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This week we have William Blackburn with his
message, How to Be a Good Samaritan.
The Lord Jesus Christ was answering a question
one day, and he was trying to tell
a man what is the most important thing
you can do with your life.
And so he shared a story with this
man to give instruction so the man would
not miss the message of the Bible.
Jesus Christ always taught in parables.
He always told stories that were symbolic of
a deeper spiritual message because as he knew
and as I have learned, there's something about
telling a story that opens the window of
the mind that a person can really grasp
the spiritual truth.
Jesus Christ said, I want to tell you
a story about life and what's really important.
He said, well, there was a man, we
don't know what kind of man he was,
whether he was a businessman or not, but
Jesus Christ said, here was a man who
was traveling on a dusty road from Jerusalem
to Jericho.
We don't know why he's traveling, perhaps it
was a business meeting.
But the Bible says along this road of
traveling, he encounters trouble.
He comes upon a band of thieves.
And the Bible says these band of thieves,
they robbed him of his raiment.
That is, they strip his clothing off his
body.
They beat him.
And the Bible says they leave him half
dead.
Now, sir, get the picture.
Here's a man lying beside the ditch.
He's been beaten.
He's been robbed.
He's been left for dead.
Hey, he's not just bumped on the head.
You just can't come and put a bandage
on his head or a little salve on
the bruise.
This is a serious matter.
Here's a man who is lying beside the
ditch.
He is going to die unless somebody comes
to his aid.
Now, listen, a parable is a story that
is there to teach us a deeper spiritual
message.
Everyone in this story is symbolic of somebody
that Jesus is trying to get us to
take a look at.
Now, who does a man in the ditch
represent?
Now, dear friend, this story has been told
a million times and has been always preached
from this way.
This man is here.
He's a man in need.
Maybe he's hungry.
Maybe he's not clothed and we're to go
and minister simply to his needs.
But sir, I believe it is a much
deeper message than that.
You see, Jesus Christ came for one reason
to planet earth.
He did not come to planet earth simply
to teach us to be good to less
fortunate people.
He did not simply come to teach us
to give our money to the poor.
He did not simply come to teach us
how to fellowship at church.
Jesus Christ in Luke 19 verse 10 said,
the son of man has come to seek
and to save that which was lost.
Jesus Christ came for one reason, sir, that
is to save your soul from hell.
And I believe with all my heart, this
story of what we call the good Samaritan
is simply a story about winning men to
Jesus Christ.
You see, I believe this man lying in
the ditch over here represents every lost man,
every lost woman in the world who doesn't
have Christ as Lord and savior.
You see a man without Jesus is not
just unchurched or unsolicited or uninvolved, but a
man without Jesus is doomed and down to
a place called hell.
A man without Jesus is hopelessly lost.
He's bleeding to death.
The very life of his body is going
out through the blood.
A man without Christ is hopeless and helpless.
He has no way to Jesus unless somebody
comes to his aid.
There's a man dying in the ditch.
Jesus said, he's over there.
He's been beaten so bad.
He's been robbed of everything he owns.
He's dying and three men come by.
The first man that comes by the Bible
says was a priest.
Take your Bibles and look with me if
you will, please.
It says in verse 31, it says, and
by chance there came down a certain priest
that way.
And when he saw him, he passed by
on the other side.
Now who were the priests?
Now listen to me.
The priests were the most religious man of
their day.
They were the big shots in the church.
They were the big cog in the synagogue.
I mean the, the priests, they were the
biggest men in church.
They were respected.
They were admired.
They wore beautiful robes.
They prayed long prayers.
The priest was the highest ranking man in
church.
And he too was traveling on that dusty
road from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Now we don't know why he's traveling, but
I want to tell you, it was very
important business because those roads were so dangerous
that no man would get on that dusty
road from Jerusalem to Jericho unless it was
very serious business.
So we have the priest.
He's traveling on that road from Jerusalem to
Jericho, but he sees the man lying in
the ditch and what he does, he does
absolutely nothing.
Perhaps he sees the man over there bleeding.
He thinks to himself, you know, that man
has trouble, but you know, I don't have
time to get involved.
I've got an important meeting down the road.
I bought this big expensive suit.
I might get blood on it.
I mean, this man is in, he's in
need, but they've got me on the preaching
program.
So I've got to get down there.
It's much more important for me to go
preach to those preachers than to help this
dying man.
So the Bible says the priest, he passes
by on the other side.
