The Salvation of Your Soul
Edited transcript of a lesson written and presented by Chad Sychtysz on April 30, 2006.
Transcript by Michael Franklin; editing by Chad Sychtysz.
“God’s Truth About Your Soul.” That is the theme of our series of lessons. That’s what you need to know: you need to know God’s truth. Again, I will say, as I did yesterday, mere opinions on the matter [of salvation] are irrelevant. My opinion on the matter is irrelevant, if that’s all that I have to offer.
Your soul is the most important thing, the most valuable possession, the most enduring part of you that you have. There is nothing that you possess that is more important and more valuable than your soul. Your physical body is going to die and go the way of all the earth [1 Kings 2:2] but your spiritual soul does not have to die. It was never God’s intention for your soul to die; He does not want your soul to die. If it does die, then that will be your decision and not God’s. But if you have sinned against God and your soul is not right with God, then, left in that condition—if you leave this earth in that condition—your soul is not saved and it will die.
I know that sounds blunt, and you might be thinking, “That’s kind of an awkward way to start a lesson on ‘The Salvation of Your Soul.’” But we’ve been talking about this all weekend, for one thing, and you have to understand that this is where we need to start. We need to understand the desperate need that we have—our own spiritual desperation for salvation. And this is not something that we can dance around. Souls that sin against God will die; those souls stand in condemnation and have no recourse on their own. That’s the bad news.
However, here’s the good news! Jesus says, in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” This means that anyone can come to the Father through Him. You can come to the Father through Christ.
But we’re not after mere knowledge or the accumulation of facts and verses. What we’re really after is a new beginning, a new life—that’s what we’re after. When I say “we,” I don’t mean just this congregation; I think all people are looking for that.
Satan, as we discussed this weekend, cannot offer us anything new. He is a con artist; he is a master magician; he is a fraud of frauds. Jesus calls him the “father of lies” [John 8:44]. He [Satan] can only re-package what God does, but without the power, without the authority, and without the hope that God offers. All he gives us is a hollow shell of a hope that never transpires, something that never happens. All we get from Satan is death, death, DEATH! This is all he has to offer—but he won’t tell you that up front. I hope that we made that resoundingly clear in this weekend’s meeting.
What Jesus offers anyone who surrenders to Him is unlike anything else that is offered. It is unique, it is powerful, and it is exactly what your soul needs. In other words, it is not just “good” for your soul; it is exactly what your soul must have for life—which, of course, is good for your soul as well.
But the life Jesus offers is not like this life. In John 18:36, Jesus is on trial before men. He is standing before Pontius Pilate, who is the Roman governor [of Judea] at that time. And Jesus’ fate, as Pilate sees it anyway, is in the balance as to whether He is going to be executed or not. As far as Jesus is concerned, Pilate has no authority other than what He has been granted [John 19:11]. But Pilate says here, “Your own nation and your chief priests have delivered You up to me. What have You done?” Jesus responds,
“My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
You see, the life that Jesus offers is not like this life. The kingdom that Jesus invites you into is not like any man-made kingdom. It is not like a kingdom of this world or anything that you know of here on this world. He said, “For this reason I have been born…”—in other words, Jesus came to this world with a distinct purpose: to provide what was necessary for the salvation of your soul and my soul. That’s why He came [Mark 10:45].
By submitting to His word—by submitting to His authority—you become a citizen of His kingdom. By becoming a citizen of His kingdom, you become a member of His body. You enter into a special and sacred relationship with God. We call that a “covenant relationship,” because that’s really what that is. Having done this, you are recognized as a member of the body of Christ, His spiritual church [Ephesians 1:22-23]. Ephesians 1:3 says that all spiritual blessings are found—where?—“in Christ,” in that “body,” in that relationship, in that covenant.
What We Have Done to Ourselves
But before we can do this it would be good for us to appreciate what Jesus Himself has done to make that salvation possible. So we’re going to talk this morning about the salvation of your soul, but I want you to understand that your salvation is not possible without that which Christ has done. You could not be saved if it had not been for Christ.
