WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Continuing in the book of Romans, and you know I may not preach with the same power 00:30.000 --> 00:34.760 that I sometimes think I have in my voice because I have a heartburn. I think it's 00:34.760 --> 00:39.240 from three different kinds of meat and some overindulgence and a number of 00:39.240 --> 00:45.080 other things and so I'm kind of praise the Lord for that. What a wonderful time 00:45.080 --> 00:50.720 we had last night. Let's turn to Romans chapter 3 beginning in verse 21. I can't 00:50.720 --> 00:55.760 possibly read it all and get it done in time but a very key passage here and 00:55.760 --> 01:00.520 a Glenn read from this passage so that kind of gives us a double affirmation. 01:00.520 --> 01:06.720 But now a righteousness from God verse 21. Apart from the law has been made known 01:06.720 --> 01:11.440 to which the law and the prophets testified. This righteousness from God 01:11.440 --> 01:17.480 righteousness does come from God doesn't it? Comes through faith in Jesus Christ to 01:17.480 --> 01:22.160 all who believe. There's no difference for all of sin falling short of the glory 01:22.160 --> 01:30.080 of God. Oh what a powerful statement that is. And are justified freely by his 01:30.080 --> 01:37.400 grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ. God presented him as a 01:37.400 --> 01:43.880 sacrifice of atonement or atonement. You know I think of several words that 01:43.880 --> 01:47.800 needs to be defined here. Faith Hebrews 11 wants his faith to the substance of 01:47.800 --> 01:52.080 things hoped for. The assurance of things to come. Substance. Here's a 01:52.080 --> 01:58.600 skeleton put meat on it. Is the assurance. You know it's going to come. You 01:58.600 --> 02:03.040 don't have your hands on it yet but it is coming isn't it? It's like watching a 02:03.040 --> 02:08.800 teeny bopper grow. You just know they're going to be great. You just know they're 02:08.800 --> 02:12.800 the most beautiful kids in the world and they'll make the greatest adults. And you 02:12.800 --> 02:17.000 have that affirmation because you can you by faith see you raise children that 02:17.000 --> 02:22.960 way I know. Righteousness comes from Christ and that's a good definition of 02:22.960 --> 02:29.960 it. You know folks I don't know about you but I long for righteousness to fill 02:29.960 --> 02:39.880 our land again. I long for pure thoughts. Holy friends. An earth that's not 02:40.000 --> 02:46.320 ravished by thoughtless men who were told to be good stewards of the earth and 02:46.320 --> 02:51.480 we just made a mess of the green gardens of all the earth and paradise isn't 02:51.480 --> 02:57.920 even recognizable. We know where it is geographically but we just see it as a 02:57.920 --> 03:04.000 desert and think what thousands of years has done to this beautiful earth. How 03:04.000 --> 03:09.840 fortunate we are to grow up in a world like Wyoming. It's almost intact. 03:09.960 --> 03:15.040 Isn't it? It's God made it and what a privilege it is and I long for that and 03:15.040 --> 03:20.600 I long for families which have a good relationship with one another. There's 03:20.600 --> 03:27.000 no schism between the old and the new and there's no a friction in the family. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.240 They love each other. They're growing up. They're a little squirrely. They're 03:30.240 --> 03:36.040 tired. They run a taxi service but it's family and you'll just do anything for 03:36.040 --> 03:42.280 family and there's no competition in the family and there shouldn't be in the 03:42.280 --> 03:48.040 family of God either. How wonderful it would be and I think one of these days 03:48.040 --> 03:53.640 I'm going to suggest that we have a family day of dedication. Some churches 03:53.640 --> 03:58.840 find that that's the finest day that they have and wouldn't that be fun to 03:58.840 --> 04:04.240 dedicate your children? Again, I know that many of you have and we've seen 04:04.240 --> 04:09.880 strong men come up here and present little boys you like Mufasa did and say 04:09.880 --> 04:16.680 this child is given to God. This child is going to be God's woman or God's man 04:16.680 --> 04:21.120 and oh that's so exciting you know and it's a different world and there's no 04:21.120 --> 04:26.000 schism between the teeny boppers and the grandparents or the parents. It seems to 04:26.000 --> 04:29.920 me that there are three things that Christianity gives us. First of all an 04:30.080 --> 04:34.560 accurate view of humanity. There are folks who are just so excited about 04:34.560 --> 04:39.920 being humanists and who wants to be