1 00:00:30,259 --> 00:00:36,571 Amen. Thankful for the love of God, aren't you? If you would in 2 00:00:36,595 --> 00:00:40,635 your Bibles tonight, turn to first Timothy, chapter two. One Timothy 3 00:00:40,667 --> 00:00:46,539 chapter two. We continue our series on Baptist distinctives. Again, 4 00:00:46,659 --> 00:00:52,251 by this we mean a collection of biblical truths unique to Baptists. 5 00:00:52,315 --> 00:00:58,597 And by that we mean that as Baptists, it's a collection of truth. 6 00:00:58,773 --> 00:01:03,781 These collections of truths are unique to us. Not that each individual 7 00:01:03,925 --> 00:01:10,517 truth doesn't apply and is not adhered to by other denominations 8 00:01:10,693 --> 00:01:17,173 or other groups. But these 12 together are unique in that all of 9 00:01:17,181 --> 00:01:21,183 them Baptists believe a historic Baptist faith. By the way, 10 00:01:21,191 --> 00:01:24,271 the historic Baptist faith is Bible faith. If I didn't believe 11 00:01:24,295 --> 00:01:26,975 that, I would be something else. I wouldn't be a Baptist, I'd 12 00:01:27,007 --> 00:01:32,111 be something else. I believe Baptist to be the closest to the 13 00:01:32,135 --> 00:01:36,271 first century church. I believe the Baptist, historically 14 00:01:36,335 --> 00:01:39,951 speaking, historic Baptist faith is as close doctrine of the 15 00:01:39,975 --> 00:01:44,751 Bible as any other sect or faith or denomination or whatever. 16 00:01:44,815 --> 00:01:48,953 Again, or else I would be one of them. Amen. I mean, that's pretty 17 00:01:49,001 --> 00:01:53,337 simple. And I haven't said this in a long, long time, but I'm 18 00:01:53,353 --> 00:01:58,041 gonna say it tonight. It's kind of abrasive, but somebody has 19 00:01:58,065 --> 00:02:02,105 to be right, somebody has to be wrong. And I want to be right. 20 00:02:02,257 --> 00:02:07,481 And the way to be right is to be to line up with the Bible is to 21 00:02:07,505 --> 00:02:12,051 line up with the Bible. What does the Bible say? And take it for 22 00:02:12,075 --> 00:02:17,907 what it says. Not tradition and not some prayer book or somebody's 23 00:02:17,923 --> 00:02:21,171 opinion. But what does the word of God say? All right, first 24 00:02:21,195 --> 00:02:25,971 Timothy, chapter two. Look with me in verse five and six. For 25 00:02:25,995 --> 00:02:30,707 there is one God and one mediator between God and men. The 26 00:02:30,763 --> 00:02:36,435 man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified 27 00:02:36,547 --> 00:02:39,815 in due time. For there is one God and one mediator between God 28 00:02:39,847 --> 00:02:44,551 and man. The man Christ Jesus. I'm thankful for our mediator, Jesus 29 00:02:44,615 --> 00:02:47,511 Christ. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we pray that you 30 00:02:47,535 --> 00:02:51,847 would bless the word as it's being spoken tonight. May you work 31 00:02:51,903 --> 00:02:57,255 in hearts. May we remember and keep the faith. May we again adhere 32 00:02:57,287 --> 00:03:00,359 to it, may we apply it and then may we pass it on to the next 33 00:03:00,399 --> 00:03:03,319 generation. Again, we love you and we thank you. In Jesus name, 34 00:03:03,359 --> 00:03:06,865 Amen. Amen. And so tonight we're going to cover the subject 35 00:03:06,897 --> 00:03:11,009 of salvation. I know this is for some of you, be simplistic, but 36 00:03:11,049 --> 00:03:14,753 hopefully, because I've rewritten this and taken it from 37 00:03:14,841 --> 00:03:19,953 various, various sources, maybe something tonight will be a 38 00:03:19,961 --> 00:03:25,041 blessing to you. I hope. By the way, Warren Wiersbe said in one 39 00:03:25,065 --> 00:03:30,299 of his commentaries, he said, preaching deep truths, preaching 40 00:03:30,379 --> 00:03:34,139 salvation. In other words, if you want to know the deep things 41 00:03:34,179 --> 00:03:39,419 of God, then salvation is the deep things of God. And it's just 42 00:03:39,459 --> 00:03:43,579 continue to learn more and more and more what we have in Jesus 43 00:03:43,659 --> 00:03:51,579 Christ, what the benefits are and all the things that go into our 44 00:03:51,619 --> 00:03:54,875 salvation. Of course it's Jesus Christ, but various aspects 45 00:03:54,907 --> 00:03:57,909 of it. All right, so the Baptist distinctives again, second 46 00:03:57,949 --> 00:04:01,653 Timothy chapter two, verse two, says the things that thou hast 47 00:04:01,701 --> 00:04:05,909 heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to 48 00:04:05,949 --> 00:04:10,821 faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. Again, we are 49 00:04:10,845 --> 00:04:14,613 to pass the truths of the Word of God on to the next generation. 50 00:04:14,741 --> 00:04:18,245 We ought to be teaching others these truths. The things that thou 51 00:04:18,277 --> 00:04:22,591 hast heard the same those things that Paul said, the same things 52 00:04:22,615 --> 00:04:26,431 that I taught you are the same things you should teach to those 53 00:04:26,615 --> 00:04:31,151 to others. And so we covered the first distinctive. The first 54 00:04:31,175 --> 00:04:37,599 distinctive was this scripture is and as the singular, absolute, 55 00:04:37,679 --> 00:04:41,311 fully sufficient and final rule of faith and practice. So the 56 00:04:41,335 --> 00:04:46,223 Word of God is the final rule of faith and practice. That's Baptist 57 00:04:46,271 --> 00:04:49,672 distinctive number one. We believe the Bible to be the infallible, 58 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:55,096 inerrant word of God. This is God's word to man and we believe 59 00:04:55,152 --> 00:04:59,496 that emphatically. And so not only is it God's word, but it's also 60 00:04:59,632 --> 00:05:03,048 the rule of life and our guide, our gps, if you would. And 61 00:05:03,088 --> 00:05:06,536 so tonight is number two, and that is without the word of God or 62 00:05:06,592 --> 00:05:11,720 number two is salvation. That salvation is by grace, by faith, 63 00:05:11,784 --> 00:05:16,051 through grace alone. Alright, let