Can Anyone Really Know They’re Going to Heaven? | Jonathan Pokluda

I want to start with a question for you have you ever tried out for something and had to wait to find out if you got in okay like you're like in that waiting like I don't know what they've accepted me I don't know if I'm getting in and so maybe it was a date right you go on a date and in the dates over and and he's like I'll call you and you're like okay win oh ain't winning it like did it go I thought it went well to go it seemed like it went well you know or maybe you're you know you went on a date and and you you texted her and it's like hey had fun loved to hang out again and you see those three dots and then they disappear and you're like what's up with that like it went and you're waiting to find out if you've been accepted and maybe it was you know applying for a college right so maybe you apply at your favorite university you you send in your application at a.m. and you're waiting to see if you woops you waiting to see if you got in or or maybe it was baylor right or maybe maybe ut they they they accept everybody they accept everybody heads up and you're you're waiting you're waiting to find out if you got it if you got accepted or maybe it was a job interview alright you finished the interview you put on your best you know you did everything you could and you leave and it's just that waiting period was I good enough did I say the right things I wonder how many people they're going to take in am I gonna get in will they accept me I went to an interview once it was actually for a reality show called The Apprentice okay now I don't know if you've heard of The Apprentice but I tried out for this it was in Fort Worth tryouts were in Fort Worth and so my wife and I go out there is a while ago before ministry and or a little bit before ministry and so that's why I'm in ministry and and so I go out there to Fort Worth and there's thousands and thousands and thousands of people trying I'm like I don't have a shot you know and I go in there and I I did everything I could you know I was bold and and had my best suit on and was trying to get on the show and afterwards they said hey we'll let you know today if you made it and so Monica and I went out in Fort Worth we went to Sunday and square we had a blast we win saw movie I remember we went to Barnes & Nobles then we went to this comedy club and then we were hanging out for a late dinner and I say late dinner cuz the Sun had set I still didn't get a call and I'm like I wonder if I got in and then at like 11:55 at night they said they'd let me know that day they called and they said hey you made it to the next round and I'm like this is God you know this is crazy because this is life-changing right this is like we're gonna move to New York and I'm gonna be on this show and you know this could could just be crazy for me and so I go back to the the second interview the callback and it was in this hotel and I remember kind of going through the same thing this time it was on camera and I was answering these questions and they said alright you know we'll we'll let you know something they're like we'll call you and I'm like you you'll call me when when you're gonna call me you know and I just remember that waiting period thinking hey every like like my whole life is in their hands my whole futures in their hands and they're gonna let me know what my future looks like I don't know if you've ever had this experience maybe it was just a job interview long story short I didn't make it past that second round oh I know but I think this is how we at some subconscious level in the back of our minds feel about heaven it's like hey is this place can anybody really know if you go there what you need to do to get there maybe all roads lead there if you follow your religion well you get there what about the person who's never heard if I'm saved am I always saved can you lose your salvation all of these things like how do I oh that I'm going to get to heaven so we're in this series asking for a friend and tonight is can anyone really know they're getting into heaven can anyone really know they're getting into heaven and so much more is at stake with this question than just the uneasiness of wondering if you got a job or not or a second date or not or into a university or not and in fact the largest belief amongst our peers is that all roads lead to heaven and so this comes from gen iy these stats he says although 65% classify themselves as Christians 43% said it doesn't matter what religious faith you follow because they all teach the same lessons 70% of all major Christian and non-christian religious groups say many religions can lead to eternal life and 68% say there's there's more than one true way to interpret the teachings of my religion sixty-eight percent fifty percent believe that all people are eventually saved or accepted by God no matter what they do theology called inclusive ism we covered universalism this idea that everyone gets there some people believe well pretty much you know you just need to be good and you're good with God right one way to heaven is to exclusive I mean that can't be true can't all roads eventually lead to God what about people who never hear what about people of other faiths who are sincere I remember when I had a crisis of the faith God actually used this to bring me into relationship with him I thought what are the odds I'd be born to the right country I was thinking about this I was wrestling with this I was like I know there's a guy but I don't know who he is agnostic I was like if I was born in India I'd be Hindu if I was born in China I'd be Buddhist if I was born in Iran I'd be Muslim if I was born in Israel I might be Jewish and so what are the odds that I'd be born to America and that that would be the right religion and so I really began to research it with a biased against Kris gianna d and i don't know if your faith is just your parents faith i don't know how you came to a belief in jesus christ if you have but I pray you sincerely wrestle with it if you haven't as we dive into this message that you'd have a greater understanding of this way the scripture says and so as we move through John chapter 14 we're going to look at how Christianity is exclusive how Christianity is inclusive and before you leave here this evening how Christianity offers certainty for you and so what's happening in John chapter 14 I'll start in verse 1 and in chapter 13 Jesus is saying hey I'm gonna go somewhere and his disciples say well where are you gonna go why are you leaving us and Peter like bows up to him you know because Peters crazy and he's like Jesus hey wherever you go I'm going you're not going anywhere without me take me with you and Jesus is like calm down boys calm down listen do not let your hearts be troubled you believe in God believe also in me my father's house has many rooms if that were not so I would have told you what would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am you know the way to the place where I'm going and that Thomas speaks of is doubting Thomas where we learn oh we do how do we how do we know we don't know where you're going how would we know how to get there and jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me so we're gonna look at this passage and we'll work backwards my first point from the text is that Christianity is exclusive that means there is one way to heaven and his name is Jesus to believe that the Bible is true is to believe that Jesus is the only way to God and we really spelled this out in the afterlife series but I just want you to hear from me there there's to eternal destinations everyone will live somewhere forever there's hell there's heaven okay those are the only two eternal destinations that exist and Jesus came here he lived a perfect life and he died the death that we deserve paying the price for our sins he rose from the grave and if we accept that payment for our sins then we can be with him in his kingdom forever and ever and ever and his kingdom is heaven and so in hell we suffer for our sins and we don't have to suffer for our sins if we believe that Jesus suffered for our sins and so you say well I believe essentially all religions lead to God different paths up the mountain aren't we kind of looking at the same thing from different perspectives anybody ever heard this anybody ever heard someone say they say I believe always leave if you've shared your faith you've bumped into this objection before you've never heard anyone say this who has actually studied world religion okay this is the statement of naivety it is from someone who hasn't looked at what actual the the world religions teaches so let me just show you quickly as quickly as I can we'll start with Islam this comes from the two holy books are the the holy book of Islam the Quran and from two different chapters the first one is from the Ali Imran chapter 3 verse 85 it says this whoever prefers a religion other than Islam it shall definitely not be accepted from him and in the hereafter he shall be among the losers this is from the arm I'll meet Alma I'm sorry Alma EDA chapter 5 verse 72 and it says this this is listen and they have certainly disbelieved who say Allah is the Messiah the son of Mary it's very specific Allah has forbidden him paradise and his refuge is the fire whoever believes that God is the son of Mary is going to and Jesus is God the Son of Mary and they can both be true that's nonsensical it's illogical it makes no sense Hinduism right says this this is from Krishna the Hindu force of the universe speaking from their holy book the bhagavad-gita it says this those who are without faith in my teaching cannot attain Krishna or the Enlightenment I permeate all the universe in my unmanifest form all beings exist within me if you do not accept this view that you do not exist you will never achieve Hindu salvation and and not only is the path different but the destination is different in that Hindus don't believe in heaven but reincarnation that you would come back as a person of nobility or a rat or some sort of animal in between so you not just have different paths but different destinations you say those are both right both true what hold on am I going to heaven or am I going to come back to life as someone else what's true Buddhism but that's inclusive right Buddhism is inclusive is the only path there is none other from the poor the purification of insight walking upon this path will make an end of suffering this is from the Buddhist holy writings oddly enough called the way and then in the Jewish tradition exclusivity manifests in the concept of the chosen people in which anyone who does not accept the teachings of Jewish monotheism is excluded from the Messianic world to come they are exclusively God's people and so what I want you to see friends is Christianity is indeed exclusive every world religion is indeed exclusive and so to say that they're all right out of love is really to say that they're all wrong you if you say anyone who says well they're all right dasn't looked at them it's to say that they're all wrong it is a statement as I said of naivety and so why do we get to this place where we're like well I just think everyone gets to God someday I'll tell you why because you've been sitting on the back of a tailgate after a couple shots of patron I've been drinking everybody becomes deep theologians at 3:00 in the morning okay like that's when it's like I love you man I love you too I know we just met man I love you you know who else loves you God loves you man he wouldn't send you to hell nope not you I think everybody gets in man everybody just seems right that's what we do that's what we do why what's it what's it birthed out of what book you pointing to what ancient writings what person came from heaven came here and told you that your feelings well I just I just feel I just I just think right I said and it's all like in a statement of Higher Education what's not it actually