SPEAKER_00: Well, we're talking about heaven and hell, and this is the last lesson on heaven and hell, so I will be closing it in.
SPEAKER_00: And we find that uh, of course, Brother Shepherd spoke uh on the first week, and he spoke on eternity is real and what we believe matters.
SPEAKER_00: And then Pastor followed him on the second week with speaking about heaven and how it is real and the things about heaven.
SPEAKER_00: And then Pastor came in behind on the third week and spoke about hell and uh and the diff and the issues with hell.
SPEAKER_00: And then today I'm going to speak with you about sharing the gospel through the conversation of eternity.
SPEAKER_00: And that's that is one that if you don't use it, you are missing out on a great tool.
SPEAKER_00: And we will talk about that today.
SPEAKER_00: We find that in 2 Peter 3 and 9, it tells us that the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
SPEAKER_00: So if God wants everyone that has been born from Adam and Eve until our time today, to come to repentance, and it is his heartbeat, and since we are his body and we love him and he loves us and he has saved us and we're walking and we are part of the church, our heartbeat should be his heartbeat, and so that we should be the same vein, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
SPEAKER_00: And so we will look at this scripture, and as we walk through this lesson today, we're going to talk about this over and over.
SPEAKER_00: How do we have this conversation with people in the world today?
SPEAKER_00: Our co-workers, our friends, our loved ones.
SPEAKER_00: How do we have this conversation and do it right?
SPEAKER_00: That's the thing.
SPEAKER_00: You can have a conversation, but do you do it right?
SPEAKER_00: And how do we plant?
SPEAKER_00: Remember this some plant, some water, God gives the increase.
SPEAKER_00: So we'll talk about that.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go to God in prayer right quick, just over this morning's lesson.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we love you.
SPEAKER_00: We're so grateful to you for everything that you do.
SPEAKER_00: We're so grateful that we are a part of the church, that we live in the time that we live in, that we are part of your church.
SPEAKER_00: We have been baptized in Jesus' name, filled with your spirit, and we have your word bound for us.
SPEAKER_00: All that you want us to know, we have it bound, and we can draw from it and glean from it and grow in you.
SPEAKER_00: Ask you to touch everyone this morning that's in the sound as we listen and as we talk through this lesson, and anyone that logs on and watches it and listens to it at a later time, bless them also.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus, we pray.
SPEAKER_00: Alright, as we go to the second slide, we want to talk about why do we have this conversation?
SPEAKER_00: How can we use this conversation of heaven and hell to the benefit of winning someone?
SPEAKER_00: How do we open that door?
SPEAKER_00: And so the question is the statement is why eternity opens the door for the gospel?
SPEAKER_00: And we have to be ready.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's our calling.
SPEAKER_00: So I say this a lot.
SPEAKER_00: We are the adults in the room now, right?
SPEAKER_00: We are the people that give the Bible studies.
SPEAKER_00: We are the ones that are to win the souls, we are the ones going to a job or meeting people at the grocery store.
SPEAKER_00: We are the adults.
SPEAKER_00: And God has called us as adults to win the loss.
SPEAKER_00: And so, as the church, we're supposed to be ready at any moment to give an account of our calling and what we're doing.
SPEAKER_00: So we we want to be ready.
SPEAKER_00: And one of these is this topic here.
SPEAKER_00: And we find that people may avoid the topic of religion.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you have a lot of people that we work at, and in my job, you can't really bring it up.
SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of rules and regulations about what you can say and what you can't say and how far you can go in your conversations, but we still have our moments of us that are Christians, and we have our moments where we'll meet in an office when nobody's around and we'll pray.
SPEAKER_00: And we'll pray for the people around us and we'll do that.
SPEAKER_00: We'll we're not ashamed.
SPEAKER_00: If somebody walks through the door, they'll see us praying.
SPEAKER_00: But we are limited on our conversation, and in this, we find a lot of people don't talk about religion.
SPEAKER_00: But you bring up the topic of eternity or the end time or any of that, people are all over it.
SPEAKER_00: So we're missing a great opportunity to talk about.
SPEAKER_00: So, where are you going?
SPEAKER_00: If you're so interested in eternity, where are you going?
SPEAKER_00: And we find that all these questions about heaven and hell and death and and what is my purpose in life and the afterlife, they're all universal.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what doctrine, it doesn't matter what what uh uh denomination, it doesn't matter if you're Muslim or if you're Christian, it doesn't matter if you're Jew.
