Amen. To God be the glory. That’s the only place that you go. Amen? Shouldn’t be for us.

We don’t deserve it. Only God. You know, last week, we got to celebrate resurrection day. Amen? What a wonderful time.

We got to celebrate that. We got to celebrate together. We were there when the sun came up. We were here again during the middle of the day. What a wonderful time.

And that’s a time that we all should be very excited about being a believer. Because we know that because he rose from the dead that we can have that salvation. It’s a wonderful time. In fact, it’s such a wonderful time that most churches experience a surge in attendance on that day. Most churches experience a surge because there are a lot of people who, no matter what, they’re going to go to church on Easter.

Right? They’re gonna be there. That’s just the thing. A lot of those same people show back up again on Christmas. You know, those are the times they come to church.

They may not come any other time, but they’re gonna come then. Why? Because it is such a powerful thing to think about. And so as believers, it’s it’s kind of a a being up on a high mountain. Right?

We go up on that mountain to be close to God, and it’s such a wonderful time, And we’ve led up to that with wonderful music throughout the month, and we come in on that day, and we’re very thankful, and we’re worshipful, and we have this amazing time. And then Easter’s over. And then all of a sudden, there’s like this it’s like a letdown. It’s kinda like the youth going to camp. Man, they go to camp.

Y’all should y’all should just go to the last day of camp. One time, just go to youth camp on the last day just to see it. Man, they are so fired up. They’re excited. They’ve been getting fed every day, and they’re worshiping.

They’re singing. They’re shouting. They all got their Bibles out. They’re having this wonderful time, and they come back so excited from camp and then down to the valley. All this wonderful mountain top experience, but then it goes down.

It’s like we experienced the greatest, but now it’s down. It’s a letdown that happens after a big experience. Sometimes that big celebration creates a dip in our spirit after because it’s like, I I still wanna be on that same level, but it’s hard because it’s just not the same. Things are a little different. Well, why is it different?

Part of the way it’s different is because we let it be. Right? We let it be different. God’s the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Just because it’s not that big calendar date, it’s still Jesus is alive.

He’s still here. He’s still looking at us. He’s still interceding on our behalf. He we still serve a risen god. And so rather than allowing ourselves to take that dip down after that big celebration, let’s keep celebrating.

There’s no reason why we shouldn’t. I’ll let you in on a secret. That date on the calendar, nobody knows for sure if that’s the day Jesus actually resurrected from the dead or not. It might be this day. Nobody?

Nothing? Okay. It could be tomorrow. It could be any day. The point is it’s every day for a believer.

Amen? Amen. It’s every day. So how do we live that way? How do we understand that as we go through our walk, we go through our life, we’ve celebrated, we know that Jesus is alive, if we’ve given our life to him and we call him lord and savior, how do we go through every day understanding that that’s how we need to live?

Jesus came. He was crucified, and he was resurrected. And so now we have hope. We have hope. It’s not wishful thinking.

It’s not something that ever fades, but instead, it’s a hope that never fails. It never fades. It never fails. It’s a hope that never goes away. It’s always there.

That hope that never fades. And so look with me to first Peter chapter one and verse three. First Peter chapter one and verse three, and we’re gonna listen. This Bible drill day. Okay?

I just want you to know. I got about 27 verse no. It’s not quite that many. I got a lot of verses for us to go through today, and all of them are gonna talk about hope. First Peter one three says this, blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

That’s awesome. Our god and father, our lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope. You see, this hope is living. It’s a living hope. It’s never goes away.

It is living. We in in this country, especially, we don’t process that word hope properly. We interchange that word hope with wish. Right? We interchange that word hope with wish.

You know? And and we’re moving towards summer and then towards the fall and football season and all the things. And, you know, you’ll hear people say, I hope the Saints win a championship this year. I hope that my baseball team wins. I hope that summer is is great.

I hope that what well, they could change that word and say, I wish, and it would mean exactly the same thing. That hope that they’re talking about, that living hope, that is a hope that is a promise. It is something that you don’t have to wish it’s been given. We know that from the resurrection that we talked about last Sunday. We know that from understanding that Jesus is alive today.

He is our living hope. He’s the one that we have hope in. It’s a promise that when we know him and we call him lord and savior, we don’t have to wish that we can have an eternity in Jesus Christ. We have already been given that hope in him, and so, therefore, we know it to be true. When we have this letdown from the wonderful resurrection service, understand that it wasn’t a letdown.

