Acts chapter 16, beginning in verse 25 reading down through verse 31 now if I say anything tonight that is worth saying amen to. I want to encourage you to do that, because saying amen to preachers like saying sick em to a bulldog. And I told somebody that, and they said, Yeah, but preacher, it's hard to say sick em to a bulldog if he's got you by the seat of the pants. So anyway, you feel free to do that, and it'll help shorten the sermon a little bit too. So I'll leave that to you. Acts, chapter 16, verse 25 says, And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were open and everyone's vans were loosed. And the keeper of the prison of waking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. Then he called for a light and sprang in and came trembling, I bet he did and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved. In other words, what must I do to go to heaven when I die? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And thy house, Father, we ask You to bless Your Word tonight, Holy Spirit. We pray for your mighty presence. Lord, don't let me stand here in the power of the flesh, but fill me with your Spirit. God give me your anointing. Help me to preach tonight, Lord, as if it is the last sermon I'll ever preach, and it might be, and help the people to listen and respond tonight, as if it's the last sermon they'll ever hear. And it might be, I pray God that there would be urgency about this matter of knowing Jesus Christ in the house of God tonight. I pray that this might not be a routine service. I pray that this might not be an ordinary time. I pray that the Spirit of the Living God might fall on us, because, Lord, we freely admit we need you tonight. We need the power of God to fall. We need revival, and we've never needed it before. Folks need to be saved that are lost, and so God, we pray for you to move in a mighty demonstration of power. I plead the blood of Christ over this service. I declare this sanctuary off limits to the evil one, and I pray that you would move in and out throughout the pews, up and down the aisles, and touch every heart and bring every person face to face with eternity tonight and help them to think about where they will spend eternity. And Lord, I pray that souls would be saved tonight before it's everlastingly too late. And I pray that Christians would be revived tonight, Lord, that we might be a pleasure to you, Lord, because we know you like we do, we want to thank you in advance for what you're going to do, even before you do it, because we ask it in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen. You may be seated when I was a student at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, one of my favorite professors was one of my preaching professors, Dr James Taylor, by name, and one day in class, Dr Taylor said something I have never forgotten, and I have let it, I've tried to let it guide my preaching ministry. He looked at us and he said, Men, when you preach, preach simply, preach sincerely and preach scripturally. I've never forgotten that, and tonight I want to do that as simply, as sincerely, as scripturally as I can. I want to talk to you tonight about the question that all the Bible is written to answer, from Genesis to Revelation. There's one basic question all of Scripture is written to answer. It's a question that sinful man has asked himself since the very beginning of time itself. It is the question of the Philippian jailer, and that question is this, what must I do to be saved? How can I, as a sinful person, be reconciled? Out to a holy God. How can I know that I'm to heaven when I die? What must I do to be saved? And that's our question tonight, and I want to try to try to answer that question of, What must we do to be saved from the Word of God as Simpson, sincerely, as scripturally and as simply as possible from the Word of God. But before we answer the broader question of, What must I do to be saved, I believe we've got to ask ourselves at least two other questions. First of all, I believe we need to ask ourselves this question we need to ask ourselves, what does it mean to be saved? If somebody were to ask you tomorrow, are you a Christian? And you said yes, and they said to you, tell me what that means. Could you most Baptists? Could not because, by definition and by study, 96% of Southern Baptists have never even attempted to win a lost soul to Christ. That tells me that they don't know Christ themselves, because I'm going to tell you something. If you've met Jesus Christ experientially, folks, it has done something in your heart that you want to be done in every person you come into contact with. And if you're saved, you want others to be saved. You show me somebody that doesn't want to see somebody else saved. I'll show you somebody that has lost and headed to hell as they can be, because, by definition, if you've been saved, you want others saved. What does it mean to be saved? Here's what the Bible says. First of all, it means to be freed from your sins. You remember when the angel appeared to Mary, the mother of Jesus, to announce to her that she would be the mother of the Savior, the Messiah, the Savior of the world, that Angel said something very significant to Mary concerning that child that was going