SPEAKER_00: All of us know about the afterlife, and we are all pondering and wondering about it, and a lot of people are just have no clue about what happens after that.
SPEAKER_00: So it creates this national, natural opening for a spiritual conversation.
SPEAKER_00: And so as we go into this, we'll look at just a couple of scriptures about this.
SPEAKER_00: Why are we all inside of every one of us?
SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter whether it's here in San Antonio or it's in Jerusalem or it's in some other nation or some other city.
SPEAKER_00: There is everybody is talking and thinking to themselves about eternity.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Well, God's put it in us.
SPEAKER_00: We're made in his image.
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter where you live or your nationality, you are made in the image of God, and God has put it into everyone to know him and to wonder about his and spending the life with him.
SPEAKER_00: And we find in Ecclesiastes, the psalmist wrote, uh, not the psalmist, sorry, Solomon wrote, he has made everything beautiful in its time, and this is speaking about God.
SPEAKER_00: Also, he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
SPEAKER_00: And we know that we want to make sure if we pull one scripture out, we're looking at context.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 2 says, a time to be born and a time to die.
SPEAKER_00: And if you follow down the poem that is written all the way down to verse 8, you're going to find that it is about a person being born and walking through seasons in life and growing from a child to maturity.
SPEAKER_00: And then you come to this scripture here that God has put into everybody to know about eternity.
SPEAKER_00: So as we all mature and as we all age and as we all grow, what do we realize?
SPEAKER_00: This body gets old, this body hurts.
SPEAKER_00: I don't like going to work.
SPEAKER_00: You know, we find these things and we start thinking about what happens to me.
SPEAKER_00: And then unfortunately, we have loved ones that die.
SPEAKER_00: We know people that pass on, and so there's that thought, and so just naturally, because of life, God has put it into us to start thinking about what happens when I die.
SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful thing, and actually, the opening of the scripture says he has made everything beautiful in its time, and he's talking about the overall time period of life.
SPEAKER_00: God has made things in your life that you remember back and you look at and you're like, man, that's great times.
SPEAKER_00: Those are wonderful times, and services you remember, and the being in the spirit and just weeping and crying and prayer and raising your hands and worshiping and God performing miracles and all these different things through your life.
SPEAKER_00: There's good and there's bad, but then you find as you get closer to the end, if you have a walk with God, it's a beautiful life.
SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful life.
SPEAKER_00: And we find as I don't have it on the scripture, but we drop down to verse 14 and 15.
SPEAKER_00: It says, I know that whatever God does, remember this is Solomon, it shall be forever.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing can be added to it, and nothing can take from it.
SPEAKER_00: God does it that men should fear before Him.
SPEAKER_00: That which is done is already done, and what is to be is already done.
SPEAKER_00: And God requires of an account of what is past.
SPEAKER_00: So we find the Solomon says, okay, at the end of your life, you will have an account of what is past.
SPEAKER_00: And on the next slide, we find that the Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews, gives us that same concept.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 27, it says, and as it is applied to men to die once, this is the writer of Hebrews, but after this the judgment.
SPEAKER_00: Chapter 9, 27 through 28.
SPEAKER_00: So now we have the writer of Hebrews give us an idea that we're all going to die, and there's going to be a judgment.
SPEAKER_00: But for us as Christians, he didn't just leave it there.
SPEAKER_00: Us that are part of the church, he gave us hope.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 28, he says, So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.
SPEAKER_00: And look at this to those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation.
SPEAKER_00: So we as the church, we that have come to the knowledge and the understanding of Jesus Christ, and we who have repented and come to belief and we have repented and have gone down in Jesus' name and baptism, and we have been filled with that His Spirit and speak that heavenly language.
SPEAKER_00: We are apart from sin now.
SPEAKER_00: And as we go through this life, scripture after scripture tells us, and all of us know this.
SPEAKER_00: What are we waiting for?
SPEAKER_00: Take me home, God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready to go home, God.
SPEAKER_00: This body hurts.
SPEAKER_00: There's days I've I've told you, I've mentioned this a lot of times.
SPEAKER_00: There's days I'm sitting in traffic going, now would be a good time.
SPEAKER_00: I just, you can leave the car right here.