I think it’s safe to acknowledge as a starting point here that people are self-destructive, if left to themselves. Anything “good” about a person is a reflection of God’s divine qualities in that person. It doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily following God, but their goodness is an imitation of God’s goodness. And yet if we’re left to ourselves, then we’re going to destroy that goodness. We’re very selfish people. Look at the world that Noah encountered when He existed on this earth, for example. There we see a world where every intent of man’s heart was evil [Genesis 6:5]. Left to man’s own selfishness, this is where men always go. And by “men” I don’t mean just “males” of course—you understand that!—I mean “people.” This is where people go.
You and I are no different. We are not capable of overcoming the curse of our human nature in the human condition. Sin is in our family, so to speak. That doesn’t mean that we’re born into sin, as some have taught in [a doctrine referred to as] “Hereditary Total Depravity” and other similar teachings of other groups. But every person ultimately chooses to sin. In Romans 3:23, Paul says distinctly that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God….” Once a person “falls short,” he cannot get back to where he was before—left to himself, that is. He cannot get back.
In October of 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure (thereafter infamously known as “Baby Jessica”) fell into a well in Midland, Texas, and was trapped underground in an 8-inch pipe for fifty-eight hours. Left to herself, Jessica would have died. It was impossible for this little infant to extract herself from her predicament. She fell into this hole and she could not get herself out. In fact, they had to make some rather remarkable efforts just to rescue her from this well.
But I want you to think about how it would have been if the rescuers had shown up and just hollered down the well, “Save yourself! I mean, you got down there—certainly you can get back out!” How ridiculous that would have been. But, you know, that’s what people do to each other or to themselves when talking about spiritual situations. “Well, you got yourself into that predicament, you can get yourself out!” “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” we say, or, “God doesn’t help those who don’t help themselves!” “Help yourself!” “Save yourself!”
The fact is: it’s impossible to save yourself.
Now we’re not going to say that Baby Jessica was sinning by any means. We’re simply using her situation as an analogy. But once we sin, it is as though we fall into a pit. And we did not fall by accident: we chose to fall by allowing ourselves to be seduced by Satan’s lies and half-truths. And yet we cannot get out of that predicament once we have fallen into it—not by ourselves.
What Christ Has Done For Us
In 1 John 3:7-8, I’d like you to turn there with me if you would, and think about what is being said here with regard to the work of Christ based upon the very simple facts that we have made so far.
Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
So if a person wants to practice sin, God says, “You are able to do that, and I will give you the opportunity to do that, if that is your desire. But you have to understand that that is from the devil and it is not from Me.” Jesus Christ, on the other hand, comes from God to destroy the work of the devil—really we should say, to destroy Satan’s work in us, in his having deceived us concerning our souls. Jesus has come to expose Satan as a liar and a fraud, and to defeat him once for all.
There are some other passages to consider with regard to this idea. For example, Hebrews 9:11-12:
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Redemption for who? Redemption for you! Not His redemption—He didn’t need to be redeemed! It’s your redemption; it’s my redemption. Christ appeared in order to obtain your eternal redemption and He offered as payment to God—not to Satan, Jesus never paid Satan a dime!—that which satisfies God’s condemnation of the soul, that satisfies God’s justice toward the soul, if you want to look at it that way. The soul that sins against God is condemned by God; how are we going to get out of that? There must be a payment. Jesus says, “I have the perfect payment and it is the only payment which will be sufficient for that. I offer My body; I offer My blood as that payment!”—to release our souls from condemnation.
Then think about a passage like Titus 2:11-12, where Paul says,
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age.
So Christ came to bring salvation to us—as opposed to what Satan brings us, which is lies and deception and death. That’s all Satan brings, that’s all Satan offers. The point here is that Satan has enslaved men through fear of condemnation, through the judgment of God, and the punishment for their sins that they are rightly due. Satan imprisons us with that. He imprisons us with guilt and feelings of hopelessness, but Christ has come to change all that—to give us hope and to give us joy and to give us life.
