Dealing With Dangerous Doctrines — Greg Locke

Paul’s Charge to Preach the Word

2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 1 the Bible says. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ Who shall judge the quick and the dead and his appearing in his kingdom preach the word? The instant in season out of season reproved rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine for the time will come well.

They will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. They shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turning of fables.

But watch thou all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry. Verse 6. Please for I am now ready to be offered the time of my departures in hand. I have fought a good fight.

I've finished my course. I've kept the faith henceforth or because of this. Henceforth there is laid up for me. Paul says the crown of righteousness Which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day not to me only but to them all so that love is appearing.

Please go back to verse 3 again. Bible says 2nd Timothy 4 3 for the time will come When they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers Having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables not.

I bring you the simple message as we end our series of meetings entitled dealing with dangerous doctrines. Thank you very much. You may be seated. Let's bow our heads and hearts and ask the Lord to bless our time together tonight dealing With dangerous doctrines Lord.

Thank you for the wonderful week that we have had ever since Sunday school this past Sunday. Lord, you've been faithful. This is the eighth Bible preaching service that we've had this week and for that we're thankful.

We've learned much we've studied much. We've been challenged heard and changed much and Lord. We thank you for your many blessings. Thank you for those who are here. Thank you for our members regular attenders and those who are visiting tonight.

Thank you for them. Give everyone safety as we dismiss in a while, but Lord right now I pray that we would not be distracted nor be a distraction ourselves. We plead the blood of Jesus Christ upon this service that the devil would have no rule and reign Grounds upon this service at this time, but the Spirit of God would have complete convicting power and full sway.

Jesus Christ would be honored uplifted exalted and the Bible would be preached boldly Unashamedly unapologetically as in truth. It is truly the Word of God Lord. Please empty me of myself. Help me as I convey these thoughts that you've so indelibly laid upon my heart and father when we leave in just a little while.

May we truly be able to say that it's been good to be in the house of God With the people of God around the Word of God and Lord will thank you for everything that you'll say and do. We know you'll do great things for we pray it in faith and we ask it in Jesus name.

Amen, you know the Apostle Paul in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 is writing his one song if you will. He's kind of writing as I said the other night the song just before the guillotine takes off his head. Now the Bible tells us in 1st and 2nd Timothy and the book of Titus.

Basically, the entire books are written for three groups of people or three qualifications. Number one It is written for the qualifications of preachers and their wives. Number two is written for the qualifications of deacons and their wives and number three It is written for the qualifications of church membership and also the qualifications for church Dismissal whenever church discipline is biblically necessary.

But nonetheless Paul is writing and he tells young Timothy what I want you to do is boldly proclaim Unashamedly unapologetically the precious truth of the Word of God. He says I want you to open your heart like the front door of your house.

I want you to open your mouth. I want you to open your Bible and preach the Word. You will notice he did not say preach about the Word. We have a lot of preaching about the Word in America, but very little preaching of the Word in America.

You'll notice he didn't say preach around the Word. You'll notice he did not say preach the Sports Illustrated the USA Today or the Time magazine. He simply said straightforwardly and dogmatically Timothy I want you as the young pastor of the Church of Ephesus that Paul found in Acts chapter 17.

He said I want you to boldly declare Boldly preach and be a messenger of the Word of God. Then I want you to notice what he said in verse number two as he's talking about this great Aspect and this great responsibility of preaching he says preach the Word be instant in season and out of season.

You know, I was reading through my Bible not too long ago when I came across this portion of Scripture. And I thought now that's brilliant right there. Well the Apostle Paul under inspiration of God's Holy Divine Spirit to put that in the Bible.

That shows us pastor that according to the Bible. There is only two things two times in our life. There's only two times in the ministry of a preacher that he should ever open his mouth and preach. Did you know that?

There's only two times in the Word of God that we are commanded to preach. Yes. When they are in season and out of season and I believe we need some in season and out of season preachers 24 hours a day seven days a week to boldly proclaim thus saith the Lord.

But not only did he say the incident season and out of season. He continued his thought look what he says. He says reprove rebuke. Exhort with all long-suffering and what's the next word in your Bible?

