One Reward That God Cannot Take From You

1st Corinthians 3:5-8, “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.”

In his excellent series on 'Justice,' Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) said one of the things that he loves about God's justice is that whenever he does something to lose a reward, there is always something he can do to get it back. I fully agree with Brother Hyles.

That being said, even if you were to lose all your rewards in eternity at the Judgment Seat of Christ; so saved, yet as by fire (1st Corinthians 3:15)—the people whom you lead to faith in Jesus Christ during your time on earth, can never be taken away from you in Heaven, no matter what. That thought encourages me.

I sometimes wonder how many rewards I will receive in Heaven, when I am guilty of so many horrible things. And so are you dear friend! We're all wretched sinners in God's sight. But when I start wondering if I will receive many rewards, I am comforted in knowing that the people whom I have helped lead to faith in Jesus Christ are permanent. I humbly think this is what the inspired King James Bible means in Daniel 12:3, “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

Homosexuals Can Still Be Saved

2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

Our text passage of inspired Scripture plainly teaches that God is not willing for ANY man to perish, but that “all” should come to repentance to be saved. That is, God desires for ALL men (including women) to change their mind from unbelief to trust Jesus Christ. God doesn't want anyone, not even the vilest sinner, to go to Hell when they die. The good Lord died on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago for everyone according to 1st John 2:2, “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Romans 5:6-9, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” I love that passage! Some people would sacrifice their life for a righteous man. Perhaps maybe some would even sacrifice their life for a good man. But who would lay down their life for an evil person, a guilty criminal? Jesus, that's who, and that's exactly what He did 2,000 years ago. Jesus sacrificed His life on the cross to pay for everyone's sins; even Adolf Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer and Taylor Swift.

Throughout the inspired Word of God we are taught that anyone can be saved, if they want to be. In John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Notice that Jesus didn't say, “ye cannot come to me”; He said, “ye will not come to me.” As long as someone is still alive breathing, anyone can come to Jesus Christ to be saved! Luke 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Beware Of The Toxic New IFB Movement

Tragically, there is a corrupt religious group today called the “New IFB” (Independent Fundamental Baptists), who unscripturally teach that God hates homosexuals, and we should also hate gays, and that LGBTQIA+ people are beyond the hope of the gospel (so New IFB pastors foolishly preach the lie that we shouldn't bother wasting our time sharing the gospel with gay people). Dear reader, kindly said, the New IFB have been inspired by demons!

Their toxic leader is Pastor Steven Anderson (born 1981). Whereas in Matthew 22:39 Jesus commands us to love our neighbour (which includes every human being) as our self, Pastor Anderson and his New IFB followers teach we should hate the gay community. Jude 1:22-23, “And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” How can any Bible preacher teach that God wants Christians to hate anyone, when the Bible repeatedly speaks of loving sinners, hope for the hopeless, and emulating our loving heavenly Father 

Matthew 5:43-48, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

I hope you can clearly see from Christ's own Words, that what Steven Anderson and his toxic New IFB are preaching is the exact opposite of what Jesus preached. The New IFB want you to hate sinners, but Jesus said to love everybody, even the worst among us. May I kindly remind you dear friend that Christ died on a cross for everyone, and that we have all been made in the image of our omnipotent faithful Creator.

God Never Gives Up On Saving Someone

According to Pastor Steven Anderson's popular “Reprobate Doctrine,” all homosexuals have crossed the point of no return concerning salvation, so that God has declared them as “reprobates” (worthless) and He has forever given up on them coming to Christ. But please notice in the following passage from Romans chapter one that the Bible never says anything about salvation.

Romans 1:24-28, “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”

We see that God gave them up to three things (but none of them concern salvation):

1. uncleanliness
2. vile affections
3. reprobate mind

Nowhere does this passage teach that God ever gives up on someone being saved. It is tragic that any preacher would hate the sin of homosexuality so much, as to declare the sinner unreachable with the gospel of free grace. Such false teaching is foreign to the Holy Bible. I can tell you with all Scriptural authority and confidence dear reader that homosexuals, transvestites, effeminate males and lesbians can be saved. NO ONE is beyond the hope of the gospel.

Now, I do believe that there is such a thing as a “reprobate,” but the Scripture teaches that it is not because God refuses to save someone; but rather, because they refuse to repent (think differently) toward God to believe the gospel to be saved (Acts 20:21; 1st Corinthians 15:1-6). In this helpful article I contrast the drastic differences between what Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) rightly taught concerning “reprobates,” versus what Steven Anderson errantly teaches.

I want no part of the hate-filled New IFB. There is something very wrong with a professed man of God who praises serial killings, as Pastor Anderson did in 2016. He wickedly praised the massacre of 48 victims at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A deranged 26 year old gunman shot and killed 48 people, and wounded another 58. The incident was so tragic and unfortunate. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. It was all so needless and tragic!

In sharp contrast to Steven Anderson praising the shooter, the Holy Bible teaches that God has NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. Ezekiel 33:11, “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” Shame on the New IFB and their followers for tolerating and promoting hatred of sinners, people created in the image of God almighty.

The inspired King James Bible warns in 1st Corinthians 13:1-2, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”

The word “nothing” in verse 2 is the Greek word oudeis, which means: “not even one (man, woman or thing), that is, none, nobody, nothing.” Kindly said, the Bible is saying that a preacher who lacks love for people is less than a man, he is incomplete. It matters not how successful the New IFB are at filling their churches with followers, as long as they are preaching hatred for people they will continue to be less than the men God intended. They are low character individuals, demonstrated by their hatred and bashing of unrepentant sinners.

We Must Hate The Sin, But Never The Sinner

I am 100% against the homosexual agenda. As God's children we ought not go along with the world's acceptance, tolerance and promotion of wickedness. No Christian should celebrate June as “Pride” month. I will never knowingly support the LGBTQIA+ community with their programs, agendas and events. Psalms 97:10a, “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil...”

The problem with nearly all churches today is that they either go to one extreme or the other, when they should reside somewhere in the middle. On one end of the spectrum there are ungodly churches (e.g., Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, Hillsong) where the pastor coddles sinners and refuses to preach against the sin of homosexuality. But on the other extreme there are ungodly churches (e.g., Steven Anderson, Jonathan Shelley, New IFB, Fred Phelps) where the pastor spews hatred toward sinners, recruiting members to hate people. The biblical pastor who is pleasing to the LORD will preach hard against sin, while equally with the same fervor and zeal love everyone with God's unconditional love. There is a desired proper balance.

Homosexuals can be saved dear reader. We should share the gospel of free grace with everyone, just as the inspired Holy Bible teaches. Mark 16:15, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” If we are to obey this command from Jesus, then we must preach the gospel to homosexuals also, since they are “creatures.” I think it is significant that the Apostle Mark used the word “creature” instead of “person.” Would not many people consider Jeffrey Dahmer a “creature” rather than a man? I humbly believe God used this word on purpose, so as to not exclude anyone from hearing the gospel.

