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This week we have William Blackburn with his
message, How to About Get to Heaven.
There are a lot of people who are
going to almost make it to heaven.
There are going to be a lot of
people who almost get saved.
You see, there are a lot of folks
that are satisfied with that.
There are a lot of folks that are
satisfied.
You talk with them about salvation.
You say, listen, if you were to die
today, do you know for sure that you'd
go to heaven?
They say, well, I think so.
I hope so.
What they're saying is, I'm satisfied with almost
knowing for sure.
I'm satisfied with almost getting to heaven.
Now, I read you a few verses a
moment ago about a man named Felix.
Now, Felix was a good man.
He was a moral man.
He knew the Bible.
He wanted to do the right thing.
In fact, he did a lot of things
that were good.
But what we cannot compliment Felix on, and
what we cannot admire him for, is this.
Felix almost went to heaven.
Now, here's the tragedy.
When you almost go to heaven, hey, you
don't go at all.
You need to go all the way, friend.
And there are a lot of people just
like Felix.
Felix was the governor of Caesarea.
He was a man who was the warden
of the Apostle Paul.
Now, listen, Paul was out there preaching the
Word of God.
And some of the Jews got angry, and
they had him put in prison.
And Felix was the governor.
He was the man responsible for keeping Paul
in prison.
Now, he could have let Paul out of
jail at any time, but he didn't.
But while he had Paul in prison, man,
he treated him very well.
He treated Paul not like a common criminal,
but a man to be respected.
He talked to Paul.
He shared his philosophy and his theology with
Paul.
And Paul talked to him.
And I want to tell you, Felix had
a wonderful opportunity to be saved.
He had a wonderful opportunity to be born
again by the Spirit of God.
But according to the Bible, Felix is in
hell tonight.
Now, I've wondered, how could that happen?
How could a man come face-to-face
with a great preacher like the Apostle Paul?
Talk with him man-to-man.
Hear Paul give his plan of salvation.
Give his testimony about being knocked down on
the Damascus Road and meeting Jesus face-to
-face.
How could a man come so close to
being saved and yet die and go to
hell?
Well, it happens all the time.
Felix did four things that caused him to
almost get to heaven.
Four things that many of you are doing.
Four things that folks do all the time
that they think is good enough in the
eyes of God.
They think it's good enough to get them
through the gates of glory.
But the Bible says these four things instead
will take you straight to hell.
Four things that will almost get you to
heaven.
Number one, what Felix did was this.
Number one, what will almost get you to
heaven without really getting you there is doing
good for less fortunate people.
Now, here's what Felix did.
Paul was a prisoner.
Felix was the governor.
And yet, you know what he did?
He was kind to Paul.
He let his friends come in and minister
the gospel to him.
They took care of him.
They honored him.
They treated him like an honored guest.
Here was a man in prison.
And yet, Felix, he treated him with honor
and respect and kindness and provided for his
needs.
I want to tell you, friends, there's a
lot of people in Laurel, Mississippi that think
being good to less fortunate people is enough
to get you through the gates of glory.
We have a lot of folks that really
believe if I'll go out there and I'll
do enough, I'll go enough, I'll give enough,
I'll be kind enough that somehow God will
honor that and take me straight through the
gates of glory.
I had a man get furious with me
one time.
When I told him, I said, listen, if
Mother Teresa was not born again by the
Spirit of God, she went straight to hell.
He couldn't believe it.
He said, she was better than you are.
I said, well, you're exactly right.
I mean, she did more things for people
than I did.
She probably was better than I am.
But that's not the point.
The point is Jesus Christ said, your goodness
is nothing but filthy rags.
The Bible says it's not by works of
righteousness that get you to heaven.
It's by Jesus Christ.
The Bible says, for by grace are you
saved through faith and that not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast.
I want to tell you, friends, if Mother
Teresa, even though she spent her entire life
down there in India with those leper, the
leper colony, if she was not born again,
she went straight to hell.
Her good works, her good life, and doing
good for less fortunate people was not enough
to get her through the gates of glory.
And we have a lot of folks that
go out there, and I'm telling you, our
society today has ruined the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
There was a great, there have been many
organizations that started out right.
I think of one right now, the Salvation
Army.
They started out with William Booth, winning men
to Christ.
That was their number one goal, win men
and women to Christ.
Tell them about Jesus.
