Love, love, love, baptism Sunday. We have young people signed up to be baptized today. We have middle-aged people signed up to be baptized. We have chronologically gifted people signed up to be baptized today. And, you know, these young people, we make sure when they're under age 10, you know, we have some, you know, 8, 9, 10-year-olds, we talk with them, make sure they know what they're doing. And, you know, I kind of like when people who've been walking the Lord for years, had a messed up life, they get right with the Lord, Jesus changes their life.
I love that. And a lot of these young kids haven't gone through stuff like that. And this thought hit me. When I see an 8-year-old get baptized, isn't it great somebody giving their life to Jesus when they're young and they're going to escape a lot of the heartache that some of y'all went through because you didn't get saved until you were 30 or 40 years of age. And so, hey, we're all sinners by nature and choice. I don't care how old you are. We all need to give our life to Jesus.
And so I love watching it all. And we had, I think, 8 people for service that just came because somebody drug them to church, kicking and screaming or that's just what you do on Sunday. We weren't planning on getting saved and right with the Lord Jesus. And 8 people came forward, got saved and got baptized.
Isn't that great? Hey, some of y'all who are new to Christianity, it can be a little bit confusing. You know, we talk about things like the Holy Spirit and prophecy and end times and Bible and this and that.
And you can get really, I don't know, confused with all this stuff. There's a simple message though that we preach. That is our core message.
All the other stuff is kind of extraneous. The core message we preach, anybody know what it's called? It's called the what? The gospel. That's just an old English word that means the good news.
How many of y'all agree with me? Our culture needs some good news today. Man, you've seen what's going on with balloons in Washington, D.C. and this person hating that person. Suicide is at an epidemic rate. Depression is at an epidemic rate.
Anxiety is at an epidemic rate. There's something going on out there. There's something weird going on. And this bad news messed up the world. I got the best news anybody's ever heard and it's called the gospel. Hey, sometimes when people come here and they're new to Christianity or church or whatever, they say, you know, I'm confused by all the religions. You know, there are hundreds of religions out there and it's really confusing.
Can I make it really clear to you? There's not hundreds of religions out there. There's only two religions. One religion says to be saved, to be made right with God, to go to heaven, salvation is achieved.
You got to do this and you can achieve it. If you're a Catholic, that's the Catholic religion. That's Islam.
That's Buddhism. Salvation is achieved. The gospel says, no, salvation is not achieved, it is received. Jesus offers it and you just receive it. If this helps you, every other religion spells salvation, D-O. Do this, do that, and if you're good enough, maybe you'll get into heaven.
Jesus spells salvation, D-O-N-E. It is done. I paid the price. I purchased the salvation.
Now, you just receive it from me. And we've been going through the gospel of Mark. We're now at Mark chapter seven. And Mark chapter seven is actually a beautiful picture of the gospel. Now, keep in mind, there are four biographies of Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They don't contradict each other. They just look at things differently.
And so this helps you. As we're reading Mark seven, you may want to go to your Bible to Matthew 15 because in Matthew 15, he's telling the same story. Matthew just fills in some different details. And, you know, as we've been going through this, you understand, we're now at a very stressful time in the disciples' ministry. They have been wearing themselves out. They've been serving. They've been ministering. They've been casting out demons.
They've been in all this stuff. And Jesus has said, let's go take a vacation. And when they tried to take a vacation, remember, the crowds followed them. And they haven't had any time to rest. And so now Jesus says, I'm going to go take a break.
Isn't it great that even God and flesh, Jesus Christ, understood? There are times just to go take a break. And so what he does is he goes 30 miles to the west, to the beach. He does what some of y'all do when you're stressed out.
Go to Myrtle Beach, go to the Alabama theater, play some putt-putt, just relax, okay? And so Jesus says, we got to go to the beach. And this is the first and only time in his ministry, actually, he'll do this maybe a little bit more next week, but he leaves the geopolitical boundaries of Israel. He is now in a foreign country. He's now in what would be modern-day Lebanon.
Verse 24, it says, from there he arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon and he entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but he could not be hidden. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, that's a demon, heard about him and she came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking him to cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her, let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs. And she answered and said to him, yes, Lord, but even the little dogs under the table get to eat the children's crumbs. Then he said to her, for this saying, go your way, the demon has gone out of your daughter. And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out and her daughter lying on the bed. To understand this core central message, don't, do not get confused by Christianity. Christianity is the most simple religion in the world. To understand our core message, you've got to understand three things.