Doctrine keep reading please verse 3 for the time will come and by the way has long ago come and it's in America right now for the time will come. When they will not endure it means to hold on to or to swallow if you will.

When they will not endure sound Doctrine, what will they do instead? But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned under fables or stories literally the meaning means Continuous incessant illustrations of life and so Timothy or Paul says Timothy I want you to be careful that you don't get wrapped up in the affairs of humanity in the affairs of your flesh and get Wrapped up in some type of false cult or some type of false doctrine, you know as we preach last night I preach a little bit about false teachers, but Benny and the rest of those crooks on television.

It'll not take you very long to figure out that America is not only full of false teachings. But America is full of false doctrines and I'll tell you what bothers me. What bothers me is that many of the unscriptural?

Antibiblical doctrines have even opened up the door and has crept into our good well-meaning Independent fundamental Bible believing soul winning sanctified separated Baptist churches and tonight. There are four doctrines that I would like to combat.

There are four doctrines that I would like to preach on now the doctrines that I'm going to preach on or in the Bible. But the way these doctrines are being dealt with in America is far from preaching the Bible and it's happening in our Bible Colleges it's happening in our seminaries.

It's happening in our Baptist churches. It is happening in so-called fundamental churches across America and I want to share these four doctrines with you tonight now. I do not preach this message primarily to be controversial.

I'm sure there's some parts here that can be rather controversial. That's not my intent tonight. I'm not looking for a fight. I'm not looking to be a bulldog and rip your head off and tell you what I think about that's not what I'm doing tonight.

But I want to use the Word of God. I want to combat four things that are going on in America that I believe has Hindered us when it comes to really serving Christ and really in this area of soul winning winning people of Christ.

I believe if we're going to have a burden for people. I believe if we are going to win people of Christ. Don't you think we should do it scripturally and we should be sound in what we do? And so the Bible says we should be sound in our doctrine of the word sound means firmly fixed.

Firmly fit or firmly founded and so Paul says don't just have any doctrine. He says I want you to have sound doctrine now a lot of people say doctrines not important. You've heard that let's just all get together in a football stadium.

Doesn't matter what you believe doesn't matter your denomination doesn't matter what you believe about the Bible or what Bible you use. It doesn't matter where you go to church. It doesn't matter how you act.

It doesn't matter if you believe if there's a heaven if you believe there's a hell. You can be a Baptist a charismatic a tongue speaker a Pentecostal a Methodist and Episcopal. You can be a dog barker you can be a Mormon you can be a Jehovah's Witness you can be anywhere anybody you jolly well.

Please let's just all get together on love now. There's nothing wrong with getting together on love. I believe in love and I believe in unity, but I do not believe in unity at the extent of Forsaken strong Bible doctrine.

I believe doctrines important. I believe the reason we've been here this week. The reason we have Sunday school Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night prayer meeting in Bible study is so we can study The sound doctrines of the Word of God.

So when people say doctrines not important the word doctrine means teaching. So what we are saying is that the teachings of the Bible from Genesis 1 1 to Revelation 22 21. Apparently the eleven hundred and eighty nine chapters in the Bible must not be very significant.

And you know, that's a joke for the Word of God is in fact the unashamed Unapologetical Word of Almighty God. It's God's Word not Greg's Word. It's not faith Baptist Church's Word. It's not Calvary Baptist Church who shall that I was worth it is God's Word and I believe that we as Preachers that we have God's people that we have leaders in the church as people that want to be right.

I believe we should do as Paul said handle the Word of God not deceitful Deceitfully, but we should handle the Word of God which must care rightly dividing the word of truth. So let me give you four doctrines tonight that I believe is wrecking and destroying the fundamental movement doctrine number one.

Regeneration Without Repentance

Regeneration without Repentance. Did you hear me? Regeneration without Repentance we are living in a day when people have Deemphasized the Bible doctrine of repentance now. It's a bad thing when people in hell tonight believe in repentance.

But we got Baptist preachers around this country that won't believe in it. I'll remind you the first message that John the Baptist ever preached the first message that fell for from his mouth was in Matthew chapter 3 verses 1 2.