doesn't make sense right and the problem with these feelings is proverbs 14:12 which says there's a way that seems right to a person there's a way that feels right to a person but in the end it leads to death where else can you give somebody instruction and they're like hey how do I get to your house say oh just pick a road man you'll get there one way like that doesn't that logic doesn't stretch to anything I was in London recently David and I both were in London together and we didn't rent a car we took the tube the tube is the subway in London the Underground Railroad an underground railway in London and so we took the tube from the airport to the hotel and that's how we navigated London now the tube this subway is very complex in London I don't know if you've been there but the reason I think it's more complex than New York because there's layers like you go underground and there's stories upon stories upon stories upon stories of trains and so you have to know what floor to be on first and then when you choose the right floor you have to be know which train to go to take you to the next stop to get on the next floor to take you the Train and so like you go I think we have a picture so that's just like there's just escalators upon escalators underneath the ground where you're trying to find at the right floor and so we with David and we're trying to figure out what's the right floor because now we've been in London for several days and it's time to go home to catch our plane to see our family and so we've got to find the the right train to take us to the airport so that we can go home and see our family and that we can make our flight right and so I'm there with him I'm not very smart I'm like I don't know what floor David's pretty smart though he didn't know what floor and so we we walk up and we're looking at this map we finally think we found the right floor but then there's this map here and I'm looking at it I just gave up my dude I don't know man you figured that out and and he's looking at it right and and we're just kind of a little bit stressed because you know the flight we're supposed to be there ahead of time it's international and I'm like we're gonna miss our flight I won't see my girls now imagine if you came up to me and you loved me man you really really cared about me and you saw that I was distressed so you said JP bro any of these trains will get you to the airport you know what I'm gonna say to you I'm gonna give you her like if I believe you I'm gonna be like man that's amazing true thank you so much that really helps me cuz I was distressed I was thinking I wasn't gonna see my wife and my kids and I miss them thank you so much now I get on the next train cuz any of them are gonna take me there and some of these trains they're straight shots to rural England and so I get on it and it has no stop it just takes me way way way out in the the countryside of England right and I get off and there's no train back until the next day because that's how this works I've missed my flight it's costing me thousands and thousands of dollars thousands and thousands of dollars to rebook I don't get to see my family I don't know when I'm gonna get home and all of the sudden what I thought brought me relief was incredible deception and it wasn't loving it was not loving you did not care well for me what you said didn't make sense it was birthed out of your own emotions and it put me in a bind you can imagine when we're talking about an eternal bind right and so somebody says well I believe all religions will get there you just respond to him like this really well which one have you chosen because like right if you think all religions to get there you're gonna research them all and try to find the easiest one right I mean anyone who truly believes all religions will get you there are they're gonna choose Christianity because all the other ones are like hey do this and do this and do this and do this Christianity is like God did this like I'll take that one God loved me enough to allow his son to die for me so that I can be with him forever I'll go that one so which one have you chosen or anyone who says all religions will get you there hasn't chosen one right that's what you see that's the truth and so the the reality is all religions lead to hell except one that takes you home his name is Jesus I have given my adult life to researching this I found that to be true I've looked at the archaeology the history of religions where they originated don't take my word for it you do your research you look into it you come to a place where you've found it to be true Jesus says my father's house has many rooms if that were not so would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you my second point from this text is that Christianity is inclusive now that contradicts that it's exclusive right the reason I say it's inclusive is because everyone is invited we've already determined that all religions are exclusive but here's what you need to know Christianity is the most inclusive that Christ says hey come but God is not slow in keeping his promises as some understand slowness but is patient with you not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to eternal life the Christianity through Christ is an invitation like fact if you go home tonight and you can do this Google how do I convert to Google's gonna autofill Hindu faith Islam Jehovah's Witness any religion that's out there right the Jewish faith Buddhism and what you're going to see friends is strive strive strive strive to achieve nirvana strive to achieve enlightenment strive to not want strive to do enough enough good deeds so that you can come back as a person of nobility strive to follow the law of the Old Testament strive to comply with the five pillars of Islam strive strive strive strive you work your way up to God for a chance to get in you don't know if you're getting in or not you do everything you can you take a Hajj to Mecca you you pray several times a