By the way, the New IFB should publish their own new Bible, and revise it to read in Mark 16:15, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, except homosexuals.” That is exactly what every incompetent New IFB heretical pastor preaches! Since they refuse to follow the clear teaching of God's Word, they should be honest to revise and publish their own new Bible version that matches what they teach and preach.

God knows that I did not write this article to be mean or unkind toward anyone, truly. I wrote this article to proclaim the biblical truth that anyone, including homosexuals, can be saved. No one who wants to be saved cannot be saved. The only person beyond the hope of the gospel is someone who has consciously rejected the truth of the gospel and refuses to come to Christ. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

Anybody who wants to be saved, can be saved, by simply accepting Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins, and believing that He was buried but then physically resurrected three days later. This is “the Gospel” (the Good News) by which all who believe it are instantly, irrevocably and permanently saved (Romans 1:16).

How To Have A Soul Winning Church

Proverbs 11:30, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Chapter Five from the book: “Let’s Baptize More Converts” by Pastor Jack Hyles, titled: “We Should Bathe The Church In Soul Winning”...

Everything we do in the church should have behind it the underlying passion that men are lost and must be saved if they go to Heaven. Soul-winning churches must be made up of soul-winning ingredients. One cannot use pink and white brick in a building and have a red brick building. A housewife cannot use sand, red clay and mud and make an angel food cake. Neither can our churches leave off soul-winning ingredients and have in the end soul-winning churches.

Let us notice the necessary ingredients if one is to have a soul-winning church.

1. A Soul-Winning Pastor

It is utter folly to think that a soul-winning church could exist without a soul-winning pastor. Someone has said that everything rises and falls on leadership. If a church is to be a warm, evangelistic, soul-winning institution, it must be led by a soul winning pastor. Would God that every pulpit committee in America when seeking a pastor would settle for nothing less than a man who is an active soul winner.

“Is he married?”

“Does he have curly hair?”

“What seminary did he attend?”

“How old is he?”

“How many children does he have?”

“Is he handsome?”

These and many other questions are asked concerning the choosing of a new pastor when a pulpit is vacant. Oh, may God help us to ask, “Is he a soul winner?”

2. Soul-Winning Deacons

If a church is going to be a soul-winning institution, it must of necessity have soul-winning ingredients. The second of these ingredients must be soul-winning deacons. Far too many churches consider the financial standing of a man when choosing him to be a deacon. Being a businessman does nor make a man qualified to be a deacon. Being a successful politician, an influential banker, or a wealthy financier should give a man no advantage at all over any other man when it comes to choosing a deacon.

Literally hundreds of churches do not have one active soul winner on the board, and yet, hope somehow that this kind of an ingredient, added to others of similar weaknesses, will in the end bring a soul-winning church. This, of course, is foolishness.

At the First Baptist Church in Hammond, we have sixty fine, consecrated deacons. These men are not chosen because of their financial standing, their social position, or educational background, but rather because of their love for the Word of God and the compassion for lost souls. Let us choose soul-winning deacons.

3. A Soul-Winning Staff

The idea of hiring specialists for a staff is a dangerous one. To be sure, a music director should know music. A secretary should be able to type. The youth director should have a heart for young people. And the custodian should use a broom. But this should not end their responsibilities.

At First Baptist Church, we require every staff member to be a soul winner and spend at least four hours a week in personal soul winning. We would not want someone leading our choir in “Send the Light,” “Rescue the Perishing,” “Where Be Leads Me I Will Follow,” and other great songs who is not a soul winner. I would not want anyone typing my letters who was not a soul winner. How foolish it is to think that we can hire a pastor who is not a soul winner, ordain deacons because of their community standing, employ a staff of specialists and end up with a soul-winning church. If this is true, then two plus two equals eighteen.

4. Soul-Winning Members

According to the Great Commission, we are to teach new converts to go and get others converted. How sad it is that in many churches it is years before a Christian knows how to be a soul winner. And many a Christian, it is sad to say, never learns to be a soul winner. He simply is not taught. He is taught church doctrine, the Articles of Faith, and even church history, but not soul winning. Yet, many churches guilty of this error would consider themselves soul-winning churches, or at least desirous of becoming so.

At our new members’ reception, when we welcome new members into our church family, we give them a copy of my book, Let’s Go Soul Winning. This gives them a step-by-step set of instructions as to how to win a soul to Christ. The following Sunday night they are taught how to win souls. This is the first thing that our new members learn.

It is not unusual for a person to be winning souls to Christ within the first week or two after he is saved and many of our converts will win a dozen or more in the first month. This is the New Testament pattern.

The woman at the well of Sychar in John chapter 4 did not wait until she had a Bible institute diploma before going to Sychar and bringing people to Jesus. Andrew did not wait for a seminary degree before bringing Peter to Jesus, in John 1. Let us teach our new Christians how to become soul winners, and have a soul-winning membership.

5. Soul-Winning Worship

A pastor chosen because of his good looks, a deacon board chosen because of financial position, a staff chosen to be a group of experts and specialists, an untrained membership, and a ritualistic, formal Sunday morning worship service, do not equal a soul-winning church. If we are to have the pie, we must have the ingredients. If we reach the result, we must use the means.

Perhaps nothing hinders soul winning any more in our churches than our misconception of what worship really is. The Old Testament idea that God lives in the church house and that we come by to see Him every Sunday, making us enter the church as we would a morgue, and behave ourselves as at a funeral, is certainly discouraging to New Testament evangelism and personal soul winning. If we plan to have Billy Sunday results, we had better have Billy Sunday services. If we plan to have an evangelistic end, we had better use evangelistic means.

Now it may be that you do not want an evangelistic church. If this be true, then, you certainly have a right to use non-evangelistic methods. But for one to say he wants an evangelistic church and use methods foreign to such results is inconsistency. Let us have dignity in our services. Let them be planned decently and in order. Let there be true Bible reverence, but not the ritualistic order of service we have borrowed from Catholicism which tends to deaden our services, drive away the common man, and lessen soul winning and evangelistic fervor.

6. A Soul-Winning Mission Program

If we are to build soul-winning churches, we must build them abroad as well as at home. It is not enough to give great sums of money to foreign missions and not see to it that the foreign missionaries are winning souls. Often times a church will boast concerning the thousands of dollars it gives to foreign missions, and will actually get fewer souls saved for its money than a church that gives much less to real warm-hearted evangelistic missionaries. We should see to it the kind of work our missionaries do overseas is typical of the kind of work we are trying to do at home.

For a number of years now we have required each missionary supported by the First Baptist Church to fill out a questionnaire annually. He must sign a statement as to his doctrinal soundness, personal separation from the world, and loyalty to the First Baptist Church. He must give a report of his soul-winning and evangelistic efforts. A missionary who is not majoring on soul winning is dropped from our budget. Of course, we do not leave him stranded on the field. If he is completely dependent upon our support, we wait until his next furlough. I am simply saying that every ingredient of a soul-winning church should be a soul-winning ingredient if we are to have the desired end.

7. Soul-Winning Music

Few things in our churches have done as much to steal the spirit of evangelism as has our music. If one would have Billy Sunday results, perhaps he should try Homer Rodeheaver music. If one would want the results of Moody, perhaps he should sing the songs of Sankey. The kind of music that tends to build soul-winning churches is that kind which has been tested and tried in revivals – the kind which the people know and love; the kind which moves the heart and not the head, the kind whose words bring out the deep truths of the Word of God.

