Five Sins Against the Holy Spirit — William Blackburn

Walking in the Spirit Rather Than the Flesh

Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 if you don't have a Bible slide over beside someone who does This I say then. Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh Lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that you would.

But if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest. Which are these? Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies.

Envying murders drunkenness revelings and such like of which I tell you beef as I tell you before. As I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not Inherit the kingdom of God, but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness.

Intemperance. Against such there is no law and they that are Christ. Have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust if we live in the spirit. Let us also walk in the spirit. Let us not be desires of vain glory provoking one another envy in one another.

Let us walk in the spirit that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk in the spirit. The Holy Spirit who is the Holy Spirit? Well, the Holy Spirit is not simply a feeling. The Holy Spirit is not simply an influence.

The Holy Spirit is not simply a power that God sends down to help you. The Holy Spirit is God. You see the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father is God. The Holy Spirit is as much God as the Christ is God.

You see the Bible says that God is in three persons the Father the Son the Holy Spirit. So my friends when you're talking about the Holy Spirit of God, you're talking about God now the manifestation in physical form.

It's Jesus Christ. That is God. But there is a spiritual God a part of the of the Trinity of God. The Holy Spirit is God and the Holy Spirit works in our lives and in our hearts. And my dear friends I want to tell you you can sin against the Holy Spirit of God.

You can sin against God. A lot of folks don't understand about sinning against the Holy Spirit. Because folks don't understand who the Holy Spirit is. They think it's just an influence just a power something I can I can use to Benefit my life of my friends.

When you sin against the Holy Spirit you are sinning against the God of heaven. It is a serious serious thing to sin against the Holy Spirit now in the Bible. It is called the he is called the Holy Spirit.

He is called the Holy Ghost. Those words are the same thing. We're talking about the same person. We're talking about the Spirit of the Living God. And my friend the Holy Spirit of God Works in our heart.

The Holy Spirit of God works in our heart in order to save us. Number one. Here's what the Holy Spirit does sir. And he's going to do it to your heart tonight. If you'll open your ears and open your heart.

The Spirit Draws Sinners to Christ

The first thing the Holy Spirit does is this the Holy Spirit draws a lost sinner to Jesus Christ? Friend I want to tell you something people have this idea William I'm gonna get saved one day when I get ready when I get my life Straightened out when I get a few problems taken care of then I'll come to Jesus.

I'll give my heart to him and I'll get saved then sir. That's a lie of the devil. You will not get saved when you want to get saved. You will get saved when the Holy Spirit draws you to Jesus or you'll Go straight to hell friend.

You do not get saved when you want to you get saved when God wants you. Because Jesus said this Jesus said no man comes to me except the father draw him to me. So the first thing the Holy Spirit does is the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart.

Touches your heart and starts tugging at you and pulling at you right now. Even as I speak there's a small quiet voice in your heart something in your mind that is speaking to you right now. You don't know for sure if you died tonight, you'd go to heaven and right now you're concerned about that.

That's the Holy Spirit of God saying I'm drawing you. I'm wooing you. I'm calling you to be born again. The first thing the Holy Spirit does he calls you to Jesus. But number two what the Holy Spirit does is he convicts you of sin?

Conviction of Sin and the Need for Repentance

My friend you cannot be saved until you understand your lost. You cannot be saved until under you understand that you are a sinner against the Most High God. You cannot understand you cannot be saved until you understand that in you dwells no good thing.

You see you'll never have a desire to repent. You'll never have a desire to turn from the from the world unless the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin. You must be convicted of sin. You must be shown what you really are in the eyes of God.

The Holy Spirit's job is to show you that you're a rebel. That's your art that you have rebelled against God and because you had you have sinned against the Most High God. You are therefore condemned to hell and there's nothing you can do to save yourself.

You've got to get in a desperate situation. You've got to come under strong Conviction. The Holy Spirit will dangle you over hell and show you the danger of being lost and the Holy Spirit will draw you to Jesus friend without the Holy Spirit you're doomed and down.

I'm telling you I don't care how many hours you walk how many prayers you pray my friend. You'll never come to Jesus unless the Holy Spirit of God Draws you and convicts you and then opens your mind so that you can understand.