day you do everything you can for a chance to get to God and yet Christianity says that God's loved you so much that he came here every other religion you're working your way up Christianity God says I'm coming to you I'm gonna save you and he came to the earth in the form of a man Jesus Christ 2018 years ago in an event that reset the calendar and you acknowledged it every atheist in the room acknowledges it by the date they put on their checks today or or the day in their Microsoft Outlook all right and we know this because of this book that's been passed down written over fifteen hundred years with one central message sixty-six books really 40 different authors telling one story of God coming to save us by the way it's been the bestseller this year last year every single year and the bestseller in the history of history this book the second place is a far distant margin this book that God you research it you look into it you grow your confidence in it God said he loved the world most famous verse in the scriptures John 3:16 for God so loved the world the Greek word there is the cosmos it's the universe and its inhabitants it's how its translated for God so loved the cosmos that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever or whosoever or anyone who believes in Him shall not perish not go to hell not die in eternal death but have eternal life this is what I want from you is eternal life I was at a birthday party couple weeks ago here in Dallas there there's a restaurant called Javier's in Uptown we were there and we're sitting on the patio some friends lots of friends actually a big table and and one of the couples had to leave early and so they were leaving and so what he did was he just left a wad of cash on the table and he said hey I got everyone he said I'll pay for everyone which I was like that's kind ok I'm not gonna argue with you and uh and so he then he leaves right knee Texas says hey I left money there everyone's covered and so the money's there on the table the guy starts bringing the checks and and you're faced with the decision is my milk paid for or not there's enough more than enough money to cover you and this is the same predicament the same dilemma that you face with Jesus Jesus died to pay for your sins and you get a choice do I accept his payment or do I reject his payment do I say hey that was for me for my sins past present and future everything that I've done wrong or do I reject it and leave it on the table and say no I choose to willingly suffer for my own sins Christ's payment was enough and see what I want you to see here is that Christianity is not about what you do but rather what Jesus did and the way that Jesus paved invites us all to be saved the way that Jesus paid invites us all to be saved and so what about the one who's never heard the infamous Bushmen in Africa I mean this used to be a big hang-up for me like I really struggle with this cuz I'm like man it just doesn't seem fair you know there's people out there that's never they've never heard the gospel this was a big stumbling block for me until I went to Africa I went to the Masai Mara literally the African jungle that's where I'm at I mean here's a picture of when I was there and those people are not in uniform like that's where they live and that's who they are they live out there in the African bush and I'm out there with them and this lady sees me from across the way has this big beautiful smile and she comes up to me and she says letting the broken English she says can I ask you a question yeah ask me anything she says are you saved and I said well what do you mean by save cuz I'm thinking she doesn't mean what I think when somebody says are you saved I'm like am I saved from lions or what I don't know you know and and she says and she says are you saved are you a Christian and I said yes I I am a Christian and she said oh me too I'm a Christian too I said how did you become a Christian out here and she said well I've always believed in God and God has always spoken to me in my dreams and one day he told me in my dream this is my son Jesus Christ he has died for your sins and he has risen from the grave so that you can be with me forever and I looked her in the eyes and I didn't flinch I said oh I understand a missionary came here and shared the gospel with you and then you had a dream about it and she looked at me like I was crazy and she said no missionary came here and I said well how did you know his name was Jesus and she said that was his name in my dream and I said I'm done worried about the Bushmen in Africa can I tell you something I've been in ministry twelve years I've heard the same story from Iran I was on the phone once are on a show once and a twelve-year-old girl called in then I was sharing my testimony and she called him from Iran has said that that guy that he's talking about I dreamt about him last night what do I need to do to accept him as my Lord and Savior and I've read an entire book from a author I trust all about people coming to the faith through dreams and visions so to the person who says you know what about the one who's never heard they're just trying to get a pass for themselves right hashtag I'm asking for a friend what about the one who's never heard you know what about you what about the one who's never heard go tell them go tell them spend your life telling them finding them and telling them sharing the truth of eternal life with them through Jesus Christ why wouldn't you tell them and you say well how do I know that can I know that I'm going to have it how do I know that I'm going how do you know anything what do you trust in how do you gain information what do you look at where do you find your facts Jesus says do not let your hearts be troubled you believe in God you believe in God so also believe in me I go and prepare a place for you I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am you know the way to the place where I am going I'm telling you I'm telling you the way my third