In this sermon, the preacher uses an illustration of a tightrope walker to emphasize the importance of belief. He shares the story of a tightrope walker who successfully pushes a wheelbarrow across a tightrope and asks the crowd if they believe he can do it again. The preacher then transitions to discussing the concept of hell and the need to believe in Jesus to avoid it. He highlights that many people are going to hell and urges the audience to take this seriously and seek salvation through Jesus. The sermon emphasizes the importance of belief and the consequences of not believing in Jesus.

Well, thank you, Jesus. Amen. Ain't God good? Well, praise the Lord. We've been looking forward to being with y'all for some time. Brother Joe Sinn just called me this morning over at Crockett Point Baptist Church in Crowville, and he told me that there's a bunch of them coming over this weekend, going to be with us, or this week, sometime. And folks over at Liz Moore Baptist Church in the Monterey area called, and they're going to be bringing a bunch of folks over. So we're praying that God's going to be meeting with us in these days, the next few days. Amen. We quit praying that God would send revival. We don't pray anymore that God would send revival. I don't believe it's scriptural to pray that God would send revival, because to pray that God would send revival is to say that you can have revival without God. See, in other words, what we're saying is, well, God just sent it on down here, you know. My prayer is that God would bring revival, because if He shows up, that is revival. Amen. And that's what we're praying, is Him to show up. Whether I show up or not really doesn't make any difference. But, see, if God doesn't show up, it really doesn't make any difference who does. See, so we're praying that God would show up, and that He would have His will in His way. Now, some of you are shocked by the title of the message, Three Ways to Hell. You say, Brother Jack, I thought you were just going to teach us how to get to heaven. Well, I am. But I've got to get you out of hell first. Amen. So, and some people say, well, Brother Jack, why don't you preach on love? I mean, you know, good grief. If you come in here preaching on hell first service, you don't know us. There you go. You got it. I don't know you. Amen. That's the reason I'm going to preach on it. Amen. I do know who does know you, though. Amen. And believe it or not, Brother, Pastor Todd, your church may not be like this, but our church is like this. There's a lot of people who've got their theology mixed up about the Lord's Day. See, I'd rather preach this on a Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night. When you got to know me and didn't think I was quite as junky as you might think I am, by coming in here preaching on hell the first service. But believe it or not, we've got a lot of folks in our church that's got their theology mixed up about the Lord's Day. They don't believe that Sunday is the Lord's Day. They believe it's the Lord's hour. And they don't plan on coming back on Sunday night. They haven't got their mind made up. They come to Sunday morning, and listen, many of them, they come into church on Sunday morning to get them just enough religion to inoculate their guilty conscience. And they go back out, and there's no change in their life. There's no commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. They just do their little Sunday morning thing. Well, see, you're the first one I want to talk to. Amen. I want to take my best shot at you, because we might not see you back the rest of the week. Some people come on Sunday morning, and they ain't planning on coming back the rest of the week. Amen. Amen. I didn't come here to make you mad. I could have called you on the phone and done that. Amen. I come here to preach the Word of God. Listen, but I come here to tell you that we're going to meet with God all week, and I would pray that you'd be here with us. Amen. Three ways to hell. Now, I want to just talk about three ways this morning, because that's all the time we've got. There's a lot of ways to go to hell. Lots of ways to go to hell. The Bible says there is. But we're just going to talk about three of them this morning. Let's all stand together in honor of God's Word. My highs might be a little bit too high or something. Does it sound a little tinny to you, just a little bit? Yeah, it's a little bit better right there. Thank you, brother. Matthew 7, verse 13-14. Let's read this passage of Scripture together. I'll read along. You follow along with me in your sermon outline or in your Bible, either one. Matthew 7, verse 13-14. Jesus said, Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction. And what's the next word? Say it again. One more time. Many there be which go in thereat. He said, Because straight is the gate, and there is the way, which leads to life. And what's the next word? Few there be that find it. Now, according to Jesus, most people are on the wrong road. Amen? Listen. We sing a song in our hymnals that's not biblical. It's not scriptural. There's nothing scriptural about it. You know what it is? When we all get to heaven. You know what it ought to be? When a few of us get there. Because according to Jesus, there's not but a few that are going. Would you agree with me? That either in your school, where you work, many times in your church, there's not but a few people that are really sold out to Jesus. Amen? There's not but a few people in the church that I mean to tell you, it's Jesus in the morning, Jesus at noontime, and Jesus when the sun goes down. Amen? There's not but a few people in the church that come on Sunday morning, and after having fed themselves all week long from the word of God, they want to get fed from the word of God. There's not but a few people coming to church on Sunday morning, really expecting God to move. There's not but a few people in the church that tithe. I just wonder if it's not the same few. When Jesus said there's not but a few going to heaven. I hope you're one of those few. People worry about how big heaven's going to be. Unfortunately, it's going to be plenty big. There's not but a few people going. Let's pray. Father, thank you for the word of God. I pray that you'd give me the utterance, the boldness, the power, the filling and the anointing of the Holy Spirit of God. Lord, I pray that I would decrease so that you could increase. Lord Jesus, I pray that Satan would be bound and every demon of hell that would come against the knowledge of God, that you'd bring into captivity every thought and obedience of Jesus Christ, of every man, woman, boy, and girl in this auditorium here today. And I pray, Lord Jesus, that souls would be saved, that lives would be changed, that you would be glorified, that the church would be edified, and hell would be terrified by what you do here in this place today. And, Lord Jesus, when we leave, we'd be able to say it's been good to be in your presence, and God would be able to see a few more people that are on that straight and that narrow road. Thank you, Lord, for your love for us. Thank you for the word of God. Thank you that it's quick, it's powerful, it's sharper than any two-edged sword. It pierces even under the dividing of the son of the soul and the spirit, the joint and the marrow. It's the discerner of the thoughts and even the intent of our heart. And, God, I pray that today you'd do open-heart surgery on us. Lord, help us not just leave here challenged, but change forever. Father, there's people here this morning that have religion, but they don't have a relationship. They talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk. They're one way at their house, but they're another way at your house. They're one way on Saturday night, and they're another way on Sunday morning. They've got Jesus in their head, but not in their heart. And, God, I would pray today, in Jesus' name, that they would come and truly be born again in the Spirit of God. Well, Lord, we love you and we praise you. With heads bowed and eyes closed, let's all pray to Jesus together today. Let's pray along with me. Dear Lord Jesus, please speak to my heart today. Please help me to do what you say. