when I was taken to class personal evangelism under Dr. Ray Stanford I was 22 years old. I hadn't been in school for four years. I never finished high school. I finished 10th grade. And that's about as far as I went. So I'd already gotten married, had two kids. And so my memory wasn't as good. I felt like I was young. But at Bible College, most of the kids there were 17, 18, 19, 20. I was one of the youngest. I was the oldest from there with a wife and kids. And Dr. Stanford, the very first year, First exam in personal evangelism, we had to memorize over 100 verses. Then I had another class by him called First Corinthians, and I had another 100 verses I had to memorize for that class. So two classes for the final exam, I had to memorize 200 verses. That's just for Dr. Stanford's classes. That's not counting the other classes. And so he may only ask you 10 verses. But you've got to memorize a hundred because you don't know which one he's going to ask. Blew my mind. So we had to write them on cards. And so I went home and I had to get the cards. And I wrote them all out in order, starting the book of Genesis all the way through the book of Revelation. And I would take and list all of those verses. And then while I was at work running a laminating machine, I'm looking at that list and memorizing the verses. And I memorized all hundred verses in order. so that if I had to, I could quote every one of those verses. But I had a good ability to remember. Now, I can't even remember people's names. Well, I never could. And not only that, I can't remember their faces either. Somebody asked me how come I kept calling Betty when she was sitting down here, Honeywuv, Sweetiepie, and all that. They said, how come you do that? I said, because I forgot her name 10 years ago. So it's an interesting life. And so I want to show you, this is actually lecture two, because I had an introduction the first night, and then lecture one last week on the bad news. And so tonight, it's going to be on the good news. So when we're doing the wallet illustration or giving the gospel according to the seven steps that I teach, you may, you know, vary it a little bit here and there based upon what they know and what you're trying to explain. And so you just got a nice story to tell, but it's generally best to tell the bad news. before you tell the good news. Now, I usually always start off with this little question. If you could know you could have eternal life, wouldn't you like to know? See, that's actually number seven, but that's the bait to get them to listen to the other part so you can get to it. So anyway, as we're moving right along here, I'm going to have to click that right there. So this is now doctrine number five. Because you already covered, no, we're all sinners. Number one, the wages of sin is death, number two. You've got to be perfect to go to heaven, number three. Number four, well, you can't earn it. So number five, Christ died. So we're going to study number five, six, and seven tonight. But you need to know them well. Because the better you know them, with different people, there's certain parts of it that you'll use to explain it to a person. And whenever you've memorized scripture and you're quoting to them scripture, or you're using your Bible and say, now, look at this verse right here, and you show them John 3, 16, and you want them to know, are they following you? Well, you look at their eyes and look and see. Or if you're reading it and you think they're right there with you, misquote it and see if they catch it. I've done that a lot of times and find out they're not even paying attention. So you want to make sure they're doing it because it's one thing to get the gospel out. That's another thing to get it across, whether they understood what you said. And the gospel is not clear because you know what you said. It's clear when they understand what you said. So you're striving for the clarity. A lost man cannot fight for the clarity of the gospel, but you and I can. So number five, Christ made a complete payment for all sin and offers his righteousness. Now that's a good little statement, but you need to know it and believe it because you know God's word said it. and then you're gonna have to learn how to present it to the lost person. So one of the best verses that I like on explaining that one part of the verse is 2 Corinthians 5, 21. For he, God, hath made him Jesus Christ. Now really, he knew no sin, but it's worded this way, to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. In other words, God takes our sins, gives us His righteousness when we believe it. So when you believe He took your sins and died on the cross, paid for them, then you believe it and He'll give you His righteousness. Now, if God gave you His righteousness, would that be good enough to go to heaven on? So if He gave you His righteousness, that would make you as righteous as God. See, that's why when the Bible talks about being just, God is just, He has no sin. Christ says he is the just for the unjust. He was just, we're not. To be just with God means to be equal where God finds no fault in us. We have to be as righteous, as perfect as God himself. So Christ never sinned, he lived a perfect life. He took our sins upon himself, paid for them. And He gave Himself for us so that He could give us His righteousness. So God gives us His righteousness when you believe it. Now, Isaiah 53 and verse 6 says this, learn these verses, know where they are in your Bible. So being a good soul winner isn't just something, well, I've heard the gospel a