1. Illus: Why is it that when we go on vacation we tend to leave our "smarts" behind?
   1. I can't speak on behalf of all the nations of the world tonight, but it occurs to me-- after reading a report from the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus--that we Americans don't always come across as the brightest tourists in the world, when we're on vacation!
      1. Every year this international Visitors Bureau association releases what it calls the "Top Ten Strange Questions from Tourists."
      2. Submitted by tourist information bureaus all across the United States, these are actual questions that ordinarily smart and bright human beings at home have come up with when they're on vacation.
      3. [Show on screen]:
         1. Here's one submitted by the Florida Space Coast Office of Tourism: "Which beach is closest to the water?" (You don't have to ponder that one too long before its absurdity strikes you! That tourist was out in the Florida sun too long!)
         2. Some teacher wrote to the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, New Orleans being the home of American jazz: "Where can I find a listing of jazz funerals for the month? I'd like to bring a group of students down to attend one." (Who but God knows the funerals for next month!)
         3. But I thought this was the best one from the Top Ten--someone walked into the Denver Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau and asked: "What's the best time of the year to watch a deer turn into an elk?" ("I want to be there and snap a picture when those little antlers pop out!")
   2. Questions, questions, questions--strange and foolish questions.
   3. But tonight we are confronted with a very kind of different question--a single, solitary question that is without a doubt the most critical question any human being--i.e., you and I--could ever ask!
      1. It is the single most important question ever raised on this planet.
      2. And its answer is the single most important answer ever proffered on this earth.
      3. But unless you ask the question, you will never find the answer.
      4. Which must be why we find both the question and its answer provocatively depicted in three dramatic scenes in this Book.
      
   4. Tonight--three compelling tales about one single question and a solitary truth: the truth of the spotted leopard.
2. Tale Number One--he was on the verge of suicide--two more split seconds and he would be dead at his own hand.
   1. Illus: And in tonight's global society he'd have been in good company.
      1. Illus: In fact in this nation alone, between the ages of 15 an 24 every 24 hours 13 Americans take their own lives! Every other hour, another American youth commits suicide.
      2. Illus: And sadly the figures are not that much different for Australia, Norway, Japan, Germany, Finland, Canada among the countries we checked out on the internet.
      3. Illus: And yet the stunning statistic for the U.S. is that the highest suicide rate is for the 80-84 year age group 5 to 6 times more prevalent than among teens!
      4. If only these victims of life had been able to find the answer to the midnight question of the man who nearly took his own life--surely they, too, would have been halted from their own self-destruction.
      5. It is possible that someone here this evening or watching by satellite is contemplating suicide.
         1. You've come to the desperate end of your frayed and dangling rope.
         2. Somehow it appears to you that there is no solution left to the mess your life has become.
         3. Your hope is gone, your health is broken, your heart is depressed.
         4. You feel lost and alone tonight.
         5. And ending your own life seems to be the only anguished option you have left.
      6. But whoever you are, my friend, I have good news for you tonight.
      7. Because there IS an answer for your life right now, just as there was for that man in the midnight, an answer that can change your life forever.
      8. Which is hope enough and reason enough for all of us tonight to probe this most critical of all questions in search of the most vital of all answers.
   2. Acts 16 (p 1070)
      1. We pick up this dramatic story in v. 22ff., just after Paul and Silas have been arrested for teaching the gospel and performing miracles of healing in the name of Jesus.
         1. V. 23--Roman law required that the warden of the prison was responsible for the security of his prisoners, and should one escape the law mandated the death of the prison keeper.
         2. V. 25--apparently you can become such good friends with God that even in the midst of adversity and suffering your confidence in Him can remain unshaken and firm, trusting His friendship to carry you through any dark chapter of your life! And so they are singing! (How would you like a music video of that scene? That would be one really worth playing on MTV!)
         3. V. 26--This is obviously more than a natural event--something supernatural is occurring, since every prisoner's chains were loosed in the process!
         4. V. 27--Having grown up in Japan, I can assure you, nobody sleeps through an earthquake--when your bed is rocking--as you in California can testify to!
