Gospel—Tim Roach
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I want to talk about the question.
What must I do to be saved?
I was just in Malawi in the month of February and when I was there.
There are several incidences of crocodiles. There's a Somalian.
A lot of refugees come down from Somalia, and they come through Malawi, and they stay at the refugee transit station for a few days. And while he was there, he went down to the river. Now the Somalians, they're all Islam.
And this man, he was bathing down in the lake, and while he was bathing a crocodile came up out of the water and grabbed him and took him under the water and drowned him and ate him.
That man.
He is with Muhammad tonight.
He is in hell.
What could he have done to be saved? Nobody could save him from the crocodile.
Are you saved?
Later that week, there was another Somalian.
And he was down near the lake.
And a Python came out of the grass and the reeds and wrapped himself around the man.
He was helpless. He could do nothing to help himself. He could not save himself. He needed someone else to save him.
The police officer came to rescue him and he had a gun and he was going to shoot.
The Python.
But he missed, and he killed the man.
The Python let go of the man and went on his way. That man, the policeman, could not save that man.
Maybe you think your father or your mother can save you, but they can't.
It's only Jesus Christ who can save you.
Paul and Silas. They were two Christian men who were teaching.
About the Lord Jesus in the city of Philippi.
And the people of Philippi, they hated Jesus.
And they arrested Paul and and they tied them up in chains and put them into the most secure cell in the prison.
But this did not discourage Paul and Silas. They were praying in the prison, and they were praising and singing. And all the other prisoners they heard this. And the and the prison keeper, he heard the the praise of God also.
And let's read in Acts chapter 16 and verse 25.
This is what Paul and Silas were doing while they were in the prison 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 foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awakening 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, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
What must I do to be saved? This man was a Sinner. He knew he was a Sinner. He was trembling in his sins. He was afraid of death because he knew that there was judgment, the wrath of God. We say you need to be saved, but what do you need to be saved from? You need to be saved from the eternal punishment.
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Against sin.
It's the wrath of God.
I want to cover 5 steps tonight.
That surround your salvation.
And if and these steps will cover the time before your salvation, enduring your salvation, and after your salvation. And if you follow these steps, I think you can be sure to know that you have eternal life, to know that you are saved and that you will go to heaven to be with the Lord Jesus. You'll be saved from the guilt and the penalty of your sins, and you can know that you have eternal life today.
Tonight you can be saved. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Acts 16, verse 31.
Paul and Silas said believe on the Lord Jesus.
And thou shalt be saved.
The five steps to your salvation surrounding your salvation. The first one is to see your sin. The second one is to confess your sin. The third one is to believe that's the most important believe on the Lord Jesus. The 4th one is to turn away from your sins and #5 to fix up past things.
Now these are just five steps that you can learn.
That will help you to know that you are saved and step number one is to see.
Your sin. And you need to see your sin in order to be saved.
Romans chapter 3 and verse 23 says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
It's a very clear message that you are a Sinner, that you have not measured up to the glory to the holiness of God. There is judgment.
You cannot be saved from that judgment unless you can see your own sin. If you don't know that you have sin, you cannot know that you are lost. If you're not lost, you don't need to be saved.
And so when you are in your sin.
You are lost. You are far from God because sin separates man from God.
Do you see your sin?
Do you know that you are lost in your sin?
Let's go to Second Samuel, chapter 12.
And I want to talk about the sin of David. Now David was a man who saw his own sin.
He stole the wife of another man.
After that.
He had the man killed.
He took one look at that woman, Bathsheba. She was up on the roof of her house, taking a bath.
David was in his house next door.
And he was up on the top of his house and he goes to the window and looks out and there's Bathsheba.
When he saw that woman.
It produced lust in his heart.
Ladies.
You need to be careful how you display yourself in the view of men.
Because one look at a man from a man, at a woman who is clothed immodestly.
It can produce lust in his heart.
But men listen.
We need to be careful that we do not look at provocative women.
We need to turn our eyes away.
From The Dirty magazines.
We need to turn our eyes away from the sleazy Internet websites and all the ***********.
