WEBVTT 00:00:02.350 --> 00:04:03.710 Introduction So we've been talking about these markers that we see along our way along our journey of the road. 00:04:04.069 --> 00:04:05.599 And let's go through the markers so far. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:12.439 So marker number one for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 00:04:12.441 --> 00:04:13.280 That's marker number one. 00:04:13.281 --> 00:04:15.620 Marker number one is none of us gets it right. 00:04:17.149 --> 00:04:17.779 We all blow it. 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:20.509 It doesn't matter your upbringing. 00:04:20.511 --> 00:04:22.009 It doesn't matter your lineage. 00:04:22.011 --> 00:04:23.569 It doesn't matter your ethnicity. 00:04:23.571 --> 00:04:29.180 It doesn't matter how many times you went to church, how many times your parents went to church, how many times you messed up- none of that matters. 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:30.860 None of us are good enough. 00:04:30.889 --> 00:04:35.689 We all fall short of God's glory and that's where it starts. 00:04:35.690 --> 00:04:36.529 That's marker number one. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:50.629 Marker number two, God has a plan for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord God made away when we were stuck in our sin. 00:04:50.629 --> 00:05:01.639 God made away what we earn for sin is death, but he gives us a gift, the gift of life in Christ Jesus, our Lord, and marker number three. 00:05:02.180 --> 00:05:16.399 It's a sign of his love, but God demonstrates his own love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, not when we got our act together, when we figured everything out, when we started living right and getting things right, then he died for us. 00:05:17.060 --> 00:05:23.839 No while we were still sinners, before we ever knew that we needed saving, he died for us. 00:05:25.370 --> 00:05:32.060 But I think the next step on this road and the next question that we ask is, okay, so we're sinners. 00:05:32.629 --> 00:05:33.920 God had a plan. 00:05:34.339 --> 00:05:35.870 It's in Jesus Christ. 00:05:36.350 --> 00:05:37.610 Faith is the key. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.860 How do I actually put my faith in Jesus? 00:05:43.699 --> 00:05:45.110 Like what are the mechanics of that? 00:05:45.139 --> 00:05:46.430 How do I actually do that? 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:52.759 Because for a lot of Christians that I meet, there's a lot of uncertainty that people carry with them. 00:05:53.240 --> 00:06:02.649 I've noticed, and this is mostly from folks who I'd say, have been going to church a long time, there's an uncertainty like how do I know that I'm in like I've been going to church my whole life? 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.490 How do I know that I have faith? 00:06:07.509 --> 00:06:08.620 I don't know- I think I do. 00:06:08.620 --> 00:06:09.550 I think I'm good. 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.300 Today is going to put your heart at ease. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:18.790 How do we put our faith in Jesus Christ? 00:06:20.139 --> 00:06:21.759 Let's go back to the experience of Paul. 00:06:21.761 --> 00:06:28.779 Paul had an experience of Jesus before he knew what Jesus meant in his relationship with God. 00:06:28.781 --> 00:06:29.439 You know what I'm saying? 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:30.160 He didn't understand. 00:06:30.161 --> 00:06:32.170 He had his own way of understanding God. 00:06:33.220 --> 00:06:40.120 Paul had an experience and that led Paul to ask some big questions. 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:42.670 I think this happens with all of us. 00:06:43.569 --> 00:06:49.060 We have an experience of God and that leads us to ask some big questions. 00:06:50.290 --> 00:06:54.459 Wow, we have got a chorus of babies this morning and we're like, hallelujah. 00:06:55.540 --> 00:07:08.350 Our babies are proclaiming, but when we have an experience of God, we then start to ask big questions like, because it changes everything. 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:10.120 What does this mean now for my life? 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.069 What does it mean for the path that I was on? 00:07:12.250 --> 00:07:14.019 What does it mean for me going forward? 