How Can a Sinner Come to Christ? — Rolfe Barnard

Tomorrow night I feel definitely that I wish to speak to you on the subject. Tomorrow night the subject will be the lost doctrine of our generation. The lost doctrine of our generation. A number have expressed the, I hope, Christian desire, I know it was, that the messages we've been bringing in the morning hour could be heard by the Sunday morning people.

Many people worked different shifts and the schools of course have gripped our children now with a terrible grip. I want to go to the football game tonight, but the pastor wouldn't let me. We've come now where things must be interpreted not as to whether they're bad, but whether they are to be placed ahead of the service of the Lord.

I do not know what we'll be bringing to you on the Lord's Day, but we are very confident we have a message that we would covet a good hearing for tomorrow night. The lost doctrine of the Bible, of this day.

Send the Bible, but we've lost it in your day and mine. We'd like to preach on it tomorrow night. Tonight I'm going to attempt to ask and answer the most challenging and important question that any man could ever ask or speak to answer.

The Gospel Is for Those Who Know Their Sin and Need

I do this tonight for some who are here, who give evidence of having a deep sense of your need of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have no gospel for anybody except people who recognize their sinfulness and their deep need of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm not asked or commanded by my Lord to invite anybody to eat except hungry people, or to invite anybody to drink except thirsty people, or invite anybody to come for rest except weary people. I know of no one who ever dies for people who are not needed, but I do delight that we have a gospel for people in time of need, people who are sinful and sin sick.

They are invited to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Only those are so come to the Lord Jesus Christ has to be received and to be saved. I declare to you that the gospel of this hour makes Jesus Christ standing at the door of men's hearts, hoping against hope, that someday they'll invite him in.

And there's no gospel in that. And anybody that believes will believe it to the damnation of his soul. I recognize we're in a war. We're in a war for the souls of men, the truth that shall make men free.

The Cost of Preaching the Truth

And a man who seeks to plow, as we do, has much grief of heart, suffering of spirit. It's not nice to be unpopular. We are all too weak for that. It breaks my heart that the devil wields so much power and plows the issues.

And it's so difficult to get a guarantee for what we honestly believe to be the only gospel. But if you dealt with as many people who've been butchered up as I do, going from place to place, you would desperately want to tell them the truth.

Coming Spiritually to the Living Christ

How can a sinner so come to Christ as to be received? And received from him, forgiveness of sins, into the kingdom of God. I could not, I could not, whatever I had to say, I could not give a typical invitation.

I am never able to give any except two. One, if the Lord has done his work, come and share that wondrous news with God's people. And the other is, if you feel your need, come to speak to the Lord. I couldn't give an invitation, walk this aisle and take Jesus.

Of course, I'm desperately afraid you would be thinking that there was some virtue in walking an aisle. Nothing about walking an aisle that'll get you to Jesus. We're not talking about a physical coming.

We're talking about a spiritual coming to an invisible Christ, who must, you first must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder, them that diligently seek him. But we're talking about a spiritual approach to a living person whom you can only see with eyes of faith, and not with these physical eyes.

And I'm desperately afraid to invite a man to walk an aisle and take his stand for Jesus, for I believe the folks who do that will go to hell trusting that aisle instead of trusting the Lord Jesus Christ.

How can a sinner come in a spiritual way to one who came to him he cannot see, but who is alive? How can he come into the presence of the only faith, and be dealt with, and be saved by this one whom we see not with these eyes, but with the eyes anointed with the stars of God?

That's an important question. It is not true, my friends, that if you'll come to Jesus, he'll save you. Many times people came to Jesus in the New Testament when the Lord was there on the earth, and he didn't save them.

Nicodemus came to him by night to have a talk, and he didn't save him. The rich young ruler ran eagerly to the Lord Jesus Christ, and he came addressing him, Master, good Master. But he went away without salvation.

The Greeks came, the wise men representing wise Greek philosophers, and said we would see Jesus, but they never saw him. Although he talked to them, but they went away and never saw him with eyes of salvation.

No, the scriptures teach that there is a proper way, and guess what? And it's a spiritual way that a sinner can come, and do business with, and be done business with, to coin that expression, with an invisible and yet a living Christ.