About salvation friend. I'll tell you the lost man knows nothing about spiritual things. The Bible says to that lost man. The cross is nothing but foolishness. The lost man never could come to Jesus. You can talk to your blue in the face to a man about Jesus.

But until the Holy Spirit touches his mind and opens his mind. He cannot conceive of what you're talking about. I have preached to literally thousands of people and I've talked to me in one-on-one. You talk to them you lay the gospel out you tell them how they need to be saved and man.

They can't even understand a word you're saying. You come back a week later. You take the same presentation. His eyes are open. His heart is ready and he'll come to Christ and be saved. What's the difference the Holy Spirit of God has opened his eyes to the things of Jesus?

The Holy Spirit will draw you to Jesus. The Holy Spirit will convict you that you're a dirty rotten sinner. And so that's exactly what you are. You are a dirty rotten sinner. You're a rebel against God.

The Holy Spirit will show you that and then the Holy Spirit will open your mind. To let you understand that Christ is the only way To be saved. And my friends what's the Holy Spirit touches your heart once the Holy Spirit convicts you of that sin.

Once the Holy Spirit opens your mind and points you to Jesus the Bible says you must make a choice. You must decide either to give your life to Jesus or hang on to your sin. You see there's a moment of opportunity.

Yes, God is sovereign. Yes God calls. Yes God draws. Yes God convicts. But my friends there is a moment of decision when the Holy Spirit says, you know it all I've shown you the life. I've shown you the truth, you know, you're a sinner.

You know, you're lost. Christ is the Savior. Who will you serve? Like Joshua said as for me in my house. We will serve the Lord when a man is in that condition and I'm telling you what men it does not last a lifetime.

It does not last year after year after year after year. I'm telling you the Holy Spirit will bring a man alone. He'll enlighten him. He'll enlighten him. But there comes a moment in time when the Holy Spirit shows you the truth, you know the truth.

You know, you're lost. You must be saved then sir, or you won't be saved at all. But praise God if you will repent and you will surrender your life to the Lord Jesus what the Holy Spirit does then is the Holy Spirit Regenerates your soul.

Regeneration, Sealing, and Indwelling

What does that mean? That means an old dead soul here. The Holy Spirit just puts divine life into that soul. It's called being born again. It is the supernatural power of the Living God coming into your heart.

It is a change that will supernaturally change your mind change your heart change your direction and it's all done by the Holy Spirit friend and even after you're saved. Even after you're born again. That's not the end of the work of the Holy Spirit.

After you are born again by the Holy Spirit, you know what the Holy Spirit does. The Holy Spirit seals your soul. Seals your soul. The Bible calls it an earnest payment. Hallelujah, you know what it is.

It's like God branding you. The Bible says God knows those who are his own. It's like one of those those ranchers that takes a brand and brands that cattle. God brands you with the Holy Spirit your your soul is sealed by the Holy Spirit for you become God's and Then even after the Holy Spirit seals you the Holy Spirit indwells you.

To live from that moment on inside your heart. And what does the Holy Spirit do while it's inside your heart the Holy Spirit teaches you and guides you and directs you and Helps you have a witness helps you to have fruit in your life.

The Holy Spirit even teaches you how to pray because you don't even know how to pray. All praise God for the Holy Spirit of God. Oh without the Holy Spirit. We could never get to the Savior without the Holy Spirit to come to us.

You see the Bible says the Holy Spirit will not glorify himself. But he will glorify Jesus. The job of the Holy Spirit is to get you and I to Jesus to draw us to convict us to open our eyes to open our hearts to point us to Christ and to Regenerate our soul and to save us to seal us and to keep us forever.

And then to guide us hallelujah that we should live for Christ and we can sin against the Holy Spirit. You can sin against the Holy Spirit and my friends when you sin against the Holy Spirit is a grievous sin.

The Five Sins Against the Holy Spirit

Because you are sinning against the one that is literally your protector and your guide here on planet Earth. You see as the lost man you can sin against the Holy Spirit tonight and cause your soul to be doomed and down for hell.

You can resist the Holy Spirit and sin against the Holy Spirit where the Holy Spirit will never come to you again and serve. When the Holy Spirit stops coming you'll never get to Jesus. I don't care who your daddy is or who your mama is.

You come to church you come down here and you cry a bucket full Of tears, but you'll never get saved once the Holy Spirit stops calling you and there are some of you men here tonight. The Holy Spirit's been calling you for a while and you've been trifling with God.