We use no anthems in the First Baptist Church. It is not because we do not like them but because we feel they are not conducive to soul winning and evangelism. We sing the songs such as “Rescue the Perishing,” “Blessed Assurance,” “How Firm a Foundation,” “The Old Rugged Cross,” “There Is Power in the Blood,” “At Calvary,” “At the Cross,” “Send the Light,” etc. Yes, these songs are sung on Sunday morning as well as Sunday evening. We do not delegate the Sunday morning service to God the Father and the Sunday evening service to Jesus Christ. We use the same type music in all of our services, believing that the Gospel should be preached on Sunday morning as well as Sunday night, and that Gospel music should be used if Gospel results are desired.

One danger here is for the pastor to leave the music entirely up to the music director. I do not mean that the music director should have no freedom. However, I do mean that the pastor should realize it is his right to have veto power. The general type music should be approved by the pastor. It would do many pastors and churches good to reconsider their musical program and see that it is the type music that will bring soul-winning results.

8. A Soul-Winning Invitation

There is an old spiritual that says, ” Ev’rybody talkin’ about Heaven ain’t going there.” We could paraphrase it and say, “A lot of folks talking about soul winning ain’t doing it.”

If a church is to be a soul-winning church, there should be a fifty-two-week-a-year consistency in its program of soul winning. Invitations should be given both morning and evening and a burden and compassion should be evident at every invitation. I fear the trend toward simply asking interested people to seethe pastor after the service, where no invitation hymn is sung and no sincere heart appeal is made for people to come to Jesus Christ.

Let us train soul winners to work with converts. Let us study carefully the invitations of the great revival meetings of the past. If we would have revival results perennially, let us have evangelistic invitations regularly.

9. An Evangelistic Budget

Check the budget of the average church and you will be surprised how little money is spent for soul-winning purposes. Oh, yes, we say we believe in soul winning, and at The same time spend our money for other purposes. As we draw up our budgets, let us support schools that train soul winners, missionaries who are soul winners, local mission projects that are after souls, and pay the salaries of staff members who win souls. Include in the budget such soul-winning ministries as bus routes, rescue mission, tracts, etc.

l0. A Soul-Winning Schedule

I have reviewed and read many church calendars. After reading them it is not hard to understand why our churches are not soul-winning institutions. Check the average schedule of activities for a typical church. It will include a mixed bowling league, the men’s soft ball team, the ladies aid, the children’s party, the youth skating party. See how many times you see anything mentioned concerning a soul-winning activity.

The poorest attended meetings of the average church are the visitation meetings. Ten times as many people will work in the church kitchen as will work on the church field. We pastors certainly find ourselves guilty as we plan our church programs. We preach on soul winning and schedule it right out of the church. We have plenty of time for all of our meetings and plenty of people attend, but so little time for soul winning. Yet we preach on soul winning and say we want a soul-winning church.

We want to choose a pastor because of the vocabulary, deacons because they are rich, have members that have not been taught, budgets that bypass evangelism, ritualistic worship, long-haired music, brief invitations, and using those as ingredients, pull out of the oven a soul-winning church. Brethren, it simply will not work.

11. Soul-Winning Organization

Here is a sore spot and a hindrance to building a great soul-winning church. Laymen who work hard all day and have a limited number of hours to serve the Lord or the church find themselves using these hours in unnecessary committee activity and finding themselves with no hours left to go soul winning.

It does not take a committee of five to put the flowers on the Lord’s Supper table every Sunday morning. It does not take a committee of ten to tell the music director what the special should be on Sunday. It does not take a committee of three to put an ad in the newspaper every Saturday. Why couldn’t these same people organize soul-winning committees, rescue mission committees, tract committees, house-to-house committees, visitation committees, etc., thereby utilizing what spare time the laymen do have in the fulfilling of the Great Commission.

We have trained churches full of specialists who attend every meeting except the soul-winning meeting; do church work, and yet, not the work that Jesus called us to do; and have a form of godliness but know nothing of the power thereof. The average church is so bogged down with too much organization that the people simply do not have time to carry out the Great Commission in their individual lives. Yet, we wonder why we do not have stalwart people; we wonder why the prayer meeting attendance is down; we wonder why the number of baptisms are down. We weep, and oftentimes even pray, over our lack of soul-winning fervor and at the same time organize soul winning out the back door of the church. Brethren, our people simply do not have time to win souls when they are committed to committees that have little or no purpose for existence.

At the First Baptist Church in Hammond we have helped to solve this problem by having many deacons and choosing each of our church officers from the board of deacons. Our board of deacons meet regularly and when our deacons are in session, every committee and officer in our church is present. There is no such thing, then, as a week-night committee meeting in our church. We operate on the democratic principle. The deacons are advisors, the church votes the decisions for the business matters on the floor of the church, and the membership is trained to do the thing that Jesus left us here to do.

12. Soul-Winning Liabilities

To be sure there are many liabilities that come with a soul-winning church. A soul-winning church may be a little noisier than the average church because it will have a lot of poor people there who are unaccustomed to coming to church. It will take them a while to learn how to behave as they should. Then a soul-winning church will also have more dropouts than a church that is not evangelistic. The more babies you have, the more likely you are to lose one.

The same is true in a home. If a couple wants to have clean walls, no dirty diapers, no baby clothes hanging on the line, no burping on a clean dress, no broken vases, no fingerprints on the mirrors, and no hand prints on the towels, then it is best they have no children. With children comes these liabilities. But blessed be God, they are worth every one of them! So are the souls of men worth the price we pay.

Pastor Jack Hyles baptizing new converts

Four Calls To Soulwinning

“But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:19-20) “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.” (Acts 16:9) “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,” (Hebrews 12:1) “Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.” (Luke 16:27-28)

Thirty-eight years ago last August 30th, a nervous, frightened 33-year-old Texas boy became pastor of a downtown First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. There is no way for me to describe how formal it was. No piano was allowed to be played on Sunday morning. No congregational song leader was allowed to stand up and wave his hands and no gospel songs were allowed on Sunday morning. You could sing “Jesus Saves” or “Rescue The Perishing” on Sunday night, but not on Sunday morning. The former pastor preached in striped pants and a scissor-tail coat. I do not know of an Episcopalian church any more formal than First Baptist Church was.

