Personal Evangelism 101: The Simple Plan of Salvation

Amen. Yes, they do. I love it when we have a beautiful song, but

my wife. Maybe I am, but I don't know

a godlier woman that just emulates

the Lord Jesus Christ in her life. Kindest

in this room. She just won't. She just

She's teaching Spanish. She doesn't speak

said something about, she can give them

If you didn't already have an outline, we've

or four pages together. If you need

of lessons to the entire Wednesday night

some of you probably already know how

to lead someone to Christ. But I know

And I'm not judging anybody, because

there are a multitude of reasons most christians

who doesn't. Because you live your own

of influence, and perhaps you do, but

it than I do. I don't think I own a

in a church that was extremely militant

and not in a bad way, but militant. Very

And that's not a bad thing. That's where

to get to heaven. And that's how I started.

to that. We've added verses to that.

have your own presentation. And I say that,

and we'll talk more about that later.

But this is the simple plan of salvation

that I use. This is the bones, and we'll

to memorize. You ought to memorize Romans

use those, you can win someone to Jesus

add to them as you go. You will, you'll

a couple of reasons. Number one, you

it's the word of God that is the power

to save people, to salvage. Right. It's

I will turn it around and I'll let

the best way to do it honestly, and this

you and them. I will ask them, I will

to read? Do you wear glasses or contacts?

to read it. And you don't want to ask me

to read it, and if they can, then have

We can deal with that at another time,

you how to take a person who is interested,

or at least will listen to the gospel

all the way through to the end and how

so I asked them, I try to get to that

just inviting them to church. And sure,

They're never going to probably darken the

to hand them a gospel tract, he probably

a person, if you died today, are you

to heaven, no doubt in my mind, and

Well, because I accepted Christ as my savior,

and I something to that effect, and you'll

or not, when you say if you died today

and they say, yeah, I'm sure. Well, how

be so sure? Well, because. Well, because

I just. I get. And they'll give you

a string of reasons why without one

a lot of people will say yes, but some,

you should know. First, John 513. These

John 513, these things have I written

unto you that believe in the name of the

You can know down in Corpus Christi,

there's a lot of Catholics there, and they

If you say you know, they say, you can't know.

the sin of assumption. You can't know

it in the word of God, would you believe

it, but if they say yes, then I turn

I written unto you that believe in

you may know you have eternal life? First,

about it like that until pastor brought

that to my mind. I never heard it put

why I need to be saved, who can save

me, how I get saved, and if you want

to share it that way with them, that's

now real quick, because all are sinners.

You need to memorize Romans 310 and Romans

a hard time admitting that they're

to convince them that the sin that they've

I propose that you use the Ten Commandments

to do that. Use the law of God. I'm

I would give those away, and people

and no one refused it. Everyone would

or guilty? They will say, I'd be guilty.

I don't have to tell them they're guilty.

going to say, yes, they've told a lie. Thou

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord

a lying, thieving individual who uses

You're batting a thousand. You're four for

Now and he judged you by his law, would

you go to the next one. There's a. Because

is against God. This is not. You didn't

run a stop sign. That's not the laws we're

is a penalty. Number three. There's

a penalty for our sin. Romans 623.

You see, if we were doing this in our

be repeating these verses over and over.

I just want them to see that there's a penalty

I have other verses there that I use.

It is appointed unto man once to die,

I ask him, I say, so, if the body dies,

If you're cremated or you're lost, you're

then what goes to judgment? 100% of the

you, I've asked it thousands, thousands

of times. No matter how many times I

because they don't even have to go to church,

an eternal being. They know it. And

so you can use that. The second question

we were yet sinners, Christ died for

but the gift of God is eternal life.