You've been playing with God. You've been putting God off and I'm telling you sir You don't put him off one too many times and God is gonna leave you and your sin doomed and down. But my friend even after you're born again.

You can sin against the Holy Spirit and I want to share with you tonight quickly five sins against the Holy Spirit. Three of them are committed by Christians and two of them are committed by lost people and I want to encourage you to listen.

With spiritual ears because friends I believe God laid this sermon on my heart because I believe we have trifle with God. I have I think we have trifled with the Holy Spirit of God and I think we have not taken.

Seriously what God wants to do in our hearts and in our lives. He wants to use us for his glory. He wants to win a lost and dying world and we must understand it is a serious sin. To sin against the Holy Spirit of God.

Lying to the Holy Spirit

The very first sin is lying to the Holy Spirit and you'll find that sin there in the book of Acts in the fifth chapter. It tells a story of a man and a wife named Ananias and Sapphira. Now they were having a great revival like we're having so pay attention they were having a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit people were being saved by the Thousands and people from all over the country were coming in to be saved.

Folks would move in from out of town. They'd get born again. They'd just stay in the church house. So everybody began to come together. People began to sell property and give their money to the church to take care of all the needs.

So there were a couple there named Ananias and Sapphira. They sat back there. They saw the miracles of God. They saw the souls being saved. They saw all the born-again believers that had property sell their property and bring their money and give it to the work of God.

And they must have sat back there and said, you know, this is not very good for us because folks know we have property. We're not looking very spiritual because all these folks are selling their property and they know we've got property and we're not selling ours.

What are we going to do? So they went home. They began to talk about it. What are we going to do? This is a lot of money. This is a big piece of property I mean, but we've got an image to protect. We've got a we've got a name to protect.

We've got respectability and the old devil spoken Ananias there's a you know, you can sell that property. Nobody knows what it's worth. Nobody knows how much money it is. You sell that property. You keep some for yourself.

You give some to the church house. Everybody a brag on you. They'll lift you up. They'll think you're a dynamic Christian and nobody will know the difference. So they sold the property. No Ananias came down and he laid the the money for the property down at the feet of Peter and Peter said Ananias Why have you lied against the Holy Spirit?

Why have you lied to the Holy Spirit? You've lied to the Holy Spirit of God and the Bible says God killed him right there in a church house. And they drug his old dead body out about three hours later.

His wife came. Oh, they had a plan. They came down and no Peter asked her. Hey, did you sell this land and get this amount of money? She said we sure did. He said you've lied to the Holy Spirit of God.

You'll be dead. Just like your husband's dead. I won't tell you friends if God killed every person in Laurel, Mississippi who lied to the Holy Spirit. We wouldn't have enough people to carry the dead bodies out.

I'm telling you lying to the Holy Spirit is a serious sin. What does it mean to lie to the Holy Spirit today? My friends the lies of the Holy Spirit is this is to have one foot in church and one foot with the world.

It's to come to church on Sunday and live with God's crowd and go out there Monday through Friday and live with the devil's crowd. It's to have a heart that is in rebellion against God. It is a lying heart a deceiving heart.

It is to come to church and to play big shot in church to count the money to be an usher to be a deacon to Be a big shot and won't respect ability and to go out in the world and live like the devil my friends.

That is to lie to the Holy Spirit of God. You'll birds that look stank claim to love God and you got that sorry country club and drink and party. You are lying to the Holy Spirit of God. You are either not saved.

Are you in our rebellion against God? You cannot serve two masters. You will love one and hate the other. Ananias and Sapphira. Yeah, they lied to men. They lied to the preacher. They lied to themselves.

But when they lied to the Holy Spirit of God God reached down and killed him in the church house. And I'll tell you friends the light of the Holy Spirit of God Is a serious serious sin. The light of the Holy Spirit is simply pretending to be something that you're not.

It's holding out on God. Knowing that God expects your best and you give him less than your best. While at the same time pretending it is your best. That's lying to the Holy Spirit of God. It's a sin, sir.

It's a sin the second sin against the Holy Spirit of God not only lying to the Holy Spirit, but grieving The Holy Spirit. The Bible says in Ephesians 430 and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of Redemption, how do you grieve the Holy Spirit?