and final point is that Christianity is certain you can be sure you can be sure if you've been here long at all you know that I like to share the gospel by asking two questions called the Kennedy questions in this first question I want to ask to you between 1 and 10 10 being certain one being not so sure if you were to die if you were to die today how certain are you that you would go to heaven 10 is certain ones not so sure if you died today how certain are you that you would go to heaven if you take your notes go ahead and write down your number if you have your phone why don't you punch it in there I'd love for you to identify your number how certain are you you think you don't to share it with anyone just just right now how certain are you that you would go to heaven okay I'm gonna ask you to do something okay what I'd love for you I'd love for everyone to close their eyes now I'm up here I'm watching your purse you know it's okay if you would close your eyes for just a minute for just a minute now I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand if you were one two five would you raise your hand if you're a one two five I see several hands lots of hands one two five raise your hand I'm looking around okay several of you are one two five all right okay if you were six or seven raise your hand okay lots of sixes and sevens I see you see you that's okay all right thank you if you were eight or nine raise your hand oh wow okay a lot lots of eights and nines okay upstairs okay I see eights and nines I can come back with me now thank you for that for humoring me with that I'm gonna come back to that in just a minute I know I said that the vast majority of world religions they teach a striving a working your way up to God but also uh none certainty that after all of your striving you're left with a question mark you don't really know if you got in or not until you die and and this fear allows religious leaders to rule you because I can say well I don't know if you've done enough you know maybe you need to give more to the church right maybe maybe you need to do a little bit more maybe you need to be nicer to me right and this is what happens within cults you see cult leaders do this and use this fear against people and so Christianity is the only religion certainly the only world religion that I know of that offers assurance of salvation it says that you can know it's in first John chapter five 11 through 13 says and this is God's testimony okay so this is the store of God he shares here in first John here's the story of God God has given us eternal life where how how do I get and this life is in his son whoever has the son has life whoever does not have the son of God does not have life I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life so they I want you to look at that word KN o/w that word know there that you can know that you have eternal life that you can be certain in Greek this word translates to know as a fact as though to see it that you can be a 10 that you don't have to leave here a coin toss away from hell 50% chance that I'm going to go and burn in hell suffer in hell forever a 20% chance a 10% chance is no way to live that you can leave here and be certain that you're going to be with God forever and ever and ever and ever and ever in his presence in his kingdom forever and that is worth celebrating that brings joy to our hearts that gives us a reason to live a purpose to move forward it allows us to see past our struggles it allows us to lean into him it allows us to seek him right it allows us to know him that we would move toward God and study his word it should bring a peace that transcends all understanding to guard our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus and without it or left with an uncertainty I just don't know that's no way to live tomorrow I just don't know my kids man they're always asking for stuff can we buy this can we go here can we do this can I get this and you know I try to answer them straight all the time and you know they learned what a RV is ok like we're driving down the street they're like daddy what's that I'm like well there's like a house on wheels or like mind-blown you know house on wheels daddy we got to get one of those I'm like yeah you pray and so they're like daddy daddy can we they schemed on me that's what they do they get together they talk and they come and in a unified force and it's hard to say no to these cute faces they're like daddy okay here's what we did we all picked a state okay and we would like to drive that we'd like to get an RV so you buy an RV dad that's your party you're gonna buy the RV and then we're gonna drive where each go to our state's and that will be our vacation daddy can we do it I'm like I I don't know man you know I don't I don't think so probably not and they're like so maybe you're telling me there's a chance you know and they're just and they come at me every day they're like daddy so I'm gonna go to Alabama and they're gonna go to Kentucky and I'm like why you know why would you do that and uh and so they did their scheming on me right and they're just left all summer with this uncertainty you know they they they they're excited about an idea but they don't know if they can really celebrate now that's very different if I look at them and I say hey guys listen I got the RV it's in the driveway and we're gonna go tomorrow like God willing if he gives us tomorrow we're all jumping in that RV and we are going to Alabama and Kentucky you know it's it's gonna happen right and then and that's a different celebration when they know that it's a done deal this is what Christ said to you he looks at you from the cross with his arms stretched wide and he says calm come on I've prepared a place for you would you come I've suffered and died for you so that you don't have to suffer you can have eternal life I've defeated the grave for you would you come it's as good as done it is finished indeed so you say what can I lose my salvation