And then how do I get saved? Believe

in your heart and confess with your

that. Now if thou shalt confess with thy

that God hath raised thee from the dead,

If thou shalt confess. I'm butchering

in that. I'm going to open it. I can't

with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt

Most of the tracts that you'll find that

And then verse ten. For with the heart,

And with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

at man's condition. This is section

two of our outline. Man's condition. Again,

pretty close as time is the ruler tonight,

it is tempting to take a lost person's

or violent. When a soul winner has a

God's crown jewel of creation, and what

he lost in the fall, it gives him or

for his resistance. And I'm telling you,

were in unbelief. And we're told in verse,

It's just the right thing to do. If you

matter if you're in a bad mood or not. If

I just. I know you go to church. What's

matter if you're in a bad mood or not. And

So if you have someone who's there, a living

their condition as a lost man, I promise

you, it will help you to understand them

if they're mean, if they're ugly, you

have an understanding of why they're responding

Or if you want to say it another way, trichotomy.

soul. All right, fill these in. Number

one, he was a body first. He was of the

God is not created, but the spirit that

look, God doesn't die. God doesn't die.

God regenerates us, he gives us, he gives

Okay, so God gave him a spirit. He breathed

the will and the emotions. That's your

of your, of your body. I mean, I'm sorry.

That's you. All right. Letter B. He was

for God's purpose. Now, in the seventies,

God for anybody that will try to reach

in their gospel presentation. That was fine.

that just isn't necessarily true, and

use to try to win a lost person to Jesus

chapter one, verse 29, says, it is given

unto you not only to believe in his name,

plan is for them to suffer. Now, we first

is living in abject poverty. We are

We are not the majority of christians.

The majority of christians are living

in poverty. And many of them, they know

it joy. They counted it a blessing.

And when you, those of you who have been on

gone on your own, you've gone to third

you come home and look at all that you

and that's the only one I have to talk

Oh, my goodness. Wasn't that something,

Brother Scott, brother Johnson, wasn't that

that they were, they just wanted to help

to every. What if you're. What if you're

that I've pastored, I've been in the jail ministry.

I had a county jail ministry. Go in

life in the penitentiary. Now they need

of a faulty plan. And then those, there

to who just went through some horrific

that's not always even comforting for christians.

to the Lord and they had a little girl,

And I was there in the hospital just before

work together for good, she said, I think

to be wise. Amen. I. But we know. We

to this. Let's read this together. Look

who hath blessed us with all spiritual

us in him before the foundation of the

to me. He saved us, that we should be holy

of children, Pastor just talked about

To himself according to the what the

How? In the beloved. That's the only way

in the beloved. We're accepted only

in the beloved, in whom we have redemption

of sins, according to the riches of what his

Oh, my goodness. Brethren, if we really,

around you? Or have I orchestrated it around

us for himself, for his purpose. And

For his pleasure. Revelation four, verse

to receive glory and honor and power,

for thou hast created all things and

in the garden in the cool of the day.

unmolested fellowship with God. Amen. First

I'm ready, brother. Get up a load of

in the image of God, created for God's

But he fell from a perfect, sinless state.

First he was created, now he's corrupted.

And let's just read through here. Genesis

he said unto the woman, yea, hath God

but of the fruit of the tree which is

one wise, she took of the fruit thereof

and did eat, and gave also unto her husband

So letter a man's spirit. At that moment,

when he created him, he breathed into

his nostrils the breath of life. He breathed

that in just a moment. But look at Genesis

yes. But did he physically die that day?

I mean, he died, he died, that spirit

out for you. And you hath he quickened,

which means made alive. You hath ye quickened

of the power of the air, the spirit

that now works in the children of disobedience,

even as others. But God, who is rich in

he loved us even when we were dead in

with Christ. For by grace are you saved.

We were dead because I can say we were

He says, you hath quickened who were.