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. There's over 160 million Americans today in America that claim to be born again, children of God. Over half of the population of the United States of America claim to be saved. I can promise you that half of the population of the United States of America is not saved. You know, one of the ways I know, because if they was, our country wouldn't be in the shape that it is in morally and spiritually. All the way from the White House, to the Schoolhouse, to the Church House, to the crack house, to maybe your house. Not everybody claims to be saved is saved. Care to know how many times Jesus preached on heaven? Twenty-four times Jesus mentioned heaven. Care to know how many times He mentioned hell? Fifty-six times. Over twice as much Jesus mentioned hell than He did about heaven. Why? Not because He doesn't love us. Because He does love us. Amen? The same reason you spend more time about telling your children about things that will harm them, than how to enjoy cookies and ice cream. Some things just kind of come natural. I've never seen a kid have to be taught how to sin. What do you have to teach them? You have to teach them how to not sin. I've never had to seen a child have to be taught how to be selfish, how to be deceptive. I'm going to tell you what people need to be taught. It's not how to enjoy heaven. I bet you I can figure that one out on my own. Amen? I bet you when I get there, there ain't going to be nobody there at the pearly gates saying, Brother Jack, here's what you need to do to enjoy heaven. What I need to know is how to get out of hell. Amen? You know, somebody says, why don't you preach on love? Okay, let's preach on the greatest love verse in all the Bible. I believe it's John 3, 16. Let's all say it together. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not but have everlasting life. The greatest love verse in all the Bible says there's a hell. I don't believe in hell. Well, you're calling Jesus a liar? And believe me, you'll believe in it about two seconds after you get there. And whether you believe in it or not, don't change the temperature one degree. Amen? Hell's hot, heaven's sweet, sin's black, judgment's sure, and Jesus saves. And I pray that you know Him today as your Savior. Three reasons many people go into hell. Look at Matthew 7, verse 23, what Jesus goes on to say here. First of all, He says in verse 13-14, He says it's a broad road that leads to hell, and there's a lot of people going there. See, I believe if we had more preaching on hell, we'd have less living like it today in America. When's the last time you turned on the television and heard some TV evangelist preach on hell? No, they'll preach on, Oh, this is Jimmy, gimme, gimme, gimme. I'm okay, you're okay, everybody be happy. Not very often you hear preaching on hell. Jesus had more to say about hell than He did about heaven. Not because He doesn't love you, because He does love you. He don't want you to go there. Jesus goes on to say here in verse 22-23, He said, Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. Amen? Some people say, Well, Brother Jack, you're not supposed to be a judge. I'm not. I'm a fruit inspector. Amen? You tell me you've got an apple tree in your backyard, and I go out there and it's putting off peaches a hundred miles an hour. I say, Bubba, I don't care what you've got on the package. You don't have an apple tree back there, Bubba. You've got a peach tree. You will know them by their fruits. You look at an old boy's life. He says, I'm a Christian. And he lives one way at God's house, and he lives another way at His house, and another way at the boat house. You say, Bubba, you've got a problem. Amen? This talk is cheap. Jesus said, You'll know them by their fruits. Then He goes on to say, He said, Amen? Man, if getting to heaven was just based upon what you say, then heaven wouldn't be big enough. Not everybody calls themselves a Christian is a Christian. He said, Above every other thing, I believe the birthmark of a child of God is, after you've been saved, you'll want to do the will of the Father. Now listen to me. Look right up here. I'm not saved because I do the will of the Father. I do the will of the Father because I'm saved. When I was a kid, if you wanted to get a grin on my face, just have my daddy tell me, Son, that's a good job you did. I'm proud of you, Son. My daddy was always doing that. He was always bragging on me. He'd just look for things to brag on me. He wasn't like some daddies that would look for things to criticize. He would look for things to encourage me about, and he would say, Son, I'm so glad you... Man, that's a good job you did, Son. I am proud of you. Man, that would just make my day. Listen, but that didn't make my daddy my daddy. I did what my daddy told me to do because he was my daddy, because I wanted to hear my daddy say, Well done. That is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. I wanted to hear my father, my earthly father, tell me, Son, I'm proud of you, and I've got news for you. When God becomes your Father, you'll want to please Him. You'll want to do the will of God in your life. Listen, we've got a lot more people in our churches, Brother Todd, that know the will of God than do the will of God. And I'll tell you why. Because a lot of them, God is not their Father. And if God is not your Father, you have no real motive, no real reason to want to do what He says you do. Oh, you do what the preacher said to do. You do what your wife said to do, your husband, your mom and your daddy. But I'm going to tell you, when God becomes your Father, friend, it doesn't make any difference if the preacher's around, the deacon's around, the Sunday school teacher's around, whether you're off on the offshore, whether you're in a motel room where you've got a choice about what you watch on that hellish television or what you don't. You'll want to do what God's told you to do. Why? Because He's your Father. Do the will of the Father. Amen? That's the birthmark of a child of God. And it goes on to say, many will say to Him in that day, what day? Judgment Day. They're going to say, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? That word means to preach or to teach. You say, Brother Jack, you mean there's going to be preachers in hell? Son, turn your TV on. Hmm? Listen, friend, there's some people on TV that if they're preaching the gospel, what I need to do is shut this book and get me a job, a J-O-B. Hear what I'm telling you? There's some folks out there that don't preach the Word of God. The devil's got his preachers out there too, folk. Don't you think he doesn't? You just imagine the mind of the devil for a minute. I hope that's a stretch for some of you. But just imagine, if you really wanted to bring discredit to the Word of God, to the Son of God, to the work of God, where would you try to go to work at? In the bar? Or in the church? I guarantee you, every single time. These people are prophesying. These are not cults. These are not Muslims. These are not Buddhists. They're prophesying in Jesus' name. They're not prophesying in Buddha's name. They're not prophesying in Muhammad's name. They're prophesying in Jesus' name. But Lord, what we did, we did in the name of Jesus. And they still wasn't saved. That word prophecy also means to teach. I can't tell you how many Sunday school teachers I've seen say, see, some people just like to learn. And then out of what they learn, they enjoy teaching it. They have a gift of teaching, or a talent, let's say. A better choice of words here. A talent for teaching. They love to read. They love to learn. And then they like to go and they get a few people and teach them. And listen, it's not that they don't believe what's in this book is the truth. They do believe it. But these people right here, Jesus said, they're going to prophesy, they're going to teach or preach in Jesus' name. And look what else they're going to do. And in our name, didn't we cast out devils? You'd think somebody'd cast a devil out if somebody was saved, wouldn't you? Not according to Jesus. Hello? See, God doesn't honor the messenger. He honors the message. Cast out devils. They talk good about Jesus. They prophesy in His name. They talk bad about the devil. Oh, the devil's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Booger behind every bush. Oh, cast the devil out. The whole time, they're full of the devil. And in our name, done many wonderful works. Look what they did. They talked good about Jesus. They talked bad about the devil. And they talked a lot about themselves. It's kind of hard to give some folk a pat on the back. You know why? Because you can't get past their