The Law & The Gospel | Week 13

My name is Kyla, serve as the lead Pastor here, I want to say

thank you for being here. If you're visiting today, have

your Bible turn to John chapter 3?

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We are nearly through with our series titled, the law and the

gospel. We have this week and next week

left in it. So we're going through versus 21

today. We'll be looking at John 3:16

John 3:16

and 17. John 3:16 might be familiar to

John 3:16

you, probably it is. You probably heard that.

Verse once or twice in your life, if you've grown up

anywhere near church. So we'll look at John 3:16 and

John 3:16

17 today. We'll look at 18 through 21 next

week and that'll be a wrap on this series and then we'll move

into some new things on the summer.

We'll be going through the Psalms a little bit.

We've started this a few years ago where we've been doing 10 10

songs per summer and so at that rate it would take 15 years to

get through all of Love them. So it's a good process.

We could immediately start them over after we get through it and

most of you won't even be here anymore.

You know. So just kidding.

Hopefully, you will be, I didn't mean death.

I just meant moving. There's only a few of you that

might not be here. Sorry.

All right. My wife says just stopped.

So I will. Yes, ma'am.

I love you, too. John chapter 3, you might be all

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that. Love me now.

Um John chapter 3, we're going to look at.

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I'm going to go ahead and read one through Seventeen Again,

just to kind of capture where we're at and invite you to stand

as we read that as we capture this conversation going on

between Nicodemus, one of the Pharisees and Christ.

And, and at the end of the reading, I'll say this is the

word of the Lord, and you will respond.

Thanks be to God. All right, thanks be to God.

All right, John 3:1. Through 17.

John 3:1

Now, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a

ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night

and said to him. Rabbi, we know that you are a

teacher. Come from, God, for no one.

Can do these signs that you do unless God is with him, Jesus

answered him. Truly, truly, I say to you,

unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old?

Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be Born.

Jesus answered truly. Truly, I say to you, unless one

is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of

God, that which is born, of the flesh is flesh.

And that, which is born of the spirit is Spirit, do not Marvel.

That I said to you, you must be born again, the wind blows where

it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where

it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is

born of the It's verse 9 Nicodemus said to him, how can

these things be? Jesus answered him?

Are you the teacher of Israel? And yet you do not understand

these things. Truly, truly, I say to you, we

speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have seen.

But you do not receive our testimony, If I have told you

Earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if

I tell you Heavenly things, no one has ascended into heaven,

except he who descended from Heaven, the son of man, and as

Moses lifted up, the serpent in the wilderness so must the son

of man be lifted up that whoever believes in him may have eternal

life for God. So loved the world that he gave

his only son, that whoever believes in, Should not perish,

but have eternal life for God. Did not send his son into the

world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be

saved through him. This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks, be to God. Amen.

Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, we praise you

for your word. We thank you for it.

Lord, would you be with us? Now, as we open it, as we hear

from it, father, help us to believe the words of Christ

today. Help us to see See, and to

comprehend, at some level, the depths of your love for a sinful

Humanity, that you would send your son to die for our sins,

that whoever would believe in him, might have eternal life.

Father, we thank you for the love that Christ preaches today.

We ask Lord that you would help us to know it's, to believe it's

to live it in Christ's name, we pray.

Amen. Man.

You may have a seat. John 3:16 for God.

John 3:16

So loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever

believes in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus is saying it is the deep love of God for perishing.

Sinners, that drove him to send his own son into the world to

die, for the sins of all who will believe in Christ Jesus.

What he could have done and what he likely should have done was

to destroy the world in his wrath against sin, but rather

than do that, God chose to commit his own son to death on a

cross. He put his own son under his

wrath where he endured the righteous anger, that you and I

deserved. It's this astounding love of God

that lies at the foundation of the new birth.

Now we've been walking through this series. and and then every

now and then there's this quote from Stephen Lawson from his

book New Life In Christ which follows along the same

conversation. And so I want to share one of

those with you now. He says, the love of God for

Sinners is the Crown Jewel that Sparkles most brightly at the

top, the glittering, diadem of the Gospel here, in the love of

the father. For Sinners, is the Priceless

treasure that exceeds all other precious stones and it's

incomparable value. What makes this text.

