Matthew chapter 8, and let's
begin reading here in verse 1. And when he was come down from
the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And behold, there came a leper
and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me
clean. And Jesus put forth his hand
and touched him, saying, I will be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said unto him, See
that you tell no man, but go your way, show yourself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony
unto them. Now keep your Bibles handy. I've got one or two scriptures
later. I want to turn to. One of the things I think that
we need to realize about this scripture, from Matthew's gospel
through John's gospel, you find these incidences, the Lord healing
these people. He gave sight to the blind so
often. He healed this leper, men who
were crippled from their mother's womb. He did all these great
miracles, and what you and I need to remember about these miracles
is that we preach from them as they really happened. We don't
preach from these passages like this as if they're just pictures
of salvation. Are there shadows and types?
If we do that, we have to go back to the ceremonial law. There's
where we get our shadows and types. These things really happen. There was a day when the Lord
Jesus was walking through this country of Galilee and Jerusalem
and that area, and this leper, a man who was full of leprosy,
came to Him and the Lord healed him. So we don't want to look
upon them and say, oh, this is a beautiful picture, this is
a beautiful time, this is a beautiful shadow. No, this really happened. And as we look at this, just
to read the story and preach from the story, you and I are
going to learn a lot of things. It's going to teach us some things
this morning. When He was come down, verse
1 tells us, from the mountain. I've often thought of this, the
Lord Jesus Christ coming down from this mountain. And it says
He, when He came down. Now who is this? It's so important
to establish right from the first who this is. Well, he just preached
this great sermon. I bet if I asked any of you here
this morning how many of you have heard of the Sermon on the
Mount, just about everybody would raise your hand. You may have
never read the Bible, you may have never hardly gone to church,
but you know about the Sermon on the Mount. Well, this is the
one who just preached the Sermon on the Mount. And there are two
wonderful things that are said about Him here in this preceding
chapter. Look what is said in chapter
7 and verse 29. It just preached this wonderful
message. And here in verse 29 of chapter
7, He taught them as one having authority. He had power. And I love this, not as the scribes. Don't you imagine when these
scribes read this, don't you imagine that made them sort of
angry? Because they thought they were somebody. But here was this
man from Galilee, and when he began to open his mouth and preach,
people listened. People said, oh my soul, that's
powerful. That's words of life. He is surely
sent from God. Well, who was he? Why could he
speak with authority? Well, look back in that same
chapter, and look in verse 22, what He says about Himself. Many
will say to Me in the day of judgment, in that day, what will
they say to Him? Lord, Lord. Why did He teach them? How could
He teach them as one having authority? It's because of who He is. Who
is He? He said, You call Me Lord and
Master. And you say, well, for so I am. This is the Lord of glory. This is the Son of God in our
humanity. This is the Creator of the world. The Lord. This is the Lord. And notice what else is said
about Him in verse 23. Look at this. This is something
else that's amazing. Did you know this One who just
came down from this mountain holds the eternal destiny? of men in His hands. On the Day
of Judgment, no one will come into heaven but those He looks
at and says, Come, you blessed of My Father. And no man will
depart heaven and go off into eternal ruin except He says,
Depart from Me, you cursed. This is one with authority. He
is the Lord. In verse 23, many Many will say
in verse 22, have we not done all these wonderful works? In
verse 23, then will I profess unto them, I never knew you,
depart from me, ye that work iniquity. So who is this that
came down from this mountain? It's the Lord of glory. It's
the one who holds the destiny of men in His authority, in His
hands. But I want you to look closely
at this because I want to remind you of something, another mountain.
He says here in verse 1 of chapter 8, He came down from the mountain. As I read that years ago, and
I never have forgotten this, as I read this I thought about
Exodus chapter 19, about another mountain. Another very familiar
mountain that most of you have read about in your Bibles or
heard about. You remember one day that God instructed Moses
that he was going to come down. He said, I'm going to come down
upon this mountain, Mount Sinai, and I'm going to give you my
law, my commandments. I'm going to appear to you upon
that mountain. And remember how serious it was.