Grieving the Holy Spirit Through Speech and Attitudes

Well, there's several ways number one the Bible says in Ephesians 429 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. So one way God's people this is for Christians one way you grieve the Holy Spirit is by your conversation.

Those words that come out of your mouth. You can grieve the Holy Spirit by the words you say by filthy talk. I won't tell you men you need to be careful about the words that come out of your mouth. You get out there and you let things slip and I've heard Christians people who claim to be Christians take the Lord's name in vain.

I'm telling you get out there and you talk like the devil. I'm not surprised if you aren't of the devil but I'm telling we have a lot of men in church that think it's somehow to make them a big man to go out there and Talk like they're sailors and I'm tell you to have a filthy sinful mouth grieves the Holy Spirit but also you can grieve the Holy Spirit by gossiping.

The Bible calls it evil Speaking and I'll tell you how you can gossip if you're not careful ladies. I've seen people gossip in prayer meetings. I've seen people get together a little circle and start Confessing sins and the devil used that where everybody knows what everybody's sin is to start passing down the old telephone line.

I want to tell you when you start gossiping and even if you use the excuses you're trying to help somebody when you pass along Information that is not about you and it's about somebody else. That is evil speaking.

You need to keep your mouth closed because it grieves the Holy Spirit, but also foolish. Talking the Bible says in Ephesians 5 3 4. Let it not be what's named among you as Becoming Saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting now.

What is foolish talking? Listen, man, it is. I call it second-hand cussing. Second-hand cussing we say a lot of things to substitute for curse words. People say gosh darn it instead of taking the Lord's name in vain.

It's the same thing because you know, why sir because God judges your heart. To say darn is the same thing as saying down. I'm telling you friends. It's not the words. It's the attitude of the heart and foolish words grieve the Holy Spirit me and you need to be careful.

What comes out of your mouth if it does not glorify God if it does not glorify the things of God. There's absolutely no reason for you to be saying our Conversations the words that come out of our mouth.

They grieve the Holy Spirit. But then you grieve the Holy Spirit by your attitudes of the heart. The Bible says let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all Malice, I want to tell you as brother Dennis talked about this morning those folks that are bitter and anger and whole grudges.

I'm telling you what the first thing I would think is you're not saved. But if you are born again, and you have bitterness and anger and unforgiveness. My friends you grieve the Holy Spirit and when you grieve the Holy Spirit friends, that's a sin against a holy God.

You cannot have power. You cannot have joy. You cannot have answered prayer because you are sinning against the Most High God with that Unforgiveness and I will tell you that root of bitterness and that root of unforgiveness.

Not only is it a sin against the Holy Spirit does not it not only does it grieve the Holy Spirit. But you give place to the devil. Do you understand that? You can give place to the devil in your soul where the devil can come and build a stronghold in your soul and Defeat you the rest of your Christian life.

You need to be careful about forgiveness. You need to forgive because you know why because Jesus has forgiven you and buddy. He knows everything there is to know about you and he forgives you. You grieve the Holy Spirit.

Grieving the Holy Spirit Through Church Relationships and Conduct

Not only by your attitude of your heart, but your attitude toward Christian people. The Bible says be ye kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving forgiving forgiving one. Another church members are the worst people on earth about forgiving other Christians I'm telling you.

We're the only people I know the only army in the world that shoots its own wounded. I'm telling you we can have a man. Who's a drunkard a drug dealer. He's out of jail. He walks down these aisles. He cries and repents and gets saved and we rejoice.

But you let a born-again believer stump and fall into sin and we kick him and curse him and we want him out of the church. We don't try to rebuild him. We don't try to if he won't if he wants to come and repent we ought to forgive him and we ought to try to encourage Him, but what we do is we put him down and we mock him when we laugh about him.

And we don't have the right attitude in our heart about born-again believers. You see sir. You're only one decision from being the biggest sinner in town. Don't walk around here impressed with yourself.

The Bible says the heart is desperately wicked who can know it? You are only one decision away from being the biggest sinner in town. You put yourself in the wrong place in the wrong situation hanging around the wrong people and you'll fall like a one-egg puddin.

I'm telling you friends. You need to be on guard not to have a self-righteous attitude about folks who fall into sin we need to give them a chance to repent and come back to God and have mercy on their soul and Then you grieve the Holy Spirit.