That was just the beginning. That was just the beginning. When Jesus resurrected from the dead, that was the beginning of life, not the end. It was the beginning of life. And as a believer, we can grab on to that and understand that is the beginning.

That hope is Jesus Christ. Because of what he did, we have a hope. Without what he did, we would not have a hope. Without what he did, there would be absolutely no hope. In fact, it would just be a disaster.

There would be no hope whatsoever in this life. It would be a horrible life if if it hadn’t been for what Jesus did. Because with what he did, we know that we can have an eternal life. It’s a hope that never fades because it gives us eternal life. Eternal life.

Y’all know how I say all means all. You can’t change that. There’s no exceptions. Well, eternal means it doesn’t end. Eternal is eternal.

There’s no end. Absolutely no end. In this old body that I’m living in today on this earth, I don’t want there to be an eternal life like this. Because most of you are a little more mature than I am, and I see the things that you go through, and I’m not looking forward to a lot of that. I wouldn’t want to keep going forever and ever with these old bodies, but in that eternal life that eternal life that he had gave us, he says we’ll get a new body.

It’ll be brand new. We won’t have any artificial knees or hips or any of that stuff going on. It’ll all be brand new, and it lasts forever. That hope is in Jesus because of what he did. We have a hope.

That hope is eternal life because he gave it to us. We have to understand that Christianity is the only so called religion. Now I say so called religion. Let me explain that. There are a lot of things in this world that masquerade as religion, but they’re not really all about Christ.

They call themselves a religion, but it has nothing to do with Jesus. Christianity is the only religion that worships a living God. Every other religion that is known to man in this world today worships a dead person. They worship a dead person. Now let me ask you this.

After someone is dead and gone, what can they do for you? They’re no longer here. There’s nothing they can do. But while they’re alive, there’s something that can be done. Jesus is alive.

Not only is he alive, but he’s sitting at the right hand of the father today. And when you’ve called upon him as lord and savior, he points to you and says, father, that one’s mine. That one’s mine. They gave their life, and now they’re mine. My blood paid for them.

They’ve accepted that gift, and they’re mine. He’s alive today. And because of that, we have hope. Our hope is living, and it always will be. It’s living, and it always will be.

Pardon me. That’s the incredible thing. Not only are we worshiping a living God, but we’re worshiping a God that will never die. He will never die. Jesus died once, and it was a true death.

It was an absolute fact that he was dead. He wasn’t unconscious. He wasn’t asleep. He was dead. He was checked to make sure he was dead.

But on the third day, he came back to life. Why did he die? He’s our living god. Why did he die? He died to overcome that grave.

He overcame the grave, and now we can too because he’s living, and he always will be. He will never die again. He died once for all, but he will never die again. Look in Romans chapter 15. Romans chapter 15 and verse 13.

Now may the god of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. The God of hope will fill you with joy and peace. You will abound in hope. All of that is happening by the power of the Holy Spirit. All of that is happening by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Our God is the God of hope through the Holy Spirit who came to stay after the resurrection. Understand this. Jesus said, I’m going away, but I’m sending a helper. I’m sending a helper, and that helper will come and will be with you. And the amazing thing about the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit is omnipresent.

The Holy Spirit can fill you everywhere, all at the same time. Jesus went away. He went to heaven, and he’s at the right hand of the father, but the Holy Spirit is here present in us today. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity. It’s all still God.

He’s just in the person of the Holy Spirit. He’s with us today. He’s with us in all that we do. And because of him being in us today and we are filled with the spirit, then we can have that hope. We don’t have to be hopeless because he’s filled us with hope.

That hope that never fades. It never fades away ever. It’s always there. When Jesus left, he said, I’m coming back. While I’m gone, the Holy Spirit is gonna be here with you.

But I’m coming back, and that’s a hope that we can count on because he is our hope, and he says, I’m coming back. It never fades. Our hope should literally leap within us as we’re filled with the holy spirit. You know, I think about that, and I remember, in the in the, talking about Jesus’ cousin, John. Right?

When Elizabeth was pregnant with John and Mary was pregnant with Jesus and they came together, the baby inside her womb literally leaped because he was in the presence of god. The baby that hadn’t even been born yet recognized how exciting that was, and the baby leaped. Yet in our world today, we walk around sometimes with our head down and a frown on our face, and we walk around as if we don’t have any hope. We should literally be leaping because of the Holy Spirit that’s inside us. We should literally have a smile that won’t fade away.