God spoke to Moses and he said, you sanctify the people. You
make sure they wash their clothes, they wash their body, tell the
wife not to come near her husband. And tell the husband not to come
near his wife. And around this mountain, I want
you to set these huge bounds. I don't want the children of
Israel to break through those bounds. Because I'm going to
come down upon the mountain. And oh, Moses went up into the
mountain and suddenly, that big huge mountain, and you may have
seen it. It's there in Saudi Arabia. Huge mountain. And it's
now, it's still black. It's black. You can tell it's
burnt on the top of it. And the Lord God came down on
that mountain, and there was smoke and fire, and the mountain
began to quake, and there was lightning and thunder, and voices
with loud words. God was speaking. God began to
speak. And He said, You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, All your soul
and all your strength and love your neighbor as yourself. It's
there on that mountain that God began to give the moral law to
the children of Israel. And there was Moses up in that
mountain. And suddenly the Lord said, Moses, get down out of
this mountain and go make sure nobody passes those mounds. If
they come by those mounds, they'll perish. If a beast touches the
mountain, kill it. If a child touches the mountain
stone, it was stone. And Moses said, so dreadful was
the sight upon that mountain that I fear and quake. And Moses
said, get down. The Lord said, Moses, get down.
Moses said, we've set mounds around the mountain. They can't
come up. And he said, away! Away! I'm going to kill some
people. Make sure they don't cross those
mountains. They don't cross those mounds.
Oh, that was serious. What a sight that was. God had
came down upon that mountain. Now, what's the difference between
that mountain and this mountain? It's the same God, is it not?
Is this not the Lord of glory, the eternal Son of God? But notice
the difference. He comes down here, it says,
from this mountain. And what happens? The people
flock to Him. There's no fire. There's no smoke. There's no sound of words to
make the people afraid. What is the difference between
Mount Sinai, where God appeared upon it, And this mountain here,
where the same God came down and people flocked to Him. You
know what Martin Luther said it was? He said it's the same
God, but it's just a different side of Him. On Mount Sinai,
what do we see? We see a holy God. We see a just
God that's angry with sin. that gives His commandments and
says, keep these commandments or you're cursed, you die. Up
on Mount Sinai, we see a God with His sword drawn and it's
sharpened and He's ready to cut His enemies asunder, no matter
who they are. But on this mountain is God incarnate. On this mountain is the Son of
God, came down in our humanity. Not a God to judge us. Not a
God to destroy us. Not a God to make us fearful
and flee. But a reconciling God. A God
of love. A God of mercy. A God of grace. Oh, I tell you, brothers and
sisters, there's a side of God that I don't want to have anything
to do with. There's an absolute God that
you and I can't stand before. He'll destroy us. He'll consume
us. He is indeed a consuming fire.
But here in His Son, God in His Son, in Christ, He comes down
from this mountain. And we are told here that great
multitudes followed Him. Oh, a reconciling God. God in
His Son. And He just left the mountain.
And remember how He had preached Remember how he preached to these
people. And he made statements like this. Blessed are the poor,
for theirs is the kingdom of God. No lightning. There was
no fire. Not commanding. Not threatening. But blessed are the meek. They
shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful. What's
the difference? Back on Mount Sinai, God comes
down to curse the transgressors. Here on this mountain, He comes
down to bless. God comes down to bless. Now let me ask you a question,
dear soul. Which mountain would you prefer to stand before? Huh? Oh, I want to be here where
the Son of God comes down, don't you? In our humanity. When you and I have any sense
of God and heaven and that upper world, one of the things that
we're apt to do is be afraid. We're apt to have this slavish
fear that grips us. One thing I've noticed, especially
in Luke's gospel and part of Matthew, when we're told that
the Son of God was going to be born to the virgin, every time
The angel came and told anybody that Christ was coming, the Son
of God was coming. There's one little phrase that
was mentioned every time His birth was announced, fear not,
fear not. Everybody got afraid. Well, you
know something, if you have any sense of who God is, we get afraid,
don't we? We're afraid of the upper world.
We belong to this world. We belong to flesh and blood.
