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You Must Be Saved _ Tyler Gaulden
July 10, 2026 · 31 min
Brothers and sisters, a pastor's plea: every promise and sacrifice points to Jesus. Believe in Him and receive everlasting life through God's perfect love.
Series Video Sermons with Pastor Tyler Gaulden July 10, 2026 · 31 min · Video Sermons with Pastor Tyler Gaulden
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Drawn to the Savior: Shadows of Christ 0:00 Well, praise the Lord. I want you to take your bibles and go to the 3rd chapter of the book of John this morning. And if a man can't preach after that, he probably is0:12 not called. A man that wants to preach after that ought to be ashamed. Everybody has just done such a fantastic job today. All of0:24 our teachers, all of our workers, the choir, the music, but it's all been about this 1 time, this 1 thing, and that is drawing you to this place.0:36 Brothers and sisters, if I had but 1 message left, if I got the word from the doctor that my time would be up today at 12 o'clock, and Tyler, you0:48 could only preach 1 message. With the election coming up Tuesday, I wouldn't talk about that. With the judgment that was looming upon our land, I wouldn't talk about that.1:00 With husbands and wives struggling and battling, I wouldn't talk about that. I talk about 3 verses in the book of John chapter number 3, and I would talk to you about the1:12 love of God. The book of John chapter number 3 and verse number 16, for God so loved the world1:24 that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the1:36 world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth on him is condemned1:48 already because he have not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. If you're here this morning, you have picked a good Sunday to come.2:00 I will not preach long because this morning at 7 0 5, I realized I had deleted my entire sermon off of my computer. Every illustration, every note, every point, every sub2:12 point, every medium point is all gone. So this morning, I'm gonna give you something so fast, somebody tell them to heat up the hog, we're having barbecue sooner than we thought. I would talk to you this morning about2:24 the love of Jesus Christ. When we come to John chapter number 3, our beloved savior is down probably around the Garden of Gethsemane. He has been up in the temple mount. He has looked at all of2:36 the buildings of the temple, and he has looked at every single 1 of them. And the people look at him and say, Jesus, don't you know that Solomon took him 7 years to construct all of this? And then when Herod the great2:48 renovated that which Nebuchadnezzar and Zerubbabel built, It took him over 38 years. Jesus put his hands on his hips. He looked around at all the magnificent buildings, and he made this statement in John chapter3:00 number 2. He said, you destroy this temple, and in 3 days, I will raise it up again. They looked at him and said, you're crazy. Ain't no way you can build and raise this temple up in 3 different days, but John3:12 made this statement. He said he was not speaking about the buildings that were there. He was referring to the building of his body. You see, everything up into that point was3:24 all pointing to 1 person. Every lamb sacrificed in the old testament was about 1 person. Every type and tip typified thing in the old testament, it was about 1 person. When3:36 Adam fled out of the garden covered in the skin of that sacrifice lamb, it was about Jesus Christ. Whenever Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness and then looking and living by looking at that serpent,3:48 that was about Jesus Christ. When David reached into his little bag, pulled out 1 rock, put 4 more inside of his pouch, put that rock inside of his sling, slung that little stone. It was that little3:59 stone pointing to the 1 that would come and would slay. It was about Jesus Christ. When Solomon knelt down after building the magnificent temple and the cloud of glory came out of heaven and4:11 engulfed the entire temple complex and the priest and those around them could not minister, that was pointing to 1 person and that was Jesus Christ. Whenever brother Elijah stood up on top of Mount Carmel4:23 and with a 63 word Hebrew prayer, fire came out of heaven. That was a picture of the lord Jesus Christ. When Elijah as a dead man and his bones inside of the grave and a Syrian comes by thrown inside of4:35 the same grave, whenever that dead Syrian hit the bones of that dead man, that was pointing to 1 man's death and 1 man's burial, and that through the death and the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ that we4:46 might all have that was all about Jesus Christ. Nicodemus in chapter number 3, honey, he's heard about all those things and his mind is wondering, what is it about this Nazarene? What is4:58 it about this man from Galilee? What is it about the 1 that was born of this so called virgin in Bethlehem? What is this that I'm hearing about him healing the multitudes and feeding the5:10 5000? What is this so Nicodemus that wise Jewish ruler goes down in secret by night? He gets down. Jesus is warming himself by the fire in the Garden of Gethsemane. And Nicodemus5:22 looks at him and says, lord, we know you are a teacher. We know that you are a rabbi. We know that you are a holy man of god for no man can do the things that you do except he be sent5:34 from God. Now had Jesus been a Tennessee redneck, he'd just cut right in and said, I'm him, baby. I'm the 1 you've been looking for all