It's a delight to be here, it really
is.
We're grateful for what God is doing in
and through this ministry.
I'd like us to turn in the Word
of God to the book of Hebrews, the
last chapter.
We are not going to ignore the previous
chapters, but I want to begin with Hebrews
chapter 13, verse 8, a verse that is
easy to memorize, but oh, it's so profound
we could spend the rest of the week
meditating on it.
Hebrews 13, 8 says, Jesus Christ is the
same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and
forever.
Now, the Christ of yesterday poses no problem
to people.
You could stop the youngest child from, say,
the primary department and say, what did Jesus
do yesterday?
Tell me about the Christ of history.
And the child would say, well, he was
born in Bethlehem, he grew up in Nazareth,
he ministered in Galilee, and Samaria, and Judea.
He was arrested, treated brutally, crucified on a
cross, arose from the dead on the third
day, and went back to heaven.
And because of all of that, we have
good news.
Christ died for our sins.
He was buried, and he arose again the
third day.
And if you trust him, you're saved.
You go to heaven.
That's the Christ of yesterday, the Christ of
history.
And most people have no problem with the
Christ of forever, the Christ of prophecy.
One of these days, our Lord Jesus will
return.
Robert Murray McShane, that godly Scottish Presbyterian preacher
of a century ago, used to go around
handing out tracts, and he handed one to
a rather pompous lady, and she looked at
him and said, you must not know who
I am.
They looked at her very lovingly and said,
madam, there's coming a day when you will
stand before God, and that day it'll make
no difference who you are.
Jesus is coming again.
We don't know when, but he's coming again.
That's the Christ of prophecy.
Now, we're living between these two events, the
Christ of history, the Christ of prophecy.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and forever, but
what about today?
Today, I know what Jesus did for me
yesterday.
He died for me.
I know what Jesus is going to do
for me in the future.
He's going to come for me.
I'm going to go by way of either
the undertaker or the upper taker.
I hope it's the upper taker, but that's
all right.
Whichever way, I get to see Jesus, but
now what about today?
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today.
Now turn back in your book of Hebrews
to Hebrews chapter 3.
Hebrews chapter 3, because the book of Hebrews
is about the Christ of today.
What is Jesus doing for his people today?
Hebrews chapter 3, verse 7.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says today, verse
13, but exhort one another daily while it
is called today, verse 15, while it is
said today, chapter 4, verse 7.
Again, he designates a certain day saying in
David, that is the book of Psalms, today,
today.
You sort of get the impression that the
writer of this book wants us to focus
on today.
One of the best ways to quiet down
a church meeting is to ask for testimonies.
It always quiets things down.
Now it may not be true here.
You may all jump up at one time,
but I've been in church services where pastors
say, let's bear witness for the Lord.
It gets very quiet.
Then someone will stand up and go back
20 years, and then somebody else will get
up and go back five years.
It's always yesterday, yesterday, or somebody will get
up and say, I'm looking forward to Jesus
coming back.
Well, I am too, but that's the next
thing.
Today, I'd like for you to page with
me through the book of Hebrews and learn
what Jesus is doing for his people today.
Some of you are missing this.
Some of you are struggling along and saying,
oh, if only, if only, and the book
of Hebrews is saying, no, there's no if
only, there's no if.
He is at work for you today.
So where shall we start?
It's chapter one, verse one.
Good place to start.
God who at various times and in various
ways spoke in time past to the fathers
by the prophets has in these last days
spoken to us by his son, whom he
has appointed heir of all things through whom
also he made the world.
Here's the first ministry Jesus is performing for
his people today.
He's speaking.
God spoke to Abraham.
Well, I can believe that because Abraham was
a great man of faith.
But the same God who spoke to Abraham
in times past and to other people in
times past is speaking to us.
Jesus Christ today is speaking.
I don't know of any famous people who
would speak to me.
If we call the bank about a problem
or to get a question answered, we don't
get a person.
I read the New York Times.
I get the Sunday edition of the New
York Times.
And sometimes it doesn't come.
And so the number there, if your newspaper
doesn't come, punch this number.
So I pick up the phone and I
punch, you know, thank you for calling the
New York Times.
If you wish to subscribe, punch one.
If you wish to change your subscription, punch
two.
If your paper is wet, now this is
true.
If you received a wet paper, punch three.
I'm tempted to do that sometime just to
see what would happen.
And all I want to do is get
my paper.
But there's nothing to punch.
God's not like that.
I mean, to the bank, I'm a number.
