"God's Suffering Servant" Isaiah 53:3-6 | Pastor Scott Pearson

Thank you worship team and Welcome all of you

to throwback Sunday with Drew leading worship

and with me preaching this morning. It's an honor

and a privilege Some of you know that Thank you

Some of you know that I grew up in a broken family.

My father was an alcoholic and my dad broke up

my parents marriage by committing adultery and

so there was a period of time in my life where

my identity was defined by my woundedness and

my family's dysfunction. In fact, there was even

a label for those entities, adult children of

alcoholics and children of divorce, and that's

who I was. Many years later, in 1994, as some

of you know, I experienced the greatest failure

in my life. filing for bankruptcy and then being

forced to resign my pastorate in California.

And so there was a period of time where I defined

my identity by my sin and by my failure. Not

just that I failed, but that I was a failure.

That's who I was. How about you? Have you ever

defined your identity by a sin or by a failure?

or by your woundedness, or by your brokenness,

or by how you have been wronged, or by being

a loser or a victim. Has that ever been your

identity? My goal for this message is that when

you leave this place today, You will not define

yourself by your sin or failure or woundedness

or victimhood But rather you will define yourself

according to your relationship with Jesus Christ

as your sin bearer and your pain bearer Now there

may be some here this morning who are in a dark

place right now Maybe you're feeling heavy losses

or unrelenting pain or ongoing anguish We don't

always know why a loving God would allow such

suffering in our lives, but we do know this,

that God Himself entered into our suffering and

pain in the person of His Son, Jesus of Nazareth,

the suffering servant. He Himself experienced

pain, injustice, rejection, torture, crucifixion,

death, God forsakenness, while bearing our sins

and God's wrath in our place. And as we shall

see in Isaiah 53, Jesus not only suffered his

own pains in life, he also suffered vicariously

for us, bearing all of our pains, and all of

our griefs, and all of our infirmities, and all

of our sin and guilt. I'm going to ask Alanis

Goodall to come right now. And she's going to

read the middle verses of the passage we're looking

at today. This is really the heart of the message,

the verses that she's going to be reading from

Isaiah 53. Would you please stand as we read

God's word? He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

And as one from whom men hide their faces, He

was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely

he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God

and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was

the chastisement that brought us peace. And with

his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have

gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own

way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity

of us all. Father I pray that you will bless

Elena and I pray that you will use her considerable

talents and gifts and abilities for your glory

as she continues to walk in in faith and obedience

in her relationship with Jesus and I pray now

that the Holy Spirit will open our hearts and

minds to the truths of your word that we might

come to know in deeper way what it means for

Jesus to be our sin bearer and our pain bearer

in Jesus name. I pray amen You may be seated

So there are five stanzas in what's called the

servant song in Isaiah. This is the fourth and

final one. The outline is in your sermon notes.

And we're going to take a look first of all at

God's astonishing servants. This servant song

prophesies the ministry and the sin -bearing

and the triumph of the servant of the Lord, the

Messiah, Jesus. And this was written 700 years

before Christ. Verse 13. Behold, my servant shall

act wisely. He shall be high and lifted up and

shall be exalted. So what would you expect after

an introduction like that? You might expect something

like Palm Sunday. Nope, instead this. As many

were astonished at you, his appearance was so

marred beyond human semblance and his form beyond

that of the children of mankind. So shall he

sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their

mouths because of him for that which has not

been told them They see and that which they have

not heard they understand So we see that the

exaltation is followed by Devastating humiliation

the highly exalted ruler of verse 13 has a startling

appearance a face So disfigured so bloodied by

suffering and mistreatment that he scarcely seems

human and people are astonished They are appalled

His grotesquely marred appearance not only raises

the question this is God's King of Israel But

it even raises the question. Is he even human?

