A Formula for Fellowship

Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated. Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers. 1 John chapter 1 and in a moment. I'm going to begin our reading in verse 3.

When I was a younger man, I pastored a church down in Florida while I was in college. At a little town named Felsmere was famous for several things. was famous for the sugar cane and there was a sugar mill down there. It's also famous for fishing and hunting and cattle ranching and many of the people made their living Catching frogs, frog legs. It was a good business.

I had a deacon who did that. He would go out and Hunt frogs. His name was Neil. Very fine man. I enjoyed listening to him tell about his escapades out there in the swamps.

Neil told me a story. He said, Pastor, Before I became a Christian, before I got saved, he said, not only did we hunt frogs, he said, we hunted alligators.

Now it was against the law to kill alligators because they were protected. And he said, in order to kill an alligator, we had to do it very carefully and stealthily because of the game warden.

So A frog hunter goes out in a contrivance, a sled with an airplane engine on it, with a propeller that just pushes it over the marshes at incredible speeds. And these froggers have a light and they sit in a high seat and steer that sled all over those marshes. You shine the eyes of the frogs and gig the frogs. But he said ever so often we would shine the eyes of an alligator.

Now, one good alligator was worth a whole lot more than the frogs. The alligator hide, very expensive, and could be sold on the black market. And he said we would poach alligators, but he said we would never shoot the alligator because if we shot the alligator, The game warden would hear.

So what we would do would be to come alongside the alligator, who would still be on the surface of the water with the light in his eyes, and hit that alligator with a hammer right between the eyes, stun him, cut his throat, pull him into the boat, and we had. Our Gator.

So he was telling me about this, and he said, one night, Pastor, He said, I saw, I believe, the biggest alligator I ever saw. I certainly didn't want to miss him. He said, I trained the light on his eyes and pulled my boat up right alongside him.

Now, the men sit in kind of a high seat on these sleds, these air boats. He said, I reached down and got my big hammer. And you'd have to know Neil because he's a small, wiry guy, muscular built. And he said, I got my My hammer, and I certainly wanted to hit him hard enough to stun him, and I certainly didn't want to lose him.

So he said, I lifted the hammer in the air and gave a mighty stroke with that hammer, but he said, I swung. and missed his head altogether. He said, when I did, he said the force of that hammer went up behind me and flipped me out of my seat. Straddle that alligator. This is the funny part.

He said to me, He's a pastor. I got back in the boat without getting wet. And I can just see that scene in my mind's eye. I can see Brother Neil riding that alligator and clambering back into that boat. I thought about that as I thought about the passage of scripture that I'm going to be sharing with you today.

And it's really a passage for those of you who are sitting astraddle an alligator. And I want you to listen because the child of God can slip into sin. But when he does... He ought to have a desire for a quick recovery. And he ought to fear sin as someone would fear.

A ferocious alligator. I want to tell you how to get back in the boat. I want to tell you how to restore your fellowship with God.

Now, look, if you will, in verse 3. By the way, the title of our message: A Formula for Fellowship: How to Get Right and Stay Right with God. Look in verse 3. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you. that ye also may have fellowship with us.

It's obvious where the title came from, A Formula for Fellowship. that ye may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father. and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

Now the way to have fullness of joy is to have fellowship with God the Father. With His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and with your brothers and sisters in Christ. That's obvious. That's the way to have fullness of joy. The most miserable man in the world is not an unsaved man.

The most miserable man in the world is a saved man out of fellowship with God. Isn't that right? And so John is telling us here how to have fullness of joy. And fullness of joy is in fullness of fellowship with God and with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and with your brothers and sisters in Christ.

Now right away I want to say two things about verse 3. Verse 3 tells the two relationships we have with God if we're saved. It is one of sonship and it is one of fellowship. one of sonship and one of fellowship.

Now sonship and fellowship are not necessarily the same. They ought to be the same, but they're not always the same.

Now he speaks of the Father. And the reason he speaks of God as the Father is because he is to those of us who have been saved. Father, that's sonship, that's established by birth. And by the way, God is only the father of those who have been born again. Isn't that right?

