Forrest: Well, you grab your seat.
Forrest: Good morning.
Forrest: I'm Forrest, Lee Pastor here at Multiply.
Forrest: If I've not met you, welcome.
Forrest: Glad that you are here.
Forrest: Glad that you're here to join us.
Forrest: We're jumping into this new series called Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
Forrest: And the title of my message today is Only by the Blood.
Forrest: This uh Blood, Sweat, and Tears is what you say when you've put all your effort in, when you've given it your all, when you've left it on the field, you left it on the court, you've done everything that you can.
Forrest: You say, I've given my blood, my sweat, my tears, I poured out, I've gave it every single bit of me.
Forrest: And I'm thankful and excited about this message as we look through what Jesus did for us during this Easter season and this passion time as we look at the story of Christ leading up to Easter Sunday and how he's the one who gave blood, sweat, and tears for us.
Forrest: Now, uh, this last year I gave some blood and at the doctor's office, it was not my proudest moment, by the way.
Forrest: I didn't eat any food before I went to the doctor's office.
Forrest: You know where this is going.
Forrest: Uh I was there getting my blood drawn, and the nurse was taking blood out of both of my arms, and she was having a hard time finding the vein in one of my arms, and I made the mistake of looking down and seeing the vial of blood that was being filled up, which is a mistake because of what's happened in the past to me, some issues that I've had.
Forrest: And so I tried to quickly turn my head away and look away, but would have been done have been done.
Forrest: And all of a sudden, just the curtain started going dark, and things started closing in.
Forrest: I know what it means, I know what it feels like to pass out.
Forrest: I've done it a number of times, and I just uh looked at her and I said, I'm going down.
Forrest: And she thought I was joking, and then she said that I fell over and I kicked her so hard that she could not believe it.
Forrest: And I came back too with six or seven dirt nurses and doctors staring at me, and I said, I'm back.
Forrest: They were like, Welcome back, they had ice on my head.
Forrest: Oh man, this has happened to me more than one time.
Forrest: I don't do very good with I'm okay with other people's blood and circumstances I've been in, but my for some reason, my blood, but I'm super thankful that doctors and nurses, and even some of them that are in our church, that they aren't deterred by blood, they're not grossed out by it, doctors, nurses, ENTs that are not uh grossed out.
Forrest: But the reason is when they see that blood, they can stay calm because they know what to do with it.
Forrest: And in the same way, Jesus poured out his blood, sweat, and tears for us, and it wasn't chaos, it was a part of the plan.
Forrest: This rescue plan that God had enacted.
Forrest: Makes you think about the ending of the first Rocky movie.
Forrest: Has anybody seen Rocky?
Forrest: He's at the end of the movie and he's won the fight, and he's in the ring, and he's just bloody and sweaty, and and he's given every single bit of himself, and he wasn't just fighting for himself, because you know at the end he just yells over and over again, Adrian! Adrian! Because he wasn't fighting for himself, just himself, he was fighting for somebody else, and so was Jesus.
Forrest: See, Jesus gave to us his blood, his sweat, his tears, his ultimate effort, and what ends up happening is that the enemy wants to trick us into thinking that we somehow can strive and that we can be so great and that we can be clean just by our own performance and success.
Forrest: Our striving, giving of our own blood, sweat, and tears.
Forrest: But a lot of times what it ends up being is that we're striving, we're working hard, we're putting everything, all of our effort into life, and even some of us get in a place where we start feeling guilty because we feel like we got to do more and more and more and provide more and all the the rat race that is life every single day.
Forrest: But I wonder, I wonder, I wonder if the thing that we've been trying to earn has already been given to us.
Forrest: And today, as we look at what Jesus did for us, we're gonna look back at a moment, the night that Jesus was arrested, and how he instructed and what he told his disciples as they were at the table, and he gives his disciples this preview of what the cross is gonna mean.
Forrest: And so, if you're with me, turn in your Bible.
Forrest: If you got your Bible, Luke chapter 22, look it up on your phone, starting in verse 17.
Forrest: It's also gonna be on the screens.
Forrest: This is what happened.
Forrest: This is the scene.
Forrest: Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it.
Forrest: And then he said, Take this and share it among yourselves, for I will not drink wine again until the kingdom of God has come.
Forrest: Verse 19.
Forrest: He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.
