CR130823/I Don't Want to Talk

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Let me take a quick fall. How many of you have never been to one of our harvest Crusade eventful for raise your hand if this is your first time while welcome so many of you. How many of you have been before regularly Obama how many of you are not sure on distant events. They listen we have a couple of great nights of course tomorrow night are big youth event. We have been from Australia call for King and country. They just set up number one hit songs in iTunes. Also, we have politely here tomorrow night. Now let me explain. We originally had need to breathe gentle but they had to cancel because the lead singer broke his nose and is getting surgery. I'm not to say anything about needing to breathe the same but he's going to be all right needs to be with us on harvest America so there we were in Saturday night.

We didn't have that band and we were able to get finally the last moment that been rockhard.

It's a great band that bring your friends out to hear and fill with them will be with us tomorrow night as well and I'm going to give a message on how you can have a second chance in life, then finally sending I a big night Thursday. One of the best Christian band on the planet Earth Thursday and then of course the duck commander himself. Phil Robertson will be the scanner tell us how to be happy.

You know, Duck Dynasty I is the number one so right now in the country beating every other program out annually when it's all said and done. It's a story of a Christian family there rednecks of the world. However, these people the whole family.

They love the Lord and I want to talk to Bill about his TV program but I also want to get that back story that everyone needs to hear the amazing story about Bill came to faith in Jesus Christ, so I pretty much abused all my time up. So good night and God bless you know okay tonight. The title of my message is I don't want to talk about it but start with a word of prayer. Now father. We had a lot of fun and a lot of worship now working to say, speak to our hearts because the words that we are going to be looking at are your words and people will respond in the right way to what were about to see their eternal interest can be change from hell to heaven. Lord I pray that will be. So I pray that many will come to believe in Jesus Christ and I so blessed. Now is your word goes out. Not return void. We ask all of this in Jesus name, amen and amen heard a story about Amanda went to Israel on vacation with his wife and kids very difficult to deal with ever nagging mother-in-law. Well, sadly, is mother-in-law died while they were in the holy land. They were trying to figure out what to do with her body and so this man went to a local mortuary and was asking about shipping her body back to the United States in the undertaker, said Moser. That will cost you $5000, but I'll tell you what we can bury her mother-in-law here in the holy land for $150. The men thought about it for a while and said no I'm of the shipper back to the United the undertaker said sir I don't understand this is the holy land. Why would you not want to bury her parents live in such a good deal and the man said will serve a long time ago a man was buried here in three days later he rose from the dead. I can't take that chance. Apologies to all of you mothers-in-law 30 are all wonderful.

You know we joke about things like that. It's because many people are very uncomfortable with the topic of death. We try to not discuss it, you know, an insurance agent who selling life insurance will say something like well if you happen to it. Why didn't I define this policy. It's not a matter of if it's only a matter of when we won't even use the word will come up with other terms will say well someone is passed on her there no longer with us and we might use the medical terminology they expire or we might not start discomfort with the topic by saying things like, well they fit the DOS are they cast in their chips are. They kick the bucket because it is a big discomfort in our culture today to talk about the reality of death.

But I want you to know in ancient times there was no way they thought about a lot.

Maybe because the death rate was higher at that time he would die at a younger age of the death rate was higher think the death rate is the same in every generation, one out of every one person will die right so but they didn't have the luxury of a long life like we might have today, so ancient merchants often wrote the words Momento Mori over their accounting books in large letters memento Mori and those words meant.

Think of death what it was. Keep things in perspective. You're not going to live forever. That's not the way it is in our culture, and someone raises a topic and will say you want to talk about that.

My mom was that way you saw little bit in this opening video view images of my beautiful mother.

She was raised in a Christian home they went to church twice a week, but she was a classical prodigal daughter and ran from God. She became a full-blown alcoholic. She was married and divorced seven times in had a lot of boyfriends in between. In fact, one of those little flings that she got along beachy conceived a child out of wedlock. His name was Greg.

That would be me. So she did not raise me in a Christian home, I lived in the opposite of a Christian home. Arlen could not have been more non-Christian then it was so this time researching at an early point in my life for the meaning of life. See and I to grow up fast and so at the ripe old age of 17 I was asking questions like what is the meaning of my life.

What's gonna happen after I die and I heard the message of the gospel like you're getting here tonight on the run. One of my high school campus in Newport Beach, California.

