That's good. That's got the mark of God on it. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen, amen. If you have your Bibles, you turn me to the book of Acts chapter 16 tonight with me, please. Acts chapter number 16. Acts chapter 16. And verse number 25, God's holy word says, And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God. And the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, everyone's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison, waking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, He drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing the prisoners had fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. Then he called for a light and sprang in, came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Bless the name. Bless that high and holy name. Yes, he's worthy. He's worthy, I'm not worthy, he's worthy. Thank you. And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in the house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized, he in all his straight way. And when he brought them into his house, he set meat before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all of his house." Thank you, Holy One, for confirming your Word in my soul. Help me preach it tonight, Lord. Father, I'm just a preacher. That's all I ever wanted to be. That's all I am. That's all I'll ever be. I'm just a messenger, Lord. Just one more voice of the many that you've called down through the centuries to speak your word. Just one lone voice. Glorify thyself tonight, my holy one. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. I didn't expect this. But I'll glorify God in it. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why I'm here. That's why I live. He's the motivation of my soul. I'm not interested in anybody's church or ministry or click or fellowship. It's the name of Jesus. Blessed be that name. I want you to notice that the answer in verse number 31, they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. This belief we're talking about tonight is not a bunch is not an assent to a bunch of facts. It had nothing to do with the fact that you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and because you believe that, you're going to heaven. That's not going to get you in heaven. It's not that you believe that when you were baptized in water, that that water washed your sins away. That won't get you to heaven. It's not that you believe Theology 101, all the salient doctrines of Christology, Hamartiology, Soteriology, Theology, Pneumatology, all of theologies, all of them, all of them. You can believe everything that you're supposed to believe, as orthodox as you can be, right down the line, and still go to hell. So what's he talking about? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. If you look on our webpage, I just posted a sermon preached by a man named Cotton Mather. Cotton Mather lived from 1600, and I've got the date here, 63 until 1728. He was born February the 12th, 1663. He went on to be with the Lord February the 13th, the day after his birthday, 1728. This was a man of God. And if you'd like to get on the website and read it, I've posted it right smack in the middle with a photo, well not a photograph, but a picture of Cotton Mather. Mather, Mather, however you might want to pronounce his last name. And I thought I would use tonight, and give this man credit, a lot of the stuff that I'm going to use in this message tonight about what must I do to be saved. Let me say this to you tonight, with all sincerity that I know how, you better know you're saved. You better not play with your soul. You better not put any faith in the Baptists, or the Methodists, or the Presbyterians, or the Lutherans, or the Episcopalians, or the Roman Catholics, or any of them. Your faith had better be in the Lord Jesus Christ. Your church is not going to save you. It's going to be the Son of God and Him alone. Now there's quite a study involved in the dispensational truth and the progressive revelation that's involved from the time Christ ascended to heaven 40 days after His resurrection and the calling out of the Apostle Paul. And we've studied some of that in Sunday school and that's not an easy thing to understand. For it says in Mark chapter 16 verse 16, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. And if you read that text it's as plain as it can be that baptism is involved with salvation. But my friend when you read that and look very carefully at it you must understand that that is part of a commission that was given before the church of God was ever called and called aside and the Apostle Paul was ordained as the first man to give the revelation of the grace of God to the church. That revelation in Mark chapter number 16 I believe personally is a direct reference to the Jewish believers. I believe it is a reference to them to openly identify themselves with the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that ties in with the book of Hebrews, plainly, where it says that it's impossible to renew him again to repentance, seeing that he crucifies himself the Son of God afresh and puts him to an open shame. You will never hear a man get up and use that text in Hebrews 6 to try to get somebody right with God, because there's no hope in Hebrews 6. Once you've turned away from God, there's no coming back to Him. So, you know, how do you use that? If all scriptures, they say today, you know, they say, well, if it's in the Bible, it's for us right now. Well, then apply Hebrews 6. See what I mean? All the Bible is for us, but all the Bible may not necessarily be doctrinally for us. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished, and do all good works. Yes, sir, it is. And all Scripture is for us. And when He opened the Bible to the two on the road to Emmaus, He went from the book of Genesis and He showed them how Christ was in the Bible, the things pertaining to Himself. Yes, sir, amen. But all Scripture does not have a direct doctrinal reference to us as believers. The Apostle Paul made it plain in Ephesians 2, he said, For by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. But let me read to you what one man said about salvation. When you get on the internet, you'll find everything under the sun. If you get on the web and type in, what must I do to be saved, get ready. get ready because you are going to hear everything, you are going to hear stuff that you never imagined that could exist but it is part of what you will find on the Internet. For example, faith alone will not save a person. To attain salvation, it is a goal, to attain salvation a person must in response to God's grace fulfill the following. Here's the list. Believe in God. Put his faith in Jesus. Repent of his sins. Be baptized. Remain within the fold of the church. That's a red flag. You ought to know who I'm talking about now. Hope in God. Persevere in charity. And finally, die in a state of grace. Now this is a sincere answer from a lady here when she was questioned as to what must I do to be saved. Now how do you define a state of grace I suppose is a relevant thing left up to the individual. But the grace of God is not something you can purchase. The grace of God is not something that can be found. The grace of God is the gift of God. The grace of God comes by the Lord. But the only way the grace of God is ministered is through the power of the Holy Spirit of God based completely on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit does absolutely nothing outside of the Lord Jesus Christ. And everything that He has for us is through the Son of God. ministered by grace. And so, of course, this lady is a Roman Catholic. That's sad. They have so many of the doctrines that seem to appear to be exactly what we believe and so many things that sound like what we say when we're talking about the things that we believe. For example, they believe in the virgin birth, but they take it a step further. They believe in the immaculate conception. What's that? They believe that Mary was born without original sin. Was she born without original sin? I'm sorry. She was not. She was a daughter of Adam, like all the rest of us are. She was born under the original curse of sin. And being born under the curse of sin, she had to say that, My soul doth rejoice in God my Savior, in reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. Did Mary go to heaven? Of course she did. Why? How do you know that, preacher? For at the cross at Calvary, The Lord Jesus Christ looked down and saw the Apostle John standing there with his mother, and when he looked at her and he said something to her that is very important to understand what he meant by what he said. What did he say, Preacher? He said to the Apostle John, Behold thy mother. To his mother, Behold thy son. And what he was saying to Mary easily flies across the top of the head if you don't pay special attention to it. Here's what he was saying. He was saying, I love you, you're my mother, you brought me into this world, but you better know me as your savior. And from this day forward, your claim on me as your son is over, null and void. From this day forward, John takes you to his house, and John will be your son, and your relationship with John will be as if it was with me. From this moment on, Mary, I am your Lord God Almighty and Savior. And that's what it is, and that's the way it is. And she had to be born again like all the rest of us. John 3. The new birth has not only to do with salvation. It has not only to do with the forgiveness of sins. It has not only to do with the fact that you now have become an entirely different creature. The new birth in John 3 is absolutely necessary for you to be in that second man, last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to go into the future, into what God has laid in store for us. The new birth puts you in the Son of God, folks. This is why, Nicodemus, you must be born again. The new birth certainly includes salvation. It includes the forgiveness of sins. It includes all of these things. But it also includes the great truth that you could never enter into the future in that last Adam, second man, unless you were in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So you must be born into Him. You're born of God and born into Christ. Did you know the Bible says that the Apostle Peter says this? That you were begotten again to a lively hope by what? What does Peter say? How does he say that? I'm going to make you think tonight. You've been begotten again unto a lively hope by the? There you go, say it again. Of what? Jesus Christ from the dead. Now go home and think about that. Go home and think about that. That you have been begotten again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. See what I mean? In plainer words, when Christ arose from the dead, He arose as the last Adam. That puts you in Christ. You rise with Him. Now you look into eternity and your eternity is as surely sealed as it can possibly be. Because now you've been stamped with the Spirit of God, the mark of God. You're a son of God by the new birth. It's important to understand tonight that the issue of being born again is so important to you as an individual. There are people on here, for example, the Buddhist. I tell you what the Buddhist has to say. How's the Buddhist saved? All right, here's what the Buddhist says. Buddhism