         5. V. 28--He's about to commit what the Japanese call "hari kiri" when a voice shouts through the darkness, DON'T DO IT!
      2. Vss. 28-30 - There it is--the most significant, critical question any human can ask in this life: WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
   3. The human mind doesn't always phrase it in those words, but there isn't a human being alive tonight who isn't preoccupied with the thought of life, of living on and on and on!
      1. Except for the most despairing among us, everybody wants to live and live and live as long as is humanly possible.
      2. "How can I beat my odds against death?" "What must I do to be saved?"
      3. Our health care industries are desperately researching every possible scientific and medicinal and dietary or lifestyle lead in order to somehow forestall another year or two or three from death's inevitable advance.
      4. Everybody, every culture, every nation on earth tonight is preoccupied with the quest to extend human life indefinitely, to somehow save this face from the ravages of death.
   4. So the jailer's desperate query is entirely appropriate this evening--WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
      1. Illus: I've stood quietly in the cathedrals of Belgrade and the temples of Singapore and the churches of England and the mosques of India--as men, women and children--clapped their hands or kissed their candles or tossed their salt or sprinkled their water or opened their Bibles--all of it in their earnest and sincere quest to be saved.
      2. Illus: Why do grown men walk on fiery coals and lance their torsos with iron hooks and spears? Why do grown women walk upon their knees in silent devotion and prayer?
      3. "What must I do to be saved?" is the heart cry of an entire planet tonight, whether or not it believes in God.
      4. "I don't want to die--I want to live--what must I do to be saved?"
      5. THUS IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE MUST FIND THE ANSWER, THE MOST CONVINCING TRUTH TO THIS MOST CRITICAL OF ALL HUMAN QUESTIONS.
   5. Which leads us to the truth of the spotted leopard in Jeremiah 13 (p 742).
      1. We will return to the midnight tale of the jailer in just a moment.
      2. But there is an important issue that must be settled right away--and it is the truth of the spotted leopard found here in Jeremiah 13.
      3. Read Jeremiah 13:23--first half.
      4. The prophet's pointed rhetorical question: Can a leopard, by growling and howling and roaring and raging, change a single one of his black circled spots?--ROAR--MAKE MY SPOTS GO AWAY!
      5. IMPOSSIBLE! IT CANNOT BE DONE.
      6. Not any more than an Ethiopian or you or me or anybody, for that matter, can change the color of our skin--and in today's proud world, nobody would want to, anyway!
      7. What's the Bible's point? Read the 2nd half of the verse: "Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil."
      8. THE POINT: You cannot change your basic human nature.
      9. Illus: In a large American city a professional organization of barbers and hair stylists and salon operators was meeting for a 3-day national convention.
         1. A friend of mine who operates a salon here in town goes to these conventions every now and then.
         2. While there somebody hit on a splendid idea: Why not show the city and the nation the transformation a good haircut and a careful make-over can achieve for a person? "Let's go and make one of those before and after pictures!" (Everyone's seen the familiar diet before-and-after photos.)
         3. And the convention heartily agreed.
         4. So they went down to the inner city and found a bum living near a gutter on the street: a filthy greasy face, a dirty tangled beard, clothing tattered and torn, his body and breath wreaking with alcohol and unwashed sweat.
         5. When awakened and aroused, the bum was finally persuaded to allow the convention to carry out their experiment.
         6. So they took him to the convention hotel--took his before photographs--and then bathed him completely, shampooed his hair with the finest of products, shaved his face and bathed it with creams and lotions, finely cut and styled his hair, manicured his nails, sprayed him with cologne, put a brand new suit, shirt and tie upon him.
         7. And then they summoned the press to showcase their wondrous achievement.
         8. You have to amidst--it was quite a powerful before and after contrast!
         9. A week or so after the convention left town, a reporter with one of the local newspapers decided to do a follow-up story on this bum turned "fashion star."
         10. So she set off in search of the gentleman.
         11. After much inquiry, she discovered where he was.
         12. You guessed it--back on the same street, down beside the same gutter.
         13. A week's worth of rough stubble upon his once again greasy face.
         14. His now no longer new suit and shirt once again splattered with food and alcohol and the grime of the city street where he lay snoring!
      10. WHAT WENT WRONG?
      11. Reread Jeremiah 13:23.
      12. That convention of stylists had changed the man on the outside--BUT THEY HAD NEGLECTED TO EFFECT A TRANSFORMATION ON THE INSIDE.