me, I'll state that again here 64 00:05:16,075 --> 00:05:18,707 in a moment. But I do want to remind you that without the word 65 00:05:18,723 --> 00:05:21,955 of God there can be no salvation. I'll give you a couple 66 00:05:21,987 --> 00:05:26,035 of proof texts. Romans 10:17 says so then faith cometh by hearing 67 00:05:26,067 --> 00:05:30,435 and hearing by the word of God. First Peter 2, first Peter chapter 68 00:05:30,467 --> 00:05:35,491 1, verse 23 says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but 69 00:05:35,515 --> 00:05:39,161 of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever. 70 00:05:39,275 --> 00:05:41,421 So without the word of God there would be no salvation. The 71 00:05:41,445 --> 00:05:44,141 Word of God is the one. It's the Word of God that gives us the 72 00:05:44,165 --> 00:05:51,101 faith to believe, the faith to trust in him. And so tonight again 73 00:05:51,285 --> 00:05:55,289 we think about salvation. What does it mean? What does it mean? 74 00:05:55,749 --> 00:06:02,669 I think about salvation. It means again to again, salvation means 75 00:06:02,709 --> 00:06:06,143 to be saved. It means to be rescued. Again, the Bible makes it 76 00:06:06,151 --> 00:06:09,951 clear that it's by faith, by grace, through faith, solely in the 77 00:06:09,975 --> 00:06:13,935 person, life and work of Jesus Christ. Salvation from the wrath 78 00:06:13,967 --> 00:06:18,911 of God is solely in the person work of Jesus Christ, his life, his 79 00:06:18,935 --> 00:06:22,655 death and his resurrection. Salvation again means to be rescued 80 00:06:22,687 --> 00:06:28,431 or delivered from harm, from harm. Again, what is the harm? The 81 00:06:28,455 --> 00:06:35,685 wrath of God upon mankind's sin. Alright, so we are rescued from 82 00:06:35,757 --> 00:06:43,013 the wrath of God solely by grace, through faith in the finished 83 00:06:43,061 --> 00:06:48,325 work of Jesus Christ. Amen. That's it. Solely. That means it's 84 00:06:48,357 --> 00:06:54,069 the only way. And Jesus made that clear in John 14:6. I am the 85 00:06:54,109 --> 00:06:58,639 way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by 86 00:06:58,679 --> 00:07:02,479 me. Jesus did not say he was the best way. He did not say he was 87 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:07,375 part of the way. He said he was the only way. And I'm not quoting 88 00:07:07,487 --> 00:07:11,583 a commentary, I'm not quoting a person, I'm quoting Jesus Christ. 89 00:07:11,671 --> 00:07:15,807 John 14, verse 6. And that's not politically correct. You know, 90 00:07:15,943 --> 00:07:19,647 our society for the most part believes that all roads lead to heaven. 91 00:07:19,823 --> 00:07:24,427 If you are a Muslim and that road leads to heaven. If you're a 92 00:07:24,503 --> 00:07:29,011 Buddhist, that road leads to heaven. If you're a whatever. All 93 00:07:29,035 --> 00:07:31,699 these roads lead to heaven. It's just the same God, just different 94 00:07:31,739 --> 00:07:36,051 names. And that's not true. That's not what the Bible says. Jesus 95 00:07:36,115 --> 00:07:41,443 said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the 96 00:07:41,451 --> 00:07:45,715 Father but by me. Jesus said again, emphatically, dogmatically, 97 00:07:45,827 --> 00:07:49,769 the only way to heaven is through him, through Jesus Christ 98 00:07:49,939 --> 00:07:53,917 our Lord, the only available through Christ. And then so that 99 00:07:53,973 --> 00:07:57,181 salvation from the wrath of God. What is the wrath of God? Well, 100 00:07:57,205 --> 00:08:00,653 John 3:36 says the wrath of God abideth on them that believe 101 00:08:00,741 --> 00:08:05,661 not. Abideth on them that believe not. The wrath of God. So 102 00:08:05,685 --> 00:08:09,645 think about this for a moment. The justifiable. So what is the wrath 103 00:08:09,677 --> 00:08:15,437 of God? The wrath of God is the justifiable anger God has because 104 00:08:15,493 --> 00:08:21,497 of man's anger. Sin. The justifiable anger God has because 105 00:08:21,553 --> 00:08:31,001 of mankind's sins. Well, God is holy. He's holy other. And because 106 00:08:31,025 --> 00:08:38,425 of his holiness, his righteous anger is put forth to those all mankind, 107 00:08:38,617 --> 00:08:43,709 not just to those, but all mankind who break his law. To break 108 00:08:43,749 --> 00:08:47,165 his law. The Bible says for the wages of sin, sin is breaking 109 00:08:47,197 --> 00:08:53,565 the law of God is death. Revelation chapter 20 says, and death 110 00:08:53,637 --> 00:08:58,329 and hell were cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death. 111 00:08:58,949 --> 00:09:09,238 So the wrath of God upon sin is hell, eternal hell. Now again 112 00:09:09,538 --> 00:09:15,930 understand that the wrath of God upon sin, that hell does not 113 00:09:16,034 --> 00:09:22,218 satisfy God's wrath. God doesn't look over hell and go and 114 00:09:22,258 --> 00:09:25,834 be satisfied. No, he said he looked down upon His Son who gave 115 00:09:25,866 --> 00:09:30,410 his life for us and was satisfied. It was the sacrifice of 116 00:09:30,434 --> 00:09:36,929 his son that satisfied God the Father now. And that's why, because 117 00:09:38,029 --> 00:09:41,045 the proof behind that is that hell doesn't satisfy God's wrath, 118 00:09:41,077 --> 00:09:44,677 is because they burn eternally. If it satisfied God's 119 00:09:44,693 --> 00:09:47,029 wrath, then they would burn and then it would stop at some point, 120 00:09:47,069 --> 00:09:51,717 say, okay, you paid the price. We're good, we're all good. That's 121 00:09:51,733 --> 00:09:57,045 not the case. Only Christ, only Jesus Christ could satisfy God's 122 00:09:57,077 --> 00:10:04,311 wrath. And so because of God's holiness, it is the justice. It is 123 00:10:04,335 --> 00:10:08,471 because of justice he must exercise punishment. Again, we think 124 00:10:08,495 --> 00:10:10,967 about. The Bible makes it clear that God is love. And aren't 125 00:10:10,983 --> 00:10:14,551 you glad of that? I'm thankful. God is love. In fact, he 126 00:10:14,575 --> 00:10:16,871 makes it very clear that he loved us before we ever loved him. 127 00:10:16,895 --> 00:10:21,271 He's a God of love, but he's also a just God. That means he is 128 00:10:21,295 --> 00:10:25,259 a fair God. It also means the Bible says he is a God of wrath. 