[SERMON] From Fear to Faith: Jesus’ Victory Over Death

Are you searching for hope in a world filled with uncertainty? In this inspiring sermon, we journey through Revelation 6 and the powerful imagery of the Four Horsemen, focusing on the meaning behind the pale horse—Death—and the ultimate victory found in Jesus Christ.

Pastor Cyle unpacks the fears we all face about mortality, the consequences of sin, and the promise of eternal life for those who endure with Christ. With warmth and clarity, he addresses common questions about the end times, the reality of judgment, and the assurance that Jesus holds the keys to death and Hades.

Whether you’re wrestling with faith, seeking encouragement, or longing for deeper understanding, this message invites you to embrace the hope, grace, and transformation offered through Jesus. Join us as we explore what it means to endure, to live for Christ today, and to find peace in God’s unchanging promises.

Transcript

 People like even if you're a follower of Christ, it's not fun to think about the end of your life, your physical life. Uh, yes, we get life everlasting as believers, but normally if I would go in the room and ask people who fear death, if it's not a room of Christians, most people's hands tend to go up because if your life is only this life and there is no other life.

Death is terrifying, right? Because that's it. You only have this one life. You have to experience everything in this life. There's nothing else left, and that's it. So death is a real fear for a lot of people in a church where people have life everlasting through Jesus Christ. And we know and we trust in His word, death's not that scary.

Death is just new life, right? Life everlasting. And so the truth is, a lot of people in your circle are afraid of dying. You may not be. I don't fear death. I don't necessarily wanna die right now. But like that this moment would be awkward, right? So, but I know that when I die, I'm living my life for Jesus.

I believe that I'm gonna spend eternity with him, and that's the promise of the scripture. And then I see miracles happen. I see amazing things happen in the world. I see people's lives absolutely transformed by Jesus Christ. And I know God is real. So His word is true. His word is real, and there is life everlasting.

So what's happening in Revelation six, as we're talking about, is coming after a conversation that Jesus had with the disciples, because Jesus is preaching that the end is coming. I'm gonna restore things, I'm gonna reclaim things, I will come back, I'm gonna die. I'm gonna send to Heaven, I'm gonna come back, and when I do, I'm gonna fix everything.

I'm gonna I'm. And so the disciples like. Like the rest of us, they're questioning Jesus about like, Hey, just so you know, I wanna be ready when this time comes, when, when that day comes, I don't wanna be like accidentally sinning, right. I wanna be living for you. And so they, they, they question him as Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives.

Disciples came to him privately tell us, they said, when will this happen? And what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age? So Jesus is telling them this. Way before, you know, 60 years before John writes, it has this revelation, this vision from God. Jesus is having a conversation. He's telling them about the end.

60 years later, John is having this vision of revelation. Now, we didn't read this part of the conversation the last three weeks, but I wanted to save it for this. So Jesus continues on. He says, then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death. And you'll be hated by all nations, for my name's sake.

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, who be saved. So when we think about this, Jesus is telling them, Hey, by the way, the world's gonna go crazy.

There's gonna be lawlessness, there's gonna be all these issues and rumors, false prophets, you name it. But if you just stay the course, if you follow the way of Jesus, you're gonna be saved. You don't have to worry about the tribulation. You don't worry about, have to worry about the judgment and death to come because you're gonna have a life if you endure with Jesus.

So he's telling his best friends, don't worry about the signs. Focus on me. Amen. That's, that's his answer for disciples. Don't worry about the science, don't, don't try to live your life and do crazy, foolish, sinful things and then wait for the science to get things right. He's saying just stay the course of the whole time.

Endure and you'll be saved. And that's the challenge to us. This is from Jesus own teaching to his, his close personal friends. Just stay the course, endure with me and you'll be saved. Now we go to Revelation. So Revelation was written by John the Apostle on the aisle of Patmos, 60 years after Jesus ascends to heaven.

It's written between 90 and 96. And what is happening is John is getting a vision of the past, present, and future. And the revelation is called the Revelation, Jesus Christ. 'cause it really is, it's a revelation of God's ultimate victory through Jesus Christ, the judgments that's gonna come when he comes back to restore creation that's broken from the original sin.

Uh, it's apocalyptic literature. It's a genre full of vision, symbols and cosmic imagery that reveal God's plan for history and eternity. No one knows. No one knows what revelation, what is literal or what is figurative in Revelation. Pastors disagree. Scholars have argued over it for centuries. We don't know.

