Sugar Land Bible Church

Dr. Andy Woods: Well, good evening, and welcome to our evangelism seminar. It's really great to see all of you. We're really privileged and honored to have Pastor Roxer back. This is our second evangelism seminar. He was here in 2024.

Pastor Roxer has been married to his wife, Nancy, for 48 years. He's been in pastoral ministry for 45 or so years, primarily Duluth Bible Church and Grace and Truth Bible in Georgia.

And again, it's such an honor to have him here. And so, without further ado, Pastor Roxer.

Guest (Male): Well, good evening. Welcome to this workshop I've titled Every Believer Effective Evangelism. Coming out on a Saturday night isn't always easy to get people, especially on a hot day like this. But I'm glad you're here. I'm glad for those who are watching through live stream. I'm thankful for those who will watch this when it's archived as well. Because I have a real passion to get out the Gospel and to train other people to do it.

Again, I'm Dennis Roxer, former Lead Pastor Duluth Bible Church, followed by pastoring at the Grace and Truth Bible Church in Warner Robins, Georgia, for the last three and a half years. I retired from quote "pastoral ministry" in mid-February of this year. But not from all ministry as I plan, Lord willing, to devote the next season of my life of doing national and international Bible conferences, evangelism workshops, teaching classes at Chafer Theological Seminary, some extensive writing for True Grace books, monthly pulpit supply at my own home church in the Milwaukee area and so forth.

It definitely isn't retirement from all ministry. So I'm not sliding for home, but I hope to keep running the race as God's grace enables and directs. And that's why one of my favorite verses is Acts 20:24. But none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself, that I might finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the Gospel of the grace of God. In Mark chapter 16:15, the Lord Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach or proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation."

In Second Corinthians 5:20, we read, "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." And then Paul raises the question, "But how shall they hear without one who proclaims him?"

And that's what we're here tonight, to learn how to effectively communicate the Gospel. You will learn things about how to do that personally, in a one-on-one. You will learn how to do it in a more public venue, like at a county fair, like St. or Fort Bend County Fair, per se. You'll learn how to do it when you are short on time. You'll learn how to do it when you have a bunch of time, and so forth, as there's various ways to plant the seed of the Word of God and to proclaim it.

And you see, as we think of being an ambassador for Christ, that is one of the major reasons God has left you and me on this planet till Jesus comes again. And I remind the believers everywhere where I have pastored, that we are like Esther of old, in which maybe you were here for such a time as this. And you know, as I think of that and even where our country's at and such, instead of being upset, bothered, complaining, embrace it. God has you here now. God wants to use you now. And by the way, He doesn't need you and He doesn't need me. But He's looking for willing laborers who will depend upon Him and preach the Gospel in a clear, accurate, practical, and simple way, that the Spirit of God can use to open the eyes of the unsaved so that they could be saved. And then to establish believers in sound doctrine, that they might grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

As I think of the purpose of this workshop, all of you should have received a set of handouts or a folder tonight. I'm going to be walking right through that first handout that you see there. There will be some that I will not get to, that you can read on your own, per se, but this is designed to help you follow along. And and if you have a pen or pencil with you, there's even some blanks in some of the places for you to fill it in. But the purpose of this workshop is to further equip believers in Christ to communicate accurately and confidently the message of the Gospel of grace in simple, systematic, and easily understandable ways, that the Holy Spirit can use to convict the lost to place their trust in Christ alone to be eternally saved. And also to clarify for the saved who are unestablished or confused, important foundational truths, in order to have the absolute assurance of eternal security, and encourage them to spiritually grow and serve Jesus Christ, including proclaiming the Gospel to others. Now, that was one long sentence. Kind of feel like the Apostle Paul sometimes. But but that's what this is all about. It's designed to equip you.

See, I first heard the Gospel when I was 16 years old through the witness of my best friend Danny, who was a carnal Christian. That's why we were such good friends. I was unsaved. He was carnal. But I'm forever grateful that God used Danny to both plant and then later water the seed of the Gospel in my heart. And with my Roman Catholic background, I heard that Jesus Christ is God who had become sinless man. I knew I was a sinner. I heard Christ died for the sins of the world and rose again. But what I did not know is that salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It's a gift for the guilty. And by the way, this is one line I use oftentimes in talking to people personally. I'll just say, "Can I ask you a question here? Do you think salvation's a reward or do you think it's a gift?" What do you think the number one answer is? It's a reward. It's a reward, it's something you've got to do for it. Because you see, in their mind, they're thinking, "Well, Jesus Christ did his 70, 80, 90%, but certainly you have to do your 10%." Or like a lady I was talking to recently, she said she was 99%. And you know, in the last couple years, through the influence of a friend, I oftentimes respond to say, "I'm really sad to hear you're going to miss heaven by 1%." And they're like shocked. And I'll say, "Let me explain how you can be 100%," and so forth.

You see, as we think of this, what I didn't understand, though I acknowledged all those other truths, is I didn't understand that it is finished. That on the cross, Christ died for me. He paid for my sins, past, present, and future, and rose again to give me salvation, not as a reward for what I could do, but a gift for what His son has done. And that's the way you can always tell a true Gospel from a false Gospel, just see where is the spotlight. If the spotlight's not shining fully on Christ, then it's not the true Gospel. By the way, to shine the light on you and me, there is no good news in you and me. And the Gospel is good news. And it's good news about a savior. You know what saviors do? They save. That's real rocket science. And you know what that implies? That you can't save yourself. And that's why He came. In fact, I oftentimes say to people, "Well, if you could go to heaven by being good, why did Jesus come to Earth and die for our sins? It would have been for nothing." You see, before I was saved, I had faith in Christ plus, not faith in Christ period, I was lost and needed to be saved from a hell I deserved to a heaven I didn't. And two years later, when I was just about to graduate out of high school, I heard the Gospel again from Danny, and I put my faith in Jesus Christ, and I was saved by the grace of God, some 53 years ago.

