Mark 13:32-37 || The Book of Mark || Pastor Aaron Levy

How you guys doing Patriot? You're feeling good? Who was

ready to squeeze them scriptures? Hey? What book are we in?

That's what I'm talking about, Mark chapter thirteen.

If we haven't met yet, my name is Aaron. I'm

your friend.

Get the honor to be the campus pastor here, and

just give a round of applause for our church so

far being in one book.

For the entire year? Has that been beneficial for you? Hey? Man? Amen?

Who is here?

Last week when Pastor Joel Home was in Mark chapter thirteen,

wasn't that amazing?

You know, I'm a.

Little upset with Pastor Nathan right now because he schedules

me right after Pastor Joel Home and then he gives

me a little sliver of scripture at the end. So

what happened is Pastor Joel he did the whole rib.

There's no more meat on the bone. And then so

now I'm just gonna put some barbecue saw'. That's what

That's what I got for you tonight, you guys? Okay?

With that, we're gonna be in Mark chapter thirteen.

We're gonna be in verses thirty two through thirty seven.

But before we go there and stand to read the scriptures.

I wanted to.

I wanted to put all families on notice. Everybody, anybody

know what this is? What is this online?

What is this? So I don't even really know about

this this much.

Well now I do, but this is an elf on

a shelf, and families, you have a little over two

months to decide what you're gonna do with your family

as to not have arguments with.

Your spouse, if that's your situation.

But if elf on the shelf from December one through

December twenty fourth, what ends up happening. When our kids

were smaller, we will wait till they go to sleep,

and we would deceive them by hiding this elf somewhere

in the house, and then they wake up in the morning.

Like, oh my god, look what the helf is.

And I don't know who named it elf on the

shelf because it's not elf on the shelf. They'll be

in crazy places, They'll be in toilets, they'll be on

your tree, they'll be in the kitchen and so forth.

And I don't even really know if this is for

the kids or if this is like competitions with mom

on Instagram.

Right, so, my wife, she sees this. He's like, I

think this will be cool. I'll wake up, I'll do

it myself.

But then, if you don't know my wife, what ends

up happening is she's a great starter, and then she'll

move on.

So what happens is the first.

Week of December, she's putting out elf on the shelf

and doing different things, taking the pictures, the girls are

getting up in the morning.

Oh my god, look at the sign. The elf is here.

That means Santa's closer. And I'm like, yeah, I don't

know if this is okay.

I'm a Christian, but yeah, right, So that's about the

first week. Now it's like December ninth, and then my

wife forgets.

But I wake up earlier.

Than her in the morning, and somehow she can feel

when I get up in the morning.

So I get up around five forty five.

She's like, hey, remember elf on the shelf. Oh, now

it's our responsibility. I'm getting up for devotion time. So

now I'm going downstairs trying to figure out a place.

And the kids could always know when mom does it

versus when Dad does it, because I'm just trying to

finish the task.

So then I'll just be like, hey, he was right

there by the cereal. Hey, you know.

But the whole point of it is is that this

is a sign pointing to Santa coming.

And the only way that.

We could deceive our kids with it is if they're sleep.

If they're awake and.

They catch us doing it, they know it's all fake,

But we deceive.

Them while they're sleep.

Why am I saying this, Well, if we stand to

our feet and go to Mark, there are some things

that Jesus wants to warn us about, and it's not

about being asleep.

It's about being.

Awake, because once we're sleep is easy to be deceived.

In signs that Santa is coming is fake.

But in March chapter thirteen, Jesus talks about some real

signs that we'll be able to see for the Son

that's coming, and that's real. So March chapter thirteen, verse

thirty two through thirty seven, I'll read from ESV.

It says, but concerning.

That day or that hour, no one knows, not even

the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.

Be on guard.

Keep awake, for you do not know when the time

will come. It is like a man going on a

journey when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge,

each with his work, and commands the.

Door key to stay awake.

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know when the

master of the house will come in the evening, or

at midnight, or in the rooster crows, or in the morning,

lest he comes suddenly and he finds you asleep. And

what I say to you, I say to all stay awake.

Look to your neighbor and say, stay awake, online, stay awake.

Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity to open your scriptures.

Now use your word to penetrate our hearts. I thank

you that will understand your scriptures by the inspiration of

the Holy Spirit. Convict us, challenge us, free us, kill

us in Jesus' name.

Amen, you may be seated five little chunks of verses.

