You Will Leave Everything Behind

The most important day of your life will the day of your death. Think about that. On that day, nothing else will matter except what you have done for God and where you are going. Your house, your car, your money, your sports will mean nothing on that day. You will be leaving time and entering into eternity. Meditate on that breath-taking moment. In the exhale of one breath, you will leave everything you love. Your wedding ring. Your spouse. Your loved ones. Your vehicle. Your money. Everything. Tonight, God could say to you, "This night your soul is required of you." Let such sobering thoughts consume you. Let them drive you to use your life for what matters, to reach out to the unsaved and make a big dent in this sinful world. There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
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Unforgettable Cries

What do you and I think about? What is it that we meditate on most? It is "desire" that determines most of our thought patterns. It should be that the human predicament narrows down what we think about. Imagine a Titanic survivor. He is sitting with a few other survivors in a large, mostly empty lifeboat as the great ocean liner heaves and sinks silently beneath the freezing waters of the ocean. The only sounds that break that eerie silence are the unforgettable cries of perishing human beings pleading to be saved from an icy grave. There's plenty of room in the lifeboat. What is it then that should consume the survivor's thoughts? He should be utterly focused on saving those that are around him. Nothing else should matter, compared to the task that is before him. There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
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Evangelism Tip Tuesday ~ Don't Wait!

Have you ever resisted giving out a Gospel tract or presenting the Gospel to someone simply because you didn't "feel like it"? I have. There have been many times when I have simply not reached into my purse for a tract (even at a spot as convenient to do so as a check out line), because I was tired, had a rough day, was in a hurry, or simply insert any other lame excuse here - I have been guilty of most at some point! It requires daily forsaking of my own fleshly desire for comfort and prayer for compassion for the others to continue on in reaching out to the lost with the Beautiful Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I encourage you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, do not wait on the perfect situation. If you do you may never do anything! Instead, put Christ and His glorious Gospel first and crucify that selfish fleshy desire to remain comfortably complacent!

We have no idea how much longer God will bless us with on this Earth. Today could be my last, or yours. We do not know how many opportunities we have left to proclaim the incredible kindness of our precious Savior, dying a substitutionary death for such wretched sinners as ourselves with the power to do the same for others, many who may have yet to hear! Let us cease squandering our opportunities.

Do not remain asleep in the light!

Whose Job is it, Anyway?

Imagine if a man let a neighbor's child drown in his swimming pool while he polished his car. His defense in court was that he didn't want to leave his car to save the child because he didn't want to ruin the vehicle's shine.

If we allow another human being to die when we have the ability to save them, we are not only morally responsible, but we are guilty of what civil law calls "depraved indifference." The crime of "depraved indifference" is very descriptive. Depraved means it's about as low as a human being can go, and indifference means that someone couldn't care less. That's what you and I are like if we profess to be Christians, and yet have no concern for the eternal salvation of those that are around us. We are saying "Evangelism is not my job," and we are therefore guilty of depraved indifference. It's about as low as we can go when we don't care about the fate of the unsaved. Love could never be so cold-hearted as to shine a car while a child drowns, and love cannot profess to know the love of God in Christ, and be unconcerned about the fact that those who die in their sins will end up in Hell.

If you aren't horrified at that thought, how can the love of God dwell within you? Charles Spurgeon said, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that." So if that describes you, please, go somewhere quiet and ask God to forgive you for such a crime. Then plead with Him to give you a love that will swallow your fears, and a gratitude for the Cross that will forever banish indifference and help you to "seek and save that which is lost" as Jesus did.

Then may I suggest something that will help you overcome your fears and reach those you love with the gospel? It's a teaching called "Hell's Best Kept Secret." Perhaps you are afraid to share your faith because you don't feel equipped. That's understandable. Arm any soldier with a feather duster and push him into the heat of modern warfare, and he's not going to be very courageous. However, if you give him state-of-theart weapons and teach him how to use them, those weapons will give him courage. "Hell's Best Kept Secret" will put a state-of-the-art weapon into your hands. It will give you courage. Simply go to www.livingwaters.com/learn -- there you can listen to "Hell's Best Kept Secret" or watch the video if you prefer. As you will see, the teaching has been commended by many Christian leaders -- and it's free. It won't cost you a thing. You will never regret it. Go there now. If you don't have audio capability with your internet access, call (562) 920-8431 and request it, and we will mail a CD of the teaching to you free of charge. Thank you for taking the time to read this. May God bless you, Ray Comfort.

