The Joy of Salvation - Pastor Jeremy Duxfield

[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. [00:00:06] Thank you, Pastor Kyle. Thank you, church. Hey, how we doing this morning? We're good, thank you, worship team. Can we get up for the worship team this morning? Bless you, guys. Thank you so much. Man, what an honour to be in the house of the Lord this morning to see all your bright and beautiful faces. Who's excited for the word this morning? Yeah. Yeah. You know, before we get started, just a real quick word that God put on my heart while we're in worship this morning. You know, I think we can go through life and that there can be a lot of negative words spoken over us. Words like, you're not good enough or you'll never be able to achieve that, or, why don't you just quit while you're ahead because, you know, you're never really going to accomplish it anyway. Words like that. And as we were singing that song this morning. Speak a better word. I just felt God just say, hey, I have a better word for your life. I have a better word than what the world has spoken over. And he says all those lies that have been, you know, tried to sow into your heart and try to shape you and shape your personality and shape your life and your destiny, God says, I want to cancel those words this morning and I want to speak a new word over you. He says, you are chosen, that you are accepted, that I have a plan and a purpose for you. I have a destiny for you. And, you know, I think that sometimes that those lies are spoken not out of someone's malice or hurt, but they're spoken from a place of trying to derail your destiny. And I think when you start to align the words of God over your life, then you start to step into your purpose. You start to step into what God has always said about you and always spoken over you and has been always trying to lead you to. [00:01:47] Amen. [00:01:47] So how many people in here this morning are going to start to believe the word of God rather than the lies of the enemy in the world? [00:01:53] Hey, Amen. [00:01:54] We're going to do that. We're going to believe the word of God this morning. [00:01:56] Amen. [00:01:57] Hallelujah. So before I get started, thank you, Pastor Kyle. Thank you, Pastor Tina, for the opportunity to come up here and speak this morning. It's an honour to stand in this pulpit and to minister to the congregation and those people that God's placed under your care. So thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Can we get some honour to Our senior pastors this morning. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. And I want to thank Pastor Kyle for the amazing series we've just had on freedom. You guys enjoyed the series on freedom that we've just had. So Jesus Christ has made us free. [00:02:29] Amen. [00:02:30] Yeah. Every mistake we have ever made, every lie we've ever told, every wrong we have committed has been wiped away. Amen. He has blotted it out. You know, it's like heaven took white out. You guys have whiteout here? Yeah, yeah. We call it Twink. We call it Twink in New Zealand. It's like heaven took the twink and he just went and he just erased everything. Everything you've ever done, everything you've ever said, any wrong you've ever told, any lie you've ever told, it's all been erased by the blood of Jesus. Amen. And so that's something that we can celebrate this morning. That old personality, that old way, that old nature has been washed away by the blood of Jesus. And we can stand before God forgiven and free and accepted. [00:03:10] Amen. [00:03:11] Not based on what you did or didn't do, but because of him and what he's done for you. [00:03:15] Amen. [00:03:16] Hallelujah. That's a good word. So I want to jump back into some scripture. This morning. We're going to be going after scripture. Is that okay? If we just. We're going after the word of God this morning. You guys excited about that? So let's look at Colossians chapter two together. I'm going to start in verse 13 and go through to 14. So it says you were dead because of your sins and because of your sinful nature that was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ suddenly say, I'm alive, for he forgave all your sins. Verse 14. And he cancelled the record of charges against us and he took it away by nailing it to the cross. [00:03:54] Amen. [00:03:56] So what the scripture is saying is that every single person, regardless of their upbringing, whether you've done everything right in your life, or maybe you've done everything wrong in your life, whether you grew up in church or maybe you had no concept of God throughout your life, we all inherited this thing called sin. It was like a disease that took over mankind. And it happened way back in the fall of Adam and Eve. So we all inherited this thing called sin. It was this disease that we had. And throughout ages of history, you see people trying to kind of cure themselves of this disease. They're trying to get rid of the wrong in their life or the yuck in their life. But sin doesn't. It doesn't discriminate. It's not based on sex or race or