a humanist? I'd rather be related to God 04:39.920 --> 04:43.760 in some fashion. Are you tickled to death with the way humans are behaving in the 04:43.760 --> 04:51.040 world and seeing Romans Romans 3 23 he said uh-huh for all a fallen short of 04:51.040 --> 04:55.840 the glory of God and that's kind of our problem isn't it? We know how short we 04:55.920 --> 05:00.800 are as Christianity and as the church we've fallen short of God's commandments 05:00.800 --> 05:05.840 God's standards and God's rules see and we can see ourselves therefore as we are 05:05.840 --> 05:11.440 and secondly Christianity gives us answers to the problems of sin because I 05:11.440 --> 05:16.800 can't see that any mechanism on the face of the earth is working to cure the 05:16.800 --> 05:22.480 illnesses of human beings really can you? I don't think that educated shrinks are 05:22.720 --> 05:25.840 doing. I don't think that the sheriff's department is doing. I've been part of 05:25.840 --> 05:29.920 that for many many years. I don't think youth crisis center is doing it all 05:29.920 --> 05:34.560 either. I just wonder what would do it? Well I believe it's the precious church of 05:34.560 --> 05:39.440 Jesus Christ and godly men and women that are going to make a difference in the 05:39.440 --> 05:45.520 world. Jesus is the answer to everything in Romans 3 26 he said there so as to be 05:45.520 --> 05:51.280 just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Christ. See so Jesus is 05:51.280 --> 05:58.320 not only just but he makes you just he justifies you just as if you had never 05:58.320 --> 06:04.160 sinned. That's a good definition of the justification and thirdly I think that 06:04.160 --> 06:09.680 Christianity has a wonderful addition there because it is based on solid 06:09.680 --> 06:17.200 truth. Now all my life I've been harassed for being a scientist and you know I 06:17.200 --> 06:26.320 catch flak from every side the church as well as as the evolutionists that I 06:27.360 --> 06:33.360 often serve with at the college and as a oil finder and as a field geologist 06:33.920 --> 06:42.880 but I'll tell you what I know one thing I absolutely will die for anything that 06:42.880 --> 06:48.960 is stated in here. I will lay my dignity aside you can do anything you want to me 06:49.680 --> 06:56.800 I'll defend the gospel the good tidings of the Lord Jesus Christ as the only thing 06:56.800 --> 07:02.160 of true value and that's not a story either. The only thing of true value is the 07:02.160 --> 07:08.800 precepts and the commandments of the Lord God Almighty and I believe that that solid 07:08.800 --> 07:14.640 truth is so important it is based for example the resurrection is not just a 07:14.640 --> 07:21.120 story it has nothing to do with Easter Ishtar the Babylonian god of fertility 07:21.680 --> 07:26.320 we call it resurrection resurrection Sunday we don't need to call it Ishtar 07:26.320 --> 07:32.240 Easter Easter it's not in the book but what is in the book is the resurrection 07:32.240 --> 07:37.840 Anastasis that which is dead is come to life now nobody else can do that there's 07:37.840 --> 07:42.480 no laboratory on the face of the earth that can take something dead and make it alive 07:42.480 --> 07:49.520 it cannot be done and it has never been done you know when there were witnesses of Jesus 07:49.520 --> 07:56.480 resurrection it's a powerful thing I counted in 1 Corinthians 15 3 to 6 that there were 07:56.480 --> 08:03.040 575 witnesses to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ now you know how many will take you 08:03.040 --> 08:08.800 to get in jail how many witnesses it takes if you commit a crime to get you in jail today 08:08.800 --> 08:16.320 it sure doesn't take 575 to throw you you can be under the jail with that many witnesses couldn't 08:16.320 --> 08:23.760 you you know truth is not how we feel about things and that's the way the world judges things 08:25.120 --> 08:31.040 truth is not how we feel Jesus is the truth his commandments his precepts are the truth 08:31.680 --> 08:37.920 John 8 verse 32 Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free 08:39.120 --> 08:43.840 and you know I want to know the truth whether I like it or not I'd just rather know the truth 08:43.840 --> 08:48.320 wouldn't you what if you go to the doctor you know and you've got this terrible pain and you 08:48.320 --> 08:52.960 suspect you have cancer or something and he says well what do you think about that pain now 08:53.280 --> 09:01.840 well doctor I I'd like to know if I'd like to have to tell me the truth would you and we can get 09:01.840 --> 09:07.760 about this matter of healing this body that aches