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Lessons and Sermons from the Longmire Road church of Christ in Conroe Texas USA
God created man, placed him in the garden and it was beautiful.
It was everything that God intended for it to be.
It was everything that man needed.
But then Satan came and tempted the first couple and sin came into this world.
And man was plunged into sin and the Lord as he approached the first couple, he asked the
question, what is this that thou has done?
Do you understand the consequences
of your actions.
Do you understand the price that will have to be paid in order for man to be saved from
their sins?
The physical price that had to be paid to set man from free is alluded to in the
proclamation of Satan's destruction.
In Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, the Lord says, I will put enmity between thee and the
woman and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head.
And notice it, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The bruising of the heel here is a figure of speech that captures the contrast between
what would ultimately happen with Satan, that is his destruction in the fires of hell, and
that which he will do to Christ, that is simply bruise his heel.
He will put him on the cross, but he will not destroy him.
He will bruise his heel, he will injure him in the most egregious ways.
Yes, he will be raised to life again, but first Satan,
will bruise him by the way of the cross.
And the redemption of mankind will be carried out on a hill called Calvary.
And when we ponder the cost of that redemption, it is right for us to look at the cross
and it is sufficient for us to point towards the cross and the horror of it.
And who can deny the suffering servants plight?
Who can deny what Jesus had gone through on the cross?
Isaiah would describe it for us in this fashion, Isaiah 53 verses one through five.
Who has believed our report?
And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground.
He has no form nor comeliness that we should desire him.
There is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
and we hid as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.
And Isaiah describes for us here what the Lord is going to go through not only
emotionally,
as he is on the cross, but also physically.
You take your mind back to the garden as he's praying in the garden, Luke chapter 22.
He is then praying from the garden as he is in severe stress, paraded from one ruler to
another, and then he is brutally beaten, and then put on a cruel cross of Calvary.
The suffering of Christ resonates with our deepest emotions.
When we think about the cost of redemption, that is normally where we go.
We go to the suffering because we identify with suffering.
We can identify readily with the suffering of Christ in the sense that we would know that
it would have been painful and we can look at that and there's something that we can grasp
onto.
The Prince of salvation paid a terrible price through suffering and it stirs something
within us and so it should.
The suffering of Christ should stir something within you.
I dare say if you can look at the cross and the suffering of Christ and it does not stir
something in you that something is wrong.
But yet the suffering of Christ on the cross does not sufficiently delineate the real cost
of redemption.
You see, many times when discussing the cross and when discussing the price of our
redemption, we turn to the cross and we paint the picture of the cross as the only price
that was paid.
And yet this is not the case.
Suffering was part of the cost, but it is not the net cost, if you will, or the net amount
of
price that was paid.
You see, suffering would happen to those before Christ and suffering would happen to those
after the Christ.
There were individuals who were crucified before the Christ.
The Romans were experts on torture methods.
There were individuals who were crucified before the Christ.
There were individuals who were crucified with the Christ.
There would be individuals after the Christ who would also be crucified.
There will be individuals as the Romans would torture individuals who they then put to
punishment.
They would beat them as same as they beat the Christ.
There were individuals who were beaten and they died when they were beaten.
And so when we look at that, suffering of the Christ, even though the suffering of the
Christ is factored into the cost of redemption, we understand that it cannot just be that
suffering.
because man has suffered before and would suffer after the Christ.
It cannot just be the suffering that he experienced.
There is a cost that is associated with our redemption and that cost is born out in these
three facts that I want to share with you this morning.
Number one, the real cost of redemption is born out in the sovereignty of his station.
In Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 through 15, Jesus is heading through the coast of
Caesarea Philippi
And he turns to his disciples and he said, whom do men say that I, the son of man, am?
And some say thou art John the Elijah, some say thou are Jeremiah, some say thou are John
the Baptist, or one of the prophets.
But the Lord turned unto him and said, but whom do ye say that I am?
And Simon Peter answered, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And the Lord said, blessed are thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed
this unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.