And they use those soup kitchens and they
use those things to through food and gifts
to get folks to come in so that
they could hear the gospel.
But now they've turned 180 degrees and their
main thing is to provide food and shelter
and not share the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Friend, I want to tell you, being good
to less fortunate people, it's nice, but it's
not enough to get you through the gates
of glory.
The Bible says you must be born again.
You see, being good to less fortunate people,
it'll almost get you to heaven, but it
won't get you through the gates of glory
at all.
The second thing that will almost get you
to heaven is this, showing an interest in
things of the Lord.
Now, here's what it says in verse 24.
It says, and heard him concerning the faith
in Christ.
Now friends, listen very carefully.
There was not a greater preacher on planet
earth than, than the apostle Paul.
Other than Lord Jesus Christ himself, there was
no greater preacher of the gospel than the
apostle Paul.
And Felix had the greatest evangelist the world
has ever known in his own house.
And he knew he was a preacher and
he invited Paul to come and talk to
him about Jesus.
He sat him down.
He said, Paul, tell me about this man
you call Jesus Christ.
He wanted to know what kind of faith
it was that Paul had that would cause
him to be willing to go to prison
for his faith.
I mean, he was interested in the things
of the Lord.
He even heard the gospel, sir.
Paul told him how to be saved.
Paul told him, listen, hey Felix, you're a
sinner.
You're a rebel.
You've broken God's law.
You've broken God's heart.
And the Bible says the penalty for sin
is death and hell.
But Jesus has come out of heaven.
He's paid your sin debt.
He's died so that you could live.
He was buried, raised from the dead.
Felix, he had an interest in things of
the Lord.
He was convicted.
He, he heard the gospel and he almost
got saved.
A friend, I will tell you, we have
a lot of you that are interested in
things of the Lord that you're not saved.
Our churches on Sunday morning are filled up
with people who have an interest in things
of the Lord, but they're not born again
by the spirit of God.
I am convinced that on Sunday morning that
the vast majority of people who sit in
our church on Sunday morning in all denominations
are lost just like Felix.
They will go straight to hell when they
die.
Friend, just because you come to church, just
because you carry a Bible, just because you
teach a Sunday school class, just because you're
a deacon, just because you've walked an aisle
and prayed a prayer, just because you have
an interest in things of God does not
mean you're born again.
It does not mean you're going through the
gates of glory.
Friend, I will tell you, I see it
all the time.
I see revival after revival.
I see folks come to church.
They sit there and they, they hear the
message and they'll nod with you.
Yeah, I agree with you, preacher.
That's right.
They know you're telling the truth.
They know in their heart, they've not been
born again.
They know they ought to make it right
with God.
They know they ought to get serious about
God.
But when you give that invitation, they grab
hold of that pew and they will not
give up.
They will not surrender their will.
They will not come down and humble themselves
before God.
They will not get saved.
They will not go to heaven.
They refuse, even though they have an interest
in things of the Lord.
I'm telling you what, friends, it's amazing how
many folks out there are studying their Bible
and these Bible fellowships and, and Bible study
groups.
I want to tell you, I've got, I
know folks that know the Bible better than
I know the Bible that are lost on
their way to hell.
I want to tell you, you can memorize
this Bible from cover to cover and go
straight to hell.
Don't you understand, sir, that the Pharisees were
the most religious men of their day?
To be a Pharisee, you had to memorize
the Bible.
The first five books of the Bible, you
had to memorize word for word.
These men, they loved the Bible.
They loved the church.
They loved the ceremony.
They loved all the things that went around
the church house.
They had an interest in things of God.
Hey, but buddy, when Jesus came, they didn't
even recognize God.
Just because you have an interest in things
of the Lord, hey, it'll almost get you
to heaven.
But instead, it'll take you straight to hell.
Old Felix was good to less fortunate people.
He had an interest in things of the
Lord, but it was not enough to save
him.
You know, attending church is better than not
attending church.
Reading your Bible is better than not reading
your Bible.
Being good to your parents is better than
being mean to them.
Being nice to little children is better than
kicking them around.
But none of that stuff gets you to
heaven.
Hey, Zacchaeus was a man who had an
interest in things of the Lord.
Hey, remember Zacchaeus?
He heard Jesus was coming to town, so
old Zacchaeus, he climbed up in a sycamore
tree.