And if I were to organize these chunks of verses,

mark chapter thirty two through thirty seven, I would say,

thirty two, verse thirty three is the play. Verse thirty

four through thirty six is the parable. And everynytime that

there's a parable, you know that there's gonna be the principle.

So those are the three things.

On how I would break it down the play and

the play is beyond guard. That's defense, and then the

offense is keep awake the parable.

We're going to venture to interpret.

This parable, but we'll do it last because in order

to do that, we got to look at context. But

we're also going to see what principle is being driven

Tonight in Mark thirteen is a complex chapter if we

allow it to be. Pastor Joe Holme did a great

job explaining a lot of it. But we're just gonna

bounce around a little bit so we can know the

context for the parable. But what we're talking about tonight

is eschatology. And eschatology is two words escatoast, which means

the last or the final or the end of time.

And logos or logio means the study of just like

theology is the study of God, Eschatology is the study

of last things. And there's three things that Jesus is saying.

He said it three I mean he said it three times.

He said you won't know when he said it three times.

Now you know how many people have predicted that it's

about to happen right here?

And now let me.

Give you one for example, there's a cat named Edgar Wisenepp.

He wrote a book called eighty eight Reasons Why the

Rapture's Coming in nineteen eighty eight.

You remember that, Paster Kenny. Now here's the thing.

The rapture didn't come in nineteen eighty eight, So then

he wrote a book in nineteen eighty nine, got another

reason didn't work, Pastor Kenny. Do you remember Harold Camping

twenty eleven. He was a Christian radio broadcast guy and

he says the end of the world is coming Judgment Day,

May twenty.

Seven, twenty eleven. Anybody's seen that on billboards that was everywhere.

It did not happen. And when it didn't happen, instead

of him saying, man I got that wrong, he said

it happened in the spiritual but in November is happening

and it didn't happen. Even recently, it was going crazy

on X on April eight, two thy twenty four.

Are you ready the raptures coming?

Because that's when we got our glasses and we were

trying to see the sun and the moon.

We're like, is that Jesus?

But if we look at the Bible, it says three

times you will not know when we won't know when.

So what ends up happening is we try to be

smarter than what Jesus is expected us to be, and

then we end up being wrong.

But there's something deeper that I think Jesus is trying

to get us to emphasize. If we squeeze a little

a couple of verses in Mark chapter thirteen, and then

we can look at the parable.

But let's look at here in verse one through four.

Let's look at what he does which actually starts this

conversation with the disciples. Mark chapter thirteen, verse one through four.

It'll be I'll read it from here. And as he

came out of the temple, one of his disciples said

to him, look, teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings.

And Jesus said to him, do you see these great buildings?

There will not be left here one stone upon another,

that it will not be thrown down. And as he

sat on the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter

and James and John and Andrew asked him privately.

Tell us when will these things be and what will

be the sign?

Everybody say, sign when all these things are to be accomplished.

So the title of this message is stay awake.

But Jesus wants to challenge us tonight, what do we

staying awake for?

Are we staying awake to.

See the signs? Are we staying awake to see the sun?

Or is it our sin that keeps us awaken? And

that's what we're gonna do, is we look at a couple.

Of verses, because if I look at this verse, in

verse one through four, I can picture the disciples looking

at this great temple, because this great temple.

Gave national pride for the Jews. It was a center

of religion.

It was something great, and they're like, wow, this is

a sign of.

The presence of the Lord while they're walking with the Lord.

So notice in verse I think three, it says that

he went on the other side, opposite the temple. It's

kind of what he did in John chapter four. And

then if you guys know that story the woman in

the at the well, the woman was at the well

with natural water and.

Jesus will sit right next to it.

Which one do you value more natural water or me

as the living water?

Or just like John chapter.

Six, he would give thousands of people bread and fish,

and as they're eating bread.

He's saying, I'm the bread of life.

This is kind of what he's doing here in Mark

chapter thirteen, where he's saying, this is who I am.

I'm the sun. That's only a sign. That sign is

gonna be destroyed. But I am the Temple. I am

the fulfillment. Are you staying awake to see the signs?

Or are you staying awake to see the sun? A

lot of times I've been in Christian circles will people

do a lot of study about the signs, And I've

learned that the smarter we are with people, sometimes it's

easier to hide that we're not surrendered to Jesus.

So if I just get.

More intellectual about scripture, that doesn't necessarily mean.

That my values are changing. That's right, right.

So I could talk of all these hypotheticals about what I.

Think these things mean. But if it's not drawing me

closer to Jesus, what am I really doing? John chapter

five talks about that.