thousand times. Yeah, but can you give it? Can you explain it clearly? I was talking one time at the University of Miami and I was stamping names on Bibles because that's how I got down to Florida Bible College. So I'm sitting there in the lobby and there was five Jewish boys in there. And I walked over to them and I started talking to them a little bit. And next thing you know, I says, can I ask you a question to share? I says, are y'all Jewish? I just, I don't want to be offensive, but I just want to know, are y'all Jewish? And all five of them said, yes. And I already had some idea they were. So I didn't want to offend them, but they said, yeah. I said, can I ask you a question? I says, don't answer it if you don't want to, but I just like to know, are y'all looking for the Messiah? Or do you believe the Messiah has already come? And they all said, well, he's going to come yet. Nobody believed that he has come. Because if he had, we're talking about Jesus then. I said, well, how would you recognize him? Not a one of them knew how they're going to recognize the Messiah. So I quickly went into the next statement. I says, if you don't know how you're going to recognize him, how do you know when he shows up? I says, can I show you or just tell you how to recognize your Messiah when he shows up? And they said, yeah. They were open as can be. So I went and just a few scriptures, the Old Testament and in Isaiah, I showed him how the Messiah has to be born of this and has to be born here and he has to live this way and he has to come from the tribe of Judah and he has to be of the son of David. And I went through and explained that. And this one guy, he slapped the table. He says, you're talking about Jesus Christ. I said, I didn't mention him. Yes, but you're describing Jesus Christ. And I says, well, I guess maybe I am. It wasn't all five of them trusted Christ as Savior. So there's power in the story, but I didn't get in arguments with them. I just go ahead and explain it to them and let them see if they can understand it. Get them to understand to see what you're talking about. But this verse is a very good verse to use. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Now that's a verse in the Old Testament, but this is a verse talking about Jesus Christ over 700 years before he came to the earth. And that's why he says in verse one, he says, and Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Then he's talking about this tender plant that's going to grow up, but it's Jesus Christ. And he talks about the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. God allowed Christ to take our sin upon himself, pay for it all. Now, in 1 Peter 3.18, this is another good verse. You ought to underline it in your Bible. All these verses that I show you are verses to underline in your Bible because you're going to use that as a tool. And the more you do, the more effective you're going to be, more people you're going to be able to explain it to, more it's going to understand, more it's going to trust Christ as Savior. And that's one of the greatest things you can ever live for in the whole world. There isn't anything better in your whole life that you'll ever do that's greater than winning souls to Christ. Now all this other stuff we have to do, we got to do because we got to live. But the purpose of our living is to win people to Christ. So he says, for Christ has also once suffered for sins. How many times did Christ go to the cross? time. If he paid for just some of our sins up to the time we believe, well, how are we going to pay for the ones after that if he didn't pay for those too? He ain't coming back. I'm not supposed to say word ain't. But he ain't. He's not coming back. He's not going to pay for any more sins, right? Because when he came the first time, he paid for all sin. All the sins of all the world, once and for all. And then he says this, the just for the unjust. That means he was not guilty. I was, and he died for me, to pay my sin debt. You see, I was in debt to the Lord, and the payment was eternal separation from God. So he was separated from God the Father. This is what he did, that he might, and this is so important in that verse, and that's why certain things, when you see them on your notes, underline those statements in red, underline them in your Bible, so that whenever you get a chance to, your eyes are naturally going to fall on the verse and the chapter where that's in your Bible, and it'll help you be a lot more effective. He might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, quickened by the Spirit. Christ was the just that died for the unjust so that we could live forever in heaven with the Lord. And so you want to know these scriptures that prove the point. Christ died for our sins. So it says this in 1 Peter 2, 24, who his own self, he didn't have no help, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. That's why it says in Hebrews in chapter 10, a body has thou prepared me. See, God cannot die, but God came into the world and took upon flesh so that he could die. So he had to live a perfect life and not commit a sin. Otherwise he couldn't pay for mine if he got to pay for his own. So he had a body prepared and that's why Mary was used by God to prepare a body so that he could take our sins upon his own body and then suffer death for us. He needed no help. Don't ever think or give people the idea that whatever they do, they're helping God. And I helped. No, you didn't help. Nobody's ever helped save themselves. It's a payment that Christ made and you simply