A lot of people at the time speculated about this man Jesus and they had different views
about Jesus.
Some say they're an Elijah, but that's not the case because that was John.
John came in the spirit of Elijah.
Matthew chapter 17 verses 12 through 13 tells us some say that he was just a really good
teacher.
That's all he was true.
Jesus was a master teacher.
The Bible tells us on one occasion it says never spake a man like this.
John chapter 7 and verse.
46 in Matthew chapter seven and verse 28, it says that the people were astonished at his
doctrine when he taught.
And so yes, Jesus was a master teacher, but this is not all he was.
He was not just a great teacher.
He was not just a good man as some would have you say.
No, Jesus was more than that.
He says that he is the son of God.
Now we may be excused for not understanding that phraseology because we did not grow up in
the Jewish customs.
See, when the Jews refer to someone as the son of God, they were not thinking as we think,
little son, big father.
No, that's not how they viewed it or how they understood it.
We get the explanation of that in John chapter five, verses 17 through 18.
We know exactly how they understood the term son of God or son of someone.
But Jesus answered them, my father worketh hitherto.
And therefore, and I work, he says, and therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him
because he not only had broken the Sabbath, according to them, but said also that God was
his father, making himself equal with God.
And so when it says that he is the son of God, he is saying that he is equal to God, that
there is no separation between Jesus and the father, that Jesus himself is Jehovah.
that he is deity.
And so when Peter says, art the Christ, son of God, he is professing Jesus' station in
life.
He is professing his sovereignty, that he is God in the flesh.
And so when you turn your minds to Philippians chapter two, verses five through eight, as
the apostle Paul tries to teach the Philippian brethren the concept of humility, he uses
the Christ as an example.
And he says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
who being in the form of God thought he not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself
of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of
man.
And being found in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross." The apostle Paul writes says, he didn't think it's
something to grasp onto, to hold onto, to be equal with God in the form or equal with God.
What does that mean?
While the Bible is its own best interpretation,
John chapter one, verses one and three tells us what it means to be equal with God.
It says, the beginning was the word, speaking of the Christ, he is the expression.
That's what that means.
Jesus is the expression of the Father.
In the beginning is the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
When it talks about Jesus Christ, it says that He is from eternity.
He is sovereign.
He is holy.
He is divine.
He's Jehovah.
That's who He is.
In John chapter four, verses 25 and 26, notice what it says.
Then the woman said unto Him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ.
When he is come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus said unto her, notice it very clearly here, I that speak unto thee am, and your King
James has the word he there, it's italicized because they added it in there.
They want you to know that they added it in there to complete the sentence, but it would
have been better left off.
It says, Jesus said unto her, I speak unto thee am.
What does that mean?
I am.
Well, let's read it again in John chapter eight.
verses 56 and 58.
If you turn there with me to John chapter eight, verses 56 through 58, the Lord speaks to
the Jews and he says, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was
glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet 50 years old and has thou seen Abraham?
How is this possible?
Jesus said unto them, verily, verily I said unto you before Abraham was, notice it, I am.
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Before Abraham was, I am.
What does this mean?
When Jesus says that he is or I am?
Well, go to Exodus chapter three, verses 13 through 14.
I hope you brought your Bibles, because this is what we're going to do.
We're going to look at what the Bible says about the sovereignty of Christ and about who
he is so that we can figure out the real cost of salvation.
Consider what the Bible says in Exodus chapter three, verses 13 through 14.
It says, Moses said unto God, behold, when I come to the children of Israel, you're
sending me to emancipate them.
When I come there, he says unto the children of Israel, and I shall say unto them, the God
of your fathers has sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, what is his name?
What am I gonna tell them?
And God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
And he said, thou shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me unto you.
It could not be any clearer.
Jesus was trying to emphasize this to the Jews.
The same thing that Moses was told all the way back here at their emancipation from
Egyptian slavery.
says, the great I am is standing in front of you.