All we know is when we study the Bible, we take that nugget of truth that John was teaching to the original hearers. We remove that and then we apply that in today's world because that truth is still the truth for us. We don't know if there's gonna be dragons, and we don't know if there's gonna be actual four horsemen come outta the sky.

I kind of like the imagery of all that. I hope that's literal, but we don't know. I think it'd be sweet if these, these horses and riders just start coming outta the sky. I don't wanna be here to see it, I just wanna know that it's gonna happen. Um, I do. Uh, but so John, it's really, he's trying to use this imagery, what he sees and whatever vision and however God gave it to him to communicate truth to people who are living in the world.

And he's trying to say, Hey, we need to stay and we need to endure, because he would've been one of the people that Jesus said, we gotta endure. We gotta endure. And so how do you endure? Revelation was written by John to encourage believers facing temptation and persecution. He was trying to say, Hey, if you're facing temptation, if you're facing persecution, just stay the course with Jesus.

The end, he wins. We win. We get spend attorney with him. So no matter what, if you're facing a temptation, if you want to do these sins, don't do that. Endure with Jesus. Stay away from them. If you're facing persecution, don't worry about the persecution. Just stay the course with Christ. It'll all work out in the end for Jesus.

'cause Jesus wins. And then he is writing to show that God is sovereign over history. Even when the evil, evil seems to prevail at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. Jesus is still in control. God is still in control, and ultimately he's going to win no matter where we are in history. The story by the Bible is connected in the beginning, in the middle, and the end.

You'll see that through this message. It's all been connected the whole time. God prevails over it all. He also, he's also writing to warn unbelievers of judgment. And invite them to repentance. People who don't know Jesus and who are enduring in relation with ship with him are going to be judged according to the to their sins.

There are consequences for our sins. The life that we live has consequences eternally. If you are endure with Jesus, you go on to life everlasting. If you don't, you go on to death Everlasting. Torment, everlasting. That's the way it works. So John's writing to tell people you don't want that. Don't go to that judgment.

Go to the judgment where you endure with Jesus, and you'll be saved into life, everlasting, into paradise and these writing to assure the church of ultimate victory in Jesus. At the end of Revelation, Jesus wins. At the beginning of Revelation, John says, Hey, this is the revelation. Jesus Christ. I'm telling you all about Jesus.

By the way, Jesus is gonna win and at the end. He confirms Jesus wins, he restores it. All the world will be made anew. Creation will made anew and sin will be gone. Jesus will win. So that's what's happening and I wanna make sure we've hit that every week. 'cause moving forward, if you've been part of the series, I want you to know that what Revelation is and how to read it.

Don't watch all the crazy people on YouTube, all the pastors on TV that are saying they know what it means, that they've got a prediction when the end's coming and this, they don't know. You have to question that. You should always question their teachings. Question my teachings. Go home, read Revelation six for yourself and say, oh, I don't know if I agree with that.

Then text Cyle and say, Hey, what do you think about this? I think this we'll have a conversation. I'm not perfect. You're not perfect. I may misstate things and you may mishear things. That's just the way it goes. So we should always be diving deeper into scripture because milk is something that we preach and we, and someone feeds you.

But meat is when you chew the gospel yourself. You wrestle with it and try to figure out what does this mean in my life and how do I apply it in my life? You should always go read the scriptures. I'm intentionally giving you homework in this series because I'm not gonna teach you five, six, and seven, you know, seals.

You've gotta go learn 'em. We're gonna do a podcast where we're gonna talk about five and six, seven, uh, for you guys. But see, like I got in there, gotta get in there. I can't, can't help it. Um, but we're gonna do that. But we want you to go and read the rest of Revelation six and Revelation seven, which talk about the other seals.

Go wrestle with scripture yourself, figure it out. And figure out what is, what is the truth here for me in my life? What was the truth for them? What's the truth for me? 'cause there are seven seals we, we, that we can talk about. Each of the seven seals reveals a stage in God's sovereign plan. The lamb, which is Jesus, allows humanity to experience the escalating consequences of sin.

Here's the thing, yes, we, we could not ever have to experience the consequences of sin, but I love my children. There are times I know my children are going to potentially make a decision that will be bad, that will have negative consequences for them. And I let them do it anyways because I love them and they have free will and they have to learn.

