From the beginning of our Evidence for God series, we made clear that we are not just positing a bland or generic form of theism here. We believe there is evidence for God and that the only God who fits that evidence is the God of the Bible, who is Jesus Christ, the Christian God. Now why is that important? Because believing in God is important, but only insomuch as it leads you to repentance toward God with faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. Otherwise, you remain as lost and damned as you were if you were an agnostic or atheist. James lays out the reality for those who claim to be theists but not believers in Christ when he says in James 2.19, Thou believest that there is one God? Thou doest well, the devils also believe and tremble. How sad that so many men and women have said, I believe in God, but were unwilling to repent and believe the gospel in order to be saved from their sins. And a lot of professing Christians don't like plain preaching, but it's a fact. If you believe in God, but reject the gospel of Jesus Christ, you go to hell, just like any atheist, agnostic, Satanist, or any other Christ-rejecting fool. And one sad example of this is a man who died about 14 years ago after a storied career as an English philosopher. His name was Antony Flew. Flew was an Oxford educated professor whose father was a Methodist minister. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was a contemporary of men like C.S. Lewis, But even with all of this experience and influence, he declared himself to be an atheist and wrote books like The Presumption of Atheism and other essays. However, in his 70s, he began reconsidering his view of God and by 2004, around the age of 80 or 81, he announced to the world that he was now a theist. Some claim deist, but in interviews he clearly didn't hold to the ideas of deism. But none of that matters as far as Antony's eternal soul is concerned, because there's no record of his ever receiving Jesus Christ. as that creator who is his Lord God and Savior. There's no record of his faith in the crucified Jesus who shed his blood in death and was buried and then rose from the dead after three days. We only have record of his rejection of Jesus in the gospel. That's a sad fact, but it's the only thing that really matters. Belief in God is the faith of devils if you don't also have saving faith in Jesus Christ. In an interview with author and apologist Lee Strobel, Antony was asked what he believed or thought about Jesus, and his response is, again, sad. Mr. Flew said, quote, I don't think I have any of this, you know, I think this is a defining case of a charismatic figure. And if one were engaged in a study of charismatic figures, this one, referring to Jesus, would be compared with the major figures of any other religion, end quote. Now Jesus himself said in John 3.19, and this is the condemnation, that light is coming to the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. But men like Anthony Flew go beyond just rejecting the light. They actually attempt to refute that light. They speak out against believing in Jesus Christ, the light of the world. And it's because they know that they're sinners and that they deserve damnation. Now, how do I know this? Well, Jesus said, as I quoted just a moment ago, but you'll also find it coming from the horse's mouth, so to speak. In his interview, Strobel looked at Antony Few and said, now, you said in 2004 that you hope that there's no afterlife. Why? Antony Flew responded saying, because I don't want to go on forever, and a fortiori, I do not want to be tortured eternally. It's just so sad that a man can acknowledge the evidence for the existence of God but have no interest in the knowledge of who he is and no desire to know him personally. He doesn't want there to be an afterlife because he knows he'll be in hell if there is one. Well, we do know who Jesus is. We have his infallible words in our Holy Bible, King James Version, and we have his spirit. As believers in Christ, we have his spirit in our hearts, indwelling us forever and ever. Amen.