Sermon
How the Gospel Changes Lives
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Speaker: Jonathan Pokluda
September 1, 2025 · 46 min
Summary
Paul's conversion demonstrates how the gospel fundamentally transforms people, changes their plans, and redirects their purpose. Through Paul's radical shift from persecuting Christians to becoming Christianity's greatest missionary, the sermon illustrates that genuine faith in Christ reshapes every aspect of life—priorities, relationships, work, and eternal legacy.
Highlights
You are or you are not. God's made His home with you or He hasn't. Like it is one or the other, on or off.
The gospel is a message that changed people. The world's too hard without that message. You can't lose sight of that message, and it changes you more than a promotion, more than winning the lottery, more than anything you could go through.
And they praised God because of me. May that be said of you. What an epitaph. Can you just think on your tombstone, it says, 'And they praised God because of me, period.' What a life.