Turn Up the Heat: A Call to Zealous Christianity

In this sermon, Harold opens with a passage from the book of Revelation, focusing on the concept of being 'lukewarm' in faith. Harold challenges Christians to evaluate their commitment to the Lord and to 'turn up the heat' in their spiritual lives. He emphasizes the importance of zeal, diligence, and fervor in serving God. Through various biblical passages, he encourages believers to be more dedicated, to serve others, and to maintain their faith with intensity and passion. 

00:00 Welcome and Introduction
01:00 Imagining the Altar: Turn Up the Heat
01:43 The Lukewarm Church: A Warning from Revelation
05:35 Understanding Lukewarmness
07:51 The Consequences of Lukewarmness
08:56 Biblical Encouragement for Diligence
24:02 Practical Steps to Turn Up the Heat
32:31 Commitment and Service to the Lord
42:55 Final Call to Action

Transcript

Thank you for being here this morning. You're visiting with us. We want you to know that we appreciate you being here. I hope everyone can listen attentively and take things that are said and go outta here, rejoicing to be a Christian and glad to have the opportunity to serve the Lord. You have your Bibles, you might be opening to the Book of Revelation and the third chapter.

That'll be the first passage we. Look at at the same time, I'll tell you that it should appear on the screen at that time. I wanna begin though by asking you to imagine yourself as an altar, and I want you to consider how great is the fire of that altar. How great is the sacrifices that you make upon that altar?

I wanna talk with you, if I may, for a moment this morning about the subject, turn up the heat, and I just wanna encourage us to be everything we can be unto the Lord and make sure that we're doing. All that we should be doing for the Lord here in the Book of Revelation and the third chapter, look if you would, to verse 14 and begin reading with me and to the angel of the Church of the layoffs,

write these things, say the Amen, the faithful and the true witness. The beginning of the creation of God. I know your works, that you're neither cold nor hot. I could wish that you were cold or hot. So then because you're lukewarm, I neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth because you say I am rich, I've become wealthy, I have need of nothing.

Do not know that you're wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold, refined in the fire that you may be rich and white, garments that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with isab that you may see.

It goes on to say as many as I love. Therefore, I rebuke and chase him. Therefore, be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to him and he will dine with me. Just reading that last passage about knocking at the door, I have preached in times past a sermon.

I call written to Christians, and it's looking at passages that we oftentimes look and use to non-Christians, but pointing out that they're really in context written to Christians. And this passage, I'm knocking at the door, let me open the door. When you look, this is not written to those that are not Christians.

It certainly applies. He wants to come into the doors of those that are not Christians, but he is really talking about Christian. And telling Christians they need to open the door and let him in. When you read this about Revelations, you quickly remember or see that there's a problem, and it's twofold.

Really, the problem is that the layout of sins are lukewarm. That's the way that Jesus describes them in this passage. He said, you're lukewarm. You're not cold. You're not hot. You're just kind of, there is the idea, but it was a greater problem than that because he goes on to tell us that they really didn't know it.

Jesus says, they say, we're rich, we're in need of nothing. And yet he says, the truth of the matter is you're wretched, you're miserable, you're poor. You're blind.

And my question is,

could that be talking about us too? Could we be in that shape not realizing that we're lukewarm or having lost some of our zeal and having not being quite as much as it should be in times past. Could that be us? Let me just talk with you for a moment about Luke Warmness, and what I want to do is just give you about five or six statements and they're, they're really pretty much the same over and over, but just kind of to make us realize what we're talking about when we are talking about somebody being lukewarm.

Lukewarmness is really just half-hearted service to the Lord. You haven't given up on the Lord. You still respect him. Some you still come to worship, some and all but you're not really totally committed unto you. He's not first place in your life. Even though we might say, well, I put the Lord first.

When you look at your life and you look at what all you're doing, he's not really first in our heart and in our lives. It's spiritual indifference. It's kind of a, yeah, okay, but not really. Yes, I'm with you. Another way it could be said. It's just spiritual apathy. You look up the definition of apathy, one of the words it's going to say is that it's indifference.

It's just we just don't have the zeal and the, and the care that we ought to have about the matter. I mean, this is talking about our soul. This is talking about our Lord. This is talking about heaven and hell. Can we afford to be apathetic about it? Or spiritual mediocrity just hum attitude toward these things.

