Now, I want to talk to those of you who claim to be Christians. Does your life honor Jesus Christ? Are you looking in His Word to find out how you’re supposed to live? I pray with all my heart, the only thing that’s going to save the church in America, there’s only two possibilities. One is a total reformation in our preaching and our study of the Word of God, and the other is fierce, horrifying persecution. That’s the only thing that’s going to save the church in America. Oh, I pray, I pray that you would return to the Word. I pray––listen to me, young person. You need to know. You need to say, “Okay, how am I supposed to live before my parents?” Go into the Word, find out, obey it. “How am I supposed to dress?” Go into the Word, find out, obey it. “How am I supposed to talk?” “What am I supposed to listen to?” Bring every thought, word, and deed into subjection to Jesus Christ.
Now, I’m not going to ask you to stand because I am so tired of people coming forward and making those commitments, and those commitments last them two minutes. I’m not here so I can write up in my magazine that a gazillion of you came forward. I want you to go home and I want you to live for Jesus Christ with all your heart. But if you need counseling, you say, “Brother Paul, I want to––I want to live for Jesus Christ. I don’t know how. I don’t know how.” In a minute, we’re going to give an invitation, and I do want you to come forward, not to make a commitment. You want to make a commitment, you make that commitment right where you’re seated. If you need to tell somebody, you go tell your pastor. You go tell your youth minister, and you know what, we’ll know if that commitment lasts. You know how? Because it will last, we’ll know if it’s from God.
Let me tell you something. For everyone who’s here right now, I want to tell you something. If you made a decision to follow Jesus Christ, if you made a decision to get saved in these last two days, I want to tell you something. If it was genuine, it will last. If after a few weeks you go right back into the world, live like the world, act like the world, I want you to know something, you didn’t get anything here this weekend. You got emotion, that’s about it. If you really got something from the Lord, I want you to know something, it will last. And even if you try to run away from it, you won’t be able to do it. You won’t be able to do it. Oh, I love you so much. I love you so much.
I would ask that we all stand. If you need counseling about a decision that you have made but it’s not clear, I want you to come forward. And I’m going to come right down here. Those of you who stood up––there were many of you over there who say, “I need to know Jesus Christ,” I want to come down here right now and I want to meet with you, and I want to go back over here with you and some other counselors and I want to talk to you. And I want to tell you something, not a five-minute deal, not a ten-minute deal. If you need to talk all night, we will stay. That is the attitude of every counselor in this place. We will stay all night if necessary, all night. God love you. God love you. Let me pray for you.
Dear God, please, Lord, there has been so much movement. Last night, Lord, I don’t know how much of it was real, and I know that I saw people last night weeping. I saw people trying to make commitments, and I believe that there was a great deal of what happened last night because of You. I saw this morning a young man preach, Father, give his testimony, and I saw real working of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know how much of all the decisions were real, but there was real things going on. I pray right now, Father, I don’t know how much will be real. Only time and eternity will show us that. But, oh, dear God, please, please, work, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