hand. They're always, well, they want to be recognized for everything down at the church, Brother Todd. They're going to stand before Jesus. Lord, didn't you see all the coats of paint I put in that church? I set up those chairs. I cooked those meals. They did many wonderful works in the name of Jesus. Jesus said, then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Everybody in Vidalia knew you, but Jesus. Everybody in Natchez knew you, but Jesus. Your name was in the phone book, but it wasn't in the Lamb's book. Your name was on the church roll, but when the rolls called up yonder, you wasn't there. Oh, He didn't say He didn't know who you are. There's a difference between knowing who somebody is and knowing them. You could buy a book this afternoon, or somebody give you a book out of the library, on Abraham Lincoln. Go home this afternoon, read it, and know all about Abraham Lincoln. But I promise you one thing, you will never know him. You will never know him. You can know about somebody without knowing them, and I know a lot of people, Brother Todd, they know about Jesus. They have read this book on Jesus, and they can tell you book, chapter, and verse on Jesus. They know about Jesus, but they don't know Him. See, it takes a relationship with the living Lord. And if you were going to describe your relationship with Jesus today, if you were going to describe your relationship with God, before God, honestly, would it be more here or here? I mean, do you know Him in a personal way, as a personal Savior? When you pray, do you know you're talking to a God that hears you? I mean to tell you because of a relationship, not because He's out there, but because He's in here. Woo, son! The difference is heaven and hell. Turn or burn, get right or get left. You're saying He ain't. Amen? He said, I never knew you'd depart from Me, ye that were connected with Him. First of all, I want to show you how many people have been carelessly dealt with. Oh, this is what happened to me when I was 12 years old. Romans chapter 10, verse 9. The Bible says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the what? Lord Jesus. It doesn't just say Jesus. Probably the most well-known verse, brother Todd, in all the Bible, on how to be saved is this verse right here. And yet so many people miss the implication here in this verse. It says, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus. See, sir, it's got to be your prayer. It can't be your daddy's, your mama's, your husband's, your wife's, the preacher's, the bangler's. It's got to be your prayer. The Lord Jesus. And shall believe in thine heart that God raised from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Amen? It doesn't say in your head, but in your heart. When I was 12 years old, I remember going to Beckley Hills Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. I never remember going to church at all one time, never with my parents. I'll be sharing my testimony tomorrow night. But I grew up in the buckle of the Bible Belt in Dallas, Texas. Lived there all my life until a year ago. And we moved to Louisiana. Our ministry is here. But I remember going. I could count all the times I went to church until I was 35 years old on one hand and had fingers left over. And I didn't. At 12 years old, I don't remember who brought me, but I remember we were sitting over on this section of the church. And I remember the preacher preaching, and I remember getting up during the invitation. I don't remember coming forward. And I really remember God dealing with me that morning. The preacher said, What's your name? I told him. He said, All right, son. Have a seat right here. Sat me down in that front pew. Never led me in a prayer. Never prayed with me. Never led me to Jesus. Jesus never explained to me anything about Jesus being the Lord of my life. Had me sit down there on the front pew of that church. He got me back up there after the invitation. He said, Can you come back tonight and get saved? I said, Well, I guess I can. I mean, get baptized? I said, I guess I can. I have to ask my parents. My parents agreed. And the only reason I don't even remember much about the baptism, all I remember is I was really getting wet. Hello? I got wet at 12 years old. I got baptized when I was 35. The Bible teaches believers baptism. I got wet when I was 12. He said, Can you come back tonight? And they gave me a baptism card when I got dumped. And if you had asked me until I was 35 years old if I was a Christian, I said, Yeah. I'm a Baptist. I was a Baptist a long, long, long time before I was a Christian. The same could be said for a Pentecostal, assembly of God, non-denominational. I don't care who you are, friend. I'm going to tell you something. It wasn't a Baptist. It wasn't an assembly of God. It wasn't a Pentecostal that died for me on the old rugged cross. It was the Son of the Living God. Amen? He said, I've had people tell me, Brother Jack, you know, when I called myself getting saved, I was during a youth revival, and a bunch of kids went down at the front. I just went down because everybody else went down. I prayed, you know, I went down there, but nothing happened. There was no commitment in my life. No lordship in my life. No fruit after I got saved. Look what the Bible says in Romans 10, verse 13. The Bible says, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the what? Lord shall be saved. That word Lord is not in there by accident, friend. That word Lord is in there by divine revelation from Almighty God. Listen to me. You're not saved because you make Jesus Lord of your life, but Jesus will become the Lord of your life if you get saved. I'm not saying getting saved is what you do. Man, I'm going to make Jesus Lord of my life. That's not the way it works. When you get saved, you receive Jesus as your Lord. You get bankrupt and say, Lord, I have not the capacity to make you Lord of my life unless you come into my life, renew my spirit, change my heart, change my want-tos, and then out of that relationship, you'll want Jesus to be the Lord. He will be your master, your king, your author, your finisher, your everything. Amen? He will be all that. Amen? I've had people tell me, Brother Todd, oh, when I was 12 years old, I got saved, but, you know, I went off to high school and lived like the devil like all high school kids do. I beg to differ with you. All high school kids don't live like the devil. Saved ones don't. I went off into the military, and they try to kind of laugh it off. You know, I got saved over here when I was 12, but I went off to the military, and, you know, I live like the devil like all military men do. Bubba, you're going to have to hand that hogwash to somebody else. I served six years in the military, and I was lost to a ball of high weeds, and I can tell you right now, they're not all military men that live like the devil. There's a few of them that don't. I said there's a few of them. I went off to college, brother Jack. Whoo! Some of you know how those sororities, those houses are. You know how those dorms are, man. Those colleges, you know how they all live like the devil. No, they don't all live like the devil. Thank you very much. You got your facts wrong, Bubba. They don't all live like the devil. Saved ones don't. Born again ones don't. But then they'll say, I got off over here 25, 30 years old, and me and the wife had a little baby, and you know what we decided we needed to do? We needed to get back in church and rededicate our lives. I want you to help me out with something. I want you to show it to me in the Bible. Just show it to me one place. That old dog will not hunt. I got my fire insurance over here. No, you didn't. You got just enough religion to make your guilty conscience feel good. You thought you got some fire insurance. And you see, listen to me, you can't rededicate something that was never dedicated. Can't do it. See, listen, watch this. The cross tells me that you can't do anything for God until, first of all, you receive by faith what He has done for you. Amen? And then out of that relationship, He will become the Lord of your life. Why is it? You tell me. You tell me why it is so many times in the church we'll see one person that was saved at a young age. Man, they had all the opportunities to go out and shack up and live like the devil and drink the rock gut liquor and everything. But because of Jesus, they didn't do it. Went through high school, went through college and kept themselves for Jesus