Salvation Depends on Christ’s Death and Resurrection

We need, first of all, my friends, to remember this, that it's the living Christ who saves. He saves us in virtue of his death. But if all that Jesus had ever done was hang on a cross and die, nobody could be saved.

For he died a death that was no good. If he stayed dead, he is the gift. And because Jesus died, there is a life. The devil's a justified sinner. We need thus to remember that there is no salvation in belief about the death of Christ.

You can believe everything the scripture teaches about the death of Christ and go to hell for your trouble. Nor is there any salvation in belief of a living Christ. It is that the many know him, and the few know him.

It is death and resurrection. And the few experience the power of both. We need to remember that salvation for sinners is in the hands of a living God. And it takes a living God. And Jesus is God. He's not part of God, he is God.

And only a living Christ can save sinners. How can a sinner come? We know it's not done by physical walking of an eye. We know it's not done by a bowing of the knee. We know it's not done by anything to mouth, or lip service.

The Lordship of Christ as the Way of Salvation

How can a sinner come to Christ? Savingly. Prejudice is no good here. Our opinions are no good here. We're strictly limited to the teaching of the word of the living God. And if it'll not cause you to want to argue with me, I'll repeat a very solemn statement.

In all of the entire Bible, now you listen to me, in all of the entire Bible there are just two places where sinful men are told exactly how a sinner can approach the Savior in such a way as to be received.

And in both, the same thing is said. Now that's pretty serious, I'm telling you right now. That's pretty serious. And we can't afford, because nearly everybody else does it, to ignore the truth of it.

A brother preacher preached on me in this town. It broke my heart. He publicly called me a liar from the pulpit, because I preached that you cannot have Jesus as Savior, apart from having him as your Lord.

And he was on good ground, because this generation knows nothing of the Lordship of Christ. All it's ever heard is about a doormat by the name of Jesus that'll keep you out of hell and leave you captured in the prison of your sin until the day you die.

Opinions are no good. What somebody else believes is no good here. Whether we're prepared to believe it or not, the doorway to the kingdom of God is the Lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way on earth, the only way on earth a man can get into the saving presence of Jesus Christ is to come through the door of owning him as Lord.

That's the only way. You can believe about him. You can let somebody try to cram the scriptures down you. You can answer a syllogism or a catechism in the affirmative. You can answer such questions as, do you believe you're a sinner?

Yes. Do you believe Christ died for sinners? Yes. Do you believe he's able to save? Yes. Do you believe he died for you? Yes. Do you want to be saved? Yes. Will you receive him right now? No. Because deep down in the consciousness of men and women, they know better than the stuff we preach to them.

They know better than to think that you can come into the presence of the living Christ in any way except to approach him as he is. And he's presented in the word of God as the Lord, as the Lord. This Bible knows nothing about the term Jesus saved.

This Bible doesn't know anything about the term Jesus saved. This Bible places salvation in the hands of that one who's been given another name. Not the name of Jesus, but at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow.

The name he's been given because of his death on the cross and his resurrection and his exaltation to the right hand of God the Father. He's been given a name. That name is Lord. He's Lord! He's the Lord!

Confessing Jesus as Lord

Jesus. This humiliated angel of sinners is the Lord. Call ye me Lord, Lord! Not the things which I say unto you, that if thou shalt confess and believe in thine heart thou shalt receive the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt receive was the word to a trembling repentant sinner.

But even that, they didn't tell him what we tell him. We just said, won't you take Jesus as your savior? And he said, yes I will and go on to hell. He said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. There ain't anybody got power to save sinners except the Lord.

Ain't anybody got a right to save sinners except the Lord! If thou shalt confess! The King James Version hadn't got that. The King James Version says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, that don't mean anything.

That just means walk down the aisle and say, I'll take Jesus as my savior. But that ain't what God says. In the Greek originals here, and this is true, everybody that reads the Bible knows this, there is the way to come into the presence of the Lord.

Now wait just a minute. It doesn't say he'll save you on the spot. I know in advance it says you walk down this aisle, close your eyes, and repeat the prayer, God be merciful to me a sinner, and I guarantee you that the Lord will save you on the spot.

He's a blasphemer. He's lying to people. There isn't anything in the Bible that'll tell you that if you'll do so and so, God will save you on the spot. But the Bible does say he'll save you in his own good time.