A few months later, I decided to seek to live for my Savior who had died for me. And one of the first things I became burdened about as a babe in Christ was the salvation of others, including my own family. Precious souls for whom Christ died to save, who needed to hear the Gospel. And dear believer, God wants to use saved sinners like you and me as ambassadors of Christ to preach the Gospel. You know why? Because the majority of the world is on the broad road that leads to hell. In addition, Satan has used religion to blind people's eyes. So 2 Corinthians 4:3 says, "But even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing." Notice, it's veiled. They don't see the truth. And by the way, blind people don't see well. Notice, they're described as they're perishing. They're on their way to hell. Whose minds the god of this age Satan has blinded. How does he do that? Primarily through religion. Who do not believe. That's the one condition. Notice, it didn't say who do not repent from their sins. Make a commitment to Christ, get baptized, ask Jesus into their heart, give their life to Christ. No, no, no. That's not the condition. It's one condition. And it's to believe, to rely on Jesus Christ. Lest the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. That's what they need. They need, like the first day of creation, for the light to shine. And God uses the light of the Gospel, and He uses us to present it, as we have this treasure, the Gospel, in earthen vessels, clay pots, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. You see, you don't need the gift of evangelism to lead others to Christ, but you do need the power of the Holy Spirit using the power of the Gospel message presented in clarity and truth. That's what God uses to save lost sinners, and then to establish believers in their walk of faith till they go home to be with the Lord, their Lord and Savior in glory.

In fact, you know, when I talk to people, many of them have never given someone the Gospel. They've never seen anyone get saved. And the fact is, I'm not shaming anyone for that, but you know the number one reason why they haven't done that? Because they've never been equipped to do it. I think most believers are interested. They recognize the lost need to hear the Gospel. But they've never been equipped to do it, and maybe it's their fault that they haven't been willing, or could it be that they haven't been given that opportunity.

And that's what we seek by the grace of God to do, to equip you to do evangelism in this workshop.

And so, it all starts with the Gospel. So, let me invite you to take your Bibles and open them with me to First Corinthians chapter 15, in verses 1 through 4. You know, if I were to ask many people today, even believers, what is the Gospel? They do not know exactly what it is. Some might say, "Well, it's the whole Bible." Well, no, the word Gospel means good news, and not everything in the Bible is good news. To hear that people are on their way to a Christless eternity, to be separated from a Holy God forever and ever, is not good news. Sometimes they say, "Isn't that Matthew, Mark, Luther, and John?" No, no, that's not the Gospel either. What is the Gospel? Verse 1. "Moreover, brethren, I declared to you the Gospel." So, we see already, He's telling us what He is going to tell us. "Which I preached to you." Notice the Gospel is a message that is preached, not a ritual that is administered. "Which also you received." They accepted this message personally. "And in which you stand." They continue to stand upon this Gospel truth. "By which also you are saved," literally being saved. I'll explain that in a little bit, "if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain," minus the kind of results in your Christian life that ought to be. Verse 3. "For I delivered to you first of all, of great importance, that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures." "And He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve," and so forth, and so forth.

The Gospel, dear friends, is good news. It's good news about Jesus Christ. It explains how we can be saved. It explains how we can be born again. It explains how our destiny can change from hell to heaven. For you see, true biblical Christianity is not a religion of human performance. It's a relationship of divine accomplishment, based upon the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You know, as we think of the difference between religion and Christianity, again, we're talking about the difference between do. The message of religion is always do, and usually do more. And with Christianity, it's done. It's finished. It's paid for. In religion, it's all based on human works versus God's grace. It's man's way of salvation versus God's way. It's all about law, unconditional love, I should say, versus unconditional love versus unconditional love. Eternal salvation under religion is a reward again instead of a gift.

And you know, when I talk to people and I ask them why they think they should get into heaven, one, they have a sin nature that naturally is bent towards a legalistic approach to salvation, thinking they have to do something, but that's been reinforced by religion over the years as well. And so, Satan uses false religious Gospels, even garbled evangelical Gospels, to blind people from the simplicity that is in Christ. So you see there in verses 3 and 4, that it's all about Christ. The Gospel is all about how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day. It's not about us, it's about Jesus Christ, who He is and what He has done. So, following on your handout here, the Gospel centers, first of all, in a specific person, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, and who is He? He's eternal deity who became a sinless man. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:1 and 14. You see, if you put your faith in a Christ that isn't God, you put your faith in someone who cannot save you because only Christ can save you, only God can save you. And so, the good news involves a particular person. Secondly, it centers in a specific work. Namely, how Christ died according to the Scriptures. He was buried as proof that He died, and He rose again according to the Scriptures, and He was seen. So notice, the emphasis here is on Christ died and rose again. Why did He have to die? Because the penalty for sin is death. So for Him to pay our penalty, He had to die. But death, hell, and grave could not hold Him. He rose again the third day for as a living Savior, who offered a sacrifice that God had accepted. He's offering salvation, full and free and forever as a gift to those who would be willing to accept it by faith in Him alone.

Thirdly, the Gospel centers in a specific accomplishment, that when He died, He died for our sins. Now, again, note that for our sins is only attached to His death. He was not buried for our sins. He was not raised for our sins. Why did He only die for our sins? Because sin created a barrier between sinful man and a Holy God with the penalty being death. Jesus Christ cried out on the cross, "It is finished," which means the penalty had been paid. Therefore, He did not need to be buried for our sins. Fourthly, the Gospel requires a specific response. It's a good news message. It's an offering of a gift, but a gift is of no value until you personally receive it or accept it. And the particular response is to simply believe or trust in Christ alone. If you look down in chapter 15 with me to verse 11, "Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach what the Gospel and so you what? Believed." The word is pistuo, in the active voice, "You chose to believe it. You chose to rely on the Jesus Christ is presented in the Gospel." You chose to accept the gift by faith in Christ alone. And why is this such good news? Because when He died for our sins, by the way, that's the only negative thing in the Gospel presentation, is sins, that was needed again because there was a chasm between a Holy God and sinful man as our sins had separated us from God. And our good works, religion, morality, or philosophy could not bridge that gap, and that's why God sent His son, His only son, to be the one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time. And thus, Jesus Christ could rightfully say, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." So when you think of the cross, think of the fact that Jesus suffered God's wrath in your place, as your substitute. He was again, the Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world. And when He died, He died for our sins, past, present, and future. You say, "In future?" Yes, in fact, all of your sins were future when He died, because you weren't even around yet. But when He cried out, "It is finished," again, to testify, the idea there is our sins were paid in full. So that you can't even tip the waiter. It's been taken care of totally by Jesus Christ. But again, a dead Savior in a tomb would not be good news. We read in Romans 4:25, "He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and He was raised because of our justification." So that's why. God accepted the payment Christ made, that's the doctrine of propitiation, and He says, "I'm satisfied with what Christ has done on your behalf. Now the question remains, is are you satisfied?" So that you're willing to accept My terms, or His terms, and as a result, trust in Christ and His propitiation, substitutionary, redemptive work as He died for your sins.

