“The Most Unpopular Message Ever Preached” Rom 3:23. Pastor Jim Davis. August 22, 2020

Pastor Jim Davis,
Is your life like this—“try, cry, sigh, die?"

Maybe at your best, life isn’t fair.
So when you die and meet God some day, will you just hope for the best?

What about when He asks you, “What did you do with my Son?”

Blaise Pascal, a theologian of the 1600’s: "There’s a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man."

Cop out: " I don’t discuss religion or politics."

They are the two most important subjects affecting our lives now and for all eternity.


You must accept the bad news before you can receive the good news.

Romans 3:23

Repent - be sorry that God had to send his son to die for our sins.

Repent accompanied by emotion.

Repent is to do an about-face. Turn.

Repent is to change mind, desires, willingness.

God is in charge.
God is the boss.
Wake up daily making Him Lord, asking, what you can do to put His Will first today.

Three things unique to humanity:
1. Intellect
2. Emotion
3. Will

Train’s destination?
If the train is on the way to Hell, but you think your ticket says Heaven (i.e. I've done more good than bad—isn’t that enough?),
you need to jump off the moving "train of life", even if you roll, bump, scrape and lose friends in the process. You will have made the escape from the wrong train car. You will have made a decision to not stay mindlessly riding life to a very wrong destination.

"I will get off this train, no matter the consequences. I will repent of my sins (intellectually, emotionally, and willfully). I will make Heaven my ultimate destination all because of God's grace toward me."