And if you don't, you can make all the professions you want to, and you just haven't come into the presence of the only one that can save you. The only one that can. I tell you, salvation's in the hands of the Lord.

The Resurrection and Open Allegiance to Christ

Jesus is the only voice that can speak. The Lord, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, Jesus, that one who in the days of his humiliation, of a birth, dies by every foolish pity, while the people who murdered him are led to his mercy, are inside the temple going through the ritual of religion.

That's Jesus, who was taken outside and buried in another man's tomb and swaddled in another man's clothing. And as far as this world knows, his body still rests out yonder on the outside of Jerusalem.

There's a little dust there if we could find it. As far as this world knows. Now, if you'll stand up on your hind legs, says Paul, and confess that he ain't dead no more, that you believe in your heart and you're prepared to die for it, that he's alive, and that come hell or high water, even if Caesar does hear about it, or the Sanhedrin hears about it, he's my Lord.

He's my Lord. So we'll do that. We'll be safe. We'll be safe. In scriptural salvation, and there isn't any other, here's exactly what God Almighty requires of anybody to come into the saving presence of the only Lord and Savior.

Here's what he requires. In scriptural salvation, man, sinful man, must not only inwardly believe, but must at the disregard of all consequences openly express the Lordship of Jesus in his life. That's a million miles from the preaching of this popular day.

But it's the truth of God, so help me God. It's not salvation now and surrender later. The Bible knows nothing about taking the Lord Jesus home in Solomon Land. It's all of it or none of it. And the Bible knows nothing about cutting Jesus into pieces and presenting one of his offices that doesn't offend you and calling it salvation while you deny him his rightful place as the Supreme King and Lord of your life.

I speak the truth to you, my friends, when I tell you everybody wants to save. But not many want a Lord. But the only one who can save has been declared to be Lord by Almighty God. And if salvation is in a person, you cannot get into the saving presence of that person by coming to him and saying, you're a Lord, but surely on that you can't be my Lord.

I'm willing to keep out of hell and I'd be glad if you'd fix me up so I won't go to hell when I die, but I'm not willing to acknowledge you to be what God says you are, Lord. You don't get saved that way, my friends.

You don't get saved that way. God's Word demands salvation now and surrender later, but they go together. And this world is just as hostile to the Lordship of Christ and to any of his people now as it was in Paul's day.

And if any should desire to be saved, the preacher must tell him what is involved in such a confession. Why, ladies and gentlemen, I propose to show you tonight that in New Testament days nobody ever got saved without thoroughly understanding that in the acts of being saved they committed themselves to death.

And every last one of them expected to die, physically, because he'd accepted Jesus as Lord. There wasn't any of this kind of preaching, you don't have to give up your this and you don't have to give up your this and you don't have to be baptized and you don't have to join the Church and all that stuff that we fed on until we're sick.

No, no, no New Testament preacher ever tried to let anybody get the slightest impression that he could be a friend of Christ and a friend of the world at the same time. It is clearly understood in the New Testament that you couldn't have both, that it wasn't Caesar and Christ, it was Caesar our Christ.

Oh, hear me, that preacher or Sunday school teacher or mother or father who dares to give you man, say, friend, the impression that you can have rule in your life, that preacher's not your friend, he's the enemy of your soul.

Revival, Holiness, and the Cost of Discipleship

You want me to tell you how far we are from revival in our churches? I'll tell you how far. We're just this far. God help you never go back to entertainment or whittling the gospel or trying to make the cross attractive.

Well, there ain't no revival there. And if there is any revival and any blessing from Almighty God in this terrible day in which we live, it'll have to come in proportion as we seek not to rob Jesus of his crown, but as we climb up on the heels of preaching and witnessing and demanding Jesus as the price of redemption on the part of the sinner.

It's Jesus! He's the living Lord. He's the only one that's got the power or the right to tell a poor old sinner, you're whole, you're saved, you're saved. Would you say, Brother Barnard, that involves a miracle?

Yes. And the only way you can get into the atmosphere of the miraculous is to come owning him as what he is. Thou art my Lord, my Lord. You can believe everything in the Bible and go to hell. When Jesus preached, when the disciples preached, when Paul uttered the words of my text, the whole world was under the control of one man.