And you see, I was talking to someone today in the airport, and they told me they thought they could go to heaven, but they weren't exactly sure. And then when I asked, "Why would Christ let you in? Because, you know, heaven's holy." He says, "Well, I've tried to do good things, and I try to be good," and all of these things. What is he thinking? He's thinking just like I thought. If I could only get my good to outweigh my bad, at the last round of maybe the scales would tip in my favor. But as a teenager, the scale was tipped so far the other way, I knew there's no way I was going to get there unless someone did it for me. And we know that Ephesians 2:8 and 9 wonderfully says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And that's not of yourself, it's the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."

And so, the Gospel is very simple. That Jesus Christ, God who became a man, died for our sins and rose again to offer salvation to us as a gift that is received by faith in Him plus nothing. Now, I say that because there's a tremendous amount of garbled, wrong, false Gospels out there. By well-meaning people even. And there's a chart, it's, you don't need to access it, but it's in the back of your folder somewhere, that works off the verse Hebrews 9:22, "And without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins." So, as you think of the various things people say you have to do to go to heaven, ask yourself, "Is there the shedding of blood?" Cause if there's not, there's no forgiveness of sins. When it comes to water baptism, is there the shedding of blood? Well, no, then there's no forgiveness of sins. It comes to church rituals? No. Therefore, no forgiveness of sins. Praying, is there any shedding of blood? No, so there's no forgiveness of sins. Changing your life? No, shedding of blood, therefore, no forgiveness. Asking Him to save you? No, therefore, there's no forgiveness. Turning from sin, which is very popular to hear. Is there any shedding of blood there? No. Therefore, there's no forgiveness. And by the way, notice, in all of these, where's the spotlight? On what you must do. Not on what Christ has done. Confess your sins? No, no forgiveness. Confess Christ? No shedding of blood, no forgiveness. Commit your life? No shedding of blood, no forgiveness. Give your life to Him? No shedding of blood, no forgiveness. By the way, the Bible never says to give your life to Christ to be saved. In fact, the truth of the matter is, you're not saved by giving your life to Christ. You're saved because He gave His life for you. Making Him Lord of all? No. No shedding of blood, no forgiveness. Keep your promises to God? No, no forgiveness. Jesus' death on the cross, is there any shedding of blood? Yes, therefore, there is forgiveness. So Acts 10:43 says, "To Him, Jesus Christ, all the prophets witness that through His name, whoever believes in Him, will receive remission of sins." Notice, faith alone in Christ alone. And by the way, His name represents who He is and what He's done. And the moment you've put your trust in Him plus nothing, you receive the forgiveness of your sins. Praise the Lord, because your faith is in Him and the shedding of His blood, the death that He died, the payment that He made. So that the Bible says in 1 John 5:13, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life." When I go over this verse with people, I will say, "You see that word know there? Do you think that's 50% know?" "60% know?" And you know what they always answer? "Oh, no, that's 100%." So can you know 100% that you have eternal life? By the way, when you have something, what does that mean? Means you personally possess it. And the one condition is simply to believe in who? The Son of God. And what guarantee do you have when you've trusted Christ that you have eternal life? These things have written to you. The very promises of God. God said it, Christ did it, you believe it, that settles it, you can know it. In fact, any system of theology, whether Calvinism, Arminianism, whatever it is, if it does not arrive at 100% assurance of you going to heaven, before you die, that you know that upon believing in Christ, it is a false system. Because here it says that if you believe, you can know. Anything less than 100% knowing means something isn't right. And that's why we don't go by our feelings when we're saved. We we know the fact of the Gospel. How Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again. We put our faith in Jesus Christ. We rely on Him, regardless of how we feel. And you know, before when I got saved, I was glad, sad, and mad all at the same time. I was glad I was going to heaven. I was mad I had been lied to, and I was sad because I knew people weren't saved that I cared about. But it's not a matter of having a feeling. That's why I've jokingly said, some people are looking for like the rosy glow when they get saved. And so they got this rosy glow. And I said, "Well, if you want that, want to get saved and get the rosy glow, go buy a bottle of vodka, and and when you decide to trust in Christ, take three swigs and you will both be saved and get the rosy glow."

Now, go with me, if you would, to Ephesians chapter 2 for a minute. Now, one thing most people feel when they get saved is great relief. The burden's off their back. They finally see. This isn't a matter of me performing, me working, me seeking to acquire. This is me trusting in someone else to save me, and He does it. Now in Ephesians 2, again, verses 8 and 9, "For by grace you have been saved." And again, when I'm going over with the unsaved person, I say, "It's not bad. Do you think that's 50% saved?" No, it's a done deal, 100%. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, faith in Christ, and that's not of yourself, it's the gift of God." Not the faith, but the salvation, "not of works, lest anyone should boast." "For we, we who have been saved by grace through faith, apart from works, are His workmanship." We are created, new creations in Christ Jesus. For the purpose of good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Please notice the word should. I pointed out because God's intent when someone is saved is that they should grow in the Lord. They should walk with the Lord. And they should have good works, but please notice the word should versus that they will have them. And I say that because there are those who say, "Well, I don't know if that person's safe. I don't know if they have enough fruit in their life." Really, how much fruit do you have to have before you know you're saved? Can you not know the moment you trust in Christ and take God at His word that you've been saved, or do you have to do like one person I read, this pastor suggested you wait three years to make sure that you have enough fruit to know?