Or maybe a spiritual rut. I don't know who said it, but they said a rut that is deep enough. It's just a grave that's open on both ends. It's polite way of saying if we're spiritually dead or spiritually. Indifferent and so forth. We're in a rut. This is just what we're doing and out a kind of habit that we're pretty much spiritually dead.

But here's what I particularly want you to know. I want you to know that Luke warmness is failure, and let me tell you why I say that. Jesus gives us two things or two reasons. I would tell you that this is Luke Warmness is failure. That if I'm looking at myself and I determine that I'm lukewarm, or if we're talking about somebody else and they're lukewarm, here's the problem.

Jesus was about to spew these people out of his mouth. That's what he's telling Ians, you're lukewarm and because you're lukewarm, you're not hot, you're not cold. I'm going to spew you out of my mouth. He's fixing to disassociate himself from these people. Their claims to be subject to him. And then I would suggest to you that it's failure because the Bible condemns soulfulness and commands and commends diligence and zeal and fervor spirit.

And if we're not living up to what the scriptures teach, then we are a failure in the eyes of God. Let me share with you some verses that that teach that God condemns slope. And encourages diligence. Look, if you would, first of all, to the book of Hebrews in the sixth chapter in verse 11, the writer of Hebrews says, we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to full assurance of hope until the end.

Notice. He says, I want you to be diligent. That's not just, again, a ho-hum attitude. That's somebody that's putting their mind to it. They're putting their. Heart to it. They're involved in it. He says that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those that through faith and patience, inherit the promise. And so he's contrasting.

We ought to be diligent. We should not be sluggish. You ever talk about a sluggish drain that's just real slow. That's the thing. He's showing us where we need to be diligent. We need to be earnest in our efforts. We don't need to just be kinda ho-hum and, and just slow at these things. Look again to the book of Hebrews this time, the fifth chapter in verse 11.

Again, the writer says, and he's talking about Christ of whom we have much to say and to explain since you have become dull of hearing, he says.

Dull of hearing. My understanding is the word dull here is the same word that's translated sluggish into other verse, and it is, we're talking about the word of life. We're talking about instructions into how we get to heaven. He says you're not real interested in hearing those things and not real excited about making them a part of your life, but he's saying we should be.

Think about the book of Romans in the 12th chapter in verse 11, and if you remember Romans, you've got the first part that that pretty much just tells us about. How Jew and Gentile both are saved in Christ, the Savior to both. But then you get to chapter 12, and he really begins to talk about our actions and how we are to live.

And in verse 11, he says, not lacking in or lagging in diligence. Some versions would say, not soulful in business, but he says, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. And so he says, we ought to be serving the Lord, but he reminds us we ought not to be lacking in diligence, but we ought to be fervent something that's heated up in our serving of the Lord.

Two Timothy two in verse 15. Most of us know the passage. It says, be diligent to present yourself a prove to God. A workman that needed not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Notice again, be diligent. Not just be, but be diligent and present yourself unto the Lord. A workman that does not need to be ashamed.

How diligent are we in our working for the Lord is the question. Then look at two Peter one in verse 10, and you remember that Peter has said, add to your faith, virtue, virtue knowledge, nce, patience, godness brother, kindness, and so forth. And now he says, therefore brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election.

Sure. If you do these things, you shall never stumble. You just think about that passage for amendment. Add to your faith. Virtue. Virtue. Knowledge. Knowledge. Tempers, tempers. Patience. Patience, Godness, God and his brother, kindness brother, the kindness, love. And then he says, be diligent in these things. Then he says, if we will do that, if we'll be diligent, not just so soul about it, but if we really take this to heart and we, we really seek to add to our faith virtue knowledge, tempered, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness and love and so forth, and that's, that's what we really are interested in doing.

He says, you'll never stumble. I have preached in times past, and particularly in meetings I'll preach one sermon talked about maybe the most important thing that people can hear and that sermon is about Jesus is Lord in Christ, and I think even Christians prophet from just being reminded that Jesus is Lord, he's our master.

He's Christ, he's our savior. There is no other savior. If we don't accept him. If we don't serve him, we're not going to be saved. And then a second sermon, I preach sometimes in meetings is the best thing that Christians can hear, the most important things that Christians can hear, and it's on Second Peter one and verse five through 11, add to your faith virtue knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brother to kindness, but also this idea of, but be diligent at it.