Now remember a parable is a story that
is given to teach you a deeper spiritual
message.
If the man in the ditch represents every
lost sinner without Christ, who does the priest
represent?
He represents those of us in church who
are indifferent to lost souls.
Friend, I want to tell you, our churches
today are filled up with preachers and deacons
and Sunday school teachers who are totally indifferent
to a lost and dying world.
I'm telling you, sir, every program we have,
every dollar we spend, every activity we take
upon ourselves should have as the end result
to win somebody to Jesus Christ.
And the sad fact is that most Christians
have never won anybody to Jesus.
The sad fact is that the majority of
preachers who are in our pulpit today have
never won somebody personally to Jesus, their own
self.
I'm telling you, we are filled up today
with people in our churches who really could
care less that people die and go to
hell.
The priest passed by on the other side,
just simply indifferent to a lost and dying
world.
Are you indifferent?
Do you care if your daddy goes to
hell?
Do you care if your mama goes to
hell?
Are you concerned that your son goes to
hell?
Does it burden you that men without Christ
go to a place called hell?
Are you like the priest?
You're just simply indifferent to a lost and
dying world.
The second man comes by, the Bible says
he was a Levite.
Look at verse 32.
It says, and likewise, the Levite, when he
was at the place came and looked on
him and passed by on the other side.
Now remember a parable is a story that
is given to teach us a deeper spiritual
message.
The man in the ditch, he represents every
lost sinner without Christ.
The priest represents those who are indifferent.
Well, what about the Levite?
Well, the Levites were these.
The priest was the highest ranking man in
church.
And right below the priest, there were the
Levites.
They were the second highest ranking men in
the church.
The Levites were the ones that went to
the service and they were responsible for setting
up all the worship furniture so that everybody
could have church.
They were very important.
And the Levite is also traveling on that
dusty road from Jerusalem to Jericho.
We don't know why he's traveling either, but
he at least does more than the priest
does.
The Bible says he at least stops and
looks on the man's condition.
Perhaps he said something like this, you know,
this man's in trouble.
This man's bleeding to death.
Somebody needs to help this man, but I
can't get involved.
I mean, they can't have church down to
the convention till I get there.
All those preachers, they can't have service till
I get down the road and take care
of their needs.
I mean, I'd like to help this man,
but it's more important that I get down
to the convention.
So what I'll do is I'll just say
a little prayer for him that somebody will
come by and help him.
And he too passes by on the other
side.
Who does the Levite represent?
Listen to me, sir.
The Levite represents those people in church who
are too busy doing church things that they
can't do God things.
It is possible to be so wrapped up
in religious activities and religious programs that we
fail to do the main work and that
is to win men to Christ.
It is possible to be so wrapped up
in Sunday school and vacation Bible school and
fellowships and deacons meetings and all kinds of
activities doing this religious stuff that may look
good on the outside and fail to do
the main thing and that is to win
men to Jesus Christ.
You see the Levite, he was just too
busy to win this man to Jesus.
Well a third man comes by and he's
the hero of the story.
He was a Samaritan.
Now who were the Samaritans?
Well let me tell you who the Samaritans
were.
The Samaritans were the lowest of the low.
They were the outcast of society.
Why the Samaritans were those folks that lived
on the other side of the track.
They were the folks that had the, on
the welfare programs, got the food stamps.
Hey man, nobody liked the Samaritans.
They hated the Samaritans.
Man, if you could live in those days,
sir, and you could choose who you wanted
to be, you would never choose to be
a Samaritan.
Nobody liked the Samaritans and yet Jesus said
it was the Samaritan that did the right
thing.
What did he do?
He did five things I want to share
with you tonight.
Number one, he went to the dying man.
Look what it says in verse 33.
It says, but a certain Samaritan as he
journeyed came where he was verse 34 and
went to him.
Now the priest and the Levi, they passed
by on the other side, but here the
Samaritan is he's traveling also on that dusty
road from Jerusalem to Jericho.
He come upon the man, he stops his
journey and he looks at the man's condition.
He comes to where the man is.
Now listen, sir, that's the story of the
Bible about Jesus.
Jesus Christ left the glory of heaven and
he came to planet earth where we are
to save our soul.
And if we're going to be like Jesus,
if we're going to win a lost and
dying world, we too must go where the
lost and dying are.
We must get up out of our truck,
comfortable pews out of our comfortable churches, out
of our comfortable routines.