By the places you go to. I Won't tell you man. If you're a member of the country club, you need to quit it tonight. If you're out there in that bar drinking you need to quit it tonight, man. If you're going down to one of those casinos, you need to quit it tonight.

You need to quit it. I'm telling you you are the temple of the Holy Spirit and wherever your body goes the Holy Spirit goes. Think about that. You're dragging Jesus. You're dragging the Holy Spirit of God into those dens of iniquity.

You're taking Jesus. You're taking the Holy Spirit into those liquor stores into those gambling casinos. You're taking the spirit of the Living God friends. You need to be careful where you go. Because you've got God with you and it grieves the Holy Spirit.

Another way you can grieve the Holy Spirit is your attitude toward church. I Hear these old boys all the time. Talk to me about oh, I'm saved but you know, I don't go to church. Friend first of all, I believe a man that doesn't go to church is not saved.

I believe a man who really gets a spirit of God. He'll have a hunger for church. But we have folks come to church and everybody sets up in the church house and they don't understand it. They don't honor it.

They don't love it, but they don't understand that Jesus Christ gave his life for the church. We ought to love God's house with a love God's people. We when you have a negative attitude against the church that grieves the Holy Spirit.

Defiling the Temple of the Holy Spirit

But then finally you grieve the Holy Spirit when you defy defile the temple of the Holy Spirit. That's your body now. Listen to me. The things you put in your body. Can defile the Holy Spirit the foods you eat?

The drinks you put in the TV programs you let come through your eyes. See the eyes of the gateway the soul the music you let come into your ears. I'm telling you you can defile the temple of the Holy Spirit.

You need to protect this body. You need to understand it is the temple of God the temple of the Holy Spirit. You need to be very careful. Not to defile. So number one you can lie for the Holy Spirit by pretending to be something that you're not.

You're not really saying you you really love God with all of your heart yet serving the devil half of your life. You can grieve the Holy Spirit by the words. You say the places you go the things you have the attitudes of your life, but then finally you can quench the Holy Spirit.

Quenching the Holy Spirit Through Disobedience

You can quest the Holy Spirit first. Thessalonians 5 19 says quench not the Spirit. You see my friends the Holy Spirit will lead you and guide you. The Holy Spirit will teach you the Holy Spirit will show you God's will for your life.

The Holy Spirit will keep you away from sin. If you'll listen to the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit will protect you. If you'll listen to the Holy Spirit and I won't tell you when God is speaking to our hearts and God is pointing us in a direction to go and God is trying to protect us and when we rebel against diet that and will not Obey the Holy Spirit of God.

We are quenching the Spirit. We are quenching God's working in our life, right? I'll tell you folks come to God like this God you show me what to do. And then I'll make a decision what I should do son.

That's that's hogwash. What you need to do is say God you show me what to do and I'll do what you say. Even if it's not what I want to do. Even what my friends don't want me to do you show me your will and I will obey it if you'll listen to the Holy Spirit.

I promise you you'll never go wrong. If you'll listen to that voice of God in your mind and in your heart. You will not go wrong because God knows everything there is to know about your life. He knows the beginning and the end.

He has a plan for your life. And when you disobey the Spirit of God, you are quenching the Spirit. That's a sin. The fourth sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The Bible talks about in Matthew 12 31. It talks about speaking against the Holy Spirit of God.

Blaspheming the Holy Spirit

I'm telling you need to be careful and there are people in this town who are on the borderline of committing the sin. I'm telling you when you see the work of God happening for you to belittle that and put that down and to criticize the work Of God you are blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ said hey, that's a sin that God will never forgive. See my friends when you see the work of God. You're seeing something supernatural happen and I don't care friends where you have gone. You have never seen a meeting like this before.

There's not a preacher in Jones County that's ever seen a meeting like this before and for those guys to set back and to Criticize and to belittle and to make excuses. They are sinning against the Holy Spirit of God and the final sin I want to share with you and I'm gonna stay here just a moment is Resisting and driving away The Holy Spirit now, don't you listen very carefully, please in Acts 7 51.

Resisting the Holy Spirit and Rejecting Grace

Here's what it says men. Listen to me ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. I'm talking about people here tonight who've never been born again. Listen to me.

