The True Gospel — Andrew Strom

Well, I've got three really important areas to cover tonight usually these things take a sermon each and None of them I could leave out. So I'm not going to speak three times as long as I normally do and I'm just gonna Trust that God can take us where he needs to take us.

Amen. First thing. First things first, let's just simply turn in Scripture to Acts chapter 2. Day of Pentecost when the church began. When 3 ,000 people got converted in one day. Acts chapter 2 verse 37.

The Apostolic Gospel and the Conversion of the Three Thousand

The first thing. The first thing I'm looking at tonight is very simple. It's kind of almost a technical matter and you know. It's a teaching matter really so it's not fireworks. It's just something that we have to establish.

Who believes the church must be established on apostolic truths? I? Do and Do you know what our gospel today is not established on apostolic truths? We have made much of it up and the rest of it. We borrowed from Modern advertising modern psychology and all these other kinds of things everywhere actually except the Bible and If you look at our message, which basically boils down to very often, you know, God loves you.

He has a wonderful plan for your life. So come forward and say repeat these little words after me and you're a Christian. Well, do we find even one person coming close to that in the Bible? No, we don't.

We find in fact that we've been preaching to people a pile of absolute garbage. For the last hundred years and when people come to us and say what do I do to be saved? We tell them the exact opposite of what the Apostles told them now.

I don't know about you. But I'm not expecting the Apostles to change their doctrine to accommodate me. So I'm assuming that God wants us to find out what the Apostles preached and go preach it. You know what I'm saying?

I ain't gonna change the Bible around. I don't expect God wants us to change the Bible around but for some whacked-out reason. The most important question in the world. We always answer wrong. Can you believe that?

Can anybody get their head around that some people are coming to us out of the world and they're coming into our churches and They're saying what what do you do in the Bible to become a Christian? What do you do to be?

Can you tell me what I what I must do and we tell them the wrong thing see. We can't get our heads around how? How unbelievable that is so I'm not even gonna try it. Let's just read the Bible Acts chapter 2.

This is the first account the very first account of people becoming Christians in the New Testament. How do we know that is because? Jesus just died just got raised from the dead the first apostle just preached his first sermon as an apostle of God and The first people got converted, how did they get converted?

What did they do? Acts chapter chapter 2 verse 37. Now when they heard this they heard Peter preaching. They were cut to the heart and then you in the King James. It says pricked in their heart. Number one we don't preach in a way to do that anymore.

How many preachers do you know how many preachers have you heard. I've been in the church for All my life pretty much. You know with a break. At one point, but you know. Being around churches pretty much all my life.

You know, I can count on one hand. I can count on a few fingers guys that I've heard in person. That can preach in a way that cuts people to the heart for their sins. In an entire I've traveled to other countries.

I've been you know raised in the indifferent various churches raised in Pentecostal churches Baptist churches. I can count on one hand. Less than one hand the guys that can preach in a way that has any chance of cutting someone to the heart.

Because my view is this a Bible says that godly sorrow leads to repentance godly Sorrow leads to repentance. If I'm a preacher and I cannot produce godly sorrow, I'm sorry. But I'm ill-equipped for the game.

You know what? I'm saying if I cannot produce godly sorrow. I'm in the wrong business. Because frankly Conversions that happen with happy smiles on faces and no tears and no Conviction of sin and no cutting of the heart many of those conversions most of them Statistics tell us in fact almost all of them fail.

Unless that person comes to a deep repentance later on almost by accident those conversions fail. Billy Graham famously has over 90 percent fall away rate over 90 percent as Ray Comfort so correctly says that means.

For every hundred people they create 90 backsliders. I've got nothing against Billy Graham at all. I Think he's a great man of God. Certainly in his former years more I believe more so than now, but you're not not getting at him.

I'm just pointing out a fact, okay. All right, that's not even really what my main point is. Okay, they were cut to the heart. They said to Peter and to the rest of the Apostles men and brothers. What shall we do?

There's the question then Peter said unto them repent and Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and You shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now these guys had just received the Holy Spirit the hundred and twenty guys had just and ladies.