Caesar. And his title was C-U-R-I-O-S, Curios, Lord. I was in Chicago some years ago in a meeting speaking for the Christian businessmen, daytimes over their radio testimony, and every day they'd take us to lunch, take me and some of the men, preachers would gather in.

And there was present one day a man who'd just returned from Japan, a missionary, and he was giving missionaries up Salt Creek with a hoop and a holler. He was really talking about it. And he told about what took place when Japan and the United States got in war.

The decree went out, and all of the missionaries of the Lord in Japan were given one of two alternatives. They could bow down at the shrine of Hiyorita, the emperor whom the Japs worshiped as their lord.

Or if they wouldn't, they'd be put in concentration camps. And he told me that many of the missionaries crossed their fingers and bowed down and gave lip worship at the shrine of the emperor and called him Lord, and then went ahead and preached.

And he's telling me what he thought about people who do that, and that's what I thought. And I said that I wasn't capable of forcing an opinion on it, because the good ways from Chicago to Japan, and I don't know what I'd do if I had to face it.

I'll tell you right now, brother, I know what men had to do if they got saved in Paul's day. They had to face it, and they had to make their choice. And every last heathen Gentile that Paul gave that proposition to understood that if Caesar found it out, he was a dead dog.

And brother, a lot of them found it out by experience. For that gang of people who owned the lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ, some of them, God allowed them to be set to lie. And many of them, God allowed them to furnish the fuel to light the streets of Rome.

Ladies and gentlemen, in New Testament days, a man had to have a conviction and the realization of a need to walk anybody's aisles or let it get out on him at all. But he is on the Lord's side, because in those days it wasn't popular to be a Christian.

But it meant something. It meant something. And we're foolish if we do not bow our necks in whatever the cost. So help me God, I'm more determined to do it than ever. We're foolish if you think we conquer by robbing Jesus of his lordship.

Brother, the early church demanded submission to him as Lord. And they took the world for bloodstained Jesus. And now we've robbed him of his lordship and made him the minister of sin instead of the minister of holiness.

And have dared to claim to be his trophies and prove it by our unlikeness to him. And we're losing out every day. And our churches are becoming more like clubs than like houses of prayer. And as far as I'm concerned, I'll bleed at night and sometimes walk the floor and cry to God.

But O my soul, I'll lift up my voice if I get another opportunity and say God Almighty demanded in Paul's day and God Almighty demands in our day. Whatever it costs you that you own Jesus as your Lord, then he saves you in his own good time.

That's the Lord Jesus Christ. A Jew, a Jew wouldn't confess Jesus as Lord unless he believed it. Because if the Sanhedrin heard about it, they'd turn him out. And a Jew would not call Jesus Lord, for when you call him Lord, that's calling him God.

Revelation, the Gospel, and Fear of God

Because a Jew's been taught to have no other God except this. In the past, it cost a man's confession of the lordship of Christ to be saved. Let's look at the future. In the 14th chapter of Revelation, how will it be tomorrow?

Well, tomorrow, here's what it'll cost a man to be saved. In the 13th chapter of Revelation, I still believe that this is prophecy. I cannot explain much about it, but I'm of the opinion, and you would fall out with me, this is just my opinion, I do not know that it's so.

I'm just like a little baby trying to learn, I'm willing to be taught. But I think that most of the book of Revelation is what's yet to come, I still believe that. And I think here in the 13th chapter, we've got a picture of this old world, when the religion of this hour has come to its head, and all the world worships the devil.

That's where we're headed. For my friends, God's heaven is now man's hell, and man's hell is now God's heaven. That's how far we've gone from the Bible. And we're not very far from out-and-out devil worship.

That's where this world's headed. And he's going to be represented by his beasts and prophets. It ain't going to be popular to go around talking about the Lord in this day. And it tells us in that language that I do not understand about the feminine man taking out his mark in the forehead or in the hand, the subject of death.

Maybe he'll starve him out, he can't get nothing to eat. And yet in the 14th chapter, in that sort of an atmosphere, I know the Lord's going to change. I just know he'll fix it so a man can be a secret Christian.

I just know in this atmosphere, when unless you worship the beast and bury his brand so people can see it, that you're subject to death. I just know that if there's any way for men to deceive, God will be merciful and fix it so they're not ready to get out on him.

But let's see if I'm right about it. In the 14th chapter, we have the preaching of the gospel. In verse 6, "...thus shall another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth.".