And every time the angel came and said, Mary, you're going
to conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, don't be afraid. Those shepherds were out on the
hills of Judea tending their flocks and those heavenly hosts
gathered around and said, glory to God in the highest. Don't
be afraid. Fear not. I bring you good news. What's the good news? the Son
of God incarnate in our humanity. And you know something, brothers
and sisters, there is no other way that you and I can approach
Him to God. He'll consume us, except we approach
in the Son of God in our humanity. I am the way. I'm the way back
to God. I'm the truth, and I am the light. And He came here to this multitude,
and man, they handled Him. They looked upon Him. They followed
Him. And you know, they were so comfortable in His presence. The disciples felt comfortable
in His presence. Moses didn't feel comfortable
there, did he? He shucked in his clothes. The children of
Israel said, Don't let Him speak with us. We're going to die.
Is that your attitude? No, your attitude, Lord, is,
Speak, for Thy servant here. Why? It's God's good side. It's
God's good side. When you look upon God and His
Son, you see His good side. The poet said this, "'Til God
and human flesh I see, my thoughts no comfort find. The holy, just,
and sacred three are terrors to my mind. But if Emmanuel's
face appear, my hopes, my joys begin. His name forbids my slavish
fear, and His grace removes my sin. Oh, Lord Jesus, God incarnate. We can approach Him to Him. But
you know what gets even more amazing? Look here in verse 2
now. Even more amazing. Not only did the multitude come
to Him and follow Him, but look here in verse 2. Behold, there
came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, If you will, you
can make me clean. And you notice here, Matthew
uses this little word, behold. That means, would you look at
that? My word, would you look at that? Why did he say, behold? Oh, this is amazing. This is
wonderful. You have to remember these lepers.
When you have leprosy, you and I know nothing about leprosy.
That they had all through the Old Testament, the days of the
New Testament. If you were a leper, they had
laws passed that you had to regulate your life by. And when the priesthood
discovered you had leprosy, the first thing they did was tore
your clothes. They ripped your clothes, your pants, your shirt.
They ripped your clothes. And then the law says you've
got to put him out. He's got to live out on the road
or in a leper's colony. He can't be coming into town.
He wasn't allowed in the gates of Jerusalem. If they caught
a leper in the gates of Jerusalem, the first thing they did was
beat you. If they caught you in again, they stoned you. That
was the law. You had to put a rag over your
face and over your lip. And if somebody approached unto
you, you had to holler, Unclean! Unclean! I have leprosy! Don't come near me! And you weren't
allowed to approach unto anybody else. Behold! Here was a man with leprosy. And who does he approach to?
He approaches unto the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know something? And I want to stress this. He
came contrary to the law. He was taking his life in his
hands when he come to the Lord. Somebody was supposed to grab
him and beat him and drag him away. He knew when He came, He
was coming contrary to the law. But He came. He came. What does that tell us? What
does that tell you and what does that tell me? We are going to
have to come to Christ the same way. When we come to the Lord Jesus
Christ, we are going to have to come as law breakers. What does the law say? You do
this and you'll live. You do this and you're blessed.
Have we done it? Have we loved God with all our
hearts? Have we loved our neighbors as
ourselves? Have we ever had any evil thoughts? Any thoughts of
lust? Then how can we come to the Lord
by the law? We cannot, can we? If we come
to the Lord Jesus Christ, we must come as law breakers. We take our lives in our own
hands. Lord, I'm a sinner. I broke your
law. I want you to turn with me to
Romans 3. Brother Glenn read that, but
let's turn over there. Most of you weren't here. Look in Romans
chapter 3. You don't have to hold Matthew.