to be born. He said, Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save His people from their sins. Exactly, to be saved means to be freed from your sins. First of all, it means to be freed from the penalty of sin. The Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Through Jesus, Christ, our Lord, to be saved means as simply as I know how to put it, you don't have to go to hell when you die. And folks, that's good news. Matter of fact, that's great news. That's fantastic news. That's the best news that anybody could ever hear. You don't have to go to hell when you die if you know Jesus Christ. And so to be saved means you're freed from the penalty of sin. But secondly, it means that you're freed from the pollution of sin. The pollution of sin First John one seven, says, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses from all sin. Listen to me, there's not a sin you've committed. I don't care what it is. You name it that if you'll confess it and repent of it, the blood of Jesus Christ will wipe it as far as the east is from the west. He'll remember it no more. He'll bury it in the depths of the sea, because he wants to forgive us, and that's what salvation is. We've messed up. All of us have sinned, but if we'll give those sins to the Lord, he'll cleanse our heart. Because you see, sin makes you feel dirty, sin makes you feel unclean, sin makes you feel bad, but Jesus can set you free, and the Bible says if the Son sets you free, you are free, indeed. And I want you to know there's good news tonight. You may have walked in here tonight with a deep burden with sin in your life. I want you to know if you'll confess it, repent of it, he'll take it away, and you can leave here free and free forevermore, because of what Jesus has done for us. It means to be freed from the penalty of sin. It means to be freed from the pollution of sin. Number three, to be saved and freed from the penalty of sin means you're free from the the consequences of sin, the difficulty of sin, the agony of sin. It means to it means to be free. It means to be free from the very power of sin. John 112 one of my favorite scriptures, and I got. A lot of favorite ones, but John 112 says, but to as many as received Him, to them, he gives the power to become the children of God. Listen to me. There is no sin. There is no sin that ought to have power over a child of God, that you, through the power of the Holy Spirit, cannot have victory over you don't have to be a drunk, you don't have to be a dope addict. You don't have to be plagued with guilt and shame and all of that, because Jesus Christ can set you free. Folks, listen to me. I've seen murderers saved. I had a man saved in the Mississippi Delta several years ago, after he got saved, he was sharing with me he had killed seven people, but he got set free that night. I've seen homosexuals saved. I've seen dope addicts saved. I've seen drunkards saved, you name it. I've seen them say there is no sin that ought to bind you, that you can't have victory over through the Lord Jesus Christ, he'll set you free from every sin. Several years ago, a number of years ago now, I went up to a place called Effingham, Illinois to do a revival at the First Baptist Church there in Effingham, Illinois. I found out while I was there that Effingham Illinois is at the very center point of America. It's a great church, and I'll never forget one night during the service like this, brother Philip, don't ask me how I remember some things, but I happen to remember we were standing and we were singing amazing grace as a congregational hymn, and I was up on the Rossum with the pastor and looking out like that, and through that back door there on that side, about a third of the way through, singing Amazing Grace, a man walked in. Now, if you go to church, as much as I've gone to church, I can just about tell you people who are not used to coming to church because they don't like they don't act like the rest of us that usually come to church. And as that man walked in, and he stood back there on the back pew, singing, as we were singing Amazing Grace. As I looked at him, I said, you know, I believe that man literally walked in off the street tonight. He wouldn't dress quite like everybody else. He wasn't real shabbily dressed, but he wasn't dressed like everybody else, and he seemed a little bit nervous, or, you know. And I said, I believe that man just walked in off the street, and you know what? That's exactly what happened. He heard the singing of the people, the hymn of Amazing Grace, and the other songs the church was singing, and they were singing loud enough Baptist that you could hear outside, and he came in, I preached a simple gospel message that night, and that man, I'm guessing, mid 40s, just as a guest, came down the aisle in tears and got gloriously and wonderfully saved that night. And after the service, we're standing around myself, the pastor, the Minister of music, and this man, and all of a sudden, this man began to recite five different series of numbers. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever heard in my life, just five different series of numbers. I was very perplexed. I don't remember his name, but I turned to him and whatever his name was, and I called his name. I said, What in the world all these numbers? You know? What he said to me, never forget it. He said, Preacher, I've been in prison five times, and those were the five different numbers I had those five times I was in prison, but then with big old tears coursing Johnny's cheeks, he said, but you know tonight, when I walked through that back door, I was in even a greater prison than that physical prison I spent so many years behind bars in. But then he pointed to the back door, and he said this, I'll never forget it, he said, But tonight, for the first time in my life, when I walk out that back door, I'll be a free man. Glory to God that ought to make a Baptist shout, Hallelujah. I want you to know there's a God in heaven who sent His Son to this earth to shed his blood down a cross be raised again the third day, to free me and to free you from our sins, and we can be set free and. We ought to get excited about that, dear people, no wonder, no wonder our churches are dying, no wonder our churches are empty. We don't have any enthusiasm, any excitement about the Son of God anymore. May God help us. May we repent of that. Christ will set you free. Can anybody say, Amen. So it means to be freed from the power of sin, the pollution of sin, and one day, Bless the Lord, it means to be freed from the presence of sin. It means to go to heaven when you die. Some say that's pie in the sky when you die. Well, it's obvious. I like pie. I look forward to going to heaven one day, amen, and I'm going and I want to take as many people with me as I possibly can, and I want to preach till I can't preach anymore, because I want to get one more soul in the kingdom. So I'd spend eternity with them. And you can be one of those, if you'll give your heart to Jesus tonight. That's what it means to be saved. It means to be freed from the penalty of sin, the pollution of sin, the power of sin, and one day, the very presence of sin. It means to go to heaven when you die. Well, we need to ask ourselves the second question. Not only what does it mean to be saved, but why? Why should you be saved? Why should anybody repent of their sins and ask Christ into their heart and become a Christian? Let me give you two or three practical and biblical reasons why I believe everybody ought to be saved. Y'all listening number one is because you have an Ever Living, never dying soul. As I look out there at you tonight, I see one person sitting on that pew. But really, there's three of you there, because you see, man is a trio being, like our God is a Triune God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Man is a Trin being, body, soul and spirit. Now I see the body that you have, but I can't see your spirit. I can't see your soul, but you have a soul. You have a spirit, listen to me, that will live forever now, that body of yours, and some of us are getting down towards the end of that Amen, and we we're not going to be here all that long, at best, because this whole body is getting worn out and tired, not like it used to be, and this whole body is going to die and they going to put it in the ground, but the real you, your soul, your spirit, that eternal part of you made after the image of God, is going to live on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, either in heaven or in hell, the only two places there are, and only those who've been saved and born again will be in heaven, nobody else. And so you need to be saved because you have an Ever Living, never dying soul. Do we have? My wife gets nervous when I get up, kind of here. She said, yo, yo. She went over the rail last night. I said, Baby, I wasn't within a foot of it last night, I just put it over then to show her how close up she if I fall off, I fall off, I ain't going to worry about it. Y'all don't take me to the hospital, whatever. But anyway, you have an Ever Living, never dying soul. Let me ask a question. They probably ain't nobody here tonight. I see a bunch of old people. I am old. I'm not being you know, I'm thankful you are old. Amen, when you consider the alternative, Getting old is not bad, right? Do we have any newlyweds here tonight? Do we have anybody married less than a year here tonight. By chance, do we have anybody married less than five years here tonight? Less than 60 years here tonight? I don't know if you heard about the newlywed couple. They had just been married a few days, and the young man came home from work and his young bride was crying her eyes out. I mean, just tears were flowing. He drew up real close, said, Baby, what in the world is wrong? She. Said, Sweetheart, I made you some biscuits a day, and the dog ate them. He drew up real close and said, Baby, it's okay. We'll get another dog. Amen, folks, I want you to know your old mutt. Your old mutt may die from eating your wife's biscuits. You can get another old mutt somewhere. But listen to me, you die without Christ and you go out to meet a god you do not, do not know. You're not going to say, hey, Lord, I want to change my mind now. I want to be on your side. No, no, no, no, no. It's not going to work that way. It is now that you make that decision. That's why the Bible says today is a day of salvation. Behold, now is accepted time. And so you need to be saved because you have an Ever Living, never