developed out of Hinduism, sixth century B.C. Buddhism, salvation is reaching nirvana. Nirvana is a transcendental, blissful, spiritual state of nothingness. You become a Buddha. To reach nirvana, you must follow the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path is right understanding, right resolve, right speech, right action, right occupation, right effort, right contemplation, right meditation. And then there's a definition given for all of these. What's missing preacher? Christ, His blood, the sacrifice at the cross, the forgiveness of your sins. They're all gone. They're not here. So can you be saved through Buddhism? I'm sorry. Salvation for a Hindu is called Moksha. And there are four ways to makshah, the way of action, the way of knowledge, the way of devotion, the royal road. And notice that every single one of these things have to do with one simple fact, and that is that it is something you do that makes you feel like you've accomplished something as you work toward your salvation. And that's good for the five senses. That's good for the fallen nature. It makes you feel good to think that you've done some good deed, you've given some charity, you've helped some soul, and these are all good things. But they do not save you. But to the unsaved man, it makes him feel like he's being saved. Because he's living good, he's living right. In his own eyes, he justifies his life. And so he does these things. And that is the snare of the devil. You're not saved by what you do. The Bible says in the book of 1 John that he that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not life. That's as simple as it can be. So if I were one who wasn't sure about my salvation, I would take what this great apostle has to say who's writing about 80 to 90 AD. here's a man who wrote the gospel of john first second and third john and revelation he wrote the last book in the bible and the apostle john in his five little short chapters in first john he talks over and over and over again about the believer keeping the commandments of the lord And by this shall you know that you have the love of God in you, if you keep my commandments. By this shall you know that you truly believe, if you keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous commandments. What the Apostle John says in that little five chapters of 1 John, so powerful. For he talks about the hatred of Satan and the love of God. And he says that to keep the commandments of the Lord are not grievous. If it is a horrible burden on you to try to live right, to try to live to please the Lord, then it's for certain you don't know him. You got a bunch of stuff in your head, but there's no life in your soul. For if there is life in your soul, it will manifest itself in the way you live. This cavalier generation today that believes in eternal security, and I do, if I believe that you're born again, then you're born again. But I also believe what the Apostle John says in 1 John. He says, they went out from us. because they were not of us. They went out from us and it may be made known they were not of us." And I can't quote it exactly, but the bottom line is he says they went out from us because they were not part of us. They didn't belong to us. The old-fashioned believers called it the perseverance of the saints. That if you're truly saved, that there's going to be something inside you that keeps you where you ought to be in serving the Lord. Now, grace can be abused, and it's abused horribly today. Because people make a profession of faith, then they live any way they please. But somebody has assured them, because they prayed a sinner's prayer, that everything is going to be okay. And I'm sorry. Well, you say, how do you know it's okay? In 1 John chapter 1, he said plainly, that our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. that we should hunger for that fellowship. We should desire that fellowship with the Father and with the Son. But an unsaved man has no desire for fellowship with God. The only thing that an unsaved man is concerned about is possibly getting fire insurance so that he won't go to hell one day when he dies. He's not worried about how he lives. He just wants to make sure he's not going to go to hell. somewhere down the road. So his life is really no different than the life of an unsaved man. But as far as, he's unsaved as any other unsaved person, but as far as fellowship and communion with God, these are meaningless things to him. So let me give you a little test tonight to see if you really are saved. Let's see if you really do know the Lord. First John lays it out for us now. He deals with sin. And he says that if you say you have no sin, His Word is not in you. If you say you have not sinned, the truth is not in you. The Word and the truth. If you don't have sin, then you can't see that you've sinned, then you have no spiritual perception. To walk in fellowship with the Lord is to walk in conscious understanding that you're not perfect, but you want communion with God. And if you walk in that understanding and that communion, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, is going to constantly cleanse you all the time, 24-7. That blood's going to cleanse you. Because God knows this. There is no sinless perfection in this flesh. It doesn't exist. The apostle said, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. Somebody said, well, a preacher, that's my flesh and it's not me. And so I live, but it's not me doing it. It's my flesh doing it. Well, let me tell you this, you're going to die the same, but the Bible says, if you live after the flesh, you'll die. That's exactly right. And the flesh has to do with the old nature that