The Need For Easter

well good morning District Church good to see you guys man good stuff all right microphone's on it's good how we doing in the back technology all right we're we're hoping for the best so all right let's see if I can press a button and make stuff happen okay maybe not hey look at that all right all right yay get R BL y y always fun always fun keeping us on our toes man there are six weeks away Easter is Right upon us somebody say Amen the thing about this is that this is our Super Bowl amen it is it is our time in which that

we can focus through all the different things and uh what you know Pastor Dwayne shared last week uh and and starting us off in thinking through uh what's to come in the next 40 days uh especially in this fasting time uh just a a great time for us to focus but it's also a great time to invite uh statistics tell us that folks that don't go to church are more likely to come to church at a couple of different times a year and it's Easter and Christmas so this is the time right now as you're beginning to think through and pray and and walk through

this Lenton season uh to begin to prep head uh those folks that you could invite might be a neighbor might be a family member might be a coworker somebody that could come along and and be here with us to worship on the most important day of the year that day in which we celebrate um this time that changed the world Amen when Jesus came out of the Grave we're in Lenton season Lenton season now Lenton is a is actually an Old English term that means lengthen L lengthen just like we lengthened our day this week how many of y'all just really were so excited about

the time change how how many how many still you just keep your clock you know at the same time you know like all year um but yes it is it's a it's a great reminder and so many of these things as we think H how's the fasting going chy said yeah it was uh it was weird I know for us we're doing kind of the Thursday night into Friday and doing that 24hour thing and um how many have never fasted before how many have never fasted before okay okay oh okay so everybody most everybody has then at some point um you know and it really

is uh and I think that you know Dwayne emphasized that that last week it's a great spiritual discipline it's a great exercise and and again take that time to make sure that uh your your your time in prayer your time in the word is precious and allow that hunger to remind you uh that how we need to hunger and thirst after God and um it'll just be a precious time as we step down okay today we're going to be talking about the need for Easter and oh how we need Easter as we as we jump into this we we you know sometimes you know if

you've been a Christian for like the time you know oh okay this is just kind of the normal flow of of how you know our our life in in church how it flows and how it goes but this is a time that can't escape us it's a it's a time to remind us just how incredibly important Resurrection Sunday is why we need Easter now in order for us to understand the need for Easter we got to figure out well where does it start well it starts actually in Genesis everybody turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1 Genesis chapter 1 and we're going to go back

to Genesis to see why we need Easter Genesis in the beginning in the verse very first verse most of you can probably quote This by heart in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth this was God's Perfect Design let's go ahead and pray together as we begin to set the foundation for the need of Easter let's pray together father thank you again for your word I pray that you help us now help us to put aside everything from this past week the struggles the strains the the anxiety the pressure and even the good things even the things that were great help us to

put those aside now and help us to focus upon you and your word father teach us today help us to hear directly from you father help us to see our need and father I pray that you'll turn our hearts to walk closer with you father help us as we head into this coming week father to be ready and prepared for the challenges that are coming ahead and father help us as we set the stage in our hearts to step down to this time of Resurrection so father we love you we praise you and we give you all the praise for all that you're going to

do in our hearts pray this in Jesus name amen now this is the beginning this is the foundation in fact I would tell you that uh in these first chapters in and really all of Genesis is really the foundation of our faith you can find all the principles that that you will find in the church this very day are all found in the Book of Genesis and we see from the very beginning that as God was the the very I love this I was just looking at this this morning the very first verb in the Bible is what created the very first thing that we

know about God is that he was a creating God and I think that when when we are creative when we are in that mode of of creating things that we are more like God than at any other time that's an amazing thing right now some people say well Chris I I'm not very creative I no no this is the way that God has made us in fact we're going to see that in just a minute is that we are actually created in His image and being creative is part of that now for you it could be I don't know I mean you know you go

well I I don't I don't paint pictures and I don't sing and I don't do that kind of stuff well what what is it that God has given you to do maybe it is that you love math and there's something wrong with you but that's great I mean if maybe you love you know solving problems well that's creative because you can take things and and and understand them and pick them apart and in fact you know I know this about you know kids and we got a whole ton of them around here and I got grandkids and and and you see them from the time

that they are literal what what is the one thing that you see throughout their their growing early years is that they are incredibly creative right you give a kid some crayons what are they going to do you're going to start drawing on stuff and and you know you look at it and you go what is it and they know exactly what it is right I mean they've created a masterpiece this look at this this is a horse you know and I've already said oh it's a snake what is it I don't know what it is but it's part of you you you have them sing

