Christmas Evangelism

The Gospel Track and the Meaning of Christmas

Gospel track guys, it's a million dollar bill. It's very very cool. Do you want one? Okay, the message don't try to spend that anywhere. You'd probably get in trouble, but the message on the back is about Jesus Christ the gospel.

The whole reason that we're out here celebrating Christmas right now. And so I would say the message on the back is far. That's good. I'm happy here. It's not a counterfeit message. No, no, it is not amen to that.

It's the good news. Yep. God bless guys. Gospel track guys, it's a million dollar bill. Yeah, it's real you can check it out it even feels like a real dollar bill, huh? So the way the message of that is that it's on the back there.

It's called the gospel message. Do you guys know who Jesus Christ is? Have you ever heard that name before? Okay, I would only hope you have because we're celebrating Christmas right now, right? So why is it so why do we celebrate the birth of one human being that was born 2 ,000 years ago?

Do you guys know why?

He died for our sins now now there's even a more Significant reason why we celebrate his birth in particular. It's because it was God himself that became flesh and lived with us 2 ,000 years ago and so that God that became flesh is the one and only God from all eternity to eternity and Since he was born 2 ,000 years ago That's the reason he could live a perfect life for his 30 years that he was alive for and that's why he could pay for Our sins on a cross and that it's through his death burial and resurrection that if we place our faith in him alone It's far far more important than a million dollar bills that anybody would offer you.

That's that grace that free unmerited gift of God. So anyway, you guys got any questions about that Jesus Christ? Yeah, do you guys go to church around here or anything like that, okay good good good.

Well check those out and read them and please yeah, look to Jesus Christ for your salvation. Yep. Have a good rest of the day guys Gospel track guys We're here to have given people a million dollar bills.

Christ Alone Saves, Not a Counterfeit Message

Would you like one or three or eight or twenty? So on the back there, they're not real dollar bills, of course. But on the back there the the purpose of it is it's about the gospel about Jesus Christ God in flesh 2 ,000 years ago God becoming flesh.

Living a perfect life dying on a cross for the sins of those that would believe in him and that he was buried and rose Again, three days later defeating death. And so as long as you place your faith in him alone for your salvation.

It's far more important and more valuable than even a million dollar bill. That's the point of that. So yes free unmerited gift of God is that is his grace that he gives to us. And so do you guys go to a church or anything like that around here?

The Catholic Church, Confession, and the One Mediator

Just right over here, okay, cool. How long have you guys been going there for? Nice I like it. So I so I'm a pastor out in Hagerman. Okay, and so how long so yeah, have you been going to the Catholic Church for a long time yourself?

I'm frustrated because I can't speak Spanish. I'm sorry about that. But so when I hear about somebody going to a Catholic Church, I have a question for you. Do you know where to where would you go if you sinned against God?

Where would you go for salvation? But if you sin today, what would you do? Pray to God, that's great. And I completely agree with that you go to God for your salvation, right? Have you ever been taught in your entire life of being a Catholic that you need to go to a priest a bishop and confess your sins?

So there's a Bible. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

But I haven't gone in a few years. Yeah, I feel like I mean I pray to God.

Yep.

So, let me.

Totally and so that Bible verse I was telling you about then that's why I was gonna say it's so important because in that Bible verse.

It's in Timothy.

It says that there's only one mediator between us and God and it doesn't say it's a priest a bishop an elder a pastor. It doesn't say any of that. It says that it's the one Person Jesus Christ, that's our mediator.

And so when we want to be forgiven of our sins, we go to Jesus and no one else. I as a pastor of a church I would never tell somebody that they need to come and confess their sins to me to get penance or to get Salvation or to get that grace right because it's free.

It's from God means that they don't have to go through me. They go through Jesus. And so I would highly encourage you to look elsewhere and I'm not saying that If somebody dies believing that they have to go to somebody other than Jesus to be saved Matthew 7 it says that there will be many in the last days.

That's it. Come to me and say Lord Lord. Have we not cast out demons in your name? Have we not prophesied in your name that we've not done all these many mighty miracles in your name. And he's gonna look at them and it says that he says depart from me workers of iniquity.

I never knew you and so there's gonna be people in the last day that really think they know Jesus but if you aren't placing your faith only in him to be saved and you're placing it in your works and what you do and Penance and and in your church even you're not gonna be saved.

That's what Matthew 7 says in there. So I would highly encourage you to look look at another church. Not that it's a church that saves you. It's Christ alone that saves but I would if do you live in Twin Falls?

So I would not tell you to drive 50 minutes to come to my church. Yeah, but there's a really really good churches here in Twin Falls. So Magic Valley Bible Church, which is just right down here on the corner.

Amazing church the pastors there is named pastor bear love him to death. He's a great pastor. He would care for you if he came into his church. Eastside Baptist Church, that's off of Eastland and Addison.

It's a that's the church. I used to go to that is a great church. You go there. His name is Pastor Paul. He'll care for you and they they have three pastors. There's Pastor Mark Pastor John as well. They would absolutely love to meet you and talk with you and welcome you with open arms and teach you about Jesus Christ.

So that makes me really happy.

Baptism, Faith, and Rejecting Catholic Requirements

Totally totally.

And I was told that I couldn't baptize him. Unless I found Sponsors or godparents that would were married through the church and had all their all their stuff in order. Yeah, then I could. I'm like and but then she told me but no child should be Denied a baptism because children are got our you know, yeah.

And I'm like, but basically you're denying me to baptize him because I'm not married through the church and you're telling me I have to find somebody that's married. Yeah.

To me so I'll be honest with you that to me It makes me sad to hear that a Catholic Church is saying that that's a requirement for baptism because that's nowhere in the Bible. Absolutely zero places in the Bible say that.

Well now what I would say though to baptize your son I would say that he should profess faith in Jesus Christ first, right? So as long as he knows who Jesus is and and he says that he's my Lord and Savior and you can have those conversations I would baptize him tonight if you wanted to because that to me is the only requirement is one that you have to have faith In Jesus, and if you have faith, I'm not gonna deny you Baptism, you see what I'm saying?

And so now there if I had a one-year-old that said I know who Jesus Christ is I'd be like. But do you really yeah, because I don't want to do it in a silly way, right?

Absolutely Yeah.

But it's your duty to teach you. Absolutely and so. But when they told me that I'm like I'm super thankful. Yeah, I feel like I shouldn't be denied. Judge just because I'm not married to the church. Because you know, I'm a great person and you're basically telling me that oh I was told since you failed as a parent to show him that you should be married.

You had you now get denied.

Yeah, what's your name. Liz. Liz I'm Brayden that I agree with you a hundred percent on that stuff I agree with. If they teach that you have to go to a bishop in order or a priest in order to be Forgiven that's a bad thing.

That's not in the Bible. And so anyway, I'm super encouraged by this Liz, right?

Yep.

So that gospel message is that death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and as long as you place your faith in him as long as This guy places his faith in him. You're saved and you're in Christ, right?

And now I would still say you should go to church and you should still confess your sins and you should still talk to people. But it is Christ alone that saves not me or anybody else. It's not the Catholic Church.

Not my church. No one. Yeah, it's Christ.

So.

Once again Magic Valley Bible Church and Eastside Baptist Church. Yeah. Yeah, I would highly encourage you to check those out. Yes. Yes. You're very welcome. You have a good rest of the day. Okay. God bless guys.

Thank you guys.