We should have a a smile that doesn’t go away because we have that hope. And no matter what happens in life listen. Life throws us some really hard times. We have gone there some of you that are here today have gone through some times in your life that are so hard and so incredible. I can’t even imagine, yet God has never let you down.

He’s been with you the whole way. That hope did not fade. It’s still there, and it will still be there no matter what we go through. He’s going to be with us. That hope is there.

Our hope should literally leap within us as we’re filled with the Holy Spirit. So the question, are you filled with the hope of the Holy Ghost today? Are you filled with that hope? And if you are, show it. Show it.

Ashley, sitting right here. Why do we smile? Because we’re happy. We’re happy. We’re happy.

It makes us smile. And that’s true. But what makes Christians smile continually is joy. The joy of knowing that Jesus is alive. That joy that’s inside us.

That Holy Ghost that we’re filled with should keep us constantly smiling. We should have that smile on our face the whole time because of that. That should be what we do. The reality is why is it that we walk around as if we do not have the Holy Spirit? Why is it that we walk around with a frown on our face?

That smile should be on our face. That joy should be in our heart in all that happens and everything that goes on in our life. Well, preacher, you understand. Sometimes days are just bad. I do understand that.

I have bad days myself. You know, a preacher is not, shielded from bad days. I I have bad days. I have bad months. I had a bad year last year.

Amen? We had a bad time, but those are temporary. Hope is eternal. Hope is eternal. That joy is going to be there eternally if we know Jesus, our lord and savior.

Are we filled with the Holy Ghost today? Are we walking around as if we are? Do we have that smile on our face? Do we show people? This is the thing.

I know y’all heard this song when you were little. Right? I’m not gonna make you stand up and sing it, although it would be fun. If you’re happy and you know it Whatever. Right?

So if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, but the rest of that goes. If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you’re happy and you know it. Your face will show it.

It has to. That joy inside you causes that to happen. And so when we think about that, are we filled with the Holy Ghost? Do we have that in our life? If we do, show it.

Let others see it. Look at Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. Says this, now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Right?

So when we see this, we can understand that that hope is assured through faith. That hope is assured through faith. It is assured. I don’t know about you, but I like assurance. I like to know yeah.

You know? We order something on Amazon, we wanna be assured it’s gonna show up and what day. Right? We want to know it’s going to happen. We don’t want to do something and wonder, is it going to happen?

That faith that we have is the assurance of the things hoped for, the conviction of the things not seen. We don’t see the Holy Spirit. We don’t see Jesus with our own eyes, but we can have that faith in our life, the assurance the assurance of the hope that he has given us. We can have that, and we can live it every single day. Faith has so many things, and hope has so many things.

And when we see all of this, our hope is living. Our hope is is the holy spirit. Our hope is faith. It’s the hope that is, assured through the faith. Faith is the certainty of things hoped for.

It’s the certainty. Absolutely certain. There’s no doubt. No doubt whatsoever. In other words, we don’t have to wonder or wish for these assurances they are certain.

They’ve been given to us. Now we have hope because of faith. We have hope with the Holy Spirit. We have hope in all these things, but we also have a hope for our future. We have a hope for our future.

Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. Many of you already know that by heart, I’m sure. That passage is a passage of light in the middle of a very dark chapter, in the middle of a very dark book. There’s a lot that’s going on and the and the children of Israel are going through a lot of judgment and a lot of bad things. And then this passage says in twenty nine eleven, for I, being God, know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord.

Plans for your welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Ain’t that incredible? God knows the plans he has for you. First thing that jumps out to me when I read that passage is, God has plans for me. He didn’t put me here and walk away.

He has plans. He created me for a purpose. He has something in my life that he wants me to do, and he has those plans for me. Those plans are not for calamity, but for welfare. God there are many people that think that god is sitting there waiting.

Oh, you messed up. Let me shoot a lightning bolt at you. Oh, god’s just waiting on you to mess up so he can knock you down. No. That’s not god at all.

God has plans for you, for your welfare. He wants you to prosper. He wants you to be able to do the things. Now I’m not saying that because you are a believer that God’s just gonna make everything easy for you. The word says he will not.