political view. It's got nothing to do with any of those things. Sin simply wants to keep you separated from God. That's what sin wants to do. It wants to keep you separated from God because sin has you looking at you, at your failures, at your shortcomings, at what you did or didn't do. And it has you separate yourself from the love of God. [00:04:58] Amen. [00:04:59] So why does it, why is that? Get this. It's because sin does not want you to find out who you really are. Sin does not want you to actually understand the love that God has for you. Sin is afraid that you might find out just how loved you are. Sin is afraid that you might find out just how powerful you truly are. Sin is afraid that you might actually walk in your purpose and your destiny. Sin wants to separate you from. From who God says you are. [00:05:29] Amen. Amen. [00:05:31] So let's go back a chapter in Colossians, chapter one, and let's go back a little bit now to verse 20. And it says here that and God purposed that through by the service, the intervention of him, the Son Jesus, all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through him the Father made peace by means of the blood of his cross. Let's just leave that up for a second. So check out a couple of things here. It says that God purposed. God purposed. God's plan, God's fore, destiny forethought towards us was that through the intervention of Jesus of the Son, that He would reconcile us back to him completely. [00:06:16] Amen. [00:06:17] And that word completely right there means completely. It's not a fancy word, it just means completely. Amen. Reconciled back to himself. Notice that God did everything here you notice that it was God's purpose and through Jesus reconciled us to him. It was his purpose, it was his plan, and he did the work through Jesus. [00:06:42] Amen. [00:06:43] And there was a reason for it. It says that through Jesus we can have peace with God through the means of his blood. [00:06:51] Amen. [00:06:52] That's a powerful truth. Amen. Who's glad they have peace with God this morning? Amen. So the cure is not to do better, to try harder and stop sinning. That's not the cure. The cure to this disease called sin is not to do better to try harder or to stop sinning. It is to fall on the mercy of God and it is to trust in Jesus as our sacrifice. And it is to receive, everybody say, receive his grace, which is God's unmerited, undeserved favor. That's what grace is. It's God's free gift. It's his free gift. It's his unmerited, undeserved favor. It's his free gift to mankind. It's the cure for this sin, this disease of sin. [00:07:42] Amen. [00:07:44] So Scripture says that Jesus has reconciled us with God, that we don't have to earn God's blessing and we now have peace with Him. So that means that we can enjoy the benefits of this freedom and this restored relationship that we now have. So, quick testimony. So my life before Christ was outwardly actually pretty well put together. Like, I had the house, the car, the job, the money, the holidays. I had all of those things outwardly, that most people would probably say, that's a successful life. But inwardly, in my heart, I was broken. I didn't like myself. I was always searching for the approval of man and the opinion of people to define my worth and my value. The things that I had were not a celebration of my success. They were a band aid to my problems. They were me masking the insecurities and the doubts and the anxieties of my life with material things. With material things. That's what they were. And the funny thing about that is that in a minute that could be gone. Everything that I've built, the material things that are sustaining me and giving me purpose and giving me worth, in a minute, life can wash those things away. The Bible talks about building our life on sand versus building ourselves, our life on the rock, which is Jesus. And that when the storms of life come, what happens to the sand just gets washed away, gets eroded. We just saw that right in the cyclones. So I had built my life on sand, which was the material things, was the opinions of others, was the acceptance through what I did or how people perceived me. I had built my life on that. And very quickly that was taken away. And it wasn't until I met Jesus that I understood that I had been chasing after wind. I've been trying to grasp the wind. I've been trying to hold on to something that was actually not actually ever really truly there. [00:09:48] Amen. [00:09:50] So when I found Jesus, it was then that my life started to have purpose and my heart started to become full. When I understood that I was right with God, that I was right with God. [00:10:04] Amen. [00:10:06] So this morning, if you are in that place of feeling like maybe you're lacking direction or that your life has become quite shaky. It's probably because you're building on something other than the love of Jesus. It's probably because you're not resting in the fact that you are right with God, that you have relationship with God this morning. And God doesn't ask you to do anything more or anything