are accepting that free gift. He, or we are made whole because He took our punishment. In Hebrews chapter 1 and verse 3, where it says, who being in the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person and upholding all things by the word of His power. And get this, this is a tremendous statement. When He had by Himself purged our sins. You see, nobody else paid for your sins, and that's why there's no such place as purgatory. We don't go there to get your sins purged. He hath already purged our sins by his death on the cross and is set down on the right hand of the Father. Why did he set it up? Because the work's done. The work is done. And you, the indebted in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened together. It means to be made alive. See, in the book of Ephesians 2, verse 20, it talks about we have trespassed. and we're all dead in sin, means we are separated from God. So always make sure that they understand that death is separation. It's not annihilation. It's not the end of a person. And so he hath quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. So everybody sins, Christ paid it. When a person accepts that payment, God forgives them. So you're not forgiven of your sins until you believe The message. That's why he says, go into all the world and preach the forgiveness of sins. He wasn't automatically just because he paid for everybody's sin, everybody's forgiven, everybody's going to heaven. That's universalism and it's not true. Every individual must accept that payment. That's why he says he preached forgiveness of sins. That's the part of the message that we preach to people. He then forgave you all trespasses. He can forgive us because he took our sins and paid for them. And in Titus 2.14, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity. There are no verses in the Bible that tells you you have to earn eternal life. You have to work your way to heaven. There are no verses that says that. No verses in the Bible says you have to be good to go to heaven. There's no verses that says you have to turn from your sins in order to qualify to get saved. Now, if you could turn from all your sins, maybe you wouldn't have to qualify. You'd be perfect. But what are you going to do about what the sins have already done? If you could live a perfect life for the rest of your life, try it. Would you want to try it? Would you want to depend upon going to heaven, live out a perfect life? I don't think it's going to work. So he says that through this man, in Acts 13, 38 and 39, through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin. That's why to give the gospel, a person should know that, yeah, I've done all these sins, but God will forgive you of everything. That's why you have people say, it was like a ton of bricks off of my shoulders when I saw that and I understood that. And by him, all that believe, that's all anybody has to do is believe that what Christ did, he did it for you. So keep it down to that thing. Very simple. All they have to do is believe. And you could not be justified by the law of Moses. You'll hear people say, well, you got to keep the 10 commandments and obey the golden rule. Well, most people don't even know what they are. But if you had to keep the Ten Commandments, you can't. You haven't. There's no sense planning on it. And it says in the book of James 2.10, he says, if a man keep the whole law, offending one point, He's guilty of all of them. And that's why you cannot earn your way to heaven. Christ died. So keep this in mind. The last statement on this page here, keeping the law could not save you, but Christ paid for all sin. So if you believe in him, he will forgive you and justify you from all the wrong you've ever done. So that's how you can know that you're going to heaven because you've been forgiven all sin. If you're forgiven, it means your debt's Wiped away. Been purged. You have no debt to pay. And after you trust Christ as Savior, there is no debt that can be added to you that has to be paid for because Christ paid it all 2,000 years ago. Now, here in the book of Hebrews in chapter 10, it says, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. It says, once for all. In other words, He only has to pay for our sins once. You can only get saved one time. No one has ever been saved twice. You can't get saved, then get lost, then get saved again. In other words, you can't get born into God's family, get kicked out of his family, and then get put back in his family. Once you're saved, you're always saved. Once you're a child of God, you're always His child. Once you're justified, you're always justified. Once you're sanctified, made pure and holy by the power of the word of God, when you trust Christ as Savior, then you're always sanctified because Christ cleanses you and you're good to go. Now, in your natural life, you may not live like it, you may not act like it. It is the will of God that His children live like His children. What we should do and what we have to do is two different things. It's the will of God that we all serve Him with all our hearts, but you may not. What if you don't? You're still saved by grace. God says, I'll never cast you out and never lose you. You go by what he says. Don't go using human logic and human reasoning. I just don't see how. You don't have to see how. What did he say? It doesn't make any sense for God to send his son to die on the cross and pay for all my sins and give me eternal life as a free gift, and I don't have to deserve it. That doesn't make sense. Don't have to. But you're not