Ray Comfort

God is the God of every atheist, but he's not their Lord.

Lord means supreme of the universe, the one to whom we owe allegiance.

I am the Lord, your God.

We see genuine conversion in Thomas where he knelt before Jesus and said, my Lord and my God.

And it's so important to realize that

Scripture says when we come to Christ, we acknowledge him as Lord of our lives.

We have a Gethsemane experience where we sweat drops of blood and repentance and say, not my will but yours be done.

So being a Christian is not just a matter of believing in Jesus.

There are multitudes who believe in Jesus but have never obeyed him.

He said, why do you call me Lord and do not the things that I tell you?

And the reason they sit amongst God's people with that false sense of assurance is they've never passed through the straight gate.

Jesus said, straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life.

Here there be a finder.

And then he said this, broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go in that way.

That go in is a way of entry.

That's the way of entry of a false conversion.

Remember the man who built his house on rock and the man who built his house on sand?

Both had the same storms.

The man who built his house on rock was those that obeyed the teachings of Jesus.

The man on