SPEAKER_00: If you tell me ahead of time, I'll put it in park.
SPEAKER_00: But if not, you got it.
SPEAKER_00: They can have my car.
SPEAKER_00: I'm out.
SPEAKER_00: Take me home, God.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have this hope in us.
SPEAKER_00: We, the church, we have this hope in us that He saved our soul.
SPEAKER_00: We followed His plan of salvation.
SPEAKER_00: That's why it's so beautiful for us to live in the time we live in, in this day and age that we live in, in the church post-Christ death, burial, and resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: He's our high priest.
SPEAKER_00: He's sitting there, and we are priests of our own temple, us.
SPEAKER_00: We control our own destiny.
SPEAKER_00: We control where we go or we don't go.
SPEAKER_00: And it's a beautiful thing that we have that option.
SPEAKER_00: Now, if we go into why eternity opens the doors for the gospel in slide four, we find that the reason for all of this is what?
SPEAKER_00: God's heart is to save people.
SPEAKER_00: That's his heartbeat.
SPEAKER_00: From Adam and Eve to the time we live right now, there's not been one single person born that God did not want them to spend eternity with him.
SPEAKER_00: Not one person.
SPEAKER_00: And no matter how evil they are, I mean, we can call names.
SPEAKER_00: All of us know people, let's just throw one out there, Adolf Hitler.
SPEAKER_00: Glad we don't live when people live to be 900 years old.
SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine that man running around for 800 years?
SPEAKER_00: But we live in a time where God says, I want everybody, everybody, everybody to come to repentance and everybody to spend eternity with me.
SPEAKER_00: God is doing this.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: He created us.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: So we could spend eternity with him.
SPEAKER_00: And because we know this knowledge and we know this truth, we are to take this same heartbeat, same drive, same love, same need God has for everybody to spend eternity with him and reach the lost.
SPEAKER_00: And to talk to someone.
SPEAKER_00: And all of us are sitting here right now, and I'm telling you, I got a list of people that I should have talked to.
SPEAKER_00: I should have been bolder.
SPEAKER_00: We all have somebody that we wish we had talked to, but that's because God has drawn us, going, you need to keep talking.
SPEAKER_00: You need to keep talking.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Peter 3 and 9, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering towards us.
SPEAKER_00: Not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
SPEAKER_00: And then John 3.16, that great, great scripture.
SPEAKER_00: This is after John speak uh after Jesus speaks to Nicodemus, and this is after the cross and after the death, burial, and resurrection, and you know it is because of the way it is written, it is written in past tense.
SPEAKER_00: So John is writing here of how God loved the world so much that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish.
SPEAKER_00: You can believe in him and still perish, but should not perish, but have what?
SPEAKER_00: Everlasting life.
SPEAKER_00: What a wonderful thought.
SPEAKER_00: So let's briefly look back on the lessons of heaven and hell.
SPEAKER_00: I want to touch on both of them just to remind us and spur us here a little bit to bring us back to thinking and make us some of us did not make every lesson.
SPEAKER_00: If you did not make the lesson, if you don't know, you should know.
SPEAKER_00: But if you do not know, on YouTube, type in Calvary S A T X dot com and you'll pull up the Calvary website.
SPEAKER_00: And everything's on YouTube.
SPEAKER_00: Every lesson, every sermon for several months.
SPEAKER_00: It takes a couple days for it to come out, but it's on there.
SPEAKER_00: So if you have missed any of these great lessons about heaven and hell, and you need material to talk to or to use, go back and watch them.
SPEAKER_00: Go back, get off of Facebook for an hour.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't, and I don't have Facebook, all right, so I can say that.
SPEAKER_00: Now, LinkedIn, YouTube, I can't say that.
SPEAKER_00: But so let's talk briefly.
SPEAKER_00: Slide five tells us about heaven.
SPEAKER_00: What is it?
SPEAKER_00: Heaven is the hope that draws people into this message.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven is the hope that draws us.
SPEAKER_00: Why are we in it?
SPEAKER_00: Why are you in it?
SPEAKER_00: I know why I'm in it.
SPEAKER_00: I want to go to heaven.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to go to hell.
SPEAKER_00: I'm as soon as I found out about the difference.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, whoa, what an option.
SPEAKER_00: That's not a big choice.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going this way.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to go that way.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going this way.