or this problem that I have in my health 09:09.360 --> 09:14.640 you know I was reading max lucato max lucato catches a lot of flak every once in a while but 09:14.640 --> 09:23.200 he's uh we have a marvelous study going on max lucato uh in our next hour sunday school if you 09:23.200 --> 09:29.440 if you don't have a sunday school be sure and stop by clayton's class and here's something that he said 09:29.440 --> 09:34.560 in the book that comes from in the eye of the storm I think some of you have have read that book 09:35.120 --> 09:40.480 sometime ago I came upon a fellow on a trip who was carrying a bible are you a believer I asked him 09:40.480 --> 09:46.960 yes he said excitedly I've learned you can't be too careful virgin birth I asked I accepted the 09:46.960 --> 09:53.760 deity of Jesus no doubt death of christ on the cross he died for all people could it be that I 09:53.760 --> 10:00.800 was faced to face with a christian perhaps nonetheless I continued my checklist status of man 10:00.800 --> 10:06.000 center in need of grace what's the definition of grace now this is imperfect here god doing for 10:06.000 --> 10:11.120 man what man can't do we see we believe it's unmerited favor we'll let that go return of christ 10:11.120 --> 10:16.480 why it's imminent uh what about the bible it's inspired the church it's the body of christ 10:16.480 --> 10:21.840 I started to get really excited conservative or liberal now this is really important he was getting 10:21.840 --> 10:29.440 interested to conservative my heart began to beat faster heritage now listen to this southern 10:29.440 --> 10:38.880 congregationless holy son of god disciplinization this triune convention that was mine what branch 10:38.880 --> 10:45.920 pre-millennial post-tribulation non-charismatic king james one cup communion my eyes missed it 10:45.920 --> 10:54.640 I had only one other question is your pulpit wooden or fiberglass fiberglass he responded 10:54.640 --> 11:03.520 I withdrew my hand and stiffened my neck heretic I said as I walked away now those things don't 11:03.520 --> 11:08.880 really deal with the truth do most of them and we have to have the sense sometimes to realize 11:08.880 --> 11:15.040 what is the essence of our christianity uh 1st Corinthians 2 2 says I am determined to know 11:15.040 --> 11:21.360 nothing among you save jesus christ and him crucified you don't need all those other things see 11:22.080 --> 11:28.240 and oh if christianity would get together what a power we would be if we would go to the essence 11:28.240 --> 11:34.480 do you believe that jesus is resurrected because he had to be crucified to be resurrected see 11:35.120 --> 11:42.320 do you believe that that which is dead is made to live forever oh I do with all of my heart 11:42.320 --> 11:51.200 nothing else truly matters we need to prioritize we said slap knife thighs and prioritize that's 11:51.200 --> 11:58.480 in the south they do things like that but jesus said in luke 1910 the son of god came to seek 11:59.200 --> 12:06.880 that which was lost that's the essence of the church isn't what a wonderful thing it is 12:06.880 --> 12:14.000 god's redemption belongs to all men though that I'm very very sure you know there are five r's in 12:14.000 --> 12:20.400 the bible here it just takes a minute to do each one first of all the bible restores christianity 12:20.400 --> 12:26.240 restores us to the way we were created in that garden we must have been beautiful people 12:27.520 --> 12:34.480 in the garden of Eden how perfect adam and eve must have been to companion with god face to face 12:35.040 --> 12:42.720 what a glory that must have been fit to be in the presence of god and we see that in mark three five 12:42.720 --> 12:49.040 jesus touches a man withered hand in a day when a man's hands was the way he ate and he fed his 12:49.040 --> 12:55.520 families he tilled the soil and and he worked so hard and here's a crippled man see with his hand 12:55.520 --> 13:02.800 and jesus just makes him like he was as a beautiful young strong adult that he one time was another 13:02.800 --> 13:11.040 hour as he redeems us he buys us back as one would ransom you see and nowadays ransom you know you 13:11.040 --> 13:16.720 grab a you grab a very rich man and you try to get three million dollars see for his family or his 13:16.720 --> 13:26.320 business to buy him back see and galatians 313 it says this christ has redeemed us from the curse of 13:26.320 --> 13:34.640 the law we have been redeemed we have been bought back out of that terrible prison which was there 13:34.640 --> 13:40.080 we have been bought back from death because if you belong to the lord jesus christ you