Let's open our Bibles again to
Mark chapter 16. Now Mark, the writer of this gospel, is John
Mark. John Mark who is Barnabas' nephew. You probably remember that name
hearing the story of Paul and Barnabas getting ready to go
on a mission trip. Barnabas wanted his nephew John
Mark to go with them Paul said he'd not read him. They ended
up arguing and splitting. But sometime later, John Mark
must have grown in grace and things were mended between Paul
and John Mark. Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy
chapter 4, now when you come, you bring John Mark with you
because he's profitable to me in the ministry. And that's the
man who wrote this gospel, the gospel of Mark. And Mark presents
to us Christ as God's servant. Hold your finger there and look
back at chapter 10 of Mark. This is one of the things our
Lord very clearly states to us that he came as God's servant. Mark 10 verse 45, for even the
son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister as a servant
and to give his life a ransom for many. So last week we saw
Matthew present Christ as the king. This week we see Mark present
Christ as the servant. Mark does not tell us anything
about the birth of Christ. He just begins right at the start
of our Lord's earthly ministry because this is when he took
on his public role as the servant. And it seems like without taking
a breath, without giving any details between these different
events, Mark just quickly goes through the Lord's ministry,
just jumping from event to event to event. And he gives us more
details about those events. He gives us more details about
our Lord's miracles than the other Gospels do. Because those
details are all the works of God's servant. Mark clearly shows
us the power and authority of God's servant. He's not saying
Matthew was wrong. Matthew presented Christ to us
as King. Matthew tells us the servant is the sovereign servant.
He's got all power and authority. That's why he gives us so many
details of these miracles. He's got the power and authority
to accomplish these things. That's why the father Paul talks
about in Philippians chapter two, the father highly exalted
him and giving him a name, which is above every name, because
that's the servant of the father. He got everything done. The father
sent him to do. He's the perfect servant. And
after our Savior worked out a perfect righteousness as a man made under
the law, as a servant of the Father, then the Savior suffered
and died as the sacrifice for his people, as a substitute for
his people. And he died. Christ lay in the
tomb, his body dead for three days. And then he arose from
the dead, walked out of the tomb because the sin that had been
charged to him is gone. Sin demands death, but where
there's no sin, there must be life. The sin that was laid on
Christ is gone. So he rose from the dead. And
Mark records something that our Lord said immediately after he
arose. I think about this statement
every single time I think of the resurrection. Look here at
verse five of Mark chapter 16. And entering into the sepulcher,
they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in
a long white garment, and they were affrighted. And he said
unto them, Be not affrighted. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which
was crucified. He's risen. He's not here. Behold
the place where they laid him. But go your way. Tell his disciples
and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee. There shall
you see him as he said unto you. It seems like the Lord specifically
told this angel, you be sure to tell Peter that I'm risen. You tell Peter, I'm going to
see him in Galilee just exactly like I told him I would. So the
title of the message this morning is in tell Peter, you can tell
Peter. Now, Peter one time called himself
a sinful man. You remember when they'd fished
all night and caught nothing? The Lord told him, let down your
net for a haul of fishes. Peter said, Lord, we've fished
all night and didn't catch a thing. Nevertheless, it's your word,
we'll do it. And they let down those nets and they caught so
many fish, the net break. And Peter saw, this man's the
Lord of the sea. This man's God. And he fell down
at his feet and he said, depart from me, for I'm a sinful man,
O Lord. Peter's a sinful man by his own
mouth, he said it. And now the Lord's died, he's
buried, he's risen. Since our Lord's risen from the
tomb, there's a gospel to preach. Since our Lord's risen, we have
good news for sinful people just like Peter. That's why verse
15, our Lord said unto them, go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature. Because the Lord has risen from
the grave, we've got good news for sinners everywhere, from
all over the world. Well, all right, what's the good
news? What's the gospel we're to preach
to these weak, sinful people who are just like Peter? You
know, Peter knew the Lord died, didn't he? He watched it. He
knew the Lord was buried. But I'll tell you what Peter
