A Day That Will Live In Infamy

Psalm 90 As you just heard on December 7th, 1941, it was a

quiet Sunday morning. Americans woke up to what would

be one of the darkest days in our nation's history.

At 7:55 AM, exactly 84 years ago, Japanese planes attacked

the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and in less

than two hours, battleships were sunk, planes were destroyed, and

2403 Americans lost their lives. The next day, as you just heard,

President Franklin D Roosevelt went before Congress and began

his speech with those famous words yesterday, December 7th,

1941, a date which will live in infamy.

And he was right. We still remember it.

Even though most of us were not alive, we remember it.

It was a day that that changed the course of the war.

It was the day that changed the course of a nation, that changed

the course of the world. But this morning, I want to use

that phrase to point us to an even greater reality.

December 9th. December 7th, 1941 is a day that

we'll live in infamy. A day that was America was

suddenly attacked. It was a day of unexpected

death. It was a sobering wake up call

to a nation that quite honestly, I think felt impenetrable.

And the same is true in our lives.

Every life has days that mark and define it.

And there are days of tragedy. There are days of decision.

There are days of surrender. There are days of rejection.

There are days of hurt and heartache.

There are days of victory as well.

But there's a day that stands out above all of those moments.

It was a day many years ago just outside the gates of Old City

Jerusalem, a day at the center of human history.

It was the day that Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for your

sins and for my sins. And it was a day of unimaginable

suffering. But he did it for you and he did

it for me. The question before us this

morning is this. What will be your defining day?

I think December 7th was a day that reshaped the nation.

You could probably say the same thing about September 11th.

It was a day that reshaped the nation.

But there are spiritual days that reshape a soul.

And what I want to do this morning is turn our hearts to

God's word. And I want to look at a few

things under this title this morning.

A day that will live in infamy. A day that will live in infamy.

I want to reference what happened on December the 7th,

1941, but I want to help us understand the sobering

implications for our spiritual lives as well.

Let's pray and then we'll get into God's Word.

Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us.

We thank you for an opportunity that we have to be here together

this morning. We thank you for the sacrifice

that was made by those soldiers who were there on the island of

Pearl Harbor. And God, we thank you for their

willingness to die and many of them who did.

God, we thank you for their sacrifice, but we thank you so

much more for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary.

God, may we never forget that. May it be a day that that we

never let out of our minds. And for those who don't know

Jesus Christ as their Savior, may this be the day that they

accept him. May this be the day that they

come to know Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior.

May you use the message in our hearts this morning.

We thank you again for all you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.

First thing I want you to see in in, in this message this morning

is the reality of life's uncertainty.

The day of infamy reminds us that life can change.

Suddenly, You know, the attack on Pearl Harbor came when many

of them thought they were safe. It was a Sunday morning.

Who attacks? Who attacks a military base on

the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, so far away from

Japanese, the Japanese homeland on a Sunday morning.

And yet that's exactly what they did.

Many of them are. Many of the sailors were were

eating breakfast. Some were just getting up.

Many of them were still in their beds when the attack happened.

Nobody got up that morning thinking this is the last

sunrise I'm ever going to see. Life can change very quickly.

One phone call, one, one test result from the doctor, one

accident, 1 moment. As a chaplain, I meet people who

are going through that day of their life often.

It's a very difficult thing that people deal with.

It's a it's a very difficult thing that they endure.

The Bible says in James chapter 4, keep your finger there in

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Psalm 90, you don't have to turn to James, but he says in James

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chapter 4 and verse 14, whereas you know not what shall be on

the Morrow for what is your life?

It is even a vapor that appears for a little while and then

vanishes away. Life is short and it can change

very quickly. You ever watched a cloud in the

sky? You're driving down the road,

and I know you've done this many times.

I did it not all that long ago. A couple months ago, I was, we

were driving down the road and there was this just a massive

cloud formations. And I started seeing things in

the clouds and almost as soon as you see them, those things

change. It's vapor.

It's there one second and it's gone.

Life changes very, very quickly. Many people, even Christians,

live as if they have all the time in the world.

How dangerous that is, especially for somebody that's

not saved. And I'm not under any illusion

that in a crowd this size, everyone is sure that they are

saved and on their way to heaven.