don't 13:40.080 --> 13:46.480 have to worry about dying it's just a moments transitory from one phase of life to a far better 13:46.480 --> 13:52.960 one and this veil of tears we cry for the loved one who is gone but we weep with joy because 13:53.120 --> 14:00.880 they're at the right hand of god and jesus is their elder brother you know diana lagersky took this 14:00.880 --> 14:06.720 picture of the little white deer the albino deer with blue eyes right down here on the corner 14:07.520 --> 14:16.080 and some of you seen seen her many many times how subtle how beautiful how fleeting how mystical 14:16.480 --> 14:22.240 i'd like to think maybe this is like the church is that uh we don't go out with armies 14:23.040 --> 14:31.440 we're vulnerable we don't have a sheriff's department in the church we don't have strong 14:31.440 --> 14:36.960 men who bind others you know if we're to convince someone that they ought to be born again we can't 14:36.960 --> 14:43.680 take a goon squad and run up and down uh valley drive and just grab people and make them do what 14:43.680 --> 14:48.800 they ought to do no it's fleeting like this i want you to see this because i'd kind of like to 14:48.800 --> 14:53.840 have this be a symbol maybe of the precious church here in the valley you take a look at that 14:55.200 --> 15:00.640 she's out of place didn't she see how white she is against the dark background what are her chances 15:00.640 --> 15:06.240 of survival not very good unless god's spirit goes with it it's holy like very much like a holy 15:06.240 --> 15:14.240 spirit isn't it and what a significant picture of innocence it is the third r is that it reconciles 15:14.240 --> 15:22.000 us christianity reconciles us an old man is made new that's 2nd Corinthians 5 7 teams as i'm running 15:22.000 --> 15:31.040 out of time in 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 16 is said therefore we do not lose heart though outwardly 15:31.040 --> 15:37.280 we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day now you can see it's possible 15:37.920 --> 15:46.160 that outwardly i i am losing ground that's one of the laws in physics the law of entropy 15:47.440 --> 15:53.200 something wound up is unwind something is hot becomes cold something born grows older 15:54.240 --> 15:59.040 there's a beginning and there is an end even in physics i believe that with all of my heart 15:59.840 --> 16:06.000 man alive do i believe in that and he says but we don't lose heart i don't worry about losing a 16:06.000 --> 16:14.000 few hairs to the comb each day because as i mature in the faith i can see that my heart is growing 16:14.000 --> 16:23.120 stronger brave heart he was a brave man but christians you're growing stronger as you overcome the 16:24.080 --> 16:30.240 the troubles of life as you endure the heartaches and get busted in the lips about so many times 16:30.240 --> 16:36.320 but you bleed a while and pick you up and fight again and that's the way you become strong on 16:36.320 --> 16:46.320 the inside don't you you become more courageous with the practice of your faith well i think he 16:47.120 --> 16:57.280 reconciles us as well as renews us he said that the definition of reconcile is something that 16:57.280 --> 17:07.040 is torn apart by conflict is reconciled is put together again is healed he said in 2nd Corinthians 17:07.920 --> 17:16.080 5 verse 11 that our job was to persuade men and all of that 2nd Corinthians letter is about the 17:16.080 --> 17:22.960 ministry of reconciliation to persuade men to come back to god oh don't live in the world but 17:22.960 --> 17:30.960 come back to god be reconciled see and lastly that r is he regenerates us you know we were born 17:31.040 --> 17:38.640 uh i think clean and pure i'd like to be like these little children here in the group because 17:38.640 --> 17:44.400 they haven't really deliberately sinned or anything you know if we don't baptize them 17:44.400 --> 17:49.280 they don't go to hell because we didn't get the job done i never bought that i could never believe 17:49.280 --> 17:55.840 that but children grow up and they become not so innocent you see and we teach them to hate and to 17:55.840 --> 18:05.600 learn bad words and to commit all kinds of crimes see and god didn't want that but so we need to be 18:05.600 --> 18:12.480 regenerated after we've become degenerated and after we've been generated it's cool isn't it 18:12.480 --> 18:20.000 did you ever think of it that way born innocent we become sinners and then god calls us to become 18:20.000 --> 18:26.880 saints to be cleansed again and see that terrible enigma that's there for all of sin if all was 18:26.880 --> 18:34.480 