You know, some people talk about the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. That's not true. God is not the Father of all. He's only the father of those who've been born into his family. Jesus said in John chapter 8 and verse 44 to the Pharisees, you are of your father the devil.

And the lust of your father you will do. God is the Father of those who have been saved. He came into His own and His own received Him not, but as many as received Him, to them gave He the right, the power, the authority to become the children of God. That's what the Bible says in John chapter 1.

So God, we know God as Father. when we get saved. That's a matter of life or death. But after we're saved We're to have fellowship with Him. That is a matter of light and darkness, life and death, and light and darkness.

Now you see. You can have life. and still walk in darkness. Look, if you will. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us.

And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ. These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

This then is the message that we've heard of Him, that God is light. And Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

So you can have sonship without having fellowship. You can be walking in darkness as a child of God. And if you're walking in darkness, your fellowship ceases. And when your fellowship ceases, your joy ceases.

So I have some words for those of you who are sitting on an alligator this morning. How to get back in the boat, how to be restored to God, how to get back where you ought to be. You don't have to keep getting saved when you fall out of fellowship. I fell out of fellowship with my father many times, but I didn't have to keep getting born. At least when I would disobey my dad, he would carry me to the woodshed and.

Whom the Lord loves, He chastens also. If you're living in sin, God's going to carry you to the woodshed. Uh and to get you right. But you can do it yourself and not have to go to the woodshed.

Now, you boys and girls may not know what I'm talking about when I say the woodshed. We didn't have a woodshed, really. We had a pump house, but it was just as good. My dad had a way, he was kind of an athlete when it came to administering corporal punishment. He had a grip like a vice.

He'd get me with his left hand, and at the same moment he could take his belt off, just like that, one movement. Double it up. and around we would go, just like that. I had to learn. I had to wise up.

I had to smarten up. It's a terrible thing. I used to get out there on the end of that thing, and that centrifugal force was terrible. I'd catch the end of that whip. I finally learned not to do that, but to get in close and get him around the knees.

It's very hard. Very hard to give somebody a whipping when they're hugging you. Mm-hmm.

Now, kids, that's worth coming to church for. If you didn't learn anything else, I mean, when that chastisement begins, get in as close as you can. Just get your father around the knees and say, I love you, Daddy. I love you. Just get in as close as you can.

But you get way out there, you're going to catch the end of that thing.

Well, That's not in the notes, but that's good for you to know. What I'm trying to say is this. But I was still his son. There was sonship there, but there was not fellowship there.

Now what John is talking about here is fellowship, how to have fellows fellowship. with God the Father and with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He says in verse 6, if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

Now. How do you get right with God and stay right with God? It's right here. Here's the formula for fellowship. First of all, Your sin must be exposed to the light.

Now notice what it says here, if we walk in the light, verse 7. Your sin must be exposed to the light. Who is the light? God is light. And in him is no darkness at all.

You just open up your life to God. And you say, Lord, is there anything in my heart and in my life That is not right with you.

Now many times we don't want to do that. We hate the light because our deeds are evil, but your sin must be exposed to the light. It's a very interesting thing. Look, if you will, in verse 6. If we say, do you see that little trinity of words?

If we say, look down in verse 8, if we say, do you see it? Look down in verse 10. If we say, Three times, if we say, if we say, if we say. Mm. What is happening is this.

There are people who say one thing when the other thing is true. And John here is talking about the evolution of a lie. He says in verse 6, if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. Now that's what happens on Sunday morning when a person is fixing to backslide. Are getting ready to backslide, or maybe is already backslidden.

He comes to church on Sunday morning. When the song service is going on, he sings. When the handshaking is going on, he shakes hands and says, How are you, brother, sister, and Christ? In Sunday school, he's nodding his head and saying amen and underscoring his Bible and all of that.

Somebody says, How are you doing? He says, I'm just fine. Praise the Lord, I'm just fine. But he's lying. He's lying.