Number one, you've got to know who you are. Who was this lady? Verse 26 says, she is a Greek, she is a Syrophoenician. Syrophoenicia is an incredibly wicked area. She lives around the town of Tyre, T-Y-R-E, and Flavius Josephus, a historian who lived at the time of Jesus, said that the most bitter enemy of Israel at that time were people who lived in Tyre.
This is an anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish area. And Syrophoenicia, there's a famous lady from Syrophoenicia, you read about her in the Old Testament, probably the most wicked woman in the Old Testament, her name was Jezebel, you ever heard of her? She's from Syrophoenicia. Matthew goes a little bit farther and he said, not only is this lady from Syrophoenicia, he says she's also a Canaanite, that's the descendants of the people who were living in the land when Israel came in, they are degenerates, they are perverts, I'm not even going to tell you the kind of junk that they engaged in. This is not a good group of people, these are wicked, wicked people, and this lady is part of that group. I'm kind of curious about this lady because I want to ask you, where's her husband? See, in those days, ladies didn't approach a man, but for some reason, this lady, her husband doesn't approach Jesus, she approaches Jesus.
This is conjecture, but I wonder if maybe she's a promiscuous lady, maybe she has a child out of wedlock. Point is, this is not a good, upstanding person, and somehow her family has been open to a demonic, satanic influence. So it's possible that this is a promiscuous anti-Semite from a group of people known for their sexual deviancy, and she says, Jesus, can you cast the demon out of my daughter? And Jesus says something but it sounds kind of cruel. Look at verse 27, Jesus said to her, well, let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs. Now, I believe in this whole WWJD, what would Jesus do kind of stuff, I'm into all that kind of stuff, let's try to be like Jesus, but fellas, that has its limits. I won't go around calling women dogs, okay, just a little piece of advice here. In fairness, Jesus isn't really calling her a dog, he's using an analogy.
There are two words for dogs in Greek, one is this nasty scavenger dog that were unclean animals, there's another one, it's a little dog, it's a little family dog. And Jesus is giving an analogy, he says, look, this gospel has got to be offered to God's chosen people first, Israel. Now, the day is going to come very soon where they're going to reject the gospel, and then we open up the gospel to everybody, Jew and Gentile. But right now, I got to offer it to the Jews first, and I can't offer it to you, and I love her comment. She doesn't say, you can't talk to me like that, and I got pride and I got dignity, you know what she says?
She says, I understand, but every now and then the dog gets a little scrap that drops down from the table. See, she understands she's a messed up person that does not deserve the mercy of God. And for you to understand the gospel, you need to understand you're a messed up person. I'm a messed up person, preaching to a bunch of messed up people.
The Bible puts it this way, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Ma'am, I'm sorry, do you know what you call somebody who commits adultery? An adulterer. Sir, do you know what you call somebody who has sexual relationships outside of marriage? They're a pervert. Do you know what you call, ma'am, somebody who slaughters their baby, born or unborn?
We call them murderers. We are all a bunch of sick, messed up, perverted people. If you think you're a good person, a good person who deserves God's salvation, you don't understand the gospel. Gospel, first of all, is we're all messed up people.
Are you with me on that? Because see, we live in this weird society that wants to celebrate how great everybody is. We ain't great people. We're all messed up people. To understand the gospel, number one, you have to understand who you are. And then number two, to understand the gospel, this central message, you have to understand who Jesus is. Not only do you have to know who you are, we're all messed up people, you have to know who Jesus is.
And it's very interesting. In verse 24, it says, Jesus wanted some alone time. Do you see this? But it says, but he could not be hidden. Hey, you can take prayer out of school if you want. You can write all the anti-conversion laws you want.
You can have HR seminars and talk about how we not to have religion in the workplace. You can do all that you want to try to do to hide Jesus Christ, but he cannot be hidden. He is King of Kings, Lord of Lords, God in the flesh, and you can't hide Jesus. In Matthew 15, 22, this lady, again, she's not a Jew. In Matthew 15, 22, she calls Jesus the Son of David.
That's interesting. How has a Gentile pagan recognized something that the religious leaders in this chapter didn't even recognize? This is the Son of David. That is another word for the Messiah. In other words, she said, Jesus, you're not just any man. You're the one that God has been prophesying would come for thousands of years.
You are the Son of David. And then she says something really interesting in verse 28. She calls Jesus Lord.
