A pastor describes a young mother killed in a car accident to argue that life ends without warning. He outlines three steps to salvation: repent of sin, receive Jesus by faith as Savior and Lord, and commit to obey Him completely, using the metaphor of putting Jesus in the cockpit of your life.
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A friend of ours this morning was driving, and he came up over a hill, and he was going very slowly, and he had his wife and his daughter with him. And a man wasn't familiar with that particular territory, and he came over the hill and he hit the side of their car. And by the time she got to the hospital, she was dead. Never dreaming this morning when they got up, a happy little family, that she would be gone before noon. How quickly it all happens. Come when when you can. Come to Christ when you have a chance. We don't know that we'll be alive tomorrow. This is Election Day. You're going to vote either for Jesus Christ or you're going to vote for the devil. You say, what do I have to do? 3 things. First, you must repent of sin, and the Holy Spirit has to help you in your repenting. And then the second thing is, by faith, you receive Jesus Christ who died for you on the cross, by faith, as your Savior and Lord and Master. And then thirdly, you are willing to obey him in and all the little things that he'll speak to you about and teach you out of his word. You must be willing to say yes to all that. You must be willing to turn your life over to him, and he becomes the master. He becomes the pilot of your boat or the captain of your airline. You're like a plane going through the sky, and all of a sudden the bomb will come, the destruction will come, unless you let Jesus in the cockpit. Turn your life over to him.