Hello everybody, it's me Alexander Larson with Bible true 23 back with another soul winning tip and right now
I want to talk about calling on the name of the Lord
This is the last step in the gospel presentation before you get them saved because this is what?
Is going to get them to get saved right as the Bible talks about in Romans chapter 10?
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised it from the dead
Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
So usually after I've done the recap asking them all the questions making sure they understand. I'll show them
That verse the verses I just quoted Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 10
Sometimes maybe just verse 9 or just verse 10 sometimes
Maybe just verse 13 or any of those and explain to them the way that we express our faith is by calling on the name
Of the Lord, okay
Now at this point is when you would lead them in a prayer to call on the name of the Lord and you again
Like I said, you want to ask them. Do you want to trust Jesus? Do you want to call on the name of the Lord?
Sometimes yeah, you could maybe give them a quick example prayer and say if you said this would you mean it?
Right because remember it's not just them saying particular words that save them
But they have to say that with faith in their heart
Okay, you can go up to any random person on a street and say hey repeat after me and
Call them and cause them to say, you know the same prayer that you might do out soul winning
But that doesn't mean they get saved if they don't believe because the Bible says how shall they call on them?
Or how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed right? So
It's a faith and then once you believe in your heart you call on the name of the Lord, right?
You confess with your mouth, right? These both have to happen for somebody to get saved, right?
so
When you
Make sure that this person
Understands and that they want to call on the name of the Lord that they will mean it
Then you call on the name of the Lord with them you lead them in that prayer now one mistake
I see some people making when they go out and preach the gospel and get to this point where they call on the name of
the Lord
Sometimes people will
Say something like oh, it's not the prayer that saves you
It's it's just the faith right and you know in a certain way. They're right and you know
what they're saying might sound good, but you have to understand that you don't want to confuse the person you're talking to because if
You say something like that. They might think that they don't have to call on the name of the Lord to be saved
Okay, and that's dangerous because sometimes there are people who say oh, well if I don't have to do that
Then I'm just not gonna do that
I'm just gonna you know go inside and just you know, I'll think about it something like that
But you have to understand that if somebody did not call on the name of the Lord
They did not get saved. Okay, because the Bible tells us very clearly in
Romans chapter 10 that you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth unto salvation
So if somebody has not confessed it with their mouth, they are not saved according to Romans chapter 10
Okay. Now does that mean that it's not by faith alone? No
Because the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 I believe therefore I have spoken. Okay, these things take place simultaneously
They put their faith in Jesus. They take that step of faith when they call on the name of the Lord
They ask God to save them right? So if you neglect to do that or they neglect to do that
They don't want to do it after you've shown them anything. They say no. Thanks. I don't want to call on the name Lord
I don't want to ask God to save me. I don't want to say this prayer then don't go away thinking that they're saved
Okay, because they're not unless they have called the name of the Lord now
Understand there might be some times where you show it to them and maybe they're nervous
Maybe they don't want to pray because they have family around or whatever. Maybe they're embarrassed for whatever reason
There are some times when people might go in and do it privately in their own room. That's fine
right and maybe
They will will do that, you know, you don't know for sure because if you leave their door, you know
You have no idea what happens after you leave them, right?
So some people might get saved just on their own after you've shown them, right?
You might have led them into all the you know
The knowledge of what the Bible says and they believe everything they they want to trust Jesus
But maybe they call on the name of the Lord just on their own
You don't have to lead somebody in a prayer for them to get saved
But they do have to make that prayer to be safe. Okay, the calling on the name of the Lord
That's very clear in the Bible
So like for me example, you know when I got saved I didn't have somebody show me personally I
Listen to a sermon online that got me saved from Pastor Steven Anderson the pastor of faithful or Baptist Church, which I now attend
He made a video about eternal security about the gospel and I listened to that sermon and I
Understood the gospel from there. Okay, and that's when I called on the name of the Lord, but I did so in my bedroom
There was no person that was at my house physically showing me and didn't lead me in a prayer
I just did it on my own. Okay, so a lot of people can just do it on their own, right?
but if you're at the door, you don't want to count that as a salvation or
Think that they that they definitely got saved if they just say that they yeah, you know
I believe it and then just just not want to call on the name of the Lord
Usually an indication that they didn't believe it is that they didn't call on the name of the Lord
Okay, so if somebody refuses to call on the name of the Lord, okay that either means they're just embarrassed and they'll do it
Later or they didn't believe it. Those are the only two options at that point. So
yeah, you want to make sure to put an emphasis on that you want to make sure to actually do this at the end and
Not just go through and just tell them everything what the Bible says and just say okay. Goodbye and
Pronounce them as saved. That's not how it works. So
That's all all for this video just make sure that the calling on the name of the Lord is
Efficient just make sure you actually do it with them and just make sure that
That they actually understand that this is the moment that they got saved when they call it on the name of the Lord
because another important thing is that
sometimes people will
Think that they're already saved because you show them what the Bible says and maybe sometimes people will lie and they'll say well
You know, I already believe this already kind of understood this. I already believed in Jesus
but because there are you know, there are some people who
You know have pretty much like 99% of the down
But there's just one thing that they're off on or maybe they didn't call on the name of the Lord
Maybe they're not trusting Jesus alone. Maybe they're just kind of on the fence about it, but they say oh
I believe in Jesus all my life
Once you show them what you have to do to go to heaven you have to make it very clear
well, no because you believe this and it was wrong and
The Bible tells us that once we believe this we have to call on the name of the Lord to be saved
So that's it for today
God bless you and goodbye