129 00:10:25,599 --> 00:10:30,993 And so the Bible says again that he told the Israelites, they're 130 00:10:31,041 --> 00:10:34,865 on Mount Sinai. He gave them the Ten Commandments. Moses comes 131 00:10:34,937 --> 00:10:37,873 down from Mount Sinai, he says to the children of Israel, here are 132 00:10:37,881 --> 00:10:40,561 the Ten Commandments. Will you keep them? And they all said, we 133 00:10:40,585 --> 00:10:45,601 would. We'll keep them. They were a little naive. Not just a little 134 00:10:45,625 --> 00:10:49,025 bit naive, a whole lot naive. Jesus Christ of the New Testament 135 00:10:49,057 --> 00:10:52,353 summarizes those laws for us when he said, whatsoever you would 136 00:10:52,361 --> 00:10:56,295 that mentioned unto you, do ye even also to them. For this is all 137 00:10:56,367 --> 00:11:01,799 the law and the prophets. So as I preach to our church, many, 138 00:11:01,839 --> 00:11:05,271 many times, it really comes down to Jesus summarizing all the 139 00:11:05,295 --> 00:11:08,615 Old Testament laws down to one, that you should treat others 140 00:11:08,687 --> 00:11:12,739 as you would want to be treated. And you have to ask a question. 141 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:19,521 Can you love everyone in the world as you love yourself or the 142 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:26,529 time? Because the only way you can be perfectly holy is if you can 143 00:11:26,569 --> 00:11:32,257 love everyone in the world as you love yourself all the time. And 144 00:11:32,313 --> 00:11:41,713 no one can do that. No man, no human born of a woman and a human 145 00:11:41,801 --> 00:11:46,229 man can do that. Why? Because the Bible says we're all sinners. 146 00:11:46,989 --> 00:11:50,565 We're all born selfish by nature. You do not have to teach 147 00:11:50,597 --> 00:11:55,969 a child how to be selfish. They come. It comes natural to them. 148 00:11:56,429 --> 00:12:01,573 My toy, you know, it comes natural to us adults too. My ice 149 00:12:01,621 --> 00:12:06,853 cream. I love it when the kids are growing up. You know, you go 150 00:12:06,861 --> 00:12:10,373 to Dairy Queen, go through the drive through. Everybody orders theirs. 151 00:12:10,421 --> 00:12:14,479 As the lady or the man hands you the ice cream through the window, 152 00:12:14,639 --> 00:12:21,779 you take a Bite and pass it back. Little kids in the back crying. 153 00:12:22,439 --> 00:12:25,119 And I always just tell Caleb and them, I'd say, you got to pay 154 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:29,551 taxes. Might as well get used to it now. So they're used to that, 155 00:12:29,575 --> 00:12:35,699 you know, dad, Daddy made him pay taxes. We're all selfish by nature. 156 00:12:36,759 --> 00:12:40,435 We're all selfish by nature. And I use the illustration with kids 157 00:12:40,467 --> 00:12:45,199 all the time, but we adults are selfish by nature. Think about 158 00:12:45,819 --> 00:12:49,891 your spouse and the marital problems and things. What does it 159 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:53,639 all come down to? Marital problems come down to selfishness. 160 00:12:54,139 --> 00:13:04,759 I want my way, right? So we're selfish by nature, people. Mankind 161 00:13:06,829 --> 00:13:11,941 does not go to hell because they took a piece of candy from the 162 00:13:11,965 --> 00:13:18,405 candy store. It's the motivation behind taking the candy 163 00:13:18,437 --> 00:13:22,805 that's the problem. It's because as a child or as an adult, 164 00:13:22,917 --> 00:13:28,181 whatever you took, you took. Not thinking about the owner, not 165 00:13:28,205 --> 00:13:31,615 thinking about the grocery store owner. You're not thinking 166 00:13:31,647 --> 00:13:36,639 about them and the loss that they're going to incur. It's only 167 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:44,351 about me and satisfying what I want. Stealing is selfishness. Same 168 00:13:44,375 --> 00:13:51,183 thing with murder. When I kill someone, I murder someone. I'm not 169 00:13:51,351 --> 00:13:57,339 taking into account their family, their life over my life. 170 00:13:58,509 --> 00:14:01,929 Now I'm talking about murder, not kill. We can go into that conversation. 171 00:14:02,349 --> 00:14:06,485 I'm thankful Jesus. I will. I'm thankful. Jesus Christ helped 172 00:14:06,517 --> 00:14:12,213 us. And he clarified what Exodus, chapter 20, the Ten Commandments, 173 00:14:12,261 --> 00:14:15,173 says. When thou shalt not kill. Jesus said in the New Testament, 174 00:14:15,221 --> 00:14:17,941 when the Old Testament said, thou shalt not kill, he said, that 175 00:14:17,965 --> 00:14:22,965 is thou shalt not murder. So he clarified it. I'm thankful. Scripture 176 00:14:22,997 --> 00:14:26,967 interprets. Scripture helps us. Cross referencing helps. But 177 00:14:27,023 --> 00:14:30,551 again, I don't murder because I wouldn't want to be murdered. I 178 00:14:30,575 --> 00:14:34,711 don't steal because I wouldn't want to be stolen from. That makes 179 00:14:34,735 --> 00:14:38,839 me so mad. Somebody steals something from you. I'll never forget. 180 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:43,047 I lived out in Springtown, out in the country, close to the clarks. 