Now, where's the spotlight on that one? All on your fruit, your walk, instead of His work on the cross. So when it comes to good works, let's just be clear about this. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us the moment we trusted in Jesus Christ alone. We then received the Holy Spirit. The Word of God now becomes the means by which we can grow in our understanding. And as we learn to walk by faith, like we've been saved by faith, guess what results? Is good works. But not to be saved, but because we've been saved. Not to go to heaven, but because we're going to heaven. We can have good works in our life that bring honor and glory to Christ. And so, we've been explaining clearly here the Gospel. And you have on your handouts tonight, if you are interested in in in in reading more, John 3:16 illustrated booklet is an excellent booklet. The Good News of Salvation, Getting the Gospel Right and Wrong, Are You 100% Sure That You Have Eternal Life, Let's Preach the Gospel, or Seven Reasons Not to Ask Jesus in Your Heart, which is a book that I wrote a number of years ago. And tonight, if you're here, obviously, in your you should have had in your folder a little Gospel booklet that was recently done by David and Alice and Hill that go through this. I'm going to use this later as well, but at the back of it, you can see there's a QR code that takes you to a seven-minute video that explains the bad news, good news approach to the Gospel. I also put in your folder there tonight, a couple little business cards. I've been using these recently, I got this idea from someone else. And sometimes when you get into a real informal, quick conversation, you can just say, "Well, would you like to know for sure, 100%, you're going to heaven?" And you can give them this card and say, "And the first QR code there, just use it, seven-minute video that explains the Gospel message." The other one actually is a a QR code for my ministry, Grace for the Race Ministries, if they want to know more about that.

Now, go with me to First Corinthians chapter 2 for a minute. Now, when people think about evangelism or preaching or whatever, sometimes they get really nervous. You think that's uncommon? No, I think it's really common. In fact, would it surprise you if Paul actually said he got really nervous? Chapter 2, verse 1, "And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God." See, the Gospel is the testimony of God. Verse 2. "For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." Notice, He wanted to emphasize again, the Gospel. Now, watch this. "I was with you in weakness." I'm not sufficient for this. "I was with you in fear. I was with you in much trembling." "And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom." I didn't try to philosophize. "But in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." You know, what do you get up? He just got up and He preached with simplicity, enabled by the Spirit of God, the message of the Gospel. And guess what? There were those who believed. Now, there were those who rejected as well, as God gives everyone a volitional decision of how they will respond. And sometimes they're negative at first, and then become very positive. Sometimes they're positive at first, but once they understand the Gospel, they may become negative. Cause the Gospel is very humbling, especially for religious people. The hardest people to lead to Christ are religious people, because in their mind, you know, they have a decent spiritual batting average. You know, when I ask someone, "How sure are you of going to heaven, 0 to 100?" and they say 50%, they almost always get saved, why? Because they're already guilty. They already know they don't deserve it. When they say 95 or 90 or 80, they're really leaning on the side of they're good enough to get there, and therefore they're going to have to get over their pride. And yet, the Spirit of God, when He opens their eyes, enables them to be able to make that decision. So Paul was just willing to preach the Gospel. And one of the reasons that believers in Christ do not witness the Gospel to the lost is that they are unsure how to proceed, as they have not been equipped to evangelize. I would dare say one of the weaknesses in the doctrinal church movement, if you want to call it that, is that oftentimes in our kind of churches, we're very strong on doctrine. And rightfully so. But we can be very weak on evangelism. In fact, I reminded the pastors at the Chafer Seminary Bible conference in March when I was there. I said, "You know, we like to use 2 Timothy 4:2, preach the Word as one of the verses that characterizes our ministry, and rightly so. But three verses later, do you know what he also said to Timothy? Do the work of an evangelist. That means preach the Gospel, whether it's in your messages or we also know. Uh that there's a place not only to be willing to get equipped, but to do so by instruction, example, and practice. In fact, you know, Ephesians chapter 4 says, "And He Himself, the resurrected Christ, who ascended into heaven, gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, and what are they to do for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." I have observed over the years that every believer who seems successful in presenting the Gospel to others has a method to their evangelism. Otherwise, believers tend to be arctic river Christians, frozen at the mouth. Well, others in sound churches like this one can fall into the trap of being a Dead Sea Christian, as the doctrine flows in one direction but never flows out to others. And the solution to that is to get equipped. How by instruction, publicly and personally. That's what we're doing here. By example, watching others do it. Like the Fort Bend County Fair is coming up. There are a number of people that have been trained, Sugar Land Bible Church. And by the way, I'm thrilled at how many people have been trained in this local church, even since I came here in 2024. And watching someone, you know, first of all, getting taught yourself and watching someone else do it can help you immensely. Thirdly, practicing yourself. And when you feel comfortable, getting your feet wet. It's kind of like water skiing. I've never known anyone who's learned how to water ski by reading a book. Eventually, you had to get in the water and fall a few times on the way. And so, again, I am very thankful for what the Lord has been doing here, the momentum that's been here since I was here in 2024, giving a similar kind of presentation as I am tonight. But there has to be those in leadership that promote evangelism training as well as ongoing training gatherings, because otherwise, people don't don't get comfortable enough with it. And again, it's not a matter of learning, basically, every word you're supposed to say, though I'm going to share with you ways of you presenting it. There's some flexibility here, especially once you kind of get the skeleton down. But you see again, we recognize. "You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from Me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men, men and women, who will be able to teach others also." Notice, there's this intentional equipping. There was this passing on the baton of truth that it could be passed on to others. You know, thinking of a method of evangelism, years ago, when DL Moody, the great evangelist, was over in England, a man came up to him and said, "You know, Mr. Moody, I don't really like your method of evangelism." And Moody said, "Really? So, what is your method?" He says, "I don't have one." And Moody said, "Well, I like mine more."

So I'm going to seek to establish you in some basic evangelistic method tonight that can act as a skeleton for sharing the Gospel in a number of different ways. Now, it starts with the bad news. We call it the bad news, good news approach for a reason. It starts with the bad news because the bad news provides the context for the message. For example, if I came up to you tonight, and I said, "You know, I'm really sorry to hear about your cancer. I think I have a solution for you." And you say to me, "Cancer? I don't have cancer." You would see no value in what I had to share. Well, in the same way, people don't appreciate the good news until they come to grips with the bad news. And the bad news basically breaks down to three things. It's quite simple. Number one, God is holy. He's morally pure without sin. And by the way, when I share the Gospel at times with people, and I'll say, "God is holy." I'll say, "Do you know what holy means?" And most people do not know how to define holy. It means morally pure, it means without sin. Secondly, man is a sinner. Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." And then thirdly, the penalty of sin or for sin is death. Romans 6:23. "For the wages of sin is death." A wage is something you earn, something you deserve, a reward as it were, for what you've done. And in this case, the penalty of sin is death. Separation from God forever and ever and ever, should we die in a separated state. Now, that's simple. Psalm 99:9 talks about how God is holy. You're going to see this again when we look at some other ways to present this bad news, good news approach. So notice, three things. Number one, God is holy. Number two, man's a sinner. Three, penalty for sin is death. That is not difficult to remember. And you'll see how, once you get comfortable with this, how you can weave this into casual conversations.