Now if you had to choose right now between the two, who would you choose? Satan or Christ? Who has the better offer? What have you chosen so far in your heart? I ask you to think about that as we continue.
Thus Jesus came to be the Savior. His primary mission is not to condemn people, although He is capable of that and He will do so: those who refuse Him, He will condemn them! That’s not His primary mission, though; rather it is to save people. For this reason He was born, as He Himself said: to bring salvation to us; to bring life and light and hope to a hopeless and lost and dying world of which we are all a part and by which we all have participated in our having sinned against God. Mark 10:45, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve (these are Jesus’ own words), and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Once again we see this idea of payment here. This “ransom” is a payment not of dollars and cents; it’s not of earthly wealth; it’s not of any man made system. Rather it is a payment of His blood which represents His perfection, His worthiness, His innocence in an unparalleled human life. We who have sinned have ruined our lives. We have desecrated our souls. We have corrupted the life, the pure life, which God has given to us. And we have forfeited our life for the sake of a lie that we thought was going to produce something good and it never did and it never will.
In Ephesians chapter 2:4-5, think about the message now, in regard to what we have given up and what God offers us:
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions (because if you are in your sins this morning, you are dead to God), made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)…
I don’t want anyone to think that being “made alive” is an automatic process that happens against your consent or without your consent. It requires your participation. We’ll talk about that here very soon.
But God sent His Son—think about that, God sent His Son—for this purpose. Jesus was not just born and then happened to fall into these circumstances whereby He could present Himself as a messiah. No, but God sent Him and God allowed Him to die on the cross. Jesus did not just die under bizarre circumstances, nor was He the “victim of circumstances,” but He chose to die. It was in the plan of God that He die so that He could overcome death.
In other words, Jesus was not just raised from the dead, passively speaking, like He was dead and there was nothing He could do. It was not like He was not conscious of His situation and suddenly, the next thing He knows, He’s alive! But He raised Himself from the dead as a testimony to you. Do you have that kind of power? Do you have access to that kind of power apart from God? Certainly you don’t! Certainly I do not, either.
So God sent His Son and allowed Him to die so that He could overcome death and therefore serve as a Savior of man. Jesus was not merely given “a” throne upon His ascension into heaven, but He was made “King of kings” and “Lord of lords” for the purpose of establishing Himself as your Savior.
Your soul, once it is stained with sin, cannot be saved apart from the life, death and resurrection of Christ. There’s no way you can be saved otherwise. You can try—many people have and many will continue to try!—you can try and put your faith and confidence in denominational systems of men, other religions, philosophies, agnosticism, atheism—whatever faith or religion people try to come up with. You can put your faith even in yourself. And it will guarantee to fail you.
God will not fail you if you put your faith in God. God has something that you don’t have: the power of the forgiveness of your sins through the blood that is offered on your behalf. As Hebrews 9:22 says, “…And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” You don’t have access to that forgiveness without access to that blood. Your blood doesn’t matter. My blood doesn’t do anything. God only recognizes one blood that is sufficient for the sins of man: Christ’ blood.
God’s Grace, Your Faith
God’s most important priority is not holding the physical universe together, although I think that’s impressive in itself, don’t you? I mean, we have a God that holds everything together, keeps everything in check, everything in motion, all the systems of the universe working together. That by itself is fascinating and intriguing. And powerful and potent as it is, it is not His primary concern. His primary concern is saving souls of those who come to Him for salvation, as 1 Timothy 2:4 declares, “[God] desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Luke 19:10 says that “…the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
That might be your soul this morning: if indeed your soul is not right with God, your soul is lost. And if you do not have a right relationship with God, then Christ has come to seek and save you, if you desire that salvation. Christ’s ministry, His cross, and His reign, even now as King of kings and Lord of lords, are for that purpose. I hope that you can appreciate that. But He will not do anything against your will. No one is saved automatically; no one accidentally becomes saved or stumbles into heaven without deliberately pursuing salvation. This is your deliberate and conscious choice. I can’t choose it for my children. My parents could never have chosen it for me. You can’t choose it for someone else. I can’t choose it for any of you. It must be your decision!
