Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Witnessing - Keith

I was driving from a Bible Study on my way to another Church tonight (Wed March 25), when I met a man named Keith. I think I remember correctly to say that his name was Keith although it could be something similar.

I was stopped at a stop sign on my route, when I heard a 'Hey!'. I rolled down my window and an around 40 year old black male wearing black jeans with oil spots and a t-shirt asked me if I could jump his car off for him. I reluctantly asked 'where is your car?' and he replied 'right up here at my aunt's house'. I thought that 'right up here' would mean the actual neighborhood we were already in; well to my surprise, it wasn't. He got in the car and I asked which way and he said 'Green St.', which is a street about 5 minutes away.

He intoduced himself as 'Keith' and said he was from Miami and in town visiting his family. He was very kind, even though he used coarse language. He then thanked me for agreeing to take him to his car. Next, he started explaining vigorously how 'all day long black people have passed him by, but this white boy picked him up'. I told him 'it ain't about race, man', trying to change the subject. He used many explicatives that I am editing out in these sentences.

Keith then told me that his car was near 'Highway 24-7', which is a highway around 7 minutes from out present location. I asked some questions about where exactly his car was and he gave some shady answers; however, the journey continued. A short while later he began talking on a cell phone to 'his cousin'. We were stopped at a railroad crossing right before the highway, when he explained to me that his cousing told him that 'the car had been towed'.

He then told me that the towing place was somewhere near Smiley's and asked if I could take him there. Smiley's is a giant flea market in Macon (about 12 minutes away). He wasn't begging or harassing, rather he was asking very kindly as if he truly needed for me to take him there. I began to become very suspicious when I found out that he wanted to go to Smiley's, because this is about the third time that our destination had been changed in the past fifteen minutes. Also, the phone conversations that he seemed to be having seemed to be 'one-way' conversations. I had doubts if anyone was even on the other line. Also, for someone from Miami... he sure did know his way around town.

Anyways, I hesitantly agreed on taking him to Smiley's. As we rode down the highway to Macon, he talked some about his car and 'talked on the phone' as well. But, then he asked the strangest question...

'Do You Believe in God, Jeremy?'

I replied 'Yes' very quickly, then there was a pause. I couldn't believe that he asked me that. It seemed like the question flew out of nowhere. Then I asked 'Do you believe in God?'. He replied 'Yes, sir'. I then asked 'what do you think happens after death'? He thought for a while, then said something like 'If your soul is right with God, then you go to heaven.' I then acted if I had no idea whatsoever about God and asked 'How does that all work?', and he replied 'You gotta go through Jesus'. He actually partially quoted John 14:6 by saying 'No one comes to God but through Jesus.'

In an effort to continue the conversation that somehow spontaneously generated (which is a scientific impossibility), I asked something along the lines of 'Why Jesus? How do you go through Him? etc.' He pondered the question for a while and then replied 'You know, I don't really have an answer for that one. But I think I will go to heaven when I die.'

Then I hit him with the big question 'Do you think you are a good person?'

He answered, 'Yes, I am a good person.'

I laughed a little and said 'Aiight, well let me ask you a couple of questions to see..?'

He said 'aiight'.

I asked, 'Have you ever told a lie?'

He smiled and said, 'yeah.'

I said, 'What do you call someone who tells lies?'

He said 'A busta!'

I laughed and then said 'Nawww, more specifically...'

He said 'A liar.'

I then took Keith through four other commandments and he was guilty of 4 out of 5 total. I then asked him, 'what does he think God should do with him on Judgment Day'? Essentially, he replied 'I don't know...' but then he began to think more and said 'but I've done alotta good things in my life.'

I replied, 'But it's like you are in a courtroom and you're guilty of murdering a bunch of people. The Judge isn't going to let you go free because you once helped an old lady across the street or gave to charity.'

He then said 'yeah, but then everybody is guilty.' I replied, 'ABSOLUTELY.'