181 00:14:43,063 --> 00:14:48,455 We had 11 acres out there. One evening, a guy came by and he ran 182 00:14:48,487 --> 00:14:52,295 out of gas right in front of our house. I mean, we're on a country 183 00:14:52,367 --> 00:14:55,175 road. Back then, there was hardly anything out there. Now there's 184 00:14:55,207 --> 00:14:58,727 lots of houses. And so he came up to the house. Of course, he knocked 185 00:14:58,743 --> 00:15:01,095 on the door. I met him at the door. He said, hey, I'm out of gas. 186 00:15:01,207 --> 00:15:03,831 Do you have any gas? And I said, yeah, I'll help you. And went 187 00:15:03,855 --> 00:15:08,103 into my barn and got him some gas and went out there, put it in 188 00:15:08,111 --> 00:15:11,431 his truck, and he drove off. Wasn't just a few days later that 189 00:15:11,455 --> 00:15:14,391 all my tools got stolen out of my barn and out of my garage. All 190 00:15:14,415 --> 00:15:19,041 of them. You say, well, how do you know it's that guy? Well, they 191 00:15:19,065 --> 00:15:22,881 caught him, took a little while about, I don't know, two, three 192 00:15:22,905 --> 00:15:27,905 weeks later, they caught him with some of my stuff he had pawned 193 00:15:27,937 --> 00:15:30,561 all of it except a little bit and a bunch of other stuff from other 194 00:15:30,585 --> 00:15:34,209 people he had stolen. But it was the same guy that I helped get 195 00:15:34,249 --> 00:15:45,387 gas who stole from me. Motivation behind that was selfishness. 196 00:15:45,563 --> 00:15:51,531 He's a druggie. Selfishness. We're all selfish by nature. And 197 00:15:51,555 --> 00:15:58,879 therefore God is just means. He's justified. His anger is justified, 198 00:15:59,859 --> 00:16:08,091 his wrath is justified. And therefore must, must be met if he 199 00:16:08,115 --> 00:16:12,747 would. Or it must be met out. It must be put out. So again, we've 200 00:16:12,763 --> 00:16:16,363 used this illustration a thousand times too. A lot of liberal 201 00:16:16,411 --> 00:16:19,643 judges in America today. How many times have we seen a liberal 202 00:16:19,691 --> 00:16:23,195 judge? You know, some. It was recently over here and I don't remember 203 00:16:23,227 --> 00:16:26,155 all the details. And I used this illustration about a year ago 204 00:16:26,307 --> 00:16:30,475 where some teenage, rich, very wealthy teenage boy from a wealthy 205 00:16:30,507 --> 00:16:37,467 family wrecked and killed two or three people and got off. Didn't 206 00:16:37,483 --> 00:16:44,899 even go to jail. Didn't even go to jail because of a liberal judge. 207 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:53,887 And it was some kind of rich people's disease that he had. He'd 208 00:16:53,903 --> 00:16:58,127 been pampered so much. The judge says he don't know what he's 209 00:16:58,143 --> 00:17:00,431 doing. He'd been pampered so much. There's actually a name for 210 00:17:00,455 --> 00:17:04,447 it and I forgot what the name is called. Crazy, isn't it? We'd 211 00:17:04,463 --> 00:17:08,311 be mad at that judge, wouldn't we? And that judge is flat out wrong. 212 00:17:08,455 --> 00:17:12,327 That kid should be in. Not a kid, he was like 20 or something. 213 00:17:12,383 --> 00:17:15,303 He should be in jail the rest of his life. He should never see 214 00:17:15,311 --> 00:17:20,663 the light of day. And we scream and holler about that. Well, 215 00:17:20,751 --> 00:17:23,895 he killed somebody. He murdered somebody. He killed them 216 00:17:24,047 --> 00:17:26,695 and you could say murder. At least it was at least first degree 217 00:17:26,727 --> 00:17:32,511 anyway, you know, when we get mad at the judge. But how often do 218 00:17:32,535 --> 00:17:37,311 we think about, well, what we do and the law we break of God's 219 00:17:37,455 --> 00:17:41,647 we think, oh yeah, but God should just love everybody and everybody 220 00:17:41,663 --> 00:17:47,855 should get off scot free. And there should be no penalty. No, no, 221 00:17:47,927 --> 00:17:52,399 there is a penalty. There is a penalty of breaking God's law. That 222 00:17:52,439 --> 00:17:57,071 penalty is the wrath of God, which is hell. And so that's where 223 00:17:57,095 --> 00:18:00,715 we're at. So salvation from the wrath of God. From the wrath 224 00:18:00,747 --> 00:18:05,227 of God. And that wrath of God is just, it's fair and then number 225 00:18:05,283 --> 00:18:09,723 three. Salvation from the wrath of God is by grace, by grace, 226 00:18:09,771 --> 00:18:13,835 freely given favor of God, even unto enablement. I'm thankful 227 00:18:13,867 --> 00:18:16,923 for the grace of God, aren't you? I'm thankful that my salvation 228 00:18:16,971 --> 00:18:21,211 is not based upon what I do, but what he did for me. Right? He 229 00:18:21,235 --> 00:18:24,299 died, he was buried and rose again in order that I might have 230 00:18:24,339 --> 00:18:28,527 eternal life. Freely given. And by the way, since he freely gave 231 00:18:28,543 --> 00:18:34,367 it, that means he gave it without reluctance, you know, he 232 00:18:34,423 --> 00:18:36,671 didn't forgive us and go, well, I'm just not going to like 233 00:18:36,695 --> 00:18:39,375 you, but I'm going to forgive you, you know. No, he wasn't reluctant 234 00:18:39,407 --> 00:18:45,743 at all. Freely given favor. Salvation was gladly given by God 235 00:18:45,871 --> 00:18:50,591 in view of what Christ did for us by way of his life, his death 236 00:18:50,615 --> 00:18:54,921 and his resurrection. Again, grace is part of every area when 237 00:18:54,945 --> 00:19:00,889 the sinner comes to God. So every area of salvation, all the 238 00:19:01,009 --> 00:19:05,913 details behind it, all those areas are covered by grace. The grace 239 00:19:05,961 --> 00:19:12,265 of God, we don't deserve it. God's freely given favor, as we said 240 00:19:12,337 --> 00:19:16,025 Sunday night as well, that it's not just by grace that we're 241 00:19:16,057 --> 00:19:19,281 saved. We're to live by grace as well. Live by grace through faith, 242 00:19:19,465 --> 00:19:23,681 trusting in him that grace is not just grace and enablement for 243 00:19:23,705 --> 00:19:26,961 salvation, but that grace is an enablement to live the Christian 244 00:19:27,025 --> 00:19:31,089 life. To walk with Jesus daily, to live a Christian life, 245 00:19:31,129 --> 00:19:33,873 to be an ambassador of Jesus Christ, to be a representative of 246 00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:38,641 him and to the world. To be a light in darkness. Each of us living 247 00:19:38,785 --> 00:19:42,369 