dying soul. Second reason you need to be saved is because that soul of yours has upon it the penalty and the curse of sin. You know what I know about all of you? You're just a bunch of sinners. That's all you know. How I know that the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Bible says there's not none good. No, not one. The Bible says there's not a just man upon the face of the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. The Bible says all we, like sheep, have gone astray. The thing I know about all of us, we're just a bunch of sinners. And because we're sinners, and that sin separates us from Holy God, we need to be saved. The let me give you a third reason. You need to be saved, not only because you have a soul that lives forever, not only because that soul has upon it the penalty, the curse of sin. But listen to me. Number three, you need to be saved because God punishes unforgiven sin and an awful place called hell. Preacher, do you really believe there's a place called hell, a real litter of hell like fire? Yes. Ma'am, yes, sir, with all my heart, and the reason I believe that is because Jesus Christ believed that, and Jesus was truth in the flesh. He could not lie and listen to me. Jesus had more to say about hell than any preacher in the Bible. As a matter of fact, he had more to say about hell than it did heaven, baptism and the Lord's Supper all combined. There are 162 references to hell in Scripture, and 70 of them were given by Jesus. I've been accused of being an old Hell fire and brimstone preacher. I realize there's not many of us left anymore, but bless God. I thank people for giving me that compliment, because Jesus was one, Paul was one, Peter was one, John was one. And I'll take my place with people like that there. I don't believe there's any real God called man of God who loves people he preaches to, who, at least on occasion, doesn't stand up with a broken heart and warn people that there's a real letter literal Devil's Hell that lost people go to but we got too many preachers around now they they want to win friends and influence people, and it doesn't bother them that people die and go to hell Without Jesus Christ anymore, and I want to tell you something dear people I can't come to Byron Mississippi this week and love you and love My God, who called me without telling you and warning you, there is a place called hell for people who reject Jesus Christ. You. And so you need to be saved, because you have an Ever Living, never dying soul that has a penalty and the curse of sin upon it, and God punishes unforgiven sin in an awful place called hell. You a I tell you, I love being a gospel preacher. I love seeing people saved. There's nothing that's ever excited me anymore than seeing people come to Jesus. Number of years ago, I went believe it was Calvary Baptist Church, if I remember right in Blytheville, Arkansas, to do a revival, I have done two there. One I'm going to tell you about is the first time I was there. But I did a crazy thing that week. I challenged those people to go out and invite the meanest man in Blytheville Arkansas to revival. God. Now there was no consensus of opinion who that one person, meanest person was, but you know what those people did? They went out and invited a lot of people to revival, and we had a lot of people saved, and I'll never forget again, doing a song service. I'm up here looking out. I watched an older man come through the back door pushing a wheelchair with a younger man in it. They got about, I don't know, five or six pews from the front, and the older man sat on the outside, and the younger man was in the wheelchair in the aisle, and I didn't think a whole lot about it. And so we had the service. I preached the gospel, I gave the invitation. I saw one of the most beautiful conversion experiences I believe I've ever seen in my life. That younger man in that wheelchair during imitation began to roll that wheelchair down that aisle. He got here to the front pew. He threw himself out of that wheelchair with his elbows upon the bottom of the pew, big tears running down his cheeks, repented of his sins, gave his heart to Jesus, got saved. In a few moments, I watched that older man who had pushed him in to the sanctuary, coming get on his knees by him and put his arm around him and draw him up close. He too began to weep. He too repented of his sins and got saved that night, I found out after the service, they were father and son. But not only were they father and son, I found out they were two of the biggest professional gamblers in the state of Arkansas. I'm here to tell you, folks, I represent a Savior. I represent the Lord Jesus that can set you free from whatever is binding you. And you know what, when you get saved, he'll change your heart you don't want to gamble anymore, and they had to give that up. I went back to it three years later. Three years later, I believe, to do a revival of that church, and that younger man was in that wheelchair, had just been elected and ordained a deacon in that church. I want you to know something, folks, you listen to me, this gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ still works. This gospel has no limits when it's shared, when it's proclaimed, it has the ability to set people free, and if the Son sets you free, you're free indeed. Alright, let's thirdly. Let's answer the question of the Philippian jailer, the question that man has asked himself since the very beginning of time, what must I do to be saved? What must I do to go to heaven when I die? Look at the answer, kind of simple, isn't it? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, brother Gary. What does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? What does that really mean? Let me tell you what it does not mean, because I can promise you, and can back it up with experience of 51 and a half years of ministry that there's a whole bunch of folks in church that are believing in something that it does not mean. And I'm afraid I won't get to spend eternity with them unless something happens. He didn't say just to believe in Jesus. Everybody in this building, and most people in Hinds County, Mississippi, if you ask them this question, do you believe that Jesus, Christ was born of a virgin, that he lived a sinless, perfect life, that he died on a cross, He was buried and raised again the third day. Do you believe that? I guarantee you the vast majority, 90 plus percent, maybe 95 maybe 98% of the residents of this state and this county will say, Yes, I believe that. Does that make them a Christian? No, indeed. Now listen carefully to what I'm saying. You gotta believe that in order to be saved, but believing the facts of the gospel is not going to get you to heaven. And there's a whole bunch of folks in church that have it up here, but they don't have it down here, and a lot of people going to miss heaven 18 inches from their head to their heart. Are y'all listening to me? I'm not here to impress you, but I am here to be honest with you. You may believe that Jesus was all that I just mentioned, and you'd still die and go to hell. He does not. Mean believing on the Lord Jesus. Doesn't just mean believing in Jesus, even though you've got to believe in the facts of the gospel. Neither does it mean to believe on the church. By the way, before I forget it, I love y'all sanctuary. I believe God's House ought to be the nicest house in town, amen. Thank you for a beautiful worship facility to worship our Lord, but being a member of a Baptist church is not going to get you to heaven. Folks, this scripture we read tonight was written long before there was Baptist and Methodist and Presbyterians and Pentecostals and all the rest. It was written long before then. If you could get papers on somebody for being a Southern Baptist, you could register me and get papers. My mama, she's in heaven. If you don't believe what I'm fixing, say, you just have to wait you and take it up with her. But my mama said she carried me for 10 months. Now, I've never been a little boy. My mom and daddy disagreed as long as I can remember, on how big I was when I was born. My mama said I weighed 11 pounds and 12 ounces. My daddy said I weighed 12 pounds and 11 ounces. I've never I've never been a little boy, but my mama said she carried me for 10 months. And I want you to know that Sunday morning, Sunday school time came, I didn't have a vote. Where I went to church or not. My opinion didn't matter where I felt like it or not I went. My daddy thought of that. Daddy, that's your responsibility. That's the problem they we got a bunch of sorry men around. That's a whole another sermon. I don't need to get started on it. We got a bunch of sorry men around who are not the spiritual leaders of the all to be and they going to have some kids wind up in hell because they're more concerned about hunting deer and and playing golf and all the rest of the stuff than getting them to the house of God and hearing the gospel. But I didn't have a choice. I went to church. I heard about Jesus. You know, I'm thankful that I had a mom and daddy that loved me, enough cared me, enough about me, enough to get me to church so I could hear the gospel. But you know that church didn't save me? Couldn't save me. This church can't save you, because this church didn't die for you. Baptist didn't die for you. Methodist didn't die for you. Pentecostals didn't die for you. Jesus died for you. You gotta come through Jesus, he didn't say Believe on the church. He said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't mean to believe on the church members. Somebody said the church is the only organization outside the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, you gotta admit you bad in order to get into somebody else said the church is nothing but a society of sinners who finally admitted it, folks, you can't get saved until you admit you lost. He didn't say Believe on the church. He didn't say Believe on the church members. He didn't say just to believe in Jesus. He said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Maybe nobody in this building knows who Eddie Martin was. Anybody know who Eddie Martin was? Brother Philip does. Eddie Martin, by the way, is in the hall of faith, Southern Baptist hall of faith. I believe I'm right in that he was a great Southern Baptist evangelist from the state of Pennsylvania. I mean, he was one of the greatest Eddie was off doing a revival like this some place, and he preached the gospel and gave invitation a rather wealthy