The Only Question That Will Matter One Million Years from Now | Michael Penfold

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“Are you saved?” is the only question that will matter a million years from today. In this 30 minute sermon by Michael Penfold you will learn what it means to be saved, how you can be saved, why you need to be saved, if salvation is by grace alone, what happens if you are not saved, how you can know you are saved and how you can be sure you are saved. Readings: Matt 1:21, Eph 2:8-9, John 3:17. (Recorded in Malden Road Gospel Hall, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 11 Jan 2026) Get in touch: [email protected], or message us on Facebook. Here is the sermon transcript: So my question to you this morning is, are you saved? Are you saved? You say, why are you taking up that question? Well, to put it simply, a million years from today, that’s the only question that will matter. A million years from today it will not matter what job you had, what your name was, what your country was, how much money you had, how many followers you had on social media. None of that will matter the slightest. The only thing that will matter a million years from today is this. Are you saved? Are you sure you’re saved? When did you get saved? How did you get saved? Why did you get saved? You say, this word saved, I’m not sure I’ve really heard it before. Well, you can trace through the New Testament and you’ll find lots of mentions of the word saved. It’s there more than 60 times. You’ll never find the word purgatory in the Bible. You’ll never find the word Christian in the Bible. The word religion’s in there a couple of times, but the word saved, wow, it’s on nearly every page. Titus chapter three, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us. 1 Timothy chapter two, God desires all men to be saved. Acts chapter four, verse 12, we must be Saved. This is a Bible word. Now, it’s not a strange word. It’s not like a word we think, oh, there must be a mystical meaning to it because it’s in the Bible. No, it’s just an ordinary word. The Bible didn’t make this word up. It’s just the word for being rescued. So if you’re drowning, you need to be saved. If you’re in a burning building, you need to be saved. If your plane is dropping out of the sky, you need to be saved. It’s just the normal word for being rescued and saved. So I ask you again, are you saved? Are you saved? You know, you say, well, I’ve been baptized. I sing in the choir. Well, let me just tell you, without letting it down too hard, you could be a lot of things and not be saved. You could be religious and not be saved, like Nicodemus in John chapter 3. You could go to prayer meetings and not be saved, like Lydia in Acts chapter 16. You can go on a pilgrimage to a holy place and not be saved, like the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8. You could be christened, confirmed, and ordained as a reverend gentleman in a church and go to a foreign country as a missionary and not be saved, like John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. So we just have to come back to this question again. Are you saved? I’m glad I’m saved. I was saved at 14. I was on the second row, on the last seat, window open, Sunday evening. That was the first night I understood that I was a guilty sinner, that Jesus died for me. And that night I trusted in Christ and I was saved. And I’ve been saved ever since, because I didn’t save myself. And the person that saved me says, once I’m saved, I’m saved forever. You say, what was that verse in Matthew? Well, it says that the Lord Jesus was called Jesus because he’s going to save people from their sins. So Jesus means the Lord saves. That’s the meaning of his name. So we’re going to have to grapple with this word sins. If we need to be saved from our sins, well, there might be somebody here who says, well, in that case, I don’t need to be saved because I haven’t got any sins. So we’re going to have to clear that one up because the Bible says we’re all sinners. And of all committed sin, in fact, it goes much deeper than that. It says we’re born in sin

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