I'm sure had just Received the Holy Spirit and what he was saying there is You repent you get baptized in water and you will receive just what we what we just got. This incredible power of God the glory of God is going to fall on your life and you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit.

That's what he's saying there now. Can anybody find in those words and we're going to look at a few more throughout acts? Which is acts is like one episode of another of people getting saved in fact in the New Testament, we are not given actually any other record of People being converted and us kind of watching them as they get converted.

We're not given any in any other book. It's not shown acts. It's showing us what happened. It's the history. It's the history book. Okay. Here's what happened? Well, these guys they repented and boy did they repent they got baptized in water.

They got filled with the Holy Spirit. That's day one Pentecost Christianity we live in day 100 Disneyland Christianity and Therefore we don't do that Acts chapter 2 verse 41 and says here then they that gladly received his word were baptized.

The same day they were added unto them about three thousand souls. Okay. How were they added unto them? We've already seen the beginnings of a pattern I don't really want to talk about it too much until We've seen a bit more of it.

Philip, Samaria, and the Pattern of Baptism and the Holy Spirit

What's the very next time that we're seeing a large group of people? Coming to Jesus in the book of Acts. It's Acts chapter 8 Philip the evangelist goes to Samaria and it says the entire city. It says many demons Screamed and basically the demons left town as Philip went in.

It's how powerful his anointing was glory to God. Okay. Listen to this acts 8 chapter 12, please bear in mind. This is the very next time That we're seeing a bunch of people Getting saved but when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and woman.

So it says they believed the gospel. They were baptized both men and woman. Then Simon the story about Simon the sorcerer. Simon himself believed also and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and Wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done verse 14 now when the Apostles were which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God.

They sent to them Peter and John. Who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet. He had not fallen upon any of them. They were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. And as their Simon saw that through the laying on of hands. The Apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given. Okay. We've just now Taught we're talking about two huge groups of people that just became Christians.

Do we find any record of Peter the Apostle going right? Just say this little prayer after me dear Jesus and You know, it doesn't happen. Why doesn't it happen? It's never happens. Why do we do it? Where did we get that from who invented the thing who came who came up with that idea?

Why did we? Why do we think that someone becomes a Christian because we tell them to repeat a little prayer usually it's two lines long. Asking Jesus into our heart giving our heart to the Lord who gave us the concept.

Where did it come from? Because I tell you it's only been in the church for a hundred years. It actually came about through crusade evangelism they were wanting something quick and convenient so you could go down the front and sign a little card and they could gather the cards in and they'd lead you in the little prayer and then they can say you're a Christian and they can Say guess what?

Everybody 10 ,000 people came down and made decisions for Jesus today. How many of those people were repenting. Tiny fraction those are probably the 5 or 10 that actually stay. Is the people repenting truly repenting going down weeping going down crying out to God and saying Oh God I'm so sorry for my sins.

God God I've been so disobedient to you. Those are the five and ten percent that stay. The ninety percent that fall away are praying the little prayer and they ain't becoming anything. We just made it up now.

I want to put it to you That if we cannot answer this question correctly, which is quite simply the most important question on the earth. We have got no business calling ourselves the Church of God. I Want to tell you we should not be calling ourselves the Christian Church today.

Because we don't know the answer to the number one question that we are supposed to help the world to know. Isn't that true if we can't answer what must I do to be saved? What did they do in the Bible?

Can you tell me can you please tell me sir? What must I do to be saved if we get that question wrong. Shouldn't God just be literally just just getting fire and pouring it down and saying these guys Can't help the world to save themselves.

They don't even know the answer to that question. Isn't that a fair enough comment? Don't you think that's fair enough? I think it's fair enough. I don't think we exist. Apart from that question. I think when the world asks us that we had better get it, right?

Because getting it wrong is like Words fail me. So we'll go on to the next one Acts chapter 10 the next large group of people. Well people of any size actually in a group of any size. That is becoming a Christian in the New Testament.

These are the first Gentiles first Gentiles becoming Christians. Okay, Acts chapter 10 verse 44. While Peter now again, it's Peter preaching while Peter yet spoke these words. The Holy Spirit fell on all them which heard the word praise God the Holy Spirit fell while he's preaching and they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as Many as came with Peter because they because on the Gentiles.