And the Bible says, if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. We begin, first of all, by lying to others. And then we begin to lie to ourselves. Look in verse 8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.

And the truth is not in us. If you tell other people a lie long enough, you begin to believe it. You begin to lie to yourself, and you begin to say, Well, I'm really all right. I'm really not so bad. I mean, after all, it's justifiable.

It was just a mistake, it was an error, or what I'm doing is really, God doesn't frown on that, or whatever. And so you begin to alibi, you begin to excuse, you begin to call it a mistake, rename it, or whatever, and say, What a sin. You begin by lying to others, verse 6, then you begin to lie to yourself, and finally you lie to God. Look in verse 10, if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. You see, God says that's a sin, that's wrong.

God's word is speaking to you. You say, oh, no, God, oh, no, no, no, no. You're wrong, Lord. You're wrong. And we begin to lie to God.

When you do that, You just stonewall God and you shut out the light. You just shut out the light. You lie to others, you lie to yourself, you lie to God. And therefore, you never really have that fellowship with God because you're not walking in light, you're walking in darkness, you have pulled the veil of darkness over your sin.

Now. What you must do. is just expose yourself to the light. Just say, here I am, Lord. Here I am.

Holy Spirit of God, shine your light, the searchlight of your holiness, into my life. And let me know, Lord, if there's some sin, some wicked way in me. Search me, O God, and try me and know my heart and see if there be some wicked way in me. Just simply open yourself up to God.

Now don't be afraid to do it because this is not God's way to punish. This is God's way to bless. God wants to lead you to fellowship and God wants to lead you to joy. But so many of us just want to pull the cloak of darkness over our lives and we say, oh, we've not sinned. We deceive ourselves.

We deceive others. We deceive God. But so just expose your sin to the light.

Now the light is the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit of God will point out to you that thing in your heart, in your life, that may be wrong. and he's quite capable of doing it. You don't have to go through morbid introspection, probing around in your innards, trying to find out what's wrong. The Holy Spirit of God is quite sufficient, and the Holy Spirit of God will show you if there's anything that has brought this fellowship between you and your heavenly Father.

Now, listen carefully. You need to learn the difference between Holy Spirit conviction and satanic accusation. The Holy Spirit convicts, the devil accuses. Have you got it? The Holy Spirit convicts, the devil accuses.

Now Jesus said, He will convict you of sin, but he says of Satan, he is the accuser of the The brethren, he accuses you before God. and he accuses you to yourself.

Now what is the difference? If you don't know the difference between Holy Spirit conviction and satanic accusation, you're going to be in deep trouble most of the time trying to have fellowship with God. Let me tell you how the Holy Spirit convicts in contradistinction to the way the devil accuses. First of all, The Holy Spirit of God will convict you legitimately.

Now what do I mean by that? I mean that the Holy Spirit of God will never convict you of any sin that's already been confessed and cleansed.

Now he'll not bring you into double jeopardy. He will not bring it up again. If, let's say that you lied to your wife. And you said, Oh God. I'm so sorry.

I've told a lie, and you confess that, and in this case, you need to confess it to your wife also. I told a lie. I'm sorry. God, forgive me. And God forgives you, whether she does or not.

God forgives you. God forgives you. And that's the important thing. God forgives you, and you're forgiven. Then later on, you feel dirty and guilty about that.

Who brought it up again? Not God. Not God. The devil brought it up. The devil wants to accuse you to bring you into double jeopardy.

Now the devil is dirty. Remember what I told you? Before you sin, do you know what the devil says to you? Oh, go ahead and do it. You can get away with it.

But after you sin, he'll say, you'll never get away with it. You'll never get away with it. Isn't he something? You see, he wants to bring up that sin that has been buried in the grave of God's forgetfulness. Don't you let him do it.

The Holy Spirit will convict you legitimately only of sin that's not yet been confessed. But the devil will accuse you illegitimately of sin that's already been forgiven. And here's another way the Holy Spirit of God will convict you: the Holy Spirit of God not only will convict you legitimately, but He will convict you specifically. Specifically.