But not to God.
Jesus speaks to me.
Presidential candidates don't speak to me.
I was just a short distance from here
to the piano from Queen Elizabeth one day,
and she didn't speak to me.
But Jesus speaks to his people.
By the way, before you came to God's
house today, did you spend time listening to
Jesus speak?
Did you open this book?
When you open this book, our Lord opens
his mouth.
And when I open the book and say,
speak, Lord, for your servants listening, he speaks
to me.
I don't hear an audible voice.
If that happened, I'd be frightened.
I don't hear an audible voice.
But the Holy Spirit in my heart who
wrote this book and he wrote this book
about Jesus, talks to me and encourages me
and gives me promises and gives me warnings
and teaches me principles by which I can
live.
What is Jesus doing for his people today?
He's speaking.
And this is why the scripture said today,
while you hear his voice, don't harden your
heart.
Open your heart and receive the message Jesus
has for you.
He is speaking.
Well, let's continue.
Verse three, who being the brightness of his
glory, because Jesus is God and the express
image of his person and upholding all things
by the word of his power.
Here's his second ministry.
He's upholding.
That word upholding in the original text is
a marvelous word, has three meanings.
And all three of these meanings weave together.
First, it means he's holding everything up so
it won't fall down.
Now, we have a hard time doing that.
I mean, I have a hard time just
hanging a picture.
Jesus made the universe.
He's holding it up.
Made this world out of all the stars
and planets.
He pointed to the earth and he said,
that one's mine.
The earth is the Lord's.
He's holding it up.
We aren't going to blow it up.
He's holding it up.
And the second meaning of that word is
he's holding it together.
Near the city of Chicago is the Argonne
National Laboratory, which is a laboratory devoted to
nuclear physics.
Now, I didn't flunk physics in high school.
I didn't take it.
But the tour guide was taking a group
of people through and explaining all about the
universe and the atom and the quarks and
all these things.
And then he says what tour guides always
say, are there any questions?
And a man raised his hand and said,
yes, I have a question.
You're telling us that nothing is solid.
The floor we're standing on is not solid.
It's just a galaxy of electrical particles.
What holds it all together?
The man said, we don't know.
We know.
He's holding it up and he's holding it
together so it won't fall apart.
If Jesus has the power to hold the
universe together to the point where we can
send people to the moon, to the point
where great mathematicians like Einstein and Newton can
write formulas that explain the movements of the
stars, the power of gravity, if he can
hold that together so that it is mathematically
perfect, can't he hold my life together?
Can't he hold our families together?
Can't he hold our churches together?
I was preaching up in Lansing, Michigan some
years ago, and my host pastor said, I
want to show you something.
We got in his car and drove across
town.
He said, look, and here was a church
building with a sign on the front that
read, the original church of God number two.
Now, I'm not criticizing anybody.
It's just I understand that somewhere in Texas,
you drive into a town and the church
building, the sign reads the Harmony Baptist Church.
As you drive out of town, there's a
church building with a sign, the new Harmony
Baptist Church.
Why is it we don't get together?
If Jesus can hold the universe together, he
can hold marriages together.
He can hold parents and children together.
He can hold churches together.
What is Jesus doing?
He's speaking, and we better listen.
And he's upholding.
And whatever begins with Jesus, he will hold
together.
We must go on.
He's speaking.
He's upholding.
Chapter one and verse three.
You say, are you going to read the
whole epistle?
No, no.
You are not going to miss Thanksgiving.
Upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had by himself purged our
sins, he sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high.
Here's the third ministry our Lord is performing.
For you, if you know Jesus as your
Savior, he's sitting.
You say, what kind of ministry is that?
Sitting.
Oh, it all depends on who you are
and where you are and what you're sitting
on.
There are some people, all they do is
sit.
We have couch potatoes.
All they do is sit.
But Jesus, number one, sat down after he
finished his work.
Now, in the Old Testament tabernacle, there were
no chairs because a priest's work was never
done.
It's not possible for the blood of bulls
and goats to take away sin.
His work was never done.
But when Jesus came and went to the
cross and offered himself as one sacrifice for
sin forever, he cried out, it is finished.
He went back to heaven and sat down.
His work was done on earth.
We have a completed salvation.
Jesus did not make the down payment and
ask us to keep up the installment.
He paid it all.
So after he had finished his work on
the cross, he was buried, he arose again,
he went back to heaven, and now he
is seated on the throne sharing the glory
of the Father.
