve it.
I'm just like, I mean, this is what God says.
You think God's lying?
And they're like, okay, yeah, that is what it says.
You believe it?
Yeah, I believe it.
Okay, we can move on.
Cause I'm right and they're wrong.
And so, all right, Father we thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for those who have come before us who have taught us how to preach the gospel Lord and to be thorough Lord
We need to make sure that we are
Just dotting our eyes crossing our T's being thorough not being half-hazard about this matter of
Preaching the word of God to get people saved
And so Lord help us to have a humble spirit to learn from others and
Help us to be thorough Lord to be zealous about preaching the gospel
And Lord, I pray, Father God, that new so-owners in our church would get a fire under themselves
to motivate them to memorize the verses this week, even if it's a couple verses this week,
to memorize so they can be ready. It's an introduction that they have to work on.
Maybe they need to practice in front of a mirror. Maybe they can practice with someone on their team
bonafide soulwriters, getting a bunch of people saved and making an impact for the kingdom of God.
And I pray you bless our church. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Psalm number 14 in your hymnals, kneel at the cross.
Psalm number 14, kneel at the cross.
On that first verse.