you yield to, that gets you out of communion and fellowship with the Lord, and you begin to walk in darkness, ignorance of God's will. Once you get out of the will of God, start walking in ignorance and darkness as a Christian, dear friend, then you're gonna walk toward death as a Christian. The way God keeps you from dying Come from committing the sin unto death is by having you in fellowship and communion Walking in the light as he is in the light Constantly confessing that you need the blood of Christ to cleanse you and by doing that you walk in communion with the Lord Now what I just said to you is a powerful thing say why is it powerful preacher because there's no place in there to slack off and There's nowhere in there to get saved and lay back and just float on into heaven. There's nowhere in there for you to get saved and then live any way you please. There's nowhere in that text for you to say, well, I got saved 20, 30 years ago, and you know, I mean, once saved, always saved, and I believe in eternal security, and God's not a liar, so I'm going to heaven. I may not get the rewards you get, and you know, and God may not give me the blessings that you get, and so, but I'm gonna go anyway. So what he does is justify himself by saying, well, I don't have the blessings and rewards, but I'm gonna be okay anyway. And there's no communion and fellowship, folks. If you don't have communion and fellowship with the Lord, you're going downward. The only thing that can keep you from going downward, in that spiral downward, is to walk in the light as He is in the light. And you have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses you from all sin. The cleansing is not a once and for all thing. It is a constant, everyday communion and fellowship with the Lord. Now when you were born again, your sins were washed away in the blood of Christ. That happened one time. You're only going to be born again one time. But you must have that constant application of the blood of Christ in order for you to walk in communion and fellowship. And if you don't walk in communion and fellowship with the Lord, dear friend, please listen to me, you're not going to go upward, you're going to go downward. I'm not saying you're losing your salvation, but you will certainly lose your life. If He cannot chasten you and get you back where you need to be in fellowship with the Lord. Now look around you. Look around you. Look at the church. We're about 50, 60% full tonight. Right? 50%, something like that. Maybe 60. And we're doing better than a lot of churches. A lot of churches on Sunday night, they may have 10% or 20% of the people there. And 80% of them don't even show up. What they're doing is following the spirit of this age. You have got to resist the spirit of this age with everything in you. You have got to constantly work at communion and fellowship with God in the sense that it becomes the primary purpose in your living that every day you get up that you're going to live for the Lord. You decide you're going to. You make a conscious decision that you're going to. And I'm afraid that a lot of my Baptist brethren, a lot of the Baptist preachers that I know, I'm afraid that they'd spend an awful lot of time preaching an awful lot of cheap grace. And they preach a lot to make people feel good in the situation they're in. But there's no communion and there's no fellowship with the Lord. And that's sad. That's real sad. What must I do to be saved? Well, in Acts chapter number 16, if you'll notice, The Philippian jailer was told, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Turn over here to Acts chapter number 10, and let me show you another place in the New Testament that has to do with a Gentile believer when he got saved. Acts 10, it's the house of Cornelius. Then Peter, verse 34, opened his mouth and said of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. The word which God sent to the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ, he's Lord of all, that word I say you know, which was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached. Now watch him preach. You're looking at one of the first sermons ever preached. Listen to what Peter preaches to Cornelius. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power. who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all these things, which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly, not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and the dead, to give all the prophets witness that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall have remission of sins." Verse 44, while Peter yet spake these words, what happened? While he's preaching, You say, what's happening here, preacher? Let me tell you what's happening in Acts 10. The apostle Peter is like Apollos. He knew so much. He was preaching remission of sins, Acts 2, where the Jews are going to be forgiven the died. They're going to be forgiven. The sins in the past are going to be forgiven and have been forgiven by the death of Christ on the cross for the remission of the sins that are past. When Christ died on the cross, he died for all the sins past. But he's died for the whole nation of Israel as a collective body of people. And the apostle Peter is still preaching the remission of sins. Is that wrong? Absolutely not. What did he give him here? He gave him the bare bones gospel. What's the bare bones gospel? What's the bare bones gospel? Look at it carefully. God anointed Jesus with the Holy Ghost and with power. Did he do that? We are witnesses of these things, which he did both in the land of the Jews and Jerusalem. Then God, they slew him and hung him on a tree. Then God raised up the... raised