So valuable, he goes on to say is that it was spoken by the

greatest teacher. Who ever walked the face of the

Earth, Jesus Christ and identifies, the greatest lover

in the universe. God the Father it describes the

greatest sacrifice ever made God, giving his only son to die

for Sinners. It promises the greatest Rescue

of those who believe they will not perish.

And that extends the greatest offer to whoever will believe in

Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.

Man by the name of Martin Luther said, John 3:16 is the Bible in

John 3:16

miniature. It's the Bible in miniature.

It describes the story of redemption, it describes what

God is saying throughout the scriptures, what he's putting on

display through his self Revelation written down for us

to read a couple of thousand years and more after it was

originally written, God is describing the story of

redemption. And John 3:16 is a most beloved

John 3:16

verse. It's a most memorized verse for

a reason, it is the Monumental announcement from the lips of

the Son of God that God loves Sinners and saves them, through

the Willing sacrifice of his own son, God enters into and The

Trinity, we have God, the Father God, the son, God the Holy

Spirit, God is entering into sin marred.

The sin marred World taking sin on himself as the father places

sin on Christ, so that salvation might be possible.

So that the Holy Spirit might cause men and women to cry,

Abba, Father in the freedom of sins, they might know him as

Lord. If Nicodemus is going to be born

again, as we are hoping for as we are reading the story as we

were walking. Walking through this

conversation week after week, if he is going to be born again, he

must believe in the gospel message that Jesus Christ is

proclaiming to him. In this very moment, he must Now

one of the things about this verse that we know so well is it

begins with four? I don't even know.

If something begins with for it's a continuation of thought

Christ is building on what he has said, what he said in verses

14 was how someone might receive eternal life that it was going

to be because the son of man was going to be raised up, he was

going to be crucified on a cross and that whoever Over would

believe in him would have eternal life.

Jesus says, further developing his thought about the necessity

of believing in. Jesus Christ of receiving

eternal life in him only and Jesus states.

That God, the Father sent him into the world to rescue.

Sinners, Lawson goes on to say everything in God's plan for

salvation flows from his own loving heart.

The father loved his chosen ones before The world began.

He authored the gospel and gave his chosen ones to his son to be

his chosen. Bride, the father, then

determined to send the son into the world to Die For Those given

to him further, it was the father along with the son, who

sent the Holy Spirit into the world to cause their new birth

and to Usher them into his kingdom.

It is the love of God that initiates this Rescue Mission,

the Apostle John author of this. This book, The Gospel of John

writes, some letters also 1st 2nd 3rd, John.

He's also the author of the book of Revelation but in his letters

that he wrote and first John, Chapter 4 verses, 8 and 16, he

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describes God this way. He says, God is love God is love

the very nature of God is love. It is who he is the love shared

between the godhead burst forth from God, he chooses.

And this passage, we see that he chooses to love the unlovely.

He chooses to Love The Sinner and the gospel message, we see

that God has chosen to set his love on those.

Who do not deserve it, Sinners do not deserve the love of God.

They have not earned the love of God, they've earned his wrath

and so, God did not send his son into the world to die, because

the world was lovable. He sent him into the world to

die, because the world is unlovable as they are.

God cannot be just and excuse, their sin, Overlook their sin,

ignore their sin. The world is full of Sinners who

rebel against God. It always.

Has been, it always will be until Christ returns and

establishes a new Earth. God would be just, and right to

have sent his wrath and to the world, he would be just and

right to destroy you and I in our sins yet, God chose to love

those who should receive his wrath.

This is why God's love is so amazing.

It's his, he loves because he is love.

It's who he is and not only is it who he is, but there's a

comprehensiveness to this love, there must be if God is to be

loved, we read for God. So loved it's past tense.

There's a comprehension. How comprehensiveness to this

God has loved sinners from eternity past before he ever

created them. He love for God.

So loved the eternal love of God, the father came to full

realization at the proper time when he sent his son into the

world. The gravy greatest

demonstration. We have of the love of God, the

father is, and sending God the son to die for our sins on a

cross. The Same Love is on display

throughout time. From 1st Century to now and into

the future. The Same Love is on display

every time. The gospel message is

proclaimed. Every time we talk about the

cross, every time we Proclaim Christ is Lord.

Every time we say that he came to save Sinners, we are

declaring the comprehensive love of God and we see it in this

free offer of Salvation that he's extending to Nicodemus,

that whoever believes will receive eternal life.