When the pulpit a committee interviewed me, they asked what I thought about the Sunday morning service. I said, “I think it stinks.” They said, “What kind of a Sunday morning service would you have if you became our pastor?” I said, “It would be more like a Billy Sunday Revival Campaign.” The wealthiest man in Hammond was on the board of trustees. Several months after I became pastor, he came to me. “Reverend, I want to talk to you. We like you fine. We think you’re a good guy. But the truth is, we have a problem with your preaching. Ever since you’ve been here, the pressure’s been on. Every Sunday morning and Sunday night, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday it’s soulwinning. The pressure’s on all the time. Before you came, we use to have a revival meeting every 6 months or so and bring a fellow in to have an evangelistic crusade. But since you’ve been here it’s been that way all the time. Every Sunday is just like one of those revival meetings.” He said, “Look at me, I’m a nervous wreck. I shake when I come to church anymore. You’ve ruined our worship service.” (If I could, I’d ruin every formal worship service in America next Sunday morning.) “I’m not the only person who’s nervous—this church is full of nervous people. It’s soulwinning on Sunday. It’s soulwinning on Monday. It’s soulwinning on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Then we start all over again on Sunday. Last Sunday morning we sang 52 stanzas of ‘Just As I Am’. No wonder we’re nervous! Something’s got to change!” I said, “Come back on Sunday night and I’ll give you my answer.” That Sunday night I preached the message I am preaching to you tonight. I’m telling you exactly what I told my people 38 years ago. I said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, a man came to me last week and told me that you’re nervous. He said that you were concerned because we’re having soulwinning on Sunday, and soulwinning on Monday, and soulwinning on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I’d like to tell you tonight why it’s that way, and why it’s going to be that way as long as I am the pastor of this church, whether that is one more week or 50 more years.”

A CALL FROM WITHIN

In the first place, there’s a call from within. There is something inside of me that says I have to go soulwinning. “I cannot but speak the things I have seen and heard.” I have no choice. It’s burning inside of me - a call from within that compels me to stress soulwinning in everything that we do. This call from within came to me many years ago. When I was a boy, I was the most timid boy in the church. When I was 17 years old, I weighed 92 pounds. I now weigh...I finally got your attention, didn’t I? I now weigh MORE than 92 pounds! (Once my doctor put me on a diet, and I gained 15 pounds on 1,000 calories a day. I wonder if it could be that 7,000 calories at night that caused the problem?)

On my 17th birthday I weighed 92 pounds and I was the most timid fellow in the church. They called me little Jackie-boy Hyles. I failed public speaking in high school. I could not make the ball team. I was too little to get a date. I didn’t get to be in the senior play. I was an introvert. Most of the people in my church had never heard me say a single word.

One Sunday after the morning service, one of the deacons, Jesse Cobb, said, “Hey, Jackie-boy. Would you like to go soulwinning with me this afternoon?” I said, “Uh, J-J-Jesse, y-y-you know I c-c-couldn’t go soulwinning.” He said, “Jack, you won’t have to say anything, I just need a partner to give me some moral support. My partner is on vacation, and I just need someone to go with me. you won’t have to say a word.”

The first door we knocked on was the home of a high school football player named Kenneth Florence. Jesse Cobb was 5’4” tall, and I was shorter yet. He must have weighed 120, and I weighed 92 pounds. The two of us put together might have weighed as much as Kenneth did.

When Kenneth came to the door, Jesse looked up and said, “Kenneth Florence, my name is Jesse Cobb and this is Jack Hyles.” Jesse said, “Kenneth, Jack here wants to say a few words to you.” No, Jack didn’t either! Kenneth looked at me and said, “Yes, what is it, Jack?” I said, “Uh ... Uh... ahem... K-K-Kenneth, would you l-l-like to come to ch-ch-church tonight?” I do not remember what happened. Jesse told me later that Kenneth said, “Yes, I would,” and I said, “You would?” Jesse told me that I said, “I’ll come by and get you tonight at 7 o’clock.” And Kenneth said, “That will be fine.” That night at 7 o’clock I borrowed Jesse Cobb’s car and went over to get Kenneth Florence. For the first time in my life, knew I had to win a soul. I had never won a soul in my life. The sweat was rolling down my face, and I was trembling. When the invitation began, I put my arm across Kenneth’s big broad shoulders and said, “K-K-Kenneth, w-w-would you like to get s-s-saved?” And he said, “Yes, I would.” I said, “ I don’t know how to tell you, but follow me.” We walked down the aisle, and my pastor met us at the end of the aisle. I said, “B-B-Brother Sizemore, this is K-K-Kenneth Florence. He wants to get saved.” I had done my part, so I started back to my seat. Brother Sizemore said, “Hold it, Jack!” I turned around. He said, “Kenneth, Jack wants to kneel here and show you how to get saved.” No I didn’t! He was a bigger liar than Jesse Cobb! I knelt at the front row. I said, “Kenneth, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve never done this before. But I want to see you saved.” I began to weep. Kenneth said, “Jack, I know how to be saved. I’ve heard it many times. Every Sunday afternoon for months, somebody from the church has come by. But you’re the first one that I ever thought really cared. I know how to do it.” I said, “Well... do it!”

Kenneth bowed his head and said something like the old prayer you’ve heard thousands of times, “Oh God, be merciful to me, a sinner. I now receive Jesus as my Saviour and trust Him to take me to Heaven when I die.” And while Kenneth Florence was getting saved, the fireworks of Heaven turned loose in my soul! I mean the sparklers sparkled, and the firecrackers banged, and the Roman candles soared through the sky. I jumped up and said, “Brother Sizemore, would it be okay with you if I just did this all the time from now on?” We started a revival that night. In the next 7 days, little introverted Jackie-boy Hyles that nobody took seriously brought 37 people down the aisle professing faith in Jesus Christ. God set something ablaze in my soul, and that something is still burning tonight. When you tell me not to build a soulwinning church, you may as well tell a bird not to fly or a fish not to swim. It’s a call from within.

“Why can’t you be like other preachers?’ he wanted to know. “Why can’t you be normal like everyone else? Why the constant pressure about soulwinning?” Not one time in the Bible does it say, “The Son of man is come to exegete the scriptures.” Not one time does it say, “The Son of man is come to lead the deeper life program.” My Bible says the reason that Jesus left Heaven, and the fellowship with the Father, and the glory and majesty that were rightfully His for 33 homesick years - the reason why He lived with no place to lay His head while foxes had holes and birds had nests - the reason He was rejected by His own city, hated by His own race, expelled from His own synagogue - the reason that He went to Calvary was TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST. Why do we work day and night to build soulwinning churches getting the message of the Gospel to America? I’ll tell you why. Because of the burning call from within.

A CALL FROM WITHOUT

“Preacher, we’re nervous. Why does it have to be soulwinning all the time?” I told my people that night, “Not only is there a call from within, but there is a call from without.” Come over and help us.” There’s more to it than personal preference. There’s a world going to hell! There’s a call from without. I believe that men without God are lost. I believe that when those lost men die in their sins, they go to hell. I believe that men who go to hell burn forever and ever. If that be true, would you tell me what else counts in this world? That call from without began many years ago. I was called to pastor a little country church. I could win souls to Christ, but I could not preach them down the aisle. For more than a year, nobody walked the aisle professing faith is Christ. I begged and pleaded for God’s power. I didn’t know what the answer was. But on May 13, 1950 I knelt on the grave of my alcoholic father who died, and as far as I know, went to hell, and I said, “Dear God, I’m not getting off my face until something happens to me.”