Now, we move from the context of the Gospel to the content of the Gospel. So we're moving from bad news to good news. Now, when it comes to this, it's not like you have to say this word perfect. But you're going to drive up this tree, basically. The good news is that God loved the world, the sinners, in spite of their sin, and desires to save them from the penalty of sin they justly deserve, namely hell. So you can say, "God is holy, man's a sinner, the penalty for sin is death, but you know what? God loves you in spite of your sin, and He wants to save you from a hell you deserve to a heaven you don't." And then you explain about Jesus Christ. How He's God who became sinless humanity. How on the cross, He died for your sins, paying the penalty in full, and He rose again to give you eternal life as a gift. Okay? God is holy, man's a sinner, penalty for sin is death. Good news, God loved the world, gave His son to die for our sins and to be raised from the dead. See, I just said that in 30 seconds. It doesn't take long, but you can explain it in more detail as as you are talking to someone, depending on how much time you have to talk to them.

So the bad news, the good news, and now we talk about the response of the Gospel, simply to trust, to believe, to exercise faith, to rely on Jesus Christ alone. And I want to emphasize alone. I had someone come up to me here a few months ago when I was done preaching, and they said, "You know, let me make sure I get this clear. I know I have a friend who's a Roman Catholic, and they would say they believe Jesus Christ is God who became a man, who died for their sins and rose again. They wouldn't deny any of that. So are they saved?" And I said, "No, unless their faith is in Christ alone." It's very important, because you see, if you have faith in Christ plus, then you're trying to work your way to be saved, which isn't the message of grace. If it's it's either grace and not works, or works and not grace. It can't be both. They're like oil and water, they do not mix. So this is the response. And then you go to the results of trusting Christ alone as presented in the Gospel. God keeps His promises and saves us from hell. Shall not perish the moment we trust in Christ alone, and He also gives us eternal life and forgives us all our sins.

Now, again, you don't need to be word perfect on this, or use the same words every time. These are examples of questions that engage and open the opportunity to plant seed and give them a Gospel booklet or whatever. You know, there's a story of a man that lived down in Australia years ago. They would call him the eternity man. Cause he would go out and hand out tracks, especially to British Navy people that were there. And he would say, "Do you know for sure where you're going to spend eternity?" That's how he got nicknamed the eternity man. And he gave the Gospel tracks to these men. And he knew of hardly anyone that ever got saved. And the story is told that a few years later, there was a conference. I think it was in the United States, where a lot of men that were involved in ministry were sharing their testimonies. And there were several men in that group that shared about this guy down in Australia, who said, "Do you know for sure where you're going to spend eternity?" Gave him a Gospel track, and not only got saved, I'm in the ministry today. And this guy didn't really know in Australia about it until someone came and shared that story. I'd encourage you believers that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. You don't need to count hands and numbers and whatever. Just plant the seed, trust the Lord to use it. That's a short on time approach.

The next one on your handout is what we call the simple bad news, good news approach. Again, we've covered this several times. Let's review it again. Number one, the bad news is, God is holy, man is a sinner, the penalty for sin is death. The good news is God loves us, and Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again to provide salvation as a gift. The response is faith alone in Christ alone. The results based on John 3:16 is you shall not perish but have everlasting life. Now, in the in the simple bad news, good news approach, again, I use the same kind of questions. I just use these three questions over and over again, in different forms, but I use basically the same. And if they're right on all the answers, I like to say, "Is there anything a person can do to lose his salvation?" I want to open that can of worms to see if they understand eternal security. Or are they trying to keep themselves saved through their holy life? By the way, if you can do something to lose your salvation, you have to do something to keep it. If you have to do something to keep it, then salvation doesn't depend fully on Christ's work and faith alone. It depends on your faithfulness and works, and that is not the Gospel message.

So what do you do in this again? You again, you go over this bad news, good news, context, content, response, and results. Again, the very thing we've been covering is what you do. And go over this. The good news again is what Jesus Christ did. And again, you can read this on your own, but we've been covering it over and over again. And then what I do is what I did the other day. Again, we had a guy come in to paint our house, and he brought a brand new guy with him. I had witnessed to this painter last Saturday when he was doing part one of the paint job, and he really liked what I was saying. I don't know if he's saved yet or not, but very positive, and as a result, he purposely brought this new employee to our house for the purpose that I could talk to him. And at lunchtime, I sat there and started to engage him. His name was Drew. And I said to Drew, "So, are you a person of faith at all?" "Oh, yes, I am." "Yes, I I I definitely am." I said, "Really? So, do you know for sure if you were to die, 100% you're going to heaven?" He says, "No, I don't know that." "No." "So, what do you think you have to do to go to heaven?" And then he said something about works. So I began to go through the Gospel diagram, and what I did was I actually drew what I'm going to draw right here. And if you have a blank paper there, that's on your worksheet, maybe if not, somewhere there. You can draw the same thing I'm drawing. Very simple. You got that bad news, good news, response, result, skeleton. So what do we do? Oops, come back here.

You start again with God, and you draw a diagram. You draw a triangle, excuse me. And this is what I say. I said, "Now, it starts with God. For God so loved the world, God." Now, there's many things we could say about God. Not only is He a trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But I would like to emphasize a particular attribute of God, the fact that He is holy. I said, "Do you know what holy means?" And again, sometimes they do, most times they don't. And so I explain it to them. And again, I'm not just lecturing, I'm engaging all the way along. I said, "Not only is God holy, morally pure, and perfect, but His primary place of residence is heaven, and it also is holy. How much sin is in heaven?" And they'll say, "Well, none." "You're right. And this creates a problem, because you see, on the other hand, there's you and me. And we are sinners." And we've and God gave the Ten Commandments in order to show us how holy He is and how sinful we are. So, Drew, do you know any of the Ten Commandments? And he, he ripped off most of them. And I said, "So, have you ever lied?" He says, "Yes." And I said, "If you had said no, I had called you a liar." I said, "Have you ever done this? Ever done? Yes." I said, "Now you remember when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, how many sins did it take for God to kick them out of the garden?" "Well, just one." "And you're way over the limit, Drew, and so am I." And as a result, if we, God gave us what we deserved, He would have to condemn us to hell because God is holy. So there's this barrier of sin that separates God from man.