your time. But Jesus does not do that. He takes him around5:46 a little bit, and he starts to give to him a little synopsis of salvation. He says, don't you know that which is born of water is water, but that which is born of the spirit5:58 is the spirit. I imagine Nicodemus probably step back and said, I'm not 100 percent sure what you're talking about, Lord. He says, you know, when you come forth from a woman, you are born the 1st time, but6:10 you must be born again if you ever expect to enter into the kingdom of God. Nicodemus says, wait a 2nd, how can a man enter into his mother's womb a6:22 2nd time and be born again? He said, Nicodemus. He said, you're born of water the 1st time, but you are born of the spirit the 2nd time. And Nicodemus says, how6:34 can this be, Lord? He looks at him and he says, Nicodemus, don't you know that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him. Nicodemus, you're6:46 trying to figure out with your physical mind how you can have a spiritual birth. He said it's not by the physical things of this life that a man or woman enters into heaven. Brothers and sisters,6:58 we have gathered into a new day and a new time, but man is still trying to fix old problems with old solutions. And they're thinking, you know what? We can solve all of the tempest in7:10 our soul with the things of this world and the intricacies of this world and the dimes and the dollars of this world. Those can bring me some spiritual relief. And so man is trying to fix7:21 spiritual problems with physical solutions. Don't look at me like that. You're still doing the same thing I used to do for 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year old, 5 year olds, all the way up till I was 60. I thought I could7:32 fill it with all the things of this life, hoping that I could earn my salvation with the things of this world. And it was not until that day at the back of the Van Baptist Church, 2 and a half rows from7:44 the back. You say, why 2 and a half? Because I can't remember if I was on the 3rd row from the back or the 2nd row from the back, so I'm gonna split the middle and say I was 2 and a half rows back. And whenever that old7:53 preacher man, he was preaching that day, and with that long finger came off of that pulpit, it taught me right on the tip of the nose. And it was like the holy ghost turned my eyes on and the light click that I8:05 was trying to do things my way. But there's only 1 way to get to heaven, and that is going God's way. Brothers and sisters, just like Nicodemus, you may have come for 1000 different reasons this morning,8:16 but Jesus Christ, I hate to tell you, but you've been set up this morning. Somebody may have invited you because you ain't been here in a while, or they may have told you how about lunch, or they may have been trying to8:26 get you've been set up today. You've been lassoed by the love of Jesus Christ, and you've been wrangled by the Holy Ghost, and we done pegged you up in the middle of that row. You ain't going8:38 nowhere, Jack, until we get done because I done told the people beside you. Don't let them up. If they say they gotta go to the bathroom, hand them a pair of Pampers in the name of the lord Jesus. Here's what I'm telling8:50 you. I've got 3 things. Verse 16, verse 17, and verse number 18. The 1st thing that I wanna give to you this morning in verse number 16, we have in verse 16 what I call the pathos ofThe Pathos of God: Unconditional Love for All 9:02 God. Watch what he says. For God so loved the world that he gave. Wanna give you 3 definitions of 3 different Greek words9:14 in verse number 16 because until you understand these 3 different words, you won't understand the heart of the creator. The 1st word the Bible says, for9:26 God so loved. That word love, it's not the kind of shallow love you and I are used to. It is a Greek word and I want you to put this in your spirit. It is the9:38 highest form of love, we call it agape love. It's unconditional love. It's the kind of love that never changes no9:50 matter what. No matter what somebody does, the level of love never changes. Now you say, well, I I've done this right. No. You gotta keep going because there's10:02 a 2nd word I want you to write down. It's the word for world. Whenever you look up the word world in the Greek, it is a Greek word which literally means the10:14 whole of mankind. For God had unconditional love for the whole of man. Tennessee10:25 redneck, you ready? Everybody. Every white, every black, every male, every female, every rich, every poor, everybody that's a republican,10:38 everybody that's a democrat, everybody that's unaffiliated, everybody that went to a church over here, everybody that went to a church over there, even the people that believe in him and even the people that don't10:49 believe in him, his unconditional love has been showered upon the entire world. And watch what it says, for God11:01 unconditionally loved all of us, what did he do? He gave. That Greek word gave, it literally means to grant11:13 someone something even when they didn't ask for it. Brothers and sisters, when you take all of those words together and their meaning, here's what verse number 1611:25 literally means to look inside of the heart of God. For God unconditionally loved everybody that had ever messed up, that had ever run away from him, that11:37 had ever been an adulterer, had ever been a fornicator, had ever been a drunk, had ever been a murderer, had ever been a homosexual, had ever been a cross dresser, has ever been somebody11:49 that transgendered