Gospel
A day after Christmas LAStreetPreacher and two other street preachers hit the streest of Hollywood boulevard and proclaimed the word of God warning people of God's judgment on sin and that salvation is found only in Jesus Christ.
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The Bible commands all men everywhere to repent.
The day is approaching my friend that you must die and stand before God. "As it is appointed unto man once to die but after this the judgment." (Heb. 9:27)
Yes, we must all stand before a holy and righteous God to give an account of everything we've done in the flesh. Every idle word spoken shall men give an account of on the day of judgment.
My friends there's only one way, truth and life as found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you know Him today?
Do you know His love?
Jesus said, "If you love me keep my commandments." (John 14:15) Jesus said
if you love me keep my commandments."
Many shall say in that day, Lord, Lord but not everyone who says Lord, Lord shall enter
into the Kingdom of God but he that doeth the will of my Father in heaven.
What is the will of the Father? That you believe on Him whom He hath sent. That
you believe and worship the Son. That you accept His Son. That you receive Him.
That you bow before Him, love Him and adore Him.
Yeah, this is the season when people celebrate the birth of Christ but they only see Jesus
as a little baby in a manger. They don't see Jesus as the Son of God as God in the flesh
coming again to judge the world in righteousness and holiness.
God is righteous and He commands all men to forsake their sins. To cast down their shotgun
of rebellion. To cast down every false image. Every idol. Anything that competes for the supremacy of God in their hearts must be abolished, jettisoned, destroyed.
You see the Lord Jesus Christ came, born of a woman, born of a virgin, made under the law.
He came to die the just for the unjust to reconcile or bring us to God. Do you know Him today?
(A loud siren of an ambulance can be heard in the background)
There goes an ambulance!
Maybe somebody's ready to slip into eternity to die. Certainly somebody's ill. That what ambulances come for people who are sick...maybe ready to die.
We must all be ready to die.
We must all be ready to face the judgment.
This life is fleeting and short my friends. Consider your ways.
Consider the guilt of all your sins. Consider the fact that you've rebelled against your parents.
You've broken the 5th commandment which says to "Honor your father and your mother."
You've hated somebody in your heart at one time. You're guilty of murder.
Young man you've lusted after a woman. You're guilty of watching pornography.
UNCLEAN IMAGES
The Bible says to sanctify the Lord God always in your heart. Set Him apart in your heart.
This is the will of God even your sanctification.
This is the will of God that you abstain from fornication.
We live in a day and age where's its popular to violate the law of God. There's no fear of God before their eyes the Bible says.
Read the first three chapters of Romans and you'll see how the apostle Paul, speaking by the
Holy Spirit, condemned all manner of sin: Idolatry, the worship of the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever.
He condemned homosexuality, that is, men working with men and women working with women, that which is unfitting and receiving unto themselves their just reward; their punishment for their disobedience.
But we live in a day and age where a Supreme court justice hasn't even read their Bibles lately perhaps. They create humanistic, man-made law. They don't care what's right and wrong. They make up their own rules as they go along.
My friends you must begin to seek the Lord while He may be found.
We're entering a new year 2016. God has given you a year...another year of life. What will you do with it this coming year?
This may be the year that God calls you from this world into the next and you're not prepared
to meet God. No, you're not!
Most of you are lost. Without God you are certainly lost
You may believe that you're right with God but if you haven't repented of your sins and turned
to the Lord, forsaking this world and all of its unrighteousness, then you're not ready to meet God.
The Bible says "there's a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death."
There's a way that SEEMS right to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death. You must walk the straight and narrow way.
(A man walks up to me and hands me a five dollar bill and says something like "You're doing a good job" pats me on the right shoulder. I thanked him and told him I could use the money for gasoline)
The Bible says, there's one way, one truth, one life. There's only one way to the Father and that's through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus is not one of many ways. He's not just a truth. No. He's absolute truth. He's absolute God. He's the Son of God.
He was crucified, dead and buried and resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures and He's coming again to judge the world.
Are you ready to meet Him?
Are you ready to meet your Maker?
What are you seeking today? Visitors of Hollywood what are you seeking?
Your idols will not save you. Your Hollywood celebrities, your singers, will not save you.
Look at these stars. Look at these stars on Hollywood Boulevard. Most of these people are dead. Like my brother said, they looked pretty good 30, 40, 50 years ago but they're dead.
Their corpses are rotting in the grave right now.
You who worship these people...you think so highly of them but where are they standing before God?
God delights in righteousness. Were they righteous? I doubt it.
They came seeking their own glory and not the glory of the Father.
The Bible says whether you eat or drink do all to the glory of God.
Even in the mundane things of life. Even in these earthly things, (eating and drinking) we are to do for the glory of God.
Do you thank the Lord when you receive meals today?
When you ate breakfast, lunch or dinner did you thank the Lord? Well, you ought to thank the Lord. There's people in parts of the world that are starving today in Africa.They're literally starving for food.and you have an abundance of it but you're not thankful to God for it. Shame on you!
You have a place to lay your head at night People are sleeping on rocks out in the wilderness. Shame on you for not thanking God.
Have you visited your relatives, your grandparents, or your parents that are in convalescent hospitals lately? This is a time to do it if you haven't. Why are you ungrateful to God for them?
If you were thankful to God for them you'd pay them a visit if you truly loved them. The Bible says to honor your father and your mother the 5th commandment.
(A man and a woman shout "Amen")
Are you honoring our father and mother today?
I implore you. I beseech you to visit those loved ones of yours. They are in hospitals and they need your support. They need your love.