And although I could make that decision for them, I'm probably gonna be frustrated about their bad decision, the consequences. But I let them do it because that's what love looks like, right. Right. That's all God is doing to us. He loves us enough to give us the Bible, to guide us and to say, here's the wisdom.

Here's the way you should live. I encourage you to do it. Endure, because there's great, there's great consequences for those who endure, but also you're gonna make your own choices along the way. That's love. And so really. The seven seals are just God judging us according to our choices by having the freedom to choose what we choose, and oftentimes we.

The escalating consequences of sin are our selfish choices and we, we suffer the consequences of our sins, but we also suffer the consequences of other people's sins because sin splashes on other people. There are times in my life that I'm suffering and I have done nothing to cause it Somebody else's sin has splashed onto my.

And is causing me torment, frustration, whatever there are consequences to sin, those consequences might be your sin causing consequences or other people's. And we might have to deal with it. And yes, that's frustrating, but that's life In a broken world, that's the way it is. And so we have to understand when we get to the fourth seal.

We've had the first three and we've already kinda described what they were. The fourth seal is, is where we continue on. In Revelation six, it says, when he opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice of the fourth living creature say, come. And I looked and behold a pale horse. And its writer's name was Death and Hades followed him and they were given authority over a fourth of the earth to kill the sword.

And with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. Now, the first three seals, deception, war, and famine, they always culminate in death. They do. At the end of all, that will be death, either spiritual death or physical death, but it'll culminate in death. So when we have the first three seals, they end up in the fourth seal, which is death.

The pale horse comes with the rider, and death is his name. Now we have this pale horse coming, I hope, outta the sky, this pale horse. But the word pale is a Greek word that's claros, which is greenish or sickly. So that horse is like pale green. Now, if you've ever seen someone dying or in a hospital and like all the blood seems to have have flown out of them, and they're just really sickly, they're pale.

That's the color of this horse. It's a pale horse, which symbolizes death and the rider's name is Death Now, not just the rider's name is death. He has a companion Following him, his companion is Hades. Who follows close behind because for the world at the time, 2000 years ago, Hades was something they would've talked about from their pantheon of gods.

And Hades was the realm of the soul. Death is something that happens to our physical being. Ha. Hades is where our spiritual soul goes when we die. And so when John is writing to people and telling him, they would've understood the difference between death, physical and Haiti spiritual death. That would've made sense to them.

And so where Death Follows our soul goes somewhere in a spiritual sense following Close Pine. For those of us who die and we don't go to heaven, we go to Hades. Where the Bible would say would be Hell. So Revelation one. Uh, I wanna go to the beginning of Revelation. I'm skip back to the first chapter.

There's this part where Jesus is, is being revealed by, um, John. It's kind of the revel. It's what's called the Revelation of Christ. He says that, and there's a famous verse where Ge, where he says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. That's something we know. It's the beginning and the end. That's a very popular um.

Kind of phrase about Jesus. There's, I've, every, every place I've ever lived, there's always an Alpha and Omega business. I think there's an Alpha and Omega plumbing in Jackson. So it's, it's, it means that's a Christian who has a plumbing company, right? It's the beginning and the end of your plumbing, plumbing problems.

So, so it's, they sell fiber too. Um, so that's a deep joke. You'll never get it. So, all right. So Revelation one, John is having this vision, and in this vision at this part of Revelation one, he sees Jesus, and this is what happens. When I saw him, I fell his feet as though dead, but he laid his right hand on me saying, fear not.

I am the first and the last and the living one. I died. And behold, I'm alive forevermore, and I have the keys of. Death and Hades, right? Therefore, the things that you have seen, those that are, and those that are to take place after this. So Jesus in this vision is telling him, Hey, you're gonna write. You're gonna write all these things.

You're gonna talk about these judgments, all this stuff you're gonna see. But don't worry, I already have the keys of death and eternity. Those belong to me. I am already over them. Like, I'm not worried about them. You shouldn't worry about them. Your people shouldn't worry about them because I have the keys to those things.

I'm in control. That's where Jesus starts with this conversation, the vision, and so as we talk about Revelation six, taking it outta context, yeah, the tribulation is scary. All these judgements from the sky and these horses and riders and death and war, it's scary, but it's not scary in context when you already know that Jesus already set the beginning of the conversation, oh, don't worry about this.