And Jesus Christ came by, and old Zacchaeus
said, Hey, Jesus, Jesus, hey, I'll sell everything
I own and give my money to the
poor.
That's pretty good.
He said, Lord, if I've done anybody wrong,
I'll return four times the amount I've wronged
them.
That was pretty good too.
But it was not enough to get Zacchaeus
into heaven.
You know why?
Because Jesus Christ had made it very clear
in Luke 19, verse 10.
He said, the Son of Man is come
to seek and to save that which was
lost.
You know what Jesus was saying?
He was saying, Zacchaeus, hey, you sell everything
and give your money to the poor.
Hey, you return four times the amount of
how you've wronged people.
Hey, Zacchaeus, you even climb up a tree
if that's what you want to do.
But when it's all said and done, you
are either saved or you're lost, and I
have come to save you.
Friend, it is the same way today.
I care not how good you are or
how moral you are or how religious you
are, what you've done, what you've given.
If you want to go to heaven, you
must be born again.
There must be a day in your life
when you do what the Bible says to
do, and that is to repent of your
sin, surrender your will to the will of
God, and are changed by the Holy Spirit,
because being good to less fortunate people, it's
good.
I mean, having an interest in things of
the Lord, that's good.
They'll almost get you to heaven, but they
won't get you through the gates of glory
at all.
Being convicted of his sin, that's what Felix
did next that almost got him to heaven.
I find this very amazing.
In the 25th verse it says, And as
he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to
come, Felix trembled.
Now think about that, fellas.
Felix heard the Word of God.
He heard how he was a sinner against
the Most High God.
He heard how he was doomed and down
to hell.
He heard how Jesus was the only way
to be saved.
And you know what happened, young friend?
The Bible says he trembled.
He trembled.
He was under conviction.
He knew he was lost.
He knew he wasn't saved.
He knew he wasn't right with God.
But what did he do?
He put it off to a more convenient
time.
I see it all the time.
I see men come down there.
They'll sit back there and tears will be
in their eyes.
They'll be squeezing that pew so hard their
knuckles turn white.
People will be praying for them, begging them
to come down.
They're under conviction.
They know they ought to get saved.
But they say, no God, no God, no
God, no God, no God.
And I'll tell you, sir, one time you're
going to say no to God one time
too many.
And He's going to leave you.
You're never going to be saved.
You see, you can have conviction.
You can come here and if you're under
conviction for your sin, that's a good sign.
Because you cannot get saved until first you
are convicted of your sin.
Now you know what conviction is?
Conviction is when the Holy Spirit shows you
you're a sinner.
The Holy Spirit shows you you're lost.
The Holy Spirit points you to Jesus.
You must be convicted of your sin before
you can get saved.
But conviction is not salvation.
You can be convicted of your sin and
still die and go to hell.
You can come to church and hear the
message.
The Holy Spirit can speak to your heart.
You can know that you're a sinner.
You can know you're lost.
You can know that Jesus is the only
way to be saved.
Your heart can be beaten fast.
The palms of your hands can be sweated.
You can know that you need to give
your heart to Christ.
But if you don't do the right thing,
it means absolutely nothing to you.
You see conviction is not salvation.
Conviction is God trying to save you.
But you must be willing to do the
right thing.
You must be willing to come to Christ
and be born again by the Spirit of
God.
And the final thing Felix did was this.
Number one, he helped folks who were less
fortunate than him.
Number two, he had an interest in things
of the Lord.
Number three, he was convicted of his sin.
But number four, he made an excuse to
say no to Jesus Christ.
I tell you what, I wish I could
take you with me sometime and hear the
excuses that men make not to be saved.
I know all the excuses.
You know why, men?
Because I made every one of them.
I didn't get saved until I was 36
years old.
Oh, I walked an aisle when I was
12, got baptized, joined the church, but I
wasn't saved.
You know how I could tell I wasn't
saved?
I didn't have the righteousness of Christ.
I didn't have a hunger for God.
I didn't have a passion for the things
of God.
I walked that aisle, joined that church, got
wet, but I was not born again by
the Spirit of the living God.
But I'm here to tell you, friends, that
they used to send people over to visit
me and I'd hide and I'd run and
I'd talk about the hypocrites and I'd talk
about the phoniest.
I made all kind of excuses, but there
came a day when God, He took away
the excuses.
He said, I was lost and doomed and
damned.