Forrest: And then he broke it into pieces and he gave it to the disciples, saying, This is my body which is given for you.
Forrest: Do this in remembrance of me.
Forrest: After supper, he took another cup of wine and said, This is the this cup is the new covenant between God and his people, an agreement confirmed with my what?
Forrest: Blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
Forrest: And then he speaks to the betrayer.
Forrest: But at this table, sitting among us as a friend, is a man who will betray me.
Forrest: For it has been determined that the Son of Man must die.
Forrest: But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him?
Forrest: Jesus, surrounded by his disciples and even his betrayer.
Forrest: In a moment of trying to give them a preview and try to just explain what's about to happen in just a few short hours as he's going to go to the cross.
Forrest: He's giving them a picture, but he's not just giving a picture.
Forrest: He's trying to explain the fact that something new is coming.
Forrest: That there's going to be a new covenant that's going to be confirmed by his blood.
Forrest: And you know as well as I do that we have been following Jesus' words to do this act of communion as a remembrance to him all over the for through the last 2,000 years through communion.
Forrest: This showing of this new covenant that was been confirmed by Jesus' blood that was poured out for us.
Forrest: But I wonder why in the world did God have to do it that way, that this new covenant would be confirmed with Jesus' blood.
Forrest: Like, what in the world is so special about blood?
Forrest: Like for this not to be a doctor's office or a hospital, we talk a lot about blood around here.
Forrest: It's in the songs, it's in the scriptures.
Forrest: Like, what what what in the world is that all about?
Forrest: Well, Jesus is actually quoting and linking back to in the beginning of the scripture and as the people of God are being formed, as the Israelites and this remnant were Moses in Exodus 24, verse 8.
Forrest: In this inauguration of the first covenant with his people and Israel as a nation, he sprinkles blood of sacrificed animals on the tabernacle over people, and Jesus intentionally connects his death and the moment that was going to come, and he connects it to the blood and him establishing something new, a better covenant to come.
Forrest: This covenant, it it refers, this word covenant, it refers to this binding promise from God.
Forrest: Not just like an agreement, but this new relationship that's going to cost something.
Forrest: See, Jesus was trying to help them understand that something new was happening.
Forrest: That this sacrificial system that them as Jews have been in, where they were atoning for sin and sacrificing animals, and they were in this cycle of having to constantly try to get forgiveness by way of sacrifice, that this was ultimately leading up to in a foreshadow of the perfect sacrifice that was going to come through Christ.
Forrest: It's him as the spotless and blameless lamb that he was going to be the one to die.
Forrest: And this concept for Jews, even as Jesus in his death, burial, and resurrection in the church began, these Jews were still having to be taught and learn and be instructed about how this new covenant had come.
Forrest: The writer of Hebrews, later in the New Testament, is writing to a Jewish audience and trying to help explain what's going on here so they can connect the dots and figure it out.
Forrest: In Hebrews chapter 9, verse 20, the writer of Hebrews says, Then he said, This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you.
Forrest: And in the same way, he sprinkled blood on the tabernacle and on everything used for worship.
Forrest: In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood, for without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
Forrest: Which what in the world does that mean?
Forrest: What in the world does that mean?
Forrest: Moses is sacrificing animals at their atonement, and the only way that forgiveness is going to come is through the shedding of blood.
Forrest: Like, why?
Forrest: And we're faced with the fact that sin isn't just this like abstract construct and abstract theological point, but it's something that's very real and that it actually costs something.
Forrest: And in this case, cost the life of our Savior and the shedding of his blood, which represents him as a substitution for us.
Forrest: Everybody say substitution.
Forrest: See, it's only by the blood of Jesus that our guilt and our sin can actually be clean and transferred and satisfied the judgment of God because he's holy and we are not.
Forrest: God is perfect, we're not perfect, we know that we're not perfect.
Forrest: And Jesus is setting up and trying to teach them why it is his blood that is the only means of full forgiveness and final restoration.
Forrest: And here's why.
Forrest: You ready for it?
Forrest: Jesus took our death penalty.
Forrest: Now, some of you are saying, Forrest, I don't deserve the death penalty.
Forrest: I've never killed anybody.
Forrest: I'm a good person, I'm a good guy.
Forrest: Everybody likes me, I do things I'm supposed to do.