and moved. For God so loved every single person that had ever been alienated and what we've done, if we have rubbed up the gospel so much that it only12:01 applies to a certain group of people that hit a certain level in society. What you've got to understand is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not a level that it hits.12:12 You see, son, it goes all the way down to the very bottom of society. It goes down to those that hate God, deny God, reject God, run from God, don't wanna have anything12:24 to do with God, the husband that doesn't care and the wife that doesn't care and the child that doesn't care and the teenager that doesn't care and the college student that doesn't care. God says, let me unveil my heart12:36 to you. I love you even when you don't love me. I love you even when you don't care about me. I love you even when you don't go looking for me. I'm gonna give you something even though you didn't ask for it.12:48 Heard a story about a shepherd leading his sheep along. And he got to a river that was raging, and the shepherd turned to the sheep and he made the call to the sheep that they were to follow13:00 him to the other side. And that shepherd got down in the water and he trudged down low, the water rose to his knees and it rose to his waist, and finally it rose13:12 to his chest. The shepherd got to the other side, want to see what kind of progress the sheep made. And when he turned around, they hadn't even begun the journey.13:25 They were on the other side of the river. And in that moment, the shepherd realized, the only way the sheep were ever gonna get to where I'm at is if I go back to where they are13:37 and carry them over myself. And so that shepherd, he made his way through the raging river. He made his way through the jagged rocks. All the rocks cut in the bottom of his feet and the rapid trying to13:49 take him over and he went to 1 side and he picked a sheep up, put it on his shoulders and he made his way through the river, made his way through the rapids and he got to the other side and he set the sheep14:01 down and 1 by 1, he went to where the sheep were and picked the sheep up that were unable to cross the river, and he put them on his shoulders and carried them to the other side. That's exactly14:13 what old time holy ghost salvation is. That is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. You couldn't get to where he was, so god sent his only son to come down to where you are. That's why he14:25 I don't care where you're from. I don't care if you're from Lebanon or Lebanon. I don't care if you're from Mount Juliet. I don't care if you're from Nashville. I don't care. I was down in a place yesterday that was14:36 called Reedyville. I don't care where you're from. Reedyville. Reedyville. Reedyville. It don't matter where you're from. What you need to realize is I may not know where you're at. Your mama may not know where you're14:45 at. Your papa may not know where you're at. You may be hiding every sin from Danubeir Sheba, but there is a God in the other world that knows who you are, and he sent his only son just for14:57 you. You didn't even want him and he came a hunting you. You didn't even desire him. That's the heart of God he loves. Number15:09 2, in verse number 17 verse 16, we see the pathos of God. In verse number 2, we or verse number 17, the 2nd thing we see the payment for15:21 salvation. You come to verse number 17 and in verse 16, it tells us my heart is to see people saved. But in verse 17, we15:32 realize what it's gonna cost in order for us to be saved. Watch what he says in verse 17, for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the15:44 world, but that the world through him might be saved. I want you to circle in verse number 17 the word sent.15:57 The word sent is a Greek word which literally means to dispatch on a mission. What Jesus tells Nicodemus, heThe Payment: Sent to Save Sinners 16:09 said, god dispatched me on a mission. What was that mission? The mission that16:20 Jesus was sent on was to save sinners who could not save themselves. Jesus didn't come on an errand.16:32 Jesus didn't come on a hope it works out mission. Jesus came to earth to save sinners, and as Paul said, I am chief.16:44 You say, why did God have to send Jesus to save sinners? That is a simple and the shortest point of this whole sermon. Here's why God sent the Lord Jesus16:56 to save sinners because sinners could not save themselves. You and I have tried since the day we were born to earn our way into heaven, but Jesus knew our17:08 religion could not put us in heaven. Can I help you? And this may blow up some some theology, and I might even talk myself out of a job. But, you know, 1000000 people can join a Baptist church, but 1000000 people will17:20 die and go to hell with Baptist on their name. Methodist, you can have a Methodist term, you'll still die and go to hell. You can have a Lutheran term, you can still die and go to hell. You can have a a Pentecostal term,17:31 you can still die and go to hell. You can talk in tongues. You can go over there and be baptized. You can heal 5000 people, but not 1 single 1 of those things will put you inside of the pearly gates17:43 of God's glorious city. Do you know why? Because God had to send his son because we could not save ourselves. You can be baptized so many times, we call17:55 you tadpole or we think you grow gills and be like Moby Dick. Pools and baptisms won't save anybody. We can write your name on 1000 certificates. We can post your name on18:06 every brick that we