during the week as we ought to live in order that Christ may be 248 00:19:42,409 --> 00:19:46,571 glorified in all that we say and do. How do we accomplish that? 249 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:49,563 We can't do that on our own. We're selfish by nature. How do we 250 00:19:49,571 --> 00:19:55,083 do that? We do that by grace, through faith, humbling ourselves 251 00:19:55,131 --> 00:19:59,195 before God. Lord, I cannot save myself. Lord, save me. Remember, 252 00:19:59,227 --> 00:20:01,995 at the moment of salvation. Same thing when it comes to living 253 00:20:02,027 --> 00:20:04,555 the Christian life. Lord, I can't live this life as you intended 254 00:20:04,587 --> 00:20:08,399 me for to live by the way. Jesus said, be holy, for I am holy. 255 00:20:08,819 --> 00:20:12,325 That's tough. That can't be accomplished on your own. It can't 256 00:20:12,357 --> 00:20:15,621 be accomplished in our own energy and our own strength. We need 257 00:20:15,645 --> 00:20:19,541 the grace of God in order to do that. And that grace of God is 258 00:20:19,565 --> 00:20:24,453 given to us freely as Christians to enable us and empower 259 00:20:24,501 --> 00:20:28,805 us to live and walk with Jesus every day. To be the light again 260 00:20:28,877 --> 00:20:34,165 in darkness. God influences us to see our lost condition because 261 00:20:34,237 --> 00:20:37,249 of our inability to keep the law. In other words, when it comes 262 00:20:37,289 --> 00:20:42,545 to salvation, not only does he offer salvation? But it's the Holy 263 00:20:42,577 --> 00:20:47,761 Spirit who convicts us. It's God who influenced us to understand 264 00:20:47,865 --> 00:20:53,249 and to see our sin for what it is. Everybody understand that, right? 265 00:20:53,369 --> 00:20:58,833 It's not just that he saves us, but he also brings us and influences 266 00:20:58,881 --> 00:21:03,411 us to the position of seeing our need for salvation. Isn't that 267 00:21:03,435 --> 00:21:06,995 amazing? So he's not just offering us candy, he's just showing 268 00:21:07,027 --> 00:21:10,755 us our need for candy. I'm just kidding. Isn't that amazing? 269 00:21:10,787 --> 00:21:18,931 I mean, really, honestly, why would he need to do that? Why would 270 00:21:18,955 --> 00:21:23,859 he? He doesn't have to do anything. He's God. He loves you 271 00:21:23,899 --> 00:21:28,967 that much. He loves me that much. He loves mankind enough. Loves 272 00:21:28,983 --> 00:21:32,231 us so much that not only did he give his life for us, shed his 273 00:21:32,255 --> 00:21:35,191 blood for us, die and was buried and rise again, but when it 274 00:21:35,215 --> 00:21:39,271 comes to salvation, grace covers every part of it, even to 275 00:21:39,295 --> 00:21:43,207 the point of bringing us to the understanding of our need for 276 00:21:43,263 --> 00:21:49,271 salvation by way of the law. Understand? It's God who helps us, 277 00:21:49,295 --> 00:21:56,209 to influence us that we sorrow over our sins and desire to live 278 00:21:56,249 --> 00:22:01,249 right. Now, get this one. Because we have certain even call 279 00:22:01,289 --> 00:22:04,977 themselves Baptists who don't believe in repentance. Or they believe 280 00:22:05,033 --> 00:22:10,961 that repentance is a turning from a false religion unto true Christianity. 281 00:22:11,025 --> 00:22:15,537 That's not repentance. Repentance is a change of mind about 282 00:22:15,593 --> 00:22:25,727 my sin, myself and God. True repentance again, is that sorrowing 283 00:22:25,823 --> 00:22:33,391 over my sin and desiring though I cannot, but desiring to 284 00:22:33,415 --> 00:22:39,247 live right, repenting of my sins, a change of mind towards sin 285 00:22:39,343 --> 00:22:47,303 again, self and God. John the Baptist preach repentance again. 286 00:22:47,471 --> 00:22:52,343 There is a sect out there, the Steve Anderson crowd, who are a cult, 287 00:22:52,431 --> 00:22:58,823 by the way, who teach that repentance is a turning from false 288 00:22:58,871 --> 00:23:03,079 religion unto true religion. That is not the biblical definition. 289 00:23:03,239 --> 00:23:06,871 That has never been the biblical definition. I mean, I always 290 00:23:06,975 --> 00:23:10,343 say to some of those guys who I talked to, we've been dealing with 291 00:23:10,351 --> 00:23:14,155 this the last few years. He's become pretty popular. I say, well, 292 00:23:14,227 --> 00:23:18,283 are you saying you're smarter than the 99% of the theologians in 293 00:23:18,291 --> 00:23:23,131 the last 2000 years? You're smarter than Spurgeon? You know, 294 00:23:23,315 --> 00:23:27,739 I haven't met anybody smarter than Spurgeon. Repentance has been 295 00:23:27,779 --> 00:23:30,251 the same definition for 2000 years and now you're suddenly going 296 00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:35,371 to change it? That's what a cult is. They change the truth and 297 00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:41,057 they isolate themselves. They isolate their membership. Repentance 298 00:23:41,233 --> 00:23:45,841 is a change of mind really, about everything. It's a change of 299 00:23:45,865 --> 00:23:49,393 mind. When it comes to my sin, I See myself exceedingly sinful. 300 00:23:49,441 --> 00:23:53,329 I see myself and my sin as putting Jesus on the cross. And I 301 00:23:53,369 --> 00:24:02,081 sorrow because of, causes me grief. And I want to change. I can't 302 00:24:02,145 --> 00:24:07,479 change on my own, but I want to. Repentance again is a change 303 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:13,179 of mind about myself, about God and my sin. Repentance, repenting, 304 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:19,831 repenting. Repentance is a part. Repentance and faith are, you 305 00:24:19,855 --> 00:24:24,471 know, it's like a two sided nick, you know, two sided coin. They 306 00:24:24,495 --> 00:24:30,139 go hand in hand. Just like faith and trust and faith and belief. 