Someone says—rightly so, I hope—at this point, “Well, how do I acquire that salvation?” The simple answer is, “By God’s grace, through your faith.” And when I say simple, I don’t mean to imply that its an easy process; yet that’s really what it all boils down to. In other words: not through your own efforts but not apart from this, either. I know that sounds like doublespeak on the surface. Understand what I’m saying, though. Your salvation is not going to be the result of your effort alone, but it is not going to occur without your effort, either. You must rightly respond to what you are told to do. The source of our information must come from God and not from men, not from churches, not from personal feelings. We have to go to the Word and say, “what does the Word say about salvation?” And even then, once I am saved, “What does the Word say about continuing in that salvation?”
I want you to think about a passage here—a powerful passage—in 1 Peter 1:23-25:
…For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. For “all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,” but “the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.
This passage has so much power and impact to the person who is searching for God. The soul, left to itself, has no recourse, no salvation, no hope. But God has intervened with a supernatural and infallible solution. In other words, it is one that is beyond this world, it is one that is beyond your reach or my reach. It is one that is beyond any human effort, but that exists and is real all the same.
And in order to comply with that word that is preached, a person must be “born again.” We had a lot to say about that in our lesson yesterday, “What Jesus Wants You to Become.” Well, one of the things He wants you to become is, of course, “born again.” You need to die to yourself and die with Christ; you need to be born again into an image of Christ, to something new, a new creature.
That’s something impossible to do according to the natural world and according to your natural ability. But it is a gift of God that He allows you to do this; He empowers the process; He makes it happen. I want you to think about that. Whenever God does something for your salvation that you cannot do by yourself, what do we call that? Grace. God’s grace is throughout the whole message of the gospel. Grace, grace, grace. Start reading your Bible and realize that every time that God does something for you that you could not have done for yourself, its talking about grace, whether it uses the actual word or not.
Then Peter goes on to say that this “word” is not a “seed” which is perishable, but imperishable. There is an allusion here to the human reproductive system. If you combine a man’s seed with a woman’s egg, you end up with a human child. In the case of being “born again,” the seed (which is the Word) is put together with an obedient human heart; the result is a “new creature” [2 Corinthians 5:17]. This “new creature” is not of this world, not of humankind, that is, not something that humans could have produced. It is not something that is of this life but that actually transcends this life. You can’t do that by yourself. No matter how sincere a person thinks himself to be, he cannot produce this new life or this new creature apart from the Word.
Furthermore, this Word is “living and abiding.” In other words, it is alive, it’s always in motion, it’s dynamic, it’s energetic, it’s full of life, and it is life-imparting—it is able to impart life, and it is able to impart eternal life. The things of this world, including all those generated through any man-made efforts, are destined to perish, but not the things that are regenerated through the living and abiding Word. Those things last forever. “And this is the word which was preached to you,” Peter says. Well, this is the Word which is being preached to you right now, isn’t it? Aren’t we preaching the same Word? This is the message of life, and hope, and salvation. This is what is available to you this morning, and no one can take that away from you. Please don’t let anyone take that away from you!
What You Need to Do to be Saved
This is what the Word says you must do for salvation—to receive the grace of God, forgiveness, the salvation of your soul, and the redemption of your soul. You must believe in the message of Christ. You have to believe in what He says, His words, His gospel, His account, His authority. In John 20:31 it says, “But these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.” Someone says, “Well, I don’t know enough information.” Read the gospel of John, if you must—I encourage you to do that! That’s what it was written for, so you will have information upon which to base your decision. You can’t make informed decisions without information. So what we’re trying to do then is provide information. God has already provided and preserved that. We’re simply saying, “This is what it is and here’s where you get it.”