didn't know. Peter didn't know the Lord had risen. And Peter
didn't know all the good that our Lord had accomplished by
his death, burial and resurrection. I'm just sure Peter thought me
and Judas are in the same boat. Judas betrayed him and I denied
him. There may be mercy for the other
10, but not for me. Not for me. Oh, can you just
imagine how broken hearted, he was just depressed. Our Lord
says, you go tell sinful people. You go tell people who have no
hope left in themselves. You go tell them the good news
of the gospel. You go tell frail, weak, frightened
Peter what Christ has accomplished for sinners through his death,
his burial, his resurrection for his people. So here's the
first piece of good news. We tell weak sinners like Peter,
there is rest for you in Christ. God's servant has finished all
the work of redemption. Look back here at verse one of
chapter 16. And when the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene and
Mary, the mother of James and Salome had brought sweet spices
that they might come and anointing. Very early in the morning, the
first day of the week, They came into the sepulchre at the rising
of the sun. And they said unto themselves, who shall roll us
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they
looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away for it was very
great. Now these women came to the Lord's
tomb after the Sabbath, very early in the morning, Sunday
morning, after the Sabbath was complete. The Sabbath day is
a picture of God resting on the seventh day. After his work of
creation, he created the world in six days. Six calendar days,
he created this world. That's part of why I was telling
you kids, don't adopt the way of the world. I'll tell you,
God didn't create the world in six days. Oh, yes, he did. In six
days, he created this world. And on the seventh day, God rested. Now, God didn't rest because
he was tired from his work. I'm going to tell you who's going
to take a real good nap this afternoon. Me and Jentsu, we're
tired. We're going to rest and the work's
not even finished. There's stuff to clean and we're going to rest
because we're tired. God didn't rest because He was
tired. God rested because the work's finished. It was done
in perfection. Our Savior's body lay resting
in the tomb. Not because He was tired. He
lay resting in the tomb on the Sabbath because His work of redemption
for His people was finished and there's no more work left to
do. They came and thought, who's going to roll away the stone?
We've got some work to do. No, you don't. The stone's rolled
away. He finished the work. That means
there's no work left for you to do. When he cried, it is finished. His work of redemption was finished
and there's no work left for you to do. It's finished. Now
you rest. God tells his preachers, you
go tell Peter. You go tell all those weak sinners.
Weak faith is so sinful and afraid. You go tell them what that means. Rest in Christ. You know what
that means? That means quit trying to make
up for your sin. This is our nature. We sin and
we think, oh, I better do something to make up for that. Quit trying
to make up for your sin. Quit trying to think, well, I
can do something to make up with that, make God more happy with
me or less angry with me or something. Quit that and rest in Christ. He finished the work. The Father
is well pleased with Him. Quit trying to come up with these
works that you think will please God and rest in Christ. Salvation is not given to us
by our works. It's given to us in Christ who
finished the work of redemption for His people. Don't even try
to please God by going through all the ceremonies of religion.
Simply rest in Christ your Savior, in Christ our Sabbath. Salvation
is not found going through the right form of religion. Salvation
is not found going through the motions of morality. You ought
to live a life of morality, but you're not going to be saved
because you're moral. Salvation is in Christ. Now rest in Him. In all of your life on this earth,
believer, rest in Christ. Just rest in Him. Rest in His
work, in Him who finished the work. You know His work's perfect. The Father raised Him from the
dead. Well, the only reason the Father would have raised Him
from the dead is if His work is perfect. And it is. So in all your life, you rest
in Him. And when that day comes, If you
face the death of this body, you just lay there and rest in
Christ. Our Savior already arose from the grave. And when He arose,
He made a way out of the tomb. The stones rolled away. If you
go in that tomb and turn around, you know what you see? He left
a way out. He's provided a way out of the
tomb for His people. Now you rest in Him. Faith is weak, shamefully, shamefully
weak. But now you rest in Christ's
love for his people. The first recorded words of our
Savior after he rose again is tell Peter, tell my disciples
in Peter, he gave words of comfort for the people that he loves.