God told the Israelites in in Numbers 33 verse 52. He tells them when they went into the land of the heathen. He told them that they needed to destroy all those people and they needed to destroy the pictures.
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Why destroy the pictures?
Because God knows that our minds and our bodies are controlled.
By pictures that become embedded in our minds.
And these pictures can create lust in our hearts.
And it causes us so that we do not see our sin.
That's what happened to David. He had lust in his heart. He did not see his sin at first. He did not see his sin. He only saw the pleasure that he could have with this woman.
And one day, Nathan the prophet, after that, Nathan the Prophet came to David and he told David a story. And we have our story here in Second Samuel, chapter 12. And I'm just going to tell you this story, but this is the story that Nathan told to David. He said that there was a certain rich man that had many sheep. He was rich, but yet there was a poor man in the same city.
And that poor man had only one small female lamb. That's all he had.
Well, the rich man had a visitor come to town.
And the rich man said, oh, I need to feed this man. I don't want to use any of my own sheep. And so he went down to the House of the poor man, and he took that poor man's lamb, and he killed that lamb and he fed it.
To his visitor.
David heard this story. David became angry. He said This was a bad man.
He must be punished.
David did not realize who this bad man was.
And in Second Samuel chapter 12 and verse 7, Nathan said to David.
You are the man.
You are the man.
David heard that.
I'm sure. His heart stopped.
His face may be turned red. He was embarrassed.
David understood at that point that the story was about him.
David saw his sin. He knew that what he had done was sin in the eyes of God.
Many times people think, oh it was it didn't my sin, it was not sin. It didn't hurt anybody.
But sin is not against people. It is against people. But sin is against God. And David saw that what he had done was sin in the eyes of God. So if we go over to Psalm chapter 51, we can see we can read the prayer that David prayed to God.
After he saw his Sin Psalm chapter 51.
And in verse three and four, David says I acknowledge my transgression.
And my sin is ever before me, against thee, against you, and you only.
Have I sinned and done what is evil in thy sight?
Oh David. He knew he could not hide from sin, but he took a big step towards his salvation when he saw his sin. And you too need to see your sin. You need to take that first step towards your salvation.
You need to see your sin. Let's go over to Luke chapter 18.
This brings us to step #2.
You need to confess your sin and this this story is about the Pharisee and the tax collector. The Republican Republican is a tax collector and we read about this in Luke chapter 18 and verse 10.
Two men went up into the temple to pray, the 1A Pharisee and the other Republican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. God, I thank thee that I am not his other man, extortioners, unjust adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess. Oh, this man, he thought pretty good things of himself, but the public in standing afar off.
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Would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a Sinner.
Did the Pharisee see his sin?
No.
The Pharisee thought that he was good enough. He thought he was without sin. He was better than this other man. Man. He was better than all these other people.
He did not see his sin, But what about the tax collector? Did he see his sin?
Yes, he did. We read that the tax collector he beat upon his chest. He wouldn't even lift his eyes up to heaven. He was. He was humiliated because of his sin and he bowed his head. And he asked God to have mercy on him, and he called himself a singer. God be merciful to me, a Sinner. Do you see your sin?
Can you confess your sin?
After you see your sin, you must confess your sin. This is the second step.
Of salvation to towards salvation. When Peter was saved, he confessed his sin. That's in back in chapter 5.
Luke Chapter 5 and verse 8. Simon Peter.
Fell down at Jesus knees saying depart from me, for I am a sinful man. Oh Lord Peter saw that he was a Sinner.
He confessed to the Lord Jesus. I am a Sinner.
There was a young man who had a bad sickness.
And it gave him a lot of trouble, and for a long time he was afraid to tell his family.
He was ashamed of his sickness. But one day he realized that his sickness was killing him and so he told his family. His family took him to the hospital and there he told the doctor, he uncovered his sickness to the doctor. The doctor gave him some medicine.
And the man got well.
What did the young man do when he saw his sickness was killing him?
Why? He confessed his sickness to his family. He confessed his sickness to the doctor.
That is what you need to do with your sin. You need to confess your sin.