      13. They could not change his nature--they did not change his heart.
      14. And if the heart isn't changed--the life isn't transformed.
      15. And the fact is, my friends, we can't even change our own natures, our own hearts, let alone someone else's!
      16. That is the TRUTH OF THE SPOTTED LEOPARD: YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOURSELF, YOU CAN'T SAVE YOURSELF.
   6. Listen to how the same Paul of the midnight jail described this spotted leopard truth in Romans 7 (p 1090).
      1. Read vv. 18, 19 and 15.
      2. The total frustration and confusion of all of us--we can't change ourselves, we can't save ourselves!
      3. Illus: Like Mark Twain said, I can resist everything except temptation.
      4. Illus: He once commented to a friend of his, "It's not hard to quit smoking....I've done it a hundred times!"
      5. It's the truth of the spotted leopard--we can't change ourselves, we can't save ourselves.
      6. When you have a fallen nature--as we all do--there is no way you can pick yourself up by your own boot straps, when your bootstraps are broken!
      7. Illus: How many times have we all made New Years' resolutions (be kinder to my wife, more loving to my kids, to stop smoking or eating so many snacks or watching so much TV, etc), only to break them by January 2 or 3 or 4 at the latest?
      8. Illus: As someone once quipped, "New Year's resolutions are like crying babies in church--they're no good unless they're carried out."
      9. But that is precisely our predicament, along with Mark Twain and Paul and Jeremiah and the bum in the gutter--we don't have the power to carry out our resolutions.
      10. We can't change ourselves, we can't save ourselves.
      11. And as we noted just a few evenings ago, the inevitable end of our sinful natures is--how does Romans 6:23 read?--"The wages of sin is death."
      12. Eternal death--if we don't find a Savior!
   7. "WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?" the jailer cried! NOW LET'S READ HOW HIS DESPERATE QUESTION WAS ANSWERED.
      1. Let's return to where we left the jailer moments after the earthquake in that Philippi an prison--Acts 16 (p1070).
      2. Pick the story up again in verse 30.
      3. Something about the behavior of those two incarcerated strangers has obviously had a compelling influence on the pagan jailer.
      4. And it has exposed the emptiness of his own barren soul.
      5. And so in despair he cries out, CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO FIND WHAT YOU HAVE, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? I DON'T TO DIE--I WANT TO LIVE!
      6. And quick is Paul and Silas's response--v. 31.
   8. THERE'S THE ANSWER--"BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE SAVED."
   9. But let me ask you: What does it mean to BELIEVE?
      1. Illus: Alister McGrath, a microbiologist turned theologian at Oxford University, helps answer the question in his book, Intellectuals Don't Need God: And Other Modern Myths, by showing how "faith" or belief in God has a progressing definition. [show screen]
      2. First of all, Faith is about believing certain things are true.
         1. To have faith in something is first of all to believe that it is true. To have faith in God, I have to believe that God exists.
         2. This is an essential first step, but it's not enough.
         3. Because in James 2:19 the Bible makes the striking point that mere belief that something or someone exists is not enough: [show on screen] "Even the demons believe and tremble."
         4. The devil very sincerely believes in the existence of God! How could he deny it? BUT IT HASN'T SAVED HIM!
         5. Even so, we too can say, "I believe in God" which means something like, "I believe that there is a God."
         6. Illus: A recent poll indicates that 90% of Americans say they believe in God....but what difference does that belief make?
         7. This is the intellectual assent stage of faith.
         8. "Oh sure, Jesus of Nazareth, I believe he existed--he was a very good man who lived 2000 years ago--and he taught some marvelous, inspiring moral concepts that can elevate the human spirit. Yes sir, I believe in him."
         9. I've heard those words from Moslems and Buddhists and Hindus and even atheists.
         10. "Jesus of Nazareth--sure I believe that he existed--history has proven it--he was a fine, moral man--wish there had been more like him--like Mohammed and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Moses."