If you're saved in here tonight, if

if you have received Christ, God, he

you of his spirit, he regenerated. He

to live forever. If it was created,

it would die again. But it's not. It's

the most wicked thing you've ever done

you know, we've got a whole scale here,

the most wicked thing that you did. That's

we don't do that anymore because we

that we talked to out there, they are

The spirit that now works in the children

in time past, in the lusts of our flesh,

they are living in the lust of their flesh.

they can think. There's so much wickedness

of your heart, hath he quickened together

Letter B. Man's innate ability to communicate

with God is gone. When that spirit died,

with God is gone. Isaiah, chapter one. Let's

one in there, so I'm going to go ahead

we said Isaiah, chapter one, verse 15.

of the lost. They're dead. They don't

and walked and talked with God in the

to man. That's how he communicates to

You've seen it all the time. The devil on

I want to do, I don't do. And every

is telling you, do right, do right.

No, that's the left hand. Let's do the

to do. But then this guy over here is

they don't, they don't have, their mind,

to draw from. So, in fact, I wrote it

Let me start that over. That paragraph.

The part of man that fellowshiped and

to man. God does not communicate to

his spirit. Man has the choice then to

of the spirit or from the flesh the

the mind has nothing truly to consider,

So the soul, that is, the mind, the

upon the flesh and the world. In other

to the course of this world, according to

exists in this state from birth to death.

The majority of mankind exists in this

to feed him good stuff, spiritual stuff

And so most of his life he's following

this side. That doesn't mean that there's

of good moral people out there. But

they live in a country that has a christian

to the word of God. And for the most part,

two corinthians four, verse three and

it is hid to them that are lost in whom

the minds of them which believe not,

This is why we invite our lost friends

to church to hear the gospel. Because

of the gospel of Christ, for it is the

we doing? We're giving the Holy Spirit

But the word of God is the tool of the

which hath sent me. Draw him. How is he

of God. And the Holy Spirit of God is

And sometimes, like me, I grew up in

I heard preaching. It wasn't true preaching.

for you, because first Peter, chapter

one, verse 23, says, being born again,

how not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible

and abideth forever. This is why Satan

the saved, complacent, apathetic, comfortable,

us to share the gospel. He doesn't want

is not a God created vacuum. And I've

God didn't create that hole. Sin created

in the heart. It's a sin created vacuum.

to communicate with God is gone. And

All the tools, hence Facebook. All the

we should use them to get the gospel

out there so that the Holy Spirit can

You can read the rest because this is

man's spirit is dead. He is totally and

I are saved. I'm telling you. But before

to the Bible. There's none righteous,

no, not one. There's none that. Understand?

There's none that seek after God. How many

I realize now that when I told my roommate

We need to stop living like this. We

go. Now you know what was happening.

Why would I even think that way I didn't understand

I just kind of knew it was God. But

I didn't really know how to go about

me to a point of decision after a bad wreck

of Asps is under their lips, whose mouth

Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction

I'm reading your neighbor. I'm talking

I may go ahead and. Yeah, I'll probably

I want us to understand. Man is broken.

We think, oh, that's such a nice family

You don't know the wickedness and the

know how they talk to each other. And

But there are areas, I'm telling you,

the police have gone in and broken down, taken

In nice neighborhoods, police have gone in

in nice neighborhoods, in nice neighborhoods,

And if we go out and we start talking

to people and we see and hear the, their

why. And hopefully in understanding why,

of their ignorance. And rather than

get upset and say, just go to hell, then

let him go on to hell, then rather than

than have that attitude, maybe we can

that I think is important. When we go out

for you to come with the gospel. Amen.

I hope that helps. We'll finish the

go ahead and stand. This is more. This

a 20 people classroom setting. I never

and so we're, you know, we'll get a little

to ask questions in a classroom setting

It's just terrible. I just can't. We'll

It just hurts me. Here. It wouldn't

hurt me in the classroom, but here, it hurts

I don't know how the holy spirit of

just wicked and they're hard and they're

for them. Love them. Do good for them.

that when people reject you, they're not

in you. You didn't curse them when they

for them, you loved them. And you asked

So, Father, I pray that you'd help us

of a man, but the brokenness of men. The

If the holy spirit of God spoke to your