We will have trouble, but he’s still gonna prosper you even in that trouble. You know, every time I visit somebody in the hospital, one of the things I say to them, one of the things I pray is this. While you’re here, may God send someone for you to share the gospel with. It’s amazing how that happens. You’re there going through all these things that you’re going through, and while you’re going through all of those things, and the staff comes in to empty your trash or check your vitals or your doctor comes in, whoever it is, and there’s a smile on your face.

And you could tell them about why there’s a smile on your face because the Holy Spirit, because of what Jesus did for me. You can share that, and it’s amazing how much that will change them. Even if they already know Jesus, maybe they’re having a bad day. And you have that opportunity to make their day brighter by sharing Jesus with them. God knows the plans he has for us.

He knows those plans. They are not for calamity, but they’re for our welfare. He wants to make sure that we have opportunities to share the gospel story. He already knows. Because of the saving power of Jesus Christ, we have a hope for our future.

We have a hope. It doesn’t fade. We still have a hope for that. I know people look at what’s going on in our world, and they look at politics, and they look at all of the things that are happening in all over the all over the world and they say, man, there’s just really no hope for the future. It’s just terrible.

It is terrible, but there’s definitely a hope. His name is Jesus. And he’s the only hope that we have. God knows the plans he has for us even if we do not. I want you to understand that.

God knows the plans he has for us even if we do not. What do you mean we don’t know? At 20 years old, if you told me I was gonna be a pastor one day, I would laughed at you. I’d have said, no. That won’t be me.

I I won’t be a pastor. That’s not something that that I’m going to do. But by 40 years old, I was already a minister. God knew the plan he had for me. As I look back on that, you know what?

He was trying to tell me before then, but I wasn’t listening. God knows the plans even if we don’t know. Why don’t we know? Well, here’s why we don’t ask. We don’t seek.

We don’t try to find out. God, what is it that you have for me today? God, you woke me up today. Why? There’s a reason.

You know the plans you have for me. That’s why you woke me up today. The plans were for my welfare, not for my calamity. There’s something today that you have for me to do for you. What is it today, god, that you have for me?

Because you know what you have in store for me even if I don’t. But, god, if you’ll show me, I wanna be obedient in following that. God says, today, I want you to talk to that guy in the cubicle next to you. You know, the one that uses swear words every other every other word. The one that always is is, hard to deal with.

The one that rubs you the wrong way every day. Today, I want you to talk to him about Jesus. I’m going back to bed. That can’t be true, God. That can’t be what you have for me today.

God, you said you had plans for my welfare. That’s that’s not gonna be good for me today. God knows the plans he has for you. They are for your welfare. Maybe that is the day that he has prepared that person to hear for the very first time that God loves him.

Maybe nobody’s ever told him that because they use swear words every other word. They’re abrasive. They’re hard to deal with, and nobody’s ever took the time to share Jesus with them. But today, if he’s called you to do that and you do, it might be the very day that he comes to know Jesus as lord and savior. God knows the plans he has for you.

This hope is for your future. Now your future can be five minutes from now or five years from now or fifty years from now. It’s your future. He assures us these plans are to prosper and not disaster. Does it mean that we won’t have trouble?

No. It doesn’t mean that we won’t have trouble. We will have trouble in this world. I wish it meant we didn’t have trouble. That would be great.

Right? I mean, if we took a poll and said, how many of you here today would like to never have any trouble in your life again? Everybody would raise both hands. Right? Me.

I never want trouble in my life again. Right? There’s a problem with that. Sometimes God uses the trouble in our life in order to teach us the things that we need. Sometimes it’s that trouble that gives us the growth in order to meet the next challenge, whatever it is.

Sometimes God uses the trouble in our life to reach someone else who needs to know him as Lord and savior. God does all of these things. I always think about the the little sea turtle and how they always tell you, don’t pick them up and take them to the water. Because if you pick them up and take them to the water, they’ll drown because they don’t know how to swim. It’s the motion of getting to the water that teaches them how to swim.

It’s very difficult. Some of them don’t make it. But the ones that do, many of them don’t make it. But the ones that make it usually grow to be hundreds of years old. There’s a lot of things that go through as they make it to the water.

Sometimes as Christians, when we’re struggling so hard, God may take us at that moment and say, you’ve done what I asked you to do. It’s time to come home. But he knows what the plans he has for us. We don’t know. We need to understand sometimes the trouble we go through is the thing that grows us the most.