The sprinkling of many nations refers to the

sacrificial death of Jesus being the cleansing

of sin for many peoples So verse 13 which begins

the song is ultimately going to be fulfilled

We'll see later and Jesus resurrection ascension

and exaltation at the right hand of God in heaven

But first this the next stanza God's despised

servant Who has believed what he has heard from

us and to whom has the armor of the Lord been

revealed? For he grew up before him like a young

plant and like a roots out of dry ground He had

no form or majesty that we should look at Him

and no beauty that we should desire Him. He was

despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows

and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom

men hide their faces, He was despised and we

esteemed Him not. God's people did not recognize

God's saving power in the suffering Messiah because

Jesus had none of the kingly glory that the Jews

were expecting of their Messiah. The birth of

Jesus was humble, unimpressive, unpromising.

In fact, Jesus had none of the trappings of royalty.

In fact, there was nothing impressive about his

appearance as an ordinary man, let alone a king.

He was not a Joseph or a David, startling, handsome

in his appearance. Furthermore, he was a man

of sorrows and one from whom men would actually

hide their faces. Why? Was he that ugly? Was

he morose in his temperament? Was he hard to

get along with? Was he hard to be with? No, he

lived a joyful life and imparted joy to others.

But he was a man of sorrows and acquainted with

grief. And you know, humans experience revulsion

in the face of extreme suffering often. So this

Messiah, this servant of Yahweh, was despised.

He was rejected. He was considered of little

value by the religious leaders of his day because

he was seen as somebody who was suffering for

his own fault, somebody who was suffering because

God was punishing him. But the next stanza gives

the truth of the matter, God's pain and sin bearing

servant. This is the heart of the message of

this song. But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was

the chastisement that brought us peace, and with

his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have

gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own

way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity

of us all. Jesus can identify with us when we

suffer because he himself experienced the breadth

and depth of human suffering. But as Stephen

Siemens points out in his book Wounds That Heal,

not only did Jesus suffer personally on the cross,

he also suffered vicariously for us, meaning

that he took our suffering into himself. He experienced

our suffering in addition to his own. For not

only does Isaiah 53 say that he was a man of

sorrows and acquainted with grief, that could

be true of many people, but also that He has

borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. What

a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs

to bear. Now most of you understand the meaning

of Jesus bearing our sins so that we can be forgiven

and cleansed and accepted by God. But have you

meditated on the meaning of Jesus bearing our

griefs so that we can find healing for our wounds

and brokenness? Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows. To bear has the idea

of taking upon oneself vicariously, taking from

us into himself. Now, griefs in this passage

can also be translated as sicknesses or infirmities

or diseases, and this is how Matthew records

the fulfillment of it. That evening they brought

to Jesus many who were oppressed by demons and

he cast out the spirits with a word and healed

all who were sick This was to fulfill what was

spoken by the prophet Isaiah. He took our illnesses

and bore our diseases He bore our infirmities

and diseases and he carried our sorrows carried

in the sense that all of our burdens were loaded

upon him Sorrows here has the meaning of mental

and emotional anguish and all different kinds

of suffering resulting from living in a fallen

world. Franz Delitz writes, the meaning is not

merely that the servant of God entered into the

fellowship of our sufferings, but that he took

upon himself the sufferings which we had to bear

and deserve to bear and therefore not only took

them away, But bore them in his own person that

he might deliver us from them Peter and his kind

of commentary on this passage wrote this Jesus

himself bore our sins in his body on the tree

that we might die to sin and live to righteousness

By his wounds you have been healed The healing

here is primarily a spiritual healing as also

in Isaiah 53, though the physical healing is

also included in Isaiah 53 because of the quote

by Matthew. So not only did Jesus bear our sins

in his body on the cross, Isaiah 53 reveals he

also bore our physical infirmities, our sorrows,

our griefs, our emotional wounds, our rejections,

our disappointments. our injustices, our loneliness,

our abuses, our guilt, our shame, our brokenness.

