Salvation Message

PAUL TELLS HIM THAT HE WILL GLADLY TELL THIS POLITICIAN HIS TESTIMONY.

PAUL PROCEEDS TO TELL AGRIPPA HOW HE PERSONALLY

MET THE LORD ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. HE THEN TELLS AGRIPPA THAT CHRIST HAD SUFFERED AND DIED AND THAT HE WAS THE FIRST THAT ROSE FROM THE DEAD.

AGAIN, PAUL PRESENTS A RISEN LORD AND SAVIOR FOR ALL MANKIND, INCLUDING THE GENTILES.

PAUL THEN ASKS AGRIPPA THE MAGIC QUESTION AND SAYS, KING AGRIPPA, BELIEVEST THOU THE PROPHETS?

AGRIPPA GIVES A SAD RESPONSE THAT IS SHARED BY MANY PEOPLE OF ALL KINDS TODAY. HE SAYS, PAUL, ALMOST THOU PERSUADEST ME TO BE A CHRISTIAN.

WE ALL KNOW THAT ALMOST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH BUT IN HORSESHOES AND HANDGRANADES.

ALMOST SAVED IS ALL THE WAY LOST.

ALMOST SAVED IS DEFINITELY GOING TO HELL.

AGRIPPA NO DOUBT WAS ALSO UNDER CONVICTION OF THE HOLY GHOST JUST AS FELIX WAS AND INSTEAD OF PROCRASTINATION HE JUST FLATLY REJECTS THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST WITH AN ALMOST YOU PERSUADED ME.

ALL THREE OF THESE MEN ARE CRYING OUT IN THE MIDST OF WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH IN THE PLACE WE KNOW AS HELL.

THEY ARE SUFFERING ETERNALLY FOR PROCRASTINATING SALVATION, NOT BELIEVING SALVATION, AND FLATLY REJECTING SALVATION.

IF YOU COULD TALK TO THESE MEN RIGHT NOW I’M SURE THAT YOU WOULD SAY TO THEM, WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST GET SAVED. THERE YOU ARE BURNING AND TOTALLY DEPRAVED OF HOPE AND NEVER WILL YOU KNOW ANYTHING OF GOD, ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM HIS AID. WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST GET SAVED.

I ASK THE SAME QUESTION OF MANY OF YOU TODAY.

WHY DON’T YOU JUST GET SAVED.

WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK.

WHAT ARE YOU HOLDING ON TO THAT WOULD BE WORTH AN ETERNITY IN HELL.

I WANT TO GIVE YOU 5 THINGS I BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE HOLDING ON TOO THAT HAS KEPT THEM FROM ACCEPTING GOD’S FREE GIFT OF SALVATION.

THIS SHOULD NOT TAKE LONG, SO PLEASE BARE WITH ME.

MANY, MANY LOCAL CHURCH MEMBERS AS WELL AS THOSE THAT ARE IN THE WORLD WILL GO TO HELL BECAUSE THEY REJECT THE GIFT OF GOD FOR ONE OR MORE OF THESE 5 THINGS.

1. PRIDE:

I BELIEVE THAT PRIDE IS THE BIGGEST SIN THAT PEOPLE HAVE THAT KEEPS THEM FROM BEING SAVED.

THEY ARE SIMPLY TO PROUD TO BOW.

TO PROUD TO SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY AND LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST.

A. PRIDE IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF SATAN.

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT SATAN FELL BECAUSE OF PRIDE (ISAIAH 14: 12-23).

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THOSE WHO ARE NOT SAVED OR BORN AGAIN ARE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN.

CHILDREN OFTEN SHARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR FATHER SO THIS IS NO SURPRISE. MANY A SINNER AND THE DEVIL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON AND THAT IS THEIR STINKING PRIDE. THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR REPUTATION OR WHAT PEOPLE WILL THINK AND THEY WILL END UP IN HELL BECAUSE OF IT.

IF THEY DON'T REPENT

B. THE BIBLE CALLS THE PROUD WICKED. LISTEN, IF GOD SAYS THEY ARE WICKED BECAUSE OF PRIDE THEN THEY ARE WICKED.

PSALMS 73:3 TALKS ABOUT THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED AND THEN IN VERSE 6 WE SEE THE MAIN CHARACTERISTIC.

"THEREFORE PRIDE COMPASSETH THEM ABOUT AS A CHAIN; ........"

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT YOUR PRIDE HAS YOU BOUND UP LIKE A CHAIN AND JESUS SAID THAT IF YOU WILL JUST COME TO HIM THAT HE WILL SET YOU FREE.