and what do they do they sing at the top of their lungs they dance they do all those things and somehow we run into like Preen years and all that goes away right it's all wiped away but God has created us in His image we are Crea and I love this as we kind of walk through these things it's like wouldn't that be cool it's like you know if you'd have been there to see you know how God is like boom you know here that you know he creates this and boom he creates that well here's the cool thing is that as you walk through

each of these things after he creates he says it was good amen look at this verse one in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters then God said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was good everybody say it was good it was good he goes through and in seven different instances in verse one and ver or verse 10 of chapter 1 he says and God called

the dry land Earth and the Gathering Together of the waters he called the Seas and God saw what okay all right let's try it all again see if we and it was good oh that's good all right all right so you're catching on right this is good all right here we go and then if we go down to verse 12 here's what it says and the Earth brought forth grass the herb that yields seed according to its kind and the tree that yields fruit whose seed is in itself according to its kind and God saw that it was good Verse 18 got Turn the Page

here and so and oh sorry wait a minute I gotta back up and God let them in the firmament of sorry I got to back up then God made two great lights the greater light to Rule the Day and the Lesser light to rule the night he made the Stars also now hold on wait a second how do how he's he's making the the sun and the moon and the stars but there was already light that's good right that's good why why was why was that there didn't need to be sun moon and stars to have light why because he is the light he is

the light and in him is no Darkness at all and you think about that and that's way it's going to be once we get to heaven is that there is not going to be any more night there's not going to be any need for sun moon and stars because he is the light but look what it says God made two great lights greater light to rule the day and lesser light to rule the night he made the Stars also and he set them in the firmament of the Heavens to give light on the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and

to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good then was go down to verse 21 look at what it says so God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves with which the waters abounded according to their kind and every Winged Bird according to its kind and God saw that it was good and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the Seas and let Birds multiply on the earth so the evening and the morning were the fifth day and God said let the Earth bring forth a living creature according to its kind

cattle and creeping thing and Beast of the earth each according to its kind and it was so and God made the Beast of the Earth according to its kind cattle according to its kind and everything that creeps on the Earth according to its kind and God saw that it was good man he gets to the end and I love it where he says that it was all very good was very good and I love that he creates us you know we we think about you know what what that must have been like to be there in those moments to see these things come to be

and you know it's like I don't know about you but I love new stuff you know what I mean it's like you know if you get like a brand new iPhone right you take it out and it's like it feels good it looks good or maybe say that maybe say that as you think about that everything seems like it's it's just perfect man it's it's it's in perfect condition and in this cake we got to think that this was the perfect environment right and when you think about all these things that are brand new and and it's Perfection is God has even declared it and

think about the food I mean he says you know you can have of all the fruits you can have it's all good I mean and this was even before they were eating steak amen right there was there was no meat yet I mean they weren't eaten meat yet so so it's an amazing thing even the fellowship that they had with God was perfect they would they would walk with him in the cool of the day and they would talk and they would commune together and their hearts would sing together they would have that kind of Union together and again when you think about new stuff

and anybody ever had a new car like a brand new car anybody all right and you and you get in that car and it's all clean like I'm sure all of your cars are super clean right at the moment just you know everything is perfect you know you just kind of run your your hand along you know the whether it's you know the interior or the wheel or the outside and then you know when you get in and sit down what's there that new car smell somebody say amen and here's the thing you think about I mean did the Earth have like a new Earth

smell I mean I don't know probably I mean you know you think about it it's like there's probably something really cool that was really just an amazing thing overwhelm your senses would be overwhelmed now there's there's been a time where I've had a new car and uh but you know for majority of of my life I tend to buy you know used you know softly used vehicles or whatever and and um I had a truck had a truck that man I loved and and uh there was one time where I was going down the road and I noticed that my truck wasn't stopping just right

you know I mean it was something's weird there right so I you know get out pop the hood and you know I'm like okay okay well I'll check the the reservoir there and so I checked the the the and sure enough it was low now I had a I had a toolbox in my truck so I you know I know I was like wait a minute I got some fluids down in here so I reach down kind of fish around you know and and I find you know the a bottle and and so I'm like okay I'm GNA I'm going to fill up the reservoir

fill up the reservoir now it was it was getting toward the end of the day right and uh so it was starting to get dark and so I I take off you know and I'm I'm driving and a little bit further down the road I noticed that what is say I just I just fill up but the car doesn't seem to be you know stopping just right wait a minute I don't know what's going on here so I get out and i' Toss The Empty Bottle that ID emptied into the reservoir into the back and I fished it out now I don't know about you