This is why Jesus was greatly distressed and

troubled in the Garden of Gethsemane when he

cried out, My soul is crushed with grief to the

point of death. Now Jesus' soul was not crushed

with grief because he was afraid to suffer and

die. Jesus' soul was crushed with grief. because

his soul was bearing all the pain and all the

brokenness and all the sorrows as well as the

sin and guilt of all of humanity. Think of just

one event in human history, the Holocaust. Isaiah

53 means that all of the sins of the Nazis and

all of the suffering of the Jews, all that was

loaded onto Jesus on the cross. We need to pause

here and feel the weight of this truth. If Isaiah

53 were merely saying that Jesus was acquainted

with suffering and had suffered similar kinds

of griefs and sorrows and losses and pains as

we have, that'd be good news that we have a sympathetic

high priest who has suffered like us. But Isaiah

53 is saying much more than that. It's saying

that Jesus has actually suffered your exact pains

because he bore your pains and your sorrows and

your griefs and your shame and your anguish in

his soul. When I was a junior in high school,

I was trying to break into a certain circle of

friends. and they were going to an away basketball

game on a Friday night, and I asked if I could

go along with them, and they said, sure, we'll

pick you up at such and such time. So, Friday

night, such and such time came, and they didn't

come, and I waited, and I waited, and I waited,

and they never came, and they never apologized,

and they never explained. Some of you know that

kind of rejection and loneliness. Jesus bore

the pain of that in his soul. When I was a senior

in high school, my family moved, which meant

that I was a newcomer as a senior in high school,

and that meant I had a lot of lonely lunches.

But I also began to meet some of my baseball

teammates because the coach at my former high

school was good friends with the coach of my

new high school. And he said some nice things

about me and said that I was a good clutch -hitter,

for example, and I kind of lived off of that

reputation all during the school year until spring

came and I had to prove it on the field. And

so, wouldn't you know, one of the earliest games

that year was against my former team. And the

coach put me in the clean -up spot, number four,

and three times that game I came to the plate

with the bases loaded. Three times, bases loaded.

Struck out twice and hit weakly back to the pitcher

the other time Didn't drive in a single run and

we lost by two runs. I Was devastated and humiliated.

I even started crying after the game By the way,

they changed my nickname after that game My nickname

was Scotty C Scotty clutch after that it was

Scotty K You baseball fans know what K means

strikeout That was humiliating. Jesus bore the

pain of that humiliation in his soul. The year

2024 had some losses for us as a family. Last

spring, my son -in -law's sister died. Last June,

our beloved dog Scout died. And last spring,

my sister Donna died. Many of you also have experienced

some losses in your life. The pain of those losses

and that grief was born by Jesus in his soul.

That's what this means. He felt all of your losses.

He felt your feelings of rejection. He felt your

emotional woundedness. All of your experiences

of being wronged or hurt or bullied or abused

by others. He felt all of your shame, insecurity,

loneliness, humiliation, unworthiness. and mine,

and everyone else is in this room and in the

world. Let that sink in. No wonder his soul was

crushed with grief to the point of death. We

are all both sinners and sinned against. We're

both wrongdoers and sufferers, and the good news

of Jesus Christ is that the cross addresses both

our sins and our sufferings. In Him we find forgiveness

for our sins and healing for our hurts. Randy

and Terry Butler put it this way in their piece

called At the Cross. I know a place, a wonderful

place, where accused and condemned find mercy

and grace. Where the wrongs we have done and

the wrongs done to us were nailed there with

Him there on the cross. The wrongs we have done.

and the wrongs done to us were nailed there with

Him, there on the cross. There at the cross and

only at the cross do we find mercy and grace

to be forgiven of all of our wrongs and to forgive

those who have wronged us. Jesus is both our

sin bearer and our pain bearer. You know, many

of the sins we commit have their origin in unhealed

wounds due to being sinned against. And the good

news of the gospel is that our sins are cleansed

by Jesus' blood, and our wounds are healed by

Jesus' wounds, both. So we see in the key verse

here in verse five. But He was pierced for our

transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities.

Upon Him was the chastisement that brought us

peace, and with His wounds we are healed. Let

me give you a quick lesson in Hebrew poetry.

You'll see it in Psalms, Proverbs, and the Prophets.

Hebrew poetry does not rhyme with sounds like

English. It rhymes with meanings, and so there'll

be two lines that are parallel in or similar

to or one explains the other in terms of the

meaning of those two lines. So, for example,

he was pierced for our transgressions, he was

crushed for our iniquities. Pierced and crushed,

similar, transgressions and iniquities, similar.

Similar meaning. Upon him was the chastisement

that brought us peace, and with his wounds we

are healed. Chastisement and wounds, similar.