I then began to give Him the Gospel, 'We are all guilty of sinning and breaking God's Holy Law, but God sent Jesus Christ on our behalf. He lived a perfect sinless life and then bore your sins and mine on that cross. He paid your fine, so now you can go free if...'

Abruptly, he stopped me and began talking on the phone again. Then he asked me if I could take him to his cousins house on San Juan. San Jaun is a street about 15 minutes away from Smiley's. I said 'alright'. I was thinking to myself, 'I've already brought him this far, I might as well take him where he really wants to go.' As we moved on down towards San Juan, he asked me hesitantly if I could give him some money. I replied no at first, but then he asked if I would buy him some chicken and I said Yes.

We pulled up at a local Church's Chicken. (Ha Ha Ha, I didn't think about it at the time, but it's sort of funny... I was on my way to church, then I got sidetracked and ended up at Church's Chicken. Ha Ha!)

I got him a 3-piece, biscuit and drink. I could tell that Keith really needed the money, so I gave him about eight dollars that I had left over also. He looked shocked and said 'Thanks Jeremy, you are full of surprises'. I then actually took him over to San Juan. Keith directed me to the house where he wished to be dropped off and I pulled up to it and stopped. As Keith got out of the car, he thanked me for doing all that I had done. Before he shut my door, I reached into my arm-rest and pulled out about some million dollar bill 'witnessing tracts'. I gave him about '15' and said 'Give some to your cousin, man.' He smiled and said 'aiight, thank you.' And then he walked around the car and I drove off.

Everything I mentioned in this story in absolutely true. This encounter actually happened to me as I portrayed it here. I did not tell this story so that people will think, 'Oh Jeremy, you are so wonderful. You are such a man of God, blah blah blah...' I don't want any praise or glory for this encounter, even though I did give the man $15,000,008 dollars.

I only wish that God will get all of the glory. I wrote this so that people would be encouraged to stay strong in the Faith. God will provide 'witnessing encounters' for you to be a witness for Christ, if you truly trust in Him. Look at my situation! I had no idea what God was doing, but perhaps God was setting things up with Keith and I so that I could share the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ.

My only regret is that I didn't get to finish the Gospel presentation because of the 'phone call'. I never got to tell Keith my two favorite words 'Repent & Believe'. Salvation only comes by repentance and faith in The Lord Jesus Christ. But, I pray sincerely that my new friend, Keith will think about the words we shared and that God will convict his heart of the sin in his life causing him to repent and truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ'.

May God Get All The Glory, All The Time!

+ Jakab +

Monday, March 16, 2009

Biblical Salvation - Part 4

A Christian is a new creation in CHRIST!

Romans 6:1-11 (We died to sin, just as Jesus was crucified. We were resurrected to a newness of life, just as Jesus was resurrected.)

2 Corinthians 5:15-17 - And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Romans 8:9 - You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Galatians 5:24 - Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:16 - So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Man cannot serve both God and the world.

Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. (Jesus)

James 4:4 - You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.


Why Should I Be Saved? Because you have a desperate need for Salvation. How Can I Be Saved? Only through repentance and true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Is there a difference between a Christian and a non-Christian? Absolutley, a Christian is a new creation in Christ Jesus!

If You have not truly repented of your sins and believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that you will do that today.

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Biblical Salvation - Part 3

Repentance + Faith in Jesus Christ

The Bible explains clearly that man must have true faith in Jesus Christ in order to be saved. The Bible also explains that true faith in Jesus Christ is accompanied by a true repentance from sin.

Repentance – a turning away from sin, a hatred for the things that God hates. This includes a genuine sorrow for the sin in one’s own life.

“Evangelical repentance is repentance of sin as sin: not of this sin nor of that, but of the whole mass. We repent of the sin of our nature as well as the sin of our practice. We bemoan sin within us and without us. We repent of sin itself as being an insult to God. Anything short of this is a mere surface repentance, and not a repentance which reaches to the bottom of the mischief.” – Charles Spurgeon

“True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.” – George Whitefield

Faith – a turning toward God, believing and trusting in His Son and the work of Jesus Christ on the cross as a payment for your sins.