In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying Repent ye for the kingdom of God is at hand and repentance is something that has been downplayed. But ladies and gentlemen according to my Bible if there is not a time in someone's life When they see themselves as a hell-bound hell-bent hell-deserving sinner.

And they are willing to turn from their way and turn to God's way if there never comes that time of a change of mind In their life. They have never been what the Bible calls born-again now. Regeneration is the work of God, but that does not make repentance a work of man.

Somebody says well I thought we're saved by grace and the Bible says Whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely. Revelation 22 17. It does say that but that does not ladies and gentlemen make repentance a work.

Did you know that grace is given to you by God. You don't work up grace to get saved. God gives you his grace. Did you know that faith is given to you to be saved by God? You don't work up faith. God gives it to you visions 2 8 9 4 by grace.

Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works. Less any man should vote. The Bible says that grace is given to us by God and faith is given us to us by God.

But can I remind you what 2nd Timothy 2 25 says in meekness? Instructing those that oppose themselves if God paraventure would grant unto them Repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. You see here's the Bible truth when it comes to salvation.

Here's the Bible truth when it comes to me responding to the gospel. He gives me the conviction. I need the grace. I need he gives me the faith I need he even gives me the ability to repent. But yet he will not twist my arm around my back and make me repent but repentance is a part of the gospel.

Can I remind you that Jesus did not say? Believe the gospel and repent and I remind you Jesus said repent and believe the gospel. Why did he say that? I'll tell you why because if you don't repent if you don't change your mind about your sin.

If you if a person does not change their mind about their false beliefs, they will not believe the gospel. So basically repentance is a cleansing time if you will for the mind. Jesus said if your thinking is not changed if you're not willing to turn to Christ.

Because you're sick of your sin if you're not willing to admit the fact that you are lost. He said then you're not going to believe the gospel. Can I remind you what happened in Luke chapter number 16 in verse 19 the Bible says Luke 16 19.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen and he fared sumptuously every day. There was a beggar named Lazarus. Which laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.

Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And he came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels in Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried verse 23 and in hell He lift up his eyes being in torment and he said Abraham afar off in Lazarus in his bosom and he cried and said father Abraham have mercy on me then sent Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am Tormented in this flame.

Abraham said unto him son Remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things and now he is comforted now are tormented and beside all this there's a great go fix between so that they cannot come from this and neither can they come from here and Separation.

I can't come to you and you can't come to me. Then he said I pray thee therefore father that thou wouldest send someone in my father's house. I have five brethren lest they also come to this place. Abraham said unto him if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead and he said Nay father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent and Tonight the people in hell Believed that there must come a time in your life When you are willing to turn from your way and turn to God's way and it bothers me when people in hell believe Bible doctrine.

But Baptist sitting in church pews and Baptist preachers in pulpits won't believe in Bible doctrine. And ladies and gentlemen There is no such thing without of regeneration without repentance. Can I remind you that Jesus put a premium on repentance?

You know what? He said in my chapter number six in Mark chapter number six He came to his disciples who he split up two by two. He did that for various reasons that will not get into but he was sending him out two by two.

One of the reasons is so that they would not have to go by themselves. And so two guys were going this way two guys were going this way. The Bible says they were to take three things number one one change of clothes a Script or the Old Testament mosaic law if you will and a staff he said don't take another change of clothes.

He said don't take any other books. Don't take any food. Don't take any of money. He said you're itinerant. He said people will take care of your needs along the way now Jesus said I'm going to give you a message to preach to the nations now follow me.

Jesus did not yet give them that message in Mark chapter 6. But before he gave them the message He told them what would happen if the people did not listen to the message. He said fellas disciples if you go to a city and they receive you it will be well with that city He said but if they will not listen to the message that I'm going to give you if they will not heed to the Bible Message the the sound doctrine that I'm fixing to teach you to preach to them.

Jesus said then what you do fellas is you walk out to the edge of the city, you know the story well. He said you walk to the edge of the city and dust your feet off. And he said when you shake the dust off the bottom of your feet you walk away and don't you ever look back?

And he says the nation the town the city the country the county. However, you want to call it however big however small the individual he says the people or persons that will not Heed to this message.