SPEAKER_00: It's our hope that draws people in.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven is real and it is prepared.
SPEAKER_00: And we covered these in the last lesson, so I won't go too deep in them, but John, you have the scriptures there that talk about Jesus made this great promise.
SPEAKER_00: In my father's house, there are many mansions.
SPEAKER_00: If it were not so, I would have told you.
SPEAKER_00: I go to prepare a place for you.
SPEAKER_00: And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again.
SPEAKER_00: And God cannot lie.
SPEAKER_00: So guess what, folks?
SPEAKER_00: He's coming again.
SPEAKER_00: He's coming.
SPEAKER_00: If there's anything else you can believe in in this world, you can believe in He's coming.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: And He says, then there where I am, you're going to be.
SPEAKER_00: What a wonderful promise.
SPEAKER_00: And then we also know that it is God's desire for every person.
SPEAKER_00: And we covered that.
SPEAKER_00: And we're breezing, I'm putting that in the slides over and over and over and over again because we want everyone to grasp the concept.
SPEAKER_00: Just because God wants everyone, it's our job to try to reach everyone.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: God's calling people, and we know the scripture.
SPEAKER_00: Some plant.
SPEAKER_00: We may reach out and talk to people, and we don't feel like we've done anything.
SPEAKER_00: But how many people have you talked to?
SPEAKER_00: All of a sudden, you find out that they got a past of Pentecost, of the apostolic truth.
SPEAKER_00: They're in there somewhere.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So you've been planted.
SPEAKER_00: I'm here to help water and let God give the increase.
SPEAKER_00: So in the next part of slide six, heaven is relationship, not a religion.
SPEAKER_00: It's not a religion.
SPEAKER_00: What we're talking about is a real place.
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about a place we're going to be at one day.
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about a place where we're going to see the new Jerusalem and all the beauty and all the glory of it and how that's where our dwelling place will be.
SPEAKER_00: But prior to that, prior to the new heaven and the new earth, we get to spend a thousand years with Jesus ruling and reigning on this earth with him.
SPEAKER_00: What a wonderful thought.
SPEAKER_00: I like that concept.
SPEAKER_00: I get, I can't sit on a throne now.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not rich, but boy, one of these days I'll have a throne.
SPEAKER_00: Where are you going, Nathan?
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to my throne today.
SPEAKER_00: You don't need to work.
SPEAKER_00: Nope, gonna go sit on my throne.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna see Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We'll spend a thousand years with him before we spend eternity ruling and reign with him.
SPEAKER_00: And then we find that heaven is God's gift, not our achievement.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 2, 8 through 9 says, For by grace you have been saved through faith.
SPEAKER_00: And that of not yourselves, it is the gift of God.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven is a gift and not of works, lest any should boast.
SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, people have taken this scripture and other scriptures about baptism and moved them into the work category.
SPEAKER_00: Baptism is not work, baptism is following the plan of salvation because all we do is walk into water.
SPEAKER_00: God's the one that takes away our sins and removes all of it and nails it to the cross.
SPEAKER_00: He does the work.
SPEAKER_00: We're just obeying and going into it, and then he fills us with his spirit, and we speak in other tongues when he speaks through us.
SPEAKER_00: That is not works, that is the plan of salvation.
SPEAKER_00: So we have to be careful with that.
SPEAKER_00: Some people, oh no, that's all works.
SPEAKER_00: We don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: Well, let's talk about that.
SPEAKER_00: Now let's look at hell.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven's such a beautiful place, but let's look at hell.
SPEAKER_00: The reality that awakens compassion.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not a very compassionate man.
SPEAKER_00: I was raised with five older brothers.
SPEAKER_00: You learn to be very numb.
SPEAKER_00: And you learn to be not compassionate at all.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you got hurt?
SPEAKER_00: Well, you shouldn't have hurt me last time.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you got you got to learn.
SPEAKER_00: My wife is the only one that's been able to make me compassionate and helping me with that.
SPEAKER_00: And then when I blew my back out, now anybody I see go, I'm like, oh, you got a bad back?
SPEAKER_00: Compassionate, because I I've got a bad back.
SPEAKER_00: I know we can talk about that.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when we go through life, God puts us through things.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, good thing, but sometimes we get we get sick.
SPEAKER_00: And then later on we realize, hey, I can talk to you about that disease.
SPEAKER_00: I can talk to you about that issue.