up the third day and showed him openly so what did he preach the death the burial and the resurrection of christ what more did he need to preach preacher the holy ghost let you know no more because in verse number 44 while peter yet spake These words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And if you'll notice in verse 45, the Jews, the circumcision were astonished that on the Gentiles fell the Holy Ghost. When the Holy Spirit came down upon Cornelius and his household it was God Almighty in Heaven ordaining the message of Peter. And He ordained the message of Peter when it got to the point that was far enough, that's it. He came down upon them and they were saved at that moment. How do you know they were saved? Because they received the Holy Ghost. Unsaved people don't receive the Holy Ghost. They don't receive the Holy Spirit. That's an impossibility. So turn to first Corinthians chapter 15. And verse number one. Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved If you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain. Watch this now in verse three. Watch how simple he makes it. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received. How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, and that he rose the third day according to the scriptures. That's the simple truth of the gospel. What follows is proof of the resurrection. He was seen of Cephas. He was seen of this one. He was seen of that one. That is the simple gospel. What is it? Christ died on the cross for your sins. He was buried. Then he rose again the third day from the dead, physically, visibly. We say, isn't there something else involved? Isn't there something else? Don't we need, do we need water baptism preacher? You need water baptism as a witness and testimony after you're born again. That's an ordinance of the church. You follow the Lord and believers baptism. What you're doing in the baptismal pool is saying, look, I've already accepted him. I know him. And this is my witness and testimony that as Christ was buried in baptism in the Jordan and raised again. So I am buried and I'm raised again. That's all because you're already born again. The Lord's Supper. What about the washing of feet? What about these other things that people have in the churches and all of that? Do I have to do these to be saved? No. If somebody washes feet, you'll never hear me criticize somebody washing feet. But I'm going to tell you this about foot washing. I can see how that it could easily become a show, a show, but I'm not critical of foot washing. Make no mistake about that, not at all. I remember a man telling me one time at the Primitive Baptist Church out in Maryville, he said, he said, I've heard people criticize foot washing. He said, but I'm going to tell you one thing, there's one in heaven that washed feet. So I clam up and just let it go. Amen. Some things you leave alone. Some things you leave alone. I don't plan on washing feet, but I'm not going to criticize somebody who does. But the Lord's Supper, By taking the Lord's Supper, say, does that save you, preacher? Do you receive Christ in the Lord's Supper? No, that's a witness. He said, this do until I come, this do in remembrance of me till the Lord come. The Lord's Supper is a twofold thing. I remember the past and look forward to the future. But the Lord's Supper, I do not receive the Lord Jesus Christ. How do you receive him then, preacher? How do you receive him? How are you saved? You need to answer that question tonight, dear friend. You do, you need to. Let me say this to you one more time. Some of the most horrible damage has been done, especially to the Baptist Church, by these big churches that have these soul-winning, one, two, three, believe after me, quick prayerisms, to where they say, you've prayed the sinner's prayer, you're okay now. You hear people on TV all the time saying, you pray this prayer, that makes you saved. Have you ever heard anybody say that? That makes you saved. Friend, you don't need somebody to tell you that you're saved. You don't need somebody to tell you that that makes you saved. And I doubt seriously their salvation. You say, well, what about you preacher? Will you give me assurance of my salvation? That's not my job. That's not my responsibility. That's not my burden. That's too much. That's too far above me. That belongs to one much greater than me. Much greater than me. The assurance of your salvation will come from the Lord. It won't come from a man. It'll come from God. It'll come from the Holy Spirit. It'll come from the witness of the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the changed life, the love for Jesus, the marks of a Christian. They may not be from one culture to the other exactly the same, but they're the same thing. But they may be manifested in a little different way. But if you know the Lord Jesus, you're going to love Him. You're going to love His Word. You're going to have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. You're going to have a life that's pleasing to God. You're going to want to please Him. You're going to want to keep His commandments. This is what you want to do. Not because you feel like it's necessary to get you saved, but because you are saved. You want to keep his commandments. And if you have no desire to keep his commandments, you don't love him, you don't read his words, you don't pray, there's no communion, there's no fellowship. Tell me, dear friend, what in the world are you trusting? If your salvation doesn't mean any more to you than that, some people just breeze into church You know, we've got pilgrims here too, like everybody else has. You say, what's a pilgrim? A pilgrim