Forrest: Well, James, the brother of Jesus, tells it to us that the scripture confirms the fact that we learn from Romans that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
Forrest: See, the payment for sin is death.
Forrest: This death penalty.
Forrest: And so the things that we've done, the ways that we've messed up and broken the law, done things that God doesn't approve of, the wages for that, the payment for that is death.
Forrest: And James, the brother of Jesus, tells us plainly how this works in James 2, verse 10.
Forrest: For the person who keeps all the laws except one is still as guilty as the person who's broken all of God's laws.
Forrest: For the same God who said you must not commit adultery, also said you must not murder.
Forrest: So if you murder someone, but you don't commit adultery, you've still broken the law.
Forrest: Verse 12.
Forrest: So whatever you say or whatever you do, remember that you will be judged by the law that sets you free.
Forrest: So if you've even committed one sin, one mess up, then there's separation from God.
Forrest: And I'm here to tell you that all of us have sinned, falling short of the glory of God, because there's not one person in this room that's perfect, including me.
Forrest: Now, if you're really wondering about that, you could probably ask your friends and family, and they'll let you know how not perfect you are.
Forrest: If you're one of those people that just think, oh, I'm just so great, I'm so amazing.
Forrest: See, it's Jesus who, as a substitution for me, died and took my death penalty so that I would no longer be separated from God.
Forrest: And you know what?
Forrest: I for some reason still try to make up for my mistakes all the time.
Forrest: I try to do what I can to try to make up.
Forrest: Feel like I can strive if I just do a little bit more.
Forrest: And maybe you walked into the room today, and maybe you're carrying some shame or carrying some guilt because you also have been trying, trying, trying, and trying to make up for your mistakes.
Forrest: And it's not going to happen to you to be able to be released from that shame unless you are in the freedom that Christ has bought from you, got for you.
Forrest: And we can strive and we can strive and we can strive, but what it ultimately leads to, and this is my first truth for you, is that striving, it locks you up, but surrender, it's what sets you free.
Forrest: See, the blood of Jesus is not just a second chance, it's a full pardon.
Forrest: And the world wants to tell you, well, you get what you deserve.
Forrest: You just you get what you earn, but none of us can earn our freedom.
Forrest: And it's surrender to Christ that's what's ultimately going to allow us to receive his grace.
Forrest: And listen to me, you don't earn grace, you receive it.
Forrest: And it's only by the power of the blood that we're able to be truly free.
Forrest: I'll put it to you like this.
Forrest: If you're standing before a judge, judge doesn't normally just listen to the case and just tell you, well, just try harder next time.
Forrest: They have a verdict, they declare whether guilty or not guilty.
Forrest: And Jesus doesn't look at us and he doesn't just say, just do better.
Forrest: He gives us the words that are from the cross, the last things that he would say, where Jesus said, It is finished.
Forrest: The finished work of Christ happened on the cross to purchase for us a way for us to be in right relationship with God.
Forrest: And it was him through the cross that we're able to surrender to him rather than just strive and strive and strive and try to earn it for ourselves.
Forrest: So many of the world religions try to teach that you can earn your way.
Forrest: That if it's just if you just have a little bit more good than you have bad.
Forrest: If you just work a little bit harder, then there you might make it.
Forrest: And what I'm here to tell you is that you are not capable of earning your way into heaven.
Forrest: But you have to have the substitution of Christ and surrender to him in his finished work on the cross.
Forrest: So, what in the world does that look like for you to walk in surrender and not just striving?
Forrest: Well, maybe for some of you, there's an area of your life right now that you know that you're trying to get approval for because of your performance, and you need to practice surrender by praying and asking God to help you before you act, and you need to declare to the Lord and to yourself, I am accepted.
Forrest: I am already accepted, and that your response to God should not be for love, but from it.
Forrest: That even today, some of you need to say to yourself, I don't have to earn God's love today.
Forrest: I already have it.
Forrest: If you're with me, say I already have it.
Forrest: I already have God's love for me.
Forrest: And oftentimes I think that I get my value for somehow trying to be impressive.
Forrest: Trying to do my best.
Forrest: Maybe some of you are the same way, trying to perform and trying to be impressive and trying to get value from that.
Forrest: Or maybe you've come into the room today and you're on the opposite side and you've walked in and you're believing right now a lie that you're too far gone and that you're not enough.