And as we Proclaim that message, we are recalling.

The eternal love of God, yet his love continues in your life.

Post salvation, as you've received eternal, life, you come

to know what Paul prays for that.

You would come to know the riches of his love, that you

would come to know more fully the depth, and the width, and

the height, and the length of his love.

His love continues as he cares for and provides for his sons

and daughters. His love will never fail.

His love, will never run out because he is love his love will

continue forever. It's an eternal love because God

is an eternal being. And one day, he will bring every

believer into his presence in heaven forever to experience his

love fully. The Apostle John writes.

In First John 3, he says see what kind of love the father has

given to us that we should be called children of God.

And so we are see what kind of love the words.

What kind might be translated in your Bible?

How great see how great the love of the father?

But another way to translate this idea of what kind is not

simply just how great. It's also from what country see,

what kind see from what country the love of the father has come

to us, the love of the father has given to us.

In other words, John is saying that.

God loves us with a great otherworldly.

Love it. Is unlike any other love Now, I

know. I know that.

I know that, I know that I love my wife.

More than any person in this world.

My love for her is deep. I would call it a comprehensive

love. I won't say it's Eternal.

I haven't loved her an eternity past.

I hope that I will love her and Eternity future.

It's not like God's love though. I love her dearly.

I know that I know that, I know that I love my children.

Deeply that I would give my life in a second, for any one of

those four babies. That I will sacrifice and move

Heaven and Earth if I'm able to provide for them to meet their

needs, to show my love for them, the same for my wife, but my

love for them. Does not compare to the love

that. God, the father has bestowed on

us. Not even close.

Not even close it is but a flicker.

His but a flicker of the light that is Christ's love.

That is God's love toward us. Many of you can say the same

things about your loved ones, you know that, you know that you

know, that you love them. But even that love that you have

is, but a flicker of the love that God has shown us It is,

this love from above that makes us children of God in the New

Birth. It's this love for Sinners that

has caused him to send his own son for us.

That we might be born again. It is with this love that.

He has so loved the world, the term World refers to all of

humanity. And if it's a term that refers

to all of humanity, it's a term that refers to all of Fallen

Humanity, which is defiled by sin, the love of God, reaches

out, to all people. It includes those from every

tribe and tongue and people and Nation.

As we read about in Revelation, chapter 5, verse 9 of those, who

Revelation 5:9

will be gathered together in the new Heaven and the new Earth.

Every tribe includes every ethnic group in the world.

Every tongue includes every language group in the world,

every People refers to every racial group Every Nation

identifies people from every political group God loves

sinners. He loves his people.

The nature of God's love for the world is simply a matter of is

not simply a matter of his feelings.

I want you to understand this is his love for you is not like you

love a dum-dum, talking about the sucker, not the person,

okay? You might love a dum-dum.

Also, don't look at your spouse right now, please.

But his love is not simply a matter of his feelings, you

know? He it's not, you know, the old

picture of the girl who's picking the petals off the

flowers. He Loves Me, He Loves Me, Not,

he loves me, he loves me. Not, this is not the love of

God. He doesn't go from a feeling of

love one day to a filling of unloved, the next day and back

and forth. His love is not simply, it's not

really at all mushy or sentimental.

The love of God is laser focused and sharp.

God, Loved by choosing to sacrifice his own son on the

cross to save sinners. Those Sinners are people who

would otherwise be under his wrath and yet he chooses to love

them. His love is a rescuing love.

The greatness of God's love is seen in the fact that he gave

his only son as we're reading here in John 3:16.

John 3:16

He gives his only son to die in the place of all who would put

their trust in him. Stephen Lawson goes on to

describe what this love is he says, true love does not seek to

take from others, but rather gives to them.

Doesn't seek to take from others but rather gives to them.

This is true authentic love. He says, sacrificially gives of

itself to seek the highest good for the one who is loved genuine

love. He says is costly and expensive.

True love comes at a great price.

By the one who loves this is how God has loved This World by

making the highest price sacrifice.

He loved by giving his son to die upon the cross.

And so in his love for the world, God gives his only son.

Some translations are only begotten and that's probably a

better way to write this. The world, the word.

Sorry only or only begotten means that he is one of a kind

he's unique. There is not another son, like

the Son of God and Jesus is not one of many sons.

He's the only son is eternally begotten by the father.