I'm in control of all of this. If you're with me, you don't need to worry about it. That's really the first part of Revelation. What happens is people get on TikTok and Facebook and YouTube and they, they scare you to death about what's gonna come and what's gonna happen. You're gonna be here for all these terrible things.

It doesn't really matter. Jesus is saying, 'cause I'm in control, because death claims the body, Hades claims the soul. Hades is the grave, the unseen realm of the dead. We know that, and there's four instruments of death in this passage that, that we, we read. There's the sword, which is war and violence.

There's famine. So death in Hades are gonna bring the sword. They're gonna be famine, which is just scarcity of food, starvation. Um, there's pestilence, which is disease and plague. Remember 2020, like we live in a world where there's always been these things. There's always been famines, there's always been plagues.

Remember the bubonic plague? You ever heard about that? Uh, the black plague, those type of things. Like there's been all these things in the world. And then wild beasts, chaos, and creation. Animals will attack. Well, that happens a lot in our world, and I believe that anytime in the world, these things all exist in different ways over society.

The Lord could come at any time. That's the truth. And he's been able to come for any time for 2000 years. There's always been war. If you study history, there's always war. I don't think there's ever been a period of peace globally in our world, ever, because it's broken. There's always famine, there's always pestilence.

We had a drought here. It just didn't affect our crops, but like we did have a drought in the Midwest. Other places, they have a drought. It's ongoing for years and they can't go crops and they starve. And then the wild beast attack, that's the instruments of death that come with the pale horse. That's the world.

And so if we look for those, I mean, you can look for those now and they're in the world, right? Um, if you live in Australia, yeah, there's shark attacks. The wild beast are coming for you. So that's the reality. But what what's happened is, is John is saying this vision that he's seeing, but it's connected to the beginning of the Bible.

Because these four things that come with death and Hades, they go all the way back to the Old Testament. They echo the covenant curses of Leviticus and Ezekiel, and I can show you example on Ezekiel. I don't have time to read both, but you can, you can. Leviticus for homework. Um, Ezekiel 14 for thus says the Lord God.

How much more when I send upon Jerusalem, my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beast, and pestilence to cut off from man and beast. This is written 1500 years or, or more before. Jesus. Jesus is saying, Hey, the signs that are gonna come, he says the same thing. He says the same thing to when the disciples ask him, this is the sign of judgment to coming.

That's coming from the Old Testament because God has had a plan since before creation of the whole story and how it's gonna work out and how he's going to restore and reclaim the world. We're not living moment to moment. God has a big plan and you're part of it. We're all part of it. And his plan that he wants for you is to understand that one day, those who endure will, will, will reside with him.

And those who don't won't. That's just, that's the reality of scripture. And so we can know that Jesus will conquer death and Hades once again. That's the promise. Jesus says it. We have it in the Old Testament. We see it in Revelation that Jesus is going to conquer death in Hades once again. We see this at the end of Revelation.

The very towards the end of the book, it says, in the sea, gave up the dead who were in it, death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged each one of them according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

So at the very end of Revelation when Jesus wins. When all things are gonna be restored, there is a final death of the enemy death in Hades. And Jesus isn't afraid of them 'cause he is already in control. He's got a plan. But one day after all the judging is done, death in Hades itself, the enemy will be thrown to the lake of fire.

That's the plan. And this goes all the way back to the beginning of the Bible and we miss it if we don't understand in the context of what's happening. But John is revealing Christ as the answer to everything. The culmination of scripture, the culmination of the Old Testament, the New Testament, the gospels.

It's Jesus. It's always Jesus. So what does this mean for you? Death is real and it's relentless. Death is coming for us all. You are going to die. I'm going to die. If Jesus doesn't come back in our lifetime, you're going to die. Your friends, your family, your children, they're going to die. It's real and it's relentless.

There's nothing we can do to stop it. You can't cryogenically freeze yourself. And hope that you'll come back. 'cause guess what? All those people are currently dead. So, and unless they figure out how to bring 'em back, which science hasn't even come close to that yet. They're still frozen, but that means they're dead.

So death is real and relentless. You can't do anything to avoid it. So as believers, what we have to understand is that death, that's real. There's also life that's real everlasting in Jesus Christ. That's the promise of scripture. Yes, your physical form may die, but we are more than just physical form. We are form physical and soul, which is not physical, and our souls live on in Christ.