Ray Comfort explains that true faith is like ‘trusting Jesus as you would a parachute’.

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther

Ernest Reisinger describes ‘saving faith’ and ‘evangelical repentance’ as
‘Siamese twins -- inseparable in their application’.

Peter preached Faith + Repentance

Acts 2:38 - Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Peter)

Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (Peter)

1 Peter 1:5 - who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. (Peter)

Paul preached Faith + Repentance

Paul is speaking to a meeting of the Areopagus, in Acts Chapter 17. In verse 30 He says this, “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent.” Later verse 34 explains that “A few men became followers of Paul and believed.” Here Paul is clearly teaching Repentance + Faith.

Acts 26:20 - First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds. (Paul)

Acts 20:21 - I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus. (Paul)

Jesus preached Faith + Repentance

Mark 1:15 - "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!" (Jesus)

Mark 16:16 - Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. (Jesus)

Luke 13:5 - “I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” (Jesus)

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (Jesus)

The thief on the cross was saved by a repentance of sin and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Luke 23:39-43) The thief showed a genuine sorrow for the sin that he committed, He says ‘We deserve this punishment’. The thief also expresses faith in the Lord Jesus by calling Him innocent and saying, ‘Jesus remember me when you come into your Kingdom’. For, why would the thief say this, if he didn’t believe Jesus truly was who He claimed to be.


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Biblical Salvation - Part 2

The Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ

1. The Nature of God

God is Infinite. His very being is infinite.

Revelation 22:13 - “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

He has always existed and will forever exist. God is Immortal.

Revelation 1:8 - "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

1 Timothy 1:17 - Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

God is omniscient (meaning that He knows all things). God is infinitely wise.

Isaiah 40:28 - Do you not know? Have you not heard? Yahweh is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never grows faint or weary; there is no limit to His understanding.

John 3:20 - For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

God is omnipresent (He is everywhere).

1 Kings 8:27 - “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!” (Solomon speaks to God)

Jeremiah 23:23-24 - "Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. (God speaks to Jeremiah)

God is omnipotent (He has all power).

Psalm 62:11 - Once God has spoken; Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God;

God is the living and true God.

Jeremiah 10:10a - But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King.

God is the source of all life. Apart from God there is no life.

Colossians 1:16-17 - For by him (God) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Acts 17:25 - And he (God) is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

God is Immutable. His values and character does not change.

Malachi 3:6a - I the LORD do not change.

God is Holy (He is completely sinless and righteous).

Psalm 99:9 - Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.

Leviticus 11:44a - I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.

Psalm 119:137 - Righteous are you, O LORD, and your laws are right.

God is a Just God who delights in Justice.

Jeremiah 9:24 - but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.

2. The Nature of Man

Man is born in sin. Man is Sinful and Evil since birth.

Psalm 51:5 - Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Ephesians 2:3 states that ‘by nature we were objects of wrath’.

Romans 5:12 - Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.

Genesis 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.”

The heart of man is deceitful and wicked.

Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Ecclesiastes 9:3 - This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

Everyone has sinned and broken God’s law! All mankind is unrighteous and sinful.

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.

Romans 1:28-32 (Man is carnally wicked and hates God).

Romans 3:10-18 (Man does not fear God, but walks in wickedness).

3. The Problem

Everyone on this earth will face God on Judgment Day.

Hebrews 9:27 - Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.

The Bible offers two options at the judgment.
Heaven – an eternity of extremely satisfying peace with God.
Hell – a place of eternal torment where there is gnashing of teeth.

Many people think that God will let them into Heaven because they aren’t as bad as most people. But, the Bible offers absolutely no such judgment where God compares people with other people, to see who is good and who is bad.

If man were to compare himself to Hitler, then man would look pretty good with respect to Hitler’s evil actions. Hitler founded the regime that killed over six million Jews throughout Germany, Poland and other European nations before and during WWII. So, when man compares his so called ‘little sins’ to Hitler’s so called ‘gigantic sins’… man begins to look pretty good.