00:07:14.949 --> 00:07:17.019 Paul had the same thing happening in his life. 00:07:17.019 --> 00:07:19.269 He's figuring out what does Jesus mean? 00:07:19.750 --> 00:07:27.069 And he had the biggest question on his heart had to do with what happens now to my people. 00:07:27.910 --> 00:07:30.490 What happens to the Jewish people now that Jesus came? 00:07:31.209 --> 00:07:33.430 How did that change it for them? 00:07:33.430 --> 00:07:35.920 Are they, are they going to be okay? 00:07:37.089 --> 00:07:38.740 Will the Jewish people be saved? 00:07:38.740 --> 00:07:40.629 Are God's promises still good for them? 00:07:41.350 --> 00:07:48.110 And you can see in his letter to the Romans chapters nine through 11 he's working those questions out in real time. 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:48.639 People. 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.040 He's trying to figure out, okay, what does this mean for my people? 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:55.720 Are they, are they in? 00:07:55.779 --> 00:07:56.800 Are they going to be saved? 00:07:59.470 --> 00:08:06.579 I think we're Paul lands on what it means to live in the law in the way of the Jewish people. 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:11.290 What the law does is a lot like my tumbler that I get from Starbucks. 00:08:12.790 --> 00:08:21.100 So every year in case you're not up on all things Starbucks, every year in December, Starbucks has a sale. 00:08:23.019 --> 00:08:28.839 You buy a Starbucks tumbler for$40 but exactly. 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:36.129 So at nine o'clock I had, it was an audible gasp from the collective congregation. 00:08:36.990 --> 00:08:38.230 I didn't even have the visual. 00:08:38.610 --> 00:08:41.409 There were horrified$40 for a tumbler. 00:08:41.410 --> 00:08:41.919 I'm like, what? 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:46.929 So cause here's, here's the deal, here's the deal. 00:08:47.139 --> 00:08:55.620 Then in the month of January you get to fill that tumbler with coffee all month for free. 00:08:57.490 --> 00:09:01.320 So, so this is a gift that I get. 00:09:01.350 --> 00:09:01.710 Thank you. 00:09:01.711 --> 00:09:02.840 It's a gift, right? 00:09:03.389 --> 00:09:04.350 Every year I get this gift. 00:09:04.649 --> 00:09:26.179 So three years ago I think was the first time I got this three years ago and I was kind of like the high schooler going to the Chinese buffet I was like, this is my opportunity to stick it to the man So I would go into Starbucks. 00:09:26.210 --> 00:09:31.009 I was going like two, three times a day filling this giant tumbler with coffee. 00:09:31.010 --> 00:09:35.720 I'm like, I'm going to get the money's worth, you know, don't tell me you've never done that at the buffet. 00:09:37.129 --> 00:09:39.559 Eat another p late, kids- I paid 10 bucks. 00:09:39.789 --> 00:09:40.039 A lright. 00:09:41.899 --> 00:09:56.389 And the thing is, thing is then I'm drinking all this coffee and like at night I'm like, I'm not sleeping well my heart's racing and I'm thinking, and here's me. 00:09:56.390 --> 00:09:58.159 I'm like, what's going on? 00:09:59.570 --> 00:10:03.230 I must not be well, you're right, you're not well. 00:10:03.259 --> 00:10:05.899 Yo u're d owning coffee like it's water. 00:10:06.019 --> 00:10:08.480 If you dr ank t hat much water in a day, you'd be lucky. 00:10:08.899 --> 00:10:14.149 Coffee an d I was using this and I think this was proof. 00:10:14.330 --> 00:10:18.139 You can misuse even a good thing, right? 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:20.000 You can misuse a good thing. 00:10:22.669 --> 00:10:26.840 Sometimes we can misuse a good thing so much that it can even make us sick. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:34.279 This is how Paul understands the use of the law. 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:57.830 The law is a good thing, but the problem is his people had made it the main thing, the whole point of the law was to point to something else, was about a relationship with Jesus Christ and then what happened over the years is that they forgot the relationship part and all they cared about was fulfilling the law and it was making them sick. 00:10:59.029 --> 00:11:01.879 They were misusing a good thing. 00:11:03.019 --> 00:11:04.490 Let's explain that quickly. 00:11:04.490 --> 00:11:07.580 So why did God even give the law in the first place? 00:11:07.581 --> 00:11:10.340 Well, God wanted to live amongst his people. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.220 Now, if you believe in a God, I hope you would believe that God is Holy. 00:11:17.419 --> 00:11:20.269 In other words, God is nowhere in the presence of sin. 00:11:20.470 --> 00:11:24.649 There's no sin in God, I would hope that that's the kind of God we would long for. 00:11:25.580 --> 00:11:33.259 If that's true, then holiness will leave its mark on sin in a very powerful, in fatal way. 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:34.809 When I came to see that... 00:11:35.269 --> 00:11:40.399 Long story short, God's like, I would love it if my children did it die when I came to see them. 00:11:41.649 --> 00:11:42.350 Like that'd be awesome. 00:11:42.379 --> 00:11:43.490 Let me help you not die. 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:45.860 So this is how you not die. 00:11:46.730 --> 00:11:51.710 I'm going to give you the law and this is how you actually live righteously. 00:11:51.740 --> 00:11:53.600 This is how you can live in such a way that you are Holy. 00:11:53.610 --> 00:11:56.399 So I can be with you, but you're going to mess that up. 00:11:56.429 --> 00:11:59.190 So let me give you this other way of sacrifice. 00:12:01.019 --> 00:12:04.019 In other words, you should die because of the sin that's in you. 00:12:04.020 --> 00:12:07.679 But instead I'll accept the death of an animal. 00:12:07.710 --> 00:12:12.659 This helps you understand the fatal consequences of sin. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.230 Now we can all sit here and be like, Oh man, that was really like barbaric. 00:12:17.230 --> 00:12:27.429 And the thing is God always uses human culture, leverages it to say something true about himself all throughout history. 00:12:28.269 --> 00:12:31.600 In other words, it wouldn't make sense to us if God spoke out of culture. 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:41.440 He speaks to us where we are back in the ancient, near East, at the time of the Israelites, every pagan religion also did animal sacrifices. 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:48.490 What he did was take the idea of sacrifice for them to understand sin and what it meant to live in the presence of God. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.080 He did the same thing with Greek philosophy later in the new Testament. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:01.929 So he gives this system and then what happens is he says, all of this is so that you can have a relationship with me. 00:13:01.931 --> 00:13:02.889 Remember that's the point. 00:13:03.009 --> 00:13:03.879 I'm going to live with you. 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:05.379 I want to be with you all the time. 00:13:05.380 --> 00:13:06.309 I want to be your God. 00:13:06.311 --> 00:13:08.500 You my people, this is how you do it. 00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:12.519 And then what happened was, according to Paul, is they were misusing that. 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:14.860 They forgot that there was a relationship going on. 00:13:14.860 --> 00:13:19.059 It was all about I'm going to fulfill the obligations and that's what it's about. 00:13:21.149 --> 00:13:22.409 And that's how they misused it. 00:13:24.899 --> 00:13:27.720 It's kinda like getting married and having a family. 00:13:30.179 --> 00:13:42.539 If I got married and had a family just so I could get a tax break or whatever other legal benefits of marriage and family brought me, but ignored the relationship, that would not end well. 00:13:43.529 --> 00:13:44.490 That would not be good. 00:13:45.059 --> 00:13:47.009 That would be an adventure in missing the point. 00:13:47.730 --> 00:13:54.240 Now it'd be the misuse of a good thing and this is Paul's whole point. 00:13:54.570 --> 00:13:57.480 Same thing with God's law. 00:13:58.049 --> 00:13:59.669 Jesus didn't come to get rid of it. 00:14:01.259 --> 00:14:05.179 It has its part to play, but it's not the main thing. 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.080 The main thing is what Jesus did on the cross. 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:13.669 The law is not an end in itself. 00:14:13.820 --> 00:14:16.370 The relationship is the end that God is after. 00:14:16.580 --> 00:14:18.620 Okay, let's jump into Romans. 00:14:20.929 --> 00:14:21.559 Was that funny? 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:32.210 Let's get into Romans chapter nine we'll start with verse 30 what then shall we say that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it? 00:14:32.629 --> 00:14:39.529 A righteousness that is by faith, but the people of Israel who pursued the law as the way of righteousness have not attained their goal. 00:14:39.530 --> 00:14:40.669 Why not? 00:14:41.450 --> 00:14:47.389 Because they pursued it not by faith, but as if it were by works. 