      3. But my friend, an intellectual assent by itself will do no good and will never save anybody, the devil included!
      4. There is a second important step in "faith": Faith is trust.
         1. You can have faith in a friend, meaning you trust him or her.
         2. You can have faith in an airline pilot, meaning you are willing to entrust yourself to him or her when you buckle that seatbelt and place your life in the pilot's hands.
         3. The devil believes God exists, but he doesn't trust his life to God.
         4. Trust is an important dimension to faith--but it is still not enough.
         5. And it is here, McGrath notes, that the Bible adds a vital component quite without parallel in everyday language.
      5. And that is: Faith is entry into the promises of God, receiving what they have to offer.
         1. I.e., I may believe that God is promising me salvation; I may trust that promise; but unless I respond to that promise, I shall not obtain salvation.
         2. Illus: McGrath offers this illustration--Take a bottle of penicillin, for example.
         3. This wonder-working antibiotic has saved countless individuals who would otherwise have died from various forms of disease.
         4. So there you are in bed, deathly ill from a disease.
         5. And on your bedside table is a bottle of penicillin prescribed to you by your physician.
         6. What are your options? McGrath asks.
            1. You may accept that this bottle of penicillin exists.
            2. You may trust that it is capable of curing your illness, which otherwise will probably kill you.
            3. BUT YOU WILL NEVER CURE YOUR DISEASE, UNLESS you act upon that trust and take the penicillin.
         7. If you do not, you will die, accepting and trusting but having failed to benefit at all from the resource that could have saved you!
   10. When Paul answers the jailer's cry with the invitation, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, he is describing much more than an intellectual assent--Paul is inviting that man to a deeply personal trust in Jesus that embraces Him for Who His is, the Savior of this world."Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, have faith in Him, and you will be saved."
       1. Illus: The essence of the three levels of faith can be summed up in this easy to remember acronym: [on screen]

          	Forsaking
          	All
          	I
          	Take
          	Him
          

       2. No other Name, no other Savior, no other Way--I accept Jesus Christ as my only hope and salvation.
   11. And what is God's promise when you do? John 3:16--though we've been to it often already, we must read it again tonight (p 1027).
       1. There it is, my friends, that is what God's gift of salvation is all about!
       2. What the human race has been longing for from the very beginning-- eternal life--living on and on in peaceful joy and happiness and security--with this God who is not Somebody to be afraid of, but Someone to be a friend of.
       3. Life forever with this God of love who offers a FOREVER FRIENDSHIP with all who reach out to Jesus as their personal Savior.
       4. Salvation is promised to all who trust their lives to the God who came to us in Jesus Christ.
       5. Because the truth of the spotted leopard is still true: We can't change ourselves, we can't save ourselves.
          1. We're doomed without a Savior!
          2. We need Someone who will rescue us from death and rebuild us from scratch.
       6. Illus: Jesus is right--here in John 3:6,7--we need to be born again!
          1. But that's just it--we can no more save ourselves than we can birth ourselves.
          2. Just like to took someone else to birth you into life the first time, it takes Someone else to birth you into life the second time.
          3. A Savior who can birth you into everlasting life!
       7. Reread John 3:16.
       8. That is what it means to "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved."
       9. You don't need a choir singing when you make that decision--the jailer didn't.
       10. It's a decision you can make right now in the silence of your own soul.
       11. "Faith"--Forsaking All I Take Him.
       12. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved."
3. Three times we hear this dramatic question escape from the lips of a desperate seeker--What must I do to be saved?
   1. We heard it in the story of the midnight jailer.
   2. We hear it now in the story of the fisherman preacher--for that one go back to the beginning of Acts, chapter 2 (p 1053).
      1. This isn't a long story, but its dramatic ending expands our understanding of the answer to, What must I do to be saved?
      2. It's the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem--and the small new infant Christian church has been set ablaze--and people are running from all over Jerusalem to see for themselves this wildfire rumor!
      3. And no sooner had a crowd of over 3000 gathered, than the big fisherman Peter stood up and began to tell the story of Jesus!