Peace and healed, similar. Similar meanings.

One helps to explain the other. The word here

for peace is shalom, and the word for healed

is rafa. And the healing here is comprehensive,

including all of our sicknesses. all of our infirmities

and weaknesses, all of our disappointments, all

of our losses and sorrows, all of our willful

rebellion, all of our brokenness, all of our

guilt and punishment, all of our sins and all

the consequences of those sins. You put all of

that together, what am I describing? What is

all of that? It's the curse, right? Genesis 3,

the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. The curse

is the source of all of our suffering and brokenness.

One way of looking at shalom is this shalom is

healing from the effects of the curse With his

wounds by his stripes We are have been healed

and that healing leads to the experience of shalom

So is healing in the atonement in the atoning

death of Jesus yes physical and emotional and

spiritual and relational healing And shalom,

peace with God, deliverance from the curse is

in the atonement. And so Paul writes, Christ

redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming

a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is

everyone who is hanged on a tree. What was the

primary curse of the law? Condemnation. But the

gospel is, there is therefore now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus. In Christ

we are now and forever free from any condemnation

because of the cross. In Christ we experience

shalom with God. As we allow Jesus to live his

life in and through us in the power of the Holy

Spirit, we grow in his likeness and we experience

more and more of the healing power of the cross

to give us shalom. Already, we have peace with

God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Already, we

experience the life of Christ within us, changing

us from within to become more and more like Jesus.

Already, we experience the healing power of the

cross to set us free from the controlling power

of sin and to begin to heal all of our woundedness.

But not yet do we experience complete shalom,

complete wholeness, for we still live in mortal

bodies. in a fallen world, and we still contend

with the world, the flesh, and the devil. But

one day, when Jesus returns and makes all things

new, we see in the end of the Bible, and there

shall be no more curse." How do we know this

hope is real and true? Because Jesus bore the

curse. and all the effects and consequences of

the curse in His body on the cross. And then

God raised Jesus from the dead as God's public

declaration to all of us. It is finished. The

work of salvation is finished. Everything that

needs to be done for our eternal salvation and

for all of creation's deliverance from the curse,

it's all been done. It's finished. It's accomplished.

