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You can all be seated. Why don't you grab your Bible and turn to 2nd John. If you don't know where it is, it's right after 1st John.
And right before 3rd John. And I wanted to say next Sunday, I want you to pray. Today we're starting a little mini-series of three messages and I'm titling The Reluctant Evangelist.
And it's based on one of my favorite stories in the Bible, the book of Jonah. He was The Reluctant Evangelist. He didn't want to do what God called him to do.
Maybe that describes you. You're apprehensive about sharing your faith. You don't know how to share your faith. Or you just don't want to share your faith. He used to bring about a spiritual awakening.
Who knows what God can do in your life or mine. So that will start next Sunday. But we're now in 2nd John and the title of my message is P.S. I Love You. And you found yourself Googling, how do I get my email back?
That's not a good thing. Or maybe you wrote a card or a note to someone. And then you thought of something that you forgot to say. So on the bottom you wrote P.S. Postscript.
Well that's really what we're looking at here in 2nd and 3rd John. These are short, long, long letters. Little epistles. Each one is one chapter long.
They're about the length of an email or a note if you will. And so really John is concluding this beautiful book of 1st John with these extra letters and he's effectively saying P.S. I Love You. And it's a letter with a letter in it and at the end of it it said from his father P.S. I Love You. And the son carried this around with him because when he would get discouraged and down he would pull out that letter from his dad that said P.S.
I Love You. Well here we're being reminded of God's love for us in the epistles of 2nd and 3rd John. Before we dive in let me just quickly review some of the things we learned in 1st John.
1st John was written to give assurance to believers. Believers who were having doubts about their faith. Have you ever doubted if you're really a Christian? Have you ever doubted your salvation? Have you ever wondered do I know for sure I'm going to go to heaven? Because you think how could a person who says they're a Christian have just said the thing I just said? How could a person who claims to be a Christian have done the thing I just did? Am I really a Christian? Well John was written, 1st John rather, so you could know that you have assurance of salvation.
He says in 1st John 5 13 I've written this to you who believe in the name of the son of God so you may know that you have eternal life. He didn't say so you may feel like you have eternal life. Your salvation is not based on your feelings. It's based on what Christ did for you at the cross. It's not based on what you do.
It's based on what he did. And the Bible promises that God who began a good work in you will complete it under the day of Jesus Christ. You see, salvation is God's work from beginning to end.
He's the author and he's the finisher of your faith. I don't know about you but sometimes I start projects I don't finish. Like my office will get really cluttered and I'll say it's time to clean the office. And I'll start sorting things out and putting them in little piles and I'm almost done. Putting everything in its proper place but I'll just leave a few things out. And then those turn into the new messes again. So I don't always finish what I start.
Isn't it great that God finishes what he begins? Imagine I'm saying I'm going to save that person right there. I'm going to transform them. I'm going to do what I'm done with them. I'm moving on. Wait what?
He completes what he starts. So your salvation is complete. Now John was writing to refute something called Gnosticism that had gained traction. And the Gnostics believed that they had this secret knowledge about God. And they were saying don't listen to these apostles.
Listen to us. They didn't believe that Jesus was an actual physical person walking the earth. They thought he was more like a phantom.
In fact they even said when he would walk along the sand you would not see any footprints. And John's saying that's so lame. This is what you need to believe if you're really a believer. He says in 1 John 4 2 if a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body that person is the spirit of God. In other words John is saying no you have to believe that Jesus was actually God walking among us. God became a man. Man cannot become God but God in this instance became a man fully God and fully man dying on a cross and bodily rising again from the dead and born of the Virgin Mary.
You need to believe all of these things to be a real Christian. So now we come to 2 John starting in verse 1. He writes the elder to the elect lady and her children whom I love in truth. And not only I but also all those who have known the truth because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever.
Grace mercy and peace be with you all from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love. I want you to underline those words in truth and love. God wants us to walk in truth and love.
You really can't have one without the other. In fact in the first four verses of this short letter John uses the word truth five times. You know sometimes you meet people who walk in truth but not in love. And I'm going to use the word truth loosely there. I'm going to say they walk in their version of the truth. They're people that tend to be nitpicky. You know they cross their t's, they dot their i's, they can often be legalistic.