God. God's the one who saved us by grace, and God's the one who has mercy, and God wants us to believe Him. And it's hard for man to believe that God made it so easy, so simple, just by believing. So that's why people say, well, you've got to do something. And it's that something they're trying to do that keeps them from having eternal life and keeps them from going to heaven when they die. So he says this, one payment for all time. One offering who we have believed are made perfect forever. We are made pure and holy and set apart because of the death of Christ. Here's a good verse. In Romans, had Christ not fully paid for all sin, he could not receive justification and he would not have come back from the dead. Since the payment for sin is death, he would still be in the grave. But Christ is risen from the dead, proving God is satisfied with the payment for sin that Christ made. Now, if Christ had died but not come back from the dead, you and I would have no clue whether or not our sins were ever really paid. So that's why he came back from the dead, and that was the evidence that the sin was paid because he said, this is why I'm dying. But the proof that I did it is I came back from the dead. So that's why we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, him coming back from the dead. Who's guilty of his death? I guess we could say all of us are. But he actually made this statement too. He says, no man taketh my life from me. He says, I lay it down and I can take it up. And he also says in the book of Acts in chapter two, he says that he would be slain by wicked men, wicked people that were going to do this. Later on, Cypher says, the Jews killed him, and yet I know that he died for me, so I guess I'm guilty. I guess everybody's guilty because he died for all of us. You say, well, I didn't ask him to do this for me. Yeah, but aren't you glad he did? But he did. And all he wanted to do for us was to, he made a way for us to be brought to God. There was no other way for us to come to the Lord. So he laid down his life. So why did Christ come to the earth? To live or to die. For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to give his life a ransom for many. Because not everybody is going to accept it, but many people will. And many also means all. When it says all born into the world were all sinners, that's many. You read chapter five of the book of Romans and you'll find out that the word many and all, all were made sinners. All were made righteous. Because when you're born into this world, we're all made sinners. When we're born into God's family, we're all made righteous. And that says many are made righteous. Because not everybody in the world are going to trust Christ as their Savior. So what do we lack? We lack righteousness. God is anxiously waiting to give us His righteousness. God gives His righteousness to whosoever accepts Christ's payment. So that's why we accept the payment that God made on the cross for us. And He gives His righteousness the moment you believe. If I trust Christ as my Savior today, when does God save me? When I die? Now. When does He give me eternal life? Now, when does he give me his righteousness? Now, when you believe it, you have it and you're going to heaven. And that's how you can know you're going to heaven because if it doesn't give it to you now and you had to wait till you die to find out, well, It might be a little late, and this is what blows people's minds who believe they have to earn their way to heaven or persevere in the faith and live a certain way, because then you have to wait until you find out, did you qualify it? Did you make it? I have known already for 65 years of my life I'm going to heaven when I die. And it's not because I've been good, it's because God is good. He paid for my sins. Now presenting that is not too hard, because since this is the heart of the gospel, you should carefully go over the verses teaching Christ paid for all sin, but you're not going to remember everything. That's why studying is a weariness of the flesh. And many people want to be used. They want to have power of God in their life. What God uses is word. And when you don't know his word, you don't have any power. It's the power of the gospel, and you need to know what it says and how to defend yourself. Not just say something. They say, well, where does it say that? Prove it. Where does it say that in the Bible? Can you show them verses in the Bible? It's one thing to know Ephesians 2, 8, 9, but some people can't find Ephesians 2, 8, 9. They can come to church and watch all this every Sunday, what we believe. but probably can't find it in the Bible, or remember it. Can they quote them all without looking at the screen? That would be interesting. You all did that one day. You said, I'm sorry, we're just going to quote it today. If the person does not accept the teaching of scripture at first, go over it again. Not everybody can see it. and understand it the first time. Some people do, some people don't, but be interested in the person. You want to win the soul to Christ because that's why it's so important. Doctrine number six, all you have to do is what? If Christ died, what does he want us to do by what he did? Believe it. So this is why all man must do to be saved is to believe Jesus was the Lord who paid for his sins. You've heard me make a statement like this. You can't know you're going there, heaven, until you know you can't go there, hell. And that's the truth. You can't know you're going there until you know you can't go there. How come I can't go to