Forrest: Can I tell you this is my second truth for you?
Forrest: Value, it isn't achieved, it's received.
Forrest: And Jesus gave you value by way of his priceless life given in your place.
Forrest: And the world will just tell you, well, you're only worth how much you do, how much you strive, how much you get done.
Forrest: But I'm thankful that we're not defined by our worst day, but we're defined by what Jesus was willing to give up for you.
Forrest: We're defined not by just what we do and where our worst is, but it's in Christ that only by his blood we can find true security and identity and our value and our worth.
Forrest: Let me illustrate it to you this way.
Forrest: Um, I got this$20 bill.
Forrest: It's a nice one, it's very crisp.
Forrest: It's from the bank.
Forrest: It's a good looking.
Forrest: Anybody want this$20?
Forrest: Anyone?
Forrest: Yep, right here?
Forrest: Anybody wanting$20?
Forrest: Yep, okay.
Forrest: All right.
Forrest: How about now?
Forrest: Anybody still want this$20?
Forrest: Hey, you're here.
Forrest: The$20 is still the$20.
Forrest: No matter what trials, whatever scars, whatever things it's been through, it still has value, and in the same way, it doesn't matter what you walked into this room, what you've been through, the trials that you've been through, the scars that are on your back, it's Jesus who gives you value.
Forrest: He's the one.
Forrest: He's the one that whether it's pristine or whether you've been through some things, it's Jesus who gives value to you.
Forrest: You don't achieve it, you receive it.
Forrest: You receive it from him.
Forrest: He's the one who declares that you are worthy, that you are free, that you are forgiven, that you are secure.
Forrest: And our identity is so important because we're striving for security, and our identity and where our identity lies is so important because Satan and his demons and the enemy wants to lie to you about what your identity is.
Forrest: Maybe for some of you, you need to take some time and you need to take an inventory and maybe try to root out some of the lies that you've been believing about your worth, and you need to replace it with the scripture.
Forrest: So instead of you saying, you know what, I'll never be accepted.
Forrest: You say from Ephesians 2.10, no, I'm God's workmanship.
Forrest: I'm his handiwork, I'm his masterpiece.
Forrest: And some of you need to take an inventory of some of these lies that the enemy's trying to accuse and trying to put into your ear for you to believe about your identity when your identity and your value is determined and it comes from Christ and what he's done for you, not what you do.
Forrest: And maybe you need to share some of those things and lies that you figure out, and you need to share it with a trusted friend or with somebody who's in a multiplied group or team.
Forrest: Someone who can speak that truth over you when you forget it, because we all do.
Forrest: And that's knowing God's word and being able to speak that truth and recite it to us, is what later, just a just a little bit, a few, a few chapters later in Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews gives us this blessing that is similar to the blessings of the Old Testament for, but for something for us to meditate on and speak out over ourselves and over our families.
Forrest: And I want to share it with you because it is in Ephesians chapter 13 and verse 20, and it starts with, may the God of peace, like so many of these blessings in the scripture start with.
Forrest: This is a good one to highlight.
Forrest: This is a good one to highlight on your phone, your Bible, write it down.
Forrest: Hebrews 13, 20 and 21.
Forrest: Now may the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of Of the sheep and ratified an eternal covenant with his what?
Forrest: Blood.
Forrest: May he equip you with all you need for doing his will.
Forrest: May he produce in you through the power of Jesus Christ every good thing that is pleasing to him.
Forrest: All glory to him forever and ever.
Forrest: Amen.
Forrest: Right there.
Forrest: The scripture tells us this blessing tells us that it's by Jesus' blood and through his power, everybody say power, through his power, that we're going to be affirmed and able to produce every good thing that's pleasing to him.
Forrest: Not all glory to you, but glory to him.
Forrest: Glory to God forever and ever from what he did and what his finished work is.
Forrest: And it's so oftentimes that I find myself getting into a pity party because thinking that this thing or that thing that I'm going through is just never going to get any better.
Forrest: And I'm throwing a pity party for myself.
Forrest: And maybe some of you walked in today, and there's an area of your life where you're stuck, where you're needing direction, where you haven't been able to press through, you haven't figured it out, a sin that is keeping you entangled and keeping you held down.