They call it truth but they use it sort of like a sledgehammer. You need to walk in love as well. These are the kind of people where if you're having a great burger they'll come and quote a Bible verse to ruin it. You're taking your first bite and they'll say love not the world neither the things that are in the world. For if any man loves the world the love of the Father is not in him and all that's in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but of the world. Oh.
Or you say hey I'm redecorating my front room. It's all going to burn. Really? But they call that the truth. It's not truth.
It's just their weird way of trying to live by truth. But then we want to live in love. Now sometimes people who say they live in love might, I don't want to say you can be too loving, but you can become too tolerant of everything. In the name of being inclusive and kind and never wanting to appear judgmental.
They'll never tell the truth to someone else. Let's take a doctor as an example. Let's say you went to your doctor for an exam and he found something that concerned him. Now he wants to tell you the truth. He wants to be loving about it. So in the best way he can think of he has to tell you what your problem is so he can tell you what the solution is.
And if that doctor told you you were perfectly fine when you had a problem that doctor is not doing his job. So if I see something in a fellow Christian's life that is harmful to them or dragging them down the Bible tells me I should speak the truth in love. So it comes down to this truth anchors us but love moves us. Truth gives us the message. Love gives us the method. We need to speak the truth in love.
Excuse me. And the perfect example of this is Jesus. He was the personification of truth. He said I am the way the truth and the life. Remember that woman caught in the act of adultery thrown at his feet. Her accuser says the law says she should be stoned. What do you say?
It was a trap of course. And Jesus looked around at them and the Bible says he stooped down and rode in the sand and then he stood up and said let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone. And they left the Bible says from the oldest to the youngest. Then he turns to the woman and says lady where are your accusers. She said I have done Lord. He says neither do I accuse you.
Go and sin no more. I love the fact that he called her lady. I think she had been called a lot of things but probably never lady. He used a proper term to address a woman. A woman of respect.
Almost like saying ma'am. Ma'am lady where are your accusers. Why did he say that? Because he didn't just see her for what she was.
He saw her for what she could become. You see he saw a lady down the road but then he says this go and sin no more. So the love was engaging her and welcoming her but the truth wasn't telling her to go and sin no more. Love is obeying the Lord.
Jesus said if you love me keep my commandments. A husband can say to his wife all day long I love you. And by the way husbands do you tell your wife you love them. Oh let's make you do it in church. I love to do stuff like this. Husbands turn to your wife and repeat this after me.
Greg is an amazing preacher. No no turn to your wife and say I love you. Go ahead turn to your wife and say I love you.
That wasn't that hard was it. Now women you turn to your husband and say I know. But it's a good thing to verbalize your love. Both the husband to the wife and the wife to the husband. It's a nice thing to bring her gifts.
It's a great thing to compliment them. But guys you need to do your job too. You need to provide for her. You need to protect her. You need to be a spiritual leader in the home and most importantly you need to be faithful to her. And she needs to be faithful to you.
So you could have all the compliments and you could be telling the person you love them over and over. But if you're unfaithful to them it kind of undermines it. So in the same way if we love God we should be faithful to him.
Point number two. When we walk in the truth and love people the devil will be opposing us. Look at verse seven. For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Christ is coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver. An antichrist.
Look to yourselves that you don't lose the things we work for but that we may receive a full reward. The Bible tells us that in the end times someone will emerge on the scene called the antichrist. That person has not yet appeared. We don't know who he is nor do I think we should sit around and try to figure out who he is. Because in fact the Bible does not tell us to look for antichrist. It tells us to look for Jesus Christ. And to the point I don't even think antichrist can be revealed until the church is caught up to meet the Lord in the air in what we call the rapture of the church. The Bible says he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way. And then that wicked one speaking of antichrist will be revealed whom the Lord will destroy with the brightness of his coming. So what he is saying is the restraining force in the world today is the Holy Spirit working through the church. And when that work is done and we are caught up to meet the Lord then antichrist will be revealed. So yes and the antichrist is coming but then he talks about antichrists. And this is plural and don't forget the prefix anti doesn't just mean against it also means instead of. So he is saying in the end times there is going to be imitations of Christ or things that will take the place of Christ.