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to go through it, but we're glad God's brought us to the other side of it.
SPEAKER_00: But we got a great testimony, and that opens up a door.
SPEAKER_00: But hell, hell is real, just like heaven is real, hell is real.
SPEAKER_00: And then the great thing about it, hell was not created for you and I.
SPEAKER_00: God did not plan for man to fall, but he gave man the option to fall.
SPEAKER_00: God did not want cookie-cutter people, he wanted somebody to say, I'm with you because I love you, and I'm grateful for what you have done with me.
SPEAKER_00: And that's why it wasn't made.
SPEAKER_00: Hell was, Matthew 25, 41 says, Then he will also say to those on his left hand, Depart from me, you cursed into everlasting fire.
SPEAKER_00: Prepared for the devil and his angels.
SPEAKER_00: Wasn't prepared for us.
SPEAKER_00: And then we find the next slide on hell says, God desires that none perish.
SPEAKER_00: Repeat.
SPEAKER_00: I'll keep repeating it.
SPEAKER_00: Second Peter 3 and 9.
SPEAKER_00: Repeat.
SPEAKER_00: If he doesn't want it, you shouldn't want it.
SPEAKER_00: We should love everybody.
SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus spoke about hell because he came to what?
SPEAKER_00: Save us from it.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the one that spoke the most about heaven and hell in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: He is the one that talked about it over and over.
SPEAKER_00: He talks about the end time, he talks about when his coming is, he talks about what heaven's gonna be.
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, he he walks all through Revelation teaching about heaven and hell.
SPEAKER_00: He's the big proponent of it.
SPEAKER_00: He came to save those that were lost.
SPEAKER_00: Now let's look at that's a kind of just a recap of the last lessons.
SPEAKER_00: Don't want to spend too much on That because I want to talk about us today.
SPEAKER_00: Hell should drive us to be witnesses.
SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, let's be real.
SPEAKER_00: What we don't see and what we only hear about, sometimes we become numb too.
SPEAKER_00: And it becomes like a story.
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: I got, man, today's 103 degrees.
SPEAKER_00: We're hell in Texas, right?
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just hot.
SPEAKER_00: It's hot.
SPEAKER_00: But we kind of lose that.
SPEAKER_00: We get numb to it.
SPEAKER_00: But we shouldn't get numb about it.
SPEAKER_00: Jude 1, 20 through 23 says, but you, beloved, he's talking to the church.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is what we should do as we're walking through this life.
SPEAKER_00: Build ourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Keep yourselves in the love of God.
SPEAKER_00: Jude 20 through 23.
SPEAKER_00: It's only one chapter, 20, and so verses 20 through 23 says, keep yourselves in the love of God.
SPEAKER_00: Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
SPEAKER_00: We're waiting for his day.
SPEAKER_00: We're looking for his day.
SPEAKER_00: As we go through our life, as we live this life, as we walk through this over and over, you're going to find this message.
SPEAKER_00: We're going through life.
SPEAKER_00: But what are we supposed to be doing?
SPEAKER_00: We're looking for him.
SPEAKER_00: He's coming back.
SPEAKER_00: We're looking for him.
SPEAKER_00: Eternal life.
SPEAKER_00: And then he says, but verse 22 says, and on some, have compassion.
SPEAKER_00: And make a distinction.
SPEAKER_00: There are some that you need to have.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to win them with compassion.
SPEAKER_00: You can't just come up to them and go, let me tell you, you're going to hell.
SPEAKER_00: They already have enough problems.
SPEAKER_00: And they don't know what hell is.
SPEAKER_00: You got to have compassion with them.
SPEAKER_00: You got to talk to them and lead them.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, it's not my greatest asset.
SPEAKER_00: But you got to have compassion with people and lead them into salvational message.
SPEAKER_00: But then he also says, and then there are others save with fear, pulling them out of fire, even the garment defiled by the flesh.
SPEAKER_00: But then also, the writer of Proverbs says this in chapter 11, verse 30 the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
SPEAKER_00: And now catch this.
SPEAKER_00: He who wins souls is wise.
SPEAKER_00: So you can't just walk up to someone and bash them about their religion and attack them about what they have on and go about your different because you're going to lose them.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, let somebody come up and attack you about your religion.
SPEAKER_00: What are you going to do?
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: I'm right.