And to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, he's going to come and preach the gospel in such an atmosphere. And the gospel is, and let's see what God's good news is. Here it is, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him.

That's all the good news there is in the gospel. Antichrist will kill me, I know, but fear him anyhow. If I give God, Antichrist will find it out and he'll kill me, I know. But the only good news God's got is fear God.

Don't fear Antichrist. Of course, he can kill you. He can kill you. But that ain't the worst thing to fear. What is the worst thing to fear? Well, the worst thing is to fear what God can do. Well, let's see what God will do.

If in fear of Antichrist you do not reverence God, if in worship in Antichrist you do not worship, let's see what God will do. Antichrist will kill you if you worship God, if you bow to Antichrist. Well, here it is.

The Wrath of God Against Worship of the Beast

In verse 9, the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and receive his mark in his forehead or in his head, if any man, pray if you please, pray if you please.

Let's see what God will do. The next verse, the fellow that bows to the popular and the easy and the evident and the apparent in his day, what will God do? The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

That's all. But brother, I've brought it to you tonight to show you that God Almighty never has and God Almighty never will. We come to terms with the gospel. It's always been at whatever the cost, even if the soldiers are rapping on your door to kill Christians.

If you want to save your soul, stand up on your hind legs and voice the devout belief of your heart and say, I say this is the day when the burning Christians, well, here's a Christian, Jesus is my Lord.

Jesus is my Lord. When we're in the majestic light of the scriptures with that solemnity here, it makes one sick almost to vomit to think of what we call the gospel in our day that has allowed people to think themselves to be Christians when they've never even said goodbye to their saints.

Never even cleaned up the filth that had it. Oh, my God. Listen to me. When, when was it ever possible to come to God without departing from the world? When was it ever possible to have fellowship with God without breaking every tie?

Never has been. Brother O 'Lean had walked with God, but nor the dirt. He had to walk alone. And if it means that you have to walk alone and you're the only one in action, if you have any hope of fellowship with God in this life or the life to come, it means just exactly that price to be paid for Jesus to be your Lord.

If there ever will be a time, would be a time, when we could say, well now, surely God wouldn't expect a man to be willing to lose his life in order to be saved. That's exactly what he demands. Ladies and gentlemen, every child of God is a walking dead man.

You're subject to death. If this world ever gets to where it's got power and God does not restrain it, they'll put a $25 bounty on God's people and pay men for killing them. I wish unto God we'd throw our sons of schools away and start doing something in them.

I wish we'd start teaching something. I wish we would. My heart bleeds for your young people there at the football game or the picture show or somewhere. When meetings going on in the house of God, that they have membership.

That's all. That's all. You've got it all wrong, you mothers and fathers and sons of school teachers and preachers of Solomon Christ. They don't know what it is to be saved. They think they can have Jesus on Sunday and everything else during the week.

They know not to put Jesus Christ. I say that with a break, it's so. I wish you weren't as loyal to your denomination as you are to the hearts of your children and their souls. I wish you was more interested in getting your children saved than you are being popular and following the path.

I wish we were willing to break with everything if it meant the salvation of our children's souls. I wish we did. I tell you now, we've got to quit making Christianity something we do in our spare time.

It's all the same if it doesn't come at all. And everything must be pushed aside. And things are all right if being loyal to him is all wrong. Now, listen to me. God's not going to make it easier for men and women to be saved.

It's that, or it's nothing. Brother Barnaby, the way you preach it, can't anybody be saved. No, unless God works a miracle, you'll just go ahead and make a profession and go to hell. The way you preach that means, that just means an operation where a fellow wouldn't be the same person.

That's exactly what the Bible teaches you in your creation. My God, it's a sharp break. It's a clean break. It's a vital revolutionary break. But give me Jesus. That's what the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Surrendering to Christ’s Lordship

What's it cost today? What's it cost today? How can I come into the saving presence of him who alone can speak peace to my soul and break the shackles of sin and set me free? There's no confession got power to do that.

If Jesus is dead, we just will close up and quit lying to folks. If there is one who has power over sin, we'll tell the people about it. If all we're doing is preaching theory, we ought to be honest about it.

If all we're doing is pinning opinions, we ought to be doing honest about it. But my friends, if we're preaching a living Christ, a living Christ, if that's true, then we must demand that now men shall treat him as Lord, for his very aliveness is the declaration that he's Lord.

