Will You Choose Jesus?

Your decisions determine your destiny. Say that with me, your decisions determine your destiny. How many of you have made bad decisions you'd like to forget? All of this brings me to the greatest question: "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world?", Jesus said, "and loses his soul?"

Your greatest decision is, are you saved? Do you truly know the Lord? When you hear the word, "saved", what does that mean to you?

A baseball picture goes on the mound, he's a relief picture, and he saves 20 games a year. A crop of grain is saved by a rain. A fireman dashes into a burning building and saves a child. A surgeon has a patient on the operating table and saves their life with his surgical skill. A policeman saves an abused wife from an alcoholic husband. The world needs to be saved. It needs saving, because we've created enough atomic energy to kill everyone on planet earth 20 times over!

America needs salvation. America needs a spiritual awakening. America needs a spiritual revolution. We have become a lawless society. We are a politically corrupt and divided nation right now. We have young people in the streets in anarchy like we would've never believed. We have spousal abuse that's running off the charts. Drug addiction that is so severe, listen to this, that in the last two years so many thousands of young Americans have died from drug overdoses. The life expectancy of every American has been diminished to an all-time low! That's how many thousands have died from drugs alone.

The illegitimate birth rate is running off the charts. Fathers are abandoning their children in a mad pursuit to find the god of self. Washington has become a political madhouse of liars, lunatics, and leakers. Fake news has replaced the good news everywhere, and it's seeping into the very house of God. I read one of the most encouraging things I have read in months on the internet. It's the chairman of the democratic national party saying, he's concerned that so many people are going to church, getting their political instructions over the pulpit. YES!!! AND AMEN!!!!

In the spiritual realm, the point is, do you even know what the word, "saved", means? The Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas, "What must I do to be saved?" Say that with me; "What must I do to be saved?" The question must be answered because your soul is the most precious thing that you have. It is immortal.

There was a day when you were not, but there will never be a day when you will not be. The day that Alexander the Great ruled the world, you were not. The day that the Caesar's ruled Rome, you were not. The day that Columbus discovered America, you were not. The day the founding fathers drafted the Constitution of the United States, guaranteeing life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in 1776, you were not. But there will never be a day when you will not be somewhere alive.

10 million years from now, 50 million years from now, a hundred million years from now, for all eternity, you are all going to be alive. The question is, where? And only you can make the decision that will make that question bearable. So, consider the value of your soul. The value of your soul brought Jesus Christ from the balconies of Heaven, to be born as a baby in Bethlehem's manger to be followed by 12 disciples.

The Crown Prince of Heaven left the splendor of Glory to live in that stinking cave of cows, donkeys and goats. The value of your soul forced Him to allow Herod's men of war to spit on Him, to slap His face, and to place a purple robe on His back and mock Him.

The crown of thorns was put on His head, and they mocked Him all the more saying, "Hail King of the Jews!". The Creator laid down on the cross and allowed His hands and feet to be nailed to that old rugged, unforgiving, unbearable, unrelenting cross!

Think of the power He had. One word, and a thousand angels would have ripped that mountain by the roots and flung it into the gates of hell! But, instead, He laid there and let them nail Him there for you, your friends, your family, your loved ones, and me. Why? Because that's how precious your soul happens to be to the Lord God Almighty!

The bible says, "For this cause, came Christ into the world, to destroy the works of Satan. Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost. The last command He gave the Church, was to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.