Opening Prayer - Heavenly Father, we thank you for the oppertunity to worship your Son this morning. We know that if He hadn't died on the cross for our sins and arose from the dead, we would have no way to have a future home in Heaven or the privilage of worshiping Him this morning. Please bless us indeed and give us the strength and wisdom to live the way the Bible says we should live. We pray that everyone who reads this sermon who are not saved will become saved before it is too late. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Worship music - Please click the links and sing along if you know the words (You can also click skip ad to go straight to the songs) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXx30llZ-rU&list=RDkIEEz9yaukA&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCTl4tUYIAg&list=RDkIEEz9yaukA&index=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vE4pN59Rnw&index=25&list=RDkIEEz9yaukA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_F-NaryUY&list=RDkIEEz9yaukA&index=26
Not Intellectually Alone
There seems to be two sides in the church world today. Those who claim that you only need to believe that Jesus died for your sins on the cross, ask Him to come into your heart, or trust Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, etc. and those who claim that you need to repent and believe that Jesus died for your sins on the cross, ask Him to come into your heart, or trust Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, etc.
Of course the first group jumps on the second group and concludes that they claim that an unsaved person has to do good works in order to be saved, they are making it too hard for someone to get saved, and they are preaching a false gospel and are going to hell because of it if they don’t change. The second group would be helped out a lot more if they stated the outline in this website - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/chap39 and said that these two websites (http://chriswaug5.wix.com/theanswer and http://chriswaug5.wix.com/nocontridiction) prove that the outline is biblical.
A similar conflict is that the second group claims that the first group says that you only have to believe with your mind, and that's not enough because you have to repent and then believe. So, the first group claims that the second group says that you have to earn your salvation.
To clear all of this up, if someone wants to become a Christian they have to believe that Jesus died for their sins on the cross, ask Him to come into their heart, or trust Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase their sins and let them into Heaven, etc. However, if they aren't consciously or unconsciously willing to repent before they believe, their heart isn't prepared for Jesus to come in (explained in this website - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/chap16). When someone is consciously or unconsciously willing to repent before they believe, they are not earning their salvation (Explained in http://chriswaug5.wix.com/theanswer and http://chriswaug5.wix.com/nocontridiction).
In conclusion, it is very important to use the whole Bible because we can mislead others.
If you have prayed or made a decision to believe that Jesus died for your sins on the cross, asked Him to come into your heart, or trusted Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, etc., but you haven't given up your old lifestyle and began to live the Christian life, please follow this website - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/makingsure
If you have never prayed or made a decision to trust Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, you must be willing to repent "from this moment on and for the rest of your life" before you trust Jesus to save you. This website will tell you how - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/howtogotoheaven
If you have prayed or made a decision to become a Christian, but you are not sure that you are really a Christian (Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 21:18-22, 1 John 5:14, and Hebrews 11:1), you need to be sure - please follow this website - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/howtogotoheaven