And I will tell you, you can run
from a preacher, sir, but you cannot run
from God.
And all the excuses in the world are
not worth going to hell.
You know what Felix said?
Felix said, listen, I'm interested, but I'm under
conviction, but why don't you go and come
back at a more convenient time?
He said, let me think about it for
a while.
I mean, that's pretty interesting, Paul, but let
me think about it.
I mean, come back later and we'll talk
about it later.
And he put off the most important decision
in the world.
I want to tell you, friends, I've heard
men make excuses like this, too many hypocrites
in the church.
Well, sir, would you rather come to church
and be with a few hypocrites or go
to hell and be with all the hypocrites?
I'm telling you that the fact that there
are hypocrites in the church is not a
good reason not to be saved.
You say, well, you know, when I was
a little boy, my mother, she just made
me go to church.
And that's why I don't want to be
saved.
I say, fellas, Hey, did mama make you
take a bath when you were a little
boy?
Are you still taking baths?
See, it doesn't make sense to say, I
don't want to be a Christian because my
mama made me go to church when I
was a little boy.
I had no boy said, well, you know,
I just think there's too much to give
up.
That's why I don't want to be saved.
And I said, buddy, that's kind of like
a guy in the hospital dying of cancer.
And he said, you know, I'd like to
get well, but I don't really want to
give this cancer up.
You see that stuff you don't want to
give up, sir, that sin in your life.
It's like a cancer eating you up.
It's going to destroy your life, destroy your
home, destroy your family and drag your soul
straight to hell.
It doesn't make sense to say, I don't
want to go and live in heaven and
be with God because I've got all these
dirty, rotten sins that I don't want to
give up.
I won't tell you friends what the devil
will do right now.
Tonight.
There are many of you that need to
be saved.
God, you know it in your heart.
You've not been born again.
The Holy Spirit is going to draw you
to salvation and you're going to make up
some crazy excuse not to get saved.
And the devil would love to drag you
into hell with some kind of silly excuse
of putting off God.
Do you know what the main excuse is?
Procrastination.
That's what Felix did.
He procrastinated and he missed God.
And if tonight somehow we could bring old
Felix back from hell.
And if we could bring him to this
platform tonight and let him speak to you,
I promise you, he would say, I wish
I hadn't put it off that day.
He would have said, I wish I had
done more than just be good to people.
I wish I'd done more than just have
an interest in things of the Lord.
I wish I'd done more than just be
convicted.
He said, I wish I'd have come and
made it real when I had the chance.
And some of you are going to procrastinate
yourself right into hell.
There are many of you men here tonight.
You're just like I was.
You walked an aisle when you were 10
or 12, but you've not been born again.
You know how you can tell, men?
You were never changed by the Holy Spirit.
You walked an aisle.
You prayed a prayer.
You come to church on Sunday, but Monday
through Friday, you're out there living like all
the other men.
Men, that means you're lost.
Teenager, you come to church on Sunday, but
on Friday and Saturday night, you're out there
living in sin like all the other teenagers.
That means you're lost.
You see, my friends, the Bible teaches this.
When a man is really born again, he
gets the Spirit of God in his heart.
It produces a change.
Now, men, look at me.
Are you trying to tell me that the
God who created the universe can come into
your life and it not change you?
Are you trying to tell me the God
that just by speaking put the stars and
the planets in the orbit can come into
your life and it can't cause you to
put that alcohol and cigarettes down?
Are you trying to tell me the God
that reached down and picked up a handful
of dirt and breathed on it and made
a man?
Are you trying to tell me the God
that did that can come into your heart
and it not change the way you live?
On the authority of God's Word, men, if
you were never changed, you were never saved.
I'm telling you, when a man gets the
real thing, you don't have to send a
committee to find him.
When a man gets the real thing, what
he has is a passion for God.
If you're a preacher, he'll be beating on
your door 24 hours a day wanting to
talk to you about Jesus.
He'll worry you to death wanting to know
more about Christ.
He'll be telling his friends how to be
saved.
He'll be reading his Bible day and night.
When a man really gets saved, it produces
a hunger for the things of God.
Men, do you have that hunger?
Do you have a hunger for the things
of God?
Do you have righteousness in your life?
If I were to get your wife to
stand up because you say that you're a
real born-again Christian, would your wife stand
up and tell this crowd that you have
a passion for God?
I'm just saying, friend, you need to check
it out.