He said when you whenever you shake off the dust of your feet proclaiming the judgment of God. He said in the day of judgment. We're talking about the judgments of the nations. He said in the day of judgment He said those people Will be judged greater Than those sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now friend whatever God likened somebody to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. You know, his long-suffering and mercy has worn out and he's just about disgusted. Can I remind you we make Sodomites or Sodom and Gomorrah crowd in Genesis chapter 13?

Not very much is said about them except the fact that lot takes his tent towards Sodom and he had no business doing that. But we didn't find the full-fledged mess in Genesis chapter 19. And the Bible says these Sodomites were so steeped in their sin.

They were so steeped in their immorality and their ungodliness that when the angels, you know The stories to all not preach on it when the angels of God reach forth their hands and smoke the men with blindness.

You know what the Bible says it says so that they wearied themselves to find the door now. Can I ask you a plate of old question tonight? If you're doing something you ought not be doing and somebody sticks their hand out of a door.

You don't close your night visitation. You're talking about Christ and so somebody opens up the door and they stick their hand out and say abracadabra Bouchoir and all of a sudden you're blind as a bat going backwards.

Do you think you're still gonna try to get in their kitchen? I don't believe so I believe you don't turn around find the car for him. But my Bible tells me when those angels smoked him with blindness those Sodomites those homosexuals were so steeped in their sin that they still wearied themselves to find the door.

We know what happened the fiery wrath and judgment of God came down in fire and brimstone. And slew all of them and most Bible historians and scholars believe that this very moment at the bottom of the Dead Sea.

There's a place that was actually really at one time called Sodom and Gomorrah. So we know that God's patient war theme with perversity we know because of the perversion of man with man and woman with woman and men and ladies with beasts and Children and pedophiles and arrested garbage and trash which by the way is going on in America.

We find out that God was so angry about that that he destroyed them. So you can see that the judgment of God upon Sodom and Gomorrah was very severe. But can I remind you he just told his disciples the message that I give you if these people will not repent.

If These people will not listen if these people will not change their mind if these people will not believe. He said that in the day of judgment. I will judge them greater than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.

So God means business in Mark 6 and in the Bible tells us Mark chapter 6 in verse number 12, and they went out and preached that men should repent. Jesus said if they don't heed to the message of Repent and believe the gospel then in the day of judgment.

It will be greater for them being judged if you will as a whole as a nation. Then that of the sins of the wicked perverted sodomized the homosexuals in Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 19 furthermore the Bible proves our point and by the way a man could preach for a long well over an hour or two just on the Subject of repentance because I believe with all my heart we have downplayed.

I've heard a preacher not long ago say this. He said well the word repentance is never mentioned in the Gospel of John. If you know anything about Matthew Mark Luke and John you do know that the book of John is the most Evangelistic of the four and he said because the word repentance is never mentioned in the Gospel of John.

Obviously repentance is not necessary for salvation. I want to remind you the word God is not making in the book of Esther that didn't mean he's not there. I want to remind you that the word rapture is not mentioned anywhere in your New Testament.

But we still believe in the soon coming of Jesus Christ. I want to remind you that the word Trinity is never used in your Bible. But yet we still believe in God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

So to say that the word is not there. Does not it mean or does not imply the fact that the meaning is not there because by the way. That's what every time Jesus spoke to somebody in the Gospel of John when they were saved.

Although it does not say perhaps that they repented you can see the repentance proved in their life. You see repentance is not a one-time deal. Repentance is a lifetime deal. Jesus talked to Nicodemus.

He changed his life. Jesus talked to the woman at the well of John chapter before it changed her life. And she became a super soul-winning saint right that moment and the Bible says she went back and told all the men of the city.

Come see a man that told me everything I've ever done. He is not this the Christ. And I'm telling you when a person gets saved because they have had their mindset change. It changes their direction. God gives them a new heart new goals new aspirations new desires.

And I believe that's exactly what Paul meant when he said in 2nd Corinthians 5 17 if any man be in Christ He is a new creature. Furthermore Paul was preaching one day in a place called Mars Hill. He was preaching up there.