307 00:24:34,629 --> 00:24:39,581 And then not only is there again through faith, grace by grace, 308 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:43,341 through faith, faith, ascribing credit to Christ for who 309 00:24:43,445 --> 00:24:50,765 and what he has done. Again, faith, faith is that which again 310 00:24:50,837 --> 00:24:56,045 we transfer our trust from anyone and anything else to Christ 311 00:24:56,117 --> 00:25:00,763 and Christ alone. So it's trusting, trusting God, trusting 312 00:25:00,811 --> 00:25:06,459 Jesus Christ as our Savior, believing on him and then again faith 313 00:25:06,539 --> 00:25:11,355 in him, acting upon that trust. And again it's a two sided 314 00:25:11,387 --> 00:25:19,595 coin. Faith and belief. Belief is trust. Belief and trust are synonyms. 315 00:25:19,787 --> 00:25:24,091 Pretty well everybody with me. Belief and trust is. I believe this 316 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:29,553 chair will hold me if I jump up in May not because I'm not going 317 00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:34,081 to do it. They're supposed to get me some videos that when I say 318 00:25:34,105 --> 00:25:38,065 stuff like this they can just show it instead of me doing it. It's 319 00:25:38,097 --> 00:25:43,633 a good idea. Like the cartwheel thing. Belief and trust 320 00:25:43,681 --> 00:25:46,609 is. I believe and trust that this chair would hold me. Faith is 321 00:25:46,649 --> 00:25:52,763 me jumping on top of it. Okay, so I put my faith, I put my trust 322 00:25:52,811 --> 00:25:56,283 in Jesus. I believe that Jesus Christ lived and died and rose again. 323 00:25:56,371 --> 00:26:00,699 And then I put my faith in him. I act upon that belief. I act 324 00:26:00,739 --> 00:26:06,251 upon it. There are those who believe that Jesus exists. There 325 00:26:06,275 --> 00:26:10,603 are those who believe that God exists. But does that save them? 326 00:26:10,691 --> 00:26:14,235 No, you have to put your trust in him and then you have to act upon 327 00:26:14,267 --> 00:26:17,691 that trust. How do I act upon the trust? By putting my faith in 328 00:26:17,715 --> 00:26:22,933 him. Lord, I know I'm a sinner. Lord, I am unable to save 329 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:26,773 myself. Lord, I believe you live, died and rose again. Lord, 330 00:26:26,821 --> 00:26:31,589 please save me. I cannot do it on my own. I understand that. Lord, 331 00:26:31,749 --> 00:26:35,877 save me. It's putting my faith in him and not myself. It's putting 332 00:26:35,893 --> 00:26:41,169 my faith in him and not the Baptistry. It's trusting in him and 333 00:26:41,469 --> 00:26:48,191 not my good works. Putting it all upon him. We used this illustration 334 00:26:48,255 --> 00:26:53,999 here a while back and it's the illustration of a man whose name 335 00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:58,719 was the Great Blondie. The Great Blondie again, this was in 336 00:26:58,759 --> 00:27:05,139 1850s and he was a magician, but he Was famous for walking tightropes. 337 00:27:05,479 --> 00:27:10,259 For tightropes. And so he set up a tightrope across Niagara Falls. 338 00:27:11,529 --> 00:27:19,777 1100ft, 1100ft long, 160ft above the falls. And history tells 339 00:27:19,793 --> 00:27:23,409 us that he walked across it several times. He walked across it. 340 00:27:23,449 --> 00:27:29,745 He carried his manager on his back across it. He took wheelbarrows 341 00:27:29,777 --> 00:27:34,177 across it. He carried furniture across it. He carried a 342 00:27:34,233 --> 00:27:40,809 stove out to the middle of it, cooked eggs and ate breakfast on 343 00:27:40,849 --> 00:27:46,041 this. I'm not exaggerating. Go read about it. So he became more 344 00:27:46,065 --> 00:27:49,177 and more and more famous. And then one day he was on the side, 345 00:27:49,233 --> 00:27:54,569 he was about to cross again and great big old crowd there and 346 00:27:54,609 --> 00:27:59,113 he had a wheelbarrow with him. And they all just were clamoring 347 00:27:59,161 --> 00:28:02,281 at how great. And boy, they trusted him and they knew he could 348 00:28:02,305 --> 00:28:05,379 do it again. And brought on. And he finally asked the crowd, he 349 00:28:05,419 --> 00:28:11,639 said, who will get in the wheelbarrow? He didn't get one volunteer. 350 00:28:12,059 --> 00:28:15,331 They all believed he could do it. They all trusted he could do 351 00:28:15,355 --> 00:28:20,787 it. But they didn't have faith enough to act on it. They wouldn't 352 00:28:20,803 --> 00:28:25,411 get in the wheelbarrow. And that's what happens spiritually when 353 00:28:25,435 --> 00:28:28,707 it comes to the Lord and to salvation. There are many people 354 00:28:28,763 --> 00:28:33,371 who trust and believe but never act on it. Never act on it. 355 00:28:33,555 --> 00:28:37,435 We only truly believe in something when we act on it. Somebody 356 00:28:37,467 --> 00:28:40,251 has said it this way. We only believe as much of the Bible as we 357 00:28:40,275 --> 00:28:48,507 practice as we act upon. Christ alone is the only qualified 358 00:28:48,603 --> 00:28:52,971 Savior. What uniquely qualified Jesus to be our Savior. 359 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:58,329 And this is it. His person, his in that he was God in the flesh. 360 00:28:59,469 --> 00:29:03,845 God became man and dwelt among us, the Bible says. And we beheld 361 00:29:03,877 --> 00:29:07,013 his glory, the glory as of the only begotten, the Father full of 362 00:29:07,021 --> 00:29:13,461 grace and truth. He was man. Just as much man as though he'd never 363 00:29:13,485 --> 00:29:15,333 been God and just as much God as though he'd never been man. He 364 00:29:15,341 --> 00:29:19,845 was the God man. He was sinless. Never one time had a simple 365 00:29:19,877 --> 00:29:22,741 thought. Never one time did a simple deed. He was sinless in disposition, 366 00:29:22,805 --> 00:29:30,255 desire and deed. The only man who ever lived a sinless life. That's 367 00:29:30,287 --> 00:29:34,739 why I pointed out a while ago that it was humans. Humans cannot. 