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You know, the Bible is really clear on salvation. It's not based on how good you are. A lot of people think they're pretty good, you know, and yeah, they're going to get to heaven because they're pretty good. But the Bible says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Bible says, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. I'm not righteous. We're not righteous. And if it were our goodness that would get us into heaven, none of us would be going. Because the Bible even says in Revelation 21, 8, it says, but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and sorcerers and whoremongers and idolaters, and listen to this, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. I've lied before. Everybody's lied before. So we've all sinned, and we've done stuff worse than lying, let's face it. We all deserve help. But the Bible says, but God commanded his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And so Jesus Christ, because he loves us, came to this earth. The Bible says he was God manifest in the flesh. God basically took on human form. He lived a sinless life. He did not commit any sin, and of course, they beat him and spit on him and nailed him to the cross. The Bible says that when he was on that cross, he himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree. So every sin you've ever done, every sin I've ever done, it was as if Jesus had done it. He was being punished for our sins. And then of course, they took his body. When he died, they took his body and buried it in the tomb. And his soul went down to hell for three days and three nights, Acts 2, 31. Three days later, he rose again from the dead. He showed unto the disciples the holes in his hands. And the Bible's really clear that Jesus did die for everybody. It says that he died not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world. But there's something that we must do to be saved. The Bible says, it has that question in Acts 16, what must I do to be saved? And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. And that's it. He didn't say join a church and you'll be saved, get baptized and you'll be saved, live a good life and you'll be saved, repent of all your sins and you'll be saved. No. He said believe. And even the most famous verse in the whole Bible that's written on the bottom, I mean the reference is written on the bottom of the cup at In-N-Out Burger. I mean it's so famous, everybody's heard of it, John 3, 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And everlasting means everlasting, it means forever. And Jesus said, I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. The Bible says in John 6, 47, verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. So if you believe on Jesus Christ, the Bible says you have everlasting life. You're going to live forever. You can't lose your salvation, it's eternal, it's everlasting. Once you're saved, once you believe on him, you're saved forever and no matter what, you can never lose your salvation. Even if I were to go out and commit some awful sin, God will punish me for it on this earth. If I went out and killed somebody today, you know, God's going to make sure I get punished. I'm going to prison or far worse or the death penalty. Whatever this earth punishes me and God's going to make sure I get punished even more. But I'm not going to hell. There's nothing I can do to go to hell because I'm saved. And if I went to hell, God lied because he promised that whoever believeth in him has everlasting life. And he said, whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. That's why there are a lot of examples of people in the Bible who did some really bad stuff, yet they made it to heaven. How? Why are they so good? No. It's because they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. Their sins are forgiven. Other people who may have lived a better life in the world's eyes or maybe even really they lived a better life, they don't believe in Christ. They're going to have to go to hell to be punished for their sins. And let me just close on this one thought. One thing that I wanted to be sure and bring up today is that there was a question that was asked to Jesus by one of his disciples. And that question was this, are there few that be saved? That's a good question, right? I mean, are most people saved? Or is it few that are saved? Now who here thinks that most people are going to heaven? Most people in this world are going to heaven. Yeah. Guess what the answer was. He said, in Matthew 7 for example, he said, enter ye in at the straight gate. He said, because wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it. And then he went on to say this. He said, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works. And then while I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me ye that work iniquity. And so you see there are people out there, first of all, the majority of this world doesn't even claim to believe in Jesus. Thankfully the majority of this classroom claims to believe in Jesus, okay. But the majority of the world does not claim to believe in Jesus. But God warned that even amongst those who claim to believe in Jesus, even amongst those that call him Lord, many will be saying to him, we did all these wonderful works, why aren't we saved? He's going to say, depart from me, I never knew you. That's because salvation is not by works. And if you're trusting your own works to save you, if you think you're going to heaven because you've been baptized, or if you think you, well I think you have to live a good life, I think you have to keep the commandments to be saved, I think you have to go to church, I think you got to turn from your sins. If you're trusting in your works, Jesus is going to say to you one day, depart from me, I never knew you. You have to have all your faith in what he did. You have to put your faith in what Jesus did on the cross, when he died for you, he's buried and rose again, that's your ticket into heaven. If you're trusting all the things, oh I'm going to heaven because I'm such a good Christian and I do all these wonderful things, he's going to say, depart from me. And notice what he said, depart from me, I never knew you. Not I used to know you. Because once he knows you, remember I mentioned this earlier, it's everlasting, it's eternal. Once he knows you, you're saved forever. But he's going to say, depart from me, I never knew you. Because if you go to hell, it's because he never knew you. Because once he knows you, he knows you. It's just like my children will always be my children. You know, when you're born again, when you're his child, you'll always be his child. You may be the black sheep of the family, you know, you may be somebody who gets disciplined by God heavily on this earth. You can screw up your life down here, but you can't screw that up. You know, you're saved, it's a done deal. If I could sit with you in your living room for just a moment and talk person to person, face to face, I'd like to give you just the greatest news that was told me. When I was a little boy, I had a sister who cared about where I spent eternity. I thank God every day that she took a few moments to explain very simply so that a five-year-old boy understood the same things I like to explain to you right now. First, I want to say that God loves you very much. He's a God, he's a creator of the universe, he's a redeemer of mankind. He loves you more than anyone ever has loved you or anyone ever will love you. And this great God knows that you have some options. Right now, you've got to make some decisions. While you still live on this earth and breathe and have sense to make some choices, of all the decisions you have to make, make sure you make the most important one and that is where will you spend eternity? You have two options according to the scriptures, heaven and hell. Automatically by the fact that you are born as a human being on this earth, the Bible says we're headed to hell. The Bible says there's none righteous, no, not one. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. The Bible says the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And that word die there means death in hell. Literally, the Bible says what we deserve as human beings is the punishment of our sins. Let me make it real simple for you. God says that by nature, we've sinned and the punishment for sin is death in a place called hell and I don't want you to go there. I don't want anyone to go there. The good news is God sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ and Jesus loves you. Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried in a borrowed tomb and three days later, up from the grave, he rose. He came back to life and he's a living savior today and the Bible says finally what you must do is by faith, ask Jesus Christ to come into your life, to forgive your sins, to save your soul and in so doing, when you die, he will take your soul to heaven. What a great opportunity. It's an option you have now. When you die, your options run out and the decision will be made for you and it's a decision you will not want to have somebody else make because only you can decide where you spend eternity. I like to make it just as simple as I can for you. Right now, right where you are, I like to have you join me. I'm going to bow my head and close my eyes. I'm going to ask you to pray what we call a sinner's prayer. Would you say this dear God, I am a sinner and I'm sorry for my sins. I want Jesus Christ to come in my heart, forgive me of my sins, save my soul and take me to heaven when I die. Thank you God for saving me and for loving me.