The Demand for Repentance Hell is a place of misery, where the damned cry night and day, to no relief, old time preachers knew the value of preaching up a hot hell, to awaken their hearers to their lost condition, and to warn them not to go there, when the church in America quit preaching on hell, it traded in the one strategic weapon in the city of salvation of souls, you pick up that hot hammer friend, and begin to pound away on your congregation, about the dangers and miseries of hell, you'll probably lose some of your good deacons, and some of your bigger contributors, as you shrink your church down to a size that can trample beneath the great doctrines of the bible, so some poor sinners can be brought to Christ and saved, how bad do you want to see folks saved friend, it's better to fear God, than the chairman of the deacons, hammer number five, the demand for repentance, in act 1730, God's word declares, and the times of this ignorance, God winked at, but now, commands all men everywhere to repent, the day the church kicked out the need for repentance, for salvation, was a sad day indeed, just because a big successful seminary, said that a sinner, no longer needed to exercise repentance, in the process of salvation, that all he had to do was to believe, and ever since, churches joined that bandwagon, which flooded their sanctuary, with the unconverted, who just said yes to Jesus, on an only believed gospel, did not realize, they were only damning folks to hell, you want to decrease your church brother pastor, then start hammering away on your unconverted people, that they better repent, or just go on to hell, we judge success today, by the world's methods, and it's rotten standards, and say if a man has grown his church by leaps and bounds, then that qualifies him to be president of the whole denomination, you get out your toolbox, and pick up the hammer of God's demand for repentance, and you'll cause a riot, in your church, but in the midst of the turmoil, somebody just might get saved, and it just might be you, hammer number six, the necessity of regeneration, Jesus told Nicodemus, accept a man, be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, George Whitfield picked up the hammer of regeneration, and shook two continents for God, with his great cry of, ye must be born again, many of the great revivals, in the history of the church, began when a pastor started preaching to his people, the utter necessity, of a work of grace, upon the heart, through the supernatural act of regeneration, which God performs, you start hammering away, on the doctrine of the new birth, and see what effect it has on people's hearts, most folks, join the church today, as unregenerate church members, and we fill our sanctuaries, with goats instead of sheep, hammer number seven, the preciousness of Christ, I am warned, in my Bible, against casting pearls before swine, or they'll turn and ran to me, never ever friend, use John 3 16, on an unawakened sinner, you're casting the pearl of great price, before swine, a sinner must first see, his need of a savior from sin, before you can present that remedy to him, the faulty evangelism, of our day, birthed in football stadiums, all across the land, in evangelistic crusades, merely handed folks a little Jesus, like you hand out a free stick of chewing gum, and folks accepted that little Jesus, with smiles on their faces, as they walked an aisle, and believed that to be salvation, and they chewed on that Jesus, like a piece of gum, until the flavor went out of their religion, now listen to me friends, we cannot continue to carry on, with the same man centered methodologies, that were passed on down to us, by bigger names than us, thinking we are on the right path, when it's time to be honest with ourselves, and admit our lacking, or evangelism today, the reason I kept hammer number 7 last, being the preciousness of Christ, is for this gospel reason, you hold back on presenting Christ, until you have effectively used those other six hammers, and you have a people, who see their need, they're hungry for God, weary of their sins, and thirsty for Christ, then, and only then, do you reach into your gospel toolbox, and pull out the hammer, of the preciousness, of the pearl, of great price, who's worth selling off for, and losing off for, so we, so he may be gained, you start using these seven red hot hammers, and you'll see a change, in your congregation, souls will be awakened, to their lost condition, brought under holy spirit conviction, and the power of God will be at work, in the salvation of souls, all to his glory, well I hope this little lesson on preaching the gospels, been helpful to you friends, as it's been to me, I'm an old man, I've got an old gospel, but if you want to use it, feel free to get out those seven red hot hammers, for once you truly learn, what the gospel really is, then lives begin to start being changed, let us pray.