is one that shows up once or twice a year and makes a pilgrimage. You know, two or three times a year, certain events, what have you, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, whatever else. They make a pilgrimage, but they never darken a church door again the rest of the year. How could somebody like that think they're saved? That cheapens what you believe. It really does. That cheapens the people who are faithful in service to God. It cheapens it. For you to think that you can just float in and float out and everything is going to be fine. Maybe pay the preacher some money when you get ready to die or make a big offering or something like that. I've seen people do that a lot too. I've seen them give big offerings in a church, maybe $5,000, $10,000. an offering in a church, you know, and draw a lot of attention to them. But nothing said about that man or that woman who's a faithful tither for 30 or 40 or 50 years that tithed every single week, which was far more than any $10,000 offering. And when preachers make a big mistake by carrying on like that, if you're faithful to the Lord, you'll be faithful with your tithe. That's what you'll want to give him because you love him. You realize your life is in His hands. You realize that your eternity belongs to Him. I don't know how to emphasize it to you tonight any more than to say to you, if you are truly born again a real believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, your life is going to change. And if your life does not change, you don't know Him. And if you think tonight that because somebody's told you that you have eternal security, and I believe in it, but if somebody told you that, that that gives you a license to live any way you please, you don't know Him. You don't know Him because you cannot live any way you please. If you know the Lord, He'll chasten you once the fellowship and communion is broken. Remember 1 John now. I'm just touching on it tonight, but that is a study within itself. If you have no fellowship and no communion, then dear friend, you're going downward. You're not growing. You're going downward. And the further you go downward, the further you get away from God. And the day will come when you will be on the precipice of committing the sin unto death. and the sin unto death for a Christian is not going to hell. The sin unto death for a Christian is what happened in the 1 Corinthians chapter 5. To turn such in one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that what? The spirit may be saved. I don't want it to happen. I don't want it to happen to you. I don't want it to happen to anybody. Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. The Greek word translated believe for the most part is pistou. That word pistou simply means to put total, complete trust into, to cling to, to embrace into your life. You're not saved because of what you believe about Christ. You're saved because you have Christ. You receive Him, clutch, cling to Him, embrace Him, and love Him. But you can't do that in the flesh. That comes by the power of the Holy Spirit of God. Amen. Father, I pray tonight that you'd use what I've said, Lord. It's maybe for somebody in this house tonight, maybe for somebody on the internet, maybe for somebody who hears it later on television, radio, maybe for somebody who hears this on a DVD or a CD, possibly even years down the road. But I pray you'd use it for the glory of God, because we love you, Lord, and we bless you. And human effort will never get us to glory. It's the grace of God that'll do it. In thy sweet holy name, I pray, and for Jesus' sake, I ask it. Amen. All right, let's stand up and sing, brother. What have we got? Page 375 in your All-American. Would shed for me that light, that happiness we've come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. You know, folks, when you live a godless, reprobate, filthy life and then you come in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ and all of that just changes all of a sudden. Most of the time people like that don't doubt too much their salvation because they know good and well that there's no way they could have changed without the power of God. A lot of folks are raised in church, and they're raised in a good family, good people, clean people, moral people, born-again people, and they never really get out and do anything. They don't realize the potential's there for everybody, but they don't really get out and do anything. And I'm not telling you to do that, to go out and do something. If you're raised in a home like that, really, you ought to thank God for it. You ought to. When a person like that's born again, saved, the physical change around them may not be that great. The spiritual change is just as great and makes no difference who you are. It doesn't matter. It takes just as much for a profligate to be born again as it does for a good moral person. There's no difference. But the visible, obvious change may not be as great. A lot of those people have a problem with doubt. A problem with doubt. They have a problem with doubt. And the reason they do is because, you know, they don't see that huge moral change. The new birth is not about morality. The new birth is about your essence of who you are and God that comes into your life. And it's so necessary. It is so necessary. So absolutely necessary. You cannot save yourself. You can't keep yourself saved. It's the grace of God that bringeth salvation appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, what's it, righteously in this present world. Somehow or another, I'll quote part of it, about 80% right. Amen. Thank God. All right, we'll meet again, Lord, Wedding Wednesday night.