You must put your trust in Christ. Put your faith in Him, since He has proven Himself infinitely more powerful than you, more powerful than this world, more powerful than all the forces of Satan, and more powerful than death itself! Do not doubt His ability to save you, in other words. Do not doubt His ability to overcome what you cannot overcome on your own.
You have to repent of your sins. This means you have to change two things which start with the letter “a,” which makes it very easy to remember: you have to change your attitude, and you have to change your action. That’s what repentance is: it’s a change of not one or the other, but both your attitude and your action. You must abandon your sinful thoughts your sinful words and your sinful lifestyle that corrupted your soul in the first place. And, at the same time, you have to pursue a superior course to that. You can’t just say, “Well, I’ve stopped doing bad things and now I must be a good person!” No, you have to stop doing bad things and you now must pursue that which God says to do.
God is the One who credits you with righteousness. You don’t make yourself a good person; God determines you to be good with reference to your having obeyed Him or not. Galatians 5:16-17, Paul says,
But I say, walk by the Spirit (that is, God’s Spirit), and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh (which here indicates your human desire) sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
You can’t continue doing what you’ve been doing. And this goes even for Christians who have already obeyed once but now have fallen back into a pattern or lifestyle of sin. If you continue in that pattern or lifestyle, you are not walking according to the Spirit. You are setting yourself against the Spirit and there is going to be some awful consequences to pay if you continue in that. So I would invite you to listen up: all of us who may have already become Christians but are not living the life of a Christian need to repent of that sin.
In Matthew 16:24, Jesus says, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” Suppose a person doesn’t want to do two of three of those requirements? Or any of them at all? We would say that that person cannot follow Christ; he cannot be a disciple of Christ. What Jesus is means by “deny yourself” is giving your will to Him: your will given to Christ. Secondly, to “take up your cross” means that you have to accept whatever sacrifices or consequences are necessary in order to do what God declares is right and true. And thirdly, to “follow” Him means to follow in faith, not follow Him kicking and screaming, gritting your teeth, and saying, “Alright, fine, I’ll do it!” It means to follow Him in obedience with a heart that is humble and submissive to whatever it is that He asks you to do. Follow Him in that way.
Of course, you have to be baptized as well, as a demonstration of your faithful obedience. Galatians 3:27 says, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” That is an expression that indicates that you have identified with Him. To “clothe yourself with Christ” means to identify with Christ, to belong to Him. In Hebrews 10:19, we’ll read a couple verses here and see if this doesn’t all come together in this passage. “Therefore brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus (didn’t we talk about that?—we could rephrase this, “Since you have access to God because of the blood that Christ has bought your souls with,” and we would not have corrupted the text whatsoever) by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil….” He’s referencing the veil of the old tabernacle through which a person could come into the innermost sanctuary of God [Hebrews 9:1-7]. It implies coming into the presence of God. You can do that through the blood which Christ has provided, because of the flesh which He has offered as a sacrifice. You cannot have blood without flesh; Jesus could not have provided blood if He had not come to us in the flesh [John 1:14].
Continuing in vs 21: “And since we have a great high priest over the house of God….” And what is the job of a high priest but to mediate between the souls that come to him and God Himself? He stands between the two parties and negotiates, mediates, intervenes or intercedes for the two parties here [Hebrews 5:1-3]. Since all this is true, verse 22: “…let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.…” That’s what God does. You can’t do that; I can’t do that for you. But God can do that. He can sprinkle your heart clean with reference to the sprinkling of blood upon something. He can sprinkle your heart clean from an evil conscience to a pure conscience [1 Peter 3:21]. That’s what God does!