First thing when he rose, the angel said, don't be frightened. Now, can you imagine the disciples
during those three days? We read something about what
they went through. They're scared to death. They're in hiding,
they're full of fear, and they're so disappointed. After all this
time with the Savior, they still thought, oh, he's going to set
up an earthly throne and James and John, we're going to get
to sit on his right hand and his left. And they're disappointed. That's
not going to happen. They're full of fears and doubts. Even
though the Lord plainly told him, more than once, I'm going
to die and I'll rise again the third day. And they're full of
fear, full of doubts. They don't believe he's going
to rise again the third day. And still yet, his first words
after he arose were words of comfort for a weak, faltering
people. Now you rest in Christ. rest
in his love for his people. There's rest for sinners in Christ. Secondly, what's our message
to poor sinners like Peter? Your salvation is by grace alone
through faith alone. Look at verse nine. Now when
Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared
first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
And she went and told them that had been with him as they mourned
and wept. And they, when they heard that
he was alive and had been seen of her, believed not. After that,
he appeared in another form unto two of them as they walked and
went into the country. And they went and told unto the
residue. Neither believed they then. Oh my. The disciples had heard the Lord
himself say, I'm going to die. and three days you're gonna see
me again. Three days I'm gonna rise again. And here they are
mourning and weeping. Three days ago, the Lord was
buried. Three days. Then not one, but two and three
witnesses come and tell them, I've seen the Lord. He's risen.
Now you'd think they'd say, that's just what he said. That's not
what they did. They didn't believe. They just,
they did not believe. Now there is no salvation apart
from faith in Christ. None. Remember, we just read
this in verse 16. He that believeth and is baptized
should be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. There's no salvation apart from
faith in Christ. Now it's not our sin that damns
us. No, it's not. Christ came to
save sinners. So it's not our sin that damns
us. Tell you what damns us. It's our self-righteousness.
It's our insistence on relying on self, relying on our own works,
relying on our own understanding. If we refuse to believe something
that we can't understand, I promise you we'll be damned. Salvation does not depend upon
our understanding. How can a man possibly understand
how God Almighty became a man, became a baby. Who can understand
that? Who can ever understand how the
Holy Son of God was made sin? I don't care how long you think
on it, you can't understand that. What man with his natural understanding
can understand how did God die? How did life itself die? How
did the prince of life die? We can't understand that. Who
can understand how the God man can put away the sin of somebody
else by his suffering? Some he put away their sin. They're
in the tomb. 2,000 years later, he died for
them, put their sin away. He died for some who 2,000 years
later will live. How did he put away sin of somebody
else by his suffering and death? And then who can understand this?
How can a man who's dead rise from the tomb? How is that possible? How is it that a man died and
then arose and ascended back to glory? Who can understand
that? Nobody. But brethren, if we don't
believe it, we'll be damned. You don't have to understand
it. But if we don't believe that, we'll be damned. We'll die in
our sins. And no one will believe God. No one will believe Christ
unless God gives them faith. And I can tell you exactly when
a sinner will believe Christ. You want to know? When he reveals
himself to them. Look here at verse 14. Afterward,
he appeared unto the eleven, as they sat at meat, and upbraided
them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they
believed not them which had seen him when he was risen. But boy,
after he appeared to them, they believed. And if God ever reveals
himself to you, Christ ever reveals himself to you, you'll believe
him. When you see him, you'll believe
him. You understand. I'm not saying you'll see him
with the natural eye. I don't see a vision or a ghost or no. With
the eye of faith, you'll see Christ. And see means to understand.
You'll understand how he died for you. When you see him, you'll
understand how it is God can be just and justify you. It's
through the righteousness and the death of this one. And that's
the gospel that we preach to weak, sinful men. Salvation is
by grace. And that's good news to sinners. That was good news to Peter.
You think about the last few days in poor old Peter's life. Peter swore, Lord, I'll die with
you. And I know Peter meant it. He
wasn't afraid to die with the Lord. But the first time trouble
came, he ran like a scared jackrabbit. Peter swore, Lord, these other
fellas, they got weak faith. You're right, they'll leave you.
Not me. And then Peter denied he even
knew who the Lord was. He tried to act like he conformed
to this world, didn't he? Talked like him so they'd think
he didn't even know who the Lord was. Now Peter's heartbroken. He thinks
he's in the same boat as Judas. He's heartbroken. Peter believes
God. Peter believes God can save sinners.