The next Sunday night I went back to my little church to preach. A lad came to receive Christ as Saviour. And then there came another ...and another. I’d never seen anybody walk the aisle under my preaching before. When they came in we voted them in on the spot. Up north today, you have to have credit references and blood tests and everything else to get in a lot of Baptist churches. I’d say, “So and so is coming, professing his faith in Christ. What is your pleasure?” I had a deacon that sat over here every Sunday right next to a window, and he would spit out that window and say, “I make a motion that he be received for baptism, and after baptism into the full fellowship of the church.” I had a man over here next to that wall who would say, “I second the move.” The same two men said it all the time. I said, “All in favor, say aye.” They all did. Then we ‘extended the right hand of fellowship’. We sang, “Shall We Gather At The River’ and everyone went around row by row to shake hands with the new converts. Then I dismissed the service.

That night 3 people got saved, and boy I was happy. Back in east Texas where I pastored, there weren’t many cars. Most everybody came by tractor or horseback or wagon, and one Model A Ford. Everyone was getting on their wagons and tractors to go home, and I was praising the Lord. I was having a spell. I wish some of you folks would get religion again. You’ve gotten too used to it. I was having an old-fashioned spell - clapping my hands and praising God when all of a sudden --- WHAM! A big old 235 pound fellow hit me from the rear. I turned around and there was O. C. Pruett, a trainman, with tears in his eyes. He said, “Reverend, my daughter Barbara is leaning up against the wall back there crying her eyes out. I think she wants to get saved.” I went back and said, “Barbara, do you want to get saved?” She said, “Of course, I do! Nobody wants to go to hell.” I won Barbara to Jesus.

I went out on the front porch of the church and said, “Hey, come on back in.” Folks left their wagons and tractors and came back in. I said, “Folks, Barbara Pruett just got saved. What’s your pleasure?’ The same man said, “I make a motion that she be received for baptism, and after baptism into the full fellowship to the church.” Over here he said, ‘I second the move.’ Everybody in favor, say aye.” “Aye.” We sang “Shall We Gather At The River” and came around row by row to shake her hand. Glory to God, hallelujah! I dismissed the service again at about 10 o’clock.

I was having another spell when the same guy hit me from behind. WHAM! He said, “Reverend, my married daughter Dorothy is there on the back row. Look at her crying her eyes out. Would you go talk to her?” I went back and said, “Dorothy, do you want to be saved?” She said, “My sister’s going to heaven and I’m going to hell. Don’t you think I want to go to Heaven with her?” I told her how to be saved and she got saved. I went out on the front porch and said, “Hey, come on back in.”

When they came in, I said, “Folks, Dorothy Hall just got saved. What’s your pleasure. This man over here spit out the window and said, “I make a motion that she be received for baptism and after baptism be received into the full fellowship of the church.” This one said, “I second the move.” I said, “All in favor, say aye.” “Aye.” We opened our song books to “Shall We Gather At The River” and came row by row again to shake Dorothy’s hand. I dismissed the service for the third time about 10:30 and went out on the front porch and continued my spell. I know you won’t believe this, but it really happened. WHAM! It was the same man. “Reverend, her husband Sam is over there and he just threw down his cigarette. Do you reckon that means anything?” I went down and said, “Sam, I understand you just threw down your cigarette?” He said, “Reverend, you preached about hell tonight. I looked at the fire on that cigarette, and it dawned on me --- that’s where I’m going when I die.” I said, “Do you want to get saved?” He said, ‘Sure I want to get saved. My wife’s going to Heaven and I want to go to Heaven with her.” On the front porch of that little country church I won Sam to Jesus Christ and said, “Hey, come on back in. Sam Hall just trusted Christ as his Saviour.” We went through the same thing again.

Six people got saved that night. I’d been preaching for over a year and hadn’t seen anybody get saved. We had over 1,000 walk the aisle for salvation last Sunday at First Baptist Church, but that didn’t make me any happier than those six people that Sunday night after God filled me with his Spirit for the first time.

Now I know you won’t believe me—I wouldn’t believe you if you told this story either. But as I stood in the same spot having a spell, WHAM! ...you guessed it. The same fellow. He said, “Reverend...I think I’ll get saved myself before I go home.” I won O. C. Pruett to Jesus and all the people came back in and voted him into the church and sang and gave him the right hand of fellowship/ That night Mrs. Hyles and I went to our little parsonage next door. I wish you could have seen it. The foundation under the back bedroom was so shaky that two people couldn’t walk around in there at the same time. There was a rat at the back porch when we came, that was still there when we left. he thought he was one of the family. We gave him rat poison and he gained weight on it. We put a rat trap out there and he thought it was a toy. We went to our little country parsonage that night at 11:15 and took out a great big Bible. We were just a couple of kids—I was only 22 or 23 at the time. We put our hands on that Bible and looked up and said, “Oh, God! This is what we’ve been wanting. We’re not going to settle for anything less.”

May I take a moment and praise His name? Since that Sunday night almost 48 years ago, there has not been a single somebody saved. I’m talking about little country churches and small town churches and big city churches. We baptized that night, and there’s not been one single Sunday since then that somebody hasn’t been baptized. All of our children have grown up and not a single child has ever gone to church without seeing somebody baptized before Sunday night was over. You say, “Preacher, why don’t you calm down?” I don’t intend to calm down. I believe there’s a hell! Now if there’s no hell, let’s all go ‘deeper life’. If there’s no hell, we can all join John MacArthur. If there’s no hell, let’s all go exegete. But if there is a hell, let’s go soulwinning. Let’s build soulwinning churches. The call from without.

A CALL FROM ABOVE

“Pastor, may I talk to you please. We like you fine,” said the wealthy man, “but we’re nervous. I represent the nervous people of this church. We like your preaching, if it is a bit loud and long. We use to have revival meetings now and then. But since you’ve been here, it’s like that every Sunday morning. Soulwinning, soulwinning, soulwinning. Why can’t you be like other preachers are?”

That night I told them that there is a call from above. “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses... My mama is watching. Dr. John Rice looks down from Heaven, and I can tell you that he’s mighty pleased. He gave his life for soulwinning, to fight formalism and the deeper life movement and the hyper-Calvinism movement and the Charismatic hodgepodge. He gave his life for what’s going on right here. Tonight they’re watching. Dr. John, Brother Lester Roloff, Dr. Bill Rice, Dr. Ford Porter, Dr. Bob Jones, SR...There’s a call from above.

Years ago I was pastoring in Garland, Texas. I was 26 or 27 years of age. The church had grown rapidly and was running about 1,500 in Sunday School. One Sunday morning I was out front shaking hands with everybody that came in. An old man came through the door. He was close to 90, I think. His hair was as white as freshly fallen snow. His shoulders drooped. If he stood up straight, he couldn’t have been more than 5’4” tall.

I said, “How do you do, sir. My name is Jack Hyles.” In a squeaky voice he said, “My name is James W. Moore.” I said, “Brother Moore, we’re glad to have you. Where are you from?” He said, “I just moved to the area. I’ve been a preacher up in Iowa for over 50 years. I had a heart attack and the doctor says I won’t live long. I came to Texas because it’s warmer and I have some family here. I’d like to join your church. I won’t cause you no trouble. I’ll be for you. I hear you preach it like it is.”