Forrest: And some of you feel like that you've messed up too badly, or that you've wasted too much time, or you've lost too much ground.
Forrest: But let me encourage you and let me say this to you: this is a third truth.
Forrest: I want you to believe it with me.
Forrest: I want you to believe that God resurrects your story through his blood and his power and his name, because the world wants to beat you down and tell you that your failure is final, that your failure, that it's fatal, that it's the end of the story.
Forrest: But with the cross, the cross isn't the end of the story.
Forrest: It's the start of something new.
Forrest: It's the start of a new beginning.
Forrest: And it's only by the blood of Jesus that dead end chapters become divine beginnings.
Forrest: Where you're able to see something new happen.
Forrest: A couple of last week, myself and a couple of the team got to go down to this conference called Exponential, that's the largest church planning conference in America down in Orlando.
Forrest: And I like to go as often as I can because we got friends down there from churches across the country that are connected to us, and it's this big conference.
Forrest: It's like 5,000 pastors and church leaders that come together to talk about the state of the church and talk about where things are as far as churches closing and new churches beginning.
Forrest: And it's this beautiful time of inspiration.
Forrest: I try to get that down there as much as I can.
Forrest: And at the end of the conference, their last session every time, what they do is they have a time of commissioning and prayer where they have like 200 people on the front that are ready to receive people to be able to pray over them.
Forrest: And the this last week, I walked down during that commissioning time with this super sweet older couple that was there, and I started telling them about you.
Forrest: I started talking about multiply, and it actually was uh it was the day of our third birthday, March the 20th.
Forrest: And I said, hey, today is multiply's third birthday.
Forrest: This is what God has done, but there's so much more that I know that he wants to do in and through us, and we've seen God's faithfulness over and over and over again, but we're also dreaming big and praying bigger for what God wants to do in the future.
Forrest: And I was sharing with them thoughts and visions that we talked about about other churches being planted, and as this couple prayed over me, she prayed this passage that Jesus talks about where a seed goes into the ground and dies.
Forrest: In John 12, Jesus says, verse 24, unless a kernel of wheat, very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed.
Forrest: But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
Forrest: And Jesus is that seed who went into the grave and resurrected from the grave.
Forrest: That by his blood he would bring to us life and that he would resurrect our story as well.
Forrest: And then the the husband that was praying, he said, as we were praying, I just got this thought and this vision of you standing there with your hands open like this cupped and receiving fruit that God was going to produce.
Forrest: And she prayed over us that that our church that we would be like that seed that goes into the ground and dies, and then from it comes this great harvest of multiplication.
Forrest: And as she was praying that over us, I couldn't help just be by be so incredibly moved.
Forrest: As we talk about Jesus and him going into the grave and returning from it, we walk not as people who are hopeless, but we're filled with his power because of his great might and because his blood poured out for us.
Forrest: And maybe that means that this week, some of you in the room that you're feeling stuck in some way, you've got to write it down, you've got to pray over it, you gotta choose to pray over it daily, you've got to ask God to show you resurrection power to show up in your life that he so desperately wants to give you.
Forrest: And some of you, that means that this week you need to take the step, a small step or big big step, and maybe you need to make that phone call.
Forrest: Maybe you need to finally go to Christian counseling, you need to confess sin and your life, you need to take the risk.
Forrest: Because it's by you taking the risk and allowing yourself to go down and to the ground and die that Jesus can resurrect you and do a powerful work through your life and story.
Forrest: And so maybe you need to name that area.
Forrest: Name it before God.
Forrest: Pray about it daily.
Forrest: Because you don't have to pay for what Jesus already paid for in full.
Forrest: You don't have to strive for what's been freely given to you.
Forrest: You don't have to stay stuck in a story that God's still writing with you.
Forrest: Because it's only by the blood that we're free, it's only by the blood that we're secure, it's only by the blood that we have and can have a new beginning in Christ.
Forrest: Could you just imagine with me for a second?
Forrest: Imagine with me if we just stopped living under the weight of our past and started walking in freedom of our future.
Forrest: Imagine if we stopped measuring our worth based on comparison and what we see in other people and what they've got and what we don't have, and then we instead we started resting in God's compassion for us and what he's given to us.
Forrest: Can you imagine if we were a people that we came to God as sons and daughters?
