Couldn’t account for 280,000 decisions 294,000 decisions for Christ Only 14,000 in fellowship Couldn’t account for 280,000 decisions www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul” Psalm 19:7 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Let’s look for a moment at civil law… GOOD NEWS! $25,000.00 Foolishness and Offensive www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

55 MPH Blind children’s Convention 15 MPH MAXIMUM $25,000.00 fine www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Foolishness and Offensive “Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins.” Foolishness and Offensive “The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.” 1 Cor. 1:18 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Convinced of the law as a transgressor” James 2:9 “The power of God unto salvation” Romans 1:16 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Now we know that whatsoever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.” Romans 3:19 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:20 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Sin is transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“What shall we say then. Is the law sin. God forbid “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! No, I had not known sin but by the law.” Romans 7:7 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.” Galatians 3:24 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Jesus Christ will give you love, joy, peace, fulfillment and lasting happiness.” www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Parachute = Flight Improvement Disillusionment and bitterness First passenger… Parachute = Flight Improvement Disillusionment and bitterness Told an outright lie www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Second passenger… Parachute = 25,000 foot jump! Mindful of the jump. www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

First passenger – humiliated and embittered. Motive and result: First passenger – humiliated and embittered. Second passenger – joy and peace, heart-felt gratitude. www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment “Appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment.” Hebrews 9:27 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

God “commands all men everywhere to repent,” Acts 17:30 Why? “Because he has appointed a day, in which He will judge the world in righteousness.” Acts 17:31 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“Riches profit not on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.” Proverbs 11:4 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“I had not known sin but by the law.” Romans 7:7 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“How can I sin and do this thing against God?” (Gen. 39:9) “Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight” (Ps. 51:4) “How can I sin and do this thing against God?” (Gen. 39:9) “I’ve sinned against heaven” (Luke 15:21) “Repentance toward God” (Acts 20:21) “Godly sorrow works repentance” (2 Cor. 7:10) www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

A.B. Earl… www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

A.B. Earl, “I have found by long experience that the severest threatenings of the Law of God have a prominent place in leading men to Christ. They must see themselves lost before they will cry for mercy; they’ll not escape danger until they see it.” www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“But we know that the law is good if it is used lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed.” 1 Tim. 1:8 (The Amplified Bible) www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

The woman in adultery (John 8:1-11) www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Table – dust free Early morning sunlight www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“The commandment is a lamp and the law is light.” Proverbs 6:23 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

“By the commandment sin became exceedingly sinful.” Romans 7:13 www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

Started in the natural realm Swung to the spiritual The precedent – John 4 Started in the natural realm Swung to the spiritual Brought conviction using the 7th Commandment Revealed Himself www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

science is “knowledge” “…which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness…” Romans 2:15 con is “with” science is “knowledge” www.livingwaters.com Hell’s Best Kept Secret

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