And the penalty for sin is death. Now, there's at least three kinds of death in the Bible. There's spiritual death. There's physical death, if you want to just be writing this down what I'm doing too. There's eternal death. I said, "In every case, the word death speaks of some kind of separation." So when someone dies spiritually, they're separated from God. God said to Adam and Eve, "The day you eat of the fruit, you will surely die." But did they die physically right then? No, but they died spiritually. Physical death is when your soul and spirit separate from your body. Eternal death is when you as a person are separated from God forever and ever in hell.

And so we go over this. Now, I say most people try to think if you can get your good again to outweigh your bad. Your sins versus your human good. You think the scales will tip in your favor, but you know the Bible says that all our righteousness are like filthy rags. And then I went on to explain to Drew, "But the good news, Drew, is that in spite of our sin, God loved us." And He sent His son, Jesus Christ, to come to Earth to die for us and to remove the barrier, and provide the way to heaven. Not through our works, not through a church, but through Jesus Christ alone. And on the cross, when He died, He paid for our sins, past, present, and future. And He rose again to provide as it were salvation as a gift. And as a result, if you are willing to put your faith, your trust in Jesus Christ alone, believing He died for your sins and rose again, so that you rely on Him to save you, that that gift of eternal life becomes yours. Cause it says right there, number one, whoever believes in Him should not perish. And I crossed this out, "But have everlasting life."

By the way, in this conversation with Drew, I said to him, "So, Drew, do you know what grace means?" He says, "Yeah," means that you get something you don't deserve." I said, "Really? Where did you learn that?" He said, "I learned that in Awana." "Awana?" He says, "Yeah, I went to Awana when I was in third, fourth, fifth, sixth grade." And I said, "Well, actually, I was a good friend of the founder of Awana." Art Rohaym and I were friends. And his passion was for children to come to understand the Gospel. And I don't know if it just didn't connect with him, or if he got saved and confused later on. But at this point, I don't know if he's saved or not, until I went through the Gospel. And then I said, "Now, let's make this personal, Drew. For God so loved Drew, that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for Drew. That if Drew would simply trust in Him, Drew shall not perish, but Drew would have right now everlasting life." "What do you think of that, Drew?" I look over him, He takes off His glasses, tears coming down his face. And he's like, "This is this is great." And as I said, "So, what are your chances of going to heaven now, Drew?" "100%." "Why?" "Because of what Jesus Christ did for me." And by the time it's over, he gave me his name, phone number, email address. I gave him my book I'm saved now what, my book on 3/10 of salvation. I said, "I'd really like to stay in contact." And all I did was draw a hand draw that diagram, walking it through with him with some verses because I had my phone, and I had my Bible there. Plus, he had a lot of verses memorized. He went to Awana. So he could finish some of the ones I was starting. And yet, though he knew the verse, he never connected the dots, which can happen. And so, when you have a chance to sit down with someone, I have at times done this in in a restaurant. I'll just pull out a a napkin and draw this on it. At my kitchen table the other day, I did it on that. Wasn't sophisticated. But you know what? That diagram coupled with verses really kind of connects the dots for people. It's amazing how the Lord uses it.

Now, you can use a wallet illustration or a cell phone illustration, per se. In fact, you say, "What are you talking about here?" And what I'm talking about is a presentation that's been around a long time. A lot of times using a wallet illustration. I think it was developed by Ray Stanford at Florida Bible College a number of years ago, but it's been used by a lot of people. Uh Tom Kakusa, himself there, it's on your uh I think it's on your your handout, where you can watch it. Just But you know what he does at the end of the day? Bad news, good news presentation. Now, by the way, there's a reason why the bad news, good news presentation works. One, it's biblical. Two, it's scripture. When Paul's teaching Romans the Gospel, where does he start out with after the introduction? The bad news. There's none righteous, no, not one. There's none that understands. Then he goes to the good news. Then he explains in more detail how you by faith alone, it's yours, and then he explains how this results in the assurance of your salvation and even eternal security. So again, it's a very effective way to do it.

Now, the third way here, by the way, what time is it? For some reason, I don't can't see. Oh, it's 8:34. It's right up there. So we have a little more time to go through this. Okay? And we get through it, then I'm just going to encourage you to read kind of the rest. Now, this is more of a systematic diagram approach. Now, this is means you've got like a diagram in front of you. And we have these diagrams. In fact, there are some examples of it in your folder, which I'll show you in a little bit. This is when you have 15 minutes or longer, usually to do this. And what we do is at the fair, like if you were to go to the Fort Bend County Fair coming up, we would show you exactly how we do this. Now, if you're doing it at a table, like I do this, I sometimes actually, I have these pre-made, and I will go grab them and I'll walk through them, and they have the verses built right into them, as you will see. I get started again, same questions. You see this? Nothing really magical about this. Are you a person of faith? What are your chances? Why would Christ let you in? Is there anything you could do to lose your salvation? And you and you write down their answers. And the reason you write them down is because when you're done, you want to circle around and see if they're willing to change their answers. To see if it's right or not. It's like one gal once, she told me, you're saved by ask by um giving your life to Christ. Her name was Asha. And I said, "Asha, are you saved by giving your life to Christ, or are you saved because He gave His life for you?" She goes, "Oh, it's that one." Immediate repentance, change of mind. I'm sure she was saved before. She had just picked up some baggage, per se. Okay? Cause I'm not trying to say tonight if you've asked Jesus in your heart, you're not saved. You could be saved, but you're not saved because you asked Jesus in your heart. You got saved because you put your trust in Jesus Christ and what He did for you.