Or people pretending to be followers of Christ who are not indeed followers of Christ. Let me shift gears to 3 John. And John addresses this to a guy named Gaius. It is assumed that he probably led Gaius to the Lord. So he was like a spiritual son in the faith. So now in 3 John chapter 1 verse 2, I am writing to Gaius my dear friend whom I love in the truth. Beloved I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers. That is a great verse isn't it?
A great thing to pray for someone. Now there is a theology in the church today that is sometimes called prosperity theology. Or word faith theology as it is sometimes described.
And the basic premise of it is that we can claim things for our self. You know you claim things by faith. They say that faith is like a force that must be harnessed. And you speak things into existence and you only want to have a positive confession never a negative one. And God wants you to be in perfect health and if you find yourself sick it is because you lack faith. And God wants you to always be financially prosperous and if you aren't it is because you lack faith. So you name it and you claim it.
Or you gab it and you grab it. So word faith theology of course I think is contrary to scripture. But they will often cite this verse.
Verse 2. I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health as your soul prospers. Now look God does want to give us prosperity. We don't have to be afraid of the word prosperity just because some have misinterpreted it.
Because it is used in the Bible in a positive way. In Psalm 1 it says blessed is a man that doesn't walk in the counsel of the ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful. His delight is in the word of the Lord and in it does he meditate day and night. He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
His leaves shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper. So God can and will prosper a believer but we have to ask the question what is prosperity? Could you prosper with good health and abundant finances? Absolutely. Could your version of prosperity be a little different and it might include some sickness that God allows for some reason to keep you dependent upon him? And maybe a financial challenge that will cause you to call upon him.
Again the answer is yes. To prosper is to become more like Jesus. So there are people who are wealthy and blessed by God in both the Old and New Testament. Abraham is described as being very rich in livestock silver and gold. Job was blessed with great wealth. He was the greatest of all the people in the east.
The list goes on. Solomon, Boaz, Joseph of Armethea in the New Testament. Lydia also in the New Testament. So God can bless you with wealth. So there is nothing wrong with being wealthy. It is a blessing to have wealth but with that wealth comes responsibility.
Paul tells us in 1 Timothy 6 17. Tell those who are rich. Don't be proud. Don't trust in their money. Instead trust God. Thank him for his provision. And use what they have. Use their money for good to help those in need. Paul didn't say condemn those who are wealthy and say how dare you be wealthy.
He says no commend them, exhort them, encourage them and tell them that there is a stewardship that comes with that. Coming back to Job he had all this great wealth. But God allowed a series of calamities to come into his life and ultimately he said the result was he came forth as gold.
So it all comes down to how we define prosperity. But then there is good health. Verse 2 pray that you may prosper and be in good health as your soul prospers. God wants you to be in good health. God can bless you with good health.
You should do everything to live a healthy life. You know I think sometimes some Christians like to quote the passage that says bodily exercise profits little. But godliness is good for all things as they eat their 20th donut.
Godly exercise may profit little but it does profit some. So we should use that to justify laziness or letting our body go because your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So does God always want us to be in good health?
Well sometimes yes and there are times he will allow sickness in our life. I think it is a great thing to ask God to heal you. And if you are sick do pray for healing. And the Bible even says if there is any sick among you call for the elders of the church to come and pray for you and anoint you with oil. And the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man will accomplish much. And I can tell you we have prayed over people in this church and we have seen them miraculously healed by God. But does God heal everybody?
The answer is no. He doesn't. I wish he did but he doesn't.
We should ask. We can even ask repeatedly but sometimes he allows sicknesses for a greater purpose. The apostle Paul had what he called a thorn in the flesh. Three times he asked the Lord to take it away and God said my grace is sufficient for you. And this is the apostle Paul who prayed for people to be healed and even raised some guy from the dead. So if God wanted everyone healed certainly Paul could have prayed for himself and been healed. And some will say well it is your lack of faith if you are not healed. Well God does use faith in our healing but sometimes we are deficient in our faith. Like how much faith did Lazarus have when Jesus raised him from the dead?
Not a lot because he was dead. But then we have the instance where there was a woman with a medical condition and she said if I can touch the hem of his garment I will be healed and she did and she was healed. But then there is a story of Jairus whose daughter was sick and he had the faith for his daughter. So sometimes it is the faith of the person praying. Sometimes it is a person praying for that person. And other times it is just the Lord stepping in. I like the prayer of that one guy who said Lord I believe, help my unbelief. But we should pray for his prosperity in our life as he defines prosperity.