Because having an interest in things of the
Lord, being good to less fortunate people, even
being under conviction, but if you make excuses
for yourself, you'll die and go to hell.
My friend, I want to ask you, if
you were to die tonight, what would happen
to you?
If on your way home tonight, you get
in your automobile and suppose death gets in
that automobile with you, and suppose tonight you
have an automobile accident, or suppose you go
home tonight and you lay down and death
puts his hand on your heart and you
die.
Just suppose for a moment that tonight you
die.
What would happen then?
You say, William, I believe I'd go to
heaven.
Well, let me ask you, why do you
believe that, sir?
What makes you think you're going to heaven?
What makes you think that you're going to
heaven when you die?
How can you be so sure about that?
You say, well, when I was 10 years
old, I walked an aisle and made that
profession of faith in Jesus Christ.
That's the biggest lie the devil's ever told.
The Bible never says make a profession of
faith.
You know what Jesus said about a profession
of faith, men?
Jesus said there are many men in Mississippi
who've made a profession with their mouth, but
with their heart and their life, they're a
long way from me.
See, a profession of faith means absolutely nothing
unless your heart has let go of sin
and it has been converted by the Holy
Spirit.
You say, well, I believe in Jesus.
That's another trick of the devil, man.
You can believe in Jesus and go straight
to hell.
Don't you understand the devil believes in Jesus
while the devil has talked to Jesus.
The Bible says repent and be converted by
the Holy Spirit.
To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ does
not mean to have a head knowledge.
It means to commit your heart and your
life to the Lord Jesus.
Man, it means to turn from sin, repent.
If you have not turned from sin, you
have not been saved.
If you have not repented, you have not
been saved.
If you have not surrendered your life and
your will to God, if you have not
made Jesus the boss, the God, the owner,
the Lord of your life, you are not
saved.
And you'll almost make it to heaven one
day.
But you're not going to make it all
the way.
When I was 36 years old, I came
to a point where I was just empty
on the inside.
And I tried it all and I'd done
it all.
I'd even tried to turn over a new
leaf, man.
Tried to reform my life.
I'd gotten back in church with my wife
and daughter.
I was teaching Sunday school.
I was singing in the choir.
Now, Brother Phil, if you'd have liked that,
brother.
I was singing in the choir, teaching Sunday
school, teaching church training, going on visitation, tithing,
had a new Bible, trying to clean up
my act and live for God.
But on a Thursday night at a CWT
meeting, I sat there.
And I was sitting there and reading that
presentation and God spoke to my heart.
And here's what he said.
He said, William, you've received me, but I've
not received you.
You've called upon my name, but I have
not done my part.
I've not come in and created a new
heart.
You see, friends, the question is not what
have you done.
The question is what has God done.
You may have walked an aisle, prayed a
prayer, been dunked in some water.
But if God has not come into your
heart and changed your life, you are not
saved.
See, it's not what you do that saves
you.
It's what God does that saves you.
And I got on my knees, and with
a broken heart, I said, God, be merciful
to me, a sinner.
I said, God, I've lived my own life.
I've rebelled against you.
I've tried to clean up a God in
my heart.
I know I'm a rebel, but I believe
you died for me.
And I said, God, the best I know
how, I turn away from sin, and I
surrender my life, my heart, my will, everything
I have, I lay it at your feet,
God.
You come in and be the boss, the
master, the God of my life.
What happened?
I stood up after praying that little prayer,
and I'm telling you something supernatural had happened
to me.
I got up the next morning.
I'm telling you, friends, don't tell me about
being saved.
I woke up that next morning, and I'm
telling you, I just looked out into the
world, and I saw things differently.
I was a different man.
The way I saw things, I mean, the
world was different.
The sky was bluer.
The grass was greener.
My heart had been changed.
Nobody had to tell me to stop drinking.
I ran in the kitchen.
I took all the beer.
I poured it down the sink.
Nobody preached to me about drinking.
Nobody had to preach to me about abortion.
Immediately, I knew it was wrong.
Nobody had to preach about homosexuality.
Immediately, I knew it was wrong.
Nobody had to beat me over the head
and say the Bible's the word of God.
I knew immediately it was the word of
God.
I'm telling you, I went out, bought me
a brand-new Bible.
Here it is right here.
I bought it when I got saved.
I wrote my name in it.