00:14:48.289 --> 00:14:48.529 Right? 00:14:48.530 --> 00:14:49.460 Works of the law. 00:14:51.789 --> 00:14:58.360 Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 00:14:59.590 --> 00:15:00.429 This is Paul's heart. 00:15:00.431 --> 00:15:03.100 He wants his people to be saved. 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:04.629 So how? 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:06.039 How do we do it? 00:15:06.070 --> 00:15:07.059 How does it happen? 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.919 What's the process by which we know that we are saved by God? 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:20.370 This is the number one beating heart center of the target. 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:26.990 What Jesus is all about, how do we actually go from death to life? 00:15:28.889 --> 00:15:35.549 The answer that Paul gives us next is very simple, but it is very profound. 00:15:39.419 --> 00:15:52.120 Verse nine if you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be safe. 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:55.679 That's it. 00:15:58.029 --> 00:16:02.909 Believe in your heart and declare with your mouth. 00:16:04.210 --> 00:16:11.950 For it is with your heart that you believe in, are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 00:16:13.179 --> 00:16:14.169 Think about it this way. 00:16:14.171 --> 00:16:15.039 I mean, you need both. 00:16:15.100 --> 00:16:19.450 You need to believe, and you need to say it, but this is true in any relationship. 00:16:20.830 --> 00:16:24.639 You need to believe that you love somebody, but you need to say it. 00:16:26.259 --> 00:16:28.690 You really can't have one without the other. 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:32.230 It's how you show love in any relationship. 00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:41.919 If I believe that I love my children, but I never say it to them, then depending on the day, may actions may or may not display my love. 00:16:43.570 --> 00:16:46.419 If I say it and I don't believe it, that's a problem. 00:16:48.009 --> 00:16:49.360 I need to do both. 00:16:49.990 --> 00:16:53.500 I need to believe in it in my heart and say it with my mouth. 00:16:53.529 --> 00:16:54.460 I need to say it. 00:17:01.750 --> 00:17:09.740 salvation is a process, but it's also a moment. 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:12.200 It's both. 00:17:12.650 --> 00:17:13.279 Here's what I mean. 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.900 The apostle Paul, he didn't really know about Jesus. 00:17:17.930 --> 00:17:21.319 He knew about what the early Christians believed and he knew about God's law. 00:17:22.009 --> 00:17:29.809 You know what really well, but for him it was a moment where Jesus literally knocks him off his horse. 00:17:30.019 --> 00:17:33.710 He has this blinding light moment and he puts his faith in Jesus. 00:17:33.890 --> 00:17:34.099 Yeah. 00:17:34.101 --> 00:17:34.819 What did that mean? 00:17:35.420 --> 00:17:40.339 But then after that it was also a process of him understanding and figuring out what did that mean? 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.930 What were the implications? 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:43.740 Okay. 00:17:46.460 --> 00:17:51.230 I think this idea is so important to grasp. 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.009 I had an apostle Paul moment for sure. 00:17:55.549 --> 00:17:57.440 I do not equate myself with the apostle Paul. 00:17:57.441 --> 00:17:58.220 Let's be clear on that. 00:17:58.609 --> 00:18:03.529 But I had a similar moment where it was a moment first I didn't know anything about Jesus. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:14.509 Somebody went through the Roman road with me one night at a campfire and I said, yes, I, I believe. 00:18:14.539 --> 00:18:16.759 And I say, yes, I believe in Jesus. 00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:23.119 It was a moment that changed everything, but it was also a process for me to learn. 00:18:23.121 --> 00:18:23.960 What did that mean? 00:18:23.990 --> 00:18:25.190 What did that moment mean? 00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:33.109 now I would say my wife's example is the opposite. 