 Hey boss, how you doing? Got a quick minute? You studying? What are you doing now? Just taking a break. Yeah. Well, let me see my name is Edgar first of all It's a pleasure. We're just here out with some people from cornerstone Baptist Church talking to people in the community and students You know just kind of sharing with them Encouraging them to consider the truths of the gospel Do you happen to in any way shape or form be involved with any form of religious organization or entity or anything like that? I did a little bit back home. Okay. Well, what do you what were you from? Tiesville, okay And when you say you were involved like with some like Red Cross, what were you involved with? Good good so you guys were like involved in the church you guys do any type of like outreach and stuff like that or just in a church Good so would you consider yourself to be a morning Christian? Yeah, okay, what would be? What I'll do is this because you're eating I'll talk and you eat because the whole point of resting would be for you to eat So it's actually My encouragement or when I like to talk to people is to get them to really think about and consider So for example in your case someone says, you know, I believe I'm a Christian, right? I believe that you know what the Bible says I believe that you know, there's a God I believe that you know Again, I'm assuming that you believe that there's sin that there's right and wrong, you know that there's an idea of judgment There's an idea of heaven, you know, but what really comes down to the challenge here becomes when because a lot of people claim to be Someone who goes to church, right? And if you live in what's called the Bible Belt, right more to like, you know that North Carolina North Carolina area, Georgia Like everybody goes to church Alabama, you know, everybody's a Christian, you know But then have you ever noticed and has this been a concern possibly maybe maybe not that a lot of people who claim to be Christian they don't really their lives are kind of Many times not reflecting what they claim perhaps and so then the question becomes One must have to deal with the with that idea to say, okay. Well, maybe is it because a multiple choice? No one's perfect B Maybe I just ran into them on a bad day or C They're probably not a Christian, but it's for some reason they think they are now There's different ways to go through that, right? If you know a person for quite a bit of time, you would be able to definitely say that well, you know Maybe it's just a bad day because you know them, you know the pattern of life the way they speak the way they live their life But if someone, you know that you maybe didn't know then, you know would be maybe, you know Sick or under the weather, you know, I mean even Christian people sin not the same way everyone else outside of Christ But then the question begs if this person you do know them, right? And this person is not one who's living according to God's word and you would have to Not in like a judgmental way, but you would have to judge the book by its cover if it says biology It's probably a biology book if the but you know the book says in this case that the person Lives like a devil but claims to be a Christian. They're probably not a Christian. Now the question is in your case one of the things that I think might help you out is the idea of What's what's found in the scriptures? Do you have a Bible? Read it quite a bit now. Maybe one time at a time remember the last thing you read possibly in the Bible You know that's fine. Okay, so there's there's something that might be encouraging that is as you sit here need and I'll tell you with the Lord Jesus crisis, which is always encouraging because Christ is the Bible says that his words are life. So in Matthew chapter 5, right? It's one of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Matthew chapter 5 There's a little bit of information that I think would be helpful on something that You would have to consider as a professing Christian. I do want you to stand this eye in no way, right? I just met you. I don't say and believe that you're not a Christian. I don't know you But what the Bible does encourage me to do is to maybe by a way of reminder Go to the scriptures, right and encourage you by what the standard that Christ has So you can check yourself the apostle Paul says that we should check ourselves to see if we're in the faith, right? So here's what what Christ says in Matthew chapter 5. It's called the Sermon on the mouth, but then he goes it to the Beatitudes you ever heard of the Beatitudes? I'll read them to you says chapter 5 of Matthew verse 2 and on and he opened his mouth and taught them Jesus Blessed are the poor in spirit for there's the kingdom of heaven number two Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted number three blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth Number four blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied number five Blessed are the pure sorry the merciful for they shall receive mercy six Blessed are pure and hard for they shall see God number seven blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God In number eight blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of God and here's the last one Check this one out. It's very interesting blessed are you when others revile you and Persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account is what Jesus say Is what he says after that verse 12? Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you obviously He's talking about prophets of the Old Testament. They got killed and murdered You know because the fact that the people of Israel were idolatrous people They're just people that didn't want to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ now When we're looking at the Beatitudes something that's really interesting is that every single one of these things is Describing the life of a Christian now you would agree That if a baby's born and the baby's normal, it's born with all its parts, right? Now an abnormal baby is born maybe when he's missing like a hand or maybe there's some type of abnormality abnormality The word itself is that it's on normal, right? So in the gates Now when we look at these We'll start with the first one blessed are the poor in spirit What would be right in in short what's your conversion story? Like how did you come to the conclusion, right that you were poor in spirit? It's like middle school I'm hanging out with some friends then They're real nice family and stuff and did what shoot the leader of their parents with the leader of the youth group It went and did all that and then went to um like a church camp one summer before high school and that's like Mm-hmm, so obviously that particular moment What was it that you came to understand? That allowed you to believe right at that moment that you're a Christian that you were born again I'm assuming that's what you're talking about right that that was an experience. Yeah What happened? What was it that took place that led you to believe after that man? I'm born again. I'm saved I don't know too much, but I've driven and it's beautiful Yeah they had a little Ceremony for people who's their first time there and then we went to this other room where if you were feeling like you needed to You know change a little bit kind of thing. Not that I wasn't the best I've always been a good kid I've never been in trouble or anything, but okay, just run there and then you just feel it Like Well, well, yeah, what was it that hit you? What was the information you received that really just devastated you I? Don't know. That was it was just like you just felt something Yeah, that was something was drawing you to say man. I need to do this I need to I guess prayed to accept Jesus in your heart was that kind of what they would leave you guys to do What were you guys doing? It was like that and then this with a few of my close friends and stuff, too It's like a small quiet room thing and yeah, that was the weirdest thing is like when it hit you like you didn't really know I didn't really know what was hitting me just you just felt something that something something Yeah, something maybe perhaps supernatural if you will right, okay So it's important to understand right that if you're born again, there's this understanding right of being It says bless it all the poor in spirit for there's the kingdom of God so One of the things that I guess it's really neat that we do get to talk And I thank God for the opportunity to meet you is you see people people don't get saved Because of an experience yes because that would almost lent it be challenging to the following I talked to Mormons and evangelism and Hindus and Muslims and things like that and Some people that are charismatic and you know and They'll say man, I you just got a feeling your heart you got to pray right a God and feeling your heart right that this is true and Here's a question though at the end of the day Do we use that form of logic for anything else in life in order to measure the veracity of the truth of something? In other words, what are you studying here at UCF? Okay, engineering does that work in any way shape or form an engineering. That was do you say listen guys? At the end of this chapter, I just you know I know we didn't get to finish you know the other half of the book But I just want you guys to just close your eyes and you know and just and just feel that everything Else is true. I know we haven't covered it and you got a bunch of questions You're probably gonna fail it but listen I just want you to close your eyes and feel right based on the first half of the book that the rest half is true Do we is that how we do truth? Does it does anyone do truth in that way right? Well, we don't it's outlandish because there's nothing for us to To be able to weigh or to rationalize so the gospel or the Bible teaches us that it's the same way matter of fact The reason why Jesus Christ has given us the Beatitudes He's telling us these are the objective tangible marks of someone who's born again Because he's saying that this is not just based on a feeling because everybody can have a song right? But it's not about feeling because I can feel happy today, but I can feel sad tomorrow I can feel the next day, you know insomber the next day, right? Emotions cannot be the measure of truth right so Jesus saying the first thing that a person that you they would see in their life Right is the fact that they're blessed right? They're joyful because they understand that they're poor in spirit, but because there's a poor in spirit The kingdom of God is theirs Right, that's one of the marks So if you've never seen yourself the spiritually bankrupt Then there's a few things that I know that you probably don't know that maybe if I share with you can help You understand if your spirits should bankrupt or not you would have to you're lacking the information in the sense So the Bible says that all men born sinful would you agree? You ever heard of the good person test Good person test. Well in the Bible is a good person test access chapter 20 matter of fact I'll give you this so you can read it later, but let me here's what it says check this out, right? And are you a good person? That's what this track is about. It says meet mr. Nice guy if people go to heaven you'll be first in line Well, hopefully you can be like that guy right and assume that he's lived a good life He says well, I try to do which right Have you kept the