I'm going to Mark in just a minute. But look in Romans chapter 3. We see people often, and I hope
none of you hear it. I don't mean to offend you if
you do this, but so often we see these little plaques set
in people's yard, and it has the Ten Commandments on it. And
it says, I stand behind the Ten Commandments. as though they keep them? Oh, they're wonderful. They're
good. They're holy and they're just. But that's the problem. We're sinners. And we may stand
behind them, but I'll tell you what they do to us. They curse
us. And if we try to come to God through those moral commandments,
He won't receive us. We've got to be saved by a different
means other than morality. Adam got us into trouble, folks,
back down in the garden. He disobeyed God. And neither
his obedience nor ours can get us out of this mess. We can't
go and say, well, I've obeyed this commandment and I've obeyed
that commandment and be saved. We've got to be saved by different
means. And when that leper came to the
Lord Jesus, he says, I know I deserve to be stoned. I'm taking my life
into my hands. He said, this is what I'm seeking
after, to be saved by another way. Is there another way I can
be saved? What if the Ten Commandments
can't save me? Is there another way? Yes, there's
another way. There's the only way. Look at
what he said in Romans chapter 3. Look at this, just beginning
in verse 19. We know that whatsoever things
the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped." Look at this. What does the law of God,
what does the Ten Commandments do? They stop our mouth. And
all the world becomes guilty before God. Therefore, by the
deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. But look in verse 21. Thank God
for this. But now the righteousness of
God without the law, without our obedience to it, without
our obeying it, is manifested being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe. But there is no difference. all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified
freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus." See there? He came contrary to the law.
He came as a lawbreaker. But that's the way we must come,
just like this man came. One old Puritan said, Put it
about your neck. Tighten the noose. Put some chains
on your feet. And limp your way to Jesus. And get down on your face before
Him and say, Lord, I'm here to hang myself. Because that's what
I deserve. I'm a prisoner in chains because
I'm a guilty sinner. But if you will, if you will,
Save me. I can't save myself. The law
can't save me. But you can save me. You can
save me. We must seek to be saved. Seek
to be saved by any other means, my friends, other than the Son
of God incarnate. The Son of God hanging upon a
tree outside the city of Jerusalem. He's the only one who can save
us. Not him and a little morality mixed with him. Not him and the
best we can do. Him alone. He alone, I say. In John Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress,
if you read that book, you know what I'm talking about. Pilgrim
had the burden on his back. The evangelist told him, you've
got to get through the wicked gate. And you've got to see this
man hanging on a tree. And your burden will fall off
your back. Well, he was going along, and he hadn't got through
the wicked gate yet, and he ran into this worldly wise man. And the worldly wise man said,
I can help you get that burden off your back. Well, he said,
I bless God for you. That's what I'm trying to do,
get this burden off my back. And he said, OK. He said, there's
one over there in the village of Morality, and his name is
Mr. Legality. And if you go over
there and talk with him, he can help you with this burden. And
Pilgrim said, I hasten to see Mr. Legality. But he said, on
the way to his house, close to his house, in the village of
Morality, he said, I got under this mountain, and I noticed
flames were shooting out of the rocks. And he said, it got over
my head, and I thought it was going to fall on me and crush
me. And he said, my burden had become so heavy. And here come
evangelists. And the evangelist said, where
are you? Well, he didn't know, but he said, my burden's awful
heavy right now. And he said, well, soldier under
Mount Sinai, you're at the wrong mountain. You need to go back
and go to Mount Calvary. And he went back to Calvary,
and he saw the man, and his burden fell off his back and rolled
down in the sepulchre. When, brothers and sisters, when,
dear friends, are we going to try to quit saving ourselves?
When are we going to quit trusting in a little morality? Well, I
go to church. That's wonderful. I've been baptized. We're going to have a baptism
today. That's wonderful in its place. But nothing will substitute
a man coming to the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. And no matter
what we've done, if we've not come to Him as this man came,
we're not saved. We get in our sins and this mountain
where we anointed on is ready to fall on our heads and crush
us. Oh, we must come just like this
man came. Look here now, look here in Mark,
just the parallel passage and look here quickly, look in Mark's
account of this over in Mark chapter one. There's three accounts
of this, one's in Matthew that I read to you, one's in Luke.
And this one here is in Mark chapter 1, and look here in verse
40. This is amazing when you read
this, because it emphasizes who this leper came to. And that's
what I'm emphasizing this morning. If you and I would be saved,
it's not a bunch of doctrines that we stuff in our heads that
saves us. It's not morality that saves us. It's a person who saves
us. The Lord Jesus. And notice this
in verse 40. Mark chapter 1 in verse 40. Notice
how the Holy Spirit emphasizes this. There came a leper to Him,
beseeching Him, kneeling down to Him, and said to Him, see
what He's emphasizing? Him, if You will, You can make
me whole. If I wrote you a little paragraph
like this, it just has a few words in it, and I use your name
that often, it wouldn't make any sense to me. If I used your
name, Glenn, six or seven times in a little short paragraph,
you'd say, I can't even make this out. But when his name is
used, there came, who? A leper. A ruined leper. A man who was
dying. And where did he come? He comes
to Him. What did He do? He comes begging.