Jesus is deity, he is sovereign.
And so therefore Isaiah would write this, Isaiah chapter nine.
And verse six it says, unto us a child is born, a son is given, and the government shall
be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
That's who he is.
When we talk about Jesus the Christ, we're talking about Jehovah.
We're talking about the Creator and the Sustainer of this world.
That's who we're talking about.
Now I want you to notice
the real cost of our redemption.
The real cost of our redemption as alluded to the apostle Paul by the apostle Paul in
Philippians chapter two and verse seven.
If you go back there it says, he made himself of no reputation.
The word reputation there is the idea that he divested himself of the rightful dignity
that was incumbent upon his station.
He divested himself of the rightful dignity that was incumbent upon his station by
descending to an inferior position.
And so what did the creator of the world do?
Well, the creator of the world, what he did is he gave up glory.
He was made in the likeness of his creation.
He was made just like what he created.
And I don't know how to illustrate this.
As best as I can, I can read to you scripture, but even then I don't think we can fully
understand that Jehovah God comes from the eternal realm.
He is a spirit being and then he is made like his creation.
Notice what the psalm says in Psalm 148 verses 7 through 13.
Notice what the psalm says about his glory.
He says, praise the Lord Jehovah from the earth he dragons
and all deeps fire and hail and snow and vapor stormy wind fulfilling his word mountains
and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars beasts and all cattle creeping things and
flying foul kings of the earth and all people princess and all judges of the earth both
young men and maidens old men and children let them praise the name of jehovah for his
name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven
That is the glory of God.
That is who He is.
He has all of this glory.
He is enthroned as we sing, and angels surround Him and worship Him.
And He is leaving that environment of glory.
And this is what He became.
Notice it in Isaiah 53 and verse two.
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground.
Notice it, He has nor form nor comeliness.
That Jesus is not beautiful contrary to what the pictures might try to tell you.
The Bible says Jesus was not a handsome man.
Jesus was not a beautiful man with long flowing blonde hair and blue eyes.
That's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says he has no form nor comeliness that when you shall see him there is no
beauty that you should desire him.
I want you to think about this in contrast with Psalm 148 verses 7 through 13.
He has all glory.
all things living, all things breathing, and all things inanimate, the psalmist says,
should raise up their voices in giving glory to him because he deserves that glory.
And yet he leaves that and comes down and is made in the likeness of a man, not even a
beautiful man.
That's what he gave up.
John chapter one, verses 10 through 11 says, he was in the world and the world was made by
him and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own and his own received him not.
I need you to understand that he is the one who created the world and he came to the
world.
He's the one who owns everything and yet he from his own was not even received.
Jesus gave up glory.
The glory that is associated with him inherently.
He gave that up.
in order for us to have redemption, but not only did he give up glory, he gave up the
realm of eternity.
He gave up the realm of eternity.
He did not stop being the eternal one.
It's impossible for him to stop being the eternal one.
He is divine.
The verse means that Jesus gave up the environment of eternity.
He left the eternal realm for the corporeal realm.
He left the spiritual realm for the temporal realm.
He came here and he lived
like you and I lived and as best as we can try to understand it I don't think we can.
Can we understand what it would be like to be up there and then have to come here?
Do we understand what it would be like to be up there?
Notice it in the scriptures, Revelation 21 and verse 4.
Notice what the Bible says of what it's going to be like up there for us.
It says, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death
Neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things
have passed away." None of those things happen up there.
But yet he's going to leave that and experienced all of that here as he watches his friend
die.
And the Bible says Jesus wept.
He left that environment where none of those things were taking place.
In verse 27 of Revelation chapter 21 it says, And there shall in no wise entering anything
that defiles.
neither whatsoever work of the abomination or make of the lie, but they which are written
in the land's book of life." Now look at what he came to.
Man of Sorrows, the song says, what a name.
For the Son of God who came, ruined sinners to reclaim.