I don't know what you do to get your salvation you can't lose something that you didn't do anything to earn if you didn't do anything to earn it then how can it be taken away from you if it was given to you freely in spite of you for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not of yourselves the gift of God gift of God gift of God not by works not by works not by works so that no one can boast it's Ephesians 2:8 9 if you did nothing for it then how could you lose it what did you what would you do to lose it and so in summary there is one way to heaven in his name is Jesus everyone is invited and you can be sure if you wanted to know how to get to London you could ask me I was just there the reason I know the way to London is because I was just there and I came back here if you want to know - gets how to get to heaven find someone who's been there and came here and look carefully at what they've said right if you trust me and you trust that I was there recently and you trust my sanity then you trust that I know how to get there you better believe the Queen of England knows how to get to London she lives there you better believe the king of heaven knows how to get to heaven he lives there he reigns there he's King there and everything you see and everything you know he created and so if you're gonna trust something why not trust his word it's a crazy language in this text some really strange language I don't know if you've listened this whole way and you haven't questioned what it says it says some crazy things he says in my father's house there are many rooms right like if you the disciples you listen to this you like dude okay your dad's rich I get it man he's got it with why are we why are we talking about your dad's crib right now like what's going on he's like he's got a big house you know lots of rooms guy comes I'm confused he said I'm going there to prepare a room for you I got to show you something beautiful okay like this always stirs my heart Jesus here he's using a really intimate language it's the Jewish wedding language you got to hear me on this okay stay with me mmm we see it so clearly in this text what would happen is when a Hebrew boy a young Jewish boy was of age and ready to go get married what he would do is he would leave his land and go to a foreign land in search of a bride he would leave his father's land and go to a foreign land in search of a bride someone to take as his wife and when he would find her are you ready when he would find her he would pay what was called the dowry he put down a down payment it was a heavy sum to show that hey I mean business I'm coming back for you because he'd have to leave and the reason that he would leave so he would go to her father and he'd pay this dowry saying hey I'm purchasing the right to take your daughter as mine forever and then he would leave and he'd go back to the land that he came from and he would begin to build a room on his father's house that they would live in because his father's house was one day going to be his house inheritance was everything in this culture and so he would begin to build this room for him and his new bride to live in forever and at a time in an hour when no one knew he would go back and he would return for her people would run in front of him his no party if you would his groomsmen and they blast trumpets and they say he's coming and and the word would spread from town to town it would go in front of him until it reached her and she would hear hey your bride is Kyle your groom is coming your groom is coming for you and she would quickly scramble and get her wedding dress and her bridal party and he would come and he'd look at her and say you are now mine forever come let's go back to my land back to my home now back to this room so what Jesus is saying is a Hughie saying hey I've paid for you I put down the dowry for you my bride so that I can take you home to be with me forever now I've purchased you with my own blood poured out for you to cover your sins and now I'm gonna go home to my father's house and prepare a place for you for all of you for anyone who would like to dwell there for anyone who would like to accept the payment of the blood that He shed for your sins that you can be with him forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever [Music] I'm gonna ask you to shut your eyes again if you would thank you hundreds and hundreds of you said I'm not sure I'm not a ten and if you're at a place right now where you would like to be a ten to move from a five to a ten a nine to ten a seven to ten would you raise your hand would you put it up so that I can see it okay see that's amazing praise God oh praise God that's incredible that's incredible praise God for you Wow that is overwhelming that's overwhelming okay you guys can look at me I'm not trying to be manipulative I don't need anything from you but we're gonna sing a song and my prayer you don't have to but my prayer is that if you just raised your hand and so many of you just did that you'd have the courage to come up here and I come back up after this song and I would pray over you and during this song you just come forward just come to the altar come up here and know that he's prepared a place for you would you do that let me pray the Father thank you so much so much for those that just said I want to be sure I know I know what Christ did for me I know what he paid for me nor would you stir in them the courage to tell somebody the power of your Holy Spirit would you work into their hearts surround them with men and women who love them and know you and who know them and love you the Father thank you for the gift of salvation that comes to us by way of your son Jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit who seals us and preserves us and carries us home so that the enemy can't snatch us away and Father we sing to you now we worship you now in Jesus name Amen

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Published: Thu Aug 16 2018