There's a way we come. I ain't going to beg nobody if
you're ever saved, you will. Yeah, you'll become a beggar.
It ain't Jesus that's the beggar. I'm sorry. He's in heaven. He's
got a crown on His head. He's robed in a beautiful garment.
He's ruling this universe. He's not a beggar. But if you're
ever saved, you'll become one. begging, beseeching, begging.
And look what else. He kneeling down to Him, kneeling
down, humbling Himself before the Lord. And notice what else
He done. He submitted to His will. If you will, if you will. And look here. Believing that
He had the power to do it. If He would. If you will, you
can make the That's the way we come. That's
the way we come. You may be here this morning,
you may be a baby in Christ, and you couldn't articulate this,
but let you grow some in grace, you'll realize this is the very
way you come to the Lord Jesus Christ. We have some people, poor things,
they say, well, the will of God don't have anything to do with
salvation. Just His power. You know, He has power to do
it. If you let Him, He has power to do it. You know what this
leper confessed? Not only the power of God, but
the will of God. What does the will of God have
to do with your salvation? Huh? Everything, don't it? What if
I told you this morning whether you go to glory or whether you
perish in hell was determined by one person, and that was God's
will? Would you like that or would
that make you angry? Whether you're saved this morning
or whether you die in your sins, the will of God will determine
that. Ain't that amazing? Oh, used
to be that scared me. Used to be it made me angry.
But here this leper was dying in his leprosy. And he was perfectly
content to leave it to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know you have the power. Are
you willing? Oh, listen. Listen. There's a hush. You can't hear anything. There's
a hush that goes over that crowd. You could hear a pin drop. Nobody's
saying anything. Everybody's on their tiptoes.
They're trying to look at the face of this man, Jesus of Nazareth. They've got their ears bent.
What are they waiting for? They're waiting for something
to be made known that can only be known by revelation. Does He will? Or does He not? If you will, boy, there they
stand waiting. Does He will? Does He will to
do it? That's where we all stand, brothers
and sisters. We have ruined ourselves by our
sin. If we have any claims on God
back in the Garden, we send them away. And now where we're saved
by Jesus Christ and go to glory at last, is left to the mere
will of this Sovereign Lord. It's not by the will of the flesh.
It's not by the will of blood. It's not of him that willeth
nor of him that runneth. But it's of God's will. It's
of him that shall have mercy. If you will. Oh, my soul. Someone said, if
I thought that my salvation rested wholly in the will of God, that
would scare me to death. You think this leopard wasn't
scared? You think he wasn't anxious? You think he wasn't afraid? You
better bet he was. You better bet he was. He had
no claims on the Savior. if you will. You know what we've
been told in our day, brothers and sisters, that God don't want
anybody to be afraid. God don't want anybody to fear.
God loves you, and so do we. Jesus died for you. Won't you
do something for Him? And the world is skipping together
on their way to hell without any fear of God. And here was this man ready to
die. And whether he was healed or
where he died, you will. You will. And I tell you what,
if you're here this morning, and you've been made to recognize
the serious danger that you're in, you're without God, you're
without Christ in this world, you're without hope, you come right where this man
comes. And lift your trembling arms to the Lord Jesus. He says,
Lord, if you leave me to myself, I'll perish. If you will, if
you will, if you will. I tell you, the happiest man
and woman in this world, the happiest man and woman and boy
and girl in this congregation this morning is that person who
knows that they're saved by the will of God. Ain't that so? It was God's will to save you. And therefore you're saved. He
brought you to repentance. He broke your heart. He gave
you faith to believe. He saved you. All because it
was His will. If you will. If you will. Look in verse 41 of Mark chapter
1, right quickly, and I won't keep you just another minute
or two. Look in verse 41. And Jesus,
this is wonderful. moved with compassion, put forth
his hand, and touched him, and said unto him, I will be thou
clean. And as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was clean."