less. He simply asks you to look up and look to him and start trusting in him again. [00:10:35] Amen. Amen. [00:10:37] Hallelujah. So to truly understand this salvation that we have. Yeah, thank you, Lord. By truly understanding the salvation that we have through that is what brings true freedom and joy to our lives. Amen. Not the material things, not the things that we build our life on, not the acceptance of others, but truly understanding this salvation that we have. So that's what I want to look at this morning. I want to break down what salvation is today. You guys cool with that? You guys cool if we break that down a little bit this morning? Get a little bit teachy here. So David writes in Psalm 51, verse 12. Timmy, we got that one. David writes, so this is. This is David, who was a king and a priest after God's own heart in the Old Testament, which was before Jesus came. So this was David. And he writes this beautiful book called the Psalms, which are like poems to God and which are a reflection of man's heart. And he says to me, he says here in verse 12 of Psalm 51, he says, restore to me the joy of. Of your salvation and uphold me by your generous spirit. So our salvation brings us joy. [00:11:50] Amen. [00:11:51] But notice he says, restore to me the joy of my salvation, of his salvation, of your salvation. Which means that unfortunately, life and life circumstances and the things that we go through can kind of, I guess, dwindle that joy. And it's interesting because the joy that he's talking about here is found in salvation. So when life comes and things happen and we begin to dwindle and our fire starts to go out, the antidote is to start to think about our salvation again. It's to start to think about what Christ has actually done. If you want joy to start to bubble up in your life again, you got to start thinking about what Jesus has done for you. [00:12:37] Amen. [00:12:38] You got to start rehearsing and going back over all the things that he saved you from. You've got to go back and think about what he did on the cross for you. That he came when you were without hope, when you were dead in your trespasses and sins, when you were separated from him and had no thought towards him. Maybe you weren't even thinking about him. Maybe you were going in the opposite direction. Maybe you were like me and you were an atheist and you actually fought against the people that believed in Christianity and told them they were stupid. Maybe that was you. But while you were doing that, Jesus hung on that cross and he gave it all. He paid the price for you. The Bible says that while we were still sinners, separated from God, Christ died for us. [00:13:18] Amen. [00:13:19] Not when we had it all together, man. That's good news. So let's look at salvation. Salvation can be broken down into three categories. Justification, sanctification and glorification. Those are really big words, really deep words, and we could spend a lot of time just talking about those three words. But what I want to look at this morning is the breakdown of the word salvation and how these three words encapsulate inside of that. So all three of these words, justified, sanctified and glorified, these are all present tense realities, right? So they are now words. They are right now. They are not something to come or something that has happened. They are right now realities in our walk with the Lord. So what Jesus has done for something is not something that is still to come. And it is not just an historical event. It's not just something that happened 2,000 years ago. It is a present right now, eternal truth. [00:14:20] Amen. [00:14:22] What that means is that right now, as you are right now, these three things are active in your life. You are justified, you are sanctified and you are glorified. Right? Well, hang on a minute. Because isn't our sanctification a process that we walk out? Isn't glorification something that happens when Christ comes back and receives us and we step into glory? But I'm writing up here that they have been done. We have been justified, we have been sanctified and we have been glorified already. It's a past tense and it's a present reality. [00:14:56] Amen. [00:14:57] So how does that work? It's because salvation is an eternal truth. It's a one time sanctification, redeeming work that Christ did on the cross. It's not something that's going to happen in the future and it's not something that happened in the past that we look back on and go, oh, that was great, but that was 2,000 years ago. It is a right now eternal truth, a present day reality salvation. [00:15:20] Amen. [00:15:21] So if we understand that part of it, then we can start to unlock the benefits of it in our life. We can start to Actually reap the benefits and have the joy of our salvation. [00:15:31] Amen. [00:15:32] You guys with me? You tracking? All right. So good. We're going to slide one. Timmy, I got some cool slides for you guys, which was what we just looked at. Well, this is slide two, but that's cool. The Greek word. Yeah, go to the second one. So the Greek word for salvation