He was walking around and he began to look at these people. A lot of them were learning and some were not so learned. He looked at him and he said, you know what? He said I beheld your devotion on the way up here this afternoon.

And he said I even noticed that you had a sign that said to the unknown God. He said that God that you so ignorantly worship. He said let me declare him unto you and he began basically in the book of Genesis and he preached about the mighty supernatural sovereign grace and power of Almighty God.

But you know what? He said in Acts chapter 17 verse number 30 and the claims of this ignorance. But now commanded all men everywhere. Ladies and gentlemen, you will have to cut out. You will have to take a spiritual backhoe and dig many portions of Scripture out of the Bible to try to prove to me God yourself or anybody else that repentance is not necessary for salvation and there is no such thing as Regeneration without repentance if a person never sees himself as lost they will never see themselves as safe.

Now there's much more we could say about that. But we must move on number two, not only the first doctrine shall we deal with and hit head-on regeneration without repentance. But number two, there's also a doctrine going across our land.

Conversion Without Conviction

That would simply be this conversion without conviction. Conversion Without conviction now, I need your help tonight in my Bible preaching message. Okay, how many of you in this room tonight? Believe that is God's people.

We have a personal Responsibility to tell people about Jesus Christ. Now, by the way, I'm not committed to win the world. I'm committed to tell the world I'm not the Savior. I'm the one that God uses some so some plants some water, but it's who God That give it the increase 1st Corinthians chapter 1 so but how many of you in here believe that we have a personal responsibility To witness to let the redeemed of the Lord say so how many of you believe tonight according to this Bible many many times that We have responsibility to win people to Jesus Christ.

Would you put your hand out there if you believe that tonight? All right now put your hands down. You know what? You're exactly right. And if you have any form of doctrine that nullifies your responsibility as a soul winner.

You might as well junk that stuff because you can be assured it may be sports illustrated doctrine, but it's not Bible doctrine. We have responsibility to win people to Christ, but I will tell you something at the expense of being misunderstood tonight.

Please understand. I have seen a trend that bothers me in fundamentalism. We have overemphasized man's Responsibility in soul winning and we have de-emphasized the Holy Spirit's responsibility in soul winning.

Let me tell you what I mean. I believe that we should Knock on doors. I believe we should pass our tracks. I believe in confrontational preaching confrontational witnessing. I believe in speaking to people.

I don't think you just walk up to him and say hey, buddy. Did you know there's a hail and you're going there unless you repent and get saved by the grace of God now. You got to start a little slower than that.

You know, you don't just beat the guy's head off with the Bible. You don't do that. Well, you know what we could go out tonight. We could knock on every door in Stacy. I don't know how big Stacy is but it probably wouldn't take a whole long time to knock on every door.

But if we were to knock on every door, did you know we could go out tonight and we could have family-sized King James Bibles. I mean big big big big ones large print editions and we could go out and the fellas could loosen their ties.

And I'll meet you we could go out there the kids the teenagers the men the ladies all of us and we could knock on Every door. We could have family-sized King James Bible large print. We could pull our glasses down.

We could loosen our ties. We could kick off our shoes. We could get red white and blue in the face. We could holler scream rant rave pray preach. Yeah, and we could beg Stacy to get saved. We could beg people to get saved by the grace of God.

We can drag them down out. They can shake hands sign cards start baptismal waters. But here's the truth of the Bible. We can beg and plead and pray and preach all we want. But if the Holy Spirit of God doesn't first put that person under old-fashioned conviction.

They're not going to get saved no matter what you say. Now I'm telling you we have so far gotten away from old-fashioned Heaven-sent heartfelt Holy Ghost conviction. I will tell you something if you have never been under conviction hear me.

You have never been saved by the grace of God. You may have heard a spooky story. You may have heard something that jerk some watermelon tears out of your eye ducts. But I promise you you didn't get saved by the grace of God.

Now I believe that four-year-old kids can be under conviction. Conviction is that time when the Spirit God shows you your need for Christ and Shows you that you do have a need to turn from your way and turn to God's way now down south.

We have what we call the Bible bail if I'd ever heard that terminology the Bible bail. Well, let me set your mind at ease if we have a Bible bail bless God. It needs a new buckle that's for sure. There's no such thing as a Bible bail.