hell? I don't have any sins to pay for. Why? Christ paid for my sin. You see how important that is? Why can God forgive me? Because he paid my sin debt. And he can forgive me because it's paid. All he wanted me to do is accept it. So that's why it's such a simple thing. Now, in John 3, 16, a verse that most people say, this is my favorite verse in the Bible. Quote it. Most of them can't. What does it mean? And they don't even believe what it says. God so loved the world, that's you and me. Now, a Calvinist will tell you, world doesn't mean world. And believe doesn't mean believe. And having eternal life doesn't mean that. And it gets ridiculous. Show them what the Bible does say. Always keep the talk between you and the Bible. It's not about, you know, what you think. It's about what God's Word says. Keep it between that person and the Lord. God's Word. Correct on that. Anyway, whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Notice that it is not to those who try to work and earn their eternal life, but to those who believe. That's what God's Word says. I had a person who today called me on the phone, all the way from Ireland, and I had to explain John 3, 16 to her. And I explained it to her, and she's as excited as can be. I thought, that is so neat. And I've, I got right now, people that are contacting me from all over the United States. It's the same like from every state. But anyway, he says here in John 6, 47, I've used this verse an awful lot. This is all that a person has to do, but they should know this is what you do after you've heard the gospel. Verily, verily, or truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, and I have that word in red, hath, because that means present tense, means possessed right now, hath what? Everlasting life. If you believe it now, you have it now. And then in verse 12 of chapter 1 of John, but as many as received him, To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." Salvation is always receiving. Now, some people say, well, you shouldn't use the word, you know, accept Christ. I don't see anything wrong with accepting Christ. If he offers you the free gift of eternal life and you accept it, what's the problem? No problem with that. And if God is eternal life, he is eternal life, he offers us the free gift of eternal life, it's himself. This is the true God and the eternal life. So you can't have eternal life without Christ. He that hath the Son hath what? Life. And he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. So when you accept Christ, you have life. And God offers us the free gift. All we have to do is accept it. So there's nothing wrong in using accept, or to receive, or to believe. It all means the same thing, or to trust. I had a person tell me one time, the Bible doesn't say you got to trust. I said, get off of it. Read Ephesians in chapter one and you'll find the word anyway, but we're moving right along. So we want to have the clarity of the gospel and simple enough a person can understand it. In John 6, 28 and 29, because the question comes up, what is the work of God? What does he want us to do? They asked Jesus that. They said unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God, that you keep the Ten Commandments and go obey the golden rule and give all your money. Is that what he said? No, he said, that you believe on him whom he hath sent." God did the work. God only asked of us that we believe on Christ. Philippians 3.9. I'll never forget when I saw Ray Sanford explain Romans, Philippians 3.9 for the first time. He took a piece of paper. He says, now, let this represent you and me. And this is our goodness. This is all of our righteousness. And he spit on it. Then he took that and he wiped it under his arm. I'm sitting out there watching, I've never seen him do that before. And then he put a pen and blew his nose on it. Then he threw it down on the floor and stomped on it. Then he picked it up and he says, now this is your righteousness. Your righteousness is as filthy rags. He says, then he'd opened up his Bible and it says, and be found in him. Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness, which is of God by faith. And he puts you in there and closes the Bible. He said that when God looks for you, he can't find you because you are hid in Christ. And that's mentioned in the book of Colossians in chapter three. So you can use that illustration, but I used to use it with kids and I don't think I'm going to do it in church though. With the teenagers, I mean, I did it all the time. I did all kinds of stuff. But you're trying to make it understandable for the kids. And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is to the faith of Christ, a righteousness which is a God by faith. Now, when did I memorize that verse? 