Fantastic Flick Friday ~ Time Changer

Nineteenth-century Bible professor Russell Carlisle's (D. David Morin) new book, which asserts that morality can be taught independent of Christianity, is soon to be published. But a devout colleague (Gavin MacLeod) believes that what Carlisle has written will seriously affect the morals of future generations. To prove his theory, he sends Carlisle more than 100 years into the future, offering him a glimpse of where his writing will lead.



This movie is available through both Netflix and Blockbuster.

13 Evangelistic Phrases that Produce False Conversion

By: Todd Friel

Churches divide over carpet color, building additions and budgets. In the meantime, our fellow church members are going to hell by the boat load.


A.W. Tozer said, "It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved."


D. James Kennedy said, "The vast majority of people who are members of churches in America today are not Christians. I say that without the slightest contradiction. I base it on empirical evidence of twenty-four years of examining thousands of people."


Friend, we argue over so many petty things. May I suggest we have lost sight of the most important debate of all, "What is salvation?" My theology teaches that salvation happens when a man repents and places his trust in Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21).


I would like to present thirteen ways that we have re-defined how a person becomes a true convert. Have we done this intentionally? Certainly not. We have simply created lingo that has a grain of truth in Scripture, but it is so open to interpretation that the un-converted understand it in ways that lead to false conversions.



1. Make Jesus your Lord and Savior. We cannot make Jesus our Lord and Savior, He is our Lord and Savior. We are living in rebellion to Him and He commands us to repent and trust Him.


2. Ask Jesus into your heart. Does Jesus come into our hearts? Yes He does. The question is, "How does He get in there?" It is not by simply asking Him in; it is by repentance and faith.


3. Just believe in Jesus. The demons believe and they tremble. We must repent and trust.


4. You have a God-shaped hole in your heart and only Jesus can fill it. We have far more than a hole that needs to be filled so we can feel complete; we have a wretched, deceitful, sinful heart that needs cleansing. Repentance and faith applies the blood of the lamb for that cleansing.


5. Accept Jesus. Whoa. We need to accept Jesus? This is entirely backward. We need Jesus to accept us–and He will, if we repent and trust.


6. Make a decision for Jesus. Decisional regeneration puts man in the driver's seat of salvation. When we repent and trust, Jesus decides to save us. That puts Him in the driver's seat…where He demands.


7. It is easy to believe. While the formula of repentance and faith sounds simple, a complete surrendering of self in repentance is anything but easy. It's hard.


8. God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. The only promises for the convert are trials, temptation and persecution. If that is how you define a wonderful life, fine. Otherwise we must command all men everywhere to repent and trust.


9. Come to Jesus just as you are. We should come to Jesus just as the sinners we are, but He also expects a broken heart and contrite spirit demonstrated in repentance and faith.


10. Come to Jesus and you will receive forgiveness of sins and ________________ (fill in the blank with money, health, a healed marriage). Jesus didn't promise healed marriages; in fact He promised broken homes because we would divide when one member repents and trusts.


11. Come to Jesus and experience love, joy, peace. Do we get the fruit of the Spirit upon conversion? Yes. But if we come seeking the gifts and not the giver, we will receive neither. Instead, we must repent and trust.


12. Jesus is the missing piece. Um, no, the God of the universe is not the missing piece, He demands that He is the center of our lives when we repent and trust.


13. Jesus is better than fame and fortune. That is an understatement, and frankly, it is insulting. Saying Jesus is better than money is like saying that a steak dinner is better than eating a dung hill. He defies comparison and we trivialize the Son of God. Instead, we should be pleading with all men everywhere to repent and trust.


If I showed up at your door with a can of grapefruit juice and a roll of paper towels and offered to change your oil, you would say, "No thanks." If we wouldn't let someone mess with our car using the wrong method, why do we allow the Gospel to be presented so ambiguously?


Would you let a doctor operate on your child who was "sort of" accurate? The salvation of men is far more important than an appendix.


I beg you to consider how you share the Gospel. You and I know what we are talking about when we use these phrases, but do the unregenerate? Is it possible that we have so many backsliders today because they never slid forward in the first place? Is it because they were never told that they must repent and trust?


If we are willing to debate shag verse plush in the fellowship hall, shouldn't we be more concerned about an issue that has eternal consequences?

That's My King!