commandments and he says pretty much Do you know anything about the commandments 10 commandments? Can you think of any off the top of your head? 10 commandments go ahead take a shot The ones that come through my quickly. What are they? Yeah, it's on your parents, that's one what's another one. Yep Okay, well that's what we'll go through it together no biggie so in a sense now we're gonna look at them So really, you know, do you mind if we look at them, right? So I'm gonna kind of essentially Go with this review So we'll look at the commandments here and see if any of us have kept them Have you ever told a lie? I guess that'd be the first one for you. Yeah, yeah, okay In our society if you slander someone's character, what's the possibility of something that can happen to you publicly slander someone? That's not a public person, right? Yeah, the law says that you can go to court, you know for misconstruing character Yeah, if you talk about the president or public figure, that's expected But you can't just go slander around a person, right? Yeah, right. You're you're deconstructing their image You can't do that. You go to Jeff for that because now you're their testimony of how people view them can affect their career It can affect your lively income. They affect a lot of things, you know So that even at a very legal sense, it's illegal and that's lying. You go to the next one It says here, um Have you ever stolen anything be the next one? No No So regardless of value and regardless of how old you were have you ever taken something That wasn't your forgot to give it back I might have done something like that maybe, right? So a close friend or something. Yeah, yeah No, of course. I think you're gonna walk into the bank and take a lot of 50s, right? Yeah Here's the question. So how many lies do you have to tell to be a liar? I guess it depends how recent it is Well, it doesn't matter because if you how many people do you have to kill to be a murderer? Does that really matter how recent you did it? Right, so it doesn't matter the standards are the same. We're the ones who make up those conjure up those ideas So how many lies do you have to tell to be a liar? I guess it could be one. One. Most people think of wire as a person who lies not one who lied Right, but really at the end of the day, I'm sure you've told more than one lie. Yes Probably right. So you're a liar. I mean, I wouldn't remember. Well, you've made it to lying. So I'm sure you have Second point is obviously if you've taken something without permission regardless of how you felt about or feel as your friend or not It's still it's still theft and the fact that you can't even keep track of it suggests Right that you probably don't even know how much it's happened But it's probably if it was just one time it would be very clear in your mind So in our society, we call people that take things and don't return them back. What would we call them? Whether intentionally or not, what do we call them thieves? So that'd be the second mark, right? So here's the thing it continues on. Well, uh, whether it was the candy bar or pencil or your buddy's baseball Whatever it was. Have you ever looked at a woman with lust? Okay, so Jesus says right that whoever looks at a woman to lust after has committed adultery in his heart That's in Matthew chapter five verse 20 a little bit lower than what we're reading So the idea what Jesus is saying here is let me help expand it If you looked at a woman, right all the thoughts that go through your mind, and she's attractive to your liking Uh, and we recorded everything that goes through your mind throughout the days You look other women and I put a huge 20 by 20 up there and I start presenting it and five put once around sound Would you be a little concerned about how people would view you afterwards? Right Right, and is that because you're a good person? Is that why people would not want to associate because you're such a good person? After your thoughts have been revealed on the screen. Oh, you mean shocking to what people yeah, right? So they would be shocked because to your personal opinion Yeah, I can say myself to be a good person haven't done bad things But bad things in comparison to who it's everyone else So just the fact that you practice in in your mind and you can have Fantasious thoughts and things that nature doesn't mean that you're a good person on contrary by this very example It proves that you're not as good as you think you are that's a serious problem Here's another one. Have you ever used God's name in vain? Let's say, you know you're driving someone cuts you off Or something happens or you hit your thumb, you know with the hammer you've ever done that a couple times by accident. Yeah Yeah, listen, you don't get up in the morning on your agenda things to do and say, you know what today I'm going to definitely blaspheme the name of God. Well, some people it's just like every other word Yeah, and it's unfortunately that they do then they do the the g-bombs, right? Yeah, and But here's what's interesting. So so far by your mission, right? We know that you're a liar You're definitely a thief, right? This is that something I'm pushing you to admit This is something that you voluntarily are concluding Yeah, you know based on the way I've done this then that is true. It's your liar or thief your blasphemer And you've committed adultery in your heart. How well because you've looked at women several probably that Right in your lifetime and had sexual desires where in your mind you desire that woman Right to the point that obviously you have in pure thoughts in pure thoughts just don't arrive In pure thoughts are the result of desire, right? So you broke a God's commandment now the question is this you stand