And we've got to go into the highways
and the hedges and the byways, the hospitals,
the, the, the housing complexes go into the
jails and the prisons go to where people
are to tell them about Jesus.
Because remember ma'am, a man without Christ
is doomed and down hopeless and helpless, lying
by the ditch, bleeding to death.
And if we're going to serve Christ, we've
got to stop playing church.
We've got to stop pretending.
We've got to put on the whole armor
of God and we've got to go out
and we've got to go to where they
are and tell them about Christ.
And I've had men tell me, well, William,
I don't believe in that.
You know, I don't believe in going out
there and bothering people and knocking on doors
and witnessing the people about Christ.
I mean, everybody in the law of Mississippi
knows where this church is and if they
want to come to church, they know they
can come at any time.
Sir, that's the devil talking through you.
My friend, the Bible never tells a lost
man to go to church, but the Bible
tells saved men to leave the church and
to go out into the fields.
They are white unto harvest, but we don't
have enough laborers.
We've got to go to where the dying
men are.
But number two, not only did he go
where he was, but he had compassion on
it.
Verse 33 said he had compassion.
He loved him.
Now listen very carefully, friends.
He did not love this man because he
knew him.
He did not love him because he was
a relative.
He did not love him because there was
some kind of involvement relationship wise.
He loved him because he was a man
in need.
He was, he loved him because he was
a man who was dying.
He was a man who had, he needed
help.
And I want to tell you friends, if
we're going to serve God, we've got to
learn to have compassion.
And I'm not saying love those that love
you back.
I'm not saying love those that are nice
and clean and respectable.
I'm talking about love those that hate you.
Love those that persecute you.
Love those that don't look right.
Love those that don't smell right.
Love those that don't run in the same
circles with you.
Love every single person.
Have compassion because every soul is loved by
Christ.
Every soul is eternal.
Every soul goes to a place called heaven
or a place called hell.
And if we're going to be real born
again believers, we've got to have compassion on
a lost and dying world that every man
without Christ could be saved and one day
spend an eternity in a place called heaven.
So the good Samaritan, he went to where
the dying man was.
Number one, number two, he had compassion on
him.
But number three, he did something for the
man himself.
Look what it says in verse 34.
It says, and bound up his wounds, pouring
in oil and wine.
Now friend, listen to me very carefully.
The good Samaritan did not simply see the
man over here and go to his knee.
He did not simply say, well, this man
is hurt and I've got to, I've got
to have some compassion for him.
I feel very sorry for him.
He took action.
Now man, listen to me very carefully.
He did not run back to the pastor
and say, pastor, there's a man dying over
here in the ditch and you've got to
go check him out.
They didn't go to a deacons meeting and
say, Hey, we've got to take a special
offering for this man.
They didn't go to the Wednesday night prayer
meeting and say, you know, we need to
add this old boy to our prayer list.
They took action themselves.
You see, for instance, if you're going to
serve God, you've got to be in God's
army.
You've got, you have responsibilities to serve God
yourself.
You cannot delegate to your pastor or your
staff, the responsibility that God has given to
you.
Your pastor, your staff is no more obligated
to God to win people to Christ than
every born again believer.
My friend, the Bible commands us to go
out and win the lost and dying world.
You say, well, I don't have the gift
of soul winning, sir.
So winning is not a gift.
It is a commandment of God.
God commands you.
If you've truly received the spirit of God,
you are commanded to go out into the
field.
They're white and to harvest.
They're there ready to be taken, but the
laborers are few.
The Bible says, if you really want to
serve God, you've got to get off your
blessed assurance and get out there and serve
God.
I want to tell you, man, having faith
is not something you sit down and dream
up in your mind, man.
Faith has sweat to it.
Faith has energy to it.
Faith has feet to it.
If you really believe God, if you really
believe that men are going to hell, that
already gets you up off your seats.
It already gets you out there in the
highways to win men to Christ.
Don't wait for your pastor to do it.
Don't wait for the staff to do it.
Don't wait for me to do it.
Every born again believer has a responsibility to
tell the world that Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
He took action himself.
Now, man, I love you, but hear me
tonight.
If you are a deacon and you cannot
win somebody to Christ, you either need to
learn how to do it and get busy
doing it or you ought to quit being
a deacon.
You have no business being a leader in
this church if you will not or cannot
win somebody to Christ.
I will tell you friends, that is the
first call of a Christian is to go
out and share the gospel with a lost
and dying world.
Don't tell me how important you are in
town.