And I think there's a number of reasons that people put off

accepting Jesus Christ, but I think it's often because they've

made such a show that they're saved for so long that they

cannot humble themselves enough to truly come and meet Jesus

Christ at the cross. I've, I've given the illusion to

people for so long that I'm a Christian that what are they

going to think if I come and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

and say that I don't know Jesus Christ as my savior, say that I

don't have those things settled. Brother Ryan just came on Sunday

last week and he said, Pastor, I need to talk to you.

He said I made a profession of faith when I was 12 years old.

He said, but I don't really remember.

It didn't have anything to do with repentance.

It didn't have anything to do with faith.

And nothing in my life changed. In fact, it changed in the

opposite direction. I ran away from the Lord.

I lived my life for myself for many, many years.

And I started coming to this church back in 2022.

And I'll, and I'll be honest with you, when he came in, he

had a testimony of salvation. He had, he had he, he had me

convinced that he knew Jesus Christ as his Savior, but he

knew what was going on in his own heart.

And he came to me and he said, Pastor, I need to get this

settled. I'm tired of doubting my

salvation. I'm tired of not knowing for

sure that I'm on my way to heaven.

I want to get it settled once and for all.

Let me tell you what the gospel is so I can make sure that I

understand it. And for two or three minutes, he

gave me the plain gospel laid out as clearly as it could.

And I said, I wouldn't explain it any differently than what you

just did. And he bowed his head right

there in my office and he prayed and he accepted Jesus Christ as

his Savior. That takes humility.

It takes, it takes humbling yourself before God to say, I

know that everybody thinks that I'm saved, but I don't know that

I'm saved. And I'm tired of playing this

game. And I don't want to die and

spend an eternity in hell because I played a game and

convinced everybody else that I was saved when the King of

Kings, the Lord of Lords, my judge knows that I'm not.

And I think that's the reason why so many people will sit in

church for 20, thirty, 40-50 years and never come to know

Jesus Christ as their savior. They're putting it off because

they're afraid of what other people are going to think.

We put off getting right with God.

We assume that there's always going to be another Sunday.

There's always going to be another altar call.

There's always going to be another chance.

But hell is full of people who plan to get saved someday.

If you're not saved, today is not the day to gamble with

eternity if you're not saved. But if you are saved, but you're

backslidden, this is not the day to say, I'll do it later, Lord,

I'll get it right with you later.

If December 7th taught us anything, it's to tell us that

You are not promised tomorrow. Psalm 90 and verse #10 The Bible

says the days of our years are three score years and 10.

And if by reason of strength they be 4 score years, yet is

their strength labor and sorrow, For it is soon cut off, and we

fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine

anger? Even according to thy fear, so

is Thy wrath. So teach us to number our days

that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Numbering your days means treating every day as if it

might be your last opportunity to serve God.

Brother John just prayed that in his prayer during the offering,

he said, help us to live as if you could come back today.

And Jesus Christ, he might, He might come back today, and I

hope he comes back today, but this might be the last

opportunity that you have to live for the Lord.

You don't know if you're, you don't know if you're going to be

here tomorrow. You don't know if you're going

to be here next week or next month or next year.

Life is uncertain. If you're not saved, don't wait

until it's too late to accept Christ.

Death comes like a thief in the night.

It comes at a moment when you least expect it.

It sneaks up on you. Death often comes in a moment

when you are least prepared. I've seen that happen over and

over and over and over again as a chaplain for our Police

Department and, and showing up. And I know Brother Kevin done

the same thing as a forensic detective showed up in, in, in,

in places when obvious. It's very obvious that people

were not expecting that they were going to take their last

breath. You know that you need to get

your life right with the Lord. Don't wait because you may not

get another opportunity. The day of infamy reminds us of

the reality of life's uncertainty.

But I also want to tell you this.

It's the remembrance of Christ's sacrifice.

Turn over to Romans chapter 5. The day of infamy this December

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7th, 1941 calls us to remember the cost.

We remember December 7th because of the sacrifice.

Young men died in minutes on the USS Arizona and other ships.

Families received telegrams that shattered their world.

Blood was shed so that freedom could be defended and ultimately

preserved. And we have a day at the center

of our faith that must never be forgotten.

That's the day that Jesus Christ went to the cross and the day

that the sinless Son of God was attacked.

In a sense, He was mocked, He was scourged, He was, He was

beaten. He was crucified for you and for

me. It was not by surprise.

It was God's plan of redemption for all of eternity.