To God.
Because your sin is like that sickness. It's killing you. It's dragging you down just like the just like the crocodile that we spoke about. He grabbed the man and drags him down under the water to kill him.
Satan's doing that to you tonight too, with your sin. Satan is using your sin to drag you down with him into the damnation of hell, into the lake of fire.
Where there will be eternal wrath of God. Satan does not want you to give glory to God. He wants to destroy you, and he will do it if you don't come to Jesus.
You need to uncover your sin to Jesus. Tell him that you are sick with sin.
When you confess your sin to God.
God is listening.
Because God wants to forgive you. He wants to take away your sin. Jesus is the taker away of sin, and so you need to confess your sin to Jesus.
Jesus was punished on the cross.
Because of your sin.
And then Jesus died.
And then Jesus. Then the soldier took his spear and stabbed it into the side of the Lord Jesus and out flowed the blood and water.
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The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. It is that blood that can cleanse your sin tonight, the blood of Jesus. But you must confess your sins to God.
One day we were in in Malawi. We were at one of the village markets and we were preaching the gospel and handing out tracts. Well after we finished I went and sat down somewhere until the others were done. And while I was sitting there a man came up to me and he was drunk and he kneels down before me and he starts to confess his sin. He wanted me to save him.
I couldn't help the man.
I couldn't help the man. I could tell him about Jesus.
I could give him a tract, I could pray, but I couldn't help the man. I couldn't take away his sin.
Don't confess your sin to the priest. He can't help you. Don't confess your sin to me. I can't help you. It's only Jesus Christ who can help you. Jesus Christ can take away your sin. You must confess your sin to the Lord Jesus. Let's go to Psalm Chapter 66.
I'll tell another story before I read this verse.
There was a man who worked in a big factory and in this factory they sewed nice shirts and these shirts were beautiful. And one day this man, he took a shirt and put it on and put his jacket over the shirt and he went home with it.
The next day, his boss asked him about that missing shirt.
And he says I don't know anything about it.
That man did not confess his sin.
You need to confess your sin to God.
Don't hide. Don't hide your sin. If you hide sin in your heart, we are told that God will not hear you.
Psalm 66 verse 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.
If you hide iniquity, if you hide sin in your heart, you must confess your sin.
If you want the Lord Jesus to hear you.
That brings us to step #3.
To believe on the Lord Jesus, some of you see your sin.
Some of you have maybe confess your sin.
Maybe you've confessed your sin to God.
But confession will not save you.
That Philippian jailer we read about, He was trembling. Trembling will not save you.
Confession is a good step towards your salvation, but confession will not save you.
You must believe on the Lord Jesus.
When you believe on the Lord Jesus, it is like resting yourself on him.
I see everyone of you came in here tonight.
You saw you found yourself a chair.
You sat down.
You trusted that chair. You sat down.
Your whole body, your weight, sitting on that chair.
You're resting your body on that chair.
In the same way.
You must rest your soul on the Lord Jesus.
You must believe on the Lord Jesus, believe that Jesus died.
On the cross?
Believe that Jesus took away your guilt.
He took away the penalty for years. He took the penalty for your sin. All the judgment that was coming to you fell on Jesus Christ. During those three hours of darkness. God poured out His wrath on Jesus Christ. All our sins were laid on him.
And Jesus was punished for our sin. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Jesus died?
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Do you believe that Jesus shed his blood?
To wash away every sin.
That you have done.
Or will do.
You must believe that Jesus, that God has raised Jesus from the dead.
Jesus is a living savior.
He's in heaven tonight. There's a man in heaven tonight.
It's Jesus.
God raised him from the dead. God is satisfied with Jesus because Jesus took all the punishment for you so that you could be brought back into a relationship and a fellowship with God. Sin had broken that fellowship, but yet God wants to restore that fellowship through the death of his son, Jesus Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and he will save you.
Let's go to 1St John, Chapter 5.
See, it is by faith that a person will receive Jesus as their savior. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you can be sure that you are saved. You don't have to worry whether you are saved or not. The Lord Jesus did not come into this world to die on the cross to make you worry about your salvation. You can be sure that you are saved, but many people are not sure. And if you ask them if they are saved.