There's a picture of the fair down in Georgia. Now, just to think of the impact of these fairs. In a 10-day fair in Georgia, in Perry, Georgia, there's the Georgia National Fair. It's the biggest fair in the state, though it's not the state fair. And we normally give the Gospel to 800 to 1,000 people in 10 days. And I would say 80% of the responses are positive, maybe more. Sometimes they're saved and get cleared up. Sometimes they're clear and they get just encouraged. Sometimes they don't have a clue. Very few are negative when it's presented.

So, we give them first a spiritual viewpoint question. Now, we changed it this year a little bit than it was in the past, added a few more things so that we could be a little more clearer with people and not let them slide through the cracks. Number one, did you grow up with any sort of spiritual or church background? A lot of times it'll say yes, and I usually ask, "So, you mind sharing what kind of church background you had?" Now, when you're down in Georgia, in our county, where I pastored, there were 42 Baptist churches in that one county, 41 in the neighboring county, 43 in the other county. 120 in three counties. And they all asked Jesus in their heart. They've all come forward, said the sinner's prayer. They've asked him, "Why are you going to heaven?" Listen to this. 80% of those when I ask them, "So why should Christ let you in?" don't even mention Jesus Christ in the answer. And they've been going to church all their lives, as it were. So I like to ask, so I have some idea where their background is. Do you believe that there's one God, many gods, no God? I'm not sure. They almost always say, oops, let's go back. Uh Michael. This thing just disappeared on me. I'll continue. And so you just keep going through the spiritual viewpoint survey with them. Oh, there we are again. Wow. Is this demon possessed this? I think the holy angels just won the tug of war. Okay? Number three, do you believe that there are moral absolutes, definite right and wrongs? Now, most people will say yes, occasionally you'll find someone who won't say yes. And when they say, "Well, now, you do this isn't the time to debate anybody." But I will say, "Also, are you saying it's okay, under certain conditions to go cut that guy's head off? Is that okay?" And they'll say, "Well, no." "Oh, okay, you do have some moral absolute just thought I'd check." Okay? Have you ever personally done something that you know to be wrong? Almost everyone says yes. Do you believe there are consequences for doing wrong? They usually say yes. What is grace? What does it mean? Most people don't know the answer. Though down south, sometimes they do. They'll say, "Oh, it's God's unmerited favor. It's undeserved kindness." "You can't work for it." And then they'll tell you later, "Four things you got to do to get saved." Number seven, do you believe there's a heaven and a hell? Now, this is interesting. Some of them today will say, "Well, I believe there's a heaven, there's no hell." I say, "Really? So you think uh Adolf Hitler's going to be in heaven?" "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Also, you also there is an alternative." Oh, okay. Just thought I'd ask. Okay. Number eight. If you died today, what do you think your personal chance of making it to heaven are? I'm positive, 100%. Probably, 80 to 90. Hopefully, well, 50 to 80. Might, 20 to 50. No chance of zero. And they'll tell you what their chances are. Number one answer is, right there. 80 to 90. Cause I know I've goofed up, but I'm not that bad. Number nine, if you believe that you might go to heaven, why would God let you in? And you write down. Oh, here's a few more. Circle which of the following conditions are necessary to do in order to become a Christian or to be saved from hell. Now, sometimes they'll tell you, "It's just faith in Jesus." And I'll say, "Really? So, do you think you need to repent from your sins?" And they'll say, "Oh, yes." I said, "What about asking Jesus in your heart?" "Well, that can't hurt." And by the time you're done, they'll have circled like five things. Though initially they might have just said it's only by faith. So that's why we put this in there. Because sometimes they answer one thing, but if you probe a little deeper, you'll find out they're confused. Give your life. And by the way, when it's done, when you're done giving the John 3:16 diagram, you can circle back and just say, "Now, I want you to see how you answered before. Would you like to change that answer at all?" And you'll be amazed. They'll say, "Oh, yeah, it's only belief." They'll have totally changed their mind. They just have never heard anything different. They're confused. A couple more here. Heaven something. That is free, a gift, or is it something you must earn? What are the reasons or basis for what you believe? We've been thinking about changing that one. You know, down south, you know, if you say, "Is the Bible important to you?" They all say yes, almost. Which is good. Just that it's amazing how confused. And then you say, "Thank you. This completes our spiritual viewpoint survey today." And again, the value of asking these questions is that it will give you a good idea what the person believes, if they understand the Gospel, whether they have 100% assurance or not, and what you may need to emphasize and clarify as you explain the Gospel. However, this is not the time to interact or correct their wrong answers, as you have solicited their feedback for the survey. You know, if they're an atheist, you might know say, "You don't believe in atheism? You're not that dumb, are you?" No, no, no. You're just taking the answers in the survey. I had one guy, he started to engage people at that point. He's like, "No, we ask them to take a survey, not have a debate." So at that point, you begin to transition to the John 3:16 diagram. Okay? You're short on time. They say, "Well, I don't have much time." Then what we do is we just use the four questions questionnaire, not all 12. Uh normally they'll allow you to go through the all the questions. Then we ask for permission, "Would you mind if we show you now John 3:16 illustrated?" They usually will say yes, and then again, how would you you go through the Gospel? How or or here's what I would say sometimes before we start. How would you like to be able to change your answer from 70% sure of going to heaven to 100%? Would you like to change that? Oh, yeah. Well, let me show you this illustration. Or would you like to see what the Bible says is necessary to go to heaven, so you can be 100% sure. Or would you like to see how I present the Gospel and illustrate John 3:16. And so again, you're trusting the Lord to use His word in the hearts of people here. And you see, and you don't have to, you just go through this presentation. You don't have to correct everything at this point. A lot of times, they will correct it themselves. They will see what's a wrong answer as they go. And so, what you can do at this point is you begin to use this diagram. Again, it's going to be a bad news, good news approach. And you're circling keywords, first God, then world, then His only begotten Son, whoever believes. Number one, should not perish. Have everlasting life. Bad news, good news again. Okay? And you as you go through it, and you'll see the diagram. In fact, you could take out at this point your sheet. You should have a sheet there that has a diagram on it. Already pre-done. In fact, is there a sheet there? There's a few different sheets. I know there's a number of them here. Is there a sheet there that has a Gospel, I mean some some uh barrier and triangle and so forth, as well as verses on it? I can't remember if I had that printed or not. You have one? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you do. So you can kind of see it there. And that's how you walk through it, that same way with them. Uh I'm not going to demonstrate because of time. I already drew this one out. And again, what I encourage people to do is go back and watch those videos that are there to reinforce this. And then when I go through it, I I try to summarize it or bring it to some conclusion, and I say to them this, "If what I've explained to you today is true, what ultimately condemns a person to hell?" I have yet to have someone get the wrong answer. "If what is said today is true, why will someone not get into heaven? Why would they go to hell?" And I have them read at the bottom of the page, John 3:18. "He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already. Why? Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." By that time, they know it well enough to know what condemns a person, which means they're getting to understand what it means to be saved. Here's some tips to remember. Practice explaining the Gospel this way over and over again and observe others doing it till you feel comfortable. Secondly, have them read aloud the verses if they're comfortable to do so. And that keeps them engaged. Number three, remember the Holy Spirit will enable you and He must open the eyes their eyes to the Gospel. Number four, avoid rabbit trails. Keep the main thing the main thing. They might say, "Well, what do you think about dot dot dot?" And if you go down that trail, you may never get off that trail. So I say, "That's a good question. Maybe we can answer that at the end." Now, this is very important what I'm about to cover here. Sometimes, homosexuals and others want to create a stir and perhaps come to the fair booth feeling condemned by Christians and without hope. This has happened a number of times. Do not or do not get into a discussion with them about their particular sin any more than anyone else's. You know, when we ask people our sinner, and we go to the Ten Commandments, we don't keep on saying, "Now, what are you going to do about that lying? Are you willing to change your lying?" We don't talk to them about it. We talk to them about Christ, right? But go through the good news of the Gospel, they need to hear and believe. In fact, sometimes I'll say to them, "Have you ever heard from Christians if you're gay, you're going to hell?" "Do you know that isn't true?" "That you're going to go to hell because of that?" If homosexuality becomes an issue, and sometimes they make it such, it's helpful for the homosexual to know that God loves them regardless of their sin, like He does with us. That Christ died for their sins like He did for us. That God is willing to save them by His grace like He has done for us. And that their lifestyle will not keep them out of heaven, but their unbelief in Christ will, like everyone else. You see, I like to say, "Many homosexuals do not think there's forgiveness or grace by God available to them unless they change their lifestyle." This is putting the cart before the horse and make their sin the issue instead of the Son. Remember, now here's what I like to say to them, "The ground is level at the cross." And we come to Christ just as I am by faith in Him alone to wash our sins away. Is not the ground level at the cross? Do we have to clean up our lives, promise to do better, and deserve it, or is it undeserved? They have to come to faith in Jesus Christ. Now, after they've been saved, obviously, that's an issue they're going to have to deal with, but now they have the Holy Spirit. Now they have the Word of God. But don't we carry into the Christian life sin patterns too? Are our sins a little nicer looking to God than theirs? And you know what? They appreciate that you show them grace. We've had people come, you know, holding hands, girls, lesbians holding hands, come, sit down and take it. And and as we're going over the fact that, you know, do you know God loves you unconditionally, just as you are? Though it doesn't want to leave you just as you are. And they start crying because they don't think God loves them. They think God hates them. And as you go through the Gospel, sometimes they'll get saved right there and walk out holding hands. Because, you know what? Their homosexual issue is a sanctification issue. It is not a justification issue. It is not a birth truth, it's a growth truth. And they're going to need to grow as a babe in Christ. And you know what? As they do, God can give them deliverance over those sins, just like He gives us deliverance over our sins. And I think we just really need to be gracious but biblical on this. We're not trying to say it's not a sin. And I sometimes when they pin me, I'll just say, "Well, you know, I don't think heterosexual sins are any better than homosexual sins are. We've all sinned. And that's why I'm thankful Jesus Christ loves me and died for me and so forth." If in a public venue, never argue or speak loudly if they are negative and resistant. Just thank them for coming and taking the survey. You're not here to win an argument, you're here to win people to Christ in a public setting. If needed, state they will have to agree to disagree and end the conversation. There is no value in winning the battle and losing the war like getting kicked out of the fair. Because they go and complain. God will bring along more positive people to hear the Gospel. So let the negative ones go.

