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you You You You You You You You You You You Good evening, everyone. Welcome to strong tower Baptist Church Please join me on him first him this evening him number 156 Jesus paid it all him number 156 Oh Oh Oh Hi Jesus died my soul to say my name shall still repeat Jesus paid it all all to him Sin had left the crimson say he washed it white Oh Let us pray Heavenly Father, we thank you that we're gathered this afternoon not to remember what your son did for us. We thank you know that we are here to remember the What the Lord that is sacrificing there for us that we might redeem us from all iniquity. We pray that we bless Us Lord as we remember him today, which is the same I pray Telling you he knows what you stand there to him number 56 man of sorrows. What a name him number 56 Man of sorrows water altogether strong on that first Son of God What a savior Every shame I scoffed in in my place Condemned he stood still I Was a savior Guilty Helpless we spotless Say Was he Was his Was the Way I Good evening everyone. Welcome to strong to our Baptist Church as usual If you don't have a bulletin, please raise your hand And one of the ushers are happy to bring you one We have our verse a week on the front of your bulletin, which is Matthew 20 28 Matthew 20 28 something to think about this week Which is even as a son of man came not to be ministered unto But to minister and to give his life a ransom for many and we're going to be looking more at the second part of that Verse shortly how he gave his life for ransom for many something we're going to be thinking about As we're now in our Lord's Supper service. Have a look on the inside your bulletins. It's our Sunday evening service It's the Lord's Supper tonight And then as usual when saving will be back With with a preaching service and it's going to be the book was our chapter 41 will be on Wednesday evening We ended up with our five salvations this afternoon. Praise God. That was Yeah, it was you know It's funny because five summation usually would be like yeah, but like recently we get so ready haven't we right but still it's five Salvations right five people saved this afternoon and you know, there are actually this Family that haven't come back yet. So you never know there might be more than that but I'm still that takes up to 48 it takes us up to 400 this year and it takes up to 4,000 total salvations as well Which is that's a pretty great milestone everyone here and Since so we started in 2021 on in the January so it's taken us just a little over four years to make 4,000 salvations and And that's not to mention the the couple of thousand school kids so far preached you over in Malawi and obviously the as well as that Well, we we also have some Salvations on top of that with our overseas groups as well. But 4,000 is great and You know praise God and it's it's been a Yeah, it's just just increasing and increasing So we just just keep keep grafting away keep plugging away and we'll keep adding to that and we've only just started right We've got we've got a lot of years to come here and a lot of a lot of Salvations to get and a lot of work to do But yeah, that's great. We fit the 4,000 mark 400 this year. That's the best start to the year. We've had as well Like I said, they did get a dozen Salvations yesterday in Pretoria and they also had ten Yesterday in Switzerland as well The International group salvation total there and that's just sort of since we took on those groups, but those are their totals for the year next to each one there the baptisms Total baptisms are there and last week's attendances. We we have like I said, so it's a Lord's Supper service So it's a bit of a reverent service this one and then next week is a celebration When we're celebrating the resurrection of the Lord, but tonight's going to be a bit more reverend We're going to be thinking a bit more about what he went through what he suffered for us So that we'll be doing that shortly I'll kind of mention a bit more as we start it But we will try and keep distractions to a minimum and try and keep it as a as a you know Pretty, you know ideally a pretty reverent time and we can just focus on on the scriptures focus on what we're remembering On Sunday the 20th. So that's next week. It's Easter Sunday And like I said, we're gonna have food here off the service, so please hang around with the food will be from 1230 and it just be a time of relaxing and eating and Yeah, that's going to be Easter Sunday and then Saturday the 26th is our next soul winning event. That's going to be in Enfield. It's going to be a meeting by 1230 It will be solely from 1 till 5 With a then a 5 p.m Meal after that and then on Sunday the 27th is immense preaching and I've got five men already for that So if you want to add to that you better let me know quickly And then we also have on Sunday the 11th of May in the p.m. Service brother Pierre Preaching on May the 30th the 31st is on Manchester preaching so winning event where we're gonna have you know, a bit of fellowship up on the Friday there before we then have the before we have the preaching service Friday night in Manchester and then on Saturday will be so winning and then on July 31st August 5th is our Pretoria South Africa missions trip Bible memory challenge as