Also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then then Peter said can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the Holy Spirit as We have and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

Are we starting to pick up a pattern here? Yes, we are. We sure are picking up a pattern we've we've we've seen we've seen the three massive conversion experiences at the beginning of Acts. That's what we've just seen and they are all the same.

Those people there wasn't one of them that didn't get filled with the Holy Spirit. There wasn't one of them that didn't get baptized immediately and there wasn't one of them that didn't repent. Okay. Because unless you repent you won't get filled with the Holy Spirit.

Because the Holy Spirit is holy. Holy Spirit is holy and is waiting for you to repent before he fills your life. Now listen people. We've just seen three and on this occasion. They didn't even get a chance to lay hands on them and pray for them to get filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit fell on them as he was preaching and so he commands them to get baptized straight away. How long do you think it took them to baptize those people. Did they have a six-week Baptismal induction class.

No, they did not. That very hour of the day I can guarantee you they went and baptized all those people. Now listen to me. Listen to me. Why do we think that baptism is hardly important at all? I know whole loads of people in the charismatic movement.

Even they've got filled with the Holy Spirit and they speak in tongues and everything. They never got baptized or some of them they got they go. Yeah, you know one of these days I'm gonna get round to getting baptized and they've been like spirit-filled for three years one of these days.

Where did it come from that? We think number one. It's some little symbolic thing. That doesn't really matter or or. You know. What's going on with us. What about getting filled with the Holy Spirit, you know, I asked Jesus into my heart as a good Baptist boy.

About a hundred times no joke. Every night when I was a teenager that things were going bad for me. I Would go I'd lie in bed awake at night and I'd go God if you're real Jesus please come into my heart because I can't take this Jesus.

I opened the door, you know, I prayed the little prayer because I've been taught it since I was a kid. It's brought up in the church. I was taught that little person. So I was a kid I prayed it prayed it continuously and found absolutely no result.

Could I lead any kind of overcoming life? Did I become a transformed person? Was there any sign within me that I became a new creation in God? Was there any transformation? Did I get filled with anything or even receive any ability to walk with God?

No, I did not. Meantime I was suicidally depressed. I was on the verge of suicide for four years dying to kill myself. Walking home every day from school wanting to die. Wishing that my dad had not told me that if I committed suicide, I'd go to hell.

So that I could simply do it and in my life, that's what my that's my state of mind and Here's this lie. Here's this lie that almost lost me my life. Because that's what happened. I was relying on a lie that I was taught in church.

That couldn't save me because it wasn't true. Couldn't save me because it wasn't true. When I was 17 years old, I finally came to the point of total total surrender to God and in that very same hour and That same period of my life within one or two weeks of me completely surrendering to God I still wasn't filled with the power of God.

I could tell. I Knew that my friends had been telling me about the Holy Spirit. I knew there was something in it. I went round to this guy's place I said I've heard from my friends that you've been praying for people to get filled with the Holy Spirit and I know that Changed because I've seen it.

Can you please pray for me? That guy laid hands on me. I was filled with the power and the glory of God. I was utterly transformed in one moment. I went from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.

I suddenly could walk in the power of God. I got a prophetic anointing BAM like that and I started praying and crying out to God for the state of the church. The very next day I got very next day. Actually that guy never encouraged me bizarrely enough to speak in tongues on that at that moment.

I spoke in tongues the following day. I Ever since but the important change was that the glory of God just Filled my life. Now what I just described to you is day one Christianity. I'd already been baptized.

I didn't need to get baptized in water at that time. I already had been and I believed in God when I got baptized and I tried so hard. My life was held. I Almost lost my life because of that false doctrine.

I Came so close to losing my life over it. Let's go to Acts chapter 19. Paul arrives in Ephesus. There are other ones in between this you know, there's several that I'll comment on but this is an instructive one to look at because again, it's a new people group, here's Paul arriving in Ephesus and Preaching to these guys.

Paul in Ephesus and the Foundational Responses to the Gospel

Acts chapter 19 verse 1. And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth Paul having passed through the upper coast came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples. He said to them have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?