I heard it in a way that I understood and an opportunity was given to put my faith in Christ and I did it, to give you that same opportunity tonight. Well I wanted to reach my mom thought begin to share the gospel with her.

She said I don't want to talk about it in as the years pass on, I would bring up the subject of the meaning of life and the afterlife show is that I don't want to talk about it.

He said it over and over again. Now is the years of gone by a life it's taken its toll on my mom the hard drinking and smoking and partying her body was giving out she was having to get dialysis every week. One day I felt really impressed by the Lord to go over to her house and have a conversation about her soul. I said to my wife. I feel really led by got you to go do it. So I went over to my moms also said mom I need to talk to you. We set down at the kitchen table. I said I want to talk to you about your soul. She said I don't want to talk about it.

I said mom today were going to talk about.

I'm glad we had that conversation because it resulted in her making a recommitment to Jesus Christ.

How was I to know that one month later she would die. But I know she's in heaven tonight and I know that I'll see her again. So here's the thing I want to have that same conversation with you tonight that I had with my mom many years ago. I want to talk to you about eternity, my friend. Thanks Frank Pastorius in heaven tonight. As you know he died late last year and Frank would lead us in prayer over the many years her on Friday nights and we miss them so I know his family. Even Mrs. Kim more, but the good news is it's Frank was ready to go was ready to meet the Lord, are you one of them for your last night on planet Earth are you confident that you would go to heaven if it will. I'm a good person so I think so.

I'll address that in a few moments to listen only those who are prepared to die a really ready to live. The Bible says prepare to meet your God. I want to talk to you tonight about how to be prepared and not trying to be sensationalistic.

I'm not trying to freak you out. I'm just dealing with the reality because someone's name is going to be in that obituary column tomorrow as it will be me. How would you know that a lady posted on my Facebook page recently in told me the story of her young son Jonathan. They had a harvest America event in the Bay Area where she lives in her church and when I gave that invitation here at Angel Stadium was being given in her church as well in her boy, Jonathan Watt, forwarding, recommitted his life to Christ and of the next day he told his mom he had a headache and it got worse and he went to the doctor and by the following Wednesday. Jonathan had died and left this life for the next one. But he had made that commitment to Christ. So you see you may be old, you may be young. You never know when that moment is going to come. This is serious stuff is a new movie out about Steve Jobs. There's another one a production reminded me of a statement that Steve Jobs made it commencement the speech at Stanford University some years ago to the graduating students Steve Jobs" no one wants to die. Even people want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there and get that this the densest destination we all share.

No one is ever escaped that."

Not even Steve Jobs if anyone could've created an app to escape death, he would've come up with it. But even Steve is brilliant as he was due that Bradley Cooper is a well-known movie star starving hangover moving nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal in Silver linings playbook Bradley Cooper was also voted the sexiest man alive by people magazine. They offered it to me. I said I can.

I'm a preacher beware, although I dreamt that that's not true right but he one that title.

But even movie stars think about their own mortality. Bradley Cooper's father died two years ago and in an interview with USA Today Cooper said his father's death caused him to address his own mortality and he said in this interview and I quote all right. I'm gonna die to. He says his son in a book inside of the movie is not in the story that was told to me it's not driving by an accident or watching it on TV it someone you love dying in front of you. I was like okay this is that this is going to happen to me one day." That's right moment so more. Think of that it will come to every person. That's why we want to get ready and as we get older we need to really be ready tease me. The older I get, the faster time go when I was in elementary school. It seemed like every day lasted two months. I would just stare at the clock in my classroom wondering why it didn't move back. I remember what was written. One of my report card from my elementary school days. My teacher wrote to my mom. Greg spends too much time sitting in class staring at the window. Daydreaming the drawing cartoons that he continues this way will never amount to anything and you know I did stare out the window a lot.

I daydreamed a lot time seem to move slow but then all of a sudden life starts going faster and now I remember entire decades going by.

It's hard to believe.

I want to do a movie theater the other day and I just charge me. One senior come in what way what I mean. Listen, I am a senior but could you cart me at least 90. You're just saying your old come in. I wanted to tell me. I read an interesting thing about what time it is in your life. Sort of like on the clock. If your rate is 1510 25 in the morning in your life. If your 20. It's 1134 in the morning. If your 25 at 1242 figure 30 the time of your life is 1:51 PM if you 35 it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon. If you're forwarding its borrowing in the afternoon of your 45 it's 515 in the evening and if you're 50 at six 2555 seven 3450 or 60. The time is 8:40 PM your 65. It's 9:55 PM if you're 70. It's 11 o'clock at night.