368 00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:39,679 All humans are sinners. And then of course, his work. And that 369 00:29:39,719 --> 00:29:47,775 is, he died and was buried and rose again. The Gospel, the good 370 00:29:47,847 --> 00:29:52,749 news. Why did you do all that? To put the New Testament into force. 371 00:29:53,569 --> 00:29:57,193 Old covenant done away with. New Covenant put in place. Old Testament 372 00:29:57,241 --> 00:30:00,345 done away with. I'm talking about the contract and the new contract. 373 00:30:00,417 --> 00:30:06,873 Put in place. It's an amazing thought. Put our faith and trust 374 00:30:06,921 --> 00:30:11,353 in Jesus. There's some false views out there about salvation, 375 00:30:11,401 --> 00:30:14,873 and most of you would know these, but one false view is that 376 00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:19,425 there is no hell, that all mankind is God's children and everybody 377 00:30:19,457 --> 00:30:24,225 gets to go to heaven. That's not what the Bible says. There's 378 00:30:24,257 --> 00:30:28,769 another view on salvation, that if you're mostly good, that, 379 00:30:28,889 --> 00:30:31,073 you know, if your good works outweigh your bad works, you get 380 00:30:31,081 --> 00:30:34,129 to heaven. St. Peter will be there and he'll have a little scale. 381 00:30:34,209 --> 00:30:37,345 Put bad works on one side and good works on the other. And if your 382 00:30:37,417 --> 00:30:40,737 good works outweigh your bad works, you get to go to heaven. He'll 383 00:30:40,753 --> 00:30:45,533 open the key. He has the key. Apparently, Peter don't have the 384 00:30:45,541 --> 00:30:49,581 key. The church has the key. Open the door. No, that's not how 385 00:30:49,605 --> 00:30:54,397 you get to heaven. Salvation is not by your good works outweighing 386 00:30:54,413 --> 00:31:00,941 your bad works. Then there's a large majority of churches that teach, 387 00:31:01,085 --> 00:31:07,329 well, we do believe it's through Jesus Christ plus baptism. 388 00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:10,951 They say, well, you know, you got to be saved. Yeah, you got to 389 00:31:10,975 --> 00:31:13,191 trust Jesus Christ as your savior. Put your faith in him, his 390 00:31:13,215 --> 00:31:15,703 life, his death and resurrection, and be baptized. You 391 00:31:15,711 --> 00:31:20,135 know, you just add to it a lot out there who believe that. That's 392 00:31:20,167 --> 00:31:24,903 what the Bible says. Baptism doesn't save you. It's not Christ 393 00:31:24,991 --> 00:31:33,367 plus something or anyone. There's some out there who believe 394 00:31:33,423 --> 00:31:37,305 that the church has been entrusted with grace. And you can 395 00:31:37,377 --> 00:31:43,513 eat a piece of bread or you can drink a little grape juice, and 396 00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:47,869 that conveys grace to you. I'm talking about the Catholic Church. 397 00:31:50,129 --> 00:31:56,441 No, that's not what the Bible says. That's tradition of men. And 398 00:31:56,465 --> 00:31:59,953 we're not saved by tradition of men. We're not saved by silver 399 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:04,001 and gold and tradition of man, but by the what, precious blood of 400 00:32:04,025 --> 00:32:09,313 Jesus Christ as a land without spot and without blemish. Salvation 401 00:32:09,361 --> 00:32:14,321 is in a person. That person is Jesus Christ, who had an infinite 402 00:32:14,385 --> 00:32:17,713 capacity to take all God's wrath. Understand? He had to be God, 403 00:32:17,761 --> 00:32:22,065 man. Because only God can take all God's wrath. Again, I just pointed 404 00:32:22,097 --> 00:32:25,515 out that those in hell do not satisfy God's wrath. God's wrath 405 00:32:25,547 --> 00:32:29,499 is infinite. So only God could take all God's wrath, you say? Well, 406 00:32:29,539 --> 00:32:32,091 preacher, I can't figure that out. The tri unity of God is not 407 00:32:32,115 --> 00:32:34,651 something you figure out. It's something you put your faith in and 408 00:32:34,675 --> 00:32:41,243 believe. The life of Christ, the person of Christ, the perfect 409 00:32:41,291 --> 00:32:45,787 life of Jesus Christ from the womb and to the tomb from the womb 410 00:32:45,883 --> 00:32:50,475 to the tomb. Christ was mankind's representative. He lived 411 00:32:50,507 --> 00:32:55,241 that perfect life. He died for us. He died in our place. He was 412 00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:58,889 buried and rose again. He did all that in our place. He was our 413 00:32:58,929 --> 00:33:04,617 representative. He was our substitute Christ. The works of Christ. 414 00:33:04,673 --> 00:33:09,481 He was our sin bearer. And then he died for those sins. And 415 00:33:09,505 --> 00:33:14,521 then the third day, he rose again from the dead, securing our 416 00:33:14,625 --> 00:33:18,931 salvation. Now, there are many examples in the New Testament, and 417 00:33:18,955 --> 00:33:22,131 we won't go through all these tonight. Many examples of the New 418 00:33:22,155 --> 00:33:28,627 Testament, of those who very clearly were saved by grace through 419 00:33:28,683 --> 00:33:38,787 faith and nothing else. The woman at the well. Paul. Especially 420 00:33:38,843 --> 00:33:43,261 if you believe that Paul was saved in Ananias house and not on 421 00:33:43,285 --> 00:33:49,581 the road to Damascus. That's a whole nother subject. Who else was 422 00:33:49,685 --> 00:33:54,829 saved and not well, the Ethiopian eunuch. You could go through 423 00:33:54,869 --> 00:33:58,493 on and on and on throughout the New Testament and have testimony 424 00:33:58,541 --> 00:34:03,741 after testimony of those who were saved, who were rescued, who 425 00:34:03,765 --> 00:34:08,461 were born again by putting their faith and trust in Jesus Christ 426 00:34:08,485 --> 00:34:19,009 and Him alone and nothing else. Lydia, the thief on the cross. 