Now Paul's looking at these guys is going these guys don't seem spirit-filled to me. These guys do not seem to have the power of God in their lives, you know, he's questioning him within himself. Why else would he ask that question?

He goes have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed and I said to him we have not even heard that there's a Holy Spirit and He said to them what then unto what then were you baptized and they said into John's baptism.

You know John the Baptist. So that their disciples of John the Baptist they don't even disciples of Jesus at this point then said Paul. John baptized with the baptism of repentance. Saying unto the people that you should believe in him which comes after him.

That's Jesus Christ. When they heard this. Did they repeat a little prayer? Did they ask Jesus into their heart? Did they give their heart to the Lord when you know when they heard this? They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul had laid his hands upon them.

The Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. We've just looked at four of the most major conversion experiences in the whole of the New Testament. I can go on and on with this.

We can talk about the jailer who let Paul out of prison. Getting baptized with this whole family in the middle of the night. We can talk about the Ethiopian eunuch who's driving in his chariot with Philip and Phil and he goes to Philip.

Philip had just been preaching the gospel to him. I don't know not very long the Ethiopian eunuch goes. Look there's some water. What's stopping me getting baptized? Had had Philip preached about baptism to him in the gospel.

He preached. Yes, he had. There's no way the Ethiopian eunuch would think up the question. About baptism that was his response to the gospel. What's stopping me then getting baptized? And Phillips, of course saying nothing sir.

We're gonna baptize you right now. Glory to God. We go around saying completely unbiblical things like hey, do you know so-and-so they gave their heart to the Lord last Friday night? Do I rejoice very much when I hear that?

Not really. I'm playing to myself. I wonder if that's another one of our 90 fall away rate people. Wonder if that's another person like me who's been suckered in by something completely unbiblical. Which simply does not exist in Scripture at all.

I wonder If that's someone like me. That's what I think. One of these days we're gonna start speaking biblically and we're not going to be satisfied. Until we know that someone has repented of their sins has been baptized in water.

Has been filled with the Holy Spirit and they're speaking in tongues and full of the glory of God. Just like the old Pentecostals used to see all the time. We're gonna have to get back to that. Because if we don't get back to that kind of stuff We do not have not only do we have not have New Testament Christianity.

We don't have the very Basic beginnings of it. What I'm describing to you tonight if you start doing this properly, it doesn't return the church New Testament Christianity. It just gets us a little it gets us the most important little gap in The door into it.

This is they would they would consider this baby stuff. This is the stuff that you got out of the way on day one. That's what transformed you. You would repent of your sins you'd get baptized. Why do you get baptized according to Scripture?

Does it ever say that it's merely a symbol? No, it does not in Romans chapter 6 which is an entire chapter on baptism, which we should go to right now. Let's go there. We leave acts because I feel like I've probably proven my point and at least enough for us to carry on Romans chapter 6.

Romans chapter 6 is all about baptism and what it does. Does it call baptism a symbolic or ritualistic act? No, it does not. Okay. There's two you listen to the power of this. Paul is talking about something powerful here.

Listen to the power of this in dealing with sin in your life. Listen to this. Okay, Romans chapter 6 he's been talking about sin. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound. Verse 2. God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer in it?

Don't you know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him in baptism and to death. That just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we Also should walk in newness of life.

What is it saying about baptism? It says it is a burial of our life. It is the death of that old Stinking man that I want to get rid of so bad and don't know how to get him dead. This is the death of him.

He is gone. Don't you know says Paul as many of you as were baptized? Into Christ Jesus. Were baptized into his death. We are buried therefore with him in baptism. Glory to God. We killed the guy. We got rid of him.

The chain off our back is gone. The albatross around my neck is gone. If we cannot have a move of God in the next couple of years. That actually returns the basics of the basic stuff to the church. I don't believe we should call it a revival.

You know, let's call it something. Let's call it a retreat. Let's call it a capitulation. Let's just call it a rampant route of us by the enemy shall we. Because I cannot stand to live in a church in this day that does not preach the truth of God.

Please don't send me people that are like me. I don't want to find 17 year olds that haven't been told the truth. God, please get us filled with the Spirit on day one. We're gonna torture people suicidal people.