They will say, well, I'm trying to be good.
Some people think that they will only know whether or not they are saved at the end. When they go to stand before Jesus to see if their good has done, it was more than their bad. And so like weighing their like meat, like weighing meat on a scale, they think God's going to put their good sins on one side and they're good on one side and they're bad on the other. But it doesn't work that way.
You can't be good enough.
To be saved.
Many people don't know whether they are saved or not.
And if you are a Christian.
And you don't have assurance of your salvation. It makes you to be a weak Christian.
Because you don't have the confidence, you don't have the peace and the assurance of your salvation. But God does not want you to worry about your salvation. So God has made it possible for you to be sure that you are saved. And so in John first John chapter 5 and verse 13.
God tells us.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. You can know that you have eternal life. It's not something you have to worry about. Many people think, well, what if I sin after I'm saved?
What happens then? Did Jesus pay for that sin too?
Yes, he did. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin, not just the sins from before your salvation, but every sin. God who knew them laid those sins on Jesus Christ, and God punished Jesus Christ for everyone of your sins.
Maybe you have seen your sin.
Maybe you have confessed your sin, but now you must put your faith.
In Jesus Christ he will save you.
It's the only way to be saved. Acts 1631 Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.
Let's go to 1St Corinthians chapter 2.
This brings us to step #4, and that is to turn away from your sin.
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That's called repentance. That means there's a change in your life. Repentance is a change, and it's turning away from your sin.
But repentance is not a decision that you make to live a better life.
Oh, we find that a lot in Malawi.
People say, oh, I got saved when I decided to live a better life.
That doesn't save you. That's not repentance.
Repentance is a change in our life which is a result of having eternal life because you can't live a better life.
Without Christ.
You need to be saved. You need to believe and be saved before there will be a change.
When you believe on the Lord Jesus.
God Forgives you.
He makes you clean.
And you don't want to get dirty again.
And you will want to turn away from your sin because God has given you a new life.
And that new life hates sin, and so you will turn away from sin. That's repentance.
Turning away from sin.
After the after the Lord Jesus saves you.
You should not go back to your sin.
You will want to turn away from the old way.
But you can't do this by yourself, and so God gives you the power to turn away from your sins.
How does He do that? He gives you eternal life, and He gives you the Holy Spirit. And with eternal life and the Holy Spirit you have power to turn away from your sins, and there is repentance.
If there is not repentance, if there is not turning away from sin.
You will perish.
Because if you don't turn away from your sin, that means.
You are not saved.
If you don't turn away from your sins.
You haven't repented.
Unless you repent.
You will perish.
First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 5.
Verse four is talking about the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Your faith can only stand in the power of God, not by your understanding, not by your your faith cannot stand by your own wisdom, your own ideas, or the ideas of some other man. It can only stand.
By the power of God.
There was a man, Mr. Kuduma, and his wife.
And they they made beer and they drank it, and they sold it to their neighbors and friends and other people in the village.
But then they saw that their sin was full of life and it was causing sin and misery in other people's lives.
And they confessed that they were sinners and they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And they were saved because their faith was in Christ. They were not saved because they saw their sin. They were not saved because they confessed their sin, but they were saved because they had faith in Jesus Christ.
The blood of Jesus Christ washed away the sin of Mr. and Mrs. Kaduna.
They received eternal life.
This new life that they received, and you can receive this new life too. You can receive it tonight. But this new life that they received, it did not like to make the beer anymore.
They that new life didn't like to make other people drunk.
And so, Mr. and Mrs. Kaduma, they took the pot that they made the beer in and they broke it.
They turned away from their sin. They broke the pot so they couldn't make the beer any more.
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And so they turned away from their sin. Let's go to Romans chapter 13.
Well, we're talking about being sure of your salvation. If you are sure of your salvation, you're not going to want to turn back to the sins of your old life. We must turn away from our sins.
Some people think that they are strong Christians after God Forgives them, and they think that they can go near to sin and not get caught by that sin.