Upon Him was the chastisement that brought us

shalom. He is our sin bearer, and with His wounds

we are healed. He is our pain bearer. All we

like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone

to his own way, and the Lord Yahweh has laid

on Him the iniquity of us all. The Lord God has

laid on Jesus the iniquity, the guilt of all

of us lost sheep. Think of the worst sin that

you've ever committed, the one you're most ashamed

of, the one that sometimes keeps you from drawing

near to God because you feel so unworthy, the

one that robs you of peace in your soul. The

good news of the gospel is that all of your sins,

including your most shameful, have been laid

on Jesus, and He bore them all in His body on

the cross. God no longer counts those sins against

you because they're no longer yours because Jesus

took them Jesus took them upon himself as his

own and suffered the punishment you deserved

and Once you accept the sacrifice that Jesus

made for you on the cross God will never hold

those sins against you never He will not punish

you for sins that have already been punished

at the cross This is the gospel. This is the

essence of Christianity Jesus was punished that

you might be forgiven Jesus was wounded that

you might be healed Jesus was made sin with your

sinfulness so that you might become righteous

with his righteousness 2nd Corinthians 5 20 For

our sake God made Jesus to be sin who knew no

sin So that in him we might become the righteousness

of God Jesus had never sinned, but on the cross

he experienced what it feels like to be a sinner

separated from God. And that's why he cried out

in anguish, my God, my God, why have you forsaken

me? As he was bearing our sins in his body. When

the Bible says that God laid on Jesus all of

our iniquity, all of our sin and guilt, to the

point that God made Jesus to be thin. I don't

take that to mean merely that this was some kind

of an accounting transaction that took place

external to Jesus' own soul. I take it to mean

that for the very first time Jesus experienced

what it feels like to be a sinner, along with

all the guilt and shame and alienation from God

that goes with it. The Lord laid on him the iniquity

of us all Jesus died our death so that we could

share his life He bore our shame that we might

share his glory He endured our rejection that

we might have his acceptance as beloved children

of God He became a curse for us so that we might

have all the blessings of salvation. I Pray that

if you've not already done so today you would

trust Jesus as your Savior so that you can receive

all the blessings of salvation. The next stanza,

we look at God's self -sacrificing servant. He

was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened

not his mouth, like a lamb that has led to the

slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers

is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression

and judgment he was taken away. And as for his

generation, who considered that he was cut off

out of the land of the living, stricken for the

transgression of my people? These verses were

fulfilled in the arrest, imprisonment, mockery

of a trial, and unjust sentencing leading to

the execution of Jesus of Nazareth, 700 years

after Isaiah wrote these words. Jesus knew the

meaning of injustice from personal experience.

And how did he deal with that injustice? He didn't

open his mouth. He didn't offer any resistance

because he willingly chose to die at the hands

of wicked men. He went to the cross in obedience

to the will of the Father, yes, but also willingly

of his own accord. No one took his life from

him. He laid down his life of his own accord

because of his great love for you and for me.

In his book written in blood, Robert Coleman

tells the story of a little boy whose sister

needed a blood transfusion. The doctor had explained

that she had the same disease that the boy had

recovered from two years earlier. And the doctor

explained that her only chance for recovery was

a transfusion from someone who had previously

recovered from that disease. And since the two

siblings had the same rare blood type, the boy

was the ideal donor. Would you give your blood

to your sister Mary the doctor asked? Johnny

hesitated his lower lip started to tremble Then

he smiled and said sure for my sister The two

children were wheeled into the hospital room

Mary pale and thin Johnny robust and healthy

neither spoke, but when their eyes met Johnny

smiled and As the nurse inserted the needle into

his arm Johnny's smile faded as he watched the

blood flow through the tube. And with the ordeal

almost over, his voice slightly shaky, Johnny

broke the silence and asked, Doctor, when do

I die? Only then did the doctor realize why Johnny

had hesitated, why his lip had trembled when

he agreed to donate his blood. Because Johnny

thought that giving his blood to his sister meant

giving up his life. And in that moment, Johnny

made the great decision to sacrifice his life

for his sister. Now as it turns out, Johnny didn't

die. He didn't have to die to give his blood

to save his sister. But each of us has a condition

far more serious than Mary's. And it did require

Jesus to give not just his blood, but his very

life. and he sacrificed that life voluntarily

and willingly because he loves you and wants

you to live forever with him. And then look at

verse 9. hanging on a cross between two criminals.

And then after his death, a rich man by the name

of Joseph of Arimathea would ask Pilate for his

body and bury Jesus in his own tomb. And then

the final stanza, God's victorious servant. Yet

it was the will of the Lord Yahweh to crush him.

He has put him to grief. When his soul makes

an offering for guilt he shall see his offspring

He shall prolong his days and the will of the

Lord shall prosper in his hand Out of the anguish

of his soul. He shall see and be satisfied By

his knowledge shall the righteous one my servant

make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall

bear their iniquities Who was responsible for

the death of the servant the Messiah the Romans

yes? The Jewish leaders, yes, all of us sinners,

yes, but ultimately the Lord God. It was the

will of Yahweh to crush His Son. And He accomplished

His saving purpose through the actions of wicked

men who unjustly executed Jesus. The will of

God for Jesus was to suffer and die, not because

the Father didn't love His Son, but because the

Father loved us and the world. He gave his only

son so that whoever believes in him should not

perish but have eternal life The servants willing

submission to the will of God Would result in

making many to be accounted righteous as he would

bear their iniquities That's the gospel by means

of his sacrifice on the cross Jesus bore all

of our sin and guilt so that we could be forgiven

and Jesus, the righteous one, provides his righteousness

to make believers acceptable to God. This good

news is far better than a presidential pardon.

You see, a presidential pardon conveys the idea

that the pardoned person is guilty as sin, but

will not suffer the punishment for the wrongdoing.