Longing to die. We're gonna torture them with false garbage all for for year after year after year. My parents didn't even know any better than to tell me that. They were desperate for me to be a Christian.

They were desperate for me to be in love with God. My dad was praying and praying and praying for me to be a Christian and yet he did not know. To share this truth Andrew. Asking Jesus into your heart doesn't do anything.

This is what you've got to do. And the day came that I finally did that I was transformed just like all these people we just read about. I Cannot bear the thought of leaving people in the state. I was in.

I cannot bear it. Let us do that. Listen we've got to change our language. Do you know when you change your language you start changing your behavior? We've got to stop going so-and-so asked Jesus into their heart on Friday.

Isn't that great? Praise the Lord. You know, I'm not going to rejoice at that so-and-so gave their heart to the Lord on Friday night. Well, you know you can have it if you want it. I don't want it. I Don't want it.

I. And we. That's New Testament Christianity, it's New Testament Christianity 101. It's so basic. They hardly even refer to it after this because they assume that you know about it. I want to prove that to you.

Repentance, Baptism, and the Six Foundational Doctrines

Let's go to Hebrews chapter 6 people. Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1. Basic of the basic of the basic. Do you know what we don't even know the basics and we hardly ever preach them. Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1 and 2 and we hardly even know what they are neither preach them.

Can this be the Church of God. Can this be Christianity in the 20 21st century? My heart sinks at the levels to which we have. Sunk listen to this. Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ now some translations say the elementary principles the foundation.

Okay, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ. Let us go on unto perfection or Maturity, okay, not laying again the foundation of Number one repentance from dead works number two faith towards God.

Aren't these basic things people number three the doctrine of baptisms number four laying on of hands Number five resurrection of the dead number six eternal judgment. And it says there in verse three and this will we do if God permits?

In other words, he's saying we will go on from that stuff because that's the milk. That's the milky stuff. We've got to go on to the meat. Now. We're going to maturity now. That was the foundation and surely I don't need to talk much about that.

This is what he's saying. He's saying I'm not going to spend the rest of the book of Hebrews talking about that stuff because surely we know that not laying again the foundation of Repentance from dead works faith towards God doctrine of baptisms laying on of hands.

Resurrection from the dead and eternal judgment. Well, do we preach half of those things in the church today? No, we do not they can go to church for almost ever and not hear about eternal judgment. You can count very few charismatic churches in this entire nation preach on eternal judgment ever.

Never never never they'll tell you how to get success in your life. They'll tell you how to Have a good marriage. They'll tell you how to Anything they'll tell you how to roll around on the ground and freak out and look strange.

They'll tell you everything you want to know about that stuff. No doubt. Do we hear about eternal judgment? No, we don't have we the foundation laid in our lives. No, we do not. Do we hear the doctrine of baptisms?

No, we don't know what that is. People don't even get baptized until people don't even care about baptism. They don't even know what it means. We don't even tell them that it's you know, we don't even say to them.

Listen, listen. This is the death of your old life. What what would you give If you're if you're in jail, you've been put in jail for murder. You've been put in jail for for raping and killing, you know doing the most awful things.

What can you give for this one thing? Oh God, we can kill that guy and start again. We can bury that guy. Because Jesus died. Buried with Christ in baptism into death. Glory to God that we might be raised with him into new life.

What money could you pay for that where God looks down on someone that's getting baptized? We just see them going under the water and God's looking at me. He's going pray. Oh Hallelujah, the angels are rejoicing why.

Because we killed that guy's past and it's gone. We separated him from his his old life of hell. We separated him from his old life of hell. Glory to God and Then we get him filled with the Holy Spirit so he can walk in power and live a holy life.

Why. Because he's filled with the Holy Spirit and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Says in Hebrews later in Hebrews. No man's gonna see the Lord without holiness. How do you get holiness you get filled with the Holy Spirit and you keep full?

If I'm filled and full every day of the Holy Spirit I pray every day to get filled again. Did you know that whenever I pray to God whenever I'm crying out to God? I say God fill me again fill me and you with your spirit.

Why. Because I don't want to be one of those people in the parable. When it comes to the final day the doors shut in their face because they do not have the oil in their lamp. To get them into the kingdom of God.