But Romans 13 verse 14 tells us.
Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh.
To fulfill the lusts thereof, do not make provision for the flesh. If we truly want to stay away from our sins, we're going to stay away from the places where we did those sins.
And that's why Mr. and Mrs. Koduma broke the pot. They wanted to stay away from those things.
That made them to do the sins. And so if you want to follow Christ.
You need to stay away from those things that you know.
That you ever have. You used to have a habit of doing because those habits.
Those desires can stay with you all through your life.
And so you need to turn away from them, because God's given you the power to do that with.
The New Life and with the Holy Spirit. Let's go to Ephesians Chapter 4.
Ephesians chapter 4.
And verse 26 tells the believer to hate sin so he that he won't get caught by the sin.
And the verse tells us be angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Now some people take this verse and they say, OK, it's OK to be angry, you just have to not let the sun go down upon your wrath. And it's OK to be angry with your friend or angry with your husband or angry with your wife. But you need to get the thing matter resolved before the sun goes down, before you go to bed. And then it's OK to be angry.
Oh, that's a foolish thing. That's not what this verse means.
We can't twist the word of God to mean what we want it to mean. What does this verse mean to be angry? God says that anger is a work of the flesh when we are at when we are angry at another person. But this anger is not against other people. This anger is hatred against sin.
And so this verse means that we should never stop hating sin.
With our with our eternal life, we have power from God to stay away from sin.
But if we stop hating sin and we start getting close to the sin.
We will start doing the sin again.
So we need to keep our hatred for sin.
Be angry and do not sin and don't let the sun go down upon your wrath. Never stop hating sin. Let's go to Galatians chapter 5.
We have said that God has given us the eternal life to help us give us the power to stay away from sin. But God has also given us the Holy Spirit to guide us so that we know to follow Christ.
And when we follow Christ, we'll be able to turn away from our old sins. And here in Galatians 5 and verse 16.
Says Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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There will be temptations for you to sin, and you will want to in your old nature, will want to do some of those old sins that you used to do.
But you need to remember that you have a new life. You need to remember to walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. But this is only possible for a person who has believed on the Lord Jesus. It is not possible for an unbeliever to walk in the Spirit.
And so God has given you that power to live a life that brings glory to God.
This brings us to our step #5 to fix up past sins.
1St we see our sin.
Secondly, we confess our sin. Thirdly, we believe on the Lord Jesus and he saves us.
With eternal life and with the Holy Spirit which He has given to us, we have power to turn away from our sins.
If you have faith in Christ.
You are free from the guilt of your sins.
The punishment you will not come under. The punishment of your sins you will never perish. We had that verse in Sunday School this morning. I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man take them out of my hands. You are safe in the hands of Jesus. No one can take you out.
But let's talk about the sins that you did before.
You were saved.
You troubled other people?
Maybe you told lies or you fought with some others. You stole things.
It's good if those people know that you are sorry for the trouble that you caused them.
If you want to go to share the gospel with somebody that you had sinned against before you were saved, they want to know that you are sorry for what you've done.
It helps anyway.
Let's look at Luke chapter 19.
And this is the story of Zacchaeus. We had a little bit about Zacchaeus this morning.
Now Zacchaeus was a rich man who was saved, and he started to follow the Lord Jesus. But before he was saved, he had taken things from other people in a wrong way.
And here in Luke chapter 19, look at what Zacchaeus said in verse 8.
Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation.
I restore him fourfold.
Zacchaeus had sinned against other people.
And now he tells the Lord, I'm going to give back four times the amount that he had stolen from other people.
He wasn't just going to give a little bit, he was going to give four times what he had taken from them.
That was evidence of eternal life.
But you need to know that restitution or paying back something you have done or making right or wrong that you have done that does not pay for your salvation. You cannot pay anything for your salvation. There is nothing good that you can do.
To please God.
The only good work that you can do we find in John Chapter 6 is to believe.
This is the work that you can do is to believe on the Lord Jesus.
And so trying to correct a wrong that you have done is no way to pay for your sin. Jesus paid the penalty for your sin when he was on the cross. He paid the whole price. And God is satisfied with Jesus when you confess your sin to people that you have troubled.