Now, in America, there's only one building that
I know of that legally has a throne
in it.
If you go to Great Britain, in Windsor
Castle, there's a throne.
Buckingham Palace, there's a throne.
You go to Oslo, and in the palace
there in Oslo, there's a throne.
There's only one throne that I know of
actually on American soil.
It's in Honolulu.
And when we took over Hawaii as a
state, we took over the throne of Queen
Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii.
It still sits there, but nobody sits on
it.
It has no power.
It has no authority.
When Jesus went back to heaven, he was
welcomed by the Father and by the angels,
and he sat down on the throne, and
he's ruling.
When I was in confirmation class as a
young teenager, they taught me that when Jesus
was on earth, he was the prophet.
Now he's gone back to heaven.
He's the priest.
One day, he's going to come and be
the king.
That was not true.
He's the king right now.
He's seated.
Now, the next time you get worried about
the headlines, you watch the late news so
you can't sleep all night, next time there's
bad news coming over the car radio, just
remember there's a king on the throne of
heaven, and you don't have to worry.
He's not pacing the streets of gold.
He's not wringing his hands.
He's not biting his fingernails.
He's sitting.
Whenever I get nervous and upset about something,
and that happens, I remember three simple statements
from the scriptures.
One, that God said to Moses, stand still,
Exodus chapter 14, stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord.
Now, there are times we shouldn't stand still.
We should be busy doing the Lord's work.
They were facing the Red Sea in front
of them.
Behind them, the Jewish people saw the Egyptian
army.
Where are they going to go?
Stand still.
The second statement is from the book of
Ruth in chapter 3, where Naomi, her mother
-in-law, says to her, sit still.
Sit still, my daughter.
You see, a man had just promised marriage
to Ruth, Boaz.
Boaz said, I'll marry you.
They had to go off and make the
arrangements.
And yeah, I suppose if I were Ruth,
I'd be a little nervous about this.
Her mother-in-law said, look, just sit
still.
He'll take care of it.
God said that to me on more than
one occasion.
I've been all ready to rule the world
and take everything over, do some good evangelical
micromanaging.
And God says, just sit still.
Many of the problems in our nation today
are caused by people who can't sit still.
The third statement is Psalm 46 in verse
10, where God says to the psalmist, be
still and know that I am God.
I need that sometimes.
Be still.
The Hebrew word means take your hands off.
There are mothers and daddies here who want
to get their hands on their kids, and
God says, take your hands off.
Grandmas and grandpas, you know, take your hands
off.
Now, there are times when our children need
applied handshaking.
But that's not what the psalmist is talking
about.
He's saying, look, you're trying to rule the
world.
You're trying to change everything at the office.
You're trying to do everything in the neighborhood.
Take your hands off.
Be still and know that I am God.
God said to Moses, my name is I
am.
Your name is I am not.
He's sitting.
And when I find my heart getting nervous
and my pulse getting rapid and my limbs
getting active, God has to say to me,
I'm God.
You're not.
I'm on the throne.
Cool it.
I'm not.
So he's speaking and he's upholding and he's
sitting.
Chapter two, verse 10 of Hebrews.
For it was fitting for him for whom
are all things and by whom are all
things in bringing many sons to glory to
make the captain of their salvation perfect through
suffering.
What is he doing?
He's bringing, bringing what many sons and daughters
to glory.
Oh, Peter wrote about this.
First Peter five, 10.
May the God of all grace who has
called us to his eternal glory, whatever begins
with grace ends with glory.
And so you were saved by grace.
You're saved to glory.
All right.
My Bible says all have sinned and come
short of the glory.
You know, glory doesn't last long in this
world.
Prophet Isaiah said that the glory of man
is like the weeds that grow up or
the flowers that grow up.
And for a day or two, it's very
beautiful.
That's gone.
If you want to have fun, go into
a used bookstore and find the oldest set
of encyclopedias you can find and turn the
pages and see if you know any of
the people they're writing about.
I was doing some research one day at
a library in London and had micro films
of old newspapers, and I was reading the
obituaries.
It's remarkable how people die in alphabetical order.
And here were people in the London Times.
I mean, famous people.
I didn't know any of them.
Man's glory doesn't last, but we're called to
eternal glory, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that
never fades away.
Everything man has decays and dies.
But Jesus says, you know, I'm giving you
my glory.
I'm bringing daughters to glory.
He prayed one day, John 17, Father, I
will that those that you have given me
be with me where I am that they
may behold my glory.