Don't tell me how many board of directors
you sit on.
Don't tell me how influential you are.
Don't tell me the offices you hold in
the church.
If you cannot win a man to Christ,
you have absolutely no, you have no reason
to be in a leadership capacity in a
New Testament church.
The man took action himself, the good Samaritan.
He did something for the man.
But then number four, he was selfless.
He denied himself.
Look at verse three, four, it says, he
set him on his own beast and brought
him to an inn and took care of
him.
Now friends, I was just very carefully.
Here was the Samaritan.
He was traveling on that dusty road from
Jerusalem to Jericho.
Now remember a man did not get on
that dusty road from Jerusalem to Jericho unless
it was very important business.
So here was the Samaritan.
He wanted to get to Jericho.
He needed to get to Jericho.
He had to get to Jericho.
But when he saw the man dying in
the ditch, he stopped his trip to Jericho.
He denied him self.
And that's the story of Jesus.
The Bible says that he denied himself to
save your soul, sir.
Jesus Christ, who is God himself left the
glory of heaven and he came to planet
earth.
He took on the form of a man.
He gave up his power from heaven simply
to save your soul.
He died on the cross to pay your
sin debt.
He was buried and raised from the dead.
He denied himself simply so you could be
forgiven and go through the gates of glory.
And if we're going to serve God, we
must learn to deny ourselves.
But here's what I've learned about a lot
of church people, a lot of men, a
lot of women who claim to know Jesus,
they will serve God.
If it doesn't put them out too much,
they'll serve God.
If they can work it in their schedule,
they'll do something for God.
If they got some leftover time after they
have done what they want to do with
their time, as they have spent their money,
like they want to spend it as they've
gone to places they want to go and
live like they want to live.
If there's any time left, if there's any
money left, if there's any energy left, they
throw it to God like a bone to
an old dog.
And I'm telling you that's a sin because
my friend, the Bible commands us to give
God, not the leftovers of our life, but
the best of our lives, not the back
10%, but the top 10%.
We're to give God the best of our
time, the best of our energy, the top
of our money.
We're to give God the best because he
has saved our soul and we must make
up our mind if we're going to serve
the living and true God, we must deny
ourself, put our lusts and our wants back
and give God our very best.
Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow
me, Jesus said.
Oh, the Samaritan, he denied himself.
He took care of this man.
He put him on his own base.
He took him to an end and he
took care of him.
But the final thing he did was he
paid a price to help this man.
In Luke 10 35, it says, and whatsoever
thou spendest more when I come again, I
will repay you.
It costs the good Samaritan to help this
man.
And I want to tell you, it costs
Jesus Christ, his blood to save your soul.
And I will tell you friends, if you're
going to serve Jesus, it's going to cost
you something.
And I'll be quite blunt with you.
If you really serve Christ with all of
your heart, it's going to cost you some
friends.
It's going to cost you some popularity.
It's going to cost you some position in
this world.
You cannot serve the living and true God
with a hot heart and please the world
at the same time.
You cannot serve two masters.
You will love one and hate the other.
The Bible says, love, not the world, neither
the things that are in the world.
If a man loves the world, the love
of the father is not in him.
And David said, I wouldn't give God anything
that didn't cost me something.
You got to pay a price to serve
Jesus.
The Bible says, count the cost.
You see the reason most men are not
saved is because they count the cost.
It's too high a price.
They have to give up some friends, give
up some sin, give up something they want
to do and give their life to Christ.
What they don't know is there's more to
be gained than there is to be given
up.
Because my friends, you're here tonight.
I want to tell you to serve God
with all of your heart is the greatest
thing that a man can do.
There's no greater thing a man can do
than to give God all of his life,
to have a passion for God.
There's no greater thing is to go out
and win people to Christ.
There's no greater thing to tell somebody how
to be saved.
Friend, this is a cold, cruel world and
people are dying and going to hell all
around us.
We've got to wake up.
We've got to get excited.
We've got to have a passion for the
things of God.
We've got 14 more services.
If you're going to win law, Mississippi, you've
got to get to work.
You've got to get to work.
You've got to deny yourself.
You've got to pay a price.
We've got to seize the opportunity to tell
these folks that Christ can really make a
difference in their life.
I'm telling you, I have traveled for the
last 12 years.
I have traveled 40 weeks of the year
preaching revival out of that 12 years.
I figured up one time that out at
12 years, I have spent eight years of
that on the road away from home.