in the Bible is the word soteria. Here, say soteria. So soteria refers broadly to deliverance, preservation, or being brought into safety, both spiritually, physically, or both, depending on the context. It is God's act of rescuing humanity. That is what the word soteria means when you break it down in the Bible. It is God's act of rescuing humanity. Let's look at Acts, chapter four, verse 12. You guys are going to love this when I tie this all up, by the way. So Acts 4:12, There is salvation, Soteria, and no one else. God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. That's Acts, chapter four. Let's look at Romans, chapter one, verse 16. You guys know this verse? For I am not ashamed of this good news about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving soteria. Everyone who believes the Jew first and also the gentile. You know, my wife laughs at me. I'm going to give you guys a little anecdote here, and you guys will laugh at me, too. Most likely, my wife laughs at me because I was out one day and I started singing this song, and it was. It's a melody that you guys will all know. And I'm just walking around the house and I'm going, saved, healed, delivered, I'm yours. Yeah, you see? Saved, healed, delivered, I'm yours. And you got to do it with that, like, real, like, you know, like, kind of thing. No, you don't do that. You don't do it. You got it, man. Actually, Simon would do this really well because this guy's, like, the harmony king up here. I understand. Like, I just sound like a cut cat. I know, man. My wife got all the musical gifts, so it's fine. I'm not. I'm not mad about it at all. What's that? No. Yeah. I legit thought that that was a worship song that had been written, and I was like, that's a great song. My favorite worship psalm. Saved, heal, delivered, I'm yours. You guys know the actual song, right? Signed seal. Delivered. Yeah. Save, healed, delivered. I think mine works better, man. Like, honestly, let's write that, man. Let's Write that. Let's do a cover. Let's do a cover. But all jokes aside, I told you, y'all laugh at me, man. Didn't I tell you? Yeah, that's okay. We can have some fun in here. But in all honesty, that is what Soteria is. That is what salvation is. It's that I'm saved, that I'm healed, and that I'm delivered. [00:18:20] Amen. [00:18:21] And that I'm his. Come on, man. Hey, let's go to the next slide, Timmy, before I make a fool of myself even more. All right, so breaking down salvation even more. So the root word for salvation, or that word, soteria. And the root word means just. The word that it originated from is this word, Sozo. And this word means to save, to heal, to deliver, and to make whole. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. We've had enough fun with that already. But that's what this word means. It means to save, to heal, to deliver, and to make whole, which obviously means that there was something to save us from, something to heal us of, and something to deliver us from, Right? And to make us whole. We were broken, right? So that's the first truth that we have to understand, is that we were broken. We did have a disease called sin. We did inherit that from the fall of man. And we can see that the examples of that are all throughout the world. You don't need me to get up here and tell you that. We live in a broken and a fallen world where man is prideful and man is all about his own ways, and man will step on the person next to them to achieve something great. We might, for a moment, do good. But we can never be good without Jesus. We might do some good, man. We might do some good things. We might help some poor people. We might give to some good cause. We might do some good things. But we are not good without God. Come on, say it. [00:19:44] Yeah. [00:19:45] Yeah. That's probably all I need to say about that right there. So we needed to be saved, we needed to be healed, we needed to be delivered, and we needed to be made whole. Oh, you're going to love this. When I wrap this up, let's go to Matthew 1:21. Got that one. Did I give you that one, Tim? Yep. So this is the book of Matthew. And right here, this is the story of Christ coming into the world as a baby. And this is a prophecy that happened here. And it says, and she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, and he will save Sozo his people from their sins. Let's look at Luke 19:10. So I'm stepping out the gospel and scripture here this morning. So we had Jesus coming to save us from. So Luke 19:10 says, for the Son of man, Jesus came to seek and save those who are lost. That was me. I was lost. You know, I was lost. I was putting my faith in everything other than the One who created me. Everything other than the blood of Jesus. I was lost. I was trying to muddy my way through life based on my own strength, my own wisdom and my own understanding. And I was lost. I was without a compassion. [00:21:02] Amen. [00:21:04] Next verse. Ephesians 2:8. God saved Sozo you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this. It is a gift from God. So we've seen. Jesus came. He was born to