My next point. Coming to Christ is life changing. Continuing with Christ is life sustaining. Look at 3 John 1. John says, I rejoice greatly brothers as you testify of your faith that is in you as you walk in the truth. And I love this. I have no greater joy than to know my children walk in truth. That is so true.
No greater joy. You know people have asked me, Greg why do you clear your throat so much? I don't know. Because they need to be healed. Now people have asked me, have you ever thought about just being a full-time evangelist and not being a pastor? In fact when we started our Harvest Crusades back in 1990, I was being asked that by quite a few people. And then one day Billy Graham asked me that question. We were sitting around talking and he said, you know what Greg, I think you should leave your church and no longer be a pastor and become a full-time evangelist. I said, Billy, you know it's almost like Moses said that to me just now and he kind of smiled. I said, your words do carry a lot of weight. Now I'm going to think about that and pray about it. And I did. And honestly it messed with my mind for about three months.
Like should I do that? Billy Graham said it. Surely that's the will of God. And after I thought about it and prayed about it, I realized that I'm called to be a pastor as well as an evangelist. Look, I love to preach the gospel. And it's a privilege to go to a stadium like we'll be going to on July 19th and proclaim the gospel. And to see a lot of people come forward. That's very exciting. But the greatest joy I find in my life is not doing that.
The greatest joy I find in my life is standing behind this pulpit and preaching to you as your pastor. It's true. You say, Greg, you're just pandering to us.
True. No, actually I'm not. I'm telling you the truth. This is where I find my greatest joy. It's great to see people come to Christ.
Yes. But it's even greater to see people grow in Christ. And to see lives transformed. And then to see generations of people where I think of families here that their grandparents served and maybe they've gone on to be with the Lord and the parents and the children and then their children. And I see it just being passed on. That brings me the greatest joy. And seeing my own son, Jonathan, in ministry today. That brings me great joy. It really does.
Whatever my legacy is, the greatest thing I hope to leave behind is just people who have come to Christ and have grown in Christ. C. H. Spurgeon put it this way. And he said this to me personally. He didn't.
A lot of you don't even know who C. H. Spurgeon is. But he was a British preacher for many years ago. He said this, and I quote, A good character is the best tombstone. Those who love you and were hoped by you will remember you. So carve your name on hearts, not on marble. End quote.
Well said. Next point, God's people should underwrite God's work. Third John chapter one, verse five. Dear friend, you've been faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through. Even though they are strangers to you, they have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God. For they are traveling for the Lord and they accept nothing from people who are not believers.
So we ourselves should support them so that we can be their partners as they teach the truth. So John's addressing these itinerant preachers that were traveling around, ministering to the church and sharing the gospel. You know, they didn't have hotels they could go to.
There was no Marriott or Sheridan or Holiday Inn. So he's saying to the Christians, take these guys in. Give them a good meal. Put a rope over their head. Take care of them. Show hospitality to them.
Invest in what they are doing. They don't want to ask non-believers to pay them. We the believers should take care of their needs. Bringing up this point, it pleases God when we support God's work financially. He says in verse six, continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God. It pleases God when we invest our money in the work of ministry. We should never have a discomfort hearing about this.
We should welcome it. Did you know that there are approximately 500 verses in the Bible about faith? Approximately 500 verses in the Bible about prayer. But then there are 2,000 verses in the Bible on the topic of money, possessions, and giving. Yet we get uncomfortable when the subject is brought up. And maybe it's because that's an area that we're not really giving over to the Lord as we ought to, and we're missing the blessing there. The Bible says where your treasure is there, where your heart be also.
So you also share in the reward when you invest your money. They shouldn't go to a non-believer. We should underwrite it. That's why the Harvest Crusades have been free of charge for over 30 years. No charge, right? Now you have to pay for the parking.
We have nothing to say about that. But if we charged, it would be much easier. And by the way, did you know it costs money to put a Harvest Crusade on? I think we get a lot of bang for the buck.
I think we're great stewards of the way that we do it financially. But we want to pay for that so the non-believer will have no barrier put in front of them to hear the gospel. So that's what John is saying. Let's do that. Let's take care of that. Next point. There are real and fake believers in the church.