Do you see that? Here's what that word Lord means. It means you're the one in control. You're the one in charge. For you to be born again, it's not enough to say, I'm a messed up person. You also have to say, and I see that you Jesus Christ are Lord, I'm surrendering my life to you. You're in charge. One of the best little picture, I mean, I've shared this with y'all before.
I can't think of a better illustration than this, of the Lordship of Jesus. Now, let me just say this. I drive a truck and I know how to drive manual transmission. It's a manual transmission truck, okay? I got to establish my masculinity before I tell you this story about myself, okay?
So I drive a truck and it's a manual truck. But when I was gone, I was dating about 16 years old. I had gone out with her for a couple of times. I'd picked her up at the house.
And then she said, hey, there's something different next week. I'll pick you up at your house. I said, that's fine. So she pulls up in her dad's pickup truck and it's manual transmission. And she says, do you want to drive? I said, sure.
And I looked at that. She said, now you know how to drive manual transmission, straight drive, don't you? I did what every red-blooded American male would do in a situation. I lied and said, absolutely.
What do you think? I'm sure I know how to drive that. So I get in the driver's seat. She gets in the passenger seat and we start going down the road and this thing is jerking. Her heads are going through the window.
There are pieces of the transmission lying on the ground. And she finally says, stop. You don't know what you're doing, do you? And I said, no, ma'am, I don't. And she said, pull over. And I pulled over and she got in the driver's seat and I got in the passenger seat. And it's amazing how much smoother things go when somebody who knows what they're doing is driving the vehicle.
I'm talking to somebody right now. The reason your life is messed up is you're in charge. You're in control. You try to live your life the way your Facebook friends tell you you ought to live your life. You've adopted this messed up world's values.
Incidentally, a world that's killing itself left and right, that's medicating itself left and right. You've adopted their values. You're in charge. You're in control. And I want to ask you a question.
How's that working out for you? Maybe today is the day where you pull over and you say, Jesus, you are God in flesh. You are King of kings and Lord of lords.
And I'm getting in the passenger seat and Jesus, you take the driver's seat today. That's what lordship means. That's what lordship means. To understand this message, you have to know who you are. I'm a sinner, just like you. We're messed up people. Secondly, you have to know who Jesus is. I'm just going to make this clear as I possibly can. He is God in flesh that took your sin upon himself and paid the price. He died in your place.
That's who we're talking about here. You have to know who you are, who Jesus is. And then the third thing to understand this gospel message is you have to understand what to do. What do we do?
I mean, it's not enough to have this head knowledge. You'll often hear us say this. We're in this church. To be saved, you have to put your faith in Jesus. You have to believe in Jesus.
Now that sounds good, but what does that mean? Does it mean you believe all these facts about Jesus? He is God's Son. He died on the cross. Is that what faith means? James says something in James chapter 2. He says, hey, demons know all those facts, and they ain't born again.
Hey, when I say you have to have faith in Jesus, it doesn't mean you just believe all these facts. There's got to be more than that. I heard this story one time. I don't know if it's a true story.
I've heard it before, and it may be true, may not be, but I like to lie to you if the story fits, and so I'm going to use this story right here. In the 1860s, there was a real tightrope walker named Charles Blondin. He amazed people. He put these tightropes up, and the guy was absolutely incredible, and one day he put a 160-foot tightrope over this, over Niagara Falls, and when that tightrope was up there, let's see a picture.
Can I see a picture of Niagara Falls so they can kind of get in their brain, or not, whatever y'all feel like doing. All right, so there's a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Blondin rode a bicycle across that tightrope. The people are amazed. He got stilts and walked across the tightrope.
The people are amazed. They say he actually brought a portable stove and cooked an omelet over Niagara Falls on this tightrope. The crowd is there, and they're just blown away, and when he gets to the other side, he says, I'm going to do one more trick. I'm going to take this wheelbarrow, and I'm going to push it across Niagara Falls. How many of y'all think I can do that? Everybody raise their hand.
They just saw him ride a bike across Niagara Falls. He said, all right. How many of y'all think I can put a person in this wheelbarrow and push that person across Niagara Falls? Everybody raise their hands. He said, all right. Who wants to get in the wheelbarrow? And nobody raised their hands. And Christianity is saying, I not only believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died for my sins, I am now going to surrender my life to Jesus.
I'm getting in that wheelbarrow. You have to know who you are. You have to know who he is, and you have to put your faith in Jesus Christ. And what do we mean by faith in Jesus? See, Matthew 15, 28, again, same story. Matthew says this. He says that woman was saved because she had put her faith in Jesus.