and had all the opportunities in the military to live like the devil and didn't do it. Why? You tell me. Because you find them out there. They don't run in bunches, but they are out there. But there's so many of them, brother. Oh, yeah, over here, I got me some fire insurance, but I rededicated over here. Hogwash, brother. Rededicated even in the Bible. I said it's not even in the Bible. They'll come down. Well, I know. I need to do more for God. Need to do more for God. They're frustrated. I can't read enough. I can't pray enough. I need to go to church more. I need to do this. And they'll get all fired up during the revival and then they'll fizzle out before the bus gets out of town. Well, a lot of them have been cursed that way. Amen. See, it's got to be your prayer. You've got to confess with your mouth. There ain't going to be nobody up in heaven that doesn't want to be there. You ain't going to get up there and say, I didn't want to come up here no way. You know, my mama prayed for me and my daddy prayed for me and that preacher, you know. Son, it's going to have to be your prayer. Amen. You're going to have to want it. Amen. God ain't going to strong arm nobody. You don't want to go to heaven? That's between you and the devil. Amen. Because you're listening to the devil. I promise you right now. I promise you I know what God wants. I don't have to wonder. The Bible says He's not willing that any one of you should perish, but every one of you should come to repentance, to making Jesus the Lord of your life. He ain't Lord of all. He ain't Lord at all. Look at what 1 John 2, verse 3-4 says, Hereby we do know that we know Him. You see that? Everybody got a sermon outline? Raise your hand. If you don't have one, raise your hand. Why don't you look at it with me? Look at your sermon outline. That's the reason I gave you one. I don't have any confidence in the world in what I've got to say. I have all the confidence in the world in what God has to say. 1 John 2, verse 3-4. John says, Hereby we do know that we know Him. I've had people tell me, Brother Jack, can anybody really know for sure? You've got to be kidding. You think God will have you live 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 years and die without you knowing for sure where you're going to go when you die? Friend, eternity is too long to be wrong. Amen? Eternity is entirely too long to spend it in the wrong place. And there ain't but two. It's heaven or hell. There ain't no purgatory, Bubba. Amen? Pass the bread. The bologna's done. It's been around. There ain't. Listen, it's either heaven or hell. Turn or burn. You're a saint or you ain't. When you die, Hebrews 9, verse 27 says, It's appointed unto man once to die. And after that, the judgment. So that's all I can tell you, what the Bible says. So God wants you to know where you're going to go when you die. Hereby we do know. Listen. Watch this. How can the God of this universe, look at this. Look up here. How can the God of this universe come and live inside of you and you not know it? Hello? Come on, man. Reminds me about this woman. She was going to work one morning. She was walking by the pet store. And she got right up in front of the pet store and there was this parrot sitting out in front of the pet store. And when she got right up in front of the parrot, the parrot said, Hey, lady. She looked around at this parrot. The parrot said, You sure are ugly. Man, I mean it just shocked her. She did the best she could with her makeup that morning, her hair and everything. She went on to work that morning and ruined her day. She'd come back home that afternoon, had to walk by the same pet store. She thought, Surely that bird won't be there again. And if he is, surely he won't say what he said this morning. Sure enough, she gets right in front of the pet store and there's the bird. She tried to ignore the bird. The bird says, Hey, lady. She looks at the bird. The bird says, You're still ugly. And I mean real ugly. Man, that did it. So she went in the back room. She told the owner of the pet store. She said, Sir, you've got about the meanest, junkiest bird I've ever seen in my life out there. I walked by here this morning. That bird said I was ugly. I walked back by this afternoon. The bird said, I'm still ugly. I want you to do something about the bird. He said, Ma'am, I'll fix that bird. Been having trouble at him. Went out there. He jerked that bird off the perch, took him in the back room and hung him under some cold water. So he just hung him there for a while. Just saturating him. Took him out under there. Shook around that old bird. Jagged him on that perch. That bird was all fuzzed up. He said, Ma'am, if you ever have any problem out of that bird again, you let me know. I'll wear the bird out. She went home that night. Got a good night's sleep. Came back. Went to work the next morning. She made sure she walked by the pet store. Just wanted to see if the bird was there and what he'd say. Sure enough, there's the bird. She got right up in front of the bird. The bird says, Hey lady. She said, What? He said, You know. Huh? Hey, watch this, brother. When Jesus lives in you, you know. Hello? I got another verse for you. Your wife will know. Your husband will know. Those old boys you work with. Those kids you go to school with, young people, they'll know it. If a young man It was to go to your buddy's offshore. It was to go to your friends out there where you work. It was to go in your school and say, Hey, did you know so-and-so that was at church yesterday morning? They'd say, Oh, really? You've got to be kidding. Hello? Come on now. You will know them by their fruits. See, Jesus told us we would know people by their fruits so we'd know who to pray for, who we'd know to witness to, who we'd know to invite to church. It may be that you're here this morning because you got invited. I'm going to tell you, after I got saved, nobody ever had to invite me to come to church. Hello? Amen? Hey, that's all I can tell you. The Bible says in Ephesians 5, Jesus loved the church and gave Himself for it. Look, He said, Hereby we do know that we know Him if we keep His, what? Commandments. See, there it is. There's fruit of being saved. You'll want to keep God's commandments. You'll keep them in your heart. You'll keep them in your hand. You'll keep them in your home. You'll keep them in your habits. You'll keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him. There's that mouth again. Boy, that mouth will get you in some trouble. Son, talk is cheap. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments is a what? A liar. I didn't call you a liar, sir. It's worse than that. God says you're a liar God's Word said if you say, you know, Jesus if you say, you know, Jesus I said it says if you say you know Jesus and you don't keep his commandments The Bible says you're a liar and the truth is not in you now if you're a liar You need to understand where liars go Hello Revelation chapter 21 verse 8 let's turn there because I know some of you looking at me like a Catholic in a new gate Revelation 21 8 Roll call of the damned here Eight people that's going to hell Look who they are But the fearful the unbelieving the abominable murderers whoremongers sorcerers adulterers and who else? Who what kind of liars? Say it again all liars all Liars all Liars She'll have their part in the lake of fire which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death You know what? The Bible says, you know why the Bible says all liars go to hell because there's different kinds of liars There's good ones and there's bad ones a good liar's got everybody convinced. He's a Christian Judas was a good liar. We're going to talk more about Judas in a minute. Judas was a real good life Nobody suspected Judas of being lost Except Jesus. There's bad liars, too. You ain't got nobody convinced. Everybody's praying for you. Hey, man You're on everybody's prayer list. You ain't got a chance. Amen. That's a bad lie. There's good lie They're bad some different kinds of lie. That's reading about says all liars go to hell There's different kinds of life. Some people don't tell a lie They live a lie and you know, you can live a life so long that you get yourself believe in it. Hmm, in fact well All liars go to hell and the truth is not where? in him first John back to the first John chapter 2 verse 54 if we say And we don't keep his commandments. You're a liar and Jesus is not in you That's what it means