      4. Read Acts 2:22-24, 36-37.
      5. There it is again--the most critical question a human can ask: What must I do, what must we do to be saved?
      6. Quick is Peter's answer that must now be placed along side the one we've already heard from Paul--read v. 38,39.
      7. WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED? Peter answers, REPENT and be BAPTIZED!
   3. And what does it mean to repent?
      1. Very simply, it means to confess and forsake your sins.
      2. Illus: It means to say "I'm truly sorry--after I snap a cutting or cruel remark at Karen, in my egotistical thoughtlessness, and I finally realize that I've wounded her--to repent means to go to her and confess, "I hurt you and I'm sorry."
      3. To repent means to confess my sin.
      4. And what is sin? We shared it in our lecture just a few evenings ago.
         1. "Sin is lawlessness"--anything which hurts or wounds or breaks my relationship with someone else or my relationship with God.
         2. Sin misses the mark of Love's ideal!
         3. In fact, the original word for "sin" in both the Hebrew and Greek of the Bible literally means "to miss the mark."
      5. Illus: Let me share with you a very sad story I read in the newspaper in Madras, India, when I was there a few years ago.
         1. According to police the boy was cutting leaves off of an egg-plant to feed his own goat.
         2. Suddenly, he noticed that his neighbor's goat had wandered into his yard and was feeding on his own egg plant.
         3. In a fit of anger, the boy flung the knife in his hand at the trespassing goat.
         4. But alas, the knife missed its mark and instead struck his little sister who was standing nearby.
         5. Rushed to the hospital, she died before they could save her.
         6. He killed his sister when he missed the mark!
      6. That's what sin does--it misses the mark--and wounds an innocent bystander!
      7. Our sins--words we say, thoughts we think, actions we take that miss the mark and wound our family and wound our friends and wound our neighbors and our colleagues!
      8. Why our sins miss the mark and even wound our own bodies and our own minds and our own selves.
      9. But there was one other innocent Bystander we mortally wounded when we flung our knife of sin.
         1. The same Peter that preached at Pentecost wrote these words that leave no doubt as to Who that was!
         2. [show screen] I Peter 2:24--"[Christ] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed."
         3. And remember this line? "The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6
      10. To repent then means to confess and admit that MY sins, my missing the mark, were what caused Jesus' death.
   4. But REPENTANCE isn't only about bad news--there is some very good news that comes with our repentance: you must read it for yourself here in I John 1:9 (p 1168).
      1. Just like that, God's offers us forgiveness, full and free!
      2. Do you know why? Because, good news--God is a forgiver by nature!
      3. Illus: Being born in Japan, I had the opportunity to travel around the world twice on an ocean liner.
         1. And I will never forget that early morning when my father quietly awakened me.
         2. The mighty ship engines were stilled--the boat had stopped in mid ocean.
         3. We headed up to the main deck and there we witnessed the reason.
         4. A flag-draped coffin was lying atop a small wooden platform.
         5. The chaplain and a few passengers stood silently.
         6. Some words were spoken, and then the wooden platform tipped.
         7. And the casket slowly slid off the platform and fell with a distant splash into the ocean depths below.
         8. We had just witnessed a burial at sea!
         9. That is the very imagery that God uses to describe what He will do with every sin we bring to Him in confession and repentance!
         10. [show screen] Micah 7:19 is wonderful news! "[You] will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."
         11. Good news! Our repentance is instantly met by His forgiveness, as He takes the sins we've confessed and buries them at sea, never to bring them up to us again!
         12. Listen, friend--if God is willing to bury the past, shouldn't you be willing to do the same? (For yourself and for others, too!)
   5. WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? Paul in the midnight answers, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!"--Peter at noonday answers, "Repent and be baptized and you will be saved!"
      1. The whole world has heard of baptism, since nearly every major religion practices it in some form.
      2. In fact, so important is baptism that we'll devote an entire lecture to it later on, since so many are confused about this vital subject.
4. Three times in Scripture we hear the cry escape from the lips of a desperate seeker-- What must I do to be saved?
   1. We heard it in the story of the midnight jailer.
   2. We heard it in the story of the fisherman preacher.
   3. And finally we hear it in the story of the rich young ruler.
      1. Read the story of this wealthy young ruler who came up running up to Jesus one day with the most critical question any human being can ask!
      2. Matthew 19 (p 954).
      3. In the composite portrait assembled from the accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke it emerges that he was a young man, who was very wealthy and who was a leader in his community.