There's real ones and there's fake ones. 1 John 1, excuse me, 3 John 1, 9. I wrote to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the leader, refuses to have anything to do with us.
Can you imagine? Who is this Diotrephes dude? He wants nothing to do with the apostle John, who personally walked with Jesus?
He loves to be the leader, says John. When I come, I'll report some of the things he's doing and the evil accusations he's making against us. This guy's making evil accusations against the apostles. And not only does he refuse to welcome the traveling teachers, he tells others not to help them. And when they do help, he puts them out of the church. Dear friend, don't let this bad example influence you.
Follow only what is good. Remember those that do good. Prove that they are God's children. And those who do evil, prove they do not know God. One of the greatest criticisms of the church is hypocrisy, right? Too many hypocrites in the church. And I've often said, if you find a hypocrite-free church, don't join it, because you'll ruin it. Every church has hypocrites, and let's be honest, every one of us has moments of hypocrisy.
No exceptions. But we have to consider something else. Jesus told a parable about the wheat and the tares. And the tare is very similar to the wheat, and the story he told is a farmer went out to sow wheat. And then he had an enemy that sowed tares next to the wheat.
Initially, both the wheat and the tare look the same. But as time passes, it's revealed that one is bearing fruit and the other is not. So the point he is making is, in our churches, there will be true and false believers. There will be people that genuinely know the Lord and people that don't. So sometimes people will say, I left my faith because of hypocrisy. That leader was a hypocrite, or this person that claimed to be a Christian was a hypocrite.
Were they? Or were they actually never a believer to even begin with? What if they were a satanic plant? What if it was all a strategy from the devil to put these fake people in who sat next to us in our pews and sang the same songs with us, and gave them the same offering, and even amen at the right times in the sermons, but never were real believers to begin with? And then we actually walked away from our faith because of that tare among the wheat. Then I would say that was a very clever strategy on the devil's part. I think people sometimes walk away from the faith not because they saw so-called hypocrisy, but because they didn't want the faith to start with, and that became their convenient excuse. I'm not justifying hypocrisy, but I'm saying there's fakes out there, so let's get them and throw them out.
Like the artifice. He was throwing out the wrong people. That's a problem with him. But Jesus said, no, that's not for you to sort out.
That'll be sorted out in the judgment. So I don't need to worry about who the tare is. Are you a tare?
Look to the person next to you. Are you a tare? Are you a fake? No, the question you should say is, am I a fake?
I don't want to be the fake. Remember when Jesus said, one of you is going to betray me? What did the disciples say? Is it me, Lord?
I love that. Is it me? You would have thought they all would have pointed in unison at Judas Iscariot. It's him, isn't it? We always knew it was him.
We all wore white robes and he wore a black leather one with his wallet on a chain. No, they didn't know it was Judas. Is it me? So instead of pointing fingers and saying, is it him or is it her?
Make sure it's not you. Remember the story when Jesus was talking to Peter and John and said that John was going to live longer than Peter? Peter didn't really like that idea and he said, well, what about this man? Jesus said, what is it to you? Follow me.
The point of it is simply this. You just take care of yourself and just make sure that you are walking with me. Listen, Jesus Christ is who I signed up to follow over 50 years ago. Jesus Christ has never failed me. Jesus Christ has never been inconsistent or hypocritical or abandoned me. He's kept all of his promises to me. So regardless of what all y'all do, I'm staying with Jesus and following him to the end. And that's what we all should do. As the old song says, though none go with me, so I will follow.
I want others to follow him, but my focus should be on my own relationship with God. My last point, one of the weirdest points I've ever made. Try to write this down, I dare you. Be a Demetrius, not a Diotrophes. Okay, I'll put it on the screen so you can spell it. Be a Demetrius, not a Diotrophes.
Let me explain. Remember I mentioned Diotrophes in verse 9? He says, I wrote to the church about this, but Diotrophes, who loves to be the leader, refuses to have anything to do with us. So here's the thing, it'd be really cool to have your name written in an epistle, to be read for all church history, unless your name was Diotrophes, and it's not such a good thing. But if your name is Demetrius, it's a great thing. So John writes about Diotrophes, then he talks about this other guy, Demetrius, 3 John 1-12. Everyone speaks highly of Demetrius, as does the truth itself. We ourselves say the same thing for him, and you know we speak the truth. What a great reputation Demetrius has.