The biggest hope that we as believers have today is in the hope and the return of Christ. The hope and the return of Christ. Move with me to first Peter one thirteen, and it says this. Therefore, prepare your minds for action. Keep sober in spirit.

Fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. At the revelation of Jesus Christ. Understand, I believe this passage is speaking to believers. It’s speaking of the revealing of Christ at his return. Prepare yourselves and focus on your hope as the revelation of Jesus Christ is coming.

Prepare yourselves. Keep sober in spirit. Fix your hope on the grace to be brought. And since you’re doing that, share that with those who don’t know. Prepare yourself for what’s coming at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

You know, one of the ways we prepare ourselves for that? Look around you. Well, the person to my right, I know they’re not a believer. I know how they live their life. They don’t have any thoughts of Jesus at all.

Person on the left, I hang out with them a lot because, you know, we go to church together and I know all about them and, you know, we don’t want anything to do with the person over here. Okay. We like to hang out with people who are like us. Right? That’s that’s just what we do.

But if today is the revelation of Jesus Christ and he shows up in the clouds, that person over here that you’re certain does not know Jesus is doomed to a devil’s hell. They’re doomed to a devil’s hell. Prepare your minds for action. For action. What action?

Whatever god calls you to do. If god says talk to that person, go talk to them. Well, preacher, I’ve tried, but, you know, they turn me down. Every time I try to talk to them, they just turn me off. It’s a new day.

New hope. God knows the plans he asked for you. If he’s calling you to go talk to him, today might be the day. It might not be. It might be 27 times from now.

But he never said stop. That means we need to keep doing it. We need to prepare our minds for action, not just so that we can say, oh, we know God and we’re ready. Take me now, Lord. Well, that’s awesome.

I’m so glad you know him, and I’m glad that I will see you again one day in heaven when I arrive there. But the problem is if I just stop with that right now, what about all those other people? What about all those that are around that don’t know him? Prepare yourselves, he says. Prepare yourselves and focus on your hope as the revelation of Jesus Christ is coming.

Here’s the thing. He’s going to return just as he left. You know how I know that? The scripture says that. The angel told the disciples as they stood gazing into heaven, said, what y’all doing standing around here?

What are you looking for? That Jesus that you saw go, he’s gonna come back the same way you just saw him leave one day. He’s coming back to earth just like he went up. He’s coming again. Jesus told his disciples, if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself.

He’s going to do that. We know he’s coming back again. We don’t know when. We don’t know when. What if we did?

What if today I could tell you that on December twenty fourth of this year, Jesus is coming back? How would that change how you live your life between here and now? How would that change that? You got till December 24 before Jesus comes back. What are you gonna do with that?

You know what many people would do? Well, I’m a quit my job. I’m going on vacation. I’m a I’m not worried about all the future anymore. At retirement fund, I’m spending that thing because I’m not worried about it because on December 24, I’m going home, baby.

I’m not worried about anything. Okay. But again, what about your family that doesn’t know him? And he’s coming back on the twenty fourth. And the scripture says, upon his return, it’s too late for those to accept him.

Maybe instead of taking your retirement fund and partying for the next however long, you should take that same money and start trying to share the gospel with the people that don’t know. The people that are around you, those that god has already put in your circle of influence, are you sharing that? Are you telling them? He’s coming back. We don’t know the date.

But if we did, how would it change you? Think about this. Since you don’t know the date, shouldn’t you be even trying harder to reach those people? Because it could be tomorrow. You may not have till December 24.

You may not have till midnight tonight. We don’t know. He’s going to return just as he left. We have that hope that hope because he tells us he is. Look at Philippians one six.

Philippians one six says this. It says, for I am confident of this very thing that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. He who began a good work in you will perfect it. That means we’re not perfect yet, but he’s going to perfect it so we can have the hope that he will make us that way. Hope never fades.

It’s not gonna stop. The hope is going to be there. He’s going to keep working on us. I love that song. He’s still working on me.

He’s still working on me to make me what I ought to be. It didn’t take him long to make the moon and the stars, but he’s still working on me. Taking a long time. Says from the very beginning that you received justification, he began to work on you and sanctify you throughout all of your life until one day you receive glorification when you step in heaven with him. I’m confident that he who started this work in me is gonna continue this work in me.