but I don't know if you've ever noticed that a break fluid bottle looks a lot like a power steering bottle I had I had introduced some some foreign thing that is going to corrupt and corrode my system I I had to take it to uh get it all flushed out and uh and of course the mechanic's like uh what were you thinking what's going on here and I tried to explain and I just sounded even dumber than you know what I actually did but here's the deal is like when we think about creation and how perfect everything was we see that there was something that

was introduced into this perfect environment that was going to corrupt that was going to cause issues and problems that persist even to today because the next thing we see in chapter three is the fall look with me at verse one of chapter three now the serpent was more more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman has God indeed said You shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said to the serpent well we may eat the fruit of the Trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree

which is in the midst of the garden God has said you shall not eat it nor shall you touch it lest you die is that what God Said interesting isn't it how that U we see that the serpent the evil one that he begins to introduce into this perfect environment doubt and deception doubting the very words of God because God never said that they couldn't touch it he just said that they couldn't eat it and on the day that they would eat it that they would surely die now this is this is a favorite tool of Satan is deception and you probably know this to

be true in your own life deception ition is the oldest and best and especially deception in accordance with the words see because you know if he can get you to doubt the very word of God or to misunderstand the word of God and he's got you right where he wants you he's said what is that really what that says come on and you see that's why it's so important for us to know the word and to know know what it says and what it teaches down to the very last jot and title is to understand what does the word of God say because we should

base our lives on that not on anything else not on what a denomination teaches not on what a man teaches not on what we think it might say we have to understand because what will happen is we will take if we do not know it backward and forward that this the evil one will begin to use it to deceive us how have you been deceived deception now here's the here's the thing I would say that deception is at the heart of every sin Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 9 says the heart is deceptively wicked deceitfully wicked Above All Things who who can know it see we

can be deceived by others but we can also deceive ourselves in fact I would even say that that's even part of the equation because that's the exact uh uh method that uh the evil one uses here he says after he says um she responds back to him then the serpent said in verse four serpent said to the woman you should you not surely die you shall not surely die for God knows that in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil I mean don't you I mean think about that don't don't

you want to be like God I mean wouldn't that be a great thing I seeing God you know he's just he doesn't he wants to keep it all to himself he doesn't want you to be like him see he he lays out like the grass is greener over there it's better over there and I would say that most of the sin that we encounter is about that deception and we deceive ourselves and we go along and we go oh you know and we can justify and we can excuse away most of our Behavior that's one of our weaknesses and Satan knows it he knows it

better than you know it he knows it better than I know it and he will use use it as a trap deception and deception when we are deceived leads to obedience or Disobedience and in verse six so when the woman saw the tree was good for food oh it's going to taste so good that it was pleasant to the eyes oh how beautiful and the tree desirable to make one wise this is going to make me so smart this is going to make me so good-look this is going to make me so much better I'm going to look so cool says that she took of

its fruit and ate and then she also gave to her husband with her and he ate now there was no there wasn't a lot of conversation between Adam and Eve there so I don't know what was going on we can make a lot of conjecture but obviously Adam you know and here's the thing is that because Adam was the leader the head in this relationship he's actually the one that's held responsible for the action really important for us to understand that and that it says then the eyes of both of them were open they knew that they were naked and they seed fig leaves together

and made themselves coverings made themselves coverings they tried to C cover up the sin and the shame and we know that according to the word of God that at that very moment that there was a separation that was taking place it says according to God the word of God on the day that you eat of it you will surely die now they didn't physically die right here's what I think I think a couple of things happened I think that they were created to live forever but because of their Disobedience they began to physically die and then something spiritually was happening they were becoming separate from

God himself because we as we go on it says in verse 8 they heard the sound of the Lord God Walking In The Garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden now isn't this interesting they were trying to hide from God they were trying to hide from God and you know that that's absolutely what takes place today right I mean that's why you know we see it confirmed especially when we get over to the New Testament that men love Darkness rather than light because their deeds were

evil why do they do things at night because they're trying to hide from God and I don't know if you probably noticed that about yourself is that generally speaking that's when you're most open to sin that's when you have your biggest struggles that's probably when you fall the most when you try to hide in the darkness from God then and then it says then the Lord God called Adam and said to him where are you now let me ask you a question did God not know where they were of course not is this a geographical question no this is not a geographical question this is