Which only serves to heighten the display of God's great love.

It serves to make it even greater that he would give up

his only son in this way. Apostle Paul, mentions, got

sacrificial, love and Romans 5:8.

Romans 5:8

He said, God shows his love for us in that while we were still

sinners Christ died for us and so the love of God is a kind and

Selfless. Love that God has demonstrated

but Paul also hammers that point home by saying one will scarcely

die for someone who is good. And yet, God gives his own son

for Sinners people who have blasphemed his name, people who

have rebelled against him by both verbally and by their

actions have gone against his commands.

And yet, God loves Enough to give his own son.

Apostle John ads. In first, John four, he says in

this the love of God was made manifest among us but God sent

his only son into the world so that we might live through him

in. This is love not that we have

loved God, but that he loved us. And sent his son to be the

propitiation for our sins. Sacrifice the payment for our

sins. And so we see the love of God

made manifest in the death of Jesus Christ, his own son.

And so, Jesus tells Nicodemus that the only right response to

this love for those who are perishing is to believe in him.

He said, whoever believes in him will not perish for God.

So loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever

believes in him, will not perish.

So the right response to the love of God, that is shown In

Christ. Jesus is to believe in Christ.

Jesus. There's no other right response

here. Nicodemus must make more than a

mental assent to Christ. He must do more than acknowledge

that. What Christ says might be true.

He must do more than say, I believe what you're saying

Jesus. You must have more than

knowledge. But sentimental feelings won't

do it. Either Nicodemus is going to

need more than Goose Bumps and Ward warm feelings.

If he is going to receive eternal life.

Saving Faith runs deep. Because it starts from the Heart

& Poor's outward, you have been regenerated when you exercise

saving faith. And so, it will require a lot of

Nicodemus, the love of God, demanded.

The commitment of Nicodemus is life, that demands that he will

commit himself to Christ Jesus. It demands that he will fully

trust Jesus to be his Lord, and his savior, it means that he is

submitting to Him. He's no longer the god of his

own life. He's no longer the Lord of his

own life but he's choosing to believe in Jesus in such a way

that he follows him. When Jesus says, whoever

believes, he means that this is a free offer being extended to

Nicodemus, but he must receive it.

He must believe it despite his past unbelief, despite his past

sins. He is being offered eternal

life. Through this gospel message,

that Jesus is proclaiming where he is.

Now coming to see the love of God on display in Christ.

As Christ is telling him. I am going to be lifted up as

the serpent in the wilderness. All who will look to me, will

receive life. I was like, great Mother's Day

text, we preached last week. I love that rescues forever is

what we see here. Jesus tells Nicodemus that he

must believe so that he does not perish and other words.

Jesus is telling academia's you were already perishing.

You're already perishing. He is already an unbeliever.

He is already in need of the new birth or else.

He will receive God's Wrath and Judgment at the end of his life.

His soul would be destroyed by God if he does not believe the

gospel. And Trust Christ for his own

salvation. Nicodemus was dying in his sins,

though. He looked up, right?

He looked clean on the outside. He is dead on the inside.

Such as the danger of relying on your own morality such as the

danger of relying on your own. Good works.

You deceive yourself into thinking, I'm good.

I'm up, right? Surely, if anybody's getting

into heaven, I'll be there. It's a really arrogant way to

live. You are glorying in yourself,

not in God, who created you? However, if Jesus would

Nicodemus, sorry, would act now and receive Christ, then he

would be eternally saved from his sins.

He would come to know the rescuing love of God, he would

know eternal life. As Jesus promises, eternal life

means that, you know, God in a personal way.

Jesus in John 17:3 he praised this way's the high Priestly

John 17:3

prayer, it's tremendous. If you haven't read it, read,

John 17, the This week. This is what Jesus says, he says

this is as he's praying to the father.

He says, this is eternal life that they may know you.

The only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

And so this is the promise of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that

though, you are separated from God by your sins, you may enter

into the personal knowledge of God through faith in Christ and

receive eternal life. Promise for you.

And so Jesus, further explains his reason for coming into the

world. What's the reason for his

mission and John 3:17? He says, for God did not send

John 3:17

his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order

that the world might be saved through him, Jesus begins with

He begins with explaining why he did not come into the world,

right? He tells Nicodemus, for God, did

not send his son into the world to condemn the world and then he

follows that up with why he did come into the world, but the

world might be saved through him.