And that's why it's hard to call it an attack.

But that's exactly what it is. The sacrifice, though, was no

less great. In fact, the Bible says in

Romans chapter 5 and verse #6 For when we were yet without

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strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet for adventure,

for a good man somewhat even dare to die.

But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were

yet sinners, Christ died for us much more than being now

justified by his blood. We shall be saved from wrath

through him. You, you, you see what he's

saying here. Oh, there's not very many people

that would die for somebody who was a great person.

There's not very many people who would say, I'll, I'll, I'll give

my life in exchange for the president of the United States,

a great man, a great person, a great position to hold.

But my life is is very precious. There might be some people who'd

be willing to give their life for the president of the United

States, but not a lot. And there might even be a few

people, the Bible says, who would give their life for a good

man. But the assumption here is that

nobody would give their life for somebody who was rotten and

worthless. But God commendeth his love

toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus didn't die for good people.

He didn't die because we deserved it.

He died while we were still in rebellion.

He died while we were still fighting Him.

He died while we were still lost in sin.

Pearl Harbor reminds us that freedom is not free.

And I'll tell you this, the cross reminds us that

forgiveness is not free. Jesus paid that price.

Our sin demanded judgment, and Jesus took that judgment on

himself. All over the United States, we

put up memorials so we can remember things that have

happened. And all over the place, there's

World War 2 memorials, there is memorials for Vietnam and all

kinds of different memorials. We put up memorials so we can

remember, and I've never been there, but I've read that

there's a memorial over the sunken USS Arizona in Pearl

Harbor. People stand in silence as they

look down and remember. They stand over the watery grave

of more than 900 men who never survived the bombing of that

ship. Of the 87,000 men that were

stationed on Oahu that day, only 12 of them are still alive, all

of them over 100 years old. None of them are capable of even

traveling to Hawaii. Every year in December 7th they

have a memorial ceremony and as many as are able they bring them

over to Hawaii and include them in the ceremony. 2 attended last

year. None were able to make the trip

this year. The last remaining survivor of

the USS Arizona died last year at 102 years old.

It's said, though, that in this place, at this memorial, there's

reverence in the air, as there should be.

But how lightly we sometimes treat the cross, how casually we

speak of Calvary, how easily we forget that the Son of God, the

King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, suffered more than any

soldier, suffered more than any sailor, suffered more than any

hero of the world ever has. Sure, Pearl Harbor reminds us

that freedom isn't free. But the cross reminds us that

your forgiveness is not free. And yet how often after you're

saved for 5/10/15 twenty years, the cross just becomes

commonplace to us. Oh, you think about what

happened on 9/11. Lives were changed after 911.

I remember exactly where I was when 911 happened, and I can

still remember everything that happened in our country after

that. Flags flew everywhere, Never

forgotten. We will never forget.

And still years later, people say that on on Patriot Day,

September 11th, we will never forget.

And now here we are electing Muslims and putting them in

positions of high authority in our country.

We've forgotten. We've forgotten because time,

time gets away from us. And the next thing you know, the

things that we say, we will never forget, we do.

And how sad that that's happened, that that happens with

so many Christians. Jesus Christ died in the cross,

and you came to him and you knelt down there at the cross.

And you realize that you can let your burdens go.

You can realize that He would take your sin and He would put

his righteousness in its place. You realize that he would wash

away all your sins and he would put them as far away from as

Him, as the east is from the West.

He would bury them in the deepest part of the sea.

And what a wonderful day that was for those who came to know

Jesus Christ as their Savior. I'll never forget what Jesus

Christ did for me. The five years goes by, 10

years, 1520 years goes by and the next thing you know, you're

living your life the way that you want to live your life.

You're doing what you want to do with your life instead of what

He wants you to do with your life.

Oh, you said that you would never forget, but the way that

you live your life proves that you have.

Oh, the cross of Jesus Christ should remind us that

forgiveness is not free. By the way, God also gave us

from memorials. That's what the Lord's Supper is

all about. That's what we're going to do

tonight. It's a reminder so that we don't

ever forget the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made.

Oh, most, most of the memorials around the country, they'll have

a ceremony there every year, December 7th.

They're having a ceremony out in Hawaii today to remember the

sacrifice at Pearl Harbor. He told us to do it often, Do it

often in remembrance of me. Don't forget the sacrifice that

Jesus Christ made, that Lord's Supper was instituted so that we

would never get over what he did for us.