I bought a platform rocker and put it by the altar next to the wall for Brother Moore. He’d rock while I preached and clap his hands. “Amen! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!” When I’d preach on dancing or movies or something, he’d shout, “Pull over and park there for a while.” Apart from my pastor J. C. Sizemore and my best friend, Dr. John R. Rice, I’ve never loved a preacher like I loved James W. Moore.

Every Monday morning he’d come by my office at 9 o’clock. He’d walk in my office and pace the floor. He’d say, “Brother Jack, I just came to tell you about a stupid mistake I made when I was a kid preacher...” It was always the same mistake I had made the day before. I’d hug him and thank him for telling me what he had learned. He’d teach me the Bible and talk to me every Monday morning from 9 to 10 o’clock. What a dear, sweet man of God. One Sunday his chair was empty. For several weeks he was gone. I went to his house and no one answered. I thought maybe he had moved back to Iowa. Late one Sunday night the phone rang. The lady said, “This is the nurse at Spiegel Memorial Hospital. I hate to bother you this late at night, but there’s an old man that was brought in with a heart attack. He has no identification, and nobody knows who he is. He’s about to die. But he keeps saying, ‘Call Brother Jack.’ We knew that you like to be called Brother Jack, so we thought you may know the old man.” I said, “Is he about 5’4”? Is his hair real white?” She said, “Yes.” I said, “Yes, I know him.” I went to the hospital. I hadn’t seen many folks die, so I was all prepared for a solemn ceremony. But Brother Moore wasn’t dying right. He said, “Come on in, Brother Jack. I’m just about to take a trip I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. In just a few minutes I’m going to see Elijah and Moses and Abraham and Paul and John the Baptist and all those fellows. Anything you want me to tell them for you?” Then he said, “Brother Jack, I want you to have a Bible conference. I’m going to Heaven now, but I want to plan it for you.” He chose the speakers. I had the conference after he had gone to Heaven just like he asked.

Then this is what he did. He took the oxygen mask off his face and laid it beside him. He reached his hands out and put them around mine, and said, “Brother Jack, KEEP...PREACHING...IT...!” I heard the rustling of wings as the angles came and took his dear old spirit to the presence of the Saviour. I said, “Oh God, help me to keep preaching it.”

Many times in the past several years I’ve heard that old man say, “Keep preaching it! Keep preaching it!” Don’t you hear tonight the call from above? Even the blessed Saviour says, “Go! Go! Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel...”

A CALL FROM BENEATH

“Reverend, we’re glad you’re our pastor and we like you fine, but you’re different. Why can’t you be like everybody else?” I told my people that Sunday night, pretty much what I’ve told you tonight. There’s a call from within - something on the inside that says, “I’ve got to do it.” There’s a call from without - a lost world crying, “Come over and help us.” There’s a call from above - heavenly witnesses cheering us on. And there’s a call from beneath. “Send Lazarus, have him tell my 5 brothers not to come here.” They’re more concerned about soulwinning in hell tonight than you are in your church. “Send Lazarus. I’ve got 5 brothers and I don’t want them to burn in hell.” There’s a call from beneath.

On Saturday, December 31, 1949, I got burdened for my father. My father was an alcoholic - a part-time bartender. I was pastoring a little country church in east Texas. Up to that time I had won souls to Christ, but I had never had anyone walk the aisle under my preaching. On New Year’s Eve I got in the car and drove 150 miles to Dallas to a tavern right across the street from the seminary. My daddy worked there part-time and drank there rest of the time for 8 years and not once did one single professor, staff member, administrator or student ever walk across the street to witness to the drunkard that tended the bar. That’s not New Testament Christianity. I didn’t care how much Greek and Hebrew you memorize.

I walked in the Hunt Saloon on Saturday morning, New Year’s Eve. My daddy was sitting at the bar, drunk. I walked up and put my arm around him and said, “Daddy, I’m going to take you with me to east Texas. I’m going to have a Watch Night service tonight, and tomorrow is Sunday, New Year’s Day. I want you to go with me.” He cursed at me and said, “I’m not going to no church tomorrow.” I said, “Yes, you are.” He said, “No, I’m not.” I laid my Bible down and said, “Daddy, you are either going to have to come with me or whip me. I’m going to fight you if I have to in order to get you in that car.” He came with me and I sobered him up.

That night my daddy went to church and we had a light kind of a service, a lot of fun. The next morning was the first time he had ever heard me preach. Tears streamed down his cheeks. The invitation came and my big one-legged deacon put his arm around my daddy, and said, “Mr. Hyles, won’t you come to Christ.” He did not walk the aisle. That afternoon I took a walk with my daddy out across the pasture and said, “Daddy, I want to see you saved more that I want anything in the whole world. Daddy, I want you to go to Heaven with Mama and me.” He had left us many years before when I was a little boy. My daddy said something I never thought I’d ever hear him say. “Son, I’m going to get saved. I can’t today, but I’m going back to straighten up some things at home, and I’ll come back in the spring, and maybe get a little fruit stand or something, and I’m going to get saved. You’re going to baptize me this spring, and I’ll be a deacon in your church one of these days, you wait and see if I’m not.”

I took him back the next morning. The last words he said to me were, “Son, I’m going to let you baptize me in the spring.” That was good enough for me. But the spring never came. On May 12th I got a call that my daddy had dropped dead with a heat attack, and I was a powerless preacher.

Several years passed. One Sunday night, I was still in my office at about 11 o’clock. I heard a knock at my door and there stood my sister weeping. She said, “Jack, would you tell me how to be save.” I brought here into my office and led her to Christ. She’s now a lovely Christian and a wonderful soulwinner. After she got saved, I said, “Earlyne, why did you come tonight.” a She said, “Jack, tonight you preached on Luke 16. You told about the rich man in hell who lift up his eyes and said, “Send Lazarus to tell my five e brothers not to come here.” She said, “Jack, when you told that story, I thought of a dream I had shortly after daddy died. I dreamed that a man in a white robe, maybe an angel, took me in a big building. He showed me walls lined with caskets. In every casket was a copse. He took me to the first casket and I looked into the face of that corpse and he had a smile on his face. He took me all around that room and every casket had a corpse, and every corpse had a smile on his face, until I got to the last one. The angel said, ‘You can’t see that one.” She said, “I must see it,” and in her dream she broke away from that angel.

My sister told me, “Jack, daddy was in that casket. I went up and looked at him and his face was writhing in pain. He cried out in agony, “Sister... sister...sister...” All those years I wondered what daddy was trying to tell me, and tonight when you preached that sermon, I know what it was daddy was trying to tell me. He was saying, “Sister... don’t come here.” Don’t you tell me not to build a soulwinning church. Don’t you tell me not to live for soulwinning. I’ve got a daddy who, as far as I know, is in hell. There’s a call from beneath. Why don’t you let God change you tonight? Where is that Curtis Hutson who was in Atlanta in 1961 whose life was changed? Where is that Wally Beebe who was in a meeting like this up in Danville, Illinois and his life was transformed as a kid preacher?