He believes that. He believes in Christ. He does. He believes Christ is the Savior
of sinners. Peter believes that. But Peter does not think that
salvation in Christ could be for him. Peter believes Christ
died for sinners. Peter just cannot believe. Christ could die for somebody
as bad as him. Peter thinks I'm too bad. I'm
too far gone. I'm too unworthy. I'm a lost
cause. Now the message of salvation
by grace is good news to a fellow like that. The message of grace
is for just those people who like Peter think I'm too bad.
I'm too far gone. I'm too unworthy. I see in scripture
Christ died for sinners, I see that. He couldn't have done that
to me because I'm too bad. Peter, you listen to me. Anybody
here like Peter? You listen to me. Salvation's
by grace. Salvation is by unearned, undeserved
favor from God. It's God giving you what you
do not deserve. Peter, Now I know you're full
of fears, I know you're disappointed in yourself, but you listen to
me. The blood of Christ atoned, paid for the sin of his people.
Even sin, what we think is as great as deserting the Lord and
denying him. Peter, salvation is by grace. Peter, Christ is risen. And here's the result of the
resurrected Christ. You're justified. Peter, Christ
rose again for your justification. Peter, everything's all right
between you and God. Christ put your sin away. He
suffered the penalty that you deserve. And he's God's servant. He got the job done. He justified
you. So everything's okay between
you and God. Look here at Romans chapter 4. See if that's not
what Paul tells us. This is the result of the resurrected
Savior. All those he died for are justified. Salvation by faith through grace. Look up here at verse 21. Speaking
of Abraham being fully persuaded, Abraham believed God. that what
God had promised, he was able also to perform. Therefore, it
was imputed to him for righteousness. Now that's not written for Abraham's
sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also to whom
it should be imputed. If we do what? Believe on him
that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered
for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.
See, it's by faith through grace, by grace through faith in it.
We believe God and it's by grace. Salvation is by grace through
the work of this servant who got the job done. His death paid
for the sin of his people. And he rose again because he
put sin away. Now sinner, poor and weak as
Peter, you believe Christ. Just believe him. Tell you again,
it's not our sin that damns us. It's not our lack of good works
that damn us. It's not even our mistakes that damn us. It's lack
of faith in Christ. It's our insistence on trusting
something other than Christ alone. Now, if you don't have anything
else to trust in, this is good news. Salvation is by grace through
faith. Thirdly, what do we tell people? Well, we're gonna go tell weak,
sinful people like Peter. Well, we're gonna tell them salvation
from our sin is through you, you, with the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's pictured in the way
the Savior told us to confess him. A believer's told to confess
Christ in believer's baptism. And that shows us salvation is
not ours by anything we do. Salvation is ours by what Christ
did for us. And we have that salvation, we
have that life through union with Christ. Now all of the gospel
is found in representation. Salvation is found in representation. It's a very important and simple
concept taught in God's word. God sees all men in one of two
representatives. He either sees them in Adam,
and Adam all die. He's the first federal head,
the first representative. Or God sees us in the second
Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, the representative of his people.
And we all did, God sees us all as doing what our representative
did. Now here's the good news for
a sinful, weak person like Peter. Peter, I know, you're right.
All you've ever done is sin. Not arguing with you. Peter,
I know, it seems like everything you do is a mistake. I sympathize. But Peter, here's the good news.
God does not accept you based on what you've done or what you
haven't done. God accepts you in Christ, your
representative. When the Lord Jesus lived as
a man and he obeyed God's law perfectly, Peter, so did you. Peter, I know you've not been
obedient to God for one second in your life, but when Christ,
your Savior, lived as a man, perfectly obedient to God's law,
so did you. So did you. And Peter, when Christ
suffered and he died for your sin, so did you. And I tell you what that means. Peter, justice is satisfied for
your sin, because you already died in the person of your substitute,
in the person of your representative, and God's holy. So the holy God
will never demand you die twice for the same sin, because that
would be unholy. Peter, justice is satisfied for
your sin. I've told you, I've used this
example before, but I like it. I'm gonna use it again. The movie,
The Green Mile, if I'm surfing through the channels, and if
it's on, I always stop and watch at least a few minutes of it.
It's about these prisoners on death row. One of the prisoners
was executed. He should have been guilty. He
murdered people. He put to death. Justice was
satisfied. And they wheeled the body out,
preparing it to go to the burial. And one of the young guards stood
there making fun of that dead body laying there on that slab.