65 years ago. No, 61 years ago. But I still remember the verse. And I still remember learning Ephesians 2, 8, and 9, and 1 John 5, 13. But there had to come a time in my life when I had to stop and memorize scripture. And it was work. It was work because I was working, going to college, and I had a wife and two kids, and I worked about eight to 10 hours every day. I never saw my kids or my wife except on the weekend, because I was always working. I worked a night shift. Then I was in college all day long, but I never fell asleep in class. And I averaged the first two years, I averaged two and a half hours of sleep a night for the first two years. But I never fell asleep. I always made it to class. Except one day, I didn't make it. I came home from college, and I called in the house, and I said, honey, I'm so tired. I said, I just got to lay down for a little bit. So I laid down. And I said, now wake me up, because I got to leave in about 45 minutes to go to work. I'm getting up to go give a man a full day's work, and I'm half dead. And so she woke me up, and I didn't want to get up. I said, honey, I can't go. She says, you've got to. She just had this nasty habit of wanting to eat. So I went out and got in the car. She started the car. I backed it up, went down there to the stop sign, and I head on down that way. She'd never done it before, but she just happened to walk down to the end of the block, and she looked down there, and there sat my car in the middle of the highway, about a half mile down the road. She got up down there, she went down there, and there was Yankee sound asleep in the middle of the highway. That was the only day that I couldn't make it. But outside all of that, I did. I paid a price for my studies. It cost me to go to Bible college. I wasn't having somebody pay my bill for me. All I know is that I can't go back because there's nothing to go back to. And my future will be like my past unless I make a change. I had to make myself memorize scripture, learn the word of God, listen to the teachers. And I got to where I took very few notes. Because I was right there and I listened to the teachers they teach. And I'm pretending in my mind, I got to teach this. When he gets through, I got to teach this. And I listened to everything like, I got to teach this lesson. And I memorized their messages. I could tell you all of Dr. Stanford's stories, his jokes, illustrations. I could sit there in chapel and in his classes. And then later on, on the road, I could tell you what he's going to preach next, what scripture he was going to go to next. I knew his mind. But I'd studied the philosophy of why he did what he did. But it changed my life because I knew I wanted to be, if I'm going to be a soul winner, I want to be one of the best that I could be. Not in comparison to anybody else, but just what can I be? What can I do? So I forced myself to learn it. If I keep teaching this material that I'm teaching you now that I learned 60 something years ago, it just might help me to stay clear today. So as I get older and older and older, nothing changes. The Word of God never changes. And all this stuff is true, and it's very important. So here is a verse, you're saved by grace, are you saved through faith, not of yourselves, the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. So the Bible says this. Galatians. But the scripture has concluded all understand that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Get this. That verse is in the Bible. And it's just like that. For you're the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. You become a child of God through your faith. Romans chapter 5 verse 1. Because if you don't get this, you're going to be making exceptions for people, and well, you don't have to really do that. It might help a little bit. Yeah, going to church is awesome. That's okay. And they begin to trust in some of their changes in their life and their good work. No, you've got to be steadfast on this. No works, no works of any kind can you trust in, only through Christ. So therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And God sees Christ's righteousness instead of my sin. So you learn how to present that because now you know the truth. Since the greatest majority of those you meet are trying somehow to work their way to heaven, because most people are, it will follow that they are not trusting Christ alone for their salvation. It's important to remember as you deal with them that they probably have never really understood the gospel. Most churches that are Christian in name do not make the plan of salvation clear. Some do not even know what the plan of salvation is. What was God's idea of how to bring a man to God? And it's a story. It's the gospel story. And we should love the one to tell that story. But many people have gone to Sunday schools, they've heard a little bit of everything, and they hear about all the religion, and they know that they can't live up to it. So they just reject religion. And so you want to let them know that you're not so much as a religious person. You're not trying to get them into some religion. You just want to explain the gospel to them. Most of them just do not know the truth. So this is why you want to explain the truth, make it simple, make it clear. And whenever you can, you compliment. Compliment all the time. Always use a sandwich technique. If you have to say something, you don't compliment, and then you compliment. It's a sandwich technique. It works pretty good. But the issue is always going to be grace versus works. You're either saved by grace or it's by works. It's never be both, because works means not grace, and grace means not works. They're not compatible. If you had to earn your way to heaven, then God can't save you by grace. It can't be a gift if you have to earn it. So that's why you want to learn the verses and keep that separate. Now, doctrine number seven is where we're headed, because this is what you want them to know. Man can know he has eternal life, because eternal life is eternal. for the wages of sin and death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. It's not through the church, not through keeping the Ten Commandments. The gift is eternal life, not life to your sin again, and it's not life to your backslide. If God walked in here right now and gave you the free gift