save. He was seeking to save those who were lost. And then here it says that we are saved not by what we do, but because of his free gift. And then the last 1, Romans, chapter 10, verse 9, it says if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. So. So that's it. That's the gospel. Christ came because we were broken humanity that needed healing and saving and delivering. So he came to save us. He stepped into our world and he walked amongst us because he came to seek and save those that were lost. Not that those who thought they had it figured out or those that thought they could get to God on their own merit. He came to save the lost, to seek and save me. To seek and save you. Those that were searching for something more, that realized that they couldn't do it on their own, that realized that there was no way that they could ever get to God through their own effort or merit, and that everything they had built was like sand and like wind, and that it was not gonna last. He came to seek and save those that were lost. And then it says that it was a gift, that I didn't have to do anything to earn it, that I didn't have to get clean to come to God. And I've said this before, and I'll say it a million times, I don't get clean before I jump in the shower. I jump in the shower to get clean. And that's what Christ did for me. He washed me clean when I came to him. [00:22:47] Amen. [00:22:49] And then lastly, it says very, very simply that if you believe that God raised him from the dead and that he died for your sins. You will be saved. So. So it's a simple message and we over complicate it. But there is so much power in our salvation. There is so much joy in our salvation. Hallelujah. [00:23:09] Amen. [00:23:10] All right, let's keep going, Timmy. You guys having fun? Yeah, he's tracking with me. Amen. Sozo is powerful because it covers both spiritual salvation or being saved from sin and death and physical deliverance, being healed and rescued from danger. It is a present day reality. It is an eternal truth. [00:23:32] Amen. [00:23:34] So Sozo gives us a very full sense of what Jesus came to do. He is not just saving our souls, but he is restoring our lives. [00:23:42] Amen. [00:23:42] Everything. That part of my testimony is that all those things that I told you that were taken from me or the thing, well, I won't even say taken from me. Just through my own choices and through my own wrong decisions, I lost those things. My life that was built on the material worth of this world was taken, right, Was swept away. But God has restored more to me in the last seven years than I built in the previous 30. The minute I came to Jesus and I said, my life is no longer mine, I do not want to work this out in my own strength and in my own understanding. I want to give this all over to you, God. He has done more in the past seven years than I did in the previous 30. Amen. You guys, like the people who have walked with me, know what God has done in my life, you know, so I'm thankful that my salvation in terms of my soul and my spiritual well being is secure in Christ. But I'm also. Thank you. That he's a God that, that walks with me today. That he walks with me side by side and holds my hand through the things that I face every day. That he's there with me through the ups and the downs and the wrong thoughts and the wrong decisions and the bad financial choices. He's with me through all of those things today. Now he doesn't want me to make those stupid choices, but somehow I end up doing them anyway. But he doesn't leave me. He doesn't just say, oh well, hey man, I showed you, but you didn't listen. So on your own again. No, he stays with me. He walks with me. He's a God that's very present and real today. [00:25:09] Amen. [00:25:10] Who's thank you for a present God, man. Like for a God that walks with us. Amen. [00:25:15] Amen. [00:25:16] So let's look at this fourth slide together. Oh, you're gonna love this. So this is the word. So again, we're talking about salvation and the total sort of view of it. And so the original word in the Greek is the word soter, and it means savior. So we had soteria and sozo, and then we have now sota, which soter is the original word that these other two words are taken from, which basically means that without a savior, there is no salvation and there is no saving. You can't be saved, and you can't have salvation without a savior. So the original word is the Greek word soter, and it means savior. It is used in the New Testament to refer specifically to Jesus Christ and God as the one. So I love that it specifically says here in the Greek that it's to Jesus Christ and God as the one, the singular. Not two different people doing two different things. They're one. It's one God. So it says that as the one singular who rescues people from sin, from death, and from judgment. So there is no salvation, there is no saving without a savior, without a rescuer, without a deliverer. [00:26:36] Amen. [00:26:37] So what does this all mean? This means that we must recognize that we need to be saved. It means that we must realize