So, these are a number of things that are very helpful to be covered. My my time is gone for tonight. I haven't it opened up for questions because I knew I wouldn't have time for them, but I'm willing after this, if you have some questions. Or you can again, go to Grace for the Race, and you could email me your questions if you would like. Again, there is a number of people here at Sugar Land Bible that are getting have gotten trained in this, are getting more experience in this. And that's one of the only ways you're going to learn how to do it. But again, just always be thinking more along the lines of that bad news, good news motif. And there's a lot of different ways to do it. And you know, it's one of the most thrilling things in the world to see in front of your eyes. The Holy Spirit opened the eyes of someone who was blind. To see the truth in the Gospel. And to say, "I am 100% sure. I am going to heaven now because of what Christ did." And then I sometimes will ask them, "So, when did you come to that assurance?" And they'll say, "Five minutes ago," or, "Right now." Or, "I knew some of this before, but I've never heard it put together like this. This makes so much sense." Sometimes you will hear people say, "Why didn't anyone tell me this before?" We've had people who say, "I'm going to go talk to my pastor about this. I don't know why he's not telling us this." No, you might want to think twice about that, and pray about it, and whatever. So, I hope that this was helpful tonight. Again, this coupled with some practical training, coupled with watching some videos, some opportunities to do this. Try it out. Try out the simple, quick, short on time approach. And see how the Lord will use it, and He will. Let's pray. Our Father, we thank you, for we know we're not sufficient of ourselves to think anything is being from ourselves. Our sufficiency is from You, and we know the power comes from the Spirit. We know the power is in the message of the Gospel that is able to save everyone who believes. And yet, how shall they believe in Him, in whom they have not heard? And thank you that you've entrusted to us the Gospel. I pray that whether it's these methods or others, that it would be presented clearly, compassionately, in a way that the Spirit of God could use it, and people could get saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Their destiny would be forever changed, and now with the indwelling Holy Spirit, and with a new nature, that desires the things of You, that we know that the potential for growth is there. And that it could impact not only their destiny, but now it impact how they live their life from day to day on their way to glory. So thank you, Lord Jesus, for who You are and what You've done. How can we ever thank you enough? We love you, because You first loved us. And thank you for this time together. In Jesus' name. Amen.