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Scott Moore: Do or Die

Scott Moore

Communicate: Say it or Die

Conviction: Recognize it or They Die, Part 1

Conviction: Recognize it or They Die, Part 2

Father, we just ask again that your presence will be with us, that we will be able to glorify you by what we learn here.

And Lord, as we notice people come in under conviction, we ask that you will give us the courage to draw them back to your word so that they can be saved.

We're doing an evangelistic meeting and a man comes to church just during the evangelistic meeting, he comes to church, hasn't been to church for 40 years.

40 years prior to that, Jenny, he'd married a Catholic and his family had disowned him, completely disowned him because he married a Catholic.

So he decided forget the church, forget God, forget everything, hadn't been to church for 40 years.

On that day we make a passionate appeal for baptism and this man stands up to be rebaptized.

He's baptized on a Sabbath and then that Monday the pastor of the church and I go to visit with him.

Ron Werner is the pastor's name out in Sheridan, Oregon.

You won't find a better pianist in the world.

That guy can just play out of this world.

So we go to visit this gentleman that has just been baptized and I'm sitting on a couch over here and He's sitting here and his wife is sitting over there and the pastor is of course sitting beside me.

And I just said, you know brother, I just want to praise the Lord for the decision that you made and that you were baptized.

And then I looked at his wife, Her name was Marisol.

And I said, Marisol, which Sabbath would you like to become a Seventh-day Adventist Christian?

And she said, you think I need to be re-baptized?

You know this lady has known about the Sabbath for 40 years.

Of course she doesn't do any of that anymore.

I wanted to say, absolutely, you need to be rebaptized.

But right then, God just impressed me so much that I never said anything about baptism.

All I did was ask her when she would like to become a Seventh-day Adventist Christian.

And so I said, Marisol, Did you hear somebody say something about baptism?

And she got this real solemn look on her face.

She said and she started to get contemplated and then she just blurted out again You think I need to be rebaptized?

I know drinking, I know smoking, he beating me, he beating the children, he need to be rebaptized, I don't need to be baptized.

And I said, Marisol, did I say anything about baptism?

I said, who do you think said something about baptism?

She said, But I've been keeping, I've been doing everything God has asked me to do.

So she got her Bible out and I said, I want you to turn to the New Testament book of James.

We went right to James, right after Hebrews, you have James.

And I got up from where I was sitting and I went over to where she was sitting and I sat down beside her and I hand she had her Bible and I had my Bible I said Marisol read for me James chapter 2 verse 10 and Veronica can you read that for us?

And at that point she just began to weep She began to cry and she said, Oh, Pastor, I have known about the Sabbath for so long, but I have never kept it.

She said, I think I want to be baptized the next Sabbath.

Many times when people are under conviction and they want to argue with us, We just want to put up our hands and we just want to smack him with this text or smack him with that text.

When if we start doing that, we'll find out later that we lose all of the power that was working on that person's heart.

There is a key to gaining a decision when it comes to giving a Bible study or preaching an evangelistic meeting or preaching a sermon on Sabbath.

You never, ever, ever give a Bible study or preach a sermon or preach an evangelistic meaning sermon without giving an appeal.

If you leave off the appeal, this is not your high school or college speech class where you give an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

You never have a conclusion in a Bible study.

And that appeal has to worm its way into someone's heart.

And when you're appealing to people, they start showing different signs of conviction.

So let's talk a little bit about the key to gaining a decision.

The key to gaining a decision is called conviction.

Now conviction, in conviction you have positive indicators of conviction and negative indicators of conviction.

We were doing an evangelistic meeting in Mount Tabor, Oregon.

There's this, the pastor there told me, he said, listen you can't preach an evangelistic meeting on jewelry in my church.

He said, you can't preach an evangelistic meeting on jewelry in my church.

I said, listen pastor, with all due respect, you're not the 1 that pays my salary and you guys asked me to come here and to be an evangelist for this meeting, so I'm gonna preach whatever the Lord impresses me to preach.

He says, well, well you can't preach on the wedding band.

I said, I tell you what pastor, I'm gonna preach on what the Bible says on jewelry, and if you want to kick me out and you want to explain to everybody exactly why I'm not here to preach tonight, you're more than welcome to do that." And he said, well you're gonna lose my members for me, you're gonna lose them, my members are gonna leave the church, and the church there was a very, very, it was a very liberal church, if you can use that terminology.

And so I got up to preach that night and man, I just went into that sermon with just fear and trembling, praying my heart out.

And there was a, when we were all finished, you know, you're standing at the back, shaking the hands of the people as they're leaving.

And this church member stayed until everybody was gone.

And she had big old ruby rings, big old brooches, huge earrings, stones.

They weren't just silver or gold things, they were big huge stones, very gaudy jewelry, very expensive jewelry.

And when everybody was gone, she looks around, She looks at me and she said, You preached that just for me, didn't you?

I said, You know, there were lots of people in here tonight that had jewelry on.

I said, yeah, there were lots of people here tonight with jewelry on.

But I'm so glad that God made it feel as though that message were just for you.

She said, now I've just got to pray about what I'm gonna do.

I said, I tell you what, I too will pray that God gives you the courage to do what He has shown you to do." She says, yeah, I'm gonna go home and pray about it.

I said, well you pray sister and I'll be praying.

The next night she comes to the evangelistic meeting, all of her jewelry is still on.

She comes to the back, she looks around to the left and the right, she looks at me and she says, well you can see I still haven't done what God asked me to do.

I said, well at least you know that it's God asking you to do it.

The next night she came to the evangelistic meeting, not 1 stitch of jewelry on.

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