There's only one message. There's
only one way from here to God, and that's smack dab through
Jesus Christ. You're not going to go to heaven
by your words. Just is not going to happen. Those of you who believe
you can be saved today and lost tomorrow, make sure you began
right. In other words, make your calling
and election sure this way. Were you quickened? Were you
called by the Spirit of God? Did he bring you out of your
deathbed when you were dead in sins and trespasses? Did he come
to the cemetery where you were and call you to life? The reason
I preach the gospel every time I preach is because we're at
war. We're at war with religion. The
great plot and plan of Satan is to take away the gospel, water
down the gospel. Dress up the gospel. The truth
is, the gospel is a message about a gory, a bloody sacrifice for
sin on Calvary's cross. That God invaded this earth in
the person of His Son and actually went up on Calvary and paid our
sin debt and set us free. And you know what? If you're
a child of God, you never get tired of that. Many times in
54 years, people have come to me and said, you know, Pastor,
we're going to leave the church because we're just not getting
fed. Oh, you want more than Christ? You want more than Christ and
Him crucified? Well, we would like for you to
tell us how to live. Well, would you feast on this? Don't go to the pool hall. Don't
go to the bowling alley if it has a bar in it. Make sure you
dress modestly and find in your sanctification, look, why don't
we get real here? Your sanctification, your, how
sanctified are you? Well, I can tell you this, your
flesh is not sanctified at all. It's just as filthy and rotten
and conniving as it were when you came out of your mother's
womb. You came forth from the womb speaking lies. You were
a depraved creature. You can't sanctify the flesh. I do know this. And I know what
some of you are thinking. You're thinking, you know, he's
an anti-noministic preacher. He's a no law preacher, yes? No rules preacher. I am not depending
on my holy life for my assurance. On Christ the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking sand. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory
divine. He gives eternal life to his
people, and the love of Christ constrains me. Somebody said,
Pastor, it sounds like you're preaching that you can live like
hell and still go to heaven. Well, I would tell you this,
your flesh is hellish. It doesn't get any better. In
your flesh dwells no good thing, you're just like the Apostle
Paul, O wretched man that I am, not I used to be, not I once
was, and always remember he said that after 30 years of preaching.
Oh, wretched man that I am. Not I used to be a wretched man,
I'm wretched now. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ. I know some of you are watching
and maybe you have just, for the first time, you're seeing
a video like this and you're thinking, well, I've never been
in a church where a preacher said anything like that. then
you haven't heard the Gospel. But you're hearing it tonight,
that Christ Jesus came to save sinners. I guarantee you this,
love to Christ will sanctify your life. You know what keeps
me from things that my flesh wants to do? I think about the
Redeemer, the Savior. Paul said that in the Corinthian
letter, that the love of Christ constrains me. What a power love
to Christ is. how we have got this so backwards,
so upside down. Think about what Noah did. Think
about what David did. Think about those Old Testament
saints. And then you get over into the New Testament, the worst
of people, the worst of people. I would say to you, heroin addicts,
to you, crack addicts, to you streetwalkers, to you self-righteous
church-going people, look to Jesus Christ. Trust Him. You are a depraved sinner and
need a Savior. And He is the perfect Savior
for poor sinners.