My message for Guatemala open air preaching.

Can I take just a few moments of your time? I want to talk about death and the answer. The bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:1” To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Everything on this earth including our lives has a set time. Everyone here including myself will die. When that is we don’t know. It could be today, tomorrow, next year, 5 years or longer. There is nothing we can do about it we will die. Our own heartbeats are a drum beating to our own funeral march. The Bible says in Hebrews 9:27 “As it is appointed unto man once to die, after this the judgment” When we die we will stand before God. You say that’s cool I wonder what that will be like. The bible says in Ezekiel 18:20 “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The reason why we die is because we have broken God’s commandments and we are not aware of it. Time is pushing us closer and closer to the edge of death every second of every minute. We will die and we will stand before a just holy God whom we have angered with our sin and headed for a Christless eternity called hell.
So let us compare our lives against the 10 commandments and see how we do. How many of you have told a lie? I know I have. What does that make us? A liar. Have you stolen anything doesn’t matter the size of the item. I have. That means we are thief. Have you ever used Gods name in vain? I know I have. The bible says in Exodus that “for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” What about murder? The Bible says in 1 John 3:15 “that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.” This is how God sees us. He sees us as a Lying, Thieving, Blasphemer, and murderer at heart and we have to face God on judgment day. Guilty as charged.
We will stand before a just, righteous, holy God that does not allow liars, thieves, blasphemers, and murderers in to His heaven and our soul will be cast in hell for eternity, but there is a solution to that! Over 2000 years ago Jesus, God manifest in the flesh was born of a virgin and died on the cross sinless for you and I so we don’t have to spend eternity in hell. The only way to heaven is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by repenting of your sins and turning from them and putting your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of works, money, baptisms, fastings or church attendance will get you to heaven. The bible says in Ephesians 2:8-9 say for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: Not of works, least any man should boast. You can change your destination. I cannot do it you have to do it yourself. John 3:16 says For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
The Bible says in Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life. No man can come to the father but by me. In the Bible 2 Peter 3:9 says that the Lord is not willing that any should perish that all should come to repentance. Jesus Christ came to earth and died on the cross for you and me so we didn’t have to spend eternity in hell separated from a God that loves us so very much. You can change your path you can receive the free gift of everlasting life and you can know for sure that if you were to die this very instance that you would spend an eternity in Heaven. Just bow your heads with me and pray this simple prayer:
Lord I know that I am a sinner. I have lied. I have stolen, I have done everything there is to anger you. Forgive me of my sins. I believe that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for my sins. I ask you Jesus to come in to my heart and life and become the Lord of my life and change me into your image. I thank you for your gift of everlasting life, in Jesus precious name. Amen.