OK, so you speak Spanish?
OK, we are from a Baptist church. I would like to invite you to our church.
Do you have a church, sir?
OK, very good. What kind of church is it?
OK, very good. So, more importantly than the church, do you know that when you die you will go to heaven or not?
Very good, very good. What do you think one has to do to go to heaven?
OK, it's good to do, of course, to live a good life. But to go to heaven, the Bible says it's easier.
It's a free gift because we all have sinned. And if you want, I could show you from the Bible what we need to do to go to heaven if you have time.
If you want, how?
A few minutes would be enough.
Very good. So here in Romans 3, first the Bible says, "For when all have sinned, they are destroyed by the glory of God." Of course, no one is perfect, right?
And that's why the Bible teaches that we all deserve a punishment for our sins. In Romans 6, the Bible says, "For the payment of sin is death."
So after we die, there are two places where we can go. To heaven or where?
After we die, if you do things right, you go with God. If you do things wrong, you go to hell, right?
Do you think hell exists?
Do you also believe in hell?
And how do you describe hell in your opinion?
Well, they say that the Bible is good, that it's fire, fire, all that.
It's suffering forever, forever, it has no rest forever.
But the Bible gives us a list of the sinners who will go to hell.
Here it says, "But the fearful, the unbelievers, the abominable and the homicidal, the fornicators and the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all the liars will have in their part the lake that burns with fire and suffers, which is the second death."
I know that I have lied in my life. And you? All the people. All the world.
And that is why the Bible teaches that we all deserve hell because we have sinned.
But do you think that God wants to go to hell for us? No, of course not.
That is why God gives us the opportunity of salvation.
And the opportunity of salvation is for his Son. Because the Bible says, "But God endures his love for us, in that, even being sinners, Christ died for us."
So God showed his love for us in giving us his Son, Jesus.
And the Bible teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin. He did not have a father physically because his father was a father in heaven.
Do you believe in the Trinity? The Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit?
Yes.
Yes, very good.
And why was Jesus born of a virgin? Jesus is 100% man, like us, and 100% God in flesh.
Do you believe that Jesus is God?
He is the Son of God, more than anything, but it is like a bridge that helps us to lead to God.
So he is the Son of God?
Yes, he is the Son of God, of course, but he is also God, because the Bible says here,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw his glory, glory as that of the Father, full of grace and truth."
So Jesus is both Son of God, man like us, and God in flesh.
And because he is God in flesh, he lived his perfect life and never sinned.
We all have sinned. Every day. We are not perfect.
But Jesus, yes, is perfect. He never sinned.
And when he was 30 years old, he started his ministry.
He did many miracles. He raised the dead. He healed the mute, the sick.
Many miracles. But most importantly, he preached the word of God.
And the Jews hated him. That's why the Jews killed him on the cross.
I don't know how to say it.
Yes, he died on the cross and when his body was on the ground,
the Bible says that his soul went to one place for three days and three nights.
Do you think it's heaven or hell?
When Jesus died, where did he go in those three days?
Yes, after. But before I want to show here,
the Bible says, "Seeing him before, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell, nor did his flesh see corruption."
And maybe you think, "Why did Jesus go to hell? He is God, he is perfect."
But he did go.
Yes, and why? Because where do we deserve to go for our sins? Hell.
So Jesus loved us, who lived a perfect life, died on the cross,
and went to hell to take the punishment we deserve so that we don't have to go there.
But he was not left in hell because three days later, what happened to Jesus?
He resurrected from the dead physically and spiritually as well.
But the question is, why did Jesus die and resurrect?
Do you think that everyone will go to heaven or not?
No. There is one thing that we have to do to go to heaven.
And many people think that we have to live a good life,
send the commandments, be good people.
But according to the Bible, there is one thing that we have to do.
This question is here in Acts 16.
It says, "Ladies, what must I do to be saved?"
How are we saved from hell?
The answer here says,
"And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your house."
Note, this verse says that you have to go to church and you will be saved.
Or do good things and you will be saved.
Or help the elderly cross the street and you will be saved. No.
It is a little bit that helps more, but not completely.
It says, "Believe." But what does "believe" mean for salvation?
It doesn't just mean "believe that He exists."
It's more.
Because, for example, if there are police here, I could say, "Oh, I believe that they exist."
But did I trust them? Not necessarily.
So there is a difference between believing that one exists and trusting a person.
To be saved, we have to believe that He exists, of course.
But we also have to believe that what Jesus did is 100% enough to take us to heaven, not the good works that we do.
Why does the Bible say that salvation is not for the good works?
It says in the Bible that the one who believes in Me...I'm not sure what it is, but it says that the one who believes in Me still doesn't see Me.
Larry, how is it that the one who believes in Me still doesn't see Me, but when it says that the one who believes in Me still doesn't see Me?
If you remember...oh, how? If you remember, how do you say "remember"? If you remember, I will answer you later.
But first, I want to show you this verse here. So in Ephesians 2, the Bible says, "For grace I am saved through faith."
And this is not from you. It is a gift from God, not by works, so that no one may be glorified.
The Bible says that salvation is by grace. We do not deserve grace. We deserve hell.
Salvation is not from us, it is not from the good works, so that we cannot glorify ourselves in front of God.
Do you think we can glorify ourselves in the eyes of God? Of course not.
If I tell you that I am going to heaven because I am a good person and because I do what is right, I live a good life, I read my Bible every day, I attend a church, who am I trusting in? Jesus or myself?
Me, me, me, myself. But if I tell you that I am a sinner, I do not deserve heaven, but I believe that Jesus died and resurrected to pay for my sins, I am trusting only in Him to take me to heaven.
Now, who am I trusting in? In Jesus.
This is what we need to do to be saved. It is to remove the faith from us, our religion, church, good works, and put 100% of our faith in what Jesus did.