And listen to what he's saying, that if we add to our faith virtue knowledge, temperance, patience, God and his brotherly, kindness, love, and all these things, and we're diligent at 'em, he's saying You're going to make it to heaven. Doesn't mean that we can't fall. It means if that's our attitude, if we are trying to add these things to our life, and we're not just so, so about it that we're diligently trying to add these characteristics.

He says, you are going to have it made to where you will be in heaven. Think about it if you would. James five. In verse 16, the affected fervent prayers of the righteous man A availed much. Even when we go to our prayers, he says, there ought to be something to that. It shouldn't just be a a passing fleeting moment.

It should be something that we're fervent about. We're intense about 'em. We're asking things that mean something to us about our soul or, or something that means something for somebody else. And so you show some zeal with that and you be fervent in those prayers. And then look at verse Peter four, in verse eight, and above all things have fervent love for one another.

Not just love, but have fervent love. Be intense in your love. One for another. Be intense for your, your love for your mate. Be intense, for love for your kids, but be intense. Love for, for other Christians also, you care about 'em, you love them, you, you want to see them get to heaven. And not only that, but even those outside of Christ.

We need fervent love for 'em. We need to really care about 'em and knowing that their salvation and their soul is at stake. I don't remember who or where, but I saw a speech one time that was entitled Vital Response, and he had a line in there that really fits sometimes what we're talking about when we talk about Luke Warmness.

He said, compared with what we ought to be, we're half awake. Our fires are damp, our drafts are checked, and we need to watch out for ourselves and make sure that we're what we ought to be. Let me suggest to you too many times that Christians talk about the church up there. They're going to have a gospel meeting.

They talk as if though they're really not a part of the church, but we ought to be a part of it. And if we're part of it, it shouldn't be those people up there. We ought to be talking about ourselves and knowing what we're going to do and that we're going to have a gospel meeting and we're the church, and that church is not going to grow and not going to be making a difference unless I.

Trying to make a difference. Too many today are willing to miss Bible classes and to miss worship. Services will come, but they get nothing out of it because they're not really putting anything in it. They're not really listening to, to the passages that are preached or talked about so that they can apply them to their lives.

They're just checking a box saying, I was here. They're just keeping elders and others from calling them and saying where were you Sunday morning or Sunday night or Wednesday, but we ought to be wanting to come and coming so that we can improve ourselves or maybe help improve somebody else. Too many of us seldom try to convert anyone else to Christ.

And I underline try because God doesn't put the responsibility of actual the converting people on us. From the standpoint, as Paul writes and Corinthians, we plan, we water, but God gives increase. It's God that's going to convert these people. It's God that's going to add them to the church, but we ought to be trying to show them the way of scripture and show that it matters what we do and how we do it, and be earnest in our expectations to these people.

Too many deny the power of godliness by never becoming a mature Christian. I've told you over and over, there's a couple of words that I really like in the scriptures. This one of 'em is meekness and meekness just kind of shares with you that you are what you need to be. And looking to God to help make that godness is one of those words too, because it cares with the idea of being gly.

But not just the actions, but with the attitude. Godliness is somebody that is seeking to do what's right and they're seeking to do what's right because they're trying to please God. It's not just that they want to impress somebody else, or this is just what like they have in mind. This is what I want to do because this is what God wants me to do.

If that's not your attitude, you're not going to ever be what you ought to be in the sight of the Lord. You can come to services every time if you want to, but if you're not coming with the idea of I'm going to learn so I can please God and, and make God make something of myself for God, I'm gonna do what he wants me to do because he is asking me to do it and I love and trust him.

Ourself short.

Too many accept status quo. There are people that are content to come and give what they give, and it doesn't bother them. If occasionally somebody falls away. As long as occasionally we pick somebody else up, maybe convert them or maybe they move in, but, but the number stays about the same. These are people that oftentimes you ask 'em, how are you doing?

And they say, oh, we are holding our own. And they have a big smile like, aren't we doing something? We're holding our own. Have you ever thought about that one? Silent man could say the same thing and did say the same thing in essence. If you remember the parable that Jesus talks about, he gave one man five talent.