He said, Hey, you search me because you think you

know the scriptures, But I am the fulfillment of the scripture.

You're missing Jesus by looking at the signs. That's what

Jesus tried to tell them.

So what I want to do here is get us

more acquainted with the Son.

And I want to I want to draw on the

board here.

Because I think a lot of us know the first

Coming of Jesus, but Mark chapter thirteen has a lot

to do with.

The second Coming of Jesus.

So I want to I want to kind of draw

some things on the screen. Now here's what I will say.

I'm about to share some things that many Christians on

their way to have it disagree with.

We're not gonna major on the miners. Let me give

you an example. Let me give you an example. A

major minor, major minor.

It is a major thing that my wife and I

should go out on dates. But you know what when

we go out on dates, you know what I can't

stand about my wife. She has the nerve to think

that corn tortillas are better than flower tortillas. Online, tell

me which ones are better corn or flower tortillas. Okay, okay,

make some noise for corn tortillas, Make some noise.

For flower tortillas.

Hey, we're a multiculture, multi generational.

Hey, somebody said you gotta be healthy. That's good. I'm

gonna come back to that. Okay. So what what I'm

gonna do? How do I do it? Okay? Yeah, what

I'm gonna do is I'm.

Gonna talk about the first Coming. Hey, don't don't laugh

at my drawings either, please, And then we got the

second coming. Okay.

Now here's a lot of things that we do agree with.

Let's talk about the first coming.

Okay, because right now we're talking about seeing the sun.

Okay, the sun came in a manger, stone manger. Here's

the baby Jesus. This baby Jesus. I told you. Okay,

we're all in agreement. So far Jesus. Jesus came from

living the earth.

Now we're gonna fast forward about thirty three years died

on the cross. Okay.

Then here's the tomb he resurrected, where no hate. Man.

I think that's pretty good.

I mean, okay, everybody, everybody good, come on, man, Okay.

Then after that, now he's King Jesus, right, happy, all right,

this is Jesus, right, and come on, man, I think

you're learning low key too. Okay, So this is King Jesus.

And then what King Jesus does is he goes to heaven, right,

and then he promised the Holy Spirit.

But the Holy Spirit came in the wind, you know,

and it looks like a dove.

So here's a dove, okay, Okay. Then so then Holy

Spirit comes and here's the church. Okay, here's Patrio, here's

the door, and then here's.

You, pastor Kenny.

Since you laughing at me, okay, says okay, I think

we all know this. Okay, Now, who wants to come

up here and talk about the second coming?

Somebody said, I got.

You, and here's what it was for me for years.

Man, really foggy.

I just know that I go to church, and when

I die, I'm gonna go to heaven.

And when people will talk about.

Esca top esca, I don't even know a schatology, When

people will talk about the millennial period, when people will

tell I don't my sins are forgiven right and as

long as my sins are forgiven, I'm gonna go to heaven.

And this will be very cloudy for a lot of people.

We know Jesus is coming back, but do we all

have clarity.

On what that's gonna look like.

See, we know baby Jesus, we know crucified Jesus, resurrected

Jesus ascended Jesus. Do we know white throne Jesus. Do

we know when he comes on a horse with a sword, Jesus?

Do we know? The millennial period? So remember we talked

about tortillas.

Right, let's talk about well, I'm gonna say I was

gonna say corner cheese, but let's let's just do it

like this. People have a position of being pre millennial.

This is millennial A there's a millennial period. You're gonna

look at Revelation nineteen through twenty to get the context

of what I'm saying of.

That thousand year period. And people are.

Saying pre millennial, which means that Jesus he's in heaven.

But if you're pre millennial and have this position, Jesus

is coming down, King Jesus.

Here is right here, he's on he's on a horse though.

Okay, I'm helping, y'all. Okay, So he comes down and

then there's this thousand year period, and then's this thousand

year period. Satan is gonna be bound in a pit,

but he's gonna come out at a time and then he'll.

Be crushed by Jesus or here's Jesus' feet, he'll crush.

Him, there's gonna be judgment, and then we're gonna live

forever with him and the new heavens and a new Earth. Okay,

that looks clear, right, Okay, there's a camp that's post millennial.

So if pre millennial means that Jesus is coming before

the thousand year period.

What does post millennial mean.

Yeah, and in this view, it means things get better

and better and better and better, and then we the

church usher in Jesus. Here's Jesus, because now the whole

world got the gospel. Jesus is coming in on his horse,

and now this thousand year period is here, and now

Jesus is here.