The problem with that type of thinking is this… God is not going to Judge us by Hitler’s unrighteousness. On Judgment Day, God will judge men by His own standard, not ours.

God’s standard is perfection. (Little/Big sin is still Sin)

Matthew 5:48 - Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

James 2:10 - For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

God will judge humanity by His laws and righteousness.

Romans 3:19-20 (Man can know his unrighteousness by looking at the law).
Romans 7:12-14 (The law is holy and shows us our sinfulness).

When a man compares his life with the Holy and blameless law of God, mankind truly realizes how sinful they are. They understand the wretched sinfulness and evil about themselves that they previously could not comprehend.

Let’s say, there is a sheep in a field of grass. You walk by and say ‘Wow, such a beautiful sheep. It’s so precious and clean and nice and white. Its wool is so vibrant and amazing.’ It’s so nice-looking your daughter even says ‘Mommy, can I have one?’

Let’s say we take that exact same sheep and put it in a field of snow. You walk by and say ‘Uhhh! That is the most disgusting, filthy, piece of garbage I have ever seen in my life’. It’s so dirty your daughter even says ‘Mommy, that sheep needs a bath’.

What changed in this situation? Did the sheep’s cleanliness change? Absolutely not! The sheep did not change at all. Your perception of the sheep and its cleanliness changed. In the same way when you compare yourself to other people, you seem mighty clean. But, when you compare yourself to God’s law, you realize that you are just as disgusting and filthy as the sheep in the snow.

God is a Just Judge. He is Holy and Righteous. He must punish the unrighteous for their sinful acts against Him.

Genesis 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

There is a clear problem between God and man. God is Holy and Righteous, man is carnal and wicked. God has a perfect law and standard. Man has broken God’s perfect law and standard. God hates all sinfulness and evil. Man just so happens to be an evil sinner.

John 3:36 states plainly that God's wrath remains on sinful man.

Psalm 5:5 - The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You (God) hate all workers of iniquity.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 - They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His Power.

If God is truly a just judge, then God must punish the wicked for their wrongdoing. If God is truly just then it seems God must send mankind to hell where they deserve to be for eternity.

The problem is that a righteous judge will not let a criminal go free. Therefore, it is logical to look at this situation as if you were in a courtroom. You are the criminal that has absolutely broken the law. There is no doubt about it. You are guilty. If the judge is a truly just judge, then He must punish you for your disobedience.

4. The Solution: Jesus Christ

You are still in the courtroom. The judge is about to bring the gavel down and sentence you to jail. Or, in reality God is about to bring the gavel down and sentence you to hell. But, just as He is about to make His judgment known to the public, the doors in the back of the courtroom bust open and a man runs in the court saying “I will take His place”. The officers try to stop Him but He busts through shouting “I will pay His fine”. The bailiff tries to tackle Him but he again makes it through to the judge to say “Punish me, and set Him free.” The man portrayed in this courtroom drama is none other than Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ, God’s only son, was born of the Virgin Mary.

Matthew 1:20-23 - But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."

He did not inherit any sin nature at birth and He lived a perfectly righteous life.

Isaiah 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

1 Peter 2:22 - "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth."

Hebrews 4:15 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin.

1 John 3:5 - But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.

“Have you looked at His life and seen the way He (Jesus) treated people?
He stood for what’s right, what’s just, plus He judged evil.
He healed the sick, the lame, plus He fed the poor.
The perfect person! What person could ever ask for more?”
- Marcus Gray (Flame)


The wages of sin is death. Jesus bore our sins and was crucified on our behalf.

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:21 - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Mark 10:45 - For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

2 Peter 2:24 - "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed."

Isaiah 53:4-6 (Jesus Christ paid the punishment for us all, so that if we repent of our sins and believe in Him, we can be saved and granted everlasting life.)