00:18:33.111 --> 00:18:41.140 It was a process that led to a moment like she always went to church and many of you are in that, in that category. 00:18:41.141 --> 00:18:41.920 You always went to church. 00:18:41.930 --> 00:18:43.029 It was a process. 00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:54.160 But then there was also a moment, like there's a moment that she can remember sitting in a kitchen in her best friend's mother led her in a prayer to put her faith in Jesus. 00:18:54.161 --> 00:18:55.150 She remembers that moment. 00:18:57.940 --> 00:19:13.460 I think the hard thing for a church like mainline denominational churches in America is that we assume the moment's already happened before you walk in the door, and so we talk a lot as if we're in the process together, but we don't want to assume that. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.250 Have you had your moment? 00:19:23.809 --> 00:19:24.410 Let's keep reading. 00:19:24.411 --> 00:19:30.200 Verse 11 as scripture says, anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame. 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.529 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. 00:19:33.859 --> 00:19:37.640 The same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him. 00:19:38.059 --> 00:19:43.460 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 00:19:45.230 --> 00:19:48.589 I feel like this is the piece of the gospel. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:20:00.140 If you are not sure where you stand with God, if you believe in your heart and profess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you are in no prerequisite. 00:20:00.170 --> 00:20:11.720 It's not like, well first I have to do some Bible memory and then I got to get on the plan, got to get on the Bible app and do my daily devotional and then maybe God will listen to me. 00:20:12.529 --> 00:20:19.019 No, no, no, no, All that stuff will help you, but you don't do any of that. 00:20:18.540 --> 00:20:35.099 All- everyone, everybody, even you, if you call on the name of the Lord, you will be saved. 00:20:35.130 --> 00:20:35.789 That's it. 00:20:39.619 --> 00:20:49.220 You're in every believer of Jesus should have this piece because it's not about what you do. 00:20:50.390 --> 00:20:54.170 That would be really not peaceful if it was about what we do. 00:20:54.950 --> 00:20:56.240 Was I good enough today? 00:20:59.150 --> 00:20:59.450 I don't know. 00:20:59.451 --> 00:21:00.380 I hope the day I die. 00:21:00.381 --> 00:21:03.500 I'm like good that day though. 00:21:03.500 --> 00:21:04.009 My gosh. 00:21:04.010 --> 00:21:04.700 What a nightmare. 00:21:04.701 --> 00:21:06.769 No, that is not the gospel. 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:14.480 so Paul is, he's working out these big questions. 00:21:15.470 --> 00:21:22.890 You know what happens to my people in light of what Jesus did, what happens? 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:24.839 The answer is- will Jewish people be saved? 00:21:24.840 --> 00:21:25.349 Yes. 00:21:25.900 --> 00:21:27.359 Or God's promise is still good for them. 00:21:27.390 --> 00:21:30.599 Yes, but they're good in the same way that they're good for everybody. 00:21:30.809 --> 00:21:41.369 It's all through what Jesus did on the cross that everybody is going to have to believe and say, but of course everybody's in. 00:21:42.329 --> 00:21:48.029 Everybody who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved and so this is our fourth marker on the road. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:56.069 If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:56.920 Okay? 00:22:00.849 --> 00:22:12.220 How many of us are living like we're still trying to meet the criteria of the law trying to meet those standards of God and it's exhausting and it's making us sick because we're misusing it. 00:22:13.269 --> 00:22:15.190 It was never supposed to be about that. 00:22:15.250 --> 00:22:17.380 It was supposed to be about a relationship with God. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.579 The law was just a tool to get us there. 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:26.900 It's meant to give us peace. 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:31.500 Okay, now here's my favorite part of the gospel. 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:34.079 It doesn't just end with us. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.000 You're not gods end game. 00:22:42.069 --> 00:22:43.809 You're part of the big end game. 