“Pastor, I come representing some nervous people. We like you fine. But pastor, why are you like you are? Why is the pressure on all the time? We use toe have revival meeting twice a year, and see people get saved, sometimes 50 or 60 a year. But ever since you’ve been here it’s soulwinning Monday, soulwinning Tuesday, soulwinning Wednesday, soulwinning Thursday, soulwinning Friday, soulwinning Saturday... Why can’t you be like everybody else/ I’ll tell you why. There’s a call from within. “K-K-Kenneth, w-w-wouldn’t you like to b-b-be s-s-saved?” There’s a call from without. “Reverend, I think I’ll just get saved myself before I go home.” There’s a call from above. “Brother Jack, KEEP...PREACHING...IT!” There’s a call from beneath. “Sister...sister...sister!” FOUR CALLS TO SOULWINNING!

Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)

Every Christian Should Be A Soul Winner

Daniel 12:3, “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

My Baptist pastor said something in a sermon a couple weeks ago that has stuck with me and encouraged me. He said that even if you win just one person to the Lord in your entire lifetime, it will have been worth it all. I really love what he said. By God's amazing grace, I've had the privilege of leading many lost sinners to the dear Savior. Amen and amen.

At the end of every year, I update the statistics for my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry. In 2024, by God's grace my website received 1,207,256 visitors. Of those visitors, there were 27,038 people in 2024 who spent an hour or more searching through the Jesus-is-Savior.com website. THANK YOU to all my blog and website visitors! In 2024, my web visitors drew 2,070,000,000,000 bytes (2.07 Terabytes) of bandwidth. There were a total of 19,354,984 webpage hits (pages viewed). To God be the glory, great things He hath done (and is doing).

Sadly, Google has been caught red-handed censoring Christian and conservative webpages, while leaving liberal webpages alone. In 2017, my Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry received 10,879,326 total visitors. Google has been horribly censoring my ministry's webpages. Google has removed all of my 400 abortion memes, banners and images. Very few of the images were graphic, showing aborted baby parts. Over 95% of the images were simply anti-abortion banners and signs, which Google has censored without providing any explanation. It is wickedness and an attack upon our First Amendment freedom of speech Bill of Rights.

Sadly, the U.S. government has been hijacked by criminals. Our own elected leaders are warning us. We're in trouble folks! Satan has taken over our federal government, social media and it's only going to get much worse. Next, you can expect to see a nationwide ban on the sale, purchase and trade of guns. This happened in Canada in October of 2022. Tyranny is coming to the United States! By censoring Christian and conservative websites, Google is effectively shaping public opinion. This is all necessary to destroy the Old World Order, to make way for the diabolical New World Order. I digress. Having said that, gratefully, God is still using my website and blog ministries to lead lost sinners to Jesus Christ with 'THE GOSPEL.'

The Bible tells us in Daniel 12:3b, “and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” I humbly think this Scripture refers to the grateful people in Heaven whom we have led to the dear Savior. They will adore, love and cherish us for sharing the light of the truth of the Gospel with them, without which they would be burning in the fires of Hell without hope, without rest day or night, forever and ever (Revelation 14:11, 20:11-15, 21:8). Soul winners will be the heroes, the celebrities, in Heaven (not some high school dropout who is 6' 6" tall and can win a basketball ballgame). We've got all the wrong heroes in America! Talent seeks attention; wisdom pays attention.

Dear reader, my pastor is absolute right! If all you do in life for God is to lead just one lost sinner to Jesus Christ, it will be worth it all. Your suffering, your sacrifice, your life, your patience—all that has happened to you, good and bad alike—will not have been in vain if you take one person with you into eternity. Although it is true that we cannot take anything temporal with us into eternity, we CAN send it ahead. Jesus exhorts every saint in Matthew 6:20b-21 to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Please don't miss verse 21, which teaches that where your treasure is, there your heart will follow. Many people get this backwards, thinking that where your heart is, your treasure will follow. But the inspired Holy Bible says your heart will follow your investment. People sometimes tell me that they have a problem with caring; they don't care but want to. Here is the answer in Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If you want to care more, then invest in someone. Pray for them. Do something kind, loving or generous for them.

There is a 95 year old Christian lady in our church. She asked me if I knew where she could get some unprocessed walnuts and almonds. I told her that I would gladly buy them for her. I went to the local store the next day and I bought her one pound each of raw unprocessed walnuts, almonds, pecans and pine nuts. I also gave her $95 for her 95th birthday. She was born in 1929. I am honoring her as an elderly person, which I believe is proper and right for the younger generations to do. We treat our elderly like garbage in America. I speak this to our shame as a society. Every time an elderly person dies, a library of information is gone.

By caring it helps me to care more. My treasure is people, and my heart increasingly cares about them the more that I invest in them. I have invested well over 50,000 hours into my website ministry since 2002. I did it all for Jesus, to help others, and I am laying up treasures in Heaven, the greatest of which is my converts whom God used my Bible preaching to turn from darkness to light. I don't spend time relishing in the work I have already accomplished, I am solely focused on the work ahead for Christ. Philippians 3:13-14, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

The adage is very true: “People don't care what you know, until they know that you care.” Sadly, I have attended many Baptist churches where I felt that the pastors didn't care. In fact, I know that they didn't care. When I handed the truth to them, they rejected it (Hosea 4:6). When I attended the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam from 2013 to 2014, their incompetent senior pastor, Marty Herron, preached the Devil's deception of Lordship Salvation. When I befriended him with the truth, by giving Pastor Herron Michael P. Bowen's excellent book in defense of a free grace Gospel, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU,' he rejected it and was offended. I was harshly rebuked by the cult pastors and forced out of the so-called “church.” Let me tell you dear reader, any church with a pastor who preaches the lie of Lordship Salvation is a cult, not a New Testament church. Part of being a soul winner is warning people what is NOT the Gospel.

In 2024, I attended the Christmas Eve service at the neo-evangelical First Baptist Church of Pensacola. They are 1 of 45,000 Southern Baptist convention churches. During the service, the senior pastor Dave Snyder told everyone of their need to turn from darkness to light by trusting in Christ, but that's all he said. The pastor never bothered to warn anyone that you cannot add good works, turning from sinful behavior or following Christ to faith, otherwise it negates faith. But don't take my word for it. Jesus tells a horrifying account in Matthew 7:21-23, about a group of people who followed Him, calling Jesus, “Lord, Lord.” They reminded Christ of having done many wonderful works, preaching in Jesus' name and casting out devils. They did these things all in Jesus' name. Yet, the blessed Savior said to their horror in Matthew 7:23b, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Dear reader, this is where the falsehood of Lordship Salvation leads, to Hell. In case you still don't understand what this deception is, please read: 'What Is Lordship Salvation?' Lordship Salvation is an enemy of soulwinning, because it perverts the free grace of God. It misleads and confuses people, causing them to emotionally worry and fret whether or not they are really saved, doubting God's free gift of eternal life because of their struggle with sinning. They have been lied to by fools such as Paul Washer, Ray Comfort, Charles Lawson, John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul, Adrian Rogers and others who preach the damnable Lordship Salvation heresy.