And I'm telling you son, many times I
get discouraged.
Friend, I'll tell you what, I'm not in
this for the money.
And don't you kid yourself, buddy.
There's a lot of things I can do
with my life to make a lot more
money than I'm making now with a lot
less aggravation that I'm putting up with.
And I'm telling you many times I'm out
there and I'm beating my head against the
wall and I'm thinking to myself, is it
worth it?
Does anybody care what I'm doing?
Does it really make a difference in somebody's
life?
And many times I'll be discouraged and the
money will be tight.
And I'm thinking, why don't I just quit
it all and go home and get a
job and take care of my family.
And I'll be out sometime in a little
small town, maybe walking through a store, feeling
sorry for myself and somebody will call my
name and I'll turn around.
Some little teenager will run up and hug
my neck and say, don't you remember me?
You were here two years ago when I
got saved and my life's never been the
same.
Oh, hallelujah.
Does it pay to serve Christ?
You better believe it, but it's going to
cost you.
You cannot be a friend of the world
and a friend of God at the same
time.
You must make a choice tonight.
You must choose the God of your life,
sir.
You must choose to give your life to
God or give your life to sin.
You cannot serve both of them.
And there are many of you here tonight.
You have been given your life to the
devil.
You've given your life to sin and lust.
You've done what you want to do when
you want to do it.
You have ignored God with your life and
tonight you're lost.
You're that man lying in the ditch.
At this very moment, you're lying in that
ditch.
Your blood is flowing out of your body.
You are doomed and damned.
You are hopeless.
And I've come to point you to Jesus.
And tonight you've got a chance to get
out of that ditch.
You've got a chance to go and have
some help.
You have a chance tonight to have to
be born again by the Holy Spirit.
It is the opportunity of a lifetime.
You need to run to Christ tonight and
be saved before it's too late.
Oh, several years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, a
newspaper article came out and it told the
story of a teenage girl by the name
of Wanda Williams.
Wanda Williams was a typical teenager and it
was New Year's Eve.
So Wanda went out to a New Year's
Eve party.
Her parents went out to their party.
The parents came in early and they thought
Wanda was still out partying.
So they went to bed.
The next morning they woke up and mother
was in the kitchen.
She was preparing breakfast and and breakfast got
ready.
They called Wanda to breakfast, but Wanda didn't
come.
So her dad went to the bedroom to
check on Wanda, but the bed had not
been slept in.
There was a note on the dresser and
the note said, you'll find me in the
garage.
And her dad ran to the garage and
there she was, his beautiful teenage daughter hanging
by a rope from by her neck.
There was a second note on the floor
and the second note said this.
It said, all last year I was alone
and I was miserable.
And so I prayed to God, I said,
God, I can't live like this anymore.
You've got to change my life.
You've got to point me in a new
direction.
And she said, God, if my life doesn't
change, if something doesn't happen in my heart,
she said, God, if a year goes by
and something doesn't change my life, God, I
don't want to go on living.
And she said, another year has gone by
and nothing's happened.
And so she hanged herself.
Now, did God, didn't God love Wanda Williams?
Sure he did.
Didn't God hear the prayers of Wanda Williams?
Sure he did.
But my dear friends, the way God operates
on planet earth is this.
God works through us who are his children.
We are his ambassadors.
God speaks to our heart and he lays
people on our hearts and we're to go
and share with them the good news of
Jesus Christ.
And I believe in Atlanta, Georgia, there was
somebody that was touched about Wanda, but whoever
God spoke to in Atlanta, Georgia, they didn't
have the time.
They were too wrapped up in their activities.
They didn't have time to go and tell
a little girl how her life could be
changed.
And I believe they'd gone and told her
about Jesus.
She'd be alive tonight, but nobody had the
time to worry about Wanda.
Hey, have you ever had a feeling in
your heart that you wanted to tell somebody
about Jesus or invite somebody to the revival,
but you just kind of pushed it back
and didn't do it?
That was the Holy Spirit.
That was the Holy Spirit of God trying
to reach that person through you.
And my friends, I want to tell you,
there are people all around us in Laurel,
in Jones County, in Mississippi, there are people
all around us that God is wanting to
get to and he's laying them on our
heart.
And our responsibility is to go to where
they are and to have compassion on them
and to give and to do something for
them, to tell them about Christ, to be
selfish, to deny ourselves, to pay whatever price
it takes to win them to a lost
and dying world.
You see, I was lost for a long
time.