that we need a savior. And it also means that we must begin to now live in the present reality of our salvation, to be in the joy of our salvation. So when we strip this all back and we say, okay, so David prayed, lord, restore unto me the joy of my salvation. What was he really saying in that moment? He was saying, God, remind me of who you are and what you've done for me. So I think a lot of the times we get so caught up in what's happening right in front of us that we forget to think about what's happened in us and what Christ has done internally and how he's changed us from the inside. And he's given us a new nature, and he's given us a new way of thinking and seeing the world. And that before I came to him, I was blind and I could not see. But now I have sight and I can see clearly now the rain is gone. Oh, man, I'm just singing today. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Man, you're such an encourager, Pastor Kyle. I really love having you around, man. So we needed rescuing, we needed saving. We needed a savior. And that person is Jesus Christ. That savior is Jesus Christ. So we recognize that the state of man was separated from God. Sin. All it wants to do is keep you separated from God. All it wants to do is keep you in your own thoughts and your own strength and your own ability. Walking out your day to day, not considering or thinking about God, not trusting or relying on his strength. That's what sin wants to do. It wants to keep you separated from God. So what did God do? He sent a rescuer. He sent his son Jesus to become sin for us and to take that gap, that sin gap, put it on himself and then bring us and close the gap. Bring us into relationship with God so that there's nothing can ever separate us again. The Bible says In Romans chapter 8, it says what can separate us from the love of God. Height, depth, width, breadth. I'm convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, my Lord. [00:28:57] Amen. [00:28:58] No principalities, no powers. Nothing can separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, my Lord. Tim, I didn't put this one up man, but I'm going to go there anyway. So this is Titus, chapter 2, verse 11 to 13. So God saves, God brings salvation and Jesus is the Savior. [00:29:20] Amen. [00:29:21] Titus 2:11 13 says, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation soteria for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to wait for our blessed hope. The pairing of the glory of our great God and Savior. Soter Jesus Christ. So God's grace brings salvation and Jesus Christ is our Savior. Second Timothy chapter 1:9, 10 says, God saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but because of his own purpose and grace, which has now been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. God saved us. Christ is our Savior and he brought salvation or light to us. [00:30:14] Amen. [00:30:15] That's so good. So, conclusion. The joy of salvation Restore unto me, Lord, the joy of your salvation. The joy of salvation is found. And our revelation of Jesus as our Saviour, that he has fulfilled the role of rescuer, Redeemer and the giver of life. So when David prayed in Psalm 51:12, let's pull that one up to me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous spirit. David was saying, lord, remind me. Remind me of what you've done. Remind me of who you are. God. I've forgotten. I've been so preoccupied with other things. I've been chasing the wind. Lord, restore to me the joy of your salvation. Remind me of what you've done for me. Remind me of your power and your authority. Remind me that I'm not here by chance or coincidence. Remind me, Lord God, that you have a divine purpose and plan for my life. And you've led me right here, right now because you have. Have something you want me to do, but first and foremost, you have something that you want me to know. That I am yours and that I am forgiven and that I am saved and that I am healed and that I am delivered. So this morning, I don't know where you're finding yourself in your walk with the Lord and whether when you think of salvation, you think of joy or whether when you think of joy, you think of salvation. I don't know if that's you this morning, man. Those lights are bright. Hallelujah. But if I can encourage you this morning, that joy is not found in the material things of this world. It is not found in the accomplishments that you do or in the status that you achieve. It is found in having a personal, intimate relationship with your Savior, with Jesus Christ. Because all those other things will come and they'll go and, you know, you'll get that house and you'll get that job and you'll get that girl that's coming for you, bro. Oh, yes. Yes. Thank you, Lord, for godly, godly wives. It's not found in those things, though, Simon. Like, I can see how happy you are, man. Salvation. Yeah, man. He got it. He got it. Hallelujah. Give it up for Simon. He got it, everybody. Joy is found in that relationship with your Savior. By first recognizing that you, every single person in this world, regardless of your