He crushes the enemy with his feet.

We have forever, guys, root me corn tortilla, flora tortilla.

But somebody said you got to be healthy. Somebody said

no tortillas. That's a millennial.

So homemade is fire, Homemade is fire. But that that's

not no Bible.

Okay, So I'm millennial, says, Hey, we're in the Kingdom

of God now. So when Jesus ascended, Jesus is on

the throne. We're in the Kingdom of God now. So

it's not really a thousand year period that's more of

a spiritual symbol that represents a time that we're in

in Jesus.

I'll just bring this down.

It's gonna come down because it's kind of similar to

the post millennial position, but it's just that this time

frame is on a thousand year period. The reason why

I'm taking the time to do that is because I

avoided this.

Type of language for years.

All I knew was this Jesus and Mark thirteen is

in our Bibles. So I'm just trying to do a

commercial to say I have you.

More acquainted with who this Jesus is.

Now for us all to be on the same page,

because there will be people that disagree about this that

will still rejoice in heaven. So what ends up happening

is if I know the who, I don't have to

get stuck on the wind.

I know who Jesus is.

This is in the Bible, so I want to get

more acquainted with it. But as I'm more acquainted with it,

I won't let the miners have me arguing with other Christians.

I may look at this five years from now and

be like, what.

Was I doing?

Because we grow as Christians and we got to allow

people to be in their faith journey. But as you

grow in your faith journey, sometimes you're gonna need more

than just baby Jesus.

You're gonna need to need more than crucify Jesus. The

fog that's going on in our life.

If we start clearing this up, it'll give more color

to what we read. And faith comes by hearing hearing

the word of God.

Does that make sense?

So if we know this, this is really cool to

know because we'll come back to that later. But at

the same token, we're recognizing that Jesus is saying, I'm giving.

You some signs only to point to the sun.

So let's look at another case study Mark chapter thirteen,

verse twenty four through twenty six.

This is helpful for you, guys.

Okay, March chapter thirteen, verse twenty four through twenty six.

Watch this, watch his signs, right, he says, But.

Let me see.

Let's do that, it says, But in those.

Days after the tribulation, the sun.

Will be darkened. That's crazy.

The moon will not give its light because the moon

gets light off the reflection of the sun.

And look at this.

The stars will be falling from heaven and the powers

in the heavens will be shaken, and then they will

see the Sun of Man coming in the clouds with

great power and glory.

Now, if I'm.

Focused on the signs, the whole thing I'm thinking is.

Like, wait, what the Sun's gonna be dark?

So then when I go and try to try to

charge my tesla and it doesn't work, oh that's a sign.

That's a sign something's going on with the sun. I'm

going to the beach with my wife. You're using that

sun block, Well, you know the sun's gonna be darkened.

Where's your faith? I'm only looking at the signs. But

what is saying is, hey, there will be some signs.

If I look at the signs, what are the signs.

That everything that I look to for natural light I

can't look to for natural light. And then I see Jesus.

What is the spiritual application of that? Whenever it gets

dark in your life, don't look to the world. Look

to the sun when it's dark. Then you will see

the sun. So as long as I'm looking to the sun,

it doesn't matter what the signs look like. But we're

building the case of what Jesus is doing because in

verse one through four, Hey, this temple's gonna be destroyed.

What is he doing in verse twenty four through twenty six,

He's saying the sun, the moon, and the stars are

going to be destroyed.

Because what is he saying in verse thirty one. Let's

go to verse thirty one.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words won't

pass away. Do you want the sign or the sun?

And we know that the Sun is the word of God?

So what Jesus is trying to convey?

No matter how you interpret Revelations nineteen through twenty, no

matter how you look at pre millennial, post millennial, whenever

it's dark in your life, you can see the sun

and the Sun is coming for you. So when we

read the scriptures, we're not trying to be smarter about

the signs.

We're trying to be surrendered to the sun. Does that

make sense? I give a practical example of that.

I live in Ontario and there was two earthquakes that

happen within half hour of each other.

The first earthquake.

Happened, it was three point five magnitude. So I go

and I go check on my daughter's faith in Trinity.

You guys, good now Trinity.

She was like, wow, this is crazy, Dad, I said,

what happened?

She said, I had a dream it was gonna be

an earthquake, but I was on the toilet, ping and

then p.

Got everywhere and I'm like, word, okay.

So then thirty minutes later, the next earthquake come. It's

three point nine. So I go and check on my girls.