The only guy I've ever had sign my
Bible was J.
Harold Smith.
He was the man who was the pastor
of my pastor who led me to the
Lord.
I bought me a Bible, man.
I burned this thing up.
I began reading it every day.
I couldn't read enough of the Bible, man.
I began to memorize Scripture.
I just loved God, and I told you
several nights, I used to come in the
church house during my lunch break and just
sit out there in the middle and just
sing by myself.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God, I'm telling
you.
God became the number one thing in my
life, and I began to tell folks about
Christ, and I began to seek for God's
will in my life, and everything in my
life took a second place.
My job was boring and dull from that
moment on.
All I wanted to do was be around
God's people and talk about Jesus.
All the guys I knew in town quit
talking to me.
I didn't want to talk about bass fishing
anymore.
Didn't want to talk about deer hunting anymore.
When you talk to me, I want to
talk about Jesus.
That's all I want to talk about, and
they didn't want to hang around.
They had a little boy in our church
one time.
He was one of those guys always joking
and carrying on silliness.
He was supposed to be a friend of
mine, but one day I just took him
off to the Burger King and set him
down.
I said, son, I'm a different man.
I don't want that joking around me anymore.
If you want to talk to me, talk
to me about Jesus.
I ain't got time for jokes and play.
When I come to God's house, I want
to worship God.
You know what happened?
He didn't speak to me for about three
years.
I don't care.
I'm telling you, man, when you get the
real thing, it changes your life.
And if your life's not been changed, you've
not met Jesus.
You may have walked an aisle, been dunked
in some water.
You may have been baptized so many times,
you know every frog in the pond on
a first-name basis.
But my friend, if there's not been a
supernatural change in your life, if you don't
hunger for God, you don't know God.
And tonight you need to come and make
it real before it's too late.
You see, my dear friends, listen to me.
I don't care whether you're a Baptist, a
Methodist, a Catholic, an Episcopalian, Church of Christ,
Church of the Nazarene, charismatic.
Or as that little girl once told me,
one of those other abominations.
It makes absolutely no difference to God.
The one thing that will get you to
heaven is you must be born again.
And that's my question to you tonight.
Have you been born again, man?
Have you been born again?
I'm not asking you, have you walked an
aisle and made a profession of faith?
Everybody in Mississippi has done that.
I'm not asking, have you been baptized?
Everybody in Mississippi has been baptized.
I'm not asking, do you believe in God?
I'm not asking, are you a good person?
I'm simply asking you this.
Was there a day in your life when
God spoke to you personally?
And God revealed to you for the first
time that you personally were a sinner against
God.
That you were a rebel.
You had done absolutely nothing good your entire
life.
You had lived a selfish and self-centered
life.
You had rebelled against the Most High God.
And because you had sinned against God, you
were condemned to hell.
There was nothing you can do to save
yourself.
You know why you remember it?
Because it was the most desperate moment of
your life.
It felt like the weight of the world
was on your shoulders.
Your heart began to beat fast.
The palms of your hands began to sweat.
You had sinned against God.
You were doomed to hell.
What were you going to do?
And then somebody took a Bible and told
you about Jesus.
How he had died on a cross to
pay your sin debt.
How he had been buried in a tomb
and then raised from the dead.
And how if you would make a decision
to turn away from your sin.
And to surrender your will and your life
to Jesus.
He would forgive you.
He would save you.
You know what happened then?
You got down on your knees and you
cried like a little child.
Oh God, be merciful to me a sinner.
God, I admit it.
I'm a sinner.
I'm a rebel.
I've lived my own life.
I've done my own thing.
But God, I'm sorry.
But God, I believe you love me.
And I believe Jesus died for me.
And the best I know how, I turn
away from the world.
I turn away from sin.
I give my will, my life to you.
I want you to be the boss of
God.
The master of my life.
God, save me.
And man, when you stood up.
Something supernatural happened to you.
You were changed.
Your character was changed.
Your love was changed.
Your vocabulary was changed.
You were changed.
And from that moment until tonight.
You've never been the same.
Have you had such an experience?
Have you been born again?
Do you know for sure.
That if you were to die tonight.
That you'd go to heaven.
You have been listening to the From the
Pulpit in Classic Sermon Series.
This week, you heard William Blackburn with his
message.
How to about get to heaven.
Tune in next week for another powerful message
from God's word.
On From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.