Of course, it's an opportunity for us to get our lives right

with him. But the way that we remember,

the way that we truly remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is

to live in a way that's pleasing to him, to live in a way that is

holy and righteous and godly, so that we proved that we didn't

forget that what he did for us was a great sacrifice.

What a sacrifice he made for us. Has the cross become common to

you? Are you more moved by earthly

stories of heroism than by the eternal sacrifice of Jesus

Christ? December 7th, 1941 should grip

us. But the day that Christ died on

the cross for us should break us.

It should make us want to be everything that we can be for

Jesus Christ. The day of infamy reminds us of

the reality of life's uncertainty, reminds us of the

remembrance of Christ's sacrifice, but it also reminds

US number three of the requirement of personal

response. Turn over to Hebrews Chapter 9.

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See the day of infamy demands a decisive response.

December 7th demanded a response from America.

The very next day, December 8th, as you heard in that speech by

Franklin Roosevelt, he asked Congress to declare war.

And Congress responded almost unanimy, unanimously.

Nobody could remain neutral. You are either going to face the

enemy or you were going to surrender.

And I will tell you this, the cross of Christ demands a

response from every person as well.

You cannot remain neutral about Jesus Christ.

You can't. You either receive Him or you

reject Him. There is no middle ground.

You cannot stay neutral and there's a lot of people who

wanted to stay neutral. Don't get involved in the war.

Don't, don't, don't do this. Don't do that.

You cannot stay neutral when it comes to Jesus Christ.

You either bow to Him now as your Savior or you face Him

later as your judge. Hebrews Chapter 9 and verse #27

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The Bible says this. And as it is appointed unto men

once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once, so

Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.

And unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time

without sin unto salvation. See, every life has a day of

decision, A day when the Holy Spirit deals with your heart in

a special way, a day when you know God is speaking to me.

This message is for me. That day may not be famous in

the history books, but in heaven's record, it can be.

The day that your eternity changed.

For that, for those who are saved, for those who know Jesus

Christ as your Savior, that's the day that you accepted Jesus

Christ. The day your sins were forgiven,

The day your name was written in the book of life.

But for those who are still lost, those who don't know Jesus

Christ as their Savior, there will be a day of infamy for you.

It could be today. If you die without Christ, The

day that you rejected Jesus Christ as your Savior will be a

day of infamy for all of eternity.

It'll it'll be a day that will live in your mind forever.

It'll be a day that lives in your mind for all of eternity.

It'll be a day that you play over and over and over and over

in your mind. I had the chance to accept them,

and instead I rejected Jesus Christ.

If only I could go back to that day.

But there will be no chance for you to go back to that day.

You'll remember sermons. You'll remember this sermon if

you reject Jesus Christ and die without him.

You'll remember the invitation. You remember the tug in your

heart that you resisted? A man once told a pastor, friend

of his, his pastor had shared the gospel with him.

In fact, he had shared the gospel with him on more than one

occasion. And he kind of chuckled and he

said one day, one day I'll accept Jesus Christ as my

Savior. Just not now.

I've got a lot of things going on in my life.

I've got a lot of things that are going on with my business

and everything else. I'll come to church one of these

days, and one of these days I'll get everything right with God.

I'll accept Christ as my Savior one day.

He said that for years. And one night, that pastor got a

call. A man had suffered a heart

attack and died instantly. He never got his one day.

That one day never came. Turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter

2. Sorry, chapter 6.

Your eternity does not hang on what you plan to do one day.

Your eternity hangs on what you do with Christ today. 2nd

Corinthians chapter 6 and verse #2 For he saith, I have heard

thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I

suckered thee. Behold, now is the accepted

time. Behold, now is the day of

salvation. Your eternity does not hang on

what you plan to do one day. Your eternity hangs on what you

decide to do today. The day of infamy reminds us of

the reality of life's uncertainty, the remembrance of

Christ's sacrifice, the requirement of a personal

response, but lastly reminds us of the resolve of a transformed

life. I've been speaking mostly to

those who are not saved this morning, but let me speak to

those who already know Jesus Christ as our Savior.

That's most of you in this room. As I said already, I'm not under

the illusion that everybody is saved.