put in a building, but none of those things will save your soul. And God the father knew that. That's why he sent his only begotten son. Brothers and sisters, I love18:18 candy. Only kind of candy I really do like though are Reese's peanut butter cups. I don't like anything with the peanuts in them. I don't like that nougat where that stuff gets all crammed up in your teeth. I like that18:28 peanut butter cup. You heard that story though the other night about that family went out trick or treating. Little girl went trick or treating with their mama, and they walked up to the big house, the18:40 big house in the neighborhood, and they knocked on the door. And the doctor in town was he was huge. He was the scariest man18:52 because of how big he was. Little girl backed up, scared to death. The mama said, go on, get you some candy baby. The doctor said, come on child, here take some19:04 candy. She wouldn't do it. The mama said, baby, it's okay. Just reach your hand in the bucket, pick you some candy and put it in your bag. The little girl wouldn't do it.19:16 She looked at the doctor and said, you do it. So he reached his hand in there, grabbed a handful of candy, and put it in her bucket, and she walked back. The mother was19:27 mortified, mortified. She got to the end of his driveway. She said, baby, I told you to reach your hand in that bucket. Why didn't you reach your hand in that19:39 bucket? Why'd you make him reach his hand in that bucket to get your candy? Little girl said, his hands were bigger. If that19:51 candy is salvation, the reason God sent his son is because God's hand is a lot bigger than my hand, and my little hand will reach in there for all of eternity and try to grab20:03 out the coins of salvation. And when I get to heaven, I'll still be short. But whenever the darling son of God was born that day in Bethlehem, in a virgin's womb, he lived 3320:15 and 1 half years of sinless living, holy living, righteous living, pure living, not 1 vile fault, not 1 vile sight, not 1 vile word, not 1 vile sound, not 1 vile20:27 action, not 1 vile steps. He was the sinless, the holy, the perfect, the righteous, the eternal, the matchless, the all in all son of the living God. But that day, he was20:38 betrayed by his own disciple. He was marched to that place called Pilate's Hall. He was platted with a crown of thorns. He was laid with a scarlet robe and he was put a20:50 33 and a half pound crossbar. He was marched along what we call the Via Dolorosa. And as he made his way to the final station, he marched up Calvary's hill. And as he got to the top of that21:02 hill, they laid the body of omnipotence. They laid the body of sovereignty. They laid the body of the righteous lamb of God on that cross, and they lifted up the son of God.21:13 And that day, the rose of Sharon was lifted up on that cow on Calvary's hill, and there he hung between heaven and earth. Do you know why Jesus died? Because God sent him to21:25 die. Do you know why God sent him to die? Because if he did not die on that cross, we would forever have to die in hell forever and forever. But that day, 7 cries came21:37 out from the cross. And finally, that last cry came out from the cross as he looked up to the heavens. And with 1 word, he cried, it is finished. He bowed his head. The chin of holiness hit the chest of omnipotence,21:49 and he gave up the ghost. Honey, Joseph of Arimathea came and took his body. They lowered it down. Those precious women, they anointed his body with myrrh and with aloes, and they drip their tears. Those22:01 hot tears of love, those hot tears of sorrow, those hot tears of all of the regret, and they wrapped his body. They picked up the body, and they began that Jewish funeral dirge as they22:13 made their way from the Calvary Hill all the way over to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. They took the body of the dead savior and they laid it down on that stone tomb and they22:25 walked out. And what they did not realize is there was 4 guards, Roman men. They rolled that stone over the mouth of that grave, and they sealed it with that Roman seal. And those men stood22:37 watch. On day 1, the disciples are scattered. On day 2, the disciples are in fear, but something began to happen. On that 3rd morning, on that 1st day of the week at the rising of22:49 the sun. As the sun began to crest the hills over top of the Galilee, all of a sudden, the lights began to shine. And what they realize is that stone had already been rolled away. You23:01 say what happened sometime in the middle of the night, the holy ghost of God, he went inside of that tomb, and he gave the Lord Jesus a wake up call, and he got Romans 8. He got23:12 resurrected that day. Here's what the Bible says, as he moved that stone out of the way, light began to burst forth and they realized that day, he's alive, he's alive, he's alive, he's alive, he's alive. He23:24 lived 40 days on this earth. 