Hallelujah, what a Savior, the great God of heaven, the creator of all that is seen and
unseen, the powerful one, the one and only potentate.
It is he who wears the title, Man of Sorrows.
He is the man, he went from a place where there was no sorrow in order to become a man of
sorrows.
That's what he gave up.
Isaiah chapter 53 says in verse three, he is despised and rejected of man, a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not.
Don't you understand that none of those things are innate to where he comes from, but yet
he left all of those things.
We don't even want to be in the presence of those whose mouths run through the earth.
We as Christians, we understand that there are certain people we simply don't like to hang
around.
There are certain people we don't want to be around because the only vocabulary they have
is four-letter words.
Their mouths run through the earth.
The only things they say are contrary to righteousness.
But he paid the price in that he not only left that environment, there was nothing wrong
up there.
There was no sorrow.
He came and he was sorrow for us.
But he also left an environment where there was no sin.
To be surrounded by sinfulness, the Bible says.
He was in a place where sin was non-existent and thrusted into a place where sin was
rampant.
Hebrews chapter 12 and verse three will then say this to us, for consider him who endured
such hostility of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in
yourself.
He says, you don't understand what Jesus left.
You're worried about the hostility that sinners has towards you.
Please understand that he left the realm where there was no sin in order to come here so
that he could save you.
That's what he did.
He left the eternal realm.
But not only did he give up glory and the realm of eternity, the Bible says he embraced
humility.
The Bible says he became obedient.
Now do not misunderstand the inherent authority vested in the Christ as the God man.
He can no more divest himself of his authoritative nature any more than he can divest
himself or cast off his deity.
Jesus is inherently authoritative.
Why?
because he's Jehovah.
However, when made in the likeness of man, he became obedient.
He humbled himself.
He chose to place himself in that position.
Hebrews says in Hebrews chapter five and verse eight, though he was a son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered.
The son of God did not proudly continue in his high station, but descended from it for a
while.
and placed himself in the lowest condition among men, serving everyone with humility and
diligence as a servant or a bond man.
He subjected himself to his parents.
He subjected himself to the rulers of the day.
He subjected himself ultimately to the Father, the Bible says.
He did all of those things willingly.
He left the environment of glory.
He left the environment of eternity.
He became humble unto death, the Bible says.
I dare say that we can read it and we can ponder it, but we cannot fathom the cost of what
Christ did.
That He left all of those things to come here.
We know what it's like here.
We want to go where He was.
We want to go over there.
He left there so that He can bring us over there.
That's the real cost of our salvation.
The real cost of our redemption is seen in the fact that the God of heaven divested
himself of glory and the eternal realm embracing humility so that we might be given a
salvific opportunity.
But not only is it seen in this, sovereignty, but also it is seen in the singularity of
his sacrifice.
The cost of a thing is often justified by its peculiar nature.
When you buy something and it's very rare, it's going to cost you a lot.
There are certain
vehicles that are rare, it's going to cost you a lot.
That's by nature how it works.
Some things are expensive because they are rare.
And so the price of our redemption is Christ on the cross.
That's the price of our redemption, but yet the net value is unequivocally tied.
The net value is unequivocally tied to the singularity of that sacrifice.
The fact that there's only one.
There's only one sacrifice.
There's no other sacrifice.
There's only one.
The Hebrews writer bears this out in magnificent fashion in Hebrews chapter 10, verses one
through four.
He says, for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of
those things can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by
year, make the comers there unto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered for the worshipers once purified.
would have had no more consciousness of sins.
He says if it worked then it shouldn't continue to have to be offered.
But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Sin is the most devastating thing known to man.
The wages of sin is death the Bible says in Romans chapter 6 in verse 23.
It separates us from God.
And even though the law was perfect, it was not made to take away sins, nor was it
designed for that purpose.
The law of Moses was not designed to take away sins.
It was designed to bring them to the one who can take away sins.
And the Hebrews writer drives this point home and says, if the Old Testament law could
provide a cleansing, then there would be no need for another.