He gained another five things, gave one, two, he gained another two, but he gave one to a one talent man. He went and hid it in the ground. When the Lord came back, the five talent man had gained and two talent man had. The one talent man said, I was afraid I put it in the ground. Here I have what you gave me.

And the Lord wasn't pleased with that. We can't be satisfied with just holding our own. If we're doing our best and, and nothing else happens, okay, but, but we ought to be doing and striving to do even better and not just hold our own.

I wanna suggest to you that even if you look at yourself and you think, well, I'm not lukewarm, he's not talking to me.

Even if you're everything you should be today, I wanna remind you of what Paul wrote about in Philippians third chapter in verse 12 and 13. He said, not as though I had already attained. He's talking about making it to heaven. He said, I don't, I'm not counting myself if though I've already made it or either we're already perfect, but I follow after.

As. If that, I may apprehend that for which also I'm apprehended of Christ Jesus brethren. I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, I forget those things which were behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of Christ Jesus, he says.

If you're everything you need to be today, you can't stop. You can't sit down and say, I've made it. Paul said, you ought to be pressing on being trying to be better tomorrow than you are today. Trying to be better even later today than you are now at looking at how I can do better and serve the Lord even better.

I wanna remind you that I entitled the lesson, turn Up the Heat, and I did that because I think that all of us occasionally

we'll get there in a minute. PowerPoint's a little different on this one than mine. But I, I, I want to name it as turn up the heat because I'm not trying to condemn anybody, but I do want us to be the very best that we can be. And that's what it's all about. Remember that illustration of the beginning.

You're an altar. How is your sacrifices? What it look like? Is it possible that we could just turn up the heat a little bit and be a little better than what we've been, and let me suggest some things in how we can do that. One, I want you to understand that you can turn up the heat just by deciding that you're going to the Bible, Bible passages that teach us that we, our mind and our hearts.

Have a lot to do with who we are and what we do, and we can become even better by just determining in our heart that's what we're going to do. There are passages that teach this. I'm mindful that a lot of people would turn to Proverbs 23 7 that says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he, and that's a good passage, but.

It's not really teaching what we're trying to get across. If you look at that whole passage, he's really in that passage telling us we're judged by our heart and not by our action. It's about a man who goes out and gives Danage to other people and, and they're looking and thinking, oh, I got good danage.

But the passage goes on to say, you better look out. He has an alternative motive in doing that, and when he's going to be judged, he's not gonna be judged as a very. A liberal person who's out giving these things, he's gonna be judged because of his selfish motives. I've illustrated before, like, here's somebody that comes to worship service like this and, and they write a big check because they have found out that they get a big deduction off the Internal Revenue service.

They're not doing it because they love the Lord and, and because they want to give to the Lord. They're doing it because they're wanting to keep as much money as they can. And they've learned by giving this, they get to keep more and don't give the governance so much. But there are passages, for instance, the Book of Proverbs in the fourth chapter in verse 23.

It's that tells us that keep thy heart will all diligence for out of it comes the issues of life. He tells us that what's in our heart, that is what determines what kind of life we live. And he is trying to tell us, do what we know to do so that our heart will judge rightly and, and it'll do what we we need to do in these things.

Let me, let me just illustrate for you how the, just making up your mind to do something. Can can help you. You ever been out walking and just realize all of a sudden that the pace has slowed down and you just think, Hey, I gotta pick up the pace. And so you just, without any extra training, without any extra equipment, just deciding that you're going to do better, you pick up your pace.

We can do that with the service of the Lord. We don't have to necessarily know more. We don't have to do anything else. We just need to, to determine, I need to pick up the pace and need to do something more. And so the first thing you need to do is just to decide. I'm going to turn up the heat. I'm gonna become more zealous, more enthusiastic about the Lord than what I've been in times past.

Then do it. And you can apply this to singing when we sing the invitation song, sing like you're inviting somebody and it depends on your convincing them to come forward. Sing that way and see if it helps. At best time. It would help in your service in attending. You just decide I'm going to, to make it my business to come to every service.

It'll be better. And you can, you can start coming more and you'll be better off for it. It'll help in resisting temptations. You can, you can get to the point where you can, oh. Josh, can you get us back where we are? Maybe I'm not sure whether I went forward or back. I can get us there from here. I think Josh quick, well, further than a thought.