So who are you? Are you a Demetrius or a Diotrophes? Demetrius had a good testimony. Diotrophes had a poor one. Demetrius was respected by everyone.
John says everyone speaks highly of him. Diotrophes was rebuked by John the Apostle for being divisive and proud. Demetrius was welcoming and faithful. Diotrophes kicked people out of the church and drove them away. Demetrius was a bridge builder. Diotrophes was a bridge burner.
Are you a Demetrius or are you a Diotrophes? So let's wrap this up and conclude. What have we learned? Number one, walk in truth and love. Number two, support God's people and God's work. Number three, be a bridge builder, not a bridge burner. Number four, leave a godly legacy.
Fifth and lastly, don't be a Diotrophes, be a Demetrius. The ultimate example of truth and love is Jesus. He was the very truth. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and it all came together at the cross when he died there in our place.
And I close with this question. He did that to assure your salvation. Do you know that you are saved? Is there any more important question I could ask you right now? Do you know that you will go to heaven when you die?
If you don't, you need to know this. You say, well how can I know? By accepting that Christ paid the price for you, shedding his blood, and it is completed, purchased, and finished. From the cross of Calvary, Jesus cried one word, and that word was, it is finished, that's how it's translated, but it's from the root word, tetelestai.
He said, tetelestai, or it is finished, or it is accomplished, or it is completed. He did it all for you. And you need to say, Lord, thank you for that, and I believe in you.
But there's somebody I'm talking to here that doesn't have this assurance, but you can have it. Listen, Jesus is coming back again. And I ask you, if he came back today, would you be ready to meet him?
What if death knocked on your door today? Would you know you would go to heaven? If not, respond to this opportunity that I'm going to give to you as we pray.
Let's all pray. Father, I pray for any person here or any person watching or listening, wherever they are, if they don't know that they know that they're saved, if they don't know with certainty they'll go to heaven, if they don't know with confidence that they're ready for your return, help them to come to you now, we pray. Now when our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed and we're praying, is there somebody here that doesn't know if they're saved?
They don't know if they're going to heaven, but they want to know. Somebody here that's ready to say yes to Jesus, if that's you, if you want Christ to come into your life, if you want him to forgive you of your sin, if you want to know that you know that you're right with God, I want you to just lift your hand up wherever you are and I'll pray for you right now. Raise your hand up and let me pray for you. God bless you and you and you.
Lift your hand up high where I can see it. Let me pray for you. God bless you. God bless you as well.
God bless you. Maybe you're in an overflow space, you can raise your hand. Maybe you're at Harvest Riverside, you can raise your hand or Harvest Maui.
Just raise your hand up and say, yeah, that's me. Anybody else, you want to be sure you'll go to heaven. You want to be sure you're ready for the Lord's return and you aren't right now, but you want to be. Raise your hand up. I'll pray for you.
God bless you. I'm going to ask every one of you that has raised your hand if you would, please. I want you to stand to your feet and I'm going to lead you in a prayer. Stand up if you raised your hand. Even if you didn't raise your hand, but you want Christ to come into your life. You want to know that you'll go to heaven.
You want to be ready for the Lord's return. Stand and if you would, please remain standing and I'm going to lead you in a prayer. Just stand up. Stand up. Wherever you are, whatever campus you're watching me at, just stand up. We're all going to pray and we're going to get this settled right here, right now.
Okay? Anybody else? Anybody else, stand now and let me lead you in this prayer.
Wait one more moment. Just stand up. Anybody else, stand. All right, you that are standing, I want you to pray this prayer out loud after me. This is where you're asking Christ to come into your life and forgive you of your sin. Again, as I pray, pray this out loud after me. Pray this now. Lord Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner, but I know that you're the Savior who died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead. I choose to follow you, Jesus, from this moment forward. Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering this prayer. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. God bless every one of you that prayed that prayer. God bless you. Hey everybody, thanks for listening to this podcast. To learn more about Harvest Ministries, follow this show and consider supporting it. Just go to harvest.org. And to find out how to know God personally, go to harvest.org and click on Know God.
