Listen To The Question, Listen To The Answer.

Acts 16:30-31 "And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."

The question is an age-old question, and has been asked by every saved sinner, what must I do to be saved? While many ask this question, not too many know the true answer to the question. God has over and over again in His word answered this question and still lost people try to answer it and always get the answer wrong. This is the most important question a person will ask in their life, and the answer must be correct. This is the most important work we as Pastors have, and churches alike. The last thing Jesus told the apostles was to “…Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15 not to a few, not to the local church, not to the community, not even to your state, but to every soul you can find to preach it too. While it is our job or work to feed the sheep, it should also be our greatest passion to get the gospel to every living soul that will listen. There are so many out there who take their gospel to the world, but that is useless. As pastors we must consider this witness to be our most important work. We absolutely cannot allow this question to weaken or get frustrated because that God is not saving as many. We must press forward as though it is as important as it is, because it is. Sinners must hear the truth about salvation. Not everyone who says they are saved, truly are saved. There are so many who have been led down the satanic path of lies, and the results are the same, they are still lost. God says they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Romans 10:2 People must be made aware that salvation is only in Jesus Christ. The question asked by this jailer was “…what must I do to be saved?” and the answer given by the Apostle Paul and Silas was bold, true, and exact “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…” there were no play with words, no trickery, no fancy theology, just the plain and simple truth. Jesus Christ is still the Saviour of mankind and no one can ever see or enter the kingdom of God without going thru Jesus Christ and Him alone. Jesus said in John 5:39-40 “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. (40) And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” This is exactly what Jesus told Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews in John chapter 3. People will flock to hear false prophets, phony preachers, and outrageously biblically wrong churches but will not turn to Jesus Christ for true salvation. But, as men of truth we must keep doing our work, feeding the sheep of God and preaching the gospel message to anyone we can in the entire world. It is still the single most important message in the world, and let us not ever treat it as anything less. Jesus said in John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” As Pastors this is the main thought we must keep in our minds, that without the belief of Jesus Christ in a sinner’s heart, they are already condemned. While we cannot saved them, they will not be saved without hearing the gospel message.  Romans 10:14 “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?” That is a proclaimer who heralds or cries it to the top of our voice for all to hear. Shout it brethren, shout it from the pulpits, shout it from the housetops, shout it from the mountain tops, SHOUT IT! And please remember, it is the single most important message you will ever preach.