      4. Read Matthew 19:16.
      5. There it is for the third time--the pressing query: WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED AND LIVE FOREVER?
      6. Who better to ask than Jesus, who is ready with His answer--v 17.
         1. You want to be saved? Keep the commandments.
         2. Are you surprised at His answer? Not when we remember who the Lawgiver is and what His Law has always stood for--the preservation of every meaningful relationship in a human's life--our friendship with God and our friendship with one another.
      7. But the young man isn't sure--Which Law? he shoots back.
      8. And again Jesus is unequivocal--read vv. 18,19--i.e., the Ten Commandment Law.
      9. Read vv. 20-22.
      10. He already had a god, and so he chose not to obey and follow Jesus.
   4. Sad, isn't it? The young man who had everything lost it all, all because he wasn't willing to give up his god and follow Jesus.
      1. Because in the end life becomes the choice of who it is you will follow.
      2. You can't have two saviors, two gods or two masters.
      3. You must choose whom you will follow and obey.
      4. Not to choose is to choose.
      5. Which is why the passionate appeal of this Book from beginning to end always comes down to God's earnest, friendly, loving invitation to choose His gift of salvation and friendship for every seeking heart.
5. "What must I do to be saved?"
   1. Three times we have heard the question asked tonight--and three times we have heard the question answered.
      1. To the midnight jailer quick is the assurance, BELIEVE IN JESUS your salvation.
      2. To the Jerusalem crowd quick is the response, CONFESS TO JESUS your sins.
      3. And to the rich, young ruler quick comes the answer, FOLLOW JESUS your Savior.....by obedience to the commandments of God.
   2. You can see that at the heart of all three is the gift of Jesus--from the heart of a loving God who at Calvary stretched out His arms to offer all of us the embrace of His eternal friendship through Jesus Christ.
   3. A FOREVER FRIENDSHIP WRAPPED UP IN THE GIFT OF JESUS.
   4. No wonder, near the end of this Book, we find this stunning offer with which I close tonight--I John 5:11-13 (p 1171).
      1. She who has the Son has life.
      2. He who does not have the Son does not have life.
      3. For to NOT have Jesus is pull the plug on your LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM.
      4. In the end, the truth is that simple.
   5. Illus: I shall never forget that moment as long as I live....the moment when my friend Norm Truby died.
      1. The last time I saw Norm before conducting his funeral, he was hooked up to a life support system.
      2. It was only supposed to be a fairly routine open heart surgery--if open heart surgeries can be called routine these days.
      3. But the surgeon ran into grave complications.
      4. And when Norm come out of surgery, he didn't regain consciousness.
      5. His wife Alice and their three children kept up a vigil by his ICU bedside.
      6. But the numbing moment came when the doctors gathered the family and informed them that there was no brain wave signal for husband and father; he was being kept alive by the respirator.
      7. My phone rang, and on the other end, Alice's brave voice, asking if I would come back down to the hospital, the doctors had bad news, and the family needed to make the decision.
      8. I hurried back down and soon joined the four of them.
      9. Hours went by before they could bring themselves to the inevitable decision, but finally after much prayer they informed the physicians that they would accept medical counsel and disconnect the life support system.
      10. It was one of the most tender and sacred moments I have ever witnessed, gathered with Norm's family about his bed.
      11. The final good-byes were whispered, the technician was summoned.
      12. And then the family reached out to clasp hands, drawing me into their circle, as they began to quietly sing of their trusting faith in their Savior.
      13. And as we sang, nurses gathered around, and the technician bent over the respirator and finding the switch, switched it off.
      14. And for a split second hope leaped as Norm seemed to breathe on his own.
      15. But it was only a breath, and soon he lay quiet, his life ebbed away.
   6. Why could they sing, these who loved him most? Because they knew him best, and knew that in his friendship with Jesus Norm had found a Savior who even in death could yet promise life.
   7. You see, it is true: "He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."
   8. Do you have the hope of eternal life tonight, even in the face of death? If not, you will never have a more opportune moment than right now to choose life to reach out to Jesus and accept Him as your personal Savior, your God and your Friend.

Further Study:

A Second Chance At Life     (Lecture Study Guide from Discover Bible School)

Topical:   Salvation,   Love.

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