Is that how the Father looks at us who believe

in Jesus? Does he think? This person is as guilty

as sin, but I guess I have to let him or her

into heaven because my son suffered the punishment

for their filthy sins. He shall make many to

be accounted righteous. Those who trust in Jesus

for salvation do not enter the kingdom of heaven

as pardoned criminals. We are welcomed by God

as righteous in His sight. righteous with the

righteousness of Christ. When we accept Jesus

as our Savior, the Father welcomes us into his

family with these words, you are totally accepted,

fully pleasing, deeply loved, completely forgiven,

and empowered to live a new life in Christ because

of the cross and resurrection of Jesus. How can

we know that the cross has that kind of saving

power? Because God proved the saving power of

the servants death by raising Jesus the Messiah

from the grave Therefore I will divide him a

portion with the many and he shall divide the

spoil with the strong Because he poured out his

soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors

Yet he bore the sin of many and makes intercession

for the transgressors By his rejection suffering

and death Jesus became the champion over death

over Satan and over all the hosts of heaven earth

and hell The servant song thus ends the way it

began Declaring the total supremacy of the servant

of the Lord the Messiah Jesus the son of God

who was exalted to the position of highest honor

and authority in the universe the right hand

of God far above all rule and authority and power

and dominion by virtue of his willingness to

suffer the most humiliating and degrading of

deaths. Yes, the suffering was worth it. And

then the song ends with these words, He bore

the sin of many and makes intercession for the

transgressors. This intercession is a very specific

kind of pleading, one based on Jesus' punishment

in our place for our sin and guilt. We have sung

before the worship song that includes the line.

I plead the blood so if you remember that one

I plead the blood What the end of Isaiah 53 is

saying is that the blood of Jesus pleads for

us? Whenever we sin intentionally or unintentionally

knowingly or unknowingly whenever we sin the

blood of Jesus pleads for us pleads for our forgiveness

and cleansing and acceptance as righteous before

the Father. How about you? Do you need some healing

today? By His wounds, our woundedness is healed.

On the cross, the arms of Jesus are outstretched,

vulnerable, open to absorbing all the pain and

suffering of humanity. And just as Jesus invites

us to bring our sins to the cross in order to

find forgiveness, He also invites us to bring

our hurts to the cross in order to find healing.

And that healing occurs when our wounds and the

wounds of Christ are brought together, when His

wounds touch our wounds with His healing love.

By His wounds, we are healed. In a moment, we're

going to sing our closing song, Abandoned, and

includes the phrase, I surrender all. And we're

going to have an altar call. We're going to encourage

children, youth, adults of all ages to come here

to the altar, to come as an act of surrender

in response to the Gospel. I'm going to encourage

you to bring your sin and guilt and shame and

leave them at the altar knowing that Jesus has

already taken them from you when He bore your

sins and His body on the cross. And I'm going

to encourage you to bring your pain wounds and

brokenness and sorrows and griefs and infirmities,

bring them and leave them at the altar knowing

that Jesus has already taken them from you into

Himself when He bore your griefs and carried

your sorrows at the cross." And then for some

of you, one more act of surrender. Abandon any

false identity. Come to the altar, abandon any

false identity. Any false identity based on your

sin or failure or woundedness or victim mentality,

leave it and receive and embrace instead a new

identity based on who you are in Christ. I am

totally accepted, fully pleasing, deeply loved,

completely forgiven. and empowered to live a

new life in Christ because of the cross and resurrection

of Jesus. Let's pray. Father, I pray that the

Holy Spirit will do what only the Holy Spirit

can do, and that is to draw people to Jesus,

draw people to come to Christ, draw people to

come to the cross, bringing their sin and shame

and guilt and leaving it at the cross. and arising

knowing that they are forgiven and cleansed and

accepted by you, bringing their pains, their

sorrows, their griefs, their woundedness, their

brokenness, bringing all that to the cross and

leaving it there, knowing that Jesus bore those

griefs and carried those sorrows into Himself

on the cross. And I pray that the Holy Spirit

would then Do a work of healing in each of those

who comes forward. A work of healing all of their

wounds and a work of forgiving all of their sins.

We ask Holy Spirit that you'll be very active

in causing people to respond and then in producing

change within them. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

So as we sing this last song we invite you to

come forward and and to bring your sins and to

bring your hurts and to receive forgiveness and

healing. Let's stand as we sing our last song.