Why would the Lord Jesus Christ touch this miserable, diseased
man? It wasn't to heal him. He wasn't
healed until he spoke. Why would He touch him? And this
man was full of leprosy. If you want to read some eyewitnesses'
accounts of these men who were in the last stage of leprosy,
you can find John Gill gives some graphic descriptions of
these men. Let me just tell you some things
that I wrote down. Here's the way he said this person
must have looked. By this time, his nose had rotted
off. There was only two holes in his
face. where his nose was. His tongue
was black, ulcerated and swollen. His face was bloated and shining. There were huge knots all over
his face. They were green on bottom and
white on top. Huge ulcers had risen and busted
all over his flesh so many times that now his flesh was hard and
looked like If you pulled his hair from his
head, it would pull skin as well, until all that was seen was his
skull. Can you imagine that? That's
this man that was full of leprosy. His ears and his private parts
had rotted and fell off. His eyes were red and inflamed
and shined like cat's eyes. His body temperature was so high
that if he held an apple in his hand for one hour, it would be
cooked. And when he was cut, instead
of bleeding blood, he bled pulse, the stink. That was this man. You'd have never touched him.
You'd have been afraid to. I wouldn't have touched him for
anything. He was repulsive, and yet the Son of God put his hand
on him. And the scripture tells us why
he did that. He was lubed with compassion. Can you imagine that? Did you
ever feel in yourself that you're like this man? Sometimes I set out in my study.
I'm around nobody. I don't have to put up with the
language that you have to put up with in the workplace and
different places. I sit out in my study. I read my Bible and
other books all day. I'm telling you, sometimes I
leave my study and I feel like I'm full of leprosy. I hate myself. I find such sin and such working
and such vileness in me. Do you ever feel that way? You
don't even want to be around God's children you feel so vile. And what does the Son of God
do? He touches you. He sympathizes with you. He's
touched with the feelings of your impermanence. You that are
so repulsive to yourself, you're not repulsive to Him. And He
touches you. And He says, I'm not ashamed
of you. I'm not ashamed of you. You're mine. I've redeemed you.
And you know something? This is amazing. If anybody else
were to touch this man, you know why? They'd have probably got
leprosy. That's why you didn't fool around with these guys.
It had no effect on the Lord Jesus Christ at all. No effect. Boy, it sure affected this fella,
didn't it? It affected this fella. When
he touches us, it don't affect him. When we touch him, it don't
affect him, but it sure affects us. If I can just touch the hem
of His garment, I'll be made whole. And He touched this leper. Oh, He says, I know the misery
you're in. I know where you're at. I can
sympathize with you. I love you right where you're
at. Ain't that wonderful? This is the same
God that came down on Mount Sinai and was threatening them people.
Now here He is, and He's touching a leper. He sympathizes with
the leper. And then finally he says, I will
be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy left
him. That's the way salvation is.
This ain't reformation. Dear soul, if you've been trying
to reform yourself and you've promised God 500,000 times you're
going to straighten up and get your act together, that ain't
going to work. This is not a process. Forgiveness
of sin, cleansing takes place immediately. You don't have to
go down here to the, whatever, the alcoholist or momonist and
go through all of that stuff. No, you don't have to do that.
You don't have to go through some kind of spiritual therapy.
As soon as He speaks, as soon as He speaks, did you hear what Jesus said
to me? Did you hear what He said? They're all taken away, away. Your sins are part of their reign. They're all, all of them. This man didn't have one speck
of leprosy left on him any more. His nose came back. And the Lord
said, now don't you go off and tell anybody what I did to you.
I could keep it quiet, couldn't you? Yeah. Why would the Lord
put such a burden on a man? Don't tell anybody that I just
healed you of leprosy. But he went off and began to
tell everybody. He couldn't have it. Can you
have it? I can't have it either. I once was lost. I'm found. I once was blind and now I see.
I want everybody to know it, don't you? Yeah, you'll tell everybody.
And you'll do what Shannon's going to do this morning. You'll
come up here and profess it in water baptism. because of what
he's did for you. Let's pray.