1. Among those who entertain false hopes, perhaps the largest class are those who expect to be saved by their righteous lives. These persons are easily known by such sayings as these, "I am doing the best I can." "I do more good than evil." "I am not a great sinner." "I have never done anything very bad." Gal. 3:10, shows that all those who are trusting in their works are under the curse of the law and that there is no hope on the ground of the law for any one who does not "continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." James 2:10 Gal. 2:16, and Romans 3:19, 20 shows that by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. Matt. 5:20—All these passages show the kind of righteousness God demands and that no man's righteousness comes up to God's standard, and that if a man wishes to be saved he must find some other means of salvation than by his own deeds. "You do not understand the kind of righteousness that God demands or you would not talk as you do. Now let us turn to His word and see what kind of righteousness it is that God demands. Luke 16:15; Rom. 2:16; 1 Sam. 16:7. These passages show that God looks at the heart. Every man when brought face to face with that, must tremble because he knows that whatever his outward life may be, his heart will not stand the scrutiny of God's eye. Matt. 22:37, 38 "I am doing the best I can, or doing more good than evil." "You are greatly mistaken about that; so far from doing more good than evil, do you know that you have broken the first and greatest of God's laws?"Heb. 11:6, John 6:29, shows that the one thing that God demands is faith and that without that it is impossible to please God, and John 16:9, shows that unbelief in Christ is the greatest sin. John 3:36, shows that the question of eternal life depends solely upon a man's accepting or rejecting Jesus Christ, and Heb. 10:28, 29, that the sin which brings the heaviest punishment is that of treading under foot the Son of God. "You think you are very good, but do you know that you are committing the most awful sin in God's sight which a man can commit?" Rejecting His son Jesus Christ !

2. Another class of those who entertain false hopes, are those who think "God is too good to damn anyone."

"We know nothing of God's goodness but what we learn from the Bible, and we must go to that book to find out the character of God's goodness. Let us turn to Romans 2:2. 4, 5."Now, my friend, you see that the purpose of God's goodness is to lead you to repentence, not to encourage you in sin and when we trample upon his goodness, then we are treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God." John 8:21, 24 and 3:36, will show you that however good God may be that he will reject all who reject His Son. John 5:40, 2 Peter 3:9-11 or Ezek. 33:11, that it is not so much God who damns men as men who damn themselves in spite of God's goodness because they will not come to Christ and accept the life freely offered. "God is not willing that any should perish and he offers life freely to you, but there is one difficulty in the way. Let us turn to John 5:40, and see what the difficulty is." "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life," , "My friend here is the difficulty, you won't come; life is freely offered to you but if you will not accept it, you must perish." II Peter ii.4-6,9; Luke 13:3, show how the "good" God deals with persons who persist in sin. "You say God is too good to damn any one. Now let us see what God Himself says in his word." "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." Read that line again till it sinks in my friend .

3. A third class of those who entertain false hopes, are those who say "I am trying to be a Christian." John 1:12, shows you that it is not "trying" to be a Christian or "trying" to live a better life or "trying" to do anything that God asks of us, but simply to receive Jesus Christ, who did it all, "will you now stop your trying and simply receive Jesus as Saviour?" Acts 16:31, shows that God does not ask us to try what we can do but trust Jesus and what He has done and will do. Romans 3:23-25, shows that we are not to be justified by trying to do, "but freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" on the simple condition of faith.

4.. Still another class of those who entertain false hopes are those who say, "I feel I am going to Heaven" or "I feel I am saved." John iii, 36 that it is not a question of what they feel but what God says, and what God says distinctly in his word is that, "He that believeth not on the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." One afternoon I was talking with a lady who a few weeks before had lost her only child. At the time of the child's death she had been deeply interested, but her serious impressions had largely left her. I put to her the question, "Do you not wish to go where your little one has gone?" She replied at once "I expect to." "What makes you think you will?" I said. She replied, "I feel so, I feel that I will go to heaven when I die." I then asked her, if there was anything she could point to in the word of God which gave her a reason for believing that she was going to heaven when she died. "No," she said, "there is not." Then she turned and questioned me, saying, "Do you expect to go to heaven when you die?" "Yes", I replied, "I know I shall." How do you know it?" he said. "Have you any word from God for it?" "Yes, "I answered and turned her to John 3:36, She was thus led to see the difference between a faith that rested upon her feelings and a faith that rested upon the word of God.

Luke 18:9-14, "there was a man in' the Bible who felt he was all right, but was all wrong. " Then read about the Pharisee who was so sure that he was all right, but who was all the time an unforgiven sinner; Prov. 14:12 "there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death."

5. The last class of those who entertain false hopes, are those who say they are saved though they are leading sinful lives. 1 Cor. 6:9-10. 1 John 2:29 1 John 5:4-5 one who is really born of God overcomes the world and the fact that they are living in sin and are not overcoming the world is evidence that they have not been born of God.

This songs to all the people
With light in their hearts
And love in their eyes.
You don't have to worry
When the mountains seem of infinite size.

There is one who goes before you to calm the sea.
There's a king who leads his people to victory.

We are Destined to Win
We're surrounded by his Love
And guarded by his power.
Destined to Win
Following the Lord until the battles over.
We are Destined to Win

We all get discouraged
When the pressures of life start weighing us down
We've learned that in his footsteps
Crosses in life must preceed the crowns.

There is one who goes before you
To calm the sea.
There's a king who leads his people to victory.

We are Destined to Win
We're surrounded by his Love
And guarded by his power.
Destined to Win
Following the Lord until the battles over.
We are Destined to Win

We've got to remember
It's our destiny to win the end
With Christ on our side
We are Destined to Win.

We are Destined to Win
We're surrounded by his Love
And guarded by his power.
Destined to Win
Following the Lord until the battles over.
Destined to Win

We're surrounded by his Love
And guarded by his power.
Destined to Win
Following the Lord until the battles over.

We are Destined
We are Destined
We are Destined to Win

If We met would it really matter ? Because I can not take you to heaven with me !

If We talked about the weather would it change things in your life ?

If we sat down to a meal , would it solve the hunger in your soul for answers about life ?

If we did what you like to do, would it get you one step closer to the truth about your purpose in life ?

If we talked about everything you wanted to talk , and I kept my mouth shut about where you will spend eternity without Jesus...would it really matter to you ?

If I kept my mouth shut, and said it was your business , whether you spent forever in Hell....would it really matter to you ?

Would it bother you if Jesus told me to tell you the truth about Himself , and I never got around to it. Would it matter to you when you step into eternity ?

If you met me , and we talked about everything , and did everything you wanted to do, would it really matter if I never told you who I really am ? NO !

But if we did all those things , and more . And I never told you who Jesus Christ was , and is . Would it matter ? YOU BET !!!!

AC 4:12

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven GIVEN AMONG MEN, whereby we must be saved.