427 00:34:20,229 --> 00:34:24,781 Repentance with the new birth in view. Again, the conversion as 428 00:34:24,805 --> 00:34:30,637 a result of accepting Christ as their Savior. I love the old hymn. 429 00:34:30,813 --> 00:34:38,971 Grace, grace, God's grace Grace that will pardon and cleanse 430 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:44,907 within. Grace, grace, God's grace. It's a wonderful grace, isn't 431 00:34:44,923 --> 00:34:50,399 it? Wonderful Grace of Jesus. Amazing grace how sweet the sound. 432 00:34:52,099 --> 00:34:55,275 So thankful for the grace of God, aren't you? Because we can't 433 00:34:55,307 --> 00:35:00,079 earn salvation. We can't do anything good enough to earn salvation 434 00:35:01,389 --> 00:35:06,645 because Jesus Christ did all the work for us. Again, the Baptist 435 00:35:06,677 --> 00:35:10,133 distinctive is a collection of biblical truths that make Baptists 436 00:35:10,181 --> 00:35:14,133 distinct from other groups. I'm thankful for other churches. 437 00:35:14,181 --> 00:35:17,061 I want to make this clear, too. I'm thankful for other churches 438 00:35:17,205 --> 00:35:21,029 and even other denominations who teach salvation by grace through 439 00:35:21,069 --> 00:35:26,613 faith. I'm thankful that I have friends who I may not exactly 440 00:35:26,661 --> 00:35:29,573 agree with on everything, but I am thankful they're preaching the 441 00:35:29,581 --> 00:35:33,521 gospel and seeing people get saved. I always, again, say it. I 442 00:35:33,545 --> 00:35:35,473 say it pretty often. I'm independent Baptist. I'm just not 443 00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:38,961 mad about it. I'm thankful for other groups. I say when we get to 444 00:35:38,985 --> 00:35:41,425 heaven, we're all going to be shocked that there's not just Baptists 445 00:35:41,457 --> 00:35:46,241 up there. That guy's a Lutheran. What is he doing up here? 446 00:35:46,425 --> 00:35:48,961 I don't know how he got here. No, he got here the same way you 447 00:35:48,985 --> 00:35:53,665 did. Salvation by grace through faith. Oh, that's a Catholic 448 00:35:53,697 --> 00:35:58,491 over there. I remember him from whatever. No, some Catholics. 449 00:35:58,555 --> 00:36:03,163 Absolutely. Salvation by grace through Faith. Amen. Now, be careful. 450 00:36:03,291 --> 00:36:07,675 I'm thankful for those in other churches and other denominations 451 00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:11,547 who teach the gospel and preach the gospel. But I am absolutely 452 00:36:11,643 --> 00:36:18,879 100% sad and mad that most churches do not preach and teach 453 00:36:19,299 --> 00:36:25,221 a clear gospel message. It does not happen. And that's a sad 454 00:36:25,285 --> 00:36:30,853 state for churches in America. And honestly, around the world. I 455 00:36:30,861 --> 00:36:33,973 don't know how many times I've dealt with people who've been in 456 00:36:33,981 --> 00:36:37,445 other denominational churches who have never said, preacher. I've 457 00:36:37,477 --> 00:36:40,181 never heard that before. When I give them the gospel, they say, 458 00:36:40,205 --> 00:36:43,557 I've never heard that before. Like, how could you be in church 459 00:36:43,653 --> 00:36:47,461 most of your life and never hear the gospel? I used to have a 460 00:36:47,485 --> 00:36:51,243 friend who was a Methodist preacher here in town, and him and 461 00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:53,931 I became pretty good friends. And I asked him one time, I said, 462 00:36:53,955 --> 00:36:57,099 hey, I know the. Because usually in a Methodist church, the 463 00:36:57,139 --> 00:36:59,947 Methodist preacher gets moved around pretty often and said, hey, 464 00:36:59,963 --> 00:37:04,139 they've kept you here a long time. Why have they done that? He 465 00:37:04,179 --> 00:37:07,595 said, well, he said, first off, I graduated from Southwestern 466 00:37:07,627 --> 00:37:13,051 Theological Seminary. He said, some of my congregation, after I 467 00:37:13,075 --> 00:37:16,685 get done preaching and they walk out of the the building, shake 468 00:37:16,717 --> 00:37:19,021 my hand and say, preacher, that was a good Baptist message this 469 00:37:19,045 --> 00:37:26,717 morning. Now, he would dunk or sprinkle. He was a good man, preached 470 00:37:26,733 --> 00:37:31,773 the gospel. I said, well, what's the deal? He said, well, preacher, 471 00:37:31,821 --> 00:37:35,277 I'm only one of three Methodist preachers that he knew 472 00:37:35,293 --> 00:37:44,627 of that preached the gospel. Only three that he knew of. That's 473 00:37:44,643 --> 00:37:49,251 sad, isn't it? That's sad. So I just want to clarify, too, that 474 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:54,867 I'm sad and mad that there are churches out there who do not preach 475 00:37:54,963 --> 00:38:06,163 a clear, concise, cool, make it so appetizing so that someone 476 00:38:06,251 --> 00:38:10,601 would accept Christ as their savior. Amen. All right, let's all 477 00:38:10,625 --> 00:38:15,081 stand. We'll have a time of invitation Almost said Let's be dismissed. 478 00:38:15,225 --> 00:38:19,865 Hymn 350. Wherever he leads, I'll go. Great hymn. After. We pray, 479 00:38:19,977 --> 00:38:22,633 Lord, we thank you for salvation. We thank you for the wonderful 480 00:38:22,681 --> 00:38:25,433 gospel. We thank you for the sacrifice you made on Calvary for 481 00:38:25,441 --> 00:38:28,377 us, that we might have eternal life. I do pray there's someone here 482 00:38:28,433 --> 00:38:31,577 tonight, maybe here tonight, who doesn't know you as their personal 483 00:38:31,633 --> 00:38:34,963 savior. Lord, I pray they might get saved tonight. I'm thankful, 484 00:38:35,091 --> 00:38:37,667 Lord, we don't have to work for it. I'm thankful it's free. I'm 485 00:38:37,683 --> 00:38:41,923 thankful that you give it to us gladly. And I pray, Lord, that 486 00:38:41,931 --> 00:38:46,611 you would continue to help us to be a light to those around us. 487 00:38:46,635 --> 00:38:49,539 Help us to share the good news to those around us. Thank you. We 488 00:38:49,579 --> 00:38:51,379 love you. In Jesus name, amen.