Now the devil will accuse you generally. If he cannot get you to dredge up some sin that's already been forgiven, he'll just try to make you feel guilty over anything. are over nothing. He'll just say you're no good. Has he ever pulled that on you?

You're just no good. You're unworthy. God doesn't love you. You're just vile. You're just a sinner.

You're no good.

Well, you're not a sinner. You're the righteousness of God in Christ. You've been saved, redeemed, born again, made a partaker of the Holy Spirit. But the devil will just like to accuse you generally. But the Holy Spirit of God convicts you specifically.

The Holy Spirit of God will tell you exactly, precisely where it is that you've gone wrong. You don't have to do it. You don't have to dig around. You don't have to probe around. You just expose yourself to the light.

And the Holy Spirit, like a skilled physician, will put his finger on the sore spot and push. And he'll say, you told a lie. Are you a proud? Or you were arrogant, or you were cruel, or you were selfish, or you were dishonest, or you were lustful, or you watched that show that you ought not to have watched, you told that lie that you ought not to have told. He will name it exactly specifically.

You see, until he puts his finger on the sore spot and tells you exactly what it is, you really will never ever have a sense of forgiveness. But when the Holy Spirit of God convicts you legitimately and specifically, then you're going to have that sense when you get cleansed of wonderful cleansing and wonderful forgiveness. I'll tell you the third thing: the Holy Spirit of God will convict you redemptively. I mean by that this. That He wants to bring you back into fellowship.

He wants to give you joy. He wants to bring you back.

Now, accusation leads to despair. Conviction leads to confession and cleansing. Accusation drives you from God and causes you to become morose and guilt-ridden. That's not of the Holy Spirit. That's of the devil.

The devil is the accuser. He doesn't want to redeem. He wants to condemn. But the Holy Spirit of God wants to draw you into fellowship with himself. And so first of all, sin must be exposed to the light.

Number two. Not only must your sin be exposed to the light, But it must be expressed. to the Lord. It must be expressed to the Lord.

Now look, if you will, in verse 9. He says here, if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Do you see that? You see, once the Holy Spirit of God shows you what's wrong, then what do you do?

You confess it.

Now the word confess It's made up of two Greek words, homo, which means the same, homo legeo, which means to speak or to say. It means to say the same thing. To say the same thing. Even our English word confess is very similar. Con, meaning with, fess, to speak, like fess up.

Say the same thing.

Now the Holy Spirit of God. Legitimately. Specifically, redemptively says that Adrian is wrong in your life. Then I say what he says about it. I confess my sin.

I agree with God. I don't stonewall God. I don't say I have no sin. I don't lie to others. I don't lie to myself.

I don't lie to God. I agree with God. I agree with God. I express it to the Lord. I confess it.

I agree with God. Do you see that? If we confess our sin, that is, if we agree with God, if we say with God what God says about it, that it is wrong, then we're getting ready for this fellowship with God. This is the confession of sin, to agree with God about that sin. There's one thing that God will not accept for sin, and that is an alibi or an excuse.

Don't try to rename the sin. Don't say it's a mistake and I need to be fixed. Say it is a sin and I need to be forgiven.

Now, if you will do that, then the Bible says you'll be cleansed. But now, wait a minute. How do you confess that sin? How do you do it? Let me mention three things.

First of all, confess it immediately. Immediately, this is in the present tense, if we confess. That means do it right now. Don't just wait till the end of the day to confess your sin. Don't get down at the end of the day by your bed and say, Now, Lord, as I look back over this day, I see I did all these things, forgive me.

That's better than nothing, but that's sure not the best way. Much less don't just do it at the end of the week or ever so often. But do it immediately as soon as you're aware of sin. You need to come into place in your life where you're very sensitive to sin. You know, the most sensitive part of your body is probably your eyeball.

And if you were to get a little bit of grit or sand in your eye, would you say, I'll get that out tonight? Or I get that out at the end of the week? No. You stop and you say, Hey, I've got something in my eye. I need to get that out.

