It means this, that the love of sin must die, you must repudiate it, you must renounce it, you must forsake it, and turn from it, and cry to God for deliverance from its power, listen friend, you were either dead in sin or you were either dead to sin, and the other condition that God Almighty requires from sinful man is this, a saving faith, and saving faith means a surrender to Jesus Christ as lord, there is no other way into heaven than that, God requires total submission to Jesus as lord, and God will accept no one, nobody, no man, no woman who tries to get to heaven and denies the lordship of Christ in his or her life, now you start preaching that brother, and the good deacons will come after you, you will have a war on your hands, because people want heaven, and they want to hug their sins, and run their own life, just the way they like it, and if you preach a rock, or an offense, or a stumbling stone that gets in the way of what they want, they will crucify you, but if you want heaven, if you consider yourself truly saved, then the lord Jesus Christ must have rule in your life, as an absolute king and master, he is a sovereign friend, your life is not your own, your body is not your own, your time is not your own, your money is not your own, he must be a complete master, now that is a rock of offense to many, and many will stumble over it, and many will be crushed by it in the end, but in our churches today, the good pulpit search committee will find them a pastor, who knows how to grow a church peacefully, they will choose a man who preaches nice comfortable sermons, for comfortable services, and comfort loving people, who don't want to be upset, and they'll get them a man, fresh from seminary, who will tickle their ears, and speak peace, peace to them, that have no peace, for there's no peace for the wicked, but listen to me friends, i will preach the true gospel, and the cross, and the offense of it, i will warn you of your danger, of dying in your sins, and going to hell, i will inform you of your duty of repentance, and the utter necessity of a work of regeneration upon the heart, i will warn you that unless you submit wholly to God, and throw down all your weapons of rebellion, turn from your sins, and repent toward God, you will perish, because that's what my master declared, he said, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish, and what they call christianity today, in most of our churches today friends, is nothing but a sham, a watered down gospel, an easy belief, no soul salvation, but listen to me friends, the cross of Christ is a scandalous cross, it has his blood all over it, because of sin, how can you hang on to your sins, when he died to save you from them, we live in a church day, where the lordship of Jesus Christ is rejected by the majority, we live in a day, where a pastor can tell you that salvation is by faith alone, and that repentance is not necessary in a gospel message, but that's not true friend, because if you preach man's duty repentance, then you have to preach on sin, and if you preach on sin, you'll be forced to preach about a bloody savior, who hung on a cross for sin, and that's a scandal, that's offensive to man, but i will leave you with this thought friends, the character of a holy god, demands that a day is fast approaching, for every sinner, and that day is called death, where a sinner, who dies in his sins, will be cut off, and sent to hell, and there's a day fast approaching on the horizon, and it speaks about it in my bible, in the 13th chapter of Matthew, let me read it to you, while i close this message, and let it ring in your ears, the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom, all things that offend, and them which do iniquity,.