because Jesus said I am the truth see right over there that third banner over there Jesus said I am the way and the what? Truth and the lie. He didn't just tell the truth. He is the truth So when the Bible says that you're if you say, you know, Jesus and you don't keep his commandments You're a liar and the truth is not in you. What it means is Jesus is not in you Hello, amen, I've had people tell me. Oh, I know the Lord's with me. Well, I know he's with you, too How about this? He's with Saddam Hussein this morning Giving him every breath he's ever breathed Hello, come on now But you know what? He's not in him He's with every person that's walking the face of this earth right now good the bad and ugly with every last one of them But he's not in all of them You say, you know Jesus you don't keep his commandments you're a liar living lie you believe in a lie and Jesus is not in you. Well number two They're confused about what the real gospel is boy You go up to a hundred people in by day and not just ask them this question How come this question if you were to die today and stand before God and he was to ask you? Why should I let you into heaven? What would you say? Well, you get all kinds of answers Amen, all kind believe me. I know I've asked this question lots of times I'm gonna just give you four. That's all time. We got I call it a beeline to hell. I'll begin with the letter B As I belong to the church good By the way, I believe if you you're saved you'll belong to the church But listen to me, it won't be just you got your name on somebody's church row, but it's hot I'll bet you right now. You'd be hard pressed to find Anybody in this parish over the age of 20 that didn't belong to some church I mean their member they got their name on somebody's church row. So a lot of time we have people say Are you a Christian? Oh, yeah, I'm a member So and so church down there just a lot of time. I'm asking so yeah, who's the pastor over there? Oh Well, man, I can't believe I can't remember that preacher's name honey, what's that preacher? We ain't been over 25 years Been through 19 pastors and I couldn't tell you one of them, but they're a member of the church Let me tell you who else was a member of church Judas Judas was a member of the church. In fact, the Judas was a member in good standing You remember Judas the one at the Last Supper where Jesus said one of you will betray me Not one of those disciples said is it Judas? Not one of them. Why didn't they say see we on the other side of the story now we name our boys Paul and our dogs Judas and Judas day Judas was the most respected man in the church. He was the treasurer of the church He had the money buddy. You don't give the money to somebody you don't trust if you've got any sense Cheers was the respected man. Nobody suspected Judas. What did they say brother? They said is it I? in fact one of the gospel says They started from the first to the last each one of them said is it me? Is it me? Is it me? Is it me? Is it me? Nobody suspected Judas, you know, why because Judas was a good liar Judas was a real good liar Judas was a member of the church Let me show you how close you can be to heaven and still go to hell Judas kissed the door of heaven and busted hell wide open Judas Good man, but not God's man Some people say well, it's reading a little church. See they're out there, but yeah, I don't know about Tell me a pretty down there. I got too many juices down. I don't go church. They got too many hypocrites Well Bubba, there's one less hypocrite when you don't come Hey, man, watch this. There's hypocrites where you go to work tomorrow, too. Huh? Hey, man I've never heard no redneck come out of Walmart says, you know what? I ain't never going back one more Son, I don't wear sporting goods saw three hypocrites Son, I am through with Walmart. I ain't all they want your money No I've never heard one old redneck old boy come out of Walmart So I ain't never going back to Walmart too many hypocrites and all they want your money But I've heard a boatload of them come out of this church say ain't going back to church All they want your money that's a lie out of hell I found out in my life that the givenness loveliness and most solid people you'll go find on the face of this earth Or inside of the church. Yes, sir No dog won't hunt too many hypocrites son. I'd rather go to church with a few of them go to hell with all of them Hear what I'm telling you? And by the way, I don't go to church to worship hypocrites. I go to church to worship Jesus I tell you what you do you get bones saved Amen and you come on down there and you live out the victorious Christian life in front of some of those hypocrites and then maybe they'll want the Jesus you got But so many guys well, you know, I got an old boy down at church I know what it does on Friday night. He goes same boat. I go to he's I know how he is He's the dearest he cuts the same way. I do ain't no different. What's that got to do with you and Jesus, huh? Nothing Listen when you stand before God God not gonna ask you Well, what did you think about that lost church member down there? He gonna ask you what did you do with my son Jesus and I go to church Some people been committed to church, but they've never been committed to Christ. Amen back to Salvation is not spelled membership. It's spelled relationship number two and I've been baptized preacher. I Don't know. I can't tell you how many people I've asked brother Todd Tell me about when you got saved. Well, I was baptized when I was 14. Haven't you haven't tell you that See what's in the well comes up in the bucket They're telling you what's on their heart Are you out there? They're telling you what they're counting on to make them right with God. Do you hear what I'm telling you? You didn't say anything about baptism you ask them when they were born again the Spirit of God But what came up what came out I tell you about when they got baptized Oh Make no mistake about it when you're saved you'll want to get baptized preacher ain't gonna have to call you beg you You'll want to get baptized. But listen friend. You can be whitewash You're not washed white in the blood of the lamb. Nothing can wash your sins away. Nothing but the blood of Jesus You'd be dunked in every baptistry in this parish at the top in every pond Till the tadpoles know your social security number by heart and died bust hell wide open Friend I'm gonna tell you nothing can wash your sins away. Nothing but the blood of Jesus I've been baptized. I'm in baptized Listen that thief on the cross wouldn't baptize, but Jesus said today. I'm on this to me I'll promise you one thing if he could have been he would have been and he could have gotten church He would have gotten church. I've been baptized. They had a fellow tell me one time here while back He said brother Jack when you said that he said it would like a nail went through my heart He said cuz and he's like in his 60s He said if you'd asked me up until this morning if I was saved I'd say yes, sir, and I'd have turned you to the inside of my Bible when I got baptized We talked about baptism so much as if it was some it had to do with our salvation No, it's just a result of what happens in your life what you do after you've been saved You're not baptized to be saved. You're saved to be baptized Number three, so I try to behave good brother Jack. I'm a good old boy. I try to treat everybody fair. I try to do what's right Thank you. I'm trying to hurt nobody Treat people where you you want to be treated Good old boy good old boys die and go straight to devil's hell God's old boys die and go to heaven Amen, or oh me Look what these people gonna say they're gonna say many will say to him in that day Lord Lord have we that reason it says we these people are standing in the group by the time They're all grouped up. You know, why because they all believe the same way They were all on this broad road See, it's a broad road because there's it's a multi-lane interstate that leads to hell You can go to hell in this lane that lane that lane that lane You can go to hell as a drug addict an alcoholic a pervert a homosexual you go to hell There's a thief a liar a con artist. There's a lot of ways to go to hell There's a bunch of them. They all believe the same way wait, but this month they were all good folks We all what did they do? We prophesied in your name, you notice they didn't talk about what Jesus did for them They talked about what they did for