And so from when shall our sacrifice come?
Hebrews chapter 10 verses five through 10, or five through seven rather, tells us.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he said, sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not,
a body thou hast prepared for me, and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had
no pleasure, then said I, lo, I come, and the volume of the book, it is written of me.
When you read this book from front to back, it's about Jesus.
Front to back, it's about Jesus.
In the volume of the book it's written of me, to do thy will.
The sacrifice prepared for salvation of man is in Christ alone.
Let me say that again.
The sacrifice prepared for salvation is in Christ alone.
There is no other way of salvation.
It is only in the Christ.
So the Hebrews writer would say in Hebrews 10 and verse 14,
For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
There's just one offering.
Acts chapter 4 and verse 12 says, Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no
other name under heaven given among men whereby we might be saved or must be saved.
There is no other name.
Jesus is the only hope we have.
If all the animals of the earth were offered for God for the forgiveness of sins, it would
profit man nothing.
If a world of the most million of the million of the world's most sincere people gave
their lives to save man from sin, it would mean absolutely nothing.
It must be the Christ.
He is the singular sacrifice for our salvation.
That is what the Bible says.
Now I want you to notice the real cost.
I want you to notice the real cost of our redemption.
Go with me to the garden.
Go with me on that night.
when he was betrayed and he is in the garden and he is waiting that pending death.
Matthew chapter 26 and verse 39, Jesus is pleading in the garden.
Jesus is pleading in the garden and he says if let this cup pass from me if man's
salvation and your glory Father can be accomplished in any other way.
Please let this cup pass from me It is the cry of humility and humanity in the face of
immense adversity Saturated with a submissive humility not my will but thy will be done
That's Jesus in the garden and he is praying to his father
and the real cost of our redemption is tied to God the Father answering the prayer of God
the Son in the negative.
You get upset when God says no?
Don't you realize that He said no to His Son so that He could save you?
I don't know how many of us would do that.
I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I could do that.
When my son comes to me and tells me, please save me from pending death and brutality from
people who hate you, what would you say?
But here's the real cost of our redemption.
Here's the real cost of our redemption.
Jesus says not my will but thy will.
I know I don't deserve this, but I'm going to follow your will.
Furthermore, you take your mind to the cross as you once again note the real cost here of
our redemption in Matthew chapter 27 verse 39 through 40.
And those who pass by blaspheme him wagging their heads and saying, you destroy the temple
and build it in three days.
Save yourself.
If you are the son of God, come down from the cross.
the level of restraint and meekness to ignore those statements?
Knowing that if he wanted, he could come down from the cross with a fury this world has
never seen and subsequent eternal destruction from which it could not recover.
If he wanted to, he could come down from the cross, but he did not.
It is the restraint of Christ and his love for us, that's the real cause.
When he had the opportunity and the ability to save himself, he did not.
He thought of us.
That's the real cause.
The real cause of our redemption is Jesus practicing restraint, remaining on the cross
because He is the only one who can do it.
That's the singularity of His sacrifice.
He's the only one who could do it.
That's the real cause.
The singularity of His sacrifice highlights the real cause of our redemption, yet last and
in no wise the least, I want you to consider
that it is not only the sovereignty of His station, it is not only the singularity of His
sacrifice, but also it is the sinlessness of His service that points to the real cost of
the cross.
The life of our Lord was a picture of a life that God wants us to live.
In fact, the Hebrews writer would say in Hebrews 4 verses 14 and 15, seeing that we have
such a great high priest, which has passed into the heavens Jesus,
The Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our
infirmities, but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
So you need to understand, you need to live in a way, the same way Jesus lived, without
sin.
Some people say, well, you cannot help but to sin.
That's a lie.
Because the Bible says you need to live without it.
Can you live without sin for five minutes?
Yes?
Can you do it for Yes.
Can you do it for an hour?
Yes.
Can you do it for two?
Yes.
Can you do it for three?
You get the point?
You can.