I don't know what output you but I'm around 842 in the evening and the drag is I go to bed at 10. Okay so way. What time is it in your life right now, and no part of a generation that is older baby boomers there were the architects of the youth culture all now I'm in our bands all but who is out there thing and talk about my generation what they had to updated to talk about my medication. Ringo Starr still singing I get by with a little help from my friends, but he had updated to I get by with a little help from 10 it's frustrating these other jokes, people, the Rolling Stones are touring again. There's still singing that song time is still on my side of you look at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards lightly finding on your side wake up.

We've gone from acid rock to acid reflux.

It's been a frustrating and nothing is worse than an old person trying to look young. You know it's not good when you shop at forever 21 when your 66 okay you can go in that store, stay out of the store you get to shop at the store just a little restores away is called Golden Lane that for you go all those lotions and potions are not going to turn the clock back one moment you can eat all the tofu in the wheatgrass and holding food you want. But you live as long as you were meant to live. The Bible says is appointed unto a man once to die, and then comes the judgment. I read about a woman who lived to be 105 years old. She lives in Texas. She mothered seven children. She worked hard all of her life. The answer this secret of her longevity. Note she said okay.

I think in every day like that other vegetarians like freaking out right now the mediators are like what is gonna come within one what happens after that, according to the Bible.

The only reliable book on the afterlife. When we die we enter eternity. The Bible teaches are actually two deaths. One is the physical death. The other is spiritual. Dad, Jesus warned would appear the second death more than the first death he said that the knees are cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death. The good news if you're born once you'll die twice, but if you're born twice will die one.

Let me explain that some of you get that some of you know if you're born one chilled I taught. We need your porn physically, you're going to die physically and then again I have that second death. You'll die spiritually separated from God. But if you're born twice physically and then your warnings can by believing in Jesus, you'll only die once only physically because then you go to have that is why Jesus said you must be born again. No medical science seeks to adherence to your life. But only Christ can add life to your years and give you a life that is worth living a life that is full and meaningful. You don't need fraud, you don't need alcohol and then you are the hope of life beyond the grave as well. This is the hope of the Christian and when we die we go to heaven.

What is heaven heaven is where God dwells. The Bible describes heaven as a paradigm I sitting a country. Heaven is a real place for real people that believe in a real God. Jesus said, I have gone to prepare a place for you and really heaven. For the believer's home. I have a granddaughter and four granddaughters and one grandson.

One of my granddaughters's name Allie. She's two years old to come over to our house and playing we have lots of toys because we love the grandkids to come and play socially playing with the toys and it's a funny thing so just stop right in the middle plane had just open the door and walked out of the alley where you going Jesus, Paul, to just home. Have you ever felt that way, almost not home where you're at, has to be something more. Maybe reach a lot of goals that you sent online in your statement is going to be more than this or read deep down inside, your longing for a place you've never been to before. Deep down inside, your longing for heaven like a little boy he was flying this guy McKay was out of sight. Someone asked him where his kind was a little guy pointed up to the sky, exhibits, and you can see your Chi can you he said no but I can feel it's time you can feel the tug of heaven. Deep down inside. This is were you're meant to go some day and when we get to heaven will not only see the Lord. There will see our loved ones that have died and gone on before us, who also believed in Jesus Christ. Heaven will be a time of great reunion and will pick up when we last left off is not great and I have friends going back to my high school days. No run into him every now and then and maybe you haven't seen him for four years will pick up only last little of that time he because I one of those friends you have forever will be get to heaven will see those loved ones we missed along for will just pick right up again nor my son Christopher was a little boy turn around on my shoulders. It was a curious little guy. He pointed things, he pointed a bird need say sat them and what's that, but he couldn't say what's that he distant sat said will talk for that was his nickname talk right at the bird set lots. A car sat that another bird sat led to tree always is a little sad 3Q when they when I get to heaven. He's been there for a while now, five years I'll be blown away. I'll be looking around I'll say sat down that's a sea of glass over there that the throne of God.

Dad went to dinner soon.

Dad be patient media. This is only the hope of the Christian heaven is not the default destination of every person. So what happens after we die. Jesus gives us a behind-the-scenes look at life after the grave. In Luke chapter 16, he tells a story of two men who died on the same day.

