Matthew Stuckey here and I want to make a quick video on how to explain suicide in your gospel
presentation. How to explain suicide in your gospel presentation. Now in a Catholic country
like the Philippines it is an absolute necessity to explain suicide because pretty much every
single person whether they're Catholic or whether or not they're Christian or whatever
their denomination is they have been taught and they believe that committing suicide
automatically sends you to hell. But to be saved somebody must believe that the gift of God is
eternal life. The gift is not conditional life or temporary life but it is eternal life and people
need to understand that they are 100% saved and their future sins are wiped away and they have
eternal life no matter what that they can never lose for any reason. They must understand
that to be saved or they're calling God a liar according to 1st John 5. Now I want you
to realize this that when it comes to us explaining the gospel the gospel is meant
to be simple right. You don't have to have a doctorate in electrical engineering in order
to explain the gospel. You don't have to be able to speak like a hundred languages to preach
the gospel. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world to preach the gospel and
the reason why is because all we're explaining is that salvation is a gift. We're explaining
the concept of being born again right. I mean people understand the first birth that when
you're born physically you don't do the work it's the mom that does it work. Just like with
eternal life Jesus did the work not us and you're only born one time and your parents are
always your parents but they punish you when you act up. So we're explaining a gift we're
explaining being born again and three examples of how easy salvation is in the Bible.
Jesus talks about you know he's the living water so drinking a glass of water pretty easy.
Eating a slice of bread because he said I am that bread of life pretty easy to eat a slice
of bread. I am the door opening a door pretty easy right. So what we're explaining the gospel
is actually very simple and you know you honestly you don't have to be a rocket scientist
be able to get people saved you just have to explain the simple gospel that God created
and he gave us simple examples and there's power in the words of God not in our in our
own words. But we need to take this understanding when we look at the topic of suicide
because the gospel is meant to be simple. So when we're explaining suicide and why that
does not make you lose your salvation your explanation should be simple. It should not be
complicated. It should not confuse them. It should make perfect sense like the rest of the
gospel does. Now I've heard a lot of people you know explain suicide in the gospel in their
gospel presentations many different ways and a lot of good intention people that are just trying
to explain eternal security but quite honestly many of the ways I've heard are just very confusing
and I just don't believe they're the best way to explain how suicide does not make you lose
your salvation. What I found to be the best way to explain this is to help them understand
that there's a difference between the body and the soul and when we get saved our soul receives
eternal life. Our soul is saved however we're all still going to die one day. Now committing
suicide does that kill the body or does it kill the soul? And when I'm explaining this I actually
have my hands up here like this and I have I say this is eternal life, this is salvation,
this is my body, this is my soul. Is it my body or my soul that has eternal life? They're
going to say well your soul. It's like my soul has eternal life. Committing suicide what did
you kill your body or soul? And they're going to usually say body and if they don't then
you kind of explain it to them and they're like oh yeah yeah okay I got it. And then you
say you know well committing suicide causes you to kill your body but my soul has eternal life.
So my soul would still be saved because it's everlasting life. It is eternal life not physical
but the promise is a spiritual promise and usually it really clicks with people
oh yeah that's right eternal life it's a spiritual thing it's your soul that has eternal life
not your body your body's going to die anyway so it makes sense when you commit suicide you're
just killing your body you wouldn't lose your eternal life. I found that to be the best way to
explain suicide just explain the difference between the body and the soul and usually it
makes sense with people and sometimes I'll even mention right afterwards and and and here's the
thing did Jesus just die for some of your sins? They'll say no all of the sins just the past
sins or the future as well the future as well just the small sins or does that include
big sins like murder and suicide when it says he died for the sins of the whole world in
first john two two they're going to say for all sins so here's the thing if he died for the sin
of suicide and he promised you eternal life and he's all knowing knowing that he's promising
you spiritual life that lasts forever and he died for that sin of suicide and then he
forgives you the moment you get saved would that make you lose your salvation and you know
it really clicks with people if you want to bring up certain people in the bible that committed
suicide and still went to heaven I look at three people that I personally believe committed
suicide that went to heaven you know Samson and king Saul I believe the bible clearly states
Ahithophel I believe was also saved but with Ahithophel you know people might have a different
opinion so I wouldn't bring that up and then you have Samson and king Saul what I found is
that most people explain king Saul when quite honestly I think Samson would be a much better way
to explain it where if you want to bring somebody up after you've explained the difference
between the body and the soul I would say Samson and what I say when I explain Samson from
time to time is this I say well you know you remember Samson he was the strongest man in the
bible and they're like oh yeah yeah Samson and Delilah I know that story and I'll ask them
do you remember how Samson died and usually they're not really familiar that they forget
I said well Samson was inside of a building right and he took down the pillars and he killed
himself and everybody that was inside the building and I asked them you know Samson was he in
heaven or hell and most people are already aware that Samson went to heaven we have the hall of
faith to confirm that in the book of Hebrews if you would need it but most people already
realize Samson was in heaven so here's the thing I said you know I tell people well in America
we call that like a suicide bomber similar to a Muslim that would hop in a plane and just
intentionally kill themselves and other people and I said Samson was like a suicide bomber
because he killed himself and everybody else around but you just told me that Samson was in heaven
and the reason why he's in heaven even though he committed suicide is because he had spiritual
life that lasted forever not physical life that lasted forever now when people explain King
Saul I don't think King Saul is the best way to prove that somebody who commits suicide
is still saved I think it's an awesome proof that no matter what you do you can never lose
your salvation but it's a very complex explanation the reason why is because you're
going to be in first Samuel 28 and first Samuel 31 you're going to be bouncing around
and then you see Samuel is brought back from the dead and Saul was talking to him
also people aren't as familiar with who King Saul is it's a very confusing story and you're
jumping around to several chapters and it's going to take a long time to accurately explain that
take four or five minutes at least just to get it just a basic you know explanation of that
and they could still walk away confused because they're not really sure as you're bouncing around
honestly if you're going to use a person Samson's the easier explanation to use now no doubt I
believe King Saul went to heaven but I'm just saying it's probably not the best way to explain
because it is more confusing but honestly the best way is just really making a difference
between the body and the soul and quite honestly most soul owners I know you know here in the
Philippines we're pretty much in agreement with this that explaining the difference between
the body and the soul is just a much simpler way and people really seem to understand it
and here in the Philippines we always explain suicide during the gospel presentation
because you get to the end and Catholics will still say well if you commit this sin though
you can lose your salvation what we found to be the best way is just explaining the
difference between the body and the soul and explaining that Jesus died for all sins
including suicide and if you want to use somebody as an example you know Samson would be
a good example even more so than Saul because people are more familiar with Samson
and because they can relate to what a suicide bomber is they understand that whereas
Saul talking to Samuel who got brought back from the dead and consulting a witch
and bouncing from first Samuel 28 to 31 it makes the gospel very confusing and here's the thing
we need to remember that the gospel is meant to be something simple that we can easily explain
once you start getting confusing you might want to think of a way to make it a little
bit more simple thank you and god bless