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It's a way of showing them that there's been a change in your life and so the good works that a Christian does.
It's not something you do to get eternal life. The good works that you do are not something that you do to keep your eternal life, but the good works are a result.
Of having eternal life. It's because eternal life knows, only knows how to do those things that please the Lord. And so the change in your life is because you are saved. It is because you have eternal life. What is eternal life? Oh, some people say, oh, it's a life that never ends. And that's true, but that's not really what it is.
The Epistle of John. We're told that Jesus Christ.
This is eternal life.
Jesus Christ is eternal life.
That means that when you have eternal life, you have the same life that Jesus has. That life is a life that cannot sin. It's a holy life.
It's the life of Christ.
And God has seen.
Pleased to give it to you because Jesus has taken away your sin.
When Jesus saw the evidence.
In Zacchaeus life he saw the evidence that there was eternal life. The Lord Jesus could also see into his heart to know that he had believed. Well Jesus said to Zacchaeus in verse 9, On this day is salvation come to this house.
Let's go to Romans chapter 8 for one last verse.
Now, some people think that they have to fix up past sins before they can get saved, but it doesn't work that way. It's impossible for you to fix up past sins. It's impossible for you to straighten up your life and and live a better life before you're saved. Remember that the steps that surround your salvation are these One, you need to see your sin. 2 Confess your sin Three believe on the Lord Jesus.
And you will be saved. That is the most important. That is the only way to be saved. And then you. Then you have the power to turn away from your sins and to fix up past sins.
Of these five steps.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation.
If you see your sin, that will not save you. If you confess your sin, that will not save you.
You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you turn away from sin, that is a result or evidence that you have eternal life. It's a result of being saved.
And the and the power to fix up past sins is because you have eternal life. It's evidence that you are saved.
Romans 8, verse 16.
The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are.
The children of God as we live our Christian life.
And we obey Christ.
The Holy Spirit lets us know that we belong to Jesus.
If you have power.
To live according to the word of God.
That is because you have eternal life and you can have peace and you can rejoice in the Lord. Let's let's close by singing.
#5
oh, happy day. That fixed my choice.
When Jesus washed my sins away. Oh Happy Day.
Oh happy days. I fixed my choice.
Only my Savior and my God.
Will make the flow in my heart rejoice.
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Until we try to fall down.
The day how you hear it, once you've done it, when you've lost, Jesus warns you just want to swallow.
My sins away.
He's talking.
And every choice and every day.
Come here.
My Jesus was my sins away.
Transactions.
I am my Lord, That is my name.
I followed Glad to come. Glad.
Someone you are.
Happy.
Every day.
Happy day when Jesus was twice in the way.
And I rest my lonely boy and heart based on the planet.
I in the way.
They are beyond.
Your friends and favorite toys and every day.
Happy night.
When Jesus falls, I sinned away.
I just want to make one clarification concerning fixing up past sins. We don't have a verse of scripture that tells you to go fix up past sins.
With Nick, what Zach, what Zacchaeus did was the result of his salvation, The result of his.
Eternal life and a result of having the spirit of villain. The point is that when you are saved, when you have eternal life, when you have the Spirit of God, you have power to live a life that honors God and you. You have the power to live the life in good conscience towards God and towards me. Let's pray.
Our God and Father, we give thanks.
With the gospel.
Because the gospel is the good news.
That Jesus Christ has come into the world to save sinners.
We know there is.
Judgment. There is Iran.
There is judgment for sins and.
We know that Jesus Christ does not want anyone to go into hell into that lost eternity. And so the Lord Jesus was willing to come into this world to save, to die on the cross. So we give thanks, Father, for this gift that thus given to us, the gift of thy Son, the gift of eternal life, the blood of the shed to take away our sins, the blood that satisfies the claims of a holy God.
When we give thanks for all these things, we just ask that if there's anyone who does not get made that step to believe of the Lord Jesus that they would see their sin and come to Jesus tonight, we ask this in Jesus. Amen.