I got it. But what does it mean to put your faith in Jesus Christ? There's an interesting little verse in this story of this woman in Matthew chapter 15. In verse 25, here's the most beautiful picture of what I mean when I say you've got to put your faith in Jesus. In verse 25, here's what the lady says. It says in verse 25, she worshiped Jesus, and then she cried out, Lord, help me. That's saving faith right there. Number one, she worshiped Jesus.
She says this is not just any man. This is God in flesh. If you're going to be changed today, you've got to worship Jesus and say you're God. Second thing she did is call him Lord. She says as of this moment, I'm no longer in charge.
You're in charge. You're Lord. And then she prayed the most powerful prayer any human can ever pray, help me. Do you know that word means rescue? Do you know the name Jesus means rescuer? What she said is, Lord, my life is messed up.
I've made a mess of my life. You're Lord, and now I'm just saying help me. Beloved, somebody here today needs to cry out, Jesus, help me. See, faith is what happens when your life is falling apart, your sin has finally caught up with you, everybody has turned their backs on you, and you don't think you're going to make it, and you're at the end of your rope and you say, Lord, help me. Lord, save me. Like this lady named Annie.
Watch this. I'm staying in these seedy motels, and I remember laying there on my bed looking in the mirror at myself, thinking that God was angry with me. I would get in the shower and I would scrub my body, and I would think I'll never, ever be clean. I started free-basing cocaine, and one night I just decided that I was just going to get higher than I could than I've ever been before because I just wanted to erase all the pain, the pain of the cancer, the pain of my uncle, my sister and my grandpa dying within three months of each other, the pain of losing all those years with my family up in the Midwest, the pain of losing all my friends, losing my cars, losing everything I had ever made. I took the hit of that coke, and I fell back. I went completely blind. It's like the whole room, the light that was on in that room turned dark, and I remember laying there, and I felt like this demonic presence just come over me, that I was completely alone, and I got really, really scared, and I just instinctively knew. I knew that I was at death's door. I was in this dark, dark cave, and I knew, I knew it was over, and I saw my family. I saw my funeral, and I was in the coffin, and everybody was crying, and they were wiping their faces, and they were saying she was just a prostitute. That's when I said, Jesus, please save me. I don't know if you're real, but I don't want to die. The ambulance came, and the doctor came up to me, and he grabbed my hand, and he said, you are lucky to be alive. You have so much drugs in your system, little lady.
You should be dead. God must be with you, and I knew that Jesus heard my prayer, and I laid there, and I had this peace come over me that was nothing I had ever felt in my entire life, and I knew God gave me a second chance. I got better, and I started reading my Bible. I recovered and was afraid to go to church.
I'm on an ex-prostitute. Do I think if I walk in church, people are going to look at me and really love me, but I walked in that church, and people embraced me, and God just really started doing that inner healing, and the Holy Spirit was just like speaking to me, telling me that I was beautiful, and that I was chosen, and that I was set apart, and that I was sanctified, and I was a holy vessel for Him. I started to stand on Jesus' words that I'm whole, that I'm healed, that I'm pure, that I'm a virgin in Him, and that gives me peace.
Beloved, listen. When you understand who you are, you're a messed up person that's done some bad things. When you understand who He is, He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords who died for those bad things and came back to life, and when you finally say, you are Lord, Jesus, save me. At that moment, things change, and there's a lot of things that happen, but let me tell you two things that happen when you put your faith in Jesus. Number one, you are changed.
In Matthew's account, in Matthew 15, 28, you know what happens after all this? He looks at that lady, and he says, woman, your daughter's okay. Hey, a few moments before, she had been compared to a dog, and now he says, woman? Now, that's not redneck.
Hey, woman, go get me a beer. That's a term of endearment. In fact, in John chapter 2, Jesus calls His mother the same thing, dear woman. Beloved, when Jesus comes in, He absolutely changes everything. In fact, Paul put it this way.
If any man, any woman, any child is in Christ, they're a new creation. The old things are done away with, and you say to God after you get saved, and you're baptized, and the devil starts to play head games with you, and He says, I saw you come forward and get baptized. Aren't you the same lady that had the affair? And you get guilty, and you say, God, Satan's actually right.
You know what God says? What affair? I don't remember what affair you're talking about. That's done away with. Hey, aren't you the one that killed your baby?
God, He's right. I killed your baby. I don't remember that.
