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YOU NEED A SAVIOUR, NOT A HELPER You ask a man if he knows Jesus as his Saviour, and then he says, "Aw yeah, if it wasn't for the good Lord, I don't know what I'd do." That might even be accompanied with a spit of Red Man hitting the ground.That's the talk of a lost man. The correct answer is, "Yes, I saw myself as a hopeless sinner and received Christ as my Saviour on April 13th." A man who doesn't voluntarily give you a definite conversion testimony is usually a man who is not converted. The average person has been around Christianity so long that he thinks of Jesus as sort of big brother figure whom he vaguely credits for helping him to be a better person, but he doesn't know Christ as Saviour, because he's never seen himself as a hopeless sinner who NEEDS a Saviour. No, he sees himself as a generally good person who can be even better, if he follows some of the teachings of Jesus and goes to church occasionally. Until he realizes that that is not salvation, he will remain lost in his sins. Until he trusts Christ to TAKE AWAY his sins though his redemptive work on the cross (John 1:29), he will remain in his sins and will not have the blood-bought imputed righteousness of God (Rom. 4:5; II Cor. 5:21). That's what all of this watered-down "let Christ come into your life" trash has done to our culture and to our churches. It has allowed people to feel good about having Jesus as their good buddy helper without receiving and knowing him as Saviour. They feel good about singing, "Blessed Jesus, hold my hand" without knowing a thing about "There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and sinners, plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains." Friend, that's the difference between hell and heaven, between calling Jesus your helper and knowing him as your SAVIOUR.