upbringing, regardless of whether your life has been all fun and games and a field of roses, or whether it's been walking through the mud and the clay and you felt like every step is just a. Regardless of that, every single one of us needs a savior. Every single one of us was broken. And if you search back through history and back through time, this is the plague of mankind. That we were broken and that we knew it in our hearts. We knew it. We knew that something was missing. We knew that there was a puzzle piece of our hearts that was missing. We knew it. If you just look through history, that's what started every war. That's what started all the pridefulness in our world for power and for seeking after glory and man's own efforts and man's own strength. Because every single person is broken in here. And there's only one cure for that. And his name is Jesus Christ. And his name is Jesus Christ. [00:33:58] Amen. [00:33:59] So this morning, if you don't Know the Lord and you haven't put your faith in Jesus for your salvation. I am encouraging you this morning to do that very thing. With every head bowed and every eyes closed, we're going to pray a simple prayer. We read it today in Romans 10:9. It says that if you believe in your heart that Jesus died for your sins and that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. To every head bowed, every eye closed. And if you'd like to receive Jesus this morning as your personal Lord and Saviour, simply lift your hand right where you are and say, yes, I'd like to receive Jesus. I would like to receive salvation this morning. I would like to know God, thank you for the hands. Thank you for the hands. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for the hands. So Father, you see the hands this morning, Lord? You know the hearts this morning? Lord God and Father, I just thank you, Lord, that these people have decided to make you their personal Lord. You can put your hands down. And Father, I just ask Lord God, that you would visit them right now, Lord God, where they are and show them the richness and the joy of your salvation. Lord and church. We're going to pray a prayer together. So just repeat after me. Dear Lord, thank you for your son Jesus. I believe that he died for my sins and that you raised him again for my justification. Lord, I put my faith in you from this day forward and for all my days. I know that I am now saved, healed and delivered in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Perfect. And then this morning I just feel like, hey, we got some. We got Pastor Kyle here this morning. We got Claire, we got Paddy. Just really feel like we just have some time with prayer ministry this morning. So if you feel like you need prayer this morning, if you feel like that you just need someone to agree with you. Yeah, come on, bro. Ask Paddy and Claire to come up. And if you just feel like you need someone to stand with you, to pray with you, to speak into your life regarding this gift of salvation or whatever it is else that's in your heart, I invite you to come forward as the ministry team here, as the worship team here just ministers to us. Did you guys enjoy the Word this morning? I know it was teachy, but I felt like it just needed to be direct. I just felt like it needed to be straight to the heart. [00:36:45] Amen. [00:36:47] You know, we've been given sort of 30 minutes to do a message now and I feel like I'm always finishing short because I'm really conscious of making it on time. But I believe that God always says what he needs to say. Amen. He always speaks what he needs to speak. So I'm going to turn this off now and we're just going to have a time of ministry, a time of prayer and then I'm going to invite Paddy to come up and close out the service so just where you are. If you'd like to stand to your feet. Amen. And as the team plays, I'll pray the short prayer and then I invite anyone that during this time just to come up and pray with us and we'll love to pray with you. So Father, I just thank you for the gift of your salvation, Lord. I thank you, Lord God, that you have reminded us this morning of the joy that we have and what you have done for us, Lord God. And Father, I just pray this morning, Lord God, that our hearts would be so full of thanksgiving because of the price that you paid and because of what you did for us on the cross, Lord God. And I pray that every person leaves here today, Lord, that they would be full of the revelation of your great love for them. For your great love for them, Lord God, that we all needed a saviour, that we all needed saving. And that through you Jesus, we have been saved. That salvation is a now present day reality that we can step into, Lord God Father, help us to have that on our lips at all times. Lord, we give you glory, we give you praise. We thank you for this time of ministry. Thank you for the service that we've had this morning, Lord, and we give you all the glory for it. In Jesus name and everybody said Amen. [00:38:27] Thank you for tuning in to today's message. 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