short of the glory of god then the wages 623 of sin is death we got a problem here see and so all 18:34.480 --> 18:42.080 these r's reclaims us redeem us reheal us he restore us reconcile us and i would conclude 18:42.800 --> 18:49.520 with this thought in titus 3 5 he said he saved us by the washing of regeneration 18:50.560 --> 18:57.280 jesus said seven times you must i must get me about my father's business i used to 18:57.280 --> 19:03.840 could do it all by memory but one of them is so critical you must be born again 19:05.040 --> 19:11.200 he only seven must the imperative he only said seven times in all his recorded words 19:12.000 --> 19:20.800 but that one is powerful you must be born again and i believe that type of washing of generation 19:20.800 --> 19:28.560 is like ax 238 repent and be baptized every one of you for the taking away of your sins 19:29.120 --> 19:36.320 and you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit i would look at this chapter as being a very 19:36.320 --> 19:42.320 foundational chapter of the church you know the book of romans has some powerful things in it i 19:43.440 --> 19:47.120 i've worked harder on this and anything i've ever done is i'm not a theologian 19:49.120 --> 19:55.680 i just love the church and want to build it and want to make it grow and i don't know whether 19:55.680 --> 20:01.440 i have the intellectual capacity to ever be a theologian because i just see that i don't care 20:01.440 --> 20:08.960 how many angels dance on the head of a pen i just don't consider that a relevant theological 20:08.960 --> 20:14.720 argument what can you do to tell people you got to be born again let's do it will you do it 20:14.720 --> 20:22.000 and how many times i know that i've made over 25 calls on people on the phone to make a contact 20:22.000 --> 20:32.640 to maybe teach three or two and if you're lucky uh nothing happens uh except maybe next week 20:33.440 --> 20:38.960 and that's often the way it is it's so frustrating see uh never in my life have i seen the church 20:38.960 --> 20:43.520 with an opportunity to teach so many people who are asking genuine questions about their faith 20:44.160 --> 20:48.160 but still not easy it's never going to be easy and i don't know how can the church 20:48.240 --> 20:55.920 uh like this fleeting little white deer how how can we take the world how can we command men and 20:55.920 --> 21:03.280 women's attention to be born again or you must be born again i know one thing the gospel which is 21:03.280 --> 21:11.520 god's good news god's good tidings is based preeminently on facts knowledge and facts 21:12.240 --> 21:22.480 roman's 116 says for in the gospel a righteousness from god is revealed a righteousness that is 21:23.040 --> 21:27.840 by faith so you have to believe in something you have to have some facts you have to have some 21:27.840 --> 21:32.640 knowledge so the first thing you do to get someone to be born again is hey let's study together 21:32.640 --> 21:38.080 he said go teach baptize and teach them again that was a great commission wasn't it 21:38.080 --> 21:43.600 so the first thing you have to teach is about this business of being born again 21:45.760 --> 21:52.080 for that righteousness which is revealed is revealed by faith so faith comes next isn't 21:52.080 --> 22:00.160 you got to believe in something factual the gospel is a historical book it is also the 22:00.160 --> 22:08.480 mind of god in print and you must believe in the facts or the knowledge that you have as the old 22:08.480 --> 22:14.960 testament was a school master that leases to christ you see that in the new testament jesus 22:14.960 --> 22:25.040 is come the messiah is now with us we must be born again you must receive him or deny him 22:25.760 --> 22:31.200 you can't have a shades ago do you love me honey yes i guess not it's not one of those 22:31.200 --> 22:38.240 you must say yay or nay it must be said forcefully and it must be said powerful because in roman's 22:38.240 --> 22:44.400 1017 we see the second thing which is the foundation of the church and it was that faith cometh by 22:44.400 --> 22:53.840 hearing and hearing by the word of god you know there's 450 basic religions in america they don't 22:53.840 --> 23:01.520 all come from biblical background and around the world how many faiths are there hundreds of faiths 23:01.520 --> 23:09.360 do you want to believe in urahasha masagumi who was a poor man in a desolate country 23:11.040 --> 23:19.360 preaching mystic values and strange things when you look at this fantastic book which is the most 23:19.360 --> 23:24.560 published book on the face of the earth more manuscripts are behind this book close