lady, evidently, way she was dressed, she kind of strutted down the aisle. You know, that's what Baptist do. They just kind of strut down the aisle. And she grabbed the hand of Eddie Martin and said, Mister Martin, don't call me mister bowling. Please. Just call me brother Gary, or Gary or whatever she said, Mr. Martin, I want to be saved. He said, wonderful praise God, dear lady, and he explained to her how to be saved. He explained to her that he had lead her in a sentence prayer, and if she meant it with all of her heart, she could repeat those words. Christ, and she could be saved Very well, sir. So he began to lead her in the sinners prayer, and said, just repeat these words after me, and mean it with all your heart, with all your being, Dear God, Dear God, I'm a no good sinner. She didn't say anything. So he thought she didn't hear him. And so he went through the explanation again, and she said. He said, Madam, you want to be saved. Yes, sir, well, you need to pray this prayer. And really mean it with all your heart, very well, dear God, Dear God, I'm a no good sinner. She still didn't say anything. And so he turned to her, he said, Lady, why aren't you praying? Why aren't you confessing your sins to the Lord? She got kind of huffy and puffy at that point. She said, I want you to know that if I am a sinner, I'm a good sinner. He said, Lady, the Bible says you're no good sinner. The Bible says all your sins as his filthy rags. The Bible says you're filthy sinner, go sit down. God can't deal with you. She got about three pews up the aisle, and the Spirit of God revealed the wickedness of her heart. The tears started to flow, the mascara began to run. She lost her dignity. She came and she fell on her knees, turned her on her knees, turned her face toward heaven and said, Oh dear God, be merciful in me on no good sinner. And just like that, she got saved, folks, that's how we got to come to Jesus, because we are no good sinners. We've rebelled and sinned against Holy God. What does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus, Christ, my land, that thing's heavy. Can everybody see me in this chair from wherever you are. I don't want to get too close over here, my wife will get nervous. What does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved? I want to try to illustrate that for you. I want you to pretend that I just dropped in from outer space. And I don't, I don't know what, what's going on here, and I'm exhausted. I mean, I'm just worn out. I mean, I can just about to collapse. I'm out of breath. I'm tired. I need some rest. And, and, and you come up to me and you say, Well, Gary, sit down in this chair. And I say, what's a chair? I don't know what a chair is. And so you go through an explanation. Explain to me what a chair is, why it's made out of wood and it's got fabric, and it's got cushions and and it's got strong legs on it, and it's it's designed and constructed firmly, and it's designed to hold people up and to give people rest. Now I have knowledge, amen, what a chair is. Is that chair accomplishing its purpose right now to give me rest? Because I know the facts about a chair that it'll give me rest. Of course, not. So in order for this chair to give me rest, I not only have to know what a chair is and and all the rest, I must have to so show that chair how sincere I am. So I need to run around the church house 10 times to show it that I'm sincere. Is that what I have to do? Of course not. You know what I have to do for this chair to accomplish this purpose, the same thing that you have to do to be saved. I don't have to beg it. I don't have to say, Mr. Chair, will you please? Hold me up. Please, please, please. Mr. Chair, hold me up. I don't do any good. You know what I gotta have? There has to be an intersection of my knowledge and my faith. And so I have to realize I'm tired and I need rest because I'm exhausted. The same way you gotta recognize you a sinner and you're lost and separated from God, and recognizing that you're lost and headed to hell is not going to get you saved, until your knowledge of your condition And who Jesus is intersects at your faith and so what do I have to do for this chair to accomplish its purpose? I have to realize I need rest, and I have to reach a point in my life where I trust this chair, where I believe on this chair, where I commit myself to this chair. It, and if I won't rest, there has to come a time when I just come and put all 200 millimeter pounds down on this chair. Now is this chair accomplishing its purpose Absolutely? You know what you gotta do? You gotta realize you lost, realize you can't save yourself. Can't be good enough, and you gotta come to a place where you say, I'm going to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That word believe means to commit to it means abandon your life and eternity to it means a total abandonment to the Lord Jesus, and I promise you, on the authority of the Word of the living God, if you'll do that, he'll save you tonight. He'll put a new heart in you. He'll write your name in indelible ink in the books of heaven, never to be erased. And when this life is over, he'll take you to heaven, forevermore, and God's people said, Amen.

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