Then he went a step further and said,
the glory that you have given me, I
have given them.
Not I will give to them if they're
good.
Not I might give to them if they
make it.
He said, I have already given the glory
to them.
You are looking at someone who has the
glory.
You say, well, you don't look like it.
Well, neither do you.
But if you know Jesus is your Savior,
your body is the temple of the glory
of God.
What is Jesus doing?
He's speaking and he's upholding and he is
sitting on the throne and he is bringing
sons and daughters to glory.
Are you one of those?
We do a good deal of flying and
you've known it from your own flight experience
that the announcements are pretty routine.
In fact, anybody who believes that the announcement
in an airport has great faith, far more
faith than I have.
But when you're on the plane and they
land and the flight attendant comes out and
says, we are now in Dallas and the
time is such and so, and we hope
you'll have a good time in Dallas or
whatever your final destination may be.
And whenever I hear that, I want to
jump up and say, my final destination is
glory.
But I know they'd arrest me if I
did that.
But isn't that true?
Our final destination is glory and we're going
to make it because he is bringing many
sons and daughters to glory.
Now he had to suffer to do it.
He had to die for me.
God had no problem getting the animals into
the ark.
How simple.
He just said go.
And by great perseverance, the snails finally made
it.
But God had to pay a price to
get me to glory.
Jesus had to die.
He is bringing.
Chapter 4.
You see, we are moving on, folks.
Chapter 4, verse 14.
Seeing then that we have a great high
priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus,
the Son of God, let us hold fast
our confession.
Don't be ashamed of Him.
For we do not have a high priest
who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was
in all points tempted as we are yet
without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in the time of
need.
He is sympathizing.
Sympathize.
Now the word sympathize means to feel together.
A deeper word is empathize, where you enter
into the feeling of a person.
It's hard to find sympathy today.
Some years ago, I'm sure this is not
true today, but it was then, some years
ago, a survey was made answering the question,
where do people take their troubles?
Now you would have thought number one would
be a doctor, number two a clergyman.
Number one was a bartender.
People go to the bartender with their problems.
I suppose today they would write to an
advice columnist, or perhaps dial a phone number
and talk to an anonymous person.
I don't know.
But those of us who know Jesus as
our Lord and our Savior, and He's on
the throne, and that throne is a throne
of grace, we can come to Him.
See, those of you who don't know Jesus,
that throne is not a throne of grace,
it's a throne of judgment.
And if you don't trust Jesus as your
personal Savior, someday you'll stand before His great
white throne, and it'll be too late.
But those of us who know our Savior,
know that He is sympathizing.
He's on this throne, which is a throne
of grace.
And He's offering grace and mercy.
Now there's a difference, they're not the same.
God in His mercy does not give me
what I deserve.
God in His grace gives me what I
don't deserve, and I need both.
Jesus sympathizes with our weakness.
Now we all have weaknesses, He does not
sympathize with our sins.
I've met some people who misunderstand the grace
of God.
They think they can live any way they
please, and experience the grace of God.
It's a throne of grace, not a committee
that votes on you, it's a throne.
It's a holy throne.
And God's grace is given to those who
come to Him humbly, and trust Him, and
ask.
There's all kinds of grace in the Bible,
did you know that?
God is the God of all grace.
We read that in 1 Peter chapter 5.
He's the God of all grace, many different
kinds of grace.
They're saving grace, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9.
For by grace are you saved through faith.
We sang about that today.
In my hand no price I bring, simply
the thy cross I claim.
They're saving grace, have you experienced that?
They're serving grace, 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
Paul says, by the grace of God I
am what I am, I served more than
they all, but not I, the grace of
God that was with me.
I confess you there are times I say
I cannot make one more trip.
God says, yes you can, I'll give you
grace, serving grace.
I can't attend one more meeting, yes you
can.
Choir people say, I can't sing one more
song, sure you can.
Serving grace.
Well, there is suffering grace, some of you
are hurt.
Either physically or emotionally and possibly both.
Some are here with broken hearts.
Some have broken bodies and if it were
not for physicians we wouldn't be here.
Blessed are the pacemakers.
The older I get, the more artificial I
become.
And we have little things we carry with
us for pills, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, you know.
Suffering grace.
And Jesus today says, I'm at the throne
of grace and my word is the word
of grace and the Holy Spirit is the
spirit of grace and God is the God
of all grace, so come to the throne
of grace and ask for the grace that
you need.
Do you hurt?
Ask him for suffering grace.
Are you lacking in strength?