And so what is being judged in Revelation? It's not our physical form, it's our soul. It's the essence of what makes us who we are. That's what gets judged. We have to live for Jesus In Romans 6 23 says this, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life and Christ Jesus our Lord.

If you follow Jesus Christ and you endure, you do not have to fear death because that free gift for those who follow him is eternal life in Jesus Christ, the ultimate victor. You'll have life through him, but if you live in sin. The wages of that sin, the consequences you could say for the consequences of sin is death.

It's death, eternal death, physical death. That's the reality of it. And so for Christians, we don't have to fear people who follow Jesus Christ. We don't have to fear death, but the world fears death because it's living in sin. And the problem is a lot of people wanna live their life the whatever way they want, and send as much as they want.

And, and hopefully I'll get my life, my act together right before I'm gonna die. You don't know when you're gonna die. And as a pastor, we've lost lots of people. Young, middle aged, old. You just never know. It's always surprising to me sometimes when people pass. 'cause you anticipate that people who are, who are aged, um, they're, they're eventually gonna meet their maker at some point, right?

If you get over a certain age. You feel like it could come at any time? Every time I find out another football player dies, I start questioning, oh, am I next? Right? And some of those guys are younger than me. We just had a guy that played Michigan football. Uh, he died in his like early thirties. Wow. I'm 46.

So then I'm thinking, oh, I mean, he was healthy. All right. He was running back, right? So like, I need to get healthy, right? So we always have those thoughts and if you're living in a way that sin is what you're living into. In choosing, you're gonna, you should be more worried about death, but if you're living for Christ, you don't have to worry about death.

There was a a, I just saw a study come out yesterday and it was like very disheartening, but it's the reality of our world. Christians don't feel like sins are sins anymore. Right. That's the thing. A lot of Christians go to church and. Sins are a sin. The only sin that Christians still think is sin is lying.

72% of Christians think lying is still a sin. It's still like 30. That percent that don't. But lying still sin cheating is no longer a sin to Christians. It's a sin that they can live with. It's still a sin. Well, you know, I, God doesn't really care. I I'll get forgiveness. And that's, that's the problem, is like everybody cheats in school now, like every student that I've met knows that all the other classmates cheat.

And then I've had plenty of teenagers tell me, yeah, I cheat. I don't really feel bad about it. Everybody cheats. I, it's just the way it is. We should feel bad about it. Cheating is still a sin just because culture says it's not so bad. It's still a sin. Uh, yeah. I think the big ones they said were cheating.

Drunkenness no longer considered a sin, but people, I just go out and get drunk in a church Sunday. It doesn't matter. Like God will forgive me. Like that's just the thing. And sex before marriage, no longer, often considered a sin in Christian circles, but the Bible still says it's a sin. You can't just decide it's not a sin.

'cause I don't feel bad about it anymore. Right, right. That's just. All these influencers trying to tell you, well let me explain the Bible and let me lemme take these five verses and take 'em outta context. That's false prophecy. That's people teaching you a false gospel. Like the truth is the Bible has been true all the way through and it's unchanging things that were sins then 2000 years ago, still, sins today doesn't know if you know this.

They don't change. There's no contextual. Well, you know, we're smarter and we have cell phones, so that changes all the sins now 'cause I have a device, right? Still bad, right? Those sins are still bad. We have to recognize that like sin leads to death. That's the consequence. And that consequence can splash other people.

Your sin can mess up someone else's life. It really can. And then it frustrates them because if you're a Christian, you're sinning and you're messing up their life. Now. They don't want anything to do with Christ. 'cause now that person's messed up my life. 'cause there's sin, there's consequences. But if we live for God and we live for him, we choose to live for him, then there is a free gift.

And that's eternal life in Jesus Christ, our Lord, because the lamb defeats death. If the lamb is Jesus, he defeats death. He's defeated it once. He's gonna come back and he's defeated again. But we're all gonna defeat death through him 'cause we'll live everlasting through the lamb. And so what the fourth seal releases temporarily, the judgment on the world.

Christ will erase all of that stuff eternally when he reclaims everything he says. You just have to recognize that if you, if you want life everlasting, it only comes through Jesus. But you have to choose to live for him. Now. You have to endure. That's what Jesus told his closest friend. Hey, endure. Don't worry about the famine, the PE plagues.