I encourage you dear reader to get busy soulwinning for God. I have several web visitors who are sharing my articles on social media. They share sermons by soulwinning pastors; such as, Jack Hyles, Ralph Yankee Arnold, Steven Anderson, Onorato Diamante, Roger Jimenez, Curtis Hutson, Max Younce, Harry Ironside and others. This is a ministry! Jesus promised that even if you give a cup of water to a child of God, you will be rewarded. Matthew 10:42, “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”

The true measurement of our success won't be measured by how many people show up to say goodbye at our funeral; but rather, how many people will be waiting to greet us when we get to Heaven. Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.

The Gospel Leads People To Jesus Christ, Not Us

Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

Over the 22 years of my website ministry, I have often been asked the question: “What is the best way to lead _______ to the Lord?” They sometimes ask, “What is the best way to lead a Roman Catholic to the Lord?” or “What is the best way to lead a Muslim to the Lord?” The Bible gives us the answer in our text passage of Scripture from Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

It is not our eloquently prepared words, cunning wisdom or articulated speech that will win a lost sinner over to trust the Lord Jesus Christ; but rather, it is the GOOD NEWS (the Gospel) itself that wins people to Christ. No matter whom you are trying to win to Jesus, whether it be a hardened atheist, or a blinded religious Catholic, simply share the Gospel with them.

According to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, "the Gospel" is comprised of three things:

1. Jesus DIED on a cross to pay our debt of sin
2. He was BURIED
3. Jesus RESURRECTED three days later from the dead in His physical body

The ONLY prerequisite to believing the Gospel is to know what you are being saved from. You are a guilty sinner, and so am I (Romans 3:10-23). There is a penalty for sin, which is death (Romans 6:23), which includes the Second Death in Hell (Revelation 21:8). You need to know what you're being saved from, Hell. So, if you acknowledge being a hell-deserving sinner, simply BELIEVE THE GOSPEL to receive eternal life. If someone refused to admit being a sinner, they would be calling God a ”liar” (1st John 1:8-10). No one has ever been saved who didn't admit to being a sinner in God's sight. That is why we need s Savior. The best way to lead anybody to Christ is to simply preach to them, THE GOSPEL.

We Cannot Save Anybody

By God's abundant grace, I've had the privilege of leading countless lost sinners to the dear Savior during my lifetime. Jesus Christ is the only Savior (Acts 4:10-12). I've been laboring diligently night and day now for the past 22 years. Lord willing it will be 23 years in May of 2025, since I started Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry website. But I fully know that the hundreds of people whom are my precious children in the Lord, that is, I led them to Christ; it was the power of God through the Gospel that saved them, not me. What saith the Scripture? 1st Corinthians 3:7, “So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” I give all the praise, credit and glory to my blessed faithful Savior, God and Lord, Jesus Christ!!!

I heard Missionary Steven Heidenreich years ago sinfully boasting that he has singlehandedly led 200,000 people to Christ. I seriously doubt that claim! It is such foolish braggadocios tomfoolery why many people today no longer trust lying Baptist preachers. I am confident that hundreds of people have come to Christ through my global website ministry since 2002, but I don't go around boasting about it; I give ALL the glory, praise and credit to God alone.

I had the displeasure of meeting with Steve Heidenreich back in 2004 in Indiana, when he still worked at Hyles-Anderson College (HAC). I drove all the way from Chicago to meet with the idiot. I wanted to pursue missionary work and needed his help. He was worthless! Heidenreich was rude, weird, selfish and a first-class moron! I regret ever meeting with the incompetent fool. The jerk didn't even thank me for the meal that I paid for. I have no respect for Steven Heidenreich as a Christian, man or a Baptist minister.

All Mr. Heidenreich did during our ridiculous meeting was horribly brag on himself, that he had built over one million dollars worth of buildings in the Philippines for missionary Rick Martin. He made it sound like he and Darrell Moore were homosexual lovers, by the creepy way that he kept sticking it in my face how “close” they were. I do not trust this man. When I needed his help, Heidenreich dropped the ball big time. How in the world a fool like that was ever put in charge of their mission's program at HAC bewilders me! Proverbs 20:6, “Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?”

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

How Do I Become A Part Of Your Ministry?

You're already a part of my ministry friend, just by being here. 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟱:𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟭, “𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻; 𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺; 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝘆 𝘂𝘀: 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱, 𝗯𝗲 𝘆𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝗱. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗻; 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗺.”

By sharing the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ with lost sinners, we are working to reconcile them with God, which is through faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 says we have peace with God through Jesus Christ. That is, through the new birth. My primary goal in my ministry is to preach the Gospel of free grace to lead lost sinner to Christ. 1st Corinthians 3:9 teaches that we are labourers "together with God." SOULWINNING!

Jesus promised in 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝟭𝟬:𝟰𝟮, “𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱.” The Lord promised to even reward those who give a cup of water to a disciple who follows Christ. So, if you share my ministry with others—by sharing sermons, articles, memes, blogs, et cetera—the Lord will reward you as His child for helping the cause of Christ. Jesus said without Him we cannot accomplish anything (John 15:1-5). That is, of our own accord we are worthless to the cause of Christ. We need the power of the Holy Spirit! One of my favorite sermons by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is titled, 'The Spirit's Abiding.' Nothing can happen until the Holy Spirit come down!!!

The most important thing when sharing any ministry is to make sure that the ministry is not preaching a counterfeit gospel, or promoting Satan's corrupt Bible versions—which are destructive to one's faith. By God's grace I have had excellent Bible teachers (Jack Hyles, John R. Rice, Hank Lindstrom, Ralph Yankee Arnold, Curtis Hutson, Lee Roberson, Max D. Younce, J. Vernon McGee, Brad Strand, Harry Ironside). You can trust the sermons and writings of those faithful soulwinning men, who were all true to the free grace Gospel.

Very few preachers today expose false prophets, which is really bad. A big part of my ministry is contending for the faith (Jude 1:3). I am grateful that you want to be a part of my ministry. The best way to do so is to start sharing the Gospel with others, so that they can know for sure that they're going to Heaven when they die. I started a new soulwinning website in 2006, dedicated to teach and inspired believers to go soulwinning.

I often pray to God to help me accomplish more, but I am just one man. That is where saints like you come into the picture, because you my dear friend can be an extension of my labors (and we both servants of Christ our dear Savior), reaching people with the Gospel that I cannot do. To someone, you are “𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵” (𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝟭:𝟴𝗯). There are people whom you can reach, who will only listen to you, but they'd never listen to me (and vise versa). To someone, we may be the only Jesus they ever know.

When Jesus was here on earth, He was the light of the world (John 8:12, 9:5). But now that He has departed to Heaven, Jesus said we saints are the light of the earth (Matthew 5:14). That means we are their only hope of ever getting saved, because we are here in Christ's stead, ambassadors to a dark and sin-cursed world. I wrote this simple article which explains how easy it is to be saved. I also highly recommend reading this helpful book by Michael P. Bowen titled, "I Never Knew You," which clarifies the simplicity of the Gospel.

Have you met the precious Master Jesus Christ, dear friend...

Then I Met The Master
(The Booth Brothers)