Second Timothy chapter 2.
My son, be strong in the grace that's
in Christ Jesus.
He'll give you strengthening grace.
Singing grace.
Colossians 3 talks about that.
Singing with grace in your heart to the
Lord.
It takes grace to sing sometimes.
It takes grace to listen to some people
sing.
Speaking grace.
Let your speech always be with grace, says
Colossians 4.
There are times when I feel like just
cutting people down.
You can't do that.
That's not right.
You ask for speaking grace.
Sometimes just to keep quiet.
All kinds of grace.
And Jesus sympathizes not with our sin, but
with our weakness.
And we come and say, I need strengthening
grace.
I need suffering grace.
He says, sure, I understand.
I suffered.
I suffered far more than you'll ever suffer.
I know how it feels.
I know how it feels to be criticized,
laughed at, misunderstood, rejected.
What's he doing?
He's sympathizing.
Chapter 11, and verse 16, talking
about the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
But now they desire a better, that is
a heavenly country.
Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called
their God, for he has prepared a city
for them.
You know what he's doing right now?
Preparing.
I pastored three churches, and it's always fun
to watch people prepare.
Fellow and girl become friends, and they start
falling in love.
And then they come and say, pastor, we'd
like to get married.
And they start preparing for a wedding.
And then perhaps a few years later, they
come and say, pastor, God's going to give
us a child.
And they start preparing for a child.
It's kind of fun to watch.
When Jesus Christ went back to heaven, he
said, I've come to prepare.
Do you recall what our Lord's vocation was
when he was on earth?
We say he was a shepherd.
No, he wasn't.
Spiritually, yes, but not vocationally.
He was a carpenter.
He was born into a carpenter's home.
And he did a carpenter's work.
And when he went into his ministry at
the age of 30, he didn't change vocations.
He's always been a builder.
He built the universe.
Did a good job.
He's building a church.
He's building a home for us in heaven.
When he sat down at the throne, he
said to his father, Father, one of these
days, my bride is going to join me.
One of these days, that bride, that church
that you're giving to me is going to
join me.
And I want my bride to have a
good home.
The father said, son, start building.
Some people have the crazy idea that if
you've been a carnal Christian on earth, you're
going to get a little tar paper shack
to live in in heaven.
If you've been a great Christian, you're going
to have a big mansion up in heaven.
There's no teaching like that in the Bible.
We're all going to have an adequate home
in heaven because Jesus is preparing.
He's preparing a home.
He's preparing the city in which the home
will be.
And he's preparing a country for the city.
Heaven is compared to a country and a
city.
Oh, it's going to be great.
When John was describing heaven in the book
of Revelation, the Holy Spirit said, well, now,
John, there aren't words in the language to
describe it.
So instead of trying to tell what it
is, let's tell what it isn't.
There'll be no darkness.
There'll be no sea separating one from another.
There'll be no death.
There'll be no cemeteries.
There'll be no undertakers.
There'll be no HMOs.
There'll be no sickness.
There'll be no tears.
The only way God can tell us how
wonderful heaven is, is by saying it's not
what you've got now.
And Jesus is preparing a home for us.
He's doing it with love.
He's doing it with nail-scarred hands.
His plans are perfect.
His materials are eternal.
And we'll behold his glory.
He's preparing.
Are you one of those for whom he
is preparing?
Do you have written on your heart, by
the Holy Spirit, a title deed to an
inheritance in heaven?
You see, we've been born again to an
everlasting inheritance.
We've been born again to a living hope.
Not a dead hope.
The world's full of dead hopes.
A living hope by the resurrection of Jesus
from the dead to an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled,
that doesn't fade away.
Reserved in heaven for you.
I have an awful time with reservations.
Betty and I will go into a hotel
or motel and we'll say, we're the Wearsby's.
Who?
There's a reservation here for us.
I'm sorry, there isn't.
This has happened more than once.
When I get to the gates of heaven,
I won't have that problem.
Oh yeah, Wearsby.
Reservation right here.
He's preparing.
Finally, Hebrews chapter 13, verses 20 and 21.
I have often used this benediction at funerals,
but it's not a funeral benediction.
It fits, but it's not the main emphasis.
Hebrews 13, 20, Now may the God of
peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from
the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make
you perfect, make you complete in every good
work to do his will, working in you
what is well-pleasing in his sight through
Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and
ever.
Amen.
I want to focus on that little phrase
in verse 21, make you complete.
The word that is used in the original
text is katartidzo.