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:48.750 In other words, the gospel doesn't just land on you and you say yes. 00:22:48.809 --> 00:22:49.200 Amen. 00:22:49.201 --> 00:22:49.859 Hallelujah. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:50.730 And that's it. 00:22:50.730 --> 00:22:59.579 The rest of your life, cause watch what he says next verse 14 how then can they call on the one they have not believed in? 00:22:59.789 --> 00:23:04.769 How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.549 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent as it is written? 00:23:08.550 --> 00:23:12.240 How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? 00:23:12.539 --> 00:23:14.880 You have beautiful feet. 00:23:19.380 --> 00:23:21.029 what'd you guys talk about at church today? 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:24.210 I got beautiful feet. 00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:25.710 All right. 00:23:26.009 --> 00:23:27.809 Sounds like a real Bible church there. 00:23:30.750 --> 00:23:38.069 Our job is to receive this gospel message and to deliver it to somebody else. 00:23:41.769 --> 00:23:46.859 how are they going to believe if they never heard, how am I going to preach if they're not sent? 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:54.099 As I said in the prayer, this is the locker room speech. 00:23:54.849 --> 00:23:56.440 The game is outside these doors. 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:08.089 Yeah, salvation is a process, but it's also a moment. 00:24:08.090 --> 00:24:11.930 So I want to ask you, have you had your moment? 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:19.500 What I'd like to do today is to give you a moment to do this. 00:24:20.990 --> 00:24:24.200 Now putting our faith in Jesus. 00:24:24.230 --> 00:24:31.329 Sometimes you hear the term a born again and that has a lot of baggage taught. 00:24:31.369 --> 00:24:33.019 People talk about born again, Christians, they are. 00:24:33.049 --> 00:24:34.279 They're talking about a whole thing. 00:24:35.269 --> 00:24:37.910 Born again, just simply means doing what Jesus tells us to do. 00:24:37.911 --> 00:24:39.980 That when we put our faith in Jesus, we're born again. 00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:47.339 We are made new Someone asked me one time, are you a born again Christian? 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.119 And I say, is there any other kind? 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.490 Like that's, that's all of us, right? 00:24:53.490 --> 00:24:53.970 Aren't we all? 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:55.470 Isn't that what he says happens? 00:24:56.609 --> 00:24:57.299 We're born again. 00:24:59.369 --> 00:25:04.109 We want to give you a moment this morning, but also for all of us, you've been following Jesus for a long time. 00:25:05.309 --> 00:25:08.309 A chance to recommit our lives to him. 00:25:08.310 --> 00:25:15.059 So what we're going to do in just a moment is I'm going to lead you in a prayer and I'll invite everybody who wants to participate to participate. 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.769 And it's a repeat after me prayer about putting our faith in Jesus Christ. 00:25:21.029 --> 00:25:29.130 And I want to say if you've never done this prayer before, I just want you to walk out of here knowing yes, I had my moment. 00:25:29.131 --> 00:25:30.210 My moment was today. 00:25:30.900 --> 00:25:32.339 I don't have to wonder anymore. 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:38.549 I have peace if you said that prayer on be hanging out after the service right up here near the front. 00:25:38.550 --> 00:25:40.829 I want to carry you to come pastor Julie's here as well. 00:25:40.830 --> 00:25:41.789 She's going to be hanging out. 00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:46.170 If you want someone to talk to her to pray with, I think this is so important. 00:25:46.829 --> 00:25:48.599 Let's not assume that we've all had our moment. 00:25:49.289 --> 00:25:50.579 Let's make our moment right now. 00:25:50.789 --> 00:25:51.569 Please pray with me. 00:25:57.319 --> 00:25:58.960 I'll ask that you repeat after me. 00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:07.549 Jesus, I believe you died and Rose again for my sin. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.529 I believe you are, Lord of all. 00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:28.339 I put my faith, my trust, my hope, my whole life in you. 00:26:31.029 --> 00:26:31.349 Amen.