INTRODUCTION:

A.      DEFINITION: CALL or CALLING.  “to summon to a specific duty, profession, etc…

          An inner urging toward some profession or activity.

B.      THE PROMISE OF THE REMISSION OF SINS IS TO ALL THAT GOD CALLS

          ( Acts 2:38-39 ).

C.      HOW DOES GOD CALL? ( John 6:44-45;  2 Thess. 2:14 ).

D.      IN THIS LESSON WE WANT TO DISCUSS “VOICES THAT CALL.”

I.      THE GOSPEL CALL ( 2 Thess. 2:14 ).

A.      THE GOSPEL IS THE POWER GOD USES TO SAVE US( Rom. 1:16-17 ).

B.      OBEDIENCE TO THE GOSPEL RESULTS IN SALVATION( Heb. 5:8-9 ).

C.      THIS CALL IS FOR ALL( 1 Tim. 2:3-4 ).

II.     THE CALL TO BE FAITHFUL.

A.      WE ARE CALLED TO THIS PURPOSE ( 1 Cor. 1:2 ) – Saints.

          1.       Separate from something( 2 Cor. 7:1 ).

          2.       Separate to something ( 1 Pet. 1:2 ).

B.      JESUS SAID, MANY ARE CALLED … ( Matt. 22:14;  7:13-14 ).

C.      ONLY THE FAITHFUL WILL BE SAVED ( Rev. 2:10;  Matt. 10:22 ).

III.    THE CALL OF THE WORLD( 1 John 2:15-17 ).

A.      CONTRAST MOSES AND DEMAS ( Heb. 11:24-27;  2 Tim. 4:10 ).

B.      “MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE, CONSENT NOT”( Prov. 1:10 ).

IV.   THE CALL OF THE CONSCIENCE.

A.      BEWARE THAT THE CONSCIENCE ISN’T VIOLATED

          ( Rom. 14:23;  1 John 3:20-21 ).

B.      THE CONSCIENCE MUST BE EDUCATED ( Acts 23:1;  26:9-10 ).

V.    THE CALL OF DEATH.

A.      THO ALL HAVE TRIED, NONE HAVE ESCAPED( Ecc. 8:8;  12:7 ).

B.      NO ONE KNOWS WHEN( Psa. 90:10-12;  James 4:14 ).

C.      GOD HASN’T PROMISED YOU ANOTHER MINUTE!

D.      DEATH CAN BE GAIN!( Phil. 1:21-23 ).

E.      IF OUR GOALS HAVE BEEN WORLDLY, IT CAN SPELL DOOM( 1 Tim. 6:7 ).

VI.   THE CALL TO JUDGMENT.

A.      ALL WILL ANSWER THIS CALL( John 5:28-29;  2 Cor. 5:10 ).

B.      IF WE DON’T ANSWER THE GOSPEL CALL( 2 Thess. 1:7-9 )

C.      EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS

          ( Rom. 14:10-12 ).

D.      WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO ABOUT IT? ( Acts 17:30-31 ).

CONCLUSION:  WILL YOU NOT ANSWER THE GOSPEL CALL?