One man was wealthy. The other man was poor. One man was famous. The other was unknown.

One was a believer. The other was a nonbeliever… Every door. It's no respecter of person and the men who believed to his name Lazarus was carried by God or carried by the angels straight into the present of God.

I find that to be a very comforting thing to know that one our loved ones leave this world that there carried by the angels in the presence of the Lord, but the other man was separated from God. So we have this hope of reunion. One day I heard the story of a Christian father who was terminally ill because his three sons to his bedside in two of them were believers and he said to them goodbye my sons I'll see you in the morning. Will the third son was not a Christian was very concerned because the father turned to him and just said goodbye and upwards in. Dad wanted to see just goodbye to me. He said to my brothers.

I'll see you in the morning to me you just said goodbye son why that son because you ever believed in Jesus Christ. I'll never see you again the voice of all that I want to see you again. The father said son you need to believe in Jesus Christ and if you do, our family will be reunited in eternity and a boy didn't believe right on the spot, and you can believe right on the spot tonight be reunited with loved ones more so that's what happens to a believer. The Bible says to be absent from the body is in the present with the Lord.

Let me tell you something else. What could happen even before death of the Lord to come back to call us altogether.

That's a promise.

The Bible has for Christians that will be caught up to meet the Lord in a moment, in the twinkling of an it happens and I would be fantastic.

What happens to the nonbeliever.

This is quite scary.

Revelation chapter 20 deals with it. Revelation 20 we read, I saw a great white throne in that senator from whose face the earth and the government fun away. There was found no place for them. You can of the nonbelievers. I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened.

Another book was opened, which is the book of life.

The dead were judged according to their works. But the things that were written the book the sea gave up the dead that were in them. Death and hell delivered up the dead that were in them and they were judged, each one according to his works, and death and hell were cast. The lake of fire. This is the second death. Anyone not found written in the book of life was cast in the lake of fire of this is an ominous see one of the most sobering and serious and tragic passages in all of Scripture, Dante, Paul known as inferno are the words quote abandon hope all who enter here that are written above the game of hell. John sees a great white throne and no judgments are going to come from it is good to be no debate over guilt or innocence.

The beer prosecutor but no defender in accuser, but no advocate will be an indictment but no defense mounted by the acute and the judgment is binding through all eternity.

There's no appealing the verdict will who will be there. The answer is everyone who is rejected God's offer of forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

The Bible says, how can we escape, we neglect so great salvation so sinners will be what's a sinner when you're looking at one and I'm looking a lot more moral center to definitions in the Bible are given of sin.

One definition of sin is to cross a lot Bible talks about trespass and sin to cross the line. Sort of like when you're in the parking if you little sign that says no trespassing. If you step over that line you crossed it so to say this to cross that line. It's to break God's commandments is to do what you know is wrong but another definition of sin is to miss the mark.

God is that a high mark for all of humanity.

It's a mark of absolute perfection. Jesus said be perfect as my father in heaven is perfect. We all fall short of that, so sinners are there will kind the sinners will there's different kinds of sin. There just out now sinners people that senator proud of it when I call them garden-variety center. It is a God. They hate shirts.

They hate Christian, the God of the way to mark God and oppose Christians whenever they can. They shake their fist at God will be there to listen to this self righteous people will be there to.

They think they're too good to face judgment of either kind and considerate and they volunteer.

Don't think they need God's forgiveness. But the Bible says it's not my words of righteousness which we have done and according to his mercy he has saved us see. So these are people that think the get together and because there could people listen. I'm not denying the fact that there are good people. I've met some people that are nonbelievers and in some ways are better people than some Christians I know about that. I mean they're nice.

Furthermore, time.

The only comfort I find as I think of the Christian that felt so nice to think how much worse it would be if they didn't believe in Jesus and others could people we know that, but the point is you're not good enough. You're not perfect you fall short. That's the problem so those self-righteous people will be there procrastinators will be there procrastinators all the people and faith never do today which you could put off until tomorrow. These are the people that say well I think what you're saying is true in one of these days. Maybe I will delete maybe one of these days I will come to faith, but they never do in the be on the same church member. People that went to church every Sunday. They may even have Bible they may occasionally pray they know all about God, but they never knew God to know that's possible you can all about God and never know.

I'm not talking you tonight about becoming a religious person you can be a very religious person and not know God at all. I want to talk to you about our relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

That's a different that's what we all need consistent with the statement of Jesus.

