Now, let's start over again, okay.
I get there.
I'm from Faith Forward Baptist Church.
Are you a Christian?
Yes.
You go to church anywhere, so and so the church.
More important than church, do you know for sure if you died today, you'd go to heaven.
Anything less than a hundred percent, what do I do?
I want to show them the gospel, right?
So if it's, even if it's I probably would or I'm pretty sure, that's not a hundred percent.
Unless they say, yes I do, yes I know for sure I'm going to heaven.
Now if they say, yes I know for sure I'm going to heaven, then I follow it up with, well
what do you think a person has to do to make it into heaven?
Now usually they're going to give you an answer that's very wrong, such as, live a
good life, go to church, be a good person, believe in yourself, rescue animals, all the
different answers that we've gotten out there of what they have to do to go to heaven.
So when they tell me the wrong answer right there, then I very gently, kindly and in a
friendly way I say, you know a lot of people believe that, but the Bible actually says
something different than that.
Can I just show you what the Bible says, it will only take a few minutes, only take ten
minutes, whatever.
But I don't just say, well that's a horrible answer, you're not even close, you're going
to split hell wide open buddy.
Because I'm trying to be nice, I'm being friendly, I just met this person, and I don't want to
come across too heavy handed or rude or mean or anything like that.
And so I kindly mentioned to them that the Bible says something different than that.
But usually I'll soften the blow by saying something like, well you know a lot of people
think that same thing, you know a lot of people told me the same thing, but let me show you
what the Bible says.
And then I roll into that.
Now let's say they give me the right answer.
What's the right answer?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know that's what we have to do to make it into heaven.
It's all by faith, right?
Or Jesus did everything, it's his death, burial, and resurrection.
That's why I'm going to heaven.
It's nothing that I'm doing, they'll give you a good answer like that.
Well then if they give me that great answer, then the next thing I'll ask, the final question
is, do you believe that there's anything that you could ever do to lose your salvation?
Or do you think it's possible for a person to lose their salvation?
Because you're not going to believe this, but people will sometimes, they'll give you
the right answer.
Oh yeah, just believe, just accept Christ as Savior, whatever.
But then when you ask them that next question of, is there anything you could ever do to
lose it?
I can't even count how many people then turn around and say, well yeah, you can't just
live however you want.
You know, it's like they just told you that it's just by believing, it's just by receiving
Christ as Savior.
But then in the next breath, well you can't just live however you want.
And what does that reveal?
That reveals that they're actually not trusting Christ for salvation, but that they actually
have a works-based salvation.
Because they believe that they're continually working to stay saved.
And whether you have to work to get saved or work to stay saved, that's the same thing.