before the lord on judgment day God has everything taped everything DNA'd He can prove you're not as good as you say, but you stand before him. Does God have the right to judge you? Yeah, right. So because right you're You're an objective rational man Is God going to let you into heaven or send you to hell because of your sin? I would say heaven so you have adamantly sin against God and somehow you believe you're going to go to heaven I'm just asking the question. Yes, how do you write to that? Well, I'm no expert but way in the good and the bad Good outweighs the bad by a lot. Okay. So in a sense you would think in more of a judicial system, right? Right, you're saying, you know the picture of the blind justice is blind or at least it's supposed to be right And it's got the blindfold and it's holding two ways in whichever way is higher, right? But but the weights let's think about this for a second to to prove your point because I agree with what you're saying But not completely but here's how I'm going to express it if we're going to put evidence to prove whether you're done more good and bad Have you really done that much more good versus sin? I think so, yeah So everything that I've Described about your secret sinful life that no one knows about so in other words you have Months and months that go by when you don't sin How do you 22 so you think in 22 you've maybe sin what? One time two times three times. I mean you can't even keep track of your sins. Would that be an accurate statement? Yeah. Okay, so How do you know? Objectively right mr. Engineer That your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds. How do you? Right, but you're whole you're putting your faith That they you have more good deeds than your bad deeds. Yes. Okay. Here's here's something It's not a true question if all you ever did since you were born was lie one time. Would that get you to hell? I hope not I agree. I would hope not to And but the truth might be different and I don't like to say my opinion because who cares what I think I think what matters is God's word, right? It's authoritative. Here's a little list for you to think about so revelation 21 And we're going to go ahead and look at verse Uh eight so verse five verse six verse seven and verse eight But as for the cowardly the faithless The detestable as for murderers have you murdered anyone? Have you ever been angry at somebody and call them a bad name? Have you ever had a grudge against someone you qualify for murder because that's what Jesus described as murder Murder is not necessarily the act of killing. It's it's the act of your heart You have the motive you ever see people can go to jail because they can prove motive Never had the motive to kill anyone no no not necessarily but the point is if you were If someone transgressed against you right enough if if Someone some ices team member goes into your parents. They're what do your parents live now? Where do they live? Yeah, they're tiny so so they're over there ices group goes in Uh, rape your mom kill your dad if you have siblings they go and find out they get shots in the head, right? This happens in cold blood murder burn your house At your whole your whole history essentially the family's all been burned up Um, you're just gonna say you know what it is what it is and we're just gonna have to go to court Or you're gonna feel some a little bit of fire Right that that right there is murder. That's motive That's if I could get away with setting these people straight and paying them according to what I think they deserve Right would be right when in reality the bible says that the vengeance is of the lord for those who are in christ You see that right there is what jesus judges as motive Just say you don't have to touch a woman to be an adulterer, right? You did you did it? Where is that like saying a jury would be murder if you're on a jury and just like a murder case you're a murderer put them in jail No, because of that in that particular scenario, uh jail isn't murder. We're not killing anyone. Matter of fact For someone to pay for the crime would be a good thing. Don't you agree? Yeah, or do you want a bunch of pedophiles loose and rapists? Well, I mean if you were to go and Find those ices people that'd be the same thing. Well, well, you're presuming that I would do what? What do you mean? You're if I found ices people you're presuming that I would do what? Well directly from the family point of view Right. Well, I would as a christian I believe right. I'm not going to say that Um, the thought doesn't go through but I would not have right Unforgiveness or bitterness or hatred towards those people because they're godless They don't know god. They've been lied to they're deceitful people that believe a lie That's no different than if I went up and I started beating a quadriplegic because I'm asking him to walk and he can Lost people can't do righteousness. That's what the bible says people that are unconverted can't practice righteousness So for me to assume that a ices member can practice righteousness and worship the true god is stupid because they don't The very fact that there are an ices shows that they're godless people that believe a lie Now again, that would almost sound kind of crazy. They're right. You're like, man You're a little weak punk. You wouldn't want to get vengeance for what they do to family I'm not saying that a thought wouldn't go through my mind But I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't Build on it because I know that that sin and I know that that is sin It gets god and my my concern in my relationship with god is to honor who him I don't do it for people. I do it for him, you know, even if I'm Uh, you know trying to avoid sexual immorality avoiding