You're my child. I don't remember any of that. Hey, in just a moment, we're about to have a funeral in this place. Do you know that? Some of y'all gonna stand in this water, and the old you is going to die, and you're gonna be buried in this water, and you're gonna come out a new creation in Jesus Christ.
When you get saved, Jesus changes you. In fact, Darlin and I, we're taking y'all to Israel. Some of y'all to Israel this year.
We have a tour guide that we've used for year after year after year. She's a Jew that has no interest in converting, okay? And we've shared the gospel with her, and she's had some of the greatest theologians in the world that she has guided, and they've shared the gospel.
The most brilliant minds. She doesn't care. But a little while back she said, you know, I led a group here in Israel. It kind of rocked my world. What group was it? Usually she said it was a bunch of women with a bunch of tattoos. And one night y'all just started talking about how Jesus changed their lives. They were prostitutes. They were drug addicts. They were messed up people. They're called, she said, have you heard of this thing called Teen Challenge before?
And I was like, yeah. And you know what's interesting? The changed lives of men and women did more to impact that lady than my logic and my theology ever did. Jesus changes people. And the second thing that happens when you put your faith in Jesus Christ is Satan's power is broken. Verse 30 says that this demon disappears.
He leaves the family. Now look, I'm going to tell you what the Bible says. Do you think you're independent?
You're living your own life and you're calling the shots? The Bible says, let me kind of give you a glimpse of reality. The Bible says you either serve, you either belong to God or Satan. The Bible calls Satan the God, little g of this world.
Again, there's no such thing as independence. You either belong to God and you're part of the kingdom of light or Satan and you're part of the kingdom of darkness. Can I tell you what's on Satan's mind? Now y'all understand Satan's not illiterate.
He can read the Bible like you do. Satan knows what the Bible says, that in the end Satan is destroyed and he is cast into hell and Satan says, I can't change that cause he's God and he's more powerful than I am. But what I can do is take as many people with me down to hell as possible. He is the ultimate suicide bomber who says, I'm going to detonate and destroy myself, but I want to kill as many people in hell with me as possible.
I don't understand this, on of is what I've seen time and time again. When you turn your life over to Jesus, you no longer have dual citizenship. You're no longer a citizen of the kingdom of hell. You're now a citizen of Jesus's kingdom of righteousness.
You now belong to Jesus. Somebody needs to hear me today. Things are starting to wind down. They're winding down cosmically.
If you're like me and you get into Bible prophecy, it is absolutely breathtaking as you see what is going on in our world and you compare that to what the Bible predicted is going to happen. We're there. You keep thinking you have time.
You don't have as much time as you think you do. Things are winding down cosmically. Things are winding down for some of you personally. I love, I love baptisms, but can I just be honest with you? Every time we have baptism Sunday, it makes me kind of sad. Cos this hasn't just happened once.
This has happened numerous times. It's scary. There's somebody sitting where some of y'all are today and you know that you're wrecking your life and you need to turn it over to Jesus. You know you need to get right with the Lord.
And there's some weird power that's just keeping you right there in that seat. I'm not talking about old people. I'm talking about young people who finally broke free and said, I'm giving my life to Jesus.
I'm picturing one right here, right here. And he came young and strong, 19, 20 year old. We baptized him. The next week he's dead. And I say to myself, what if that man had said, I'm not giving my life to Jesus.
He only had, he didn't realize he had less than a week left. That's happened numerous times. And so I'm saying to some of y'all, today's the day of salvation. Why keep serving this wicked master that's making your life miserable when there's a new sheriff in town that says, I want to come in and I want to take over and I want to change your life and I want to do that today. So just a moment. I prayed. I'm not going to tell you how many people God put in my heart that I think we're going to get spontaneously saved and baptized today. But I think there's some people in this place today that when we stand and pray, if you're tired of controlling your own life and you want to surrender your life to Jesus, I'm going to pray a prayer and I'm going to say these words. When I say these words in Jesus name, amen. I want you to break free from whatever that is that's holding you there in your chair.
And I want you to come forward right here. And I want to ask, you know, listen, we've got a lot of people signed up already to be baptized. If you're signed up and you're ready to go, when I say in Jesus name, amen, I want you to come as well.
Okay. We're all going to come and I'm going to pray, pray a prayer with you and we're going to go out those doors and one by one, we're going to baptize you. Now, if you're saying I want to get baptized, yeah, but I don't have clothes, we got clothes, you know, stuff to put over your clothes.