Okay, leave that. Okay. Not only do we decide that, but we can think of spiritual success. Again, just in your mind, know that we can be spiritually successful. Think about a couple of things. We, we talk sometimes and it says as though we. I've used the term unbecoming, pessimistic. You know, we talk about a gospel meeting, oh, it won't do any good.

Or going out and trying to convert something. We can't convert anybody. Nobody wants the gospel today. And yet, when you look at the scriptures, you look at passages like Romans eight and verse 31. What shall we say then to these things? If God be fart? Who can be against us? Think about Romans one and verse 16.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel. It's the power of God under salvation. How can you? How can you fall or fail when you have the gospel, the power of God under salvation on your side? Or think about Philippians four and verse 13. I can do all things through Christ that strengthen me. Think about the book of Romans in the eighth chapter, and you may want to turn over there.

Romans eight, beginning in verse 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness, or pearl or sword as it is written? For my sake, we are killed all the day long. We're accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nate, in all things, we're more than conquered or through him that loved us.

For, I'm persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor death, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. The point is that God guarantees us that if we're trying with all our heart and all our might, that we're going to be successful and can be successful.

I'd suggest to you just, just pray about the matter. Just find a quiet place and, and pray and say, God, make me better. Help me to be more of what you want me to be, and then make yourself available for God to do that. We talked not too long ago about the subject that God may use you to answer your prayers.

And if you're praying, Lord, make me better, there's a good chance that he's going to use you to answer that prayer. So pray and then watch. But then the second thing, let me suggest to you, you can turn up the heat by being committed and living up to your commitment. There's a couple of passages that talk about our commitment.

You remember, in fact, Reagan mentioned this last week, Luke, the 14th chapter in verse 26 through verse 33, and how the, one of the places he's saying that we have to love God more than father and mother and brother and sister and wife and children, ye and our own self also. And then later on he just, he talks about in verse 33 again, that, that we need to be working for the Lord.

That we can do it.

Or you look at the book of Matthew, the 16th chapter, then Jesus said unto his disciple, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Or whosoever shall save his life, shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life, from my sake shall find it. Look at one Peter three in verse 15 where he says, but sanctify the Lord in your heart.

Let Jesus take over your heart and that's the way you you get and be committed unto the Lord.

When we are committed, we're willing to sacrifice. Sometimes ask and, and we're fortunate here, but we're asked sometimes, why is there so much world in the church? Why are there so few churches that have good elders? Why aren't we converting more people than we are? Why is there so much Luke warmness? And part of the answer is people aren't committed as they should be.

If you're not going to become an elder without wanting to become an elder, not be a good elder, at least, and, and be really qualified to be an elder unless you give diligence in becoming an elder to learn the scriptures and to know the people and so forth, and

you're not gonna be all you can be again. Luke warmness and all, unless you're really giving your heart unto the Lord, unless you're committed unto the Lord.

Don't be dissuaded from your purpose.

You ever think about temptation, and temptation is, it's really illustrated at times like it's, it's the cheese on a wrap trap. You see something that appeals to you, and so you, you turn and go that way and leave what you should, and you forget about the danger. And that's, that's what happens. We, we forget about our commitment and we begin to look for other things.

Don't be dissuaded. Don't let other people dissuade us. You remember Nehemiah? Nehemiah was going to build the walls. Around Jerusalem after they've been destroyed and the enemies came, and particularly in chapter four, you see the enemies came and mocked him, but he didn't let that stop him. They talked about him, but he didn't let that stop him.

They threatened him in verse eight, but he didn't let that stop him from building the walls. They attempted to deceive him and to cause him to cease the work and to get him to compromise and even sin. He wouldn't do that. In fact, he answered by saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down.

Why should the work cease while I leave it? And come down to you, Nehemiah six in verse three, be committed and live up to that commission. And then thirdly, let me suggest to you, you can turn up the heat by learning to serve and by serving. We're here to serve. We're here to serve the Lord, and we ought to be people that are serving.

In fact, Christianity is about serving You remember First Thessalonians one and verse nine, and Paul talks about how the Thessalonians had turned from idols to God to serve the living God. They were converted. They were converted to serve the living God and you serve God sometimes by serving people. And so if we're going to turn up the heat, then we need to be people that are going to be served or serving good examples.