Maybe you have a testimony. Maybe you have something that

you're hanging that on. I, I've, I'm, I'm sure I've told

you this before, but I, I remember a young man that

graduated from, from high school and they would always, the

school would always put together a little video of when did you

get saved? What are you planning to do with

your life? Where you going to college?

What are you going to study? All of these other things.

Just a short little interview and they asked this young man,

when did, when did you get saved?

What's your salvation testimony? They said, well, I, I can't say

that I really remember, but my mom told me that I got saved

when I was three. That's not a salvation

testimony. That's, that's, that's hanging

your eternity on something that somebody else told you happened.

If you don't know for sure you're saved, and there's a good

possibility that you're not saved, if you're doubting your

salvation, there's a good possibility that you're not

saved. Now you might be, and the devil

might just be putting things in your mind.

There's always that possibility, but you better get it settled.

You better know for sure that you're on your way to heaven

before it's too late. From that day of infamy came a

purpose and a resolve. As FDR was closing his speech on

December 8th, he said this, and you heard him say it.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding

determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable

triumph. So help us God.

Men and women lined up to enlist.

The nation gathered around, and they they united around the

purpose. The Second Corinthians chapter

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5, just a page or so before, where you just were out of the

cross, should come and resolve in the life of a believer,

Because He died for me, I will live for him.

Second Corinthians chapter 5 and verse #14 says this.

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For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus

judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that He

died for all. That they which live should not

henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them

and rose again. Because he shed his blood for

me, I will not waste my life. Because He bought me.

I belong to Him. Perhaps after you've been saved,

you have a day that will live in infamy.

Maybe you have a day that you're ashamed of, a day that you fell

into sin, a day that you walked away from God, a day that you

broke your family's heart. The devil loves to replay those

days over and over and over in your mind.

That's who you are. That's what he'll tell you.

Look, look at, look at how you repaid the one who died on the

cross for you. What a wonderful life.

Oh, what a what a wonderful testimony.

What a wonderful thing you've done.

You can never do anything else for God.

Look how you've repaid his sacrifice.

But that doesn't have to be your final story.

Jesus said that's who you were. Let me give you a new day.

Let me give you a new heart. And in Jesus Christ, God can

turn a day of shame into a testimony of grace.

You think about Peter. Peter had a day of infamy like

that. Oh, he followed Christ very

closely for 3 1/2 years. He was part of the inner circle.

He was there on the day when Jesus was transformed in front

of him. He was there on the day when

when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and was praying that

that, that the cup would pass from he was there with Jesus in

all of the, the close, the intimate moments.

He was there. He was there when they came to

arrest Jesus. In fact, he pulled his sword out

and he cut the high priest servant's ear off and he watched

Jesus pick that ear up and put it back on his head.

And he said, though everybody else forsake you, I'll never

forsake you. Everybody else can leave, but

you can count on me. I'll be here.

And within minutes of uttering those words, he denied Jesus

Christ three times. That rooster crowed.

Peter remembered that Jesus had said that that was going to be

what happened. And all of that remorse and all

of that regret and all of the, the, the emotions that came

along with that just flooded over Peter.

Could you imagine if that was the end of Peter's story?

Could you imagine if that's where Peter just decided to

leave it all, go back to fishing and just be done with it?

Oh, yeah. Jesus rose from the dead.

I knew that he said he was going to, but he'll never accept me

again. He doesn't want me.

I denied him only a few days ago.

I said just a few few less than a week ago that I'll never, I

will never leave him. And I left him and he had to die

alone and he had to suffer on that cross without me there

because not only had I turned tail and ran, but I denied him

three times. He doesn't want me back.

There's nothing that God can do with me now.

But that's not where Peter's story ended.

Oh, you think about the the grace and the mercy that Jesus

Christ showed not to just everybody else, but to Peter.

Oh, Judas betrayed him, but Judas never got it right.

Judas went out and hung himself. But if that failure had defined

Peter forever, then we never would have seen Pentecost. 3000

people that accepted Christ and was were baptized and joined the

church. Few days later 5000 more people

that came and accepted Christ. That never would have happened

if that was the end of Peter's story.

Never see him strengthen the early church.

Never see him write Scripture. If Jesus Christ can restore

Peter, then he can sure restore you.

Oh, you might have denied Christ.

You might have denied him once, twice, 3 * 10 * 50 times.

But the same mercy that he extended to Peter is the same

mercy that he'll extend to you today.