sexual thoughts in my mind I don't do it because I'm married I do because I love god and I want to live a life that's honoring to him, right? If I want to share the gospel is I've had the opportunity to talk to today Why do I do that because I want to get brownie points, you know Because I'm going to go right. Oh, hey, it's not even about that. It's about my love for god Is demonstrated in wanting to share the truth with others, right? And that's just the way it works So even the idea here what I'm going to keep on reading, right? We're still going through the list It says the faithless the detestable the murders the sexual more of even sexual moral You had pre-medal sex or ever No, okay. Have you had sexual thoughts? Like you said adult, right? So then this ends you are sexual moral, right? Because you sit into your mind. You're calling an adulterer by christ Sorcerers idolaters Have you lived the life that 100% all the time gives glory to god you submit to all his commandments? Have you lived that life? So you're an idolater because if christ isn't everything then there's something else that isn't that is everything that's not christ That's idolatry worshiping something else in a way that's not the way you ought to live for the glory of god So watch here what it says. So we have sexual moral sources idolaters and all i'm gonna let you read that one and all Liars liars. So anyone who's ever lied, right? It's not talking about liars as in how many lies you told all liars if you told one lie you qualify So if anything if the only thing you've ever did in your life was lie Does that apply to you? Look what it says here And all liars will have their portion That burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. So the list this is not an exhaustive list, right? But it does give us a list of the people that we're going to go to help And liars are on that list and you've Not just lied you've been an idolater. You've committed sexual immorality. So back to the question You stand before god god has god has right? He's not blind by the way, but to your point of justice is blind He's got all this body slamming evidence that you are you have broken his laws It is the righteous thing for him. It's just to let you go and not have your sin punished Is that what good judges do? What would you think those are? What what I think what if it was me? Yeah, no different than what I believe objective truth tells us In other words, even as an engineer, remember to detach your emotions because you I know that there's a sense of of pressure Right this type of conversation is a serious adult pressure and conversation. This is going to happen But at the end of the day, we can't get emotional when we look at facts You can't get emotional when you look at numbers, right and you're doing equations Emotions have nothing to do with facts I'm quoting facts like if I read the statues of florida and said you've broken the law It doesn't matter how you feel It doesn't matter how I feel the guy reading them if you broke the statue You're right and you get caught by the cops. You got to pay for it If you ran the red light, you're gonna get a ticket if you were speeding you're gonna get a ticket if you get caught And you can't say well officer, how would you feel if you that's that's almost kind of offensive, right? So god doesn't god's not saying Uh What you feel matters god saying you've broken my law and here's what I do with law breakers So again, you broken god's law if god's going to be just is he going to send you to hell Or is he going to let you enter heaven and rejoice with him? Well, by the way you're asking I have to tell but If that was the case, but do you like two people in heaven ever? Listen, I'm going to tell you what I'm glad you're still being the engineer because you're thinking rationally You're saying by that standard, which is what I'm saying. No one gets to heaven. You're right That's why I was trying to help you kind of line the idea of okay. What are facts? What are facts? What is the conclusion of those facts and what you just said is the conclusion of those facts? So the question is how does anyone get to heaven? What does that mean? Okay, uh, if I told my wife, honey, I'm sorry I cheated on you, but I go and do it again Did I really repent? No, what is repentance then give me a little bit more? I know I know you know You gotta mean it Turn away from it, right? So if you and I are going southbound and we repent of going to the beach, we're gonna go what? We're gonna go right gonna go north. So really it sounds kind of funny But repentance is 180 degree turn On that very thing that God hates and so to your point. Okay, so let's say you repent of Sexual immorality in your mind. Is that what's gonna get you to heaven? Is that alone what's gonna get you to heaven? Obviously if you don't do it anymore Okay, so in so in other words, you're saying god. Look, I'm not saying anymore I deserve heaven. Is that an accurate statement? I thought people get to heaven Somewhat so you believe that the bible teaches that people can get to heaven by doing good works That's your question and I do and I do want your honesty, uh-huh Give me an explanation if it depends based on what you you believe to be true. Well, you can't just Do something good and then 10 minutes later go do whatever you want back. What doesn't matter I just did that. I agree. Yeah. So the question is if I did something good, right? I'll give you a better scenario. You and I were super hardcore banker robbers, right for 15 years And then we turned good. We say no, we're not gonna do that anymore. That's wrong. We want to get married It's just not a healthy life. Nobody ever caught us But then someone finds out that it was you and me the whole time Do