The greatest problem in the world is sin. Yet as David cried out in Psalm 51, "Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!" and so also do we need the precious blood of Christ that alone can forgive all of our sin. As the hymns say, "Wash me, Savior, or I die..." and "The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives."

In this APT Tim responds to the following question: "Why does God make it so hard for his people to make it into his kingdom? He throws most of his OWN people into the lake of fire forever to be tormented with no hope of getting out. I understand he gives us a way out. But I also understand its extremely difficult and not many will actually be able to do it. What kind of savior is Jesus anyways? You cant honestly tell me all you have to do is believe. I understand what scripture says in John 3:16 as well as several other verses I don't feel I have to describe to whoever reads this because you know them. What about all the other verses pertaining with the difficulty level? Why does Jesus set the standard so high, that it seems NO person can complete it. God has ruined my life.

Anyways I can continue until I'm blue in the face but nobody will read this anyhow so I'm giving up on my life. I tried to repent and I keep failing. God does not want me. God does not want me in his house.

I was so happy before God came into my life and now that hes here he has broken my family apart. He has happily broken my life apart, my relationship apart, taken my job away, made my family cry in fear, made my mom think she has failed me and now she is depressed, and made me depressed. But he loves me.....Yet he will probably happily throw me into hell if I disobey. But he loves me....

I want to kill myself. God does not want his people to enter his kingdom."

Often people will ask if there is a cultural key in evangelism to win souls to Christ in other countries. However, to preach the Gospel is the same all over the world - whether idolatry in India or idolatry in the USA. Whether false ways of salvation in the USA or false ways of salvation in India - the spiritual condition of man is the same. The outward things and customs are different, but man's need is the same in every country. The need is for us to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and not to walk in craftiness (2Co 4:2).

It's easy to say, "I'm not like Cain, I didn't put a knife in my brother." However, hatred is more subtle than sticking a knife in your brother. Hatred begins in your heart and manifests itself in many ways that are all contrary to Christ and love.

"Do you think I am self-righteous?" said he."I know you are. That is your grand difficulty. You have been trying to save yourself. You are trying now. When you tried to repent, your heart aimed after repentance, as something to recommend you to God, and constitute a reason why he should forgive and save you. It was just an operation of a self-righteous spirit. It was just an attempt to save yourself, to have your religion save you, instead of relying by faith upon Jesus Christ, to be saved from wrath through him." - Ichabod Spencer

In Mark 1:24 the demons said to Christ, "Have you come to destroy us?" and as 1 John 3:8 says, "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." Yet what work of the devil is this referring to? The devil's work to get men to practice sin and to sin against God. Christ has appeared to destroy the practice of sin in a person's life. His power alone can destroy such a practice; as 1 John 3:9 says, "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God."

You are very unwise to let your thoughts dwell upon the faults of Christians at all; and when you do so, you hunt up a few professors of religion, who are not by any means a fair specimen of our church-members, and you take them as samples of all the rest. That is unfair. I am sorry you have run into this way of thinking. It will only lead you into error, and call all your attention from the eternal interests of your own soul. The fault of others cannot save you. I beg of you to think less about other people's sins, and more about your own.

Isaiah 40:27-31 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? 28- Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 29- He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30- Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31- but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Sadly a lot of carnality in the church can hide in the shadow of great preachers. Though some at Corinth said "I follow Paul", yet practically they had jealousy and strife among them. It is fearful to think of Paul addressing us as he did them when he said he "could not address you as spiritual people". In this sermon Ryan reconsiders what the Bible teaches us on what has been commonly called the 'carnal Christian'.

What is a true Christian? Someone who has been brought to the end of himself in repentance; and if someone is genuinely looking to Christ this shows that they have repented of their sins. The true Christian forsakes any confidence he has in the flesh, in himself, and in anything he can do to produce something to save himself. He trusts that Christ's finished sacrifice is the only way to God and his only hope.