And even though you might have a day of infamy, a day that you

regret, a day that you wish you could go back and change, maybe

a period in your life that you wish you could go back and

change, you can't change the past, but you can change your

future through Jesus Christ. So the real question this

morning is not about American history, but about your

spiritual history. When FDR said December 7th,

1941, a day which will live in infamy, he meant that the world

would never forget what happened.

But let me ask you this morning, is there a day in your life when

you came to Christ for salvation?

Not a day that you went to church.

Not a day that you made a decision that you were going to

start attending church regularly.

Not a day when you said a prayer that somebody else was praying.

Not a not a day when you tried to do better, but a day when you

personally accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior.

A day when you repented and in faith you came and accepted that

gift of salvation. If not, this could be your day.

Not a day that lives in infamy, but a day of eternal rejoicing.

You don't know what tomorrow holds.

And I know that most of us just go on living our lives.

We just expect that we're going to wake up the next morning and

we're going to go about our day and we're going to live to be 70

or 80 or 90 years old, and we're going to have the time to live

our lives the way that we want to live them.

But you are not promised tomorrow.

You don't know if you'll ever sit through another sermon.

You don't know if you'll ever feel the tug of the Holy Spirit

on your heart towards salvation ever again.

Don't let this become the day that you remember in eternity,

the day that you walked away from the Savior who loved you.

If God speaking to your heart, would you come?

Would you let somebody open the Bible and show you how you can

know for sure that you're saved? For those who are saved?

Do you need this to be the day that you surrender?

A day of coming back to God, a day when you stop coasting in

your Christian life and start living on purpose for Christ?

I think the danger for so many of us, especially if you've been

in church for any length of time, especially for those who

grew up in church, who have been, who have been surrounded

in it. I was born in church.

I don't know anything other than church.

I don't know anything other than being in in church every single

Sunday and every single Wednesday.

I don't know anything other than that.

And there's a lot of people who are in the same category in your

life. The danger is that you just

coast through your Christian life because this is what you've

always done. And it doesn't matter if you

start to get away from the Lord. It doesn't matter if you start

to grow cold in your relationship with him.

It doesn't matter if you're just indifferent to the cross and,

and, and, and what he did for you and his sacrifice for you on

the cross. You know how to play the game.

You know how to live your life to make everybody around you

think that you're a decent Christian.

You could be the farthest thing from that and nobody would ever

know because you know how to play the game.

Maybe today is the day that you need to be done playing and get

back to living for Christ on purpose because He loves you and

you love Him and you'd want to do something for Him that counts

for eternity. Maybe you have days of regret or

failure or shame. Bring those to the cross.

Let this be the day that lives in your memory.

Memory as the day that you fully surrendered to God.

Maybe you're defining day is in a Pearl Harbor moment.

Maybe it's just that you've drifted.

Maybe that's just that you've allowed your love for him to

grow cold. Maybe it's just that you've left

your first love. Come kneel at the cross again

and get those things right with God.

Let today be the day that changes everything.

Won't you do it? Let's pray.

Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us.

We thank you so much for the fact that you died on the cross.

I think it's important for us to remember things like Pearl

Harbor and the sacrifice that was made by those soldiers.

But that pales in comparison, pales in comparison to the

sacrifice that you made for us. Oh, we're thankful.

We're thankful for the sacrifices, the human

sacrifices, the the lives that people were willing to lay on

the line. Greater love hath no man than

this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

But the life that you laid down was perfect.

It was sinless, it was holy, it was God.

We thank you for that. God.

I do pray that if there is somebody in here this morning,

maybe somebody that's never even professed to know Christ as

their Savior, that they would come to you.

Maybe there's somebody in here who's been pretending to be a

Christian for a long time. May they come to you.

Maybe there's somebody in here this morning.

God, you know every heart. You know where we are in our

relationship with you. Maybe there's somebody in this

morning who's just allowed that relationship to grow cold.

Maybe they've forgotten the sacrifice that you made for us.

God, may we get those things right with you today.

Thank you again for all that you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.

If you'd stand at your seat through the heads bowed and your

eyes closed as the piano plays the invitations open, you come.

If you need to come talk to me about how to be saved, you come.

I'll take the Bible and show you how you can know for sure that

you're on your way to heaven. But if you need to get some

things right with God, this is the day to do it.

Come, come get those things right with you as the piano

plays invitations open.