a spiritual positional question and I love it because you see that the the most amazing tools we see in the word of God and especially used by Jesus later on are questions and I would put to you this way that in this very service today right now before the end of our time is done that God is going to ask you that same question where are you where are you where are you are you close to him are you far from him are you running away from him where are you and God asked the question specifically so that you we can wake up to the

answer and say for goodness sake where am I where am I what what am I doing what is going on and then and I love this when he says so they say I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself and then God says another powerful question who told you that right I mean especially if you have kids and maybe your kids aren't to this stage yet but at some point your kid is gonna say something just stupid and you're gonna say who told you that I didn't tell you that who to and they're GNA

say my friend Billy told me that or somebody else told them that who told you that and and again this is this is where we need to take a moment and say number one answer the question who where are you number two wherever you're at and whatever the issue is and however you think or whatever you think the answer is God is saying who who told you did I tell you that see because the world is going to tell you something different than what God's going to tell you the world's going to give you an answer to your child rearing questions the world is going

to tell you something about how you should deal with whatever it is in your life and you have to ask yourself who am I listening to who is telling me this who told you that and then and then this always happens y'all be better be saying Amen in your heart right because here's what here's what then the man said said the the woman whom you gave to be with me she she was it's her fault she gave to me of the tree and I ate it right and Lord God said to the woman what is this that you've done and the woman said it's a

serpent it's he he it's his fault it's his fault and again maybe your kids aren't to that point but I guarantee you write it down you remember the first day first Sunday for Lenton that you learned your kids are going to sayit was their fault wasn't mine somebody else's I just experienced that same thing real life this last week the blame game will always start and we will do the same man whenever whenever we're caught we're trying to blame it on my kids do it to me all the time let me tell you something we're sitting around family you know dinner table and all of

a sudden something will come up and and they'll say well you know why I'm this way it's because of you and I'm like yes I'm proudly the excuse that you need counseling now that's exactly right I wounded you and I put you outside and made you drink from a hose and you you know I I told you to go and play and not come back until I called you so so it's absolutely true we play the blame game just as well and and and again here's the pattern the pattern that we see is that when the deception happens and then sin enters in the this

this corrupting thing that then there's shame the shame will happen the shame and and and we'll we'll try to fix it sometimes that's what Adam and Eve did they tried to sew fig leaves together and cover cover their sin up cover their shame came up they were shamed they hid themselves now the separation is well in place separation is beginning to happen rather than walking in the cool of the day with God Almighty they were separate they were hiding themselves away from God and maybe you've experienced that exact same thing that separation that begins and the separation that's referred to especially when we we talk

about death and and we see it even in in some of the verses today that we're going to look at is that death means separation from God for all eternity if we reject him now sin separates it always does and always will we become hopeless and helpless what can we do well we can try to sew the Fig leaves together you know in fact that's exactly what religion is right maybe you've heard that before is that religion other than Christianity all other religions on the planet today will take their own effort to try to cover up their sin and that is what we see in

Adam and Eve they were trying to Stitch things together to cover them up and that's what religion does it tries to put rules in place to cover things up so that you'll be accepted by God and some way by some work by something that you can do what can we do nothing absolutely nothing can we do and let me tell you folks that's why we need Easter somebody say amen that's why we need Easter from the very beginning we see our need now what happens is in in Genesis chapter 3 is that God begins after after this little conversation that he has with Adam and

Eve and he begins to pronounce judgment and he says so the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed and you shall bruise or he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel now we see the promise from the very beginning of the Savior that must come to fix this problem see because we

can't do anything to fix it we can't fix the separation no matter how many times we go to church no matter how many songs we sing No matter how many Bible verses we memorize there is not enough good that you can do on the planet everything you do is considered as filthy rags there is only one solution and he provides it and and you know we got to understand that this didn't take God by surprise okay God knew that this was going to happen so there was already a solution in place and what we see here in this promise is What's called the Proto evangelium

it's the first gospel the very beginning of the plan that would be referred to and pictured and typed all the way through your Bible from this very beginning until the very last closing chapter and verse of Revelation and the end of time that that is what this story is All About it's about his plan man somebody say Amen right there that's really good right when you think about it I it's like we got to remember that that this whole thing everything you're walking through every single day is not about you it's not about me it's about his plan it's about his plan and what is

his plan that he so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and let me tell you something one of the things I want to challenge you with is one thing I I want I want to I want you to just stop for just one second let's go back where we were just talking about where are you where are you now I want to kind of look at it again but I want you to see something because because of the culture we live in because of this American culture and especially because of this Christian American culture that we live in we have a