10 days after the holy ghost was sent down. And for the last 2000 years, men and women, boys and girls have been hearing the glorious story that there is a living23:36 savior. There is a breathing savior, and he's at the right hand of God the father. And he did not die just for me, he died for you, and he died for you, and he died for you, and he died for your kids, and he died23:48 for your children, and he died for your family, and he died for this nation, and he died for the white, the black, the red, the purple, the homosexual, the transgender, the rejecter, the atheist, the agnostic, the23:58 baptist, the math, the he died for all men and he desires it all be born again. You must be born again. Beloved, youThe Predicament: Believe or Already Condemned 24:10 must be born again. You must be born again. But we gotta go to verse 18, because after we get24:22 past the payment of salvation, and after we hear the heart of God, in verse number 18, we see 3rd of all, there is a predicament that man is in.24:35 There is this predicament that humanity now finds itself in. Watch what verse 18 says, It says, he that believeth on him is24:47 not condemned. Let me put that in just as simple English as I can. If you've been saved, you're gonna make it. If you put your faith in Christ, you're gonna make24:59 it. It doesn't matter what happens, it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter where you go, you are not condemned, that's not the predicament. There is a twofold predicament that man now finds25:10 himself in. The 1st predicament, it says, but he that believeth not is condemned already. What's my predict what do you mean I'm in25:22 a predicament? Well, I need to talk to you this morning about those of you that don't even know if you've ever been saved. And I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about you and what you have done with the Lord25:34 Jesus. You've got a twofold predicament. Number 1, the 1st thing you have to overcome is the easiness of salvation. Watch what it says, he that believeth.25:48 What do I have to do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put your faith, be persuaded that he is who he said that he is.26:00 Lean on him, throw your weight to him, turn us you say, but that seems too easy. It's so easy, so many people are gonna die and go to hell because they're unwilling to do it.26:12 How can something that easy change my eternity? I ain't got no idea. That's just what the book says. Believe.26:25 So, well, I know I've gotta probably join the church. Billy Graham said it like this. He said, if you constantly try to figure out God, you'll never trust26:37 him for salvation. People will say, well, I don't know everything about the Bible. He didn't say you had to know everything about the Bible. He said, you had to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, well, there'll26:47 be people that'll say, well, I've gotta get my life right before I get he said, you you don't have to get your life right. He says it doesn't he says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and all that other stuff comes along26:59 after you believe. The problem is every man, woman, boy, girl, angel, and demon will believe 1 day. Unfortunately,27:10 for some it will be too late because there's a 2nd predicament that man finds themselves in. If you can ever get over the ease of salvation or maybe you won't, the 2nd predicament27:22 you find yourself in is that if you don't believe, you are already under the judgment of God. Watch what it says, he that believeth is27:34 not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already. You know what Jesus said? He said to those27:46 people that refuse to believe the condemnation of hell, it's as if you're already there. You know hell wasn't created for not not a person in this room.27:59 Hell was not created for 1 single person under the sound of my, the Lord created hell for the devil and his angels that reject it. But28:11 to those who refuse to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, he said, I will treat you for all eternity as if you were the devil himself.28:24 I began thinking this week, I got to process what keeps people from getting saved. Well number 1, the 1st thing that really keeps people from getting saved is they don't understand the whole thing. Don't worry about28:36 understanding the whole thing. Believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, and that believing on him you might have life for us, you take care of that and the Holy Ghost will take care of the rest.28:48 But I have found in the good old United States of America, supposed Christian nation, the 1 thing that keeps us from truly turning it over to29:00 God is our fear of being rejected by other people. I'm afraid that if I do this, what will so and so think29:12 about me? If I do this, what are they gonna think of me? Well, g Campbell Morgan was enrolling to get into seminary knowing he29:24 didn't have great credentials, but knowing that God had called him, he put in his application anyways and he waited and he waited and he waited. Finally,29:36 the letter came back to him. And in the letter it simply said, we hate to inform you, mister Morgan, but we will not be taking you into29:48 seminary this coming semester. Gcambe Morgan, the great preacher of the Westminster Chapel was so shattered, he wrote a telegram to his father30:00 with 1 word, rejected. Rejected. 2 days later, he received a return telegram30:12 from his daddy and his father wrote back and simply said this, rejected on earth but accepted in30:24 heaven. Beloved, I remind you this morning, I would rather be rejected in this life by these people, but have my name recorded in heaven30:36 and let the angels of God rejoice with me and be accepted in the presence of God. And so I tell you right now, to be rejected on earth30:48 is to be accepted in heaven. Let's bow our heads right quickly this morning.In this video 0:00 Drawn to the Savior: Shadows of Christ9:00 The Pathos of God: Unconditional Love for All16:00 The Payment: Sent to Save Sinners24:00 The Predicament: Believe or Already Condemned
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