Girls you're okay. And Triny was like, oh my god,

Oh my god. I said, what happened? Will happen? She said,

another earthquake came and I wasn't on the toilet.

What an example of being so caught up in a

sign that we missed that the sun keep us safe,

and sometimes we miss gratitude on what's actually happening. But

I got a word spoken over me when I was

fifteen years old, and I need that to come up. Wait, wait,

but are you looking at that word? Are you looking

in this word? Because heaven and earth will pass away,

but God's bringing a new heaven in the earth, and

his word will not pass away a man. Now with

that context, now let's interpret the parable. You guys are

ready to interpret the parable thirty two through thirty seven.

Now what is a parable? By a round of applause,

let me. Know, if you went to the Bible, sprint great, great,

So that means you know what a parable is. It

means too the paera means beside or alongside. Both a

means throwing or placing aside. So I'm casting aside a

teaching to help drive a principle.

That's what a parable is. So if I look at

this parable, let's go to.

Verse thirty four through thirty seven and just interpret this parable.

Now that we have a little bit more of understanding,

it says, let me.

Let me, let me do this. Boom, you guys doing good. Okay.

So it is like when he says it is like,

you know, he's about to do a parable. Now we

gotta squeeze this a little bit, so we gotta pay attention.

It is like a man going on a journey. Sometimes

I read the Bible, make it about me.

So okay, it's me and it's my faith journey.

So I already have a bias, but I got to

just look at the Bible without bias.

Who is he to who is this man?

And when he leaves home? Yeah, I be leaving home

and puts his servants. Okay, wait a minute, his servants.

So I'm getting a clue of what Jesus is trying

to drive about his second coming that we looked at

at looked at in Mark chapter thirteen.

So he left his service in charge. Okay, must not

be me. Okay, faith and training. You don't be listening

to me like that. Each with his work and commands

the doorkeeper.

So this is what I do when I'm just looking

at the scriptures. So there's a man going on a journey.

He leaves, he puts service in charge to work, and

he commands their work as a doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore,

stay awake. You don't want to know when the master

of the house. Ah okay.

So this man is a master. Now I know it's

not me.

This is like Jesus who went away, but he's coming back.

I'm the servant and my work is to be a doorkeeper.

Ah okay, okay, okay, okay.

And I don't know when he's gonna come when the

rooster comes in the morning, unless he comes suddenly.

He finds you asleep. And what I say to you,

I say to all stay away. So as I try to.

Interpret this, I can say, okay, you know what Jesus

went on a journey. We just plotted out his first

and second his first and second coming, he.

Went on a journey. He's going on a journey.

And as he's on this journey, I'm a servant and

I have work to do. It's my calling, it's my assignment,

that's my purpose. That's for you guys as well. But

it's described as a doorkeeper. So that's when we start

using our holy imagination and reading the Bible.

Slour that's a doorkeeper, doorkeeper, doorkeeper.

So okay, John Chapter ten, verse nine, Jesus said he's

the door.

So Jesus is the door, and I'm the doorkeeper. Okay.

What does door represent? Door represents entrance, door represent security, And.

I'm gonna keep the door. I gotta keep myself close

to the door. Ah, I'm hospitality. Okay, okay, okay. So

Jesus is the door. I'm the doorkeeper. So as long

as I'm close to the door, as people are coming

to the door, I'm inviting them into a relationship with Jesus,

which means that my life should shine, so people should want.

To see Jesus.

Oh that's why I need to stay awake, because if

I go to sleep, I can miss people that I'm

a call to sign to win my work. See, I'm

making this about the sun. I'm not making this about

the signs. So then if I use my holy imagination.

Oh wait, Genesis chapter four, verse seven. King killed Abel,

and he said if you do well, But he says,

sin is crouching at the door.

So Jesus is the door. We are the doorkeepers. So

we are the doorkeepers of the church, just like dream ting.

When people come in, hopefully you got a smiling face

and a greeting me an environment inviting you in.

To the door.

So when you enter, you have security in the presence

of God. Now, as I go to the door, sins

crouching at the door. So a sin is crouching at

the door, I will be tempted when I come to

the door to look down at my sin or look

up to the sun. Now I have a better understanding

of how I apply this in my life. This is

why he's telling me to stay awake, because there are

times where I can get tripped up by temptation and

be out of my post trying to fight battles that

aren't assigned for me to fight.

And now I'm not at my post. Stay awake, Stay awake,

Stay awake.

There are so many temptations for distractions that stop us

from being a doorkeeper, and we want to ask ourselves

the question.