Listen to me. In the present, a man must own him as Lord and mean absolute, absolute surrender to him as Lord. Poor little old girl down at Bob Jones University. I was holding a meeting, grieving, revival broke out.

Hundreds of students were under conviction. It was forbidden later to come to the meeting. Jack Gladwell was saved and got in trouble. They were commanded to deny the Lord's faith. And in spite of all of that atmosphere, some of them kept coming.

One young woman who was trained to be a missionary just kept coming, kept coming to the meeting. Every night she'd come to the inquiry. This generation will either take the preacher's hand once, if that don't work, they'll just go on to hell if there's no use.

I know some people say, well, I made one profession, I ain't saved, I ain't going to make no more. Go on to hell. The old-timers you used to see in the same gang streaming down the front every night for weeks at a time until victory came.

They may not have been so smart and method, but brother, they was heading the right direction. As far as I'm concerned, I want to be saved. If I ain't now, it shows up to me. I got a right spot of pride, but I ain't got pride enough to go to hell for it.

I want to be saved. I don't want to go to hell. That little girl, every night she'd come just to bawl and deal with and pray with and try to help her. And the next thing, she couldn't get any peace. She'd go back out and somebody'd tell her she's just disturbed and stuff like that there.

And that'd help her a little bit. She'd come back the next night and get in no terrible shape. And she'd go away that night and decide that she is all right, that she's just been disturbed. And the next night she's back about to die.

It's pitiful! Now that's tonight! Yes, she'd come. We stood helplessly about trying to help, not being able to invade the human heart, not knowing what goes on inside of anybody else. One night she came to me and said, I said, I'm not saved.

She said, I know. She said, I know. And I think you know too. You know whether it's real or not. This ain't either real, it's the biggest joke that God ever tried to pass over on anybody. It's either real or it's a lie.

And she said, I know as well as I'm talking to you now that if I surrender to Jesus as my Lord, he'll send me to Africa. And I said, I'd rather go to Africa than to go to hell. And that's the pointed issue with somebody hearing me tonight.

You know as well as you're sitting there that surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ means to be subject to his orders, to do whatever he wills. And with all of your belief, and all of your dread of hell, and all of your desire to escape, you're not willing to look God in the face and say, fool yourself.

You're like an old man that'll never drop inside of a church except a funeral. Something morbid about it. You're not willing to go to hell, but you're not yet willing to go to heaven. You're not willing to be lost, but you're not yet willing to be saved.

For you know, you know there must be absolute surrender that Jesus has your Lord. With me, it'd be different from anybody else that ever lived, but the issue would be the same. With me, I knew if I ever surrendered to King Jesus, I'd have to preach.

And I tried everything to try. Made a bright discovery. I don't know how the world got along until old smart Alec Ross came on the scene. Nobody ever had any sense until I came along. You know what I found out?

I found out there wasn't any God. I took that medicine three times after meals before retiring at night. It didn't do me much good. At night I did it for four solid years and begged to God whom I found out didn't exist to kill me that night.

And if the daylight found me alive, I'd make my surrender to him. When the sun come up next morning, I'd get my courage back. At night, you know, I was afraid. Old Sam Jones says, throw your shotgun down to Jesus' feet and say, Lord, now I'm in your army.

No, that's it, my friend. That's all I need. Anything less than that. Maybe the Lord never had to deal with another person on that very thing. But the thing that keeps you outside the kingdom of God right now, you don't want to go to hell.

Brother, I could stand here till daybreak and ask you questions, and you'd say I believe everything I ask. But you're a human being. And the trouble between you and God is, there's war going on, and God's a man.

But you throw up the white flag and sue for his term of peace. That's exactly what it is. What that old song and the burden of my heart rolled away. I received my sight and the burden. I preached to you the gospel tonight, dear friend.

Now we're going to give you an opportunity one more time to say I will or I won't. Come under. We're going to give you an invitation to own him as your Lord. To make the poor surrender to him. When you've done that, then and not till then, I've got a blessing scripture to tell you, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

That don't mean simply a prayer. That means a life long attitude. Recognition of him as Lord. Calling upon him. Drawing on him. Depending on him, the Lord can in that day, praise his holy name. Let us stand.