In the scripture you have the idea of Paul or Solomon, rather in One Kings three, you know, when he was gonna take the kingship. He prayed to God and God said, what can I give you? And he didn't ask for riches or anything. He said, I need to be like my father and serve Israel. He wanted to serve you. Look at Paul, and in the book the second Corinthians, in the fourth chapter, in verse five, Paul says, for we preach, not ourselves, but Christ, Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves, your servant, for Jesus Christ's sake.

And then in second Corinthians 1215, and I will gladly sin and be spent for you though the more abundantly I love you, the less I'm loved. He says sometimes doesn't matter their attitude. I know what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to serve and then listen to the words of Jesus himself. Matthew the 20th chapter, verse 28, 27, 28.

Whosoever will be chief among you. Let him be your servant. If you wanna be chief, be a servant. He says, even as the son of man came, not to be ministered and two, but to minister and to give his wife a ransome for many,

how can we serve by supplying whatever we can to other people and by being whatever God wants us to be. I've shared with you. In a sermon one time on marriage about an example I, I heard and read one time, I think I was still in Ville, Arkansas. That would've been between 69 and 72, I guess. But there was a, a, an article that appeared in Dear Abby, and it total about a lady who had decided she wanted a divorce and she was telling the story in the, in the article, but she went to a lawyer and she said.

I want a divorce. He said, and I want to hurt my husband as much as I can.

And the lawyer was a rude fellow. He said, you know, if things is as bad as you say they are, you get a divorce, he's not gonna be sad. He's probably going to jump for joy. He said, for one month. Go back and said you do everything you can to please. Maybe get his slippers out at night and put 'em out there so he can slip those on when he comes in, fix his favorite meal, go wherever he wants to go.

Just serve him for 30 days.

And here was the point of the article. At the end of 30 days, she stuck her head back in the office of the lawyer and said, forget the divorce. Said I've fallen in love with my husband again.

And our service may be what's keeping us from loving God as much as we want to, and we need to remember that service is doing and that we've got to be out doing the will of the Lord.

I read the story one time. Another poor gospel hit close to home, but he was out playing and he hit the ball and it went out in little rough and landed right in the middle of ant bed. But he wasn't discouraged. He took his clubs and went out there and wasn't standing in the an bed. Standing next to it, he swung, missed the ball, hit that amp bed, flew ants everywhere.

Tried it again. Same. Same thing. I did three or four times. There was one aunt still in the bed next to another one. He said, you know, if we're going to survive this, we're going to have to get on the ball. And that's my message. Let don't just be called Christians. Let's be Christians. Let, don't be a lukewarm Christian.

Let's be a Christian that's on the ball doing whatever it is that God wants us to do in order to glorify His great and holy name. And remember what we said in two Peter one, if you'll add to your faith virtue, virtue, knowledge, knowledge, tempers, tempers, patient, God and Godness brother, the kindness brother, the kindnesses of alive.

And if you'll do these things diligently, do them. He tells us, as Christians, you'll have an abundant entrance into the kingdom. If I stand before God and he says, you didn't make it, it's not gonna be God's fault, not gonna be Christ's fault. I'll just have to look at me and say, you know, I just didn't take it serious enough.

Wasn't zealous enough. I wasn't on the ball, so get on the ball. Make sure your life is right with Christ and make sure you're diligent in your service to Christ. And if you've never come to Christ, then the answer is easy. Come now and just start out with the right attitude. And what you need to do is come repenting of your sin.

Believing first that Jesus is Lord in Christ, that he's, he's Lord, he's master. He's Christ. He's the savior. You can know that because he was went about doing miracles. He couldn't do it if he wasn't the Christ, the Son of the living God and claiming to be. And then secondly, his resurrection proves that he was the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And so with that faith, that that earnestness, that he is the Christ, the repent of your sins, and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the mission of sins. That's not what I'm telling you to do. I'm telling you that that's what Peter said do in Acts two. He preached Jesus as Lord in Christ.

And then when they said, what shall we do, he said, you need to repent. And he said, you need to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the mission of sins. And so that's what you need to do to be saved. And now we know what we need to do to stay saved, keep the faith, and be diligent. If you're subject in any way, and we can assist you, we invite you to come as together.

We stand the same.