I was that man in a ditch for
a long time.
And I'm telling you, it breaks my heart.
As a teenage boy in college with 50
Baptist churches within a five mile radius, nobody
ever told me about Jesus.
Nobody ever invited me to church.
No man cared for my soul.
And I lay in the ditch for a
long time, bleeding to death.
But praise God, there was a man who
came to my aid, a man who sat
me down and took a Bible and told
me about Jesus.
And my life was saved and my soul
was saved because somebody cared.
There are some of you here tonight just
like I was.
You're in that ditch and right now you
don't have Jesus and your heart is empty
and you're alone and you're wondering what life's
all about.
And I'm here to tell you that in
that ditch you can lay there and you
can die and you can bleed to death
and you can go straight to hell.
But tonight there's a Samaritan here that wants
to help you, that wants to love you,
that wants to point you to Jesus, that
wants to save your life and save your
soul.
But you've got to want help.
You see the problem is you've sinned against
God.
You've rebelled against God.
You've broken God's law.
You've broken God's heart.
You've lived a selfish and self-centered life.
You have ignored God.
And even though God loves you, God hates
the way you've been living, sir.
He hates your sin.
And God has given his word the wages
of sin is death because you have sinned
against the most high God.
At this very moment you are doomed and
damned.
There's no hope for you.
But the Bible says God loves you so
much he sent a Samaritan.
He sent Jesus, his son.
And Jesus came and Jesus took all of
your sins and he went to a cross
and he took your place.
He paid your sin debt for you.
He suffered hell so that you could enjoy
heaven.
He died so that you could live.
Then he was buried in a tomb after
three days of being dead.
God the father raised him from the dead.
He's alive tonight and one day he's coming
back.
You say, William, I've heard the story about
Jesus.
Sir, listen to me.
It's not enough to hear the story about
Jesus.
You've got to admit that you're a sinner.
You've got to admit you're a rebel.
You've got to get honest with God.
You've got to say, God, I'm a sinner
and I'm sorry.
And then you must repent of that sin.
Turn away from it.
You cannot come to Jesus with sin in
your life and sin in your heart.
You've got to let go of that fornication.
You've got to let go of that adultery.
You've got to let go of those lies
and that backbiting and that drinking.
You've got to let go of that rebellion
against God.
You've got to let go of that pride
and that self-centeredness and you've got to
turn away from it.
You've got to give your life to Jesus
holding nothing back.
But if you'll do that, the good Samaritan
will put you on his own beast.
He'll take you to an end and take
care of you.
You know why?
Because he has compassion on you.
He'll save your soul if you'll give your
life to him.
If you were to die tonight, what would
happen to you?
If you were to die tonight, what would
happen to you?
You say, I believe I'd go to heaven.
Why do you believe that?
What makes you think you're going to heaven
when you die?
You say, well, when I was a little
boy, I walked down that aisle and I
made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ,
got baptized, sir.
That doesn't mean you're saved.
That just means you say you're saved.
You know why?
Jesus said, there are a whole bunch of
folks that say they are saved, but with
their heart, they're denying me.
They're a long way from me.
See, a profession of faith in Jesus means
nothing unless you let go of sin and
your heart was changed by Jesus.
You say, well, I believe in Jesus.
The Bible says you'll believe in Jesus.
You'll be saved.
But the Bible also says the devil believes
in Jesus, sir.
You can believe in Jesus and go straight
to hell.
You see, it's not a matter of believing
in your head.
You've got to commit your life to him,
surrender your will to him, become one with
him.
You see, you're lying by the ditch and
you're dying at this very moment.
And tonight God wants you to, wants to
save you.
But what you must do right now is
you must get honest with God.
You must repent of your sin.
You must leave your religion behind, leave that
profession of faith behind, leave all that church
stuff behind, and you've got to turn your
life over to the living and true God.
Take him as Lord, Savior, God, boss, master,
owner of your life.
And when God sees you serious, he'll get
serious and he'll forgive you of every sin
you've ever committed.
He'll put his spirit in your heart to
guide you and direct you.
He'll write your name down in heaven, in
the Lamb's book of life, simply for one
reason now, because he loves you.
Hallelujah.
What a Savior.
Let's bow our heads.
You have been listening to the From the
Pulpit and Classic Sermons series.
This week, you heard William Blackburn with his
message, How to Be a Good Samaritan.
Tune in next week for another powerful message
from God's Word on From the Pulpit and
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