He says not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father in heaven. Some of sin that they Lord would we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and in your name do many miracles. Jesus says all say away from me you evildoer while they did all those good things. But it wasn't enough even religion won't save you.

So you see here.

You are the great white throne and everybody said it doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or a president or prime minister or king or queen from movie star or even a rock star Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith was interviewed by Rolling Stone of all that Tyler is 65 years old.

He hates it when journalist pointed out, he doesn't like to think about mortality. According to this article, Steven Tyler says, quote I'm in a cab to heaven and the kids again open God can I go you know what I through Beelzebub out, but listening to your song. Tyler goes on to say. I think it been lucky in this life I'll die in my sleep. Thank you Lord Jesus." Steven Tyler, I would say dream on, that I would say you gonna walk this way I'm quoting Aerosmith song, here's my point. I'm not making a judgment on him as to whether or not he believes or doesn't believe I'm just saying the only way anyone will get in the Kevin is if we put our faith in Jesus Christ, our fame will get us in our possessions will get his sin are religiosity won't get us in. You have to believe in Jesus and turn from your sin within these books are open and if your name is not written in the book are separated from God for all eternity. We hate that were maybe the only word we hate more than death is hell. Funny how people say I don't believe in hell. But yes we we punctuate our sentences with that so I can someone come up to me in a Sunday morning to go is a hell of a good sermon pastor like really think you I knew what he meant dramatic so many salmon to give him a piece of my mind Robin to give him hell or be a lot of fun. You might say we had a hell of a good time or be really mad at someone you say go to hell when we say that little believe in hell, but I don't.

People go to hell. Why whether to just say go to a place that I do not believe exists. There's a function that is seen. The reason we say go to hell. Deep down inside I think we know there's a place called hell the same reason that we use the name of Jesus Christ in our profanity. Why do you use the name of Jesus when you don't even believe in Jesus because deep down inside, even if you're a nonbeliever. I think you recognize there's power in that name at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue confess more but I know what you're thinking. You're probably saying will grade.

How can a God of love. Send someone to help, here's the answer. God doesn't send people to hell. The Last Pl., God wants any man or woman made in his image to go to is this place called hell. That is why he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross in our place and bear all of our sins, he died so we don't have to go to this place.

He put the judgment on Jesus. So it doesn't have to be on you. Jesus Christ came to pay a dead. He did not know because you owed a debt you could not pay. He doesn't want you to go to hell if you go to hell, it's only because you effectively chose to CS Lewis." There are only two kinds of people in the end those who say to God by will be done in those to whom God says in the end by will be done.

All that really held choose it without the self choice there could be no hell." The gates of hell are locked from the inside. Got want to go there if you went up there and the final day of no one to blame but yourself. You'll have to practically climb over Jesus to get there. So the last thing God wants for you would listen when they were going to stand for this judgment, and every man and every woman get to meet Jesus Christ if they believe in him or not. Unfortunately, some even they won't be ready. The Bible says when the every knee will bow, every tongue will confess, but for some it will be too late. Do it now.

God is a much better plan for you is called heaven. You can change your eternal address tonight by turning from your sin and putting your faith in Jesus Christ, to give you an opportunity to do that in just a moment heard about a man died and went to Peter met him at the pearly gates. It's okay this is hard work.

You need a thousand points.

Together they have tell me all the good things you've done, and I'll give you points for each item meant was very fine and well, I've been married to this same woman for 50 years I never cheated on her, even in my heart. Peter said that's good that's worth 3.3 point and it's a thousand yards of thousand.

That's worth three okay, I started a soup kitchen in my city and worked in the shelter for homeless people. Peter said that's good that's worth two point exasperated the man says the only way I can get into heaven if I the grace of God. Peter said you got it. That's worth a thousand points. Come on in K you all know that's not a true story right at Sr. Joe. But it makes a point it's on a point system. It's by the grace of God is not for good people have in this form forgiven people limit what you've done, God will forgive you committed a horrible sin or horrible crime. In addition, think about them and that was crucified next to Jesus. We call them the thief on the cross. There were two of them. One of them believed in Jesus and the word that is user perceived in the original language speaks about criminal about greater sort.