to 27 23:24.560 --> 23:33.120 000 manuscripts written by 40 articles 40 authors over a period of some 2400 years this is the most 23:33.120 --> 23:37.680 thoroughly documented book on the face of the earth do you have a choice would you want to 23:37.680 --> 23:43.440 believe in anything else and i believe that the facts that you find here in the god spiel the gospel 23:43.440 --> 23:48.400 the good tidings the good news is what you must build your faith of on because you got to believe 23:48.560 --> 23:56.160 something don't you everybody believes in something people who say i don't believe in anything 23:56.960 --> 24:04.400 generally believe in themselves that's the implication is i believe in me 24:06.240 --> 24:13.280 a lot of self-made men and they worship their author that's very true isn't it and then after 24:13.280 --> 24:19.840 faith comes grace and god's graciousness and his mercy romans 1 5 says jesus christ our lord 24:19.840 --> 24:27.680 through him and for his namesake we received grace now then that means i can live without fear in 24:27.680 --> 24:35.120 this veil of tears you understand that so many people love the world but find there's no security 24:35.120 --> 24:41.520 in the world and it's ripping them apart they know when they go to bed at night that they're not 24:41.520 --> 24:51.360 ready to meet their maker or maybe have no concept that there is a creator there is 24:52.880 --> 25:01.600 that perfect designer author and finisher of our faith who is called jesus christ the lord 25:02.480 --> 25:08.640 of lord titus 3 4 says not because of righteous things which we have done 25:09.360 --> 25:18.880 but by his mercy that's grace isn't it by his mercy and i can relax i don't have to do everything 25:18.880 --> 25:27.920 i'd set out to do you know at my age i'm beginning to think i didn't do what i could have i'm not 25:28.000 --> 25:34.800 finishing some things i wanted to finish and you know that could be debilitating that could be 25:34.800 --> 25:41.680 destructive that i don't have to meet some set schedule i just want to do as much as i can 25:42.560 --> 25:51.680 but hey i'm born again i love the lord i've done the very best that i can and let the devil take 25:51.680 --> 25:58.640 the hide most because jesus will cover it over and i don't have to compete with billy graham 26:00.800 --> 26:08.480 you know i don't have to compete with any great figure i just have to do the best i can 26:09.360 --> 26:17.600 and jesus covers my inadequacy and as i've failed as raising children or being a good spouse 26:18.560 --> 26:28.160 huh i'm covered still covered i don't have to be perfect and you know for people who have lived 26:28.160 --> 26:35.200 all their life drinking or on dope or sold out to sin or adulterers or haters or bigots they can 26:35.200 --> 26:44.240 be forgiven and we can offer that to the world they can be from degenerate to regenerated 26:44.480 --> 26:54.960 and washed clean of their sins salvation salvation is the one great important aspect of the church 26:54.960 --> 27:00.800 and why jesus said he came to seek and save that which was lost and dear church please never get 27:00.800 --> 27:08.560 that out of your mission intent or your mission statement in first Corinthians 15 24 he said 27:08.560 --> 27:16.000 then comes the end when he shall have delivered up to the kingdom to god jesus one of these days 27:16.000 --> 27:25.760 is going to deliver up niv says hands over the church to his father in heaven i don't know i think 27:25.760 --> 27:30.880 everyone needs to be part of the church i know people don't like to be part of the church and 27:30.880 --> 27:36.880 why there's obligation there why uh well we had a dark ages in the church was an obscene thing sometimes 27:37.200 --> 27:42.880 but that doesn't mean that he didn't give us instructions to be the kind of church that he 27:42.880 --> 27:49.840 wanted us to be a city set on a hill a light a warm place to come to a fellowship where 27:49.840 --> 27:55.680 there's strength and encouragement and i want you to be part of it doesn't have to be this one but 27:55.680 --> 28:03.440 you better be part of some godly worshiping people who will be livered over father here's your body 28:04.240 --> 28:10.560 and we know that the church is the body of christ as we stand and sing our hymn of invitation i pray 28:10.560 --> 28:18.880 that you uh if you have a confession to make if you have a commitment of faith to make 28:20.560 --> 28:24.560 if you need to get right with a brother now is that acceptable time our hymn of invitation is 28:24.560 --> 28:40.480 our hymn of invitation is number 366 i surrender all 28:54.560 --> 28:55.680 you