And one of the older guards said, you stop it. Don't you say another
word. He paid his debt. You can't touch
him anymore. That guard said, he's square
with the house. Justice is satisfied. And to
every Peter here, I tell you, if you're in Christ, God's law
is not hunting you anymore. God's law has no interest in
you. God's justice has no interest in you. Because in Christ, you're
square with the house. You already died in Christ. So the law is satisfied. Don't
be scared of it. Don't be scared of God's justice.
Fear not. Don't be afraid. Justice is satisfied. And then, as if that wasn't good
enough, when the Lord Jesus as a man, when he obeyed the law,
when you did too, Christ died, you did too. And when Christ
arose from the grave, You rose to eternal life in him, in your
representative. If you look back in Isaiah, this
is not some plan God came up with when he sent the Savior.
This is God's eternal purpose, that his people are going to
be raised in Christ, our representative. Isaiah 26, verse 19. Thy dead men shall live. How are they going to do that?
Together with my dead body shall they rise. Awake and saying ye
that dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and
the earth shall cast out the dead. The earth are going to
cast out the dead because they're going to be raised together in
Christ with Christ's dead body. Now the old timers call this
vital union. Vital union with Christ. And
they call it vital because you cannot have this life. You cannot
be raised to eternal life unless you're connected to Christ. Unless
you're joined in union to Him. He's the head and we have our
life by, we're the body. We have life by being connected
to Him. And through this union, everything Christ did, you who
are in Him did. You obeyed the law, so did you.
When he died to satisfy the law, so did you. And when he rose
again, you did too. It's a new eternal life. That's
the only way we can be square with the house. Peter, I don't
care what you think you've done, the debt's worse, but you take
comfort. You're square with the house
through union with Christ. Now fourth. What do we preach? What's the good news we're commanded
to preach to sinful, weak people like Peter? Well, first we tell
them, you rest. Rest in Christ. We're finished.
Salvation is by grace through faith. Salvation is by union
with Christ. And fourthly, salvation in Christ
will be confessed publicly. Look back in our text, Mark 16,
verse 15. And he said unto them, go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized should be saved. He that believeth
not should be damned. Now this doesn't mean, talking
here about baptism, he that is baptized should be saved. That
doesn't mean that a person's soul is saved when some preacher
dunks them under the water. Cleansing from sin is found in
the blood of Christ. It's not found in the water of
a baptismal pool. You know, we fill up our pool,
we fill it up from a garden hose. That's not gonna cleanse you.
Cleansing from sin is in the blood of Christ. Baptism is not
what saves, Christ saves. You know, a person can be baptized
and still not be saved. Simon the sorcerer, he was baptized,
but he wasn't saved. And a person can be saved and
never be baptized. The thief on the cross would
never be baptized. All those Old Testament believers, none
of them were baptized, but they're saved. Well, then, frankly, it
makes such a big deal of this for you. You make it sound like
salvation is not important. No, no, I'm not saying that at
all. Salvation or baptism is very
important. Our Savior gave two ordinances
that believers are to observe and were to observe them both
as a confession of Christ. Specifically, Those two ordinances
are given to us to confess this, that our salvation is entirely
accomplished in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, through
his suffering, through his death, his burial, his resurrection.
The first ordinance we have is the Lord's table. The suffering
of Christ our substitute is seen in the elements of that Lord's
table. We take bread and break it. That's the body of Christ
being broken. under the penalty of God's justice
for the sin of His people. And the wine is a picture of
the shed blood of the Savior. Now, when the blood is separated
from the body, you know, we have those elements out here on the
table. They're not together. We don't dip the bread in the
wine. We don't hand them even out together,
first one, then the other. They're separate, aren't they?