we then say to judge for the past 15 years? We're taxpayers, right? We help old ladies across the street. We give money to the red cross We go and serve right with you know, um when there's hurricane with fema. I mean, we've done a lot of good work Does that undo everything else that we've done for the past 10? Well from the justice standpoint, no, they want to care, right? So remember we're talking about God just God being the ultimate example of justice if God is just Does your good acts nullify the fact that you've sinned against him? I don't know you probably have to pay for what you did beforehand Yeah, so here's the thing you either pay for it and we know that no one can go to heaven, right? Without sin, right? So in other words Unperfect people don't make it to heaven to your own point So then you're saying well, but if you do good works and you stop doing what you did then that somehow Merits your way to heaven, but I'm saying it can't because if God is just You have if you made if you did the crime you got to pay the what the time So how did we resolve this particular conundrum? It's a problem, right? Because now you say well, how do we get to heaven? I gotta repent which I agree, but the problem is this repentance alone gets you to heaven The answer would be what? Well, what else what else would we do? It's a good question And I think you're in the right path So here's what scripture says and this should definitely be a means of of clarity And of sobriety to your mind because here's what happens The good news of the gospel that you have never been exposed to clearly Right is the fact that God is holy, right? God made the world by the power of his hands and that he came in human form, right? Born of a virgin, right? And he lived a sinless life He was able to obey all of the commandments of God all 10 of them the ones you and I can't keep he's kept He fed people healed people preached the message of his father's kingdom And They murdered him. They abused him. They mocked him They crucified him and here's what's really interesting that maybe you've never heard when Jesus was crucified The reason that that's so important for anyone is because at the cross There's a legal transaction taking place all the perfect the goodness the holiness of christ that lived out Is put on there, right? And he takes the wrath and the punishment For the sins of God's people so He is punished as a substitute for God's people Now i'd say well, that's a lot of sin That's a lot of sin and that's a lot of punishment, especially if you're going to suffer on the cross for three hours How do you take an infinite amount of punishment that you should do right you and I would deserve in hell Times however many people have sinned and compact that into three hours on the cross That is even untangible if you really think about it because it would almost There's there's certain aspects here that we really can't even comprehend mentally, right? That's the way it is but here's what happens because christ was 100 percent god 100 percent man at the cross Right he atone for the sins of people who would repent and believe in him So it's not just repentance that i'm going to stop doing this and do good things is I need to turn away from my sinful life But I need to put my trust and faith in christ What does that mean that i'm going to live a life that glorifies him? I'm not going to get to heaven by my works although i'm going to do what I believe the bible calls me to do But i'm not going to perfectly do it so it can't be based on my merit that I get to heaven It's going to be based on who's married That's right christ who paid the price for sin This is a very serious subject because at the end of the day what put jesus on the cross is your sin Your sexual morality you're lying everything else that you've done that no one knows about right secretly That's what put jesus christ out the cross and so what you need to think about is Is the spirit of god right as we're talking doing or work in your life to convict you of your sin If you're understanding this message and the spirit of god is working your life You should start to feel a sense of pressure and hatred for your sin The very things that you love to do that no one else knows you do you should begin right if the spirit of god Is working in you to hate those very things see what happened to you as a child when you were in that room was nothing Here's why because it hasn't produced righteousness. It hasn't produced holiness. It was just something you felt That's just all it is why i'm telling you why based on objective factual biblical truth None of that has given you a new heart And so if you have a repent of your sin and put your faith in christ, you're not born again You're not a christian not by my words listen It doesn't matter what i think it's based on what the word of god says And the fact that you have been a christian since however long right you said this happened But you don't know the scriptures. You don't know the lord You don't know the 66 love letters that christ is written to people like you to to show you how much he loves you And you're not you're not informed of who he is and his personhood and who christ is and his deity It shows that there's not really a relationship there if he had a girlfriend and she sent you 100 letters throughout the whole year And you've never read them it shows how much how little to none You hate that woman because if you love that woman, not only would you read the letter But you would most likely respond to the letter because you love that person The fact that you don't even have a desire right to see god's word You're not thirsting for righteousness like we were reading them to be attitudes right blessed are those who thirst for