We have a special message today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is issuing an earnest call to the almost Christian.

Might that include you?

We'll find out what he means by the term as we consider the necessity,

clarity, and urgency of the Gospel of Salvation. We're looking today at verses 9 and 10 in

Romans chapter 10.

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,

you will be saved, for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,

and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Life is made up for every single one of us here this morning of a number of decisions.

Some of them are immediate and immediately important.

Some of them we may take time to and they are of long-lasting significance. But on the

authority of God's word, there is no decision that any of us could ever be called to make,

that could ever be such an important decision, that it would alter the whole course of our human

history, and beyond that, whole course of our human history and beyond that the matter

of our eternal destiny. And it is my purpose this morning to address myself to this whole matter

of what it means to commit our lives to Jesus Christ. And I would like to address myself primarily to

issuing a call to those whom I may describe as the almost Christians. These individuals are

acquainted with the gospel. They have heard it many times. They could even reiterate it to others. They find it

to be interesting. They may even find it to be intellectually stimulating. They regard it as something

that they may listen to and perhaps enjoy, even though from time to time, it may be a wee bit troubling.

They are those who realize that there is comfort and consolation in the gospel

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