Well, I'm no medical genius, but I know this. When the flesh
is separated from the blood, the body's going to die. That
table represents the death of Christ as a substitute for his
people. And that's how sin is taken away
through the suffering and the blood, the death of our Lord
Jesus Christ. And when the men hand out that
bread and that wine, they pass it. If you reach and take it,
you know what you're saying? This is the confession. The only
hope of salvation I have, the only hope my sin could ever be
put away is that Christ died for me. When he died, he died
as my substitute. That's the first ordinance of
the Lord's table. It's a confession, isn't it? Well, the second ordinance
is the same thing. Baptism. Baptism is a confession. I don't want to be baptized in
order to become saved. I'm baptized because I'm confessing
what God's already done for me and what he's done in me. When
a person's baptized, this is the way we publicly say, all
my salvation is in the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm saved through union
with Him. When He died, He died for my
sin, and I died in Him. He died for my sin, charged in
Him. And He died, I died in Him. He died the death I deserve.
And He really died. When He was buried, I was buried
in Him. This is not just a symbolic,
I mean the baptism is symbolic, but it's not symbolic to say
I died in Christ. My death to sin and my death
to the law is Christ's death. He really died and I was buried
in him. But the grave is no place for
my Savior to stay. The grave is no place for life
itself. Christ my Savior had to rise
from the grave. He had to come out of that tomb
because He put my sin away. His death was effectual. He conquered
sin, death, and hell. So He had to come out of the
grave. You see, that's why I say the
grave is no place for the Savior. Well, when we baptize a person,
We dunk them under the water. Baptism, not sprinkling. You
know, we bury a body. We don't sprinkle some dirt in
their face. We bury them. We cover them with
dirt because it's going to be offensive quickly if we don't.
When we baptize a person, we picture death. We dunk them clear
under the water. They're all the way under there.
And our baptismal pool kind of looks like a casket, doesn't
it? I like that. It looks like a casket. It's
a good picture of death. We're burying a dead body. But
I don't hold that person under the water for very long. The grave is not a fit place
for my Savior. And the grave is not a fit place
for anybody that Christ died for. They're justified. They've got to come out. Can
we lift them up now? Picture of life. Baptism is not
a... I don't be baptized in order
to get life. I'm baptized because God's given
me life and I'm confessing that coming out of the tomb through
union with Christ. Christ lives and His people live
in Him. And when God saves a sinner,
you rest assured of this, they'll confess Christ. Sooner or later,
they just won't be able to help it. Life always confesses itself. You know, when a baby's born,
nobody has to beg that baby to cry. I remember when Savannah
was born, she had a little blockage or something in her lungs and
she cried. But it wasn't quite as loud as
a really strong, you know, as I really would have liked. But
she cried to confess life. Nobody had to beg her to. She
cried. She had life. Before too long,
those lungs got good and strong, and we were begging her to quit
crying at 3 o'clock in the morning. We got it. We got it. You're alive. We got it. But
you don't have to beg the live baby to cry, because life confesses
itself. And that's why I don't beg anybody
to be baptized. Now, baptism is taught in Scripture. Teaching is Scripture. I'm not
begging you to be baptized. This is the way our Lord tells
us to confess I'm not begging you to, just like I didn't beg
Savannah to cry when she was born. If God saves you, you'll
confess what the Lord's done for you. I won't have to beg,
you'll come to me and we'll do, we'll fill up the pool and we'll
do that. But if you're as weak and sinful as Peter, and the
Lord in mercy says, you go tell Peter, and he applies that message
to your heart, you'll confess your Savior with great joy. It's hard to imagine this news
was any better news, better news to anybody than Peter. Tell Peter, what a salvation,
what a savior for weak, faltering, frail people like Peter. Be sure
to tell Peter the good news of Christ. You'll never hear any
better news than that, will you? Let's bow and pray. Father, we're so thankful for
your word. How thankful we are for your mercy, grace, pity to
sinners, that you'd suffer and die for them, to put their sin
away, that you'd rise again as evidence that you'd justify them
through your life, through your death. Father, how thankful we are that
you've not left your people to themselves, but you've sent your
servants out to preach the gospel everywhere with this good news
to poor, weak sinners like Peter who can't do anything for themselves,
who have been brought to the end of themselves where they
have no hope to hear that there's life, that there's forgiveness,
that there's acceptance in our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we're
thankful. And I pray that you'd apply your
word to our hearts. that each one who's gathered
here this morning would leave here with joy in their heart,
a song on their lips that they've seen the Savior, that they've
heard the good news of free, full salvation in our Lord Jesus
Christ. For it's for His glory, we pray.