Last week, Pastor Joe said today, Lord, Today, Lord.

So if that is the case, you got to ask

ourselves the question, if Jesus were to come right now,

what do we want him to find us doing.

That's why he's saying that we have work to do.

Doesn't that bring more emphasis to our coworkers.

To our spouse. I want to be found by Jesus

loving my wife, loving my kids.

I want to be found by Jesus being kind to

my enemies.

What about you? But there's so many.

Times when we get tempted and we get away from

the door that we haven't kept the commitment that we

have to Jesus. And that just brings color to us

as we conclude this discernment tonight.

Because the person who ghost rolle this is Peter.

Peter is the one that is giving Mark the plays

to write, and Peter being the first, Peter, being the

first pastor, would have an understanding of what it's like

it's supposed to be at your post and go away

from your post. So as we conclude, when you stay awake,

one of the reasons why you're staying.

Awake is because you're looking at your sin. And as

we look at our sin, sometimes we may feel like

we're too far from the sun.

And when we feel like we're too far from the sun,

the only thing that we would want, I just need

a sign. So if that person treats me better, I

must be in good graces with God. If I get

this job, I must be in good graces to God,

if I get this compliment. And we look for signs

because we're staying awake from our sin. Peter Will Peter

Will relate to that he was supposed to be a

doorkeeper with Jesus.

I'm ready to die for you, Jesus. But when it

got hard and you got the temptation, he said, I

don't even.

Know who Jesus is, and I know I get tempted

to be like that. And this is not saying that

I say, or you say, I'm not a Christian, not

saying that that.

We do that.

But could it be that we deny Jesus and how

we treat people that we say we love because we're

not as bold to say I don't know Jesus. We

have the liberty of living in a free country when

we can say that, But we also have the liberty

of flipping.

Somebody off when they cut us off. That's denying Jesus.

We have the liberty of staying silent when we're doing

our emotions, or we got the liberty to really share.

All of our feelings.

Doorkeeper, doorkeeper, if we are next to the door and

we recognize that he keeps us. Let us be an

example that can invite others to have an invitation for Jesus.

So Peter, when he was at his worst, Jesus still

offered him his best. Peter gave up on Jesus, and

Peter would be known as the first pastor. And that

should give us all hope that no matter how far

you've gone from the sun, he stretches his hands out

to you right now. So I would invite everybody to

bow their heads and close their eyes for a moment.

So we looked at Mark chapter thirteen.

We talked about some abstract concepts, hopefully gave you more

interest in knowing about the Bible. We also want to

drive the point of has your sin been causing you

to stray from the Sun. There's hope for you tonight.

It starts with the prayer, and prayer directs our attention

to the son. Peter would be confronted with that in

John chapter twenty one, where he failed, he was at

his worst, and Jesus would meet him where he was at.

That's called compassion, and that same compassion Jesus offers to you.

He doesn't want to talk about the sin right now.

What he just wants to talk about as your surrender.

Would you be courageous enough to confess that you may

not have a.

Relationship with Jesus yet, would.

You be courageous enough to confess that maybe you have

been looking at the signs and not looking at the sun,

looking at good things happening to your life, and that's

like a sign to.

You that you have a relationship with Jesus. No, you

having a relationship with Jesus. Me having a relationship with

Jesus start.

With saying, Hey, I confess that I'm a sinner and

I believe in the Gospel and the Gospels the good

news that Jesus lived the life that I couldn't live,

died the death that I deserve, and is seated on

the throne and he's my advocate in heaven for me.

And then I live a life according to the value,

believing that I'm.

Worth dying for. So what your head bowed and your

eyes closed? If you haven't made that decision.

Yet, we invite you tonight to make Jesus Christ the

lord of your life.

Or you've already made that decision years ago. You know

Mark chapter thirteen. You know Peter's story. But there are

things that have happened in your life.

That cause you to stray from the door. Jesus has

an open door policy. You could come right back to

him as you are. And as you come back to

him and experience his compassion that influences you to continue

your faith journey. So I would invite us all to

pique this prayer, to encourage those that are praying this

prayer for the first time to give your life to

Jesus or to continue your faith journey with Jesus. Say

this woman, Please, Dear Lord Jesus, I confess that I'm

a sinner, but I thank you for dying on the

cross for all of my sin. From this moment forward,

you are my savior and my Lord.

Teach me to trust you.

With my decisions, guide me with the right community to

help me to follow you.

In Jesus' name,