Jesus You're not saved by what you do for Jesus You're saved by receiving what he did for you and then listen to me out of that relationship You'll want to live for God No wonder so many people are frustrated in the Christian life because they can't do enough I just can't do enough and they don't have peace. They don't have joy. They don't have victory They don't have contentment and it's a matter of them trying to do it for God. Oh listen to what they say and We do many wonderful works Many wonderful works. I said they're gonna do many wonderful work. Listen to me These people show up every time you got a workday at church. They're not some timers part-timers These are full-timers buddy. They're workers. They're hard work. They do many wonderful works Jesus said I never knew you They talked about what we did not what he did. Amen Before I got saved I thought well God's gonna take all the good things. I don't did When I lived one day when I die, he's gonna take all the good things I did put him on one hand. He's gonna take all the bad things. I didn't put another And hopefully the good outweigh the bad But if he catch me on a bad day and the bad outweighs the good I mean God being a loving forgiving God surely He'll kind of wink at my sin and say come on in buddy all ain't but one problem with that hand ain't in this book That ain't Bible number four is how I believe in God preacher How you know, you're gonna go to heaven when you die, sir. I believe in God. I Believe in God as much as anybody does. I believe I believe in God. I believe in the Lord as I believe in the Lord. I believe in the Lord I Believe in him, but they believe here and not here Amen And we did we show you the difference that give you an illustration. Oh boy had a tightrope back He would stretch a tightrope across the canyon and he would at the end of his act He'd push a wheelbarrow across his tightrope Always draw a big crowd to watch the nut do something like that. Listen, I don't get up on no tightrope I mean God's gonna fix up that all that fear of heights when I get raptured. Amen, but anyway But anyway hit 200 feet below he falls he dies rivers rocks. He dies he falls In his act he pushes wheelbarrow across his tightrope. We got to the other side one day He looked across the crowd more. They were all applaud He said how many of you believe I can push this wheelbarrow all the way back across this tightrope Well, he must have been a bunch of badges. They all raised their hands. They were all in one accord They said we believe you can do it Once it's no sir. What about you? Did you believe I can push this wheelbarrow all the way back across that tightrope? Yes, I believe you can do it Said really he said yeah He said what leads you to think that he said well some of you push it across you can push it back across He said you really believe it he said yeah, he's he getting a wheelbarrow Amen, talk is cheap That list to me. There's a lot of people brother Todd that believe Jesus can get them to heaven In fact that goes far as to say I believe that Jesus is the only way I can get to heaven But you know what they've been in church, but they haven't been in Christ and they hadn't come to the place The only way I'm gonna get from this side of this thing called life to the other side of that side of this thing called life Without falling falling down into the pit of hell below is if you get me there and watch this his grip won't slip He'll get you all the way home. Amen. Oh boy. I don't know if I can hold out. No, brother Jack. I Come to Jesus my son. I ain't counting on you. Hey, man, I'm counting on him who's able to keep you Mm-hmm. I Believe in God James 2 19 God's Word says thou believes that there's one God Thou doest well good It takes us who we say good for you. Amen The devil's also believe and tremble Hello Every demon in hell look right up here every demon in hell believes in God In fact, they believe in God more than some church members do They tremble Some people come to church on Sunday morning. They sit they so they sour and they split They go out the same way they come in Well, buddy, I got news for you If you knew you was going to die five minutes after you got out there on that road And you know, you're on your way to hell right now I promise you I know what you do if you had any sense in your head at all Buddy, you'd break and run right this second down this aisle My pastor that led me to Jesus buried his 36 year old daughter Just a few weeks ago an athlete. His daughter was athlete Son, I'm talking about all the way through school. This girl is pretty as a picture and whip any boy in her class Stout I'm talking about stout got it from her daddy her weightlifting daddy Just I mean hard as a rock just solid just but just pretty as a picture Picture of health what I'm trying to tell you She laid down a few weeks ago on Saturday afternoon to take a nap her four five-year-old son went in to wake her up And come back and told me mom said me mom. You better go check on mama I think she doesn't I don't think she feel good There's blood coming out of her nose and she died of an aneurysm in her sleep at 36 years old My pastor went in and found his daughter there Thank God. She knew Jesus as her Savior. I got news for you. Eternity's too long to be wrong number three They've never committed all of their hearts to Jesus Jeremiah 29 12 through 13. Look what the Word of God has to say for him Well, some of you heard more than you're living up to right now. I Know how you feel brother. I've been there done that got the shirt. I know how you feel Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 12 to 13 God says then shall you call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you and you shall Seek me and find me when you search for me with what? Said again How much all of your heart? All of your heart all of your heart You know why somebody people haven't found the Lord because they came to him over here's a kid with a half-hearted Commitment look right up here when everybody look right up here You know what you might get into a marriage with a half-hearted commitment sir, but you won't get into heaven with one I said you might get into that marriage of yours with a half-hearted commitment You might get into that with a half-hearted commitment I'll promise you one thing you won't get into heaven with a half-hearted commitment You know when I look at when we know what I say when I see Calvary I say you that Jesus gave it what Oh All to him I owe He gave his all for me. I'm gonna give my all for him Look what Jesus said in Matthew 22 37 Jesus said unto him that shall love the Lord thy God with what? All thy heart with what else all thy soul with what else all thy mind You know how much of you Jesus wants all of you therein lies the problem see through too many people today Say well, I got my own thing going on here. Oh, is that right? Well, that's real good Got to my little entrepreneurial society going on here. Got my little website going on here that I don't work for nobody Ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do I'm on boss Wow Buddy you let that carry over into your relationship with God, you know what you'll do. You'll be your own boss all the way to hell See, there's nothing wrong with being a slave As long as you got the right master. I Got a good Hey, man, mine owns cattle on a thousand hills. I'm just buck private Jack Daniels checking in for orders to King Jesus every day I'm at the bottom of the totem pole. Amen. I Ain't got nothing but Jesus and when you got Jesus you got all you need. Amen when Jesus is all you got God Jesus is all you need Whoa, so now make a tadpole hook a hound dog right there. Amen You not people I wrote this down this morning my sermon outline and my note Hey, listen Christians you invite people to come to revival, but just a few of them come Why? Because there's not but a few people who are looking who are seeking for God. Most are looking for gold There's not but a few people that are really looking for God and even a few of those that come just come to tolerate you Just to get you off their back well, but I don't care why you come as long as you leave with Jesus, amen, I Went to just get an old boy off my back. I'll be sharing my testimony tomorrow night I was facing 20 years of federal prisons a drug addict an alcoholic a thief a thug a punk a liar a con artist more things I kept carried him it to and I can promise you right now I only went well for one