There Ought Not To Be Silence On Our Lips

This message has to do with the Son of God, this pre-existent, eternal Son of the Living God. That's what this is all about. It's not about God suggesting quick fixes for marriage. You know a lot of religion. Come over to our church and we've got some module that is going on right now about how to fix this and fix that and get your finances right. Listen, the heart and soul... I'm not saying that if you get saved, those things don't get set right. But if we've got a gospel, if we've got good news, it's not that I've got the way to make your financial problems go away, which is what a lot of people want to say today. Folks, we've got a message that concerns Jesus Christ and how a man can deal with their sins and how a man can escape the wrath of God and get to glory because of who Christ is and what He did. That's good news. And if our message is not clear, if it's foggy, if it's not dealing with that, then we're not preaching this very gospel message that Paul preached. So, folks, we live in a world where people believe that they believe all sorts of things. And we need to be clear. And notice, we need to be clear. Romans 1.15, you drop down a little bit. Next thing Paul says here, I'm eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. The gospel's got to be preached. That's another thing he says here. Nobody believes in a Christ that they have not heard in. And I just ask you this, who's going to tell them? I mean, think with me. The only message that truly offers men and women hope, it doesn't matter what you are, Greek, barbarian, wise, you're foolish, you're Jew, you're Gentile, you're British, you're Chinese. You know what? There is simply no other hope. Do you recognize eternal hell, eternal fire, eternal torment? What's the only hope of escape? Faith in Christ. We've got that message. There's no other hope. And brethren, we can't just sit at home or on our rear ends or hide away in our little church building. We've got to get out there in the midst of this people and proclaim the gospel of God which concerns this eternal Son of God. And the thing is, brethren, we know there's all sorts of different messages out there. You've got people that claim to be Christian, but they're preaching something else. And you've got a lot of people that don't even claim to be Christians, and they've got all sorts of manner in which they're wanting to give hope to men. There's always, look, all advertising. Everybody's coming along and saying, eat that food and buy that car and do this thing, go on holiday over here. You'll be satisfied. You'll be happy then. People, that's all around us. We're being flooded by this. We live in a world. There's just many, many ways to safety, many ways to pleasure, many ways to satisfaction. We have people preaching many ways to God. There's no lack of that. There's no lack of people out there that have some sort of good news supposedly. No shortage of ideas. No shortage of theories. Listen, that's exactly the kind of social setting that we all live in. We recognize that. Oh brethren, we have that one message that deals with men and women, right? Where their greatest need is. I mean, look, the greatest realities in the world, what are they? They are God. They are death. Life. Christ. The cross. Hell. Eternity. Judgment day. Faith. Sin. I mean, these things have to do with every one of us. And there aren't a lot of ways to deal with sins. There aren't numerous ways to God. I mean, Jesus is not one among many gods. There's salvation in no one else. Isn't that what Scripture tells us? There's no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. There is one way and there's only one way. And we've got to proclaim it. We've got to preach it. And look, it's the only way that people are going to come to a place of salvation. Brethren, there ought not to be silence from our lips.