So we're gonna be filled and refilled and filled and filled. What does Paul say and I believe it's in Ephesians. Yes, it is Be filled with the Holy Spirit. He says that verb there to be filled is actually means be being filled.

It's continuous tense. If you study languages, you know a continuous tense means it means be being filled. Continuously. Make sure you're full get filled and again and again be filled with the Holy Spirit glory to God but the first time in my view well, certainly the first time is The transforming one my goodness.

Next time someone says to you this question. Next time someone says to you sir, what do I do? What did it say in the Bible that they did to become Christians in the in the book of Acts and in the New Testament?

What do I do? Don't say just sit here and repeat this prayer after me you say listen your your sins are an offense to God and If you don't confess your sins to God he's gonna kill you and send you to hell and I don't want to see that happen.

You must repent. You pray to God right now and I'm not gonna tell you what to pray. You pray to God right now and you tell God what you've done and you say God, I'm so sorry God, how can I be saved? God how can I come into your kingdom?

That's how you repent people and Then you take him down to the nearest water and I don't care if it's a bathtub and I don't care if it's a hot Tub, I don't care if it's the river in the middle of winter and you say we're gonna make sure your old life is gone.

And we're gonna get your old life buried today. Are you ready for that? And they nod their heads because they want it real bad. They want that old man dead. And this is God's way of doing it. God looks on baptism.

I'm convinced of this. It's talks about baptism later on you can you guys can go search the scriptures on baptism? I've done it many times look up everywhere get your concordance out. Look up baptism every reference in the whole New Testament.

You'll find exactly what I'm saying. Talks about it as being a cutting off a circumcision of the heart. That's how incredible it is. It talks about Paul getting baptized. We won't go there. No, actually, we will go there.

Paul’s Conversion, Judgment, and the Meaning of Faith

Come and look at this with me. Come and look at this. This is Paul. In fact people say Paul became a Christian when he saw the blinding light. I Tell you no, the Bible says no, he did not become a Christian when he saw the blinding light.

Acts chapter 22 verse 16. Now there's another scripture earlier on an axe which talks about Ananias. This is what happened was God Paul was blinded, right? God sends Ananias. It just says a certain disciple named Ananias was sent to Paul and it says when Ananias came he talked about Getting filled with the Holy Spirit.

I believe that's back in Acts 9. We're not going to go there. And he talked about baptism and he baptized him and he prayed for him to get filled with the Holy Spirit. And I believe that is when Paul became truly a Christian not when he saw the blinding light.

I'll prove it to you right now acts chapter 22 verse 16. This is Ananias talking to Paul. Okay, and now why are you waiting? Paul. That's basically what he's saying. And now why are you waiting arise and be baptized and wash away your sins.

Calling on the name of the Lord. Now if he hadn't washed his sins away, was he a Christian yet? Was he saved yet? Arise and wash away your sins. Sorry arise and be baptized and wash away your sins calling on the name of the Lord.

Okay, and the blindness of course left to me got baptized got filled with the Holy Spirit already repented. Yes. He had done that. What is the picture I'm painting for you? Is it a heresy? Is it some strange teaching?

Well, I simply put it like this. We have our modern Christians, which we think is okay and God has his New Testament Christians. Which he thinks is okay, and I'm gonna go where God is. You guys if you want to can stay where the the modern lukewarm sicko churches if you wish I'm gonna go where God is in the New Testament and from now on I want to get people.

To become a New Testament Christian on day one. Don't amen. Amen a New Testament Christian on day one. When we get up to the Judgment Day, and there's a whole lot of people coming in front of Jesus saying but Jesus, you know, I Believed in eternal security and and the Baptist guy that that preached to me said, you know, I used to be a Baptist.

So God forgive the Baptists for a second. The Baptist guy that was preaching to me said just pray this little prayer. The Pentecostal guy that was preaching to me. He said pray this little prayer and I'm okay.

And I didn't know any better. So I went out and sinned the rest of my life. Jesus is not actually he doesn't get that far, you know. He doesn't even get the words out. Jesus is not in the business of saving sinners.