So let's look at that. First statement, God did not

send his son into the world to condemn.

The world was primary purpose for coming into the world, was

not a mission of judgments. Though everyone who does not

believe in Christ, Jesus is condemned already as we'll see

next week in verses 18 and 19. God's purpose though, for

sending his son into the world was for their salvation.

Not their condemnation, the world is already under his

Divine judgment because of their sin, they're not escaping.

That Christ is not having to come and pronounce.

Judgment God has already shown them.

That they are judged that they're condemned as they are.

And so to receive the Judgment of God means that you receive

the execution of divine wrath upon your sin.

But what Jesus says is that God has sent me into the world to

save sinners. This is the direct opposite of

God's judgment. This is his mercy and his love

on display as he rescue sinners from their sin by giving them

New Life in his son. Jesus primary purpose for coming

was to reconcile mankind, to God.

The message of the Gospel is a stumbling block to those who do

not know Christ. But to those who do know Christ

by faith, it is the good news of great joy.

It's a blessed message, it brings happiness to our life as

we hide ourselves in Christ, Jesus.

And we realize that we are no longer going to be judged for

our sins. But we have received New Life in

Christ. Jesus, your judgment has already

taken place. It was placed on the Son of God,

it will not be placed on you. And so, Jesus States, his reason

for coming that the world might be saved through him.

The word saved means to be or to become delivered or rescued from

sin. And its judgment.

The chief purpose of Christ coming into the world is to save

sinners from Eternal punishment. in Matthew 1:21 is Matthews

Matthew 1:21

riding there and and the angel speaking and talking about what

will happen with Mary as the Son of God is to be birth through

her. It says there that she will bear

a son and you shall call his name Jesus for.

He will save his people, from their sins.

So, from the very announcement of Christ's birth, we see why he

has come. It was to save people, his

people from their sins. Jesus says elsewhere in Luke

Luke 19:10

19:10. He says, for the son of man came

to seek and to save the Lost. The mission of God in Christ,

Jesus is to save sinners. Lawson says sin has placed

humankind on a path headed for Eternal damnation but God sent

Christ to the to save those facing his Divine wrath

Nicodemus like the rest of mankind needed to be rescued

from his sins needed to be rescued from God's Divine Wrath.

And so Christ is sent by the father.

Jesus is making it clear when he talks about being sent by the

father, he's making it clear that he didn't undertake this

Mission under his own volition. He's not doing out something

outside of the father's will being lifted up on a cross to

redeem. Those who would believe in him

is the Eternal purpose of God. It's the Eternal purpose of the

father's sending him. And so, John 3:17, we might read

John 3:17

it like this, for God, sent his son into the world in order that

the world might be saved. Through him.

So the purpose of Christ, this is Mission.

It was the will of the father to send his son to rescue the Lost

in the perishing, by the greatness of God's love.

He sent his only son to redeem those who were objects of his

wrath. This is what we read about in

Isaiah 53. As we read there about the

suffering servant, that Isaiah is presenting.

He he talks about what this man the suffering servant who we now

know is Christ will endure. And one of the things that we

read there at the very end of that So, it's either 53 10 or

11. It says that it was the will of

the father to crush him. It was the will of the Lord to

crush him. This man was going to suffer for

the sins of many, that many might be saved and it was the

will of the father to do that. So Christ is not acting outside

of the will of the father. He's not usurping.

The father, the Eternal godhead declared that this would happen.

The Eternal God had his bringing this to pass.

Lawson add some helpful comments here about how we might see that

Jesus is doing the will of the father.

He says, the sending of Jesus by the father was a major emphasis

made throughout the Gospel of John.

And now he just cites several passages in John.

It was the God, the Father who sent God the son 3:34 God sent

Christ to speak. The words of God, chapter 5, 36

and 38. God the Father gave Jesus Works

to accomplish to testify to his deity chapter 6, 2938 and 57th.

Jesus was sent by the father to do, his will 7:29 Jesus knows

the father who sent him 8:42 Jesus came from the father

because the father sent him 10:36, Jesus is the son of God

sent into the World by the father 11:42.

Jesus affirms that he has accomplished the work that the

father gave to him chapter 17 verses, 38 18, 21, 23, and 25.