Say, why are you telling us that?
Because right in the middle is the word
artist.
Katartidzo, artist.
The word means to equip, to perfect, to
mature.
The fishermen used this word.
It meant to mend a net.
When Jesus called Peter and Andrew and James
and John, they were mending their nets.
This is the word.
How did their nets get torn?
They were working with their nets.
They were catching fish.
Sometimes you and I, as God's people, our
nets get kind of frazzled and torn, not
because of sin, but because we're serving the
Lord.
It's time for us to step aside for
a short time and let him mend the
nets.
This word was used by doctors.
It means to set a bone.
Sometimes you and I, as we're serving Jesus,
we get out of whack and we start
to limp and we can't do like we
used to do and we need to stop
and say, Dear Lord, equip me, set the
bones.
This word was used by sailors.
It meant to rig a ship for a
voyage.
In the morning when I open my Bible
and I'm talking to the Lord and he's
talking to me, sometimes he looks at me
and says, Aha, you don't know this, but
right down there is a storm.
Your ship is going to go through a
storm and you're not ready for it.
So let me equip you for that storm.
That's why we never have to be afraid
of the future.
The future is your friend when Jesus is
your Lord.
The soldiers used this word.
It meant to outfit an army, to equip
an army for a battle.
And my Lord looks ahead and he says,
Whoa, there's a battle right there.
And where is he going to be?
Right in the middle of it.
I better equip him for that battle.
You know what he's doing for us?
He's equipping us.
Every child and teenager and college student going
off to school every day needs to stop
and say, Lord Jesus, equip me for this
day.
I don't know what's going to happen.
I might get shot at.
I don't know, but you do.
Equip me and prepare me for this day.
That's why every day we pick up the
Bible and we say, Speak, Lord, because your
servant's listening.
And then we pray and say, Equip, Lord,
your servant is available.
When you start the day with your heavenly
master in control, what a difference it makes.
Jesus Christ the same.
Yesterday, my Savior.
Forever, my Lord in heaven.
Today, my Equipper.
Oh, how wonderful it is to be a
Christian.
My heart goes out to people who don't
know Jesus.
Who takes care of them?
Who speaks to them?
Who upholds them?
Who is sitting on the throne for them
and giving them peace in their hearts?
Who's sympathizing with them?
Who's bringing them to glory?
Who's preparing a glorious home for them?
Who is equipping them for the storms and
the battles and the work of life?
But when you have Jesus, you have all
you need.
Jesus Christ the same.
Yesterday, today, forever.
Oh, Father, what a wonderful Savior, and we
thank you.
May there be many here today who will
trust him and be saved.
And may all of us surrender to him.
So that he might do his heavenly work
in our lives.
For Jesus' sake, we pray.
Amen.
While listening to this tape, perhaps God's Spirit
has been talking to your heart.
If you felt the need to draw closer
to your Creator, why not start today?
God has provided a way for man to
enter into relationship with him forever, through his
Son, Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life.
No man comes to the Father but by
me.
The Bible says that as many as receive
him, to them give he power to become
the children of God.
You too can receive him right now by
asking him to forgive you of your sins,
and asking him to come into your life
and to be Lord and Savior of your
life.
If you'd like to receive Jesus Christ into
your life today, you can do so through
a simple little prayer.
Just open up your heart and repeat this
prayer with me.
Lord Jesus, I admit to you that I
am a sinner.
I believe that you died on a cross
for my sins.
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Please come into my heart and into my
life.
Please make my life acceptable unto you.
Thank you, Lord, for your gift of eternal
life.
And I receive you this day.
In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
Now, if you prayed that prayer with me
right now, you are a new person.
All your past sins and faults have been
forgiven by God.
And in his eyes, you are a brand
new creature.
The Bible says that if any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature.
All things have passed away, and behold, all
things become new.
Now, as a newborn spiritual infant, you should
seek the sincere milk of God's word so
that you may grow by it.
So read your Bible and pray to the
Lord often, and seek out other Christians and
enter into fellowship with them.
We'd love to hear of your decision for
Christ.
And we'd love to give you a free
study of the book of John on cassette
by Pastor Chuck.
Jesus never turned a spiritual or hungry or
thirsty soul away, but filled everyone who asked.
So we'd like to do the same for
you in his name.
So please write to us at the address
on this tape.
And tell us of your needs and what
the Lord has done for you today.
May the Lord bless you now and keep
you in everything you do and everything you
say.
And welcome to the family.
We want
to see Jesus.