What do you do? The passage continues: “…and our bodies washed with pure water.” That’s not what God does. God doesn’t wash your body with pure water; that’s what you do. This is a reference to the baptisms of the priests when they were to baptize or immerse themselves to cleanse and purify themselves with water so that they could enter into service [Exodus 29:4, et al.]. The analogy to what we are to do is clear and unmistakable. So I want you to think about that idea. And there are other references here that refers to the Law [of Moses], but we just don’t have time to get into all that. But the idea here is that a person is purified through two things: the heart being cleansed, which is not within your ability to do but God’s, and the body being immersed in water, which is your responsibility and not God’s.
Through these things, we come into the presence of God. And from that point forward we also must do something else: we must live the Christian life. In Colossians 2:6-7, Paul wrote, “Therefore as you have received Christ the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.” That passage says so much. In other words, from this point forward, put your full confidence, your allegiance, and your trust in Christ. Live the life of a believer.
The Cost of Discipleship
But you know, as good and powerful as this message of salvation is, there is always someone who hesitates. There is always someone who thinks about something or someone else; they worry about what someone else will think. They say, in so many words, “Well, if I respond to this, what about others who don’t respond? Where does that leave them?” In other words, they base their salvation on having to know about the salvation of others, which is entirely illogical. But people do it all the time.
Or people think to themselves, “If I respond to that message of salvation, will I lose some friends?” Let me be straightforward with you: it is guaranteed you will lose some friends. You might lose a lot more than that! You’re going to lose some people in your life because there will always be people who do not want to associate with someone who has chosen the Lord.
Someone says, “Well, what will my wife, or my husband, or my children, or my parents think?” Jesus says that if anyone looks to those relationships, or has more love for those people, than they do for Him, they’re not ready to come to Him [Matthew 10:34-39, Luke 14:26]. The truth is: if you’re more concerned about what others think about your decision to follow Christ, you’re not ready to become His disciple.
There are other people who are worried about the cost: “Well, what do I have to give up? What do I have to take on? How much time and effort is this going to cost me, exactly? Is this going to affect my schedule?” Yes, it will cost you everything that you have! And it will disrupt your schedule, it will be uncomfortable, it will be inconvenient, and it will be a sacrifice. And yet, if you stay with it, it will be entirely worth all the losses you will have incurred.
Or a person may not believe that their soul is real, or that sin is real, or that the message of hope is real. Well, this is Satan working on your heart, persuading you not to believe, or maybe to wait for a “more convenient time,” as Scripture says [Acts 24:24-25]—or maybe, to wait forever. We looked at this passage here this weekend, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, “If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing”—that would be all those who are not yet doing what you know you have to do and are of the mind and age and maturity to do those things; you are the ones who are perishing—“in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” This happens a lot. Satan is very effective. He’s very good at what he does; he’s very good at deceiving people. But your soul does exist. Sin is real. Sin will kill you.
But the message of salvation is also real and it will indeed save you. But no one is really ever saved until they let go of what they think will save them otherwise. (We’ll have more to say on that tonight.) They have to let go of everything and everyone else first. If you are not yet a Christian and you are unwilling to let go of anything or anyone else in your life in order to serve Christ, I strongly recommend: do not try becoming a Christian! Because Jesus Himself said, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” [Luke 9:62]. You’re not fit yet for the kingdom if you’re not willing to “put your hand to the plow,” so to speak, and look straight ahead to Christ. It would actually be worse for you to commit to a half-hearted life than it would be to not commit at all [Hebrews 6:4-8, 2 Peter 2:20-22]. I’m not saying it’s going to fare well for you if you never commit; I’m saying it’s going to be even worse for you if you make a commitment and fail to follow through with it.
But if you are ready—if your soul is not in a right relationship with God and you don’t want to lose your soul—then respond to the Word and be baptized into Christ. This is what God wants. This is what Christ wants. This is what we want.
What do you want?
That’s the message. Even if that message does not fall upon receptive ears today, let the rest of us carry that message out to anyone else who would hear it. That’s the message of the salvation of your soul.
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