of eternal life, it is eternal life, and how long would it last? Forever. And this is what you have to hone in on and drill it into their mind and get them to see this. It's not temporary life. And take the time to get them to see that if you believe, this is what you got. I told a person on the phone the other day, I said, simple. He didn't believe it for me. Half everlasting life. I said, how do you know when you really believe or when you can say you have eternal life? If you can't say you have eternal life, it's because you don't believe it. But if you believe you got eternal life. I said, you got it. Because if you believe it, you're supposed to have eternal life. When you're supposed to have it? Oh, when you believe it. That's why he says, these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. You may know you have it. When? When you believe it. So that's why eternal security and having eternal life is part of the gospel. It's the bait that gets them in there because I want to live forever. And this is why he says it is so very important. So God's gift is salvation, not probation. God's gift is eternal life, not temporary life. And verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth in me hath everlasting life. Everlasting life means you have it now and it lasts forever. You do not wait until you die to receive everlasting life. My everlasting life started the day I trusted Christ as my Savior. And that, to me, was a pretty good thing. And that's why I know that I have eternal life and know that I'm going to heaven whenever I die. Now, when God promises you can know you have eternal life, can you count on it? Because God cannot lie. In hope, a joyful anticipation of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world. Now, see, that verse, you ought to have it marked in your Bible. Why? You may need that. See, the more tools you got and know how to use them, These verses in the Bible, they're tools. They're things that helps you to accomplish a job, to help a blind man see. And it's the light of the gospel that God uses to shine to the lost man. And so when you use the word of God, you explain that and make the gospel clear to the person. Look up here just a moment before we get out of here. I think it's important that you see this because This hand right here representing you and me, and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. This is the seven steps that I've already given you. Number one. God loves us, but he hates our sin and we're all sinners. Number two, the wages of sin is death. That means eternal separation from God. That's number two in the story. Number three is you have to be perfect, but nobody's perfect. Number four is that you can't earn eternal life. You can't work your way to heaven. God doesn't accept our good works. So number five, Christ died. So Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, came into the world because he loved us, hates our sin, because our sin separates us from him. So Jesus Christ, who had no sin, took our sin. He who knew no sin became sin for us. that we, by faith in him, might have the righteousness of God put to our account. And we get to go to heaven on what he did. So can you know you're going to heaven before you die? If you accept it now, what does he give you now? Eternal life. And that's why he says these things, number seven, can know you're going to heaven. that you can know you have eternal life. This is written to those who believe. So if you'll believe it. So one of the greatest things you'll ever do in your whole life is to explain this to somebody else where they can know they're going to heaven because you told them, don't depend upon the preacher to be the soul winner. We're supposed to teach the people how to do the work of the ministry. And that's the ministry. And we're to teach you how to do it. And we're doing our dead-level best to do just that. Study the verses. Always strive to get 100. Let's pray, shall we? With heads bowed, eyes closed, and no one looking around, if you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, why not right now, in the quietness of this moment? If you've never done it before, why not trust the Lord right now? And God will give you, right now, the free gift of eternal life. Now, He has it available for you, but He doesn't force it upon you. It's your choice. Will you accept what he did for you? And if you'll believe it, then God said he saves you from hell, gives you eternal life the moment you believe it. And you can walk out of here saying, I know I'm going to heaven. Or if you're watching online, make sure you've trusted Christ as your savior and you have the free gift of eternal life. It's the best news you'll ever hear. have a know about, something to know, and something to do. Greatest thing you can give somebody else is the knowledge on how to go to heaven. So if you're here tonight and you've never trusted Christ as your savior, with heads bowed, eyes closed, is there anyone else? Say, yes, that made sense to me, and I will trust Christ right now as my savior. Would you let me know just by slipping your hand up very quickly, put it right back down. If you've already trusted Christ as savior, remember, you have eternal life. You're God's child. You're going to heaven when you die. Many people don't know that. share the gospel. Father, we thank you so much for this time together. Bless each one for being here, and we pray, Lord, your will to be done. And we pray, Lord, your blessings upon the rest of the classes that we'll be teaching. In Christ's name, amen.