I don't care if it's in, Tennessee. I don't care if it's in Alabama. I don't care where he is. There is no such place as a Bible bail. I was telling pastor and some of the other men in the church if you take a Mathematical compass one of them little drawing what you doodle deals and that will angel, you know about them things.

Probably you should draw with your graphics. I don't know anything about it, but if you take one of the little compass looking deals and you stick the needle on Nashville, Tennessee Middle Tennessee where we live.

Did you know if you stick that needle right there in Nashville and you draw with a pencil or a pen on a map? 100 miles a great big 100 mile circle in any direction around Nashville. In the direction now that's going to take you into into northern, Alabama and southern, Kentucky a little bit.

But most of it's going to entail middle, Tennessee 100 miles from the central location of Tennessee, Nashville. Did you know there are 50? Thousand Baptist churches 100 miles. I didn't say 50 ,000 Church of Christ and Baptist and Mormon and all this 50 thousand Baptist churches.

45 ,000 of them probably ought to shut the door because they're not preaching the Bible anyhow. But 50 ,000 Baptist churches within 100 miles of Nashville, Tennessee. And you know what Nashville's going to hell quicker tonight than she's ever went before.

And I'm going to tell you what has happened in Nashville and what has happened around the world. We have got the idea That we can just go out and we can just talk to people and they can be saved any old time and they you know.

What happens if you go down south? You're not going to know when you say off. Have you ever been saved? Well, here's the big one down south you ever been born again. Oh, yes I did that when I was 7 11 14 22 and 37 and he said no no.

No, if you gotta unexplained everything these people have ever learned I am done asking people when they got saved. I'm done with that, but I know up here. It may be different, but that's how you say you're safe.

I spoke to my dead grandmother last night on the edge of my water bed. Now you've been eating too much pepperoni pizza before you went to bed. That's what your problem is you didn't take some Maylocks and Burke to get over that stuff.

But I promise you you didn't talk to some dead grandmama and that's not what saves your soul there's one thing that saves your soul and it's faith in the precious red royal blood of Jesus Christ and you'll hear every single excuse that comes down the pipe and every Tom Dick and Harry's got another experience and got some other thing with her eyes flipped and Whipped back in her head and they bark like a dog and give it up a tentpole and down south.

Everybody's been saved. Everybody's been born again. I am done asking people when they got saved and when they got born again. Okay, but I'm gonna start asking pastor. I'm gonna say up. Why don't you tell me when you got under conviction?

Why don't you tell me when the Spirit of God puts you on a conviction and showed you that you were lost? And why don't you tell me mister? Why don't you tell me ma 'am when it was that God's Holy Spirit worked you over and showed you from the Word of God that You had broken God's law and that you needed to be safe.

I believe that may get this world's attention just a little bit more. I'm telling we're dealing with rebels in America. I mean we are dealing with rank heresy and radical reprobates all over America. I believe we could take a super sonic video camera and We could drop it down to the fiery depths of hell and it would not scare most of the people that I'm preaching to across America.

But I'm telling you like nothing else in all the world man when the Holy Spirit of God puts somebody on the conviction. They know they need to be saved and I'm telling you we have Over-emphasized our preaching or witnessing and our gospel tracks and we are so scared not to leave somebody in a prayer.

Because you know If they don't get it now, they may never get it. I will tell you what I believe there's gonna be a whole lot of Baptist standing one day at the judgment seat of Christ. Who picked some green fruit?

Who tried to rush somebody through a prayer? Whether it be a child on the bus whether it be in a door or somebody in a rescue mission or somebody in a jail cell. Or somebody that came forth and they weren't quite ready, but they said oh, let me just run you down the Romans road.

I'm telling the Romans road is great but it's wonderful to see somebody under old-fashioned conviction and I'm telling you when you run somebody down to Romans road and just pray with Them for the sake of praying with them.

That's usually why they don't last you better baptize them that night because bless God. They won't be back for six more years but when the Holy Spirit puts somebody on the conviction and You get a Holy Spirit convert not a Greg lot convert those kind of stick friend and they stay with the church for a long time.