SPEAKER_00: No, you're not.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to be defensive.
SPEAKER_00: So you've got to be wise in bringing forth this message.
SPEAKER_00: So what I want to talk to about in these last few minutes as we go along is how can we be wise?
SPEAKER_00: Can't tell you to be wise and not give you something to help you be wise.
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of you have already given Bible studies and have won souls and have prayed people through the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: Isn't it a great feeling when you're praying with someone and they're just worshiping and asking God to fill them with the Holy Ghost and all of a sudden they speak in tongues and start flowing and you see this their countenance change, it makes you want to dance and shout.
SPEAKER_00: It's greater than, and I've never won the lottery, never played, greater than the lottery.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: So we should be trying to win souls all the time because it's a great thing.
SPEAKER_00: It makes them happy and it makes you happy and it makes him happy.
SPEAKER_00: What a combination.
SPEAKER_00: So we have to be wise.
SPEAKER_00: So let's look at this.
SPEAKER_00: And some of the questions that were already covered in the lesson, slide 10, are these.
SPEAKER_00: They're curiosity questions.
SPEAKER_00: What is heaven like?
SPEAKER_00: What happens after death?
SPEAKER_00: So you can use those curiosity questions to jump or bridge the gap to the gospels.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you want to know what heaven's like?
SPEAKER_00: I can show you what heaven's like.
SPEAKER_00: You want to know what these things are?
SPEAKER_00: You want to let me just give you scripture.
SPEAKER_00: And then the others are fear questions.
SPEAKER_00: There's those that are just afraid to go.
SPEAKER_00: What if I'm not good enough?
SPEAKER_00: What if I'm not ready?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can show you how to be ready.
SPEAKER_00: You have the fear questions.
SPEAKER_00: And then you also have pain questions.
SPEAKER_00: People have different walks in life and they have different struggles.
SPEAKER_00: And why does God allow death?
SPEAKER_00: And will I see my loved ones again?
SPEAKER_00: You have all of these different options and you need to listen for these keys, these clues that you can bridge the gap to gospel.
SPEAKER_00: But we wanted to remind you of this thing.
SPEAKER_00: Stay on target.
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00: What is the target?
SPEAKER_00: That they believe and that they repent and that they're baptized in Jesus' name and that they're filled with the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: If they start wandering off on this track that's going to make you try to make all these decisions and give them all this knowledge, but it never brings them to salvation, you're not going to win.
SPEAKER_00: Your concept and your conversation is to what?
SPEAKER_00: Lead them to salvation.
SPEAKER_00: So when people start bringing up all kinds of, because everybody's raised differently and there's all kinds of denominations and there's all kinds of beliefs out there, and YouTube is an incredibly horrible event, should never have been invented because people make up so much stuff out there now, and they use so many things to deceive so many people that Christians have a disadvantage because we're going against YouTube.
SPEAKER_00: Stay on target.
SPEAKER_00: And given that, I got to get back to my target.
SPEAKER_00: So here are four slide 11, and also in your handout that you have.
SPEAKER_00: Your handout has instructions on how to witness using the conversation of eternity.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel in four clear, simple movements.
SPEAKER_00: God loves you.
SPEAKER_00: John 3.16.
SPEAKER_00: Sin separates us, Romans 3 and 23.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus saves us, Romans 5 and 8.
SPEAKER_00: Our response is Acts 2.38.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people stop at the belief.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, just belief.
SPEAKER_00: Confess.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta scriptures gotta link with scriptures and context, gotta go with context, and you gotta make this thing match up.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're talking about believing and you're talking about heaven, and you're talking, you gotta bring in Acts 2.38.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta show them how to be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Stay on target, repent, be baptized in Jesus' name, receive the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: This keeps the gospel message clear, biblical, and easy to share.
SPEAKER_00: Because what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00: It's not Nathan Thornhill that's sitting up here making up stuff.
SPEAKER_00: What am I showing them?
SPEAKER_00: Let me show you what Peter said.
SPEAKER_00: The birth of the church, the day of Pentecost, before any other denomination was ever created and made by man, Peter said, You must repent.
SPEAKER_00: So here it is, it's very simple.
SPEAKER_00: The four simple keys, and you have it.
SPEAKER_00: Now, slide 12 tells us how to share the gospel with confidence.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to be clear.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: You have to be clear.
SPEAKER_00: What are we talking about?