It's bothering me, it's irritating me. You need to be that sensitive to sin to get that out of your life immediately through the day. Whenever I'm aware that I have done something that displeases the Lord, I stop immediately at that moment. At that moment, and say, Oh dear God, I confess that is wrong. The Holy Spirit of God put his finger on my heart and said, That's wrong.

I said, You're right, Lord, that's wrong. I agree with you. Just do it right there.

Now do it, do it. Do it immediately.

Now, what so many of us do is we kind of ride a spiritual roller coaster. Look up here, and I want you to see this. We're down here. We're out of fellowship with God. And then we hear somebody preach and we go to a revival meeting and God, the Holy Spirit, speaks to us and we come up here and we confess our sin and we're right with God and then we get out of fellowship and we get away and we start to go down again and we're down here and then we somebody speaks to us or we read the Bible or something.

Then we come back up here and then we're back down here. The only problem is this, that our valleys take much more time than our peaks. We're way down here for a long time and then we'll rise up and then we're back down here and then we'll rise up and then we're back down here. Have you ever ridden that roller coaster? A lot of folks have.

You know what I'm talking about. In fellowship, out of fellowship.

Now that's what they think the Christian life is. But let me tell you what the Christian life is. It is not so much riding that roller coaster. The victorious life is you're not right with God and you get right with God and you're up here and you're going along and then a lustful thought comes in or then a dishonest thing comes in or then anger comes in or then pride comes in, whatever. And you're aware that sin is there.

At that point, before you go down there and before you fail and before you get so far away, at that moment you confess that sin. Do it immediately.

That's the way you live victoriously. It's not that you never sin. It's not that you don't have temptations. It's not that you don't fail. But my dear friend, you do not have to go through those long valleys of despair.

If we confess our sin, do it immediately. Secondly, do it specifically. Don't just pray. Lord, if I've sinned, forgive me. Aren't we all guilty of doing that?

Oh, Lord, if I've sinned, forgive me. But how does the Holy Spirit of God convict you? He convicts you specifically. How do you confess? Confess specifically.

Call it by name, nail it, and name it, and it will be cleansed. Say, Lord, I told a lie. Or Lord, I should not have read that. Or Lord, I should not have done that. Or Lord, I failed to do this.

And call it by name. He says, if we confess our sins, Not our sand. Not our sin nature, just that we somehow have failed, but if we confess our sins. Do you see that? And we sing that little song, Count Your Many Blessings, Name Them One by One, and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your many sins, name them one by one. It'll surprise you what you've done. If you'll do it, But now listen, only the sin that the Holy Spirit convicts you of that has not yet been cleansed. Anything that's in the grave of God's forgetfulness, you don't have to bring up again. God will never bring you to double jeopardy.

Do it immediately.

Do it specifically. Thirdly, Do it confidently.

Well, I love this part. If we confess our sins, verse 9. He is what? Fateful. And what?

Just to forgive us our sins. and to cleanse us. from all unrighteousness.

Now think about the words faithful and just. Did you know that if he did not do it, therefore he would be unfaithful and unjust? Why? Why must God forgive? Can we speak of God must?

Doing something? Yes. because Jesus died for those sins. And the Bible says in the next chapter, he is the propitiation, the satisfaction for our sins. The blood of Jesus Christ would make God unfaithful and unjust if He did not forgive you, because it is that blood that has the cleansing power.

Verse 7: The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, does what? It cleanses from all sin. If He were to fail to forgive you, if He were to fail to cleanse you, He would be going back on the contract of Calvary. He would be dishonest, He would be unfaithful, He would be unjust, He would be a liar, He would be a crook. I can know that I know, hallelujah, praise God, that if I agree with God the Holy Spirit about my sin, if I agree with Him, He is faithful and just.

to forgive me.

Well, you say, yeah, some things. Oh no. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from what? Oh, hallelujah. All unrighteousness.