usual It's six first is six weeks already up to week four It's Colossians 3 15 which is and let the peace of God rule in your heart So the which also you're called in one body and be you thankful. Please turn your mobile phones off put them on silent for the service if you haven't yet that'd be much appreciated and In fact, we there's a birthday. We haven't sung to yet So we did sing to Sally Ann and John earlier, but she's in the house here somewhere Jigging around with the baby. So happy birthday to my wife Lisa for Tomorrow she's gonna be 21 years old tomorrow. We're excited about that and When you guys are ready, let's sing a Birthday lease and Yeah, we like us like we said earlier. Happy birthday to Sally Ann after John for Wednesday And then we've got a few more coming up for the rest of month But let us know if your birthday's anniversaries if we don't know about them Let me know if you want details from our donations. Everyone knows how it works to the family integrated church here So, please yeah make you some other father baby rooms as needed please keep the children attended You know, like I said, I did mention it last week. It's gonna be probably you know What generally people do after our Lord's Supper service? It's a bit of a shorter service and then people just generally, you know It's not that you have to like not saying a thing or you have to leg it out the door But we usually don't kind of have a party afterwards and stuff It's a bit of a the idea is to kind of go and still think about it and stuff. So Yeah, that's kind of how it will probably go afterwards So I don't think it's going to be people hanging around for too too long after but um, yeah It's a it's a once a year thing we do and then we'll be back to normal from next week. So On that I'm gonna pass back over Please join me on standing for our next hymn this evening hymn number 351 Jesus keep me near the cross Hymn number 351 Jesus keep me near the cross In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river, near the cross of the Lord. In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river, near the cross of the Lord. In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river, near the cross of the Lord. In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river, near the cross of the Lord. In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river, near the cross of the Lord. In the cross, be my glory ever. Till thy ransom soul shall find, rest beyond the river. Heavenly Father, thank you for this church, thank you for this church that stands on the truth, and please bless this evening's offering so we continue to be a church that stands on your word. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. From present far too small Life so amazing, so divine Depends my soul, my life, my own Let's bow down our heads and pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much. We come with thanksgiving in our hearts, acknowledging what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for all of us. Please help us to keep this in our minds and in our hearts as we go back to our homes. Please keep us safe and help us to understand the significance of what just took place. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray all of this. Amen. Hi there, my name is Pastor Ian Tabern of Strong Tail Baptist Church. I'd just like to take a few minutes today to show you how you can be 100% sure that if you died you'd be going straight to heaven. So a lot of people teach all these strange things about how you can be good enough to go to heaven, how you've got to follow a list of commandments to get to heaven. See, they're really the other religion. There's only really two religions in the world. There's Good You Go to Heaven, Bad You Go to Hell and all the varying versions of that. Some of them are very subtle. Oh, you've got to at least give up a certain amount of sin. You've got to at least try not to sin. And then there's a Bible which says, no, no, no, Go to Heaven is a free gift. And I want to show you how you receive that free gift today. A few things you've got to understand first though before you receive that gift. Number one is that you are a sinner. I'm a sinner. We're all sinners. The Bible says in Romans 3.23, For all have sinned to come short of the glory of God. See, we're all sinners. We've all broken God's commandments in one way or another. And the Bible says because of that we come short of the glory of God. We cannot be good enough to go to heaven, which means that we're on our way somewhere else. There's only two places you go. You either go to heaven or you go to hell. And the Bible says for the wages of sin is death. We're all sinners and what we get in return is death. And in the end that's in a place called the second death, which is a lake of fire. The Bible says in Revelation 20.14, And death and hell will cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. If the wages of sin is death and the second death is the lake of fire, that's not a very good picture being painted there. In fact, in Revelation 21.8, we see just a quick list of common sins to show that we're all on our way to the lake of fire. The Bible reads, But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, and that's you, me and everyone else in the world, shall have their part in a lake which burneth a fine brimstone, which is the second death. However, God doesn't want you to go to hell. Hell is eternal. Hell is a very real place, but God wants you in heaven. And in fact, he made a way for you to go to heaven. In Romans 5.8, the Bible says, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God in the flesh came to this world, and he didn't commit any sin. He lived a perfect life, and then at the end of his life, he was hung up on a cross. He died to pay for our sins. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5.21, For he hath made him, that's Jesus Christ, to be sin for us, who knew no sin. Jesus Christ was sinless. However, he became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He swapped with us. He took that punishment for you. He died on that cross, and he then tasted death for every man. The Bible says in Acts 2.31, He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh should see corruption, because on the third day rose again. He showed the holes his hands, the holes his side. It was a bodily, physical resurrection. He wasn't a ghost. They ate with him. They handled him, and then 40 days later, he went to heaven. Now, what does that mean? Does that mean everyone's going to heaven? Well, of course not. See, there's one thing we have to do to receive that gift, and in Acts 16.30, someone asked the question, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? The apostle Paul and Silas answered, and they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. So what does that mean, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved? Are they saying to just believe that he exists? Are they saying to believe that there's a person called Jesus? No, they're saying to believe on, or put your faith, your trust, in that death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ to have paid for all your past, present, and future sins, and you can go to heaven. That's what it means. It's to put your trust in Jesus. Like it says in the most famous verse of the world, John 3.16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. See, the Bible teaches us time and time again that the only way you're going to heaven is by putting your faith and trust in what Jesus Christ did, not what you do. See, many people claim to be Christians and say, Oh yeah, I'm going to heaven because I believe in Jesus, and I'm a good person, and I got baptized, and I read my Bible, and I do this, and I do that. Well, they're not trusting Jesus Christ. They're trusting themselves. And the Bible says if they're not trusting Jesus Christ, they're going to hell. Ephesians 3 and 9 says, For by grace are ye saved through faith, and not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works that any man should boast about. It's not of yourself. It's not of your own works. It's just faith alone in Christ alone that gets you to heaven. And a lot of people find that really hard to understand. Now, they look at the Bible and think, Yeah, but you've got to follow the commands. You've got to do this. You've got to do that. Yeah, look, as a child of God, when you get saved, when you become one of God's children by faith in Christ Jesus, which is what Galatians 3, 26 says, for ye all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Once you become that child, God's going to punish you in life. He's going to reward you in life. However, the only way you become that child, the only way that you could ever get to heaven is by what Jesus Christ did, not what you do. Once you receive that gift, that's it, it's a gift. You're saved. The Bible says, in fact, in John 10, 28, And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. See, once you're saved, you've received that gift, you've become a child of God. You could never go to hell, otherwise Jesus Christ lied when he said all you had to do was believe. He lied when he said that you shall never perish. And that's the gospel. Gospel means good news. The good news is that your sins have been paid for. All you've got to do is receive that gift. And in fact, in Romans 10, 9, the Bible reads that, If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised thee from the dead, thou shalt be saved. It says in verse 13 of Romans 10, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If you believe, if you want to put your faith, your trust in Jesus Christ, just ask him. And I'd like to lead you in a short prayer. Now, if you believe everything I've just said, if you believe that you're a sinner, you believe that the wages of sin is death, that you deserve hell, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that he died, was buried and rose again to pay for your sins, and that all you've got to do is put your faith and trust in him. And once you've done that, there is no way you could lose that salvation, then please just repeat after me. Dear Jesus, I know I'm a sinner. I know I deserve hell. I believe that you died, was buried and rose again to pay for my sins. I trust in you now, and I need you. Please take me to heaven when I die. Amen. If you believe that and you've called the name of the Lord for salvation, congratulations, you're saved. And I'll be seeing you in heaven one day. God bless you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. you you you you you you you you