That's why the Lord says in 1 Peter chapter two verses 21 and 23, for even here on to
where he called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you
should follow in his steps.
What are those steps, Peter, who did no sin?
That's what Christ wants you to do.
following those steps who did no sin neither was God found in his mouth who when he was
reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatened not but he committed himself to
the one who judges righteously God wants us to live a life free from sin But what does the
Bible say about sin?
Ezekiel chapter 18 and verse 20 the Bible says the soul that sinneth it shall die if You
sin you die you are eternally separated from God Romans chapter 6 and verse 23 says
that is fair that you die.
The wages of sin is death.
The just rewards of sin is death.
Romans 5 and verse 12 says, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death
by sin and so death passed upon all men for all have sin and everyone who makes themselves
guilty of sin is deserving of death.
They deserve to die.
but the real cost of our redemption.
Christ is not counted among the guilty.
He is not merely innocent of the charges that they leveled against him.
He is absolutely and unequivocally righteous.
And therein do we see the real cause of our redemption is the only one who did not deserve
to die is the one who died.
The one who did not deserve to be on the cross is the one who went to the cross.
The cross is unfair in the sense of sin and death.
It's not fair that Jesus go to the cross.
It wasn't fair because they lied about him.
The things they said about him was not true.
His conviction was not fair because it was a farce.
But in essence, the death that he suffered on the cross was not fair because he had never
sinned.
But yet there he is for us.
More than the suffering of the cross, more than the mocking of the Lord's Christ, the
hefty price of our redemption is the blood of this innocent Christ spilled on the cross.
He didn't deserve it, but he took it.
That's the real cost of redemption.
When you stand at Calvary and you truly consider the cost, my question to you is can you
remain casual about sin?
When you understand that even though He was sovereign, He left that to save you from sin.
That even though in his singularity of his sacrifice he understood that he was the only
way and he remained there even under immense pressure and stress.
You understand that a life of sinless service highlights, highlights his commitment to
save you.
Jesus wasn't sinless for two hours of his life when he was on the cross.
Jesus lived an entire life without sin.
That's 33 years on this earth living every single day with one view in mind.
I have to stay right so that they can be right.
That's the Christ.
If that is the price of your redemption, how can you treat it so lightly?
The cross does not merely save us, it summons us.
It calls us to purity, it calls us to appreciation, it calls us to obedience.
He paid a debt he did not owe.
because we owe the debt we could not pay.
The only fitting response to a price like that is a life surrender to Him.
He gave everything.
What are you going to give this
or the better question for us who are Christians, what have you been given?
What does your life look like?
Is it a life fully surrendered to the Christ?
Are you enjoying salvation?
Have you made use of salvation?
But yet your life is not fully lived towards Him?
I dare say all of us in this room, if we gave half of what Christ did and someone else
took that gift and treated it poorly, I think we'd have something to say about
But He gave everything.
And so that should prompt us to do the same.
Maybe it is the case this morning that you recognize what the Lord has done for you.
You need to understand that He paid a glorious debt.
A debt that you could never repay.
He went to the cross.
He died.
And on the third day He was risen again.
So that He might defeat sin.
And He did.
So that you might defeat sin.
He gave that opportunity.
That's the gospel of Jesus the Christ.
The ball is not on your court.
The Lord has provided for you a way to be saved.
He gave everything.
What are you going to do now?
Are you willing today to submit yourself to the Christ?
Are you willing to believe that glorious gospel?
Are you willing to repent of sins knowing that God doesn't want you to live in sin, he
wants you to turn from sin?
Are you willing to confess the name of Christ before witnesses?
Are you willing to be baptized in water to have all your sins washed away?
And to be saved?
And to be added to His Kingdom, His Church?
As Acts chapter 2 and verse 47 tells us, are you willing to do those things considering
what He has done for you?
I hope that you are.
I hope that you will do that.
And if you have a desire for us to help you do that, we ask that you make it known while
we stand and as we sing.