Forrest: Not ones just striving and trying to do it on our ourselves, but receiving what he's given to us that we can be made new into his family.
Forrest: And so, what does that look like?
Forrest: What does it look like for us to surrender and not strive every single day?
Forrest: Well, it means that you need to maybe in the mornings remind yourself that you don't have to earn God's love today.
Forrest: Because you already have it.
Forrest: Maybe that means that when you mess up, instead of that making you run away from God and shame, that some of you have done and even did for years, then instead it it makes you run to him.
Forrest: Or for those of you that just keep reciting this the mistakes of your past over and over and over again in them in your mind, instead, you replace it by reciting his grace for you and the truth of the gospel over your life and his word to replace those lies that keep you held back.
Forrest: You need to remind yourself, I'm not what I've done, I'm who God says that I am, and you receive his sacrifice by trusting his blood, by stopping the strife, by letting him wash you and resurrect you.
Forrest: And as we come to a close today, we're gonna in just a moment have a time of communion where we take the elements of Jesus' blood and his body, and I hope that today you're thinking about it in a deeper way, and that today we're just a little bit more grateful for the blood of Jesus that's poured out for us.
Forrest: And also during this time of communion, the worship team is gonna lead us in this song that I heard last year that was really the inspiration of this series.
Forrest: It's called The Blood.
Forrest: And I think I'm in like the 0.001 highest percent fan on Spotify, this one song.
Forrest: Because I've listened to it like a thousand times since last year.
Forrest: And I want for us to learn this song because we're gonna sing it over the next few weeks leading up to Easter and to take a look at the lyrics and learn from them.
Forrest: Let it turn our heart to God for worship.
Forrest: But I also recognize the fact that in a room this size, there are probably some people in the room that you've been striving and trying to do it all on your own, and you have never given over your life to Jesus, entrusted in his resurrection on the cross for you, resurrection from the grave, death on the cross, burial and resurrection, so then you might be able to be alive as well.
Forrest: And there's somebody probably in this room, maybe in this room, that you've been spiritually dead and you've not been able to be free and healed because you haven't received what Jesus bought for you on the cross in your place.
Forrest: The death penalty that he took for you.
Forrest: And today, if that's you, today is the day of your salvation.
Forrest: Today is the day for you to cross over the line from death to life, to make the decision, to stop holding back, to stop waiting.
Forrest: So would you pray with me, Father?
Forrest: All across this room, Lord, I thank you, God, that Lord, we are not what we've done, but we're who you say that we are.
Forrest: That we're sons, that we're daughters of the King, that God, we have our value and our identity in you, Christ, and not what the enemy wants to lie to us and steal, kill, and destroy.
Forrest: And so, Father, I pray across this room right now, Lord, that God, we would pour out our hearts to you, recognizing, Jesus, how you poured out for us.
Forrest: And God, I pray right now in this room that there's anybody in this place who has not received you as Savior, who's not given you their life, and trusted in and received what you did for them on the cross, that today would be the day of their salvation, that they would pray, Jesus, save me.
Forrest: Pray in their heart and mind, Jesus, save me.
Forrest: I believe that you are the Son of God, that you died on the cross for my sin, and that you walked out of the grave.
Forrest: I give you my life as you poured out your life for mine.
Forrest: Forgive me, change me so that I can be in heaven with you one day.
Forrest: Thank you for saving me.
Forrest: No one looking around today, you prayed to receive Christ as your savior.
Forrest: I want you to take a sign towards heaven and allow me to be able to pray for you by you raising your hand.
Forrest: And so, if that's you, at the count of three, I want you to raise your hand up.
Forrest: If you prayed to receive Christ today, ready.
Forrest: One, two, three.
Forrest: Anyone in this place?
Forrest: Right over here, I see you, sis, Father.
Forrest: I right over here, brother, I see you right here.
Forrest: God, hands and signs toward heaven today, God, of decisions that are happening inwardly in their heart.
Forrest: And God, I pray right now that you would seal their prayers, and that God, today and from this day forward, that they would be someone who is able to walk with you day in and day out because they in this moment have received your Holy Spirit.
Forrest: They've been bought with a price, they've been paid for in full, and that they leave this life and enter into heaven's glory because of their decisions today.
Forrest: We thank you, God.
Forrest: We praise you in the strong name of Jesus.
Forrest: Everybody said Amen.