SPEAKER_00: Salvation.
SPEAKER_00: How are we leading them that?
SPEAKER_00: You've got to be clear.
SPEAKER_00: Make your steps there.
SPEAKER_00: Be clear.
SPEAKER_00: Avoid religious jargon.
SPEAKER_00: Stay off of it.
SPEAKER_00: Stay off of stuff like the Trinity.
SPEAKER_00: Stay off of stuff like Catholicism.
SPEAKER_00: Stay off of all these different things of who do we pray to and Mary and all that.
SPEAKER_00: Stay off of them.
SPEAKER_00: Your goal is, let me tell you how to be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven or hell, your choice.
SPEAKER_00: What do we do to get there?
SPEAKER_00: Because if you these are the endless, endless packs and what they call chasing rabbits.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to get lost and you're going to lose your conversation.
SPEAKER_00: Be compassionate.
SPEAKER_00: People don't need arguments, they need hope.
SPEAKER_00: You don't need to tell them what they're wearing is wrong.
SPEAKER_00: You need to tell them Jesus loves them.
SPEAKER_00: You don't need to tell them their lifestyle is wrong.
SPEAKER_00: You need to tell them Jesus loves them.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus will tell them when to change and how to change.
SPEAKER_00: You just got to get them through the door and hear so He can change them.
SPEAKER_00: And yes, some of the worst-looking people in our moral concept, okay, of Christendom, have been some dynamic ministers and missionaries and outreach people.
SPEAKER_00: And if you pay attention to the way they look and what they wear and how they sound, and they're, and sometimes you're going to set across from somebody that is rough language, some really rough language, and you may not be used to it, but stick with it.
SPEAKER_00: Let them do what they're going to do.
SPEAKER_00: Keep showing them Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Be personal.
SPEAKER_00: Share your story.
SPEAKER_00: I mentioned to you, I'm not compassionate.
SPEAKER_00: You don't be raised by five older brothers and be compassionate.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you share your story.
SPEAKER_00: What has God done for you?
SPEAKER_00: What disease has he delivered you from?
SPEAKER_00: What religious cult has he delivered you from?
SPEAKER_00: How many years have you served in prison?
SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of ways you can reach people that you're talking about and they don't know.
SPEAKER_00: There are people in this sanctuary today that have a lifestyle that you would never guess because they haven't mentioned it to you.
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing when you talk to people.
SPEAKER_00: I love talking to people and finding how they open up and they begin to tell you the live story, and you're like, whoa, I'm just a little country boy from north of Dallas.
SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: Share your story.
SPEAKER_00: What has God done for you?
SPEAKER_00: And then be bold.
SPEAKER_00: You got to be bold.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because you got the truth.
SPEAKER_00: You don't back down from this.
SPEAKER_00: Acts 2.38 is the truth.
SPEAKER_00: That's the truth.
SPEAKER_00: We're bold with it.
SPEAKER_00: We're holding with it, and that's what we're going to live with.
SPEAKER_00: And we hold and we share it.
SPEAKER_00: Be bold with the truth.
SPEAKER_00: Not demeaning, not tearing down, not attacking the religion.
SPEAKER_00: Show them.
SPEAKER_00: Let God attack the religion.
SPEAKER_00: Let God do the work.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: Now we go to verse slide 13.
SPEAKER_00: Now we're working working on this, the steps.
SPEAKER_00: Give people a path, not pressure.
SPEAKER_00: And that I will say this, it's hard not to do with family members, right?
SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
SPEAKER_00: Rough conversations with some of my brothers, alright?
SPEAKER_00: Rough conversation with some hours talking to some of them and going, where did you get there?
SPEAKER_00: That'll make sense.
SPEAKER_00: You went to the same church I did.
SPEAKER_00: What is wrong with you?
SPEAKER_00: You know, you don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta learn to do it right.
SPEAKER_00: Would you like to be ready for eternity?
SPEAKER_00: Explain what believing is, and then also following the biblical plan to salvation, and that's number five in your list.
SPEAKER_00: Pray with them.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid to pray with them.
SPEAKER_00: Even if you don't get the salvational message out to them, but they have a need, pray with them.
SPEAKER_00: And then invite them here to have more prayer.
SPEAKER_00: Pray with them and invite them.
SPEAKER_00: Invite them into discipleship.