You cannot mix works and faith for salvation.
If you think that you have to do good works to go to heaven, you are trusting in yourself. You will not achieve salvation because it is a gift for grace, not for works.
The most famous verse in the whole Bible is John 3.16, and it teaches us how to go to heaven.
The Bible says, "Because in such a way God loved the world, that he gave his unigene son so that all that is in him, I believe, will not be lost, but have an eternal life."
No, all that is in him lives a good life. No, it is faith.
The one who believes in him is not condemned, but the one who does not believe is already condemned.
Because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who does not believe in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God is over him.
It is believing, believing, believing. It is not for good deeds.
Good deeds are good to do after salvation, to have a good relationship with God.
But to be saved is simply faith.
And the Bible says that this salvation is a gift.
Here it says, because the payment of sin is death, we deserve to go to hell.
But the gift or gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So God wants to give us a gift called eternal life, but it is for one person, Jesus.
If I give you this Bible as a gift, but I tell you that you have to wash my car, is it a gift or not?
No, of course not.
Yes, or is it a gift, but you have to pay me $100, is it a gift or not?
No, it is the same with salvation.
God does not say it is a free gift, it is called eternal life.
But you have to go to church, repent of your sins, go to the mass, be a good person.
No, it is not a gift.
A gift is free.
Who pays for the gift? Jesus.
How? With His blood, with His death, hell and resurrection of the dead.
How do we receive the gift? By faith in Him.
And when we put our faith in Him, what do we receive? Eternal life.
For how long will eternal life last?
Exactly, so if someone believes in Jesus and has eternal life,
but then something bad happens in their life and they commit a very serious sin like suicide,
do you think they will lose their salvation or are they still saved?
What do you think?
So when Jesus died for our sins, did he die for small sins only or big sins also?
All of them.
What do we have to do to go to heaven?
Not sin, live a good life, send the commandments, or have faith in Jesus?
Having faith is not for the works.
The works have nothing to do with salvation.
And when we are saved, do we receive eternal life, or temporary life?
Eternal, for how long will it last?
Until we commit suicide? No.
It's forever.
Jesus says three times in a verse that it is not possible to lose salvation.
He says, "I say to you, the one who hears my word and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life."
If you believe in Jesus at this moment, you have to know 100% that you have eternal life because it is not temporary, it is eternal.
And condemnation will not come. Condemnation is hell.
If you believe in Jesus, he has eternal life and he will not go to hell, but he has passed.
He will not pass. He has passed from death to life.
Why has he passed? Because salvation is not a process of time.
It is a moment in which we put all our faith in what Jesus did.
When we believe in him, we receive eternal life and we are saved forever.
Now, do you have children? Okay, how many? One? Very good.
I have four daughters and my daughters, when they disobey me, I will correct them because I love my daughters.
But they are still my daughters, right? For how long will they be my daughters? Always.
Even with God, the Bible says, "But to all those who have received, to those who believe in his name, God gave them the power to be sons of God."
Now, if my children do wrong, I will correct them, but I will not let them be my daughters. Do you understand?
Okay, the Bible says that when we sin, God will correct us in this life, but he will not send us to hell because we have believed in Jesus and we have eternal life.
The Bible says, "Because the Lord, who loves, punishes, and punishes all who receive as a son."
If I commit a very serious sin like adultery, God can take away my health, family, money, house, my life, but he will not send me to hell, why?
And it is a free gift. I do not have to pay with my good deeds because it is not possible. I am a sinner.
If I want to be justified by my deeds, I will go to hell because it is not possible to be justified by the actions of the Law, the Bible says.
And the Bible says that it is impossible for God to lie to us.
Here in Titus it says, "In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised from before the beginning of the centuries."
I can lie, you can lie, but God cannot lie. God says, "If you believe in Jesus, you have eternal life. He will not take it away because God is not a liar."
Do you understand? Ok. In the review here, the Bible says that we are all sinners, right?
And where do we deserve to go for our sins? What? The hell, exactly.
But God does not want us to go to hell. What did Jesus do so that we do not have to go to that place?
And He died, and it was hell, but He was not left in hell, because what happened to Jesus three days later?
How? The resurrection of the dead, exactly. And do you believe that Jesus resurrected? Very good, very good.
And what do we have to do to go to heaven? Very good, very good.
And after salvation, for how long are we saved? Very good, very good. And do you think it is possible to lose or not?
Well, if we have strength, we lose.
The Bible says it is not possible to lose because it is a free gift. And this gift is temporary life, eternal life, exactly.
When we sin, God will correct us, but he will not take us out of hell because once we are saved, we are always saved.
Jesus says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, nor will anyone take them out of my hand."
It is not possible to lose salvation. Why? Because salvation is by faith.
If it were for the works, we would lose every day because we are sinners. But the Bible says salvation is by faith.
All this time I told you that we have to believe in Jesus to be saved, but the question is how do we put our faith in Jesus?
This is like here, it says that if you confess with your mouth to the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised you from the dead, you will be saved.
Because all those who invoke the name of the Lord will be saved.
If you believe this message, and you believe that salvation is simply by faith in him, what I want to do is help him ask God for this salvation.
Ok, this is the end. How do we believe in Jesus? Because all this time I said that we have to believe to be saved.
But how do we believe in him? Life says, because all those who invoke the name of the Lord will be saved.
And when I got here, he told me that salvation was for good actions, he lived a good life.
But the Bible says it is a gift, it is for faith. Have you changed your mind in this? Very good, very good.
So all we need to do is ask God for his salvation. And if you want to pray after me, we can pray, ok?
Ok, Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, I know that I am a sinner, can you repeat? I know that I died and resurrected from the dead.
I am trusting only in you and not in myself. Please give me eternal life. Amen.