The Bible says to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Be a friend to a homeless person today.
Yes! People are losing their homes today. They're losing their jobs today. Thank God if you have a job and you have a home.
Thank God for your health.
Thank God for what little wealth you have.
Thank the Lord for your eyesight, for your hearing, for your ability to walk back and forth through Hollywood here.
While men walk to and fro seeking their own desires they do not give God the glory though.
You see we travel to far distant lands today by airplane. By jet. We walk back and forth. We ride bicycles. We take cars. We travel to get where we want to go.
How about knowing how to get to heaven? That's the most important thing to know.
How we can have our sins forgiven.
How we can have a pure heart.
The Bible says we must be justified by grace. We must be justified by the grace of Jesus Christ who is the Faithful One. He came and said: "It is finished!
It's not by works of righteousness which we can do. Its by His mercy that He saved us. By the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit.
The Bible says if any man be in Christ he's a new creation or a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
Are you in Christ today?
Come unto me all ye who labor and are of heavy laden, Jesus said, and I will give you rest.
Rest for your souls.
Rest for your sin sick souls.
Yes your souls are sick by nature from all your sins and you need the peace of God. The Bible sways there is no peace saith my God to the wicked.
(A man in the crowd shouts "There is no God")
The wicked are like the troubled waters that can not rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Have you ever seen the waters in the ocean beating against the boulders along the seashore?
That's the way your soul is tonight before God if you don't have the peace of God.
Jesus said, "My peace I give unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you."
Do you have the peace of God tonight? Or are you seeking the peace of this world?
Yeah, there's a peace of this world. There's a peace that the Devil's tricked you with.
There's a peace that the Devil wants to trick you with. through wealth, through fame, through worldliness, through lust but that peace will not give you everlasting comfort.
The comfort that God came to give is found only in His Son Jesus Christ.
Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my words, said Jesus, and believeth on Him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life."
Have you passed from death unto life or are you still spiritually dead?
Outside of Christ your dead in trespasses and sins. You need to be born again.
You need a new heart.
Its not just through reformation. Its not through a resolution. Its not through a decision that you're saved.
Its through being born again into God's Kingdom, There's only two kingdoms: The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan.
You're going to pass into eternity some day. You're going to stand before your Maker.
Where are you going to go?
You must conscientiously examine yourself tonight, before it's too late, before God strikes you down through death.
Examine your works. Examine your heart. Examine the fruit of your life.
Examine your profession if you claim to be a Christian.
Are you a false convert tonight?
Do you have a name but you're dead? Yes, the church during the apostle John's day...there was a church that had a name that called themself Christian but they were dead.
They were only Christian in name only.
God knows that you have a name but do you live? Do you have the life of Christ in you? Do you have His Holy Spirit within you? The Bible says if any man has not the Spirit of Christ then he doesn't belong to God.
For to be carnally or fleshly minded is death but to be spiritually mind is life and peace.
Read your Bible. Romans 8. Read your Bible.
There's therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
Are you walking after the flesh or after the Spirit?
Romans chapter 8 verse 1. Read it tonight when you get home. Pick up your Bible and study the word of God.
The Bible says "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and training in righteousness, instruction in righteousness; that the man of God.., that the woman of God may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
Hallelujah!
God desires that you have good works for we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. That's the purpose for which God created you.
He didn't create you to seek the things of this world.
He said love not this world. Do not seek the things of this world. Do not seek the things of the flesh.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world.
The world passes away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
My friends he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Are you seeking to do the will of God today? What brings you to Hollywood?
What do you seek? Your favorite idol, your favorite rock star, your favorite celebrity, your favorite actor, your favorite comedian. My friend
Just look at the stars along Hollywood boulevard. All or most of these are dead. They're rotting in the grave. They're corpses now. They're skeletons.
That's where everybody is going. Everybody's going to die someday. For as it is appointed unto man, look at me friends, "For as it is appointed unto man once to die but after this is the judgment."
You've lost friends. You've lost relatives that have died and you might be next. You have no guarantee how long you're going to live.
Seek the LORD while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the unrighteous forsake his way and turn to the LORD for He is abundant in mercy.
Seek the LORD while He may be found.
Today is the day of salvation. Yes, today is the acceptable time while you have life, while you have physical life.
You need more than physical life. You need spiritual life.
You're separated from God.
By nature you're separated from God. You need the Spirit. You need the Holy Spirit. You need to be washed from your sins. You need to pray that God would give you the Holy Spirit and break you from your rebellion and from your lawlessness.
We're all lawless by nature. You cannot be saved by keeping the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified.
We're only saved by the grace of God. "For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.
The grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts.
If you say you're saved but you're walking after your own lusts you need to examine yourself to see why am I walking after my own desires and not the desires of my Creator.
God didn't put you in this world to follow your own ways but to follow God the true Way.
You see there's a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 16:25 "There's a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Are you following the ways of death? That's the way of sin, "For the wages of sin IS DEATH" That's right!
Sin is always sin and it's always evil. It's the greatest evil there is. It's worse than AIDS. It's worse than leprosy. It's worse than cancer. It's worse than heart disease. It's the worse thing imaginable.
Sin is always sinful, only sinful, all sinful and ever sinful!
You ought to be afraid of your sin.
Fear not him who is able to destroy the body, said Jesus, but fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell.
That's who you ought to fear.
I have some gospel tracts folks. You're welcome to them. Come on. They're free.
Gospel tracts. This is your souvenir in Hollywood.
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