Leonard Ravenhill said that he believed that the three most important words in all of history were declared by Jesus on the cross, saying… “It is Finished.” (John 19:30).
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Biblical Salvation - Part 1

INTRODUCTION

- Introduction to a sermon I preached on March 15th 2008 entitled Biblical Salvation.

We live in a world that thinks in order to become a Christian all you have to do is have said a prayer once in your life. I’m not saying that praying is wrong, by no means. But, a simple prayer does not ensure one’s salvation. The only way in which a person can be reconciled to God is through repentance and faith in His Precious Son Jesus Christ. Some members of this congregation may have been saved through walking down an aisle and saying a prayer. My friends you were saved, if you were saved, not because of some magic prayer, but because that day you repented of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ.

You know that we have a serious problem on the teaching of Salvation, when the most carnal wicked people in this world think that they are ‘saved’. You know that we have a serious problem with the understanding of Salvation, when the most popular answer to ‘how do you know that your saved’ is… ‘I said a prayer a long time ago accepting Jesus into my heart.’

Do you want to know what is rare to hear in response to the question ‘how do you know that you are saved’? I know that I am saved, because I heard the true Gospel of Jesus Christ preached, realized that I was a wretched sinner who broke God’s law and desperately in need of a righteous savior. I shortly after that repented of my sins and put my faith in Jesus Christ, believing that through His death and resurrection, I too died to my sins and was resurrected to a newness of life. At that moment I became a new creation in Christ, and am continuing on in Christ to this very day.


There are so many people who walk down an aisle, repeat a prayer, walk out the church and live just like the devil the rest of their lives… There is no conversion in many churches because the full truth of Jesus Christ is not proclaimed, rather a watered down version of the gospel and Jesus are presented rarely mentioning words like sin, hell, or repentance. Do you want to know what the worst part about the situation is? These people walking down the aisle think that they are going to heaven when they die because they repeated a ritualistic prayer.

A recent survey stated that around 64% of youth ‘forsake their faith’ after college graduation. Now, some may say that’s because the church doesn’t reach out to college campuses enough. Some may say that it’s because there aren’t enough Sunday Schools teaching scientific facts in the Bible. While the church does need to reach out more to college-age students and perhaps not be as shy at teaching the Historical and Scientific accuracy of God’s Word; neither of those are the reason that 64% of youth graduate from college and never return. The reason that I give to you is much more basic than that. These youth are not saved.

John 10:27-28 - My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.

1 John 2:19 - They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

One of the saddest realities in American Christianity today is that Salvation has become simplified into a five minute decision for Christ and a ‘baby step’ into Christianity. My friends, Salvation is not a ‘baby step’ into anything. Salvation is a supernatural event in which God changes the heart of a wicked man with sinful desires into one that loves God and aims to please God with his life…

The issue of Salvation is the most important issue in the universe, yet many churches have treated it as if it were the least important. We live in a day and age where the wheats are mixed in with the tares. Church buildings are filled with carnal unsaved people and many of the church services themselves are designed to appeal to carnally wicked man instead of being designed to please and glorify God. One example of this is the best sellers list on most Christian bookstore shelves…

Have you been to a Christian bookstore lately? I walk down the aisles of most Christian bookstores with fear and trembling of what I might see on the shelves. Most of the books are ‘how to live your best life now’ and ’10 steps to financial prosperity’ and ’35 ways to lose weight in 5 minutes’ ect. Most of the books on the best sellers list are man-centered garbage. The purpose of a Christian’s life is not to please himself; rather it is to glorify God. The purpose of a Christian’s life is not to indulge in blatant sinfulness; rather it is to strive for Holiness. The purpose of a Christian’s life is not to see ‘what can God do for me’; rather it is to see ‘how can I please Him, who has already done so much for me’?

“Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.” - John Calvin

This is the reason that today; we are going to be discussing three major points.
1. Why Should I Be Saved? – Because you have a desperate need for salvation.
2. How Can I Be Saved? – Only through Repentance & Faith in Jesus Christ.
3. Is there a difference between an unsaved person and a saved person? Absolutely!

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