I’m confident that the work he wants me to do is to reach people for Christ. After the resurrection is hope. Hope. Not wishful thinking, but true hope in our savior, Jesus Christ. No reason to be let down after resurrection day.

Instead, just let that be another bump in your encouragement. Let that be another bump in your encouragement. It’s a hope that never fades. Never fades. It doesn’t go away.

It doesn’t get less shiny. Right? It doesn’t go away. It’s still there. Every time you look at it, it’s exactly the same beautiful hope that God gave us on that day he rose Jesus from the grave.

It’s still exactly the same. That hope never fades in our life. We can hold on to that every single day. Now here’s the big question. Do you know that hope?

Do you know that hope? You see, I can’t tell. I don’t know. Maybe everybody on the left does and everybody on the right doesn’t. I don’t know.

There’s no dividing line. I can’t see. Maybe, you know, if God marked us somehow, y’all were wearing halos, you know, and, oh, those are the ones. No. I can’t see that.

Here’s the sad thing. Oftentimes, because people know that you can’t see that, they fake it. They fake it. Well, I’m gonna go to church and I’m gonna smile. I’m gonna say all the church words and I’m gonna do all the stuff.

People will think I’m a Christian, but I’m not really gonna do all the stuff. I’m just gonna be there, you know, so people think more about me. They like me better. Whatever it might be. For some, you may be here and you’re attending every week and you’re saying, I just keep going, then I’m gonna get better.

God’s gonna make me better every time I go and eventually, you know, I’ll just receive it through osmosis. No. That doesn’t happen either. You You see, Jesus died. He was buried, and he was resurrected on the third day.

And because of that, you can have salvation. He says, if you confess with your mouth Jesus as lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. That’s what you have to do. Coming to church every Sunday is not gonna get it. Put a little extra in offering plate every week is not gonna get it.

Doing good deeds in the community is not gonna get it. Have you confessed Jesus as lord of your life? Have you given your life to him? Have you accepted that hope and now filled with that hope? Has that ever happened?

Do you know that hope? Do you know the savior, Jesus? Do you know them personally? Do you know I say them. Why did I say them?

It’s a trinity. It’s God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. Do you know them? Have you accepted Jesus into your life? Have you given your life to him?

Have you received the salvation that only he can give? Only you know the answer to that. You see, I don’t know the answer to that for you. I know the answer for me, and I’ll stand before you today and tell you that there was a day and time in my life when I was 10 years old, and God touched me and said, you need a savior. I’ve been praying about it.

I’d already been talking to people about it. My grandfather witnessed to me for weeks before that. My parents weren’t even in town. I was at church with my grandfather. Man, when the service came to an end, I couldn’t wait for the preacher to open the the invitation.

In fact, when he was praying, standing at the front of the church, when he opened his eyes, I was standing straight in front of him. I already came down the aisle. He said, what are you here for? I said, I came to get saved. We went and prayed.

And he asked me, why did you say that? I said, because God told me I needed a savior, but I’m a sinner in need of salvation. But on my heart, I’ve been talking to the Lord this week, and he told me today, this is the day. He said, amen. I can tell you, I know Jesus is my Lord and savior.

But do you? Do you have that testimony? Can you share with someone else how he came into your heart? Do you know for a fact that you’re holding on to him as he’s holding on to you? If you don’t know that, you’re you’re still trying to work your way in.

You’re not gonna get there. You need to know that. If you confess Jesus as lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Now the great news is Jesus has not returned yet. That’s great news if you don’t know him because you still have time.

So in a moment, we’re gonna have a time invitation. That’s the invitation for you to do business with the lord. If you know that you need to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, he’s already put that in your heart, then come talk to me about that. I wanna tell you exactly how you can do it. Maybe there’s someone that he put in your mind while we were talking, and you said, you know, he was talking about that guy that’s abrasive and and I have a hard time with and all of that.

And and I know a guy just like that or a girl just like that that that I have avoided for most of my life because they bother me. But because of what he said today, God put that on my heart. That’s who I want you to talk to. You wanna come pray for them. The altar will be open.

Maybe it’s a family member. Maybe it’s just you wanna be closer to the Lord and you say, you know what, I know you, but I’m not serving you like I should, and I wanna come and lay that at the altar today, whatever it might be. You come as God puts it on your heart. Let’s pray.