Don't you let that devil accuse you? Don't you let that devil condemn you? I am telling you. that he is faithful and just. to forgive our sin and to cleanse us from all un Righteousness.

You confess that sin confidently. Do it immediately.

Do it specifically. Do it confidently. You don't have to go around carrying that load of guilt. This is the wonderful thing about being a child of God.

Now, here's the third thing, and I'm finished. Not only must that sin be exposed, to the light. And not only must it be expressed to the Lord, It needs to be expelled from the life. Look in chapter 2 now, in verse 1, and see why John is doing this. Is John just trying to tell us, oh, it really doesn't make any difference how we sin?

Oh, no, or whether we sin? Oh, no. He says this. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. You're saying, Pastor Rogers, you're making it awful easy.

Uh to get forgiven. Why, you're just making it sound like sin is of no consequence. All we have to do is just simply tell God. Just tell him. Oh God, I sinned.

I'm sorry. Why, it sounds to me, Pastor, It just sounds to me like that's just a license to sin. Oh no, listen. Pay attention now. John says, I'm not writing these things to encourage you to sin.

I am writing these things that you sin not. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He is the propitiation, the satisfaction for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sin of the whole world. What He's saying is this. My desire, my goal for you is that you live.

a sinless life. That's the goal. That's the aim. But if you sin, Here's the way to be cleansed. Here's the way to be forgiven.

John knowing that we're not perfect and will not be till we get to heaven. holds nothing less than a perfect standard, however. Why do I love God? Why do I serve God?

Well, so far as condemnation, I'll never come into condemnation no matter how much I may sin after I get saved if I'm truly saved. I'll still go to heaven. If I'm truly saved. You say, wait a minute. That's right.

If I'm truly saved. I am truly saved. God will carry me to the woodshed, God will chastise me, but if I'm truly saved, I'm going to heaven. Then why, Adrian, are you so careful? About dealing with these day-by-day things in a practical way, because I want fellowship with God.

Because I want joy. John says, I'm writing that you might have fellowship, that you might have joy.

Well, why do I therefore serve God? I'd just as soon eat dirt as to willingly sin. Why? Listen. There are three reasons why anybody would serve God.

A slave serves because he has to. An employee serves because he needs to. A son serves because he wants to. I'm all three. I am a slave.

I'm a servant. And I'm a son. And I serve him because I have to. because I need to, but most of all because I want to. He's done so much.

for me. And so This is not an inducement to sin, it's an inducement not to sin. These things write unto you. that you sin not. But isn't this a wonderful salvation?

I mean really, isn't it? Isn't it wonderful to know that He forgives our sins judicially and never again will sin be brought up against us to send us to hell? But then as a son, In order that we might have fellowship with us, he tells us, if our sin will be exposed to the light, If our sin will be expressed to the Lord, it can be expelled from the life. That's wonderful. Today, there's only one way to have this wonderful salvation.

and it is to receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord. You don't become a Christian by joining a church or getting baptized. By giving your money by keeping the Ten Commandments or by obeying the golden rule. None of these nor all of these can save. Salvation is the gift of God.

The minute you receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, Every sin is put beneath His blood. and you are forgiven and cleansed. and made wider than the driven snow. the moment you receive Christ. Your sin debt is paid for by what Jesus did on the cross.

And God comes into your heart and He gives you a new nature. and heaven becomes your home. the minute you receive Christ. The Bible says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That doesn't mean intellectual belief alone.

That word believe means trust. Trust Christ. and you'll be saved. And the same Jesus that saved me as a young teenage boy is the Jesus who will save you. And the same Jesus who has kept me all these years.

is the Jesus who will keep you. and the same Jesus that thrills my heart. Is the one who will thrill you. Oh, if I could do it for you today, if I could make that decision for you, I would, but I cannot. I preached as best I know how, but nobody can make that decision for you.

You must receive Christ. You must do it. And if you will receive him... It will come into your heart and save you. Let's pray together.

Father God. Thank you for your word. What a blessing. And Lord, I just pray that you draw many people to yourself. In Jesus' name.

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