SPEAKER_00: Give them Bible study.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, we know that you're hurting, and let's let's talk about how God handles these things and why.
SPEAKER_00: And let's talk about where we go to.
SPEAKER_00: And then also invite them to church.
SPEAKER_00: I was gonna bring some in, I have some in my car and everything, but we got these little baskets back there that has these little cards that have our church address and just a trifold, or it was trifold, I think it's just now just a fold over.
SPEAKER_00: But it has the address and everything of the church, has the times, has everything on it.
SPEAKER_00: Carry those with you.
SPEAKER_00: Give them to the person at the register.
SPEAKER_00: I'd hate to be somebody running register.
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they get like 5,000 tracks a day.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're stuck, hold this.
SPEAKER_00: You know?
SPEAKER_00: But do it.
SPEAKER_00: Give it to everybody.
SPEAKER_00: If you pay your when you're at the restaurant and you're going to pay a good tip, put a card there, invite them to church.
SPEAKER_00: Your job is, we're the adults in the room, invite to church.
SPEAKER_00: Slide 14 says, while we're doing all of this, what are we supposed to be doing?
SPEAKER_00: We're supposed to be living an eternal mindset.
SPEAKER_00: I've already mentioned a couple of scriptures about us walking through this life.
SPEAKER_00: And what are we doing while we're walking through this life?
SPEAKER_00: We're looking for Him.
SPEAKER_00: Our mindset should be always eternal.
SPEAKER_00: So when we are looking at people, our concept and thought is where are they going?
SPEAKER_00: I'm going, where are they going?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus wants them to be with Him.
SPEAKER_00: And then we also find that we look for open doors and everyday conversations.
SPEAKER_00: We share hope, not fear.
SPEAKER_00: We live with joy.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven is real.
SPEAKER_00: I'll say that again.
SPEAKER_00: We live with joy.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all remember the grumpy cat?
SPEAKER_00: We don't, we're not grumpy cats.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: We can't be grumpy cat and go, let me tell you about how God loves you.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't work.
SPEAKER_00: You just gotta sell it.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many of y'all have been salesmen in the sales department.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta sell it.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: So you want to sell heaven's real, God's love, be a part of it.
SPEAKER_00: And then we also find that the church is is we want to share hope, not fear.
SPEAKER_00: We want to live with urgency.
SPEAKER_00: Eternity matters.
SPEAKER_00: We live every day going, I'm gonna go to heaven.
SPEAKER_00: Today I'm gonna try to make the right decision.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I didn't make the right decision.
SPEAKER_00: God forgive me.
SPEAKER_00: We live every day doing this, dying daily.
SPEAKER_00: Forgive me, God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm walking with you.
SPEAKER_00: I want to go with you.
SPEAKER_00: I want to be with you.
SPEAKER_00: We need to have that urgency and that mindset and the same concept of reaching someone.
SPEAKER_00: And then we find in the conclusion of this, wrapping it up.
SPEAKER_00: I should probably hear music pretty soon.
SPEAKER_00: Why does this matter?
SPEAKER_00: Why should we do this?
SPEAKER_00: What's the purpose of witnessing?
SPEAKER_00: Heaven's real.
SPEAKER_00: God's real.
SPEAKER_00: And because you have this experience, and what a wonderful experience it is, life's tough, but God's good.
SPEAKER_00: He's an awesome God.
SPEAKER_00: He's done wonderful things.
SPEAKER_00: I'm 61 years old.
SPEAKER_00: I can just sit and tell you for hours all the wonderful things I've seen God do.
SPEAKER_00: Not to me, to others.
SPEAKER_00: The miracles I've seen and the wonderful services I've been in and the power of God moving and seeing people saved.
SPEAKER_00: And all God is good all the time.
SPEAKER_00: But life makes us go.
SPEAKER_00: You can take me home now, God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready to be heaven-bound all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven's real, hell is real, Jesus saves, and we are called to reach the lost.
SPEAKER_00: We are commissioned by no one else but who?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He's commissioned us.
SPEAKER_00: You've been, God saved myself.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you're now a salesman.
SPEAKER_00: I got a message I want you to sell the world about me.
SPEAKER_00: And it's a wonderful package.
SPEAKER_00: No other package on this earth compares to it.
SPEAKER_00: It's a wonderful package.
SPEAKER_00: And we have it.