You're not thirsty for righteousness because you don't have a new heart You don't have a heart that desires the things of god You don't have a heart that desires righteousness now it doesn't mean you you can be moral Right and not be righteous A lot of people are like that Nice moral people you can be a Mormon and be a moral you can be Joe's witness and be moral You can be a hindu and be moral does that get you to have it? No it doesn't So what gets people to heaven is right? They must repent and believe put their trust in the gospel put their trust in christ and so essentially That's what jesus says we must do And that's the way we're able to take advantage of the gift of eternal life that he made available at the cross How does any of this contradict what you believe if there is anything And really you can take the horse of the water if you can't make them drink it so I agree you gotta I agree because everyone here knows Not knows but assumes to know I would say yes, but They're not really doing it. They're just not assuming it And so I encourage you with that If your sin is clear to you and the spirit of god has done a work in your life You're gonna hate your sin You're gonna hate the very fact that you're a wicked man in places in your heart and mind that no one knows And that essentially your life is really a facade It's really hypocrisy really because there's parts that you would never really manifest because it would bring shame to your name To your family's name when you're not being you're not being an honest man Definitely not being righteous before god and your sins are stacking up And you don't even know if you're gonna be alive tomorrow I don't know that either. So my genuine concern is if you die today, where will you go? And that should be sombering enough to make you understand. I need christ I need a savior because I'm not good enough and I know you're not good enough And listen understand is I'm not here doing the condescending. I'm holler than that. I'm not holler than no one I deserve hell probably worse than you do for a Numerable amount of sins, right? But I praise god that some at one point share the gospel with me And the spirit of god convicted me of my sin And it's you the one of the things the spirit of god is it it convicts of sin or righteousness And so the spirit of god is convicting you of sin and righteous because you need to cry out to him You need to call upon his name Right because at the end of the day the number one person you're hoping Right will give you mercy Is there no one person who is going to judge you and make your life miserable and help? And that's just the reality and so again, I encourage you think that through you know keep the track Uh, I pray that the lord works in your life, you know, uh, do you go to church now? No, I haven't been in a while What's what's kept your way? Just don't want to go not interesting. It's not your thing I don't know All the above this I mean I don't go. I don't go. Yeah, I hear you. Well, I encourage you. I mean if do you want to go? You can say no, I didn't offend me I'm just trying to facilitate multiple options on how I could try to help you now sometimes I do and sometimes I'm like I need to find a close casual church around here and then I just don't follow up on it and that's just How that goes, okay, so what can I do to help you if there's anything nothing you can do? I just got to Help myself because what it is Do you think that's going to continue to go well or bad based on track record? I don't know So based on your track record, you don't know how it's going to turn out Your pursuit of god Would you say that you've been apathetic to seek the lord? I don't know apathetic means that there's not a genuine desire or passion to seek him. It's just kind of Mellow Okay in your relationship. Is that a good thing or bad thing? Can you even have a relationship for that type of attitude? Well, of course, it's bad thing Right So in a sense you have been apathetic because you haven't been seeking him Which means if you're stagnant or anything below would be would be something that and again, you know Um, I don't I don't um, I don't want you Am I'm right? Honestly, you don't go to serve a lot because you're scared. You don't serve God because you avoid hell Right, that's not the motivation here the motivation here is christ and his holiness and that he's so good and so loving But so righteous that he's provided a way for you To have a possible escape of the wrath of god man, praise god No one else is going to do that for you and listen if we're going to be honest you and me are power trash Nobody wants to say that right it sounds kind of like not nice to yourself It's truth We could bend and so you need the grace of god to deliver you From that you can't just you understand that you're not going to hate sin until god gives you your heart You're not going to hate it You're going to think about it. You're going to dwell on you're going to plan it And you're doing away with nobody knows and still keep up your you know your your righteous appearance of morality to people That's gonna get you to hell bro And I and I don't god doesn't want that for you, which is why I think god we got to talk You understand this isn't like a church recruiting thing I could cut us because of my church, but if you're in christ You're a new creature and you have eternal life and you live for the glory of god Not for yourself right now. You're just living for yourself And and that ends up in hell And boy is that gonna break my heart on judgment day when god gives everybody right what they deserve And I'll see you eye to eye and know that we have this conversation And I'll feel sadness in my heart because That guy that nice guy who's got nice family