The Bible says you can resist the Holy Ghost. You can actually sin away Your day of grace. You see the whole story of the Bible is this the Bible says God loves you and has a plan for your life. God wants you to have a good life here on planet Earth.

And when this life is over God wants you to join him in heaven for what's called eternal life. God loves you. He created you he wants a relationship with you. He wants to fellowship with you. He wants to take you to heaven one day, but sir, you have sinned against God.

Look at me, man. You have sinned against God. You have rebelled your whole life against God. You have lived a selfish and self-centered life. You have ignored God. You've lived what the way you want to live you spent your money the way you want to spend it.

You have ignored God. You may have joined walked an aisle and joined a church. You may have been baptized. You may have a big old red Bible. You may even believe in God, but you have given God the leftovers of your life.

You are a sinner sir against the Most High God and God hates your sin. God says the wages of sin is death at this very moment as you sit in that pew. You are one heartbeat away from hell. You have sinned against the Most High God at this very moment.

You are doomed and damned. There's no hope in your life to be saved of your own effort. But the Bible says God loves you and wants to save you tonight. God sent his son Jesus and Jesus took your sins and went to a cross and he paid for you all your sins.

Do you hear me? He died so that you could live. He was buried in a tomb and after three days God raised him from the dead and the Bible says if you will come to Jesus and get saved God will forgive you and one day take you to heaven, but hear me tonight, man.

You can't come to Jesus at this very moment in your arrogance and in your pride. You are at this very moment doomed and damned. There's no hope for you Outside of the Holy Spirit. You see the Bible says you cannot come to Jesus.

You cannot come down here and get forgiveness of sin. You cannot come to Jesus and get salvation except the Holy Spirit draws you to Jesus and tonight He's gonna draw you. I pray you're listening when the Holy Spirit touches your heart.

You got to make a decision. You've got to choose life or you got to choose death. You got to choose heaven. You got to choose hell. You got to choose to come and give your life to Jesus or you got to choose to hang on to your sin and die.

And go to hell, but you're gonna make a choice tonight, man. You're gonna make a choice one way or the other. But tonight the Holy Spirit is calling you, but the fact is you can say no to the Holy Spirit.

Biblical Warnings About Resisting God

Let me read you some verses here. The Bible says in Genesis 6 3 God says my spirit shall not always strive with man and then in Proverbs 1 24 it says. Because I have called you and you have refused me.

I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded. But you have said it not all my counsels and would have none of my reproof. Listen, man. I will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes when your fear comes as desolation and your destruction comes as a whirlwind.

Then shall you call upon me, but I will not answer. You'll try to seek me early, but you will not find me. Friend. I will tell you tonight. God's gonna speak to your heart man tonight. God's gonna touch your heart is gonna draw you to Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is gonna convict you that you're a sinner. The Holy Spirit is gonna point you to Jesus. But I'm here to tell you if you bow your neck and harden your heart and say no to God. No to God no to God.

I'm telling you you will offend the Holy Spirit. He will leave you. He will not come back and you will be doomed and damned in your sins forever. I'm telling you the Bible is filled with story after story after story of men who resisted God.

Noah he preached for a hundred and twenty years. He was building that great ark. He preached for a hundred and twenty years and those men laughed and mocked and then one day Noah went into the ark. God closed the door the rains came and the entire world was destroyed because they had sent away their day of Grace in Lot's day and there in Sodom God's in the rain firing brimstone down from heaven.

They laughed and mocked. Hey, God wouldn't do anything like that. God's a God of love. But one day the Holy Spirit stopped calling and the fire fell and the entire city was wiped out friend. You don't trifle with God.

You don't play with God. You don't resist the Holy God. They'll come a day when the Holy Spirit will say I've had enough of you. You will have sent away your day of grace. You won't be saved. When I was saved I Didn't know it at the time.

The Preacher's Conversion Testimony

But as I look back on it, I believe when I got saved God was calling me for the last time. I Was 36 years old and I had walked an aisle as a 12 year old boy and prayed a prayer got baptized. But I didn't give Jesus my life.

I just voted not to go to hell. I lived a long time without God. Telling everybody I was a Christian I knew just enough Bible to argue with you. And I mean I'd go out and drink and I'd party and live like the devil all the way through college all the way through My adulthood, but if you were to ask me was I Christian.