thing to get Jerry porch off my back But you know what I left with Jesus I Don't care why you come I could care less I Had people tell me I could come I heard a guy named Jack Daniel for you I believe I had to see him. I don't care why you come As long as you leave with Jesus, amen We went to Angola prison last weekend 200 of us Six of us on Harley's I had mine and five of my buddies had theirs We took our Harleys and we'd ride them horrors all through all through the prison man I mean we had carte blanche when we were in where we want to wide open have the ears pinned back on First time I seen a Harley in 30 years. Hey come out of them They come out of them dorms like ants out of a anthill. Hey, man. Whoa, so they want to see them Harley's Little artificial bait So working that worm, you know what I did Give them heaven. Okay. Why you come long as you leave with Jesus man? What a savior? Some of you things late right now much later you live Don't that preacher have a watch got one right here It works too, I've got another one in the bus in case this one no, but you think this is late I need to clear you up on what's late. This ain't late. Now. I know you think it's late But this ain't late. Let me give you a perfect definition of late Turn your sermon outline over, you know, what's late five seconds after you die, that's late Mmm Loved ones will weep over your silent face dear ones will clasp you in sad embrace Shadows and darkness will fill the place Five minutes after you die Faces of sorrow will not you will not see voices that cry will not reach to thee But well, where will your soul be five minutes after you die? How quickly the years of your life have flown gathering treasures you thought were your own But now you must reap the seed you have sown five minutes after you die Unable to repair the good that you lack fix to the goal of your chosen track. No room to repent. No turning back Five minutes after you die You cannot convict can you could you cannot forget the convictions that were stirred now? You can't silence the voices you heard on the fulfillment of God's Holy Word five minutes after you die Longs you reject those old gospel songs longs eternity. Oh so long now What was you for your decision was wrong five minutes after you die. Oh, what a fool. Yes, it's true Passing the saver with death in view doing a deed you can never undo five minutes after you die But thanks to the Lord Jesus Pardon is free. He paid our debt on Calvary's tree. Heaven's gates could unfold even for thee Five minutes after you die. Oh marvelous grace that would rescue thee Oh joyous moment when Jesus you would see Oh happy day when with him you would be Five minutes after you die God helped me to choose your eternal state. The choice is yours, but you dare not wait, but you must choose now Or it'll be too late Five minutes after you die. Let me ask you a question right now. We're gonna be finished When everybody look right up here, if you knew you was going to die five minutes after you walked out this Room tonight today if you knew you were gonna die five minutes after you walked out of this auditorium Now this building today During this invitation. Would you come down this aisle and get things right with God? I'm gonna tell you what I heard Charles Charles Stanley say the other day He said that very statement right where I just got through saying right there He said if you knew he's gonna die five minutes after you walked out of this building Would you come down this aisle during the invitation and get right with God? And then he said this I'll never forget it, brother He said if you would then you should if you would then you should That's preaching a revival in Opelousas, Louisiana Yet last year Young man was saved on the front porch of his house had a front porch to look almost like y'all brother Big old front porch on front porch the house. I ask you he's 18 years old I asked him I said, would you like to give you life to Jesus? He said yes, sir. I would in fact He says it's so quick. I wonder if he really meant business why I forgot who's praying with him was walking back out to the truck and I Saw a cross on the side of the road. I Said what happened there at that cross? He said that cross has a lot to do me being saved by the Jack I said, what do you mean? He said two months ago. So the man coming down this road. He said he was going so fast He said I knew he'd never make that turn sure enough. He didn't he said he hit that pine tree right there Where that crosses that killed him deader than a hammer He said I was the first one to the car He said by the time I got to the car he was already dead He said I've been thinking about death and dying a lot ever since he said today I know if that had been me I'd be I'd be in heaven That was me Next day I was out with business and one of the layman in that church and I told him about that young man getting saved on the Front porch of his house and I told him about that cross on the side of the road. This layman's name is Paul Paul said brother Jack. I knew that man got killed right there with that crosses that I said really I Said tell me about him. Listen to me But Todd every time every time I see a funeral possession I have one thought my man every time I see a body bag I have one thought my man every time I drive by graveyard. I see crosses I have one thought my man every time I see a funeral. I said one thought my man. Where's he at? Where's yet, I don't think what kind of job did he have I Don't think about how much money he had in the bank. I don't think about how his marriage was like I don't think about who his mom and his daddy was I think about one thing Where's he at? Because you can believe me when I tell you wherever he's at. He's gonna stay there So I said young man, I said tell me about it He said I was just praying and hoping he's gonna tell me that That man was saved. He said brother Jack that guy and I went to school together We were best friends in high school said man, we fought and run around we fought each other We thought other people he said you could jump on either one of us But you didn't jump on the other ones because the other be on you and he said we'd fight each other But we'd fight other other people for each other one of them kind of relationship and he said he's arrived to school He said I got saved. I trusted Christ my Savior. He said man my old buddy said he's the first one I want to go see get saved. He said I go over his house. I talked to him about the Lord He said never had time for the Lord He said he was glad for me and everything, but he said 24 hours before he hit that pine tree He said I was on my way home from work and God put him on my heart one more time to go by and see He said I went by knocked on the door. He came to the door and invited me in He said Paul come on in. He said I know why you're here He said really he said yeah As I went in he said you want me to get saved don't you You want me to become a Christian don't you Paul said I sure do He said you know what Paul I've been thinking a lot about that He said you have he said yeah, so how he said, you know what? I decided I he said Paul said what he said I decided I'm gonna become a Christian, too He's Paul said I thought he meant right thing. He said praise God man. That's good. He said let's get down right here Get this thing prayed through He said oh, no, no. No. Whoa. Whoa Paul. Hold on Not right now He said I've got some stuff in my life I need to get straightened out first You know, I've had so many people tell me that brother Todd I looked that up in the Greek and you know what that translates. I got some sins in my life. I'm not ready to give up yet When you ever have somebody tell me tell you I got some things in my life need to get straightened out Then I'm gonna get down there at the church. I'm gonna get right with God No, what they mean is I've got some sins in my life I'm not willing to give up before I give my life to Jesus. I've got some sins. I love more than I love the Savior I got some things that I'm wanting to hold on to and take a chance on going to hell far That's what that means. That's what every bit of that means He said I walked out of the house. So Discouraged at 24 hours later got a phone call He was dead. He said brother Jack ever since then it's haunted me He said if there was something he said I'd replay it and make me going by his house that last time something else I could have said Something I could have done. He