Don't worry about trying to, to live the way you want and get your life ready at the last moment. Just live for me. Always endure. Always choose the hard path, even when it's not easy. Like we're told to live the narrow path, right? Walk the narrow road to the narrow gate that we're supposed to make that decision.

In our twenties, in our thirties, in our teenage years, we're not supposed to go live for sin. And the consequences of it, and then like get our life together. I've had so many people come to me and say, I wish I'd have done differently back then because the consequences from their twenties, their thirties, their teenage years, and their and their sins, they're still dealing with them decades later.

Don't live like that. Live for him. My life is good. I have tons of fun and I live for Jesus, and I don't feel like I miss out and I still think the sins of the Bible are still sins and I live my life accordingly. You gotta know Jesus. And you gotta live for him to have life everlasting. That's, that's the scripture.

You don't need to fear revelation. You don't need to fear tribulation. You don't need to fear the horse come outta the sky. You don't need to fear giant dragon. You don't need to fear it if you follower of Christ, 'cause you'll endure everlasting with Jesus if you endure with him. That's, that's the promise of scripture.

And if you're struggling, because you know, you're kind of trapped in, I'm living selfishlessly for me. And I kind of quantify what I think is sin or not based on how I, you know what I want to get away with. You gotta stop that nonsense. You gotta choose him. Because that nonsense and that your belief system, it's making you miserable, it's making you anxious, it's making you frustrated, it's causing you mental health issues.

It's causing you all kinds of stuff in your life because you're really not just living for Jesus. That's the truth. So if you wanna live for Jesus, you gotta know him and you gotta live for him. And you can make that decision today. You can say, I don't wanna live this way anymore. And the way to do that is just make a decision in your heart.

I don't wanna live this life anymore. I'm gonna live for Jesus. Us and I gotta get in his word. I gotta start chewing it for myself. I gotta start reading it. Maybe, maybe. If you're one of a a man and you wanna start going to the discipleship class with Rob, do that. Maybe that's your first step. Say, I don't know much about this, but I need to live different.

Go start discipleship. Get in a Bible study, get in life group. Get plugged into our church. Do life together with people who are living for Jesus, actively not quantifying what might or might not be sin based on how they feel at the moment, but truly living for Jesus. If you wanna make a change, you can do it.

If you want prayer, we'll pray for you as a church. If you say, I wanna start living my life for Jesus, write life on the back. We'll just pray for you. Make sure your name's on it so we know who we're praying for. We pray for you all week. Just pray that, that the Holy Spirit works in you and, and helps you figure out how you need to navigate your life differently so you're living for Jesus.

If you're been following Jesus, but you know your, your life is suspect to, to bad teaching that has led you astray to things you know are not right. But so and so told me it's okay. So it must be okay. But if it's not, you're not living it on the word. You need to. You need to start by living with what the word says in your life and your marriages and your friendships, and your families, and the school and the workplaces in the world.

That's what you gotta do. And the way that we can, we can help you is as we pray, we're just gonna give you opportunity if you know, if you're uncomfortable right now, 'cause God's saying, Hey, this is you. Make the change. Make it today and live for him. Let's pray. Heaven, me, father Lord, we come to you. If we glorify you as God, we glorify you as king Lord, we know we need you.

We Lord, we know that life everlasting only comes to you. But if there's anyone here who just recognizes right now in their heart and their soul that they're messing up, they're living selfishly, they're trying to to see the signs so that they know when to get their life right. But I just pray that you, through your Holy Spirit, convince them now.

Now it's time to get their life right. Not tomorrow, not in the future now. Amen. We we're called to endure. Lord, if there's anyone here who who recognizes they don't, they don't know Jesus. They don't call him Lord, but they're tired of living the life and the consequences of it that they are. I just, Lord, I just pray right now in their life, they just say, I'm gonna choose Jesus as king of my life.

And even if I don't know what that means, I'll figure it out here with this community, with this family at our lakes. But I pray that, just say right now, I believe in Jesus as my Lord, though we wanna be at church. Where we live for you, and we encourage each other to live for you, and we endure together in this community to show the love of Jesus Christ in a powerful and tangible way so that the consequences of our, our relationship with Jesus' love, it's hope, it's grace, it's mercy.

It's not the splash of sin on each other, Lord. Just pray we can do better and be better and live better as a church together for Jesus Christ the king. We just pray this in his name.