Even so, he probably was a murderer probably was an insurrectionist against Rome. We might call it a terrorist today a terrorist against Rome very well hanging on the cross next to Jean turned to Jesus and he said Lord, remember me when you come in your king and Jesus said, truly, truly, I say to you today you will be with me in paradise for keep that man right on the spot and he'll forgive you right on the spot if you turn from your civil hut where I do how I believe in Jesus. I don't know what that means you let me break it down for as it was broken down for me. Number one need to admit you're a sinner.

The Bible says all of the seven fallen short of the glory of God. We've all broken God's commandments. We've all fallen short of the standard if they will know I'm a good person. I've never broken commandments. Hopefully you've never taken the Lord's name in vain. You've never stolen. You've never lie course you have. We broken okay.

I broken a few maybe one. The Bible says if you offend in one point of the law are guilty of all of it. So we've all said, let's just establish that the number two recognize Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sin. Keep finding your place, he voluntarily went to the cross, Jesus said for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Earlier we showed a video of the men, the Earl who heard the gospel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earl was suicidal.

Earl was running from God. Earl wanted to die that night, but he heard that God loved him. No one is ever told that Earl can I tell you that tonight God loves you he loves you is finally done. He loves you and he loves you enough to change you these show that love to you by sending his son to die in your place. Listen nails did not hold Jesus to their cross 2000 years ago love. Love for you.

Number three you need to turn from your sin. The Bible says repent and be converted, but is that evening.

To repent means that you turn in the road of life, so you been running from God. Now it's time to run toward God is to change your mind and it's to change your ways to let go of your sin and take hold of the hand of Jesus Christ.

The Bible says God has commanded people everywhere to repent in the number four. You must receive Jesus Christ into your life.

Jesus died on the cross and rose again from the dead says.

I stand at the door of your life and I'm not an appeal cure my voice and open the door, I will see there has to be a moment when you see Jesus come in the Myla son about being religious son about good works. It's about thing Jesus come and live inside of me.

Have you done that yet. I can't do that for you. Your parents can't do that for you. There has to be a moment in your own life when US Christ to come inside. Then you need to do it publicly. That's why the moment I'm in ask you to do what over 300,000 people got done. Angel Stadium over the last 24 years, and ask you in a moment to make a public stand for Jesus by I would ask you in a moment to get up out of your seat and come down on this field behind me and stand there saying I want my sin forgiven.

I want Jesus Christ to come in my life right away ask you to come publicly because everyone Jesus calls the Gulf openly and publicly. Jesus said if you will acknowledge me before people, I will acknowledge you before my father and the angels in heaven. When he got it. If you deny me before people while denying before my father in the angels in heaven, so this is a way to publicly say I want to follow Jesus. I don't care who see I'm serious about this. And lastly, you must do it now. Don't be a procrastinator go to law, do it tomorrow night I'll do it Sunday night okay there may not be a Sunday night for you or me for that. I we talk about the end of the world. I don't know when the end of the world is but I know the end of your world to come before so don't put it off. Don't say another day. The Bible says now is the time. Today is the day of salvation. There's no good reason to keep you from coming Christ and not coming to Christ tonight. Just excuse it. Let go of those excuse when I heard that invitation to my high school campus, and I doubt my head and prayed. I was thinking this will work for me. I thought I'm not the religious type. I'm too cynical Christ change me a here talking to you tonight because I want him to change you that I want you to have the hope of heaven when you die.

That can happen if you come to Jesus in a moment to pray, to give you an opportunity to make a decision. One last thing I want to save you every one of us will make a decision to not this is a yes or no proposition. Jesus did not say admire me or think good thoughts about me. He said, follow me, and ask you to follow Christ to believe in Christ do not say yes Mr. by default say no.

Jesus said your for me or against me here with me are your opposed to me.

So what side do you want if you say no to him now. He will say no to you that if you say yes to him now. He will say yes to you, then if you say, the my life Lord now go say enter into the joy of the Lord that but if you say no to him now though sadly but firmly say the park for me. I never knew that your choice the balls in your court.

Now it's time to decide and I pray that you make the right decision to follow Jesus Christ, eternity is hanging in the balance. Let's all pray now.

Father, we perjure word is not an easy message to deliver.

But it's true.

I know you love every person here every person listening and watching and I pray for these that do not yet know you Lord that they would see their need for Jesus that your Holy Spirit would convict them convince them of their sin and that they would come to you bring them to yourself for high pray for people that have fallen away from you, but they would come back to you tonight so bring those folks. Lord, we commit them to you now in Jesus name we ask it a met a man