Decided to live a life for himself And now for the glory of god so think these things too because they're very serious things You might not take them as serious, but they're very serious because they'll determine the outcome of where you will be eternally Now you might say well, I'll just do it as I get older That's very presumptuous because you don't even know if you'll be alive tomorrow You know that god you're you're living off of guides credit on air and oxygen right your whole uh Card cardiovascular system. It's borrowed You're steward of what god has given you and you're presuming on his grace to continue your sin. That is that is horrible But that's the way people live And so what I'm saying is consider that think about that. Am I not all happen today? I understand that But I do want to get you to really think right and pray that the spirit of god would do a work in your heart That makes you understand Right once and for all that you need christ that you need to save you you need atonement you need forgiveness Because apart from that you're just bound to hell and listen There's nothing happy in hell the bible says hell is a dark place where people burn where worms eat your flesh that never ends up You know degenerating and it's complete dark and and it's firing. You know, there's dark spots in the sun. Yes Are they off? There's no heat there No They're very hot So hot that they don't have to emit light That's how hell is like And so I don't want you to go there and god has allowed for me to come here And talk to you because you have a need for savior to encourage you to do that. So Will you serve the lord will you seek him? Right, you don't have to answer that because I'm not looking for a commitment Who cares what you tell me you could fool me is you need to find you need to get right with the lord because He's been so good to you and you've been so evil to him And the bible says that god will not contend with man with you forever He's not going to continue this form of grace where he's giving you time and time and time And you think you're just getting away with it possibly in your mind, but you're not it's it's all all these sins are stacking up And whether you die now or in judgment that god's going to give you The true value for your sin, which is hell and you have the slightest idea of what that is if I told you Hey, you know, I'm gonna turn on a lighter and I want you to hold your hand in the fire in the fire for a straight minute And I'll give you 20 bucks. Would you do it? Would it right? Okay. Here's a better idea. That's a cheese example. What if I said I'm gonna give you $2 million for your right eye Actually, no, let's make it a juice your deal. I'll give you two billion dollars for your right eye Would you give up your eye? Yeah, you think about it So you would know is mutilate your own body for money Is that how little you think of yourself? Well, it depends what That money can be used for not just to buy fancy car. Right, you know, it's really good I know how you're thinking about this But let me encourage you to say that it's ignorant Here's why because you don't you're saying that you don't value your sight But you wouldn't know that because you take it for granted Or you still see Yeah, but you don't understand what it is to see in mono as it is to see in stereo And again, you wouldn't know that because you've never had to deal with it, right? So the point is is this Jesus says if your right eye causes you to go to hell rip it out You're not even willing to do that to get to serve the Lord But you do it for money. That's how idolatrous you are You would consider doing it for money, but you wouldn't consider it, right? And of course, Jesus not really calling you to take out your eye He's saying whatever inhibits you from serving me Take it out and he's been using hyperbole if your right eye causes you to sin cut it off Well, no, you would actually probably would cut it off for money if it was good enough of an offer But you wouldn't do it for the glory of God. That's how wicked and idolatrous your heart is Again, think about these things because God has been very good to you. Well, listen, I'm going to head out But I thank you for your time. And again, I really want you to know I'm not I'm not here to beat you up, bro. You know, and this this this is an adult conversation This isn't a little pansy. This is an adult conversation And there's very aggressive things that I've told you here And I'm gonna pray the guy will do a work in your heart Your family if they're not converted your family needs Christ If you have siblings, they need Christ And how sad would it be that on judgment day if you end up in hell because you don't repent and believe the gospel You're gonna they're gonna be there. It's all your fault because you knew this truth And instead of serving the Lord and going to tell them about it I'm not gonna do that because You have to think about all these different things that are a reality of what God's gonna hold you accountable for Uh, and I believe that God has demonstrated his love by allowing me to be here today To talk to you about the gospel and encourage you that you need to turn away from your sin and seek the Lord Any questions? You good? Sure, you've been a gentleman. I appreciate it I'll leave you I'll leave you these two little things when you get a chance If you want to just kind of dig a little bit more and go through your bible and um Yeah, I'll be praying for you, you know that the Lord would do a work in your life because I I I get just I get really depressed, you know, I meet nice people And I don't want to See them blow their life and go out I just it just breaks my heart Have a wonderful day and good luck in your studies. Okay. Take care. No problem