Again that high Priestly prayer. Jesus Comforts, his followers

with peace, reminding them that as the father sent him into the

world, so he sends them into the world, John 20:21.

John 20:21

Over. And again, the Apostle John is

showing that Christ has come from the father that he is, God

that he and the father are one and unity the one in Mission,

they're together. therefore, if Nicodemus by showing these

things, if Nicodemus rejects Christ, And he rejects his

message that he is rejecting God himself.

It is God who sent Jesus to testify to the truth to Manifest

this love for us and if he is to be rejected, it is a rejection

of God. The Father, it's impossible to

be right with God and to reject the one whom he has sent.

And so, once again, Nicodemus finds himself standing at a

Crossroads in this conversation, he is on a road headed for

Destruction currently. And now that has been Illicitly

revealed to him through this. And so now he must choose to

travel a new road that leads to life eternal life.

The only way to enter this new path is by faith in the one,

excuse me, and the one who is standing in front of him.

It's by faith in the message that the one who is standing in

front of him is proclaiming to him, which is the good news of

the Gospel that God rescue Sinners by his great love.

If Nicodemus is to know eternal life, he must believe Christ.

And if you are born again, I ask you can you remember making this

decisive step of Faith? Do you recall the day?

You were confronted with your sin and the free offer of Grace

in Christ and so you responded in faith.

Then I urge you encourage you to praise God for his Mercy.

Praise God for the love that you have received.

Don't become hardened toward it. Don't take it for granted but

no, it grow in it as Paul prays in Ephesians 3.

That you might know the depths of it.

No matter how long you have been serving, the lord know how to,

no matter how many years you have under your belt.

There was always more to know and to experience about the love

of God, you will not exhaust it. In fact, in eternity, we will

not exhaust God's love, there will never be in a day and

Eternity in heaven, where we wake up and say an there

anymore. Or to this.

There's something else we can do today.

You will go on and on and on knowing the fullness of God on

an incredible thing to think about but you don't have to wait

for eternity to begin that Journey.

You can know now eternal life. if you have not believed in

Jesus Christ, if you have not placed your faith in him, then

this is an important moment for you.

This is a time where the spirit of God might work in your soul.

and if God has convicted you about the path that you are

currently on at some point, Maybe even during this message

and you know that conviction, you're just kind of hanging on

to it. Not sure what to do with it.

If that's you then I urge you to seek the Lord while he might

still be found. I urge you to call upon him.

While he is near to you through conviction.

I implore you to repent of your sins and to exercise faith in

Christ by submitting your life to him.

Jesus Christ. Is the Son of God.

He is the one sent into the World by the father to save

sinners. Would you turn your heart to

him? Would you believe in him and be

saved today? You stand to your feet and let

me pray for you. Heavenly Father, we praise you

and we thank you for the day that you've given us.

We thank you Lord for these words in John 3:16 and 17. you

John 3:16

have so loved the world that you sent your son, your only son,

Into the world. To die on a cross to be lifted

up. So that whoever looks to him in

faith. Might be saved and receive

eternal life, but they might not know condemnation any longer

that they might not know perishing any further that they

may have life. And so father today, I pray for

my brothers and sisters in here. The ones who have received you

as their lord already. Would you deepen their knowledge

of Your Love? Lord, would you help them to

know it? More fully to grow in it to

become students of it? Give them a heart for your word.

A heart to know you a heart to follow you more fully more

Faithfully. Lord and where they've taken it

for granted. And they've turned to other

things in the world to find love.

To find pleasure to find Joy. Would you would you convict them

father, helped them to repent and to exercise faith in Christ

alone. Father, would you help us?

Follow you Faithfully. Lord, I pray for anyone who

hears this message today, he doesn't know you, but you can

victim of their sins. Would you help them Father by

your spirit to have a new heart to exercise faith in Christ?

That they might know, eternal life, help them.

Lord to see the love of God in Christ Jesus.

Today that they might be saved. Lord, we thank you.

That in your goodness and your love and your mercy and your

grace. You have shown us rescue

redemption in Christ. You've done.

The unthinkable, God, you've entered into our mess Christ,

became like us born of a woman. That he might shed his blood

have his body broken. For the Forgiveness of our sins.

That whoever believes in him, will be saved, father, help,

help anyone who has lost unsaved unbeliever to exercise faith in

Christ today. We pray these things in the name

of Jesus. Amen.