said it's been haunting me. I didn't say the right thing. I said, oh, no, no No, whoa, Paul. Uh-uh, son. I Said don't you let the devil put that one on you. I Said Paul if you don't think that God did not know when God sent you by there that day It sure is not Father's Day God knew where that old boy was fixing to go and he sent you by there to give him one last chance I said Paul you did exactly what God told you to do son, and you did it when God told you to do it. I Said unfortunately, he didn't His blood is not on your hand. Well, I can tell you today is sir I've done what God told me to do balls in your court Amen, you got friends have been praying for you. They've done what they can do You love your sin more than you do the Savior Listen like I say We can't force you can't it won't force you can't force you to walk down this aisle and give your life to Jesus You're gonna have to want Jesus is your Lord your master your everything, but I've got news for you Eternity is too long to be wrong. Let's pray Father thank you for the Word of God. I Pray right now in Jesus name Lord That you send men and women boys and girls down this aisle that they come and trust Christ as their Lord their master their Savior Everything Lord help them to understand that you're a loving caring Savior you bankrupt heaven You sent your only begotten Son you have done all you could do To see to it that they would go to heaven you sent your very best You didn't send one of your many angels you sent your only son to die in their place And father I would pray that today if people have been here has been care to sit out with maybe when they were children Maybe they walk down the aisle like I did be for wrong reason or something maybe but they've never had victory They've never had peace. They've never had joy. They've never had that that assurance that they know Jesus Lord I pray today. They come and trust Jesus our Savior Lord It may be people here that are confused about what the real gospel is They think it because they've been baptized or they've been behaving good or they belonging to the church They believe in God or something like that. That's made them right with God fathers Show them that they must be born again Lord people may be here today that they've committed half of their heart, but not all their heart They've been holding on to those pit things in their life that they're not willing to surrender Lord help them to understand that there's not anything in their life worth going to hell far and that you'll never take Anything away from them except what will hurt them Father, thank you for your presence here today With his bowed and eyes closed His bowed and eyes closed If you're here this morning You say brother Jack I Realized today that eternity is too long to be wrong You might be hearing you saying, you know, the person that brought me is saved cared enough about my soul Don't want to bring me here and you say I don't know where I'd go if I was to die today But I want to get settled before it's too late With his bowed and eyes closed if that's you and you'd like to ask Christ to come into your heart Be your Lord your Savior. The Bible says if you will confess with your mouth, it's got to be your prayer, sir Can't be your mama's prayer your daddy's prayer can't be the preacher prayer. You've got to want this This is something you've got to want Jesus is your Lord your master your Savior your everything you have to pray this prayer It's got to be confessed with your mouth. If you'd like to trust Christ your Savior. You said well, I prayed that prayer before I'm very that friend. So I've had people tell me I'll pray that prayer every time you pray it by the Jack. Oh something's wrong Something's wrong you ever get saved you'll never need to pray it again You got to get Jesus out of your head and into your heart With his bowed and eyes closed So I'm ready to pray it and mean it this time by the Jack I want to give up my all to Jesus you pray this prayer then quietly to Jesus pray it after me dear Lord Jesus, I Know I'm a sinner And without you I'm lost and on my way to hell, but right now Lord Jesus I Ask you to forgive me of all of my sins And I ask you to come into my heart Be my Lord my Savior and my master You died for me on an old rugged cross Now I'll live for you the rest of my life Thank you Lord Jesus for saving my lost soul in Jesus name Heads are bowed and eyes are closed Heads are bowed and eyes are closed If you're here today, even in the band He has bowed and eyes closed you here today. You say brother Jack I just prayed that prayer now really minute I'm not ashamed of it With his bowed and eyes closed you say I prayed that prayer brother Jack if you did and you're not ashamed of it I want you to raise your hand up real high right now all over this place anybody here God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you God bless you god bless you down here. God. Bless you. God bless you sir. God bless you anybody else God bless you, sweetheart. Anybody else? I've given it all to Jesus, Brother Jack. I'm not holding back anything. I've given Him all my heart, all my soul, all my mind. He gave His all for me. Anybody else? Just raise your hand. Anybody else? God bless you. God bless you. Anybody else? If you raised your hand a minute ago, I want you to raise it up one more time. See how high you can raise it. Just raise it as high as you can raise it. Raise it up real high, real high, real high. Don't put it down. Don't put it down. Don't do it because anybody else is doing it. Don't worry about what anybody else is doing, young people. It's between you and God. If you're doing it because of somebody else, you're doing it for the wrong reason. If you mean business. If you've got your hand up, I want you to stand up. If you've got your hand up, I want you to stand up. Because God wants a whole lot more in your hand. He wants your heart. He wants your home. He wants your habits. He wants everything about you. Anybody else? Just stand to your feet. I ask Jesus into my heart today to be my Lord and my Savior. Anybody else? Stand to your feet. Anybody. Sir, if you don't stand for something, buddy, you will fall for anything. Anybody else? Anybody else? Stand to your feet. Just keep standing. If you're standing up right now, I want you to make your way right here to this altar. Right now. God bless you. Just come on right now. I want to have a word of prayer with you. Just come on down. Amen. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10. This is very scriptural. He said, if you confess me before men. He said, I will confess you before my Father which is in heaven. The group's going to lead us. I want to have a word of prayer with all of you right here. Y'all come on. Y'all come around. Y'all come. Y'all move right over in here. Y'all get too deep right in here, would you? Y'all come right over in here. Amen. Come on. Y'all come right in here. Alright? Alright. Come on in here. God bless y'all. Come on in here. Y'all look right up here at me. Brother Jack, did you mean that prayer, brother? Did you give it all to Jesus? Not hold nothing back? Huh? You gave it all to him? Alright. What about you, man? You gave it all to Jesus. What about you, man? Amen. What about you, young man? Alright? Sir? You mean it? You're not playing games with God, are you? Amen. God does business with those who mean business. God bless you, young man. How many of you say, brother Jack, I didn't know before I walked in here today where I'd go if I was to die. But I got settled today. Is that you? Raise your hand. Alright? Is that everybody? Pretty much, yeah. I want to pray for you. Father, I right now pray for each one of these. Lord, all those who did not come but know they need to. Father, I pray in Jesus' name that you would fill them with your Holy Spirit. God, anoint them, Heavenly Father, from on high with your precious Holy Spirit. Father, give them the desire for you in their lives. God, I pray that they would love you with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind. That Lord, you would fill them with your Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray right now in Jesus' name that you would just convict those who did not come forward but know they need to. Lord, convict them of their need for Jesus. Lord, we love you and we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Man, I'm glad for y'all. Praise God. Amen. Y'all, amen. Y'all have a seat over there. Alright?