We got towels, we got all that. Yeah, but Chad, you know, I got the shirt at TJ Maxx last week and it's a great shirt and I don't know if I want to get it wet. If you're concerned about you getting your TJ shirt wet, you're not ready to get saved.
Okay. But if you're tired of destroying your own life and you realize Jesus died for your sins and he paid the price and you're ready to die to that old past and be buried and come back up and it's a new day in Jesus. When I say in Jesus name, amen, I want you to come.
Would y'all all stand up with me? I'm not trying to beat this dead horse, but I want to make sure we're all right with each other here. When I say in Jesus name, amen, those of y'all who are signed up, come. Those of you who said, I didn't come ready to give my life to Jesus, but I'm ready to do it today and get baptized and seal this thing and today's going to be a new day in Jesus. I'm ready to have a funeral and die to my past. When I say in Jesus name, you come as well. You with me? Father, in the name of your son, Jesus.
The sun is starting to go down. We ain't got a lot of time left, Father. Jesus is coming back soon. Father, there's some men and women in this place today. They don't know what to do. They've hit a brick wall.
Life doesn't make sense. They don't have any hope. They're depressed and they're anxious. They're searching, Father.
Today, what they needed was presented to them. What they need is Jesus. Father, in the name of Jesus, I speak against every force of hell that would lie to people and tell them to stay in their seat. I speak against the forces of hell that's messing with these people.
They're playing mind games with these people. I speak against all that and I proclaim salvation today. Today is a day of fresh starts of new beginnings. In Jesus name, we pray.
Amen and amen. Come right now. Come, come, come. Anybody in this place?
Thank you. Come. Anybody else? Come.
Today's your day to leave that mess behind and turn your life over to Jesus. Is there anybody else? Come on.
Good, good, good. Come, come, come. Y'all, come on. Squeeze in here because we've got some more people coming. Come.
Anybody else? I hate to point people out, but you're the camera operator. Praise God that the camera operators come forward and then go make a stand for Jesus. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. In just a moment, I'm going to lead us all in a prayer.
We're going to file you out one by one. I want you to do something. When you stand in that water, for just a moment, let your mind wander and remember where you've messed up. When you go in that water, just for those few moments, I want you to imagine all that mess is being left right there.
When you come out, I don't want you to ever think about what you did again. I want you to talk about it. It's a new day in Jesus Christ.
That mess is left behind. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ. I want you to do this. I want you all for just a moment to forget about everybody else who's here, even the people beside you. Now just close your eyes. Now it's just you and Jesus in this place. I want you to say this to Him, but I want you to mean this. You can say it out loud.
You can say it in your heart. It's now you and Jesus. Say this to Jesus. Jesus, I am a sinner. I'm a messed up person. But Jesus, I believe you died for my sins. You paid the price. And I believe God raised you from the dead. Jesus, you're alive right now.
Now this is so important. Oh, say to Him, Jesus, I turn away from my sin and I turn to you. Please forgive me of all my sins. Come and take control of my life. Take the driver's seat. And take me to heaven when I die.
That's it? What your Bible says, my Bible says all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. You have called upon the name of the Lord, so you are saved. Can you guys head out this way?
And as they're ahead now, here's why I need y'all's help. Jesus, He says some really interesting stuff. You know, Jesus says in the Bible, I think it's in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said, hey, can I tell you what happens when this happens, what's happening in heaven? Because I've been there.
Jesus said, I live there for eons. Let me tell you what happens in heaven when one person gets right with God. The angels throw this party and they shout and they sing and they clap. There's this loud party in heaven when one person gets right with God.
We got more than one that got right with God today. And so can we do this? And I know five guys are sounding good and we're getting hungry and I get all that. But can y'all stick around for a few minutes and can we compete with the angels today? And when these people come out of the water, can we shout and praise and clap and rejoice like this is the greatest thing that ever happened?
Because this is the greatest thing that's ever happened to these people. Ron, you and your team lead this brother. You came along, put me back together, and every desire is now satisfied. Here in love. Oh, there's nothing better than you. There's nothing better than you, Lord. There's nothing better than you. I'm not afraid to show you my weakness, my failures and flaws.
Lord, you've seen them all and you're still gonna be free. There's the God of the mountain. There's the God of the valley. There's my praise. Your mercy and grace won't find me here. Oh, there's nothing better than you, Lord. There's nothing better than you. Oh, there's nothing better than you. There's nothing better than you, Lord.
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