tendency to keep putting oursel back in the middle of the story that that is somehow about us let me let me fill in a a blank here literally you ask yourself the question right now where are you you are literally sitting amongst Empty Chairs empty chairs that need to be filled and I want you to think about the chairs and as you think about don't think about them as empty chairs I want you to think about them is that is that my friend down the road that should be sitting there is that my cousin that should be sitting over there is that my coworker that

should be sitting there see because when we ask ourselves where are we we are in amongst empty chairs that need to be filled why do they need to be fulfilled because the plan from the very beginning has been that God has given a solution for sin and there is a whole bunch of people outside this place right now and in our context that don't know the answer that don't know the the solution that are struggling every single day if we look just to our right we see a whole bunch of Apartments here that need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ if we look

to our right there's a bunch of people over here that need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ we need to get ourselves off of where are we personally and where are they where are they see because this isn't about me this is about what is God's plan what is what has God intended here God has sent me here not by accident not so I can just have stuff I want and experience the things I want to experience God has placed me here for a limited amount of time let me tell you something Bryce and I had dinner the other night and Bryce and

I you know we're getting old amen pry right now he's a little bit older than me but let me tell you something he looks good amen but here's the thing here's the thing that Bryce and I are thinking out that you're probably not thinking about I only got so much time left my days are limited the fact is as I research retirement it says you know normally you're thinking I'm going to retire like age 65 and here's what we find statistically that you will have a major life crisis whether it's Health financial or something if you haven't already experienced one before age 65 you will

experience at age 66 I ain't got much time left frankly you don't have much time left because whatever time you got right now consider it precious but consider the fact that you ain't got much time you ain't got much time man that was totally free not really in the sermon at all that was all just Holy Spirit stuff all right First Gospel and here's the fact of the matter by the way do youall like these pictures pretty cool we can credit AI for this because I asked it to give me a picture of heal crushing serpent all right so any so anyway but that is

this is the answer this is the solution even artificial intelligence tells us that all right so how interesting is that so from this moment we see that this is the plan for the rest of our time on this planet that the plan is is that Satan would be crushed now he's going to bruise the heel of the Savior and that's what we see when as Jesus hangs on the cross in fact some of you will even say and I'm sure I heard this preached one time that as Jesus was up on the cross that as they nailed his feet to the cross it literally bruised

his heel man that's some good stuff there oh go back hold on now we have to jet forward now we see from the beginning what the need of Easter is but let's look as we see the Fulfillment as we see the Promise has been given let's look at Romans chapter 5 everybody turn there Romans chapter 5 I'm going to read I'm going to close out our time together oh good we're gonna land the plane here in just a minute Romans chapter 5 and we're just going to read scripture together because there ain't nothing but better than scripture amen amen so we're just going to let

the the the scripture fill our time and and I'll try to fill in some things in between but look what it says starting in verse 12 of Romans chapter 5 therefore just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin now who's that one man Adam right everybody say Adam Adam was the one man and thus death spread to all men because all sin for un the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law that's why the law was given by the way the law was given you know all the Ten Commandments not so

you could follow it so you could get to heaven now all the other 633 other Commandments that are given to Jews that they are to fulfill and do and festivals and all those kind of things were not given so that they could go to heaven they were given as a reminder of our sin sin sin this is why you can't do it you could never live up to it man I'm starting to preach all right I got to go on all right here we go all right here's the thing nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned according to

the likeness of the transgression of Adam who is a type of him who was to come Jesus was referred to by the way as the second Adam but the free gift is not like the offense for If by the one man's offense many died much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abounded to many the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned for the Judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification for If by the one man's offense

death reigned through the one much more those who receive abundance of Grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ therefore as through one man's offense judgment came to all men resulting in cond ation even so through one man's righteous act the free gift came to all men resulting in justification of life for as by one man's Disobedience many were made Sinners so also by one man's obedience many will be made righteous moreover the law entered that the offense might abound but where sin abounded Grace abounded much more so that as Sin reigned in death even so Grace

might Reign through righteous to eternal life through Jesus Christ Our our Lord somebody say Amen man that is some good stuff when we think of how perfect it was when we think of how we messed it all up when we think of the promise that that came even in the midst of judgment I love it where where it says that even while we were yet sinners Christ died for us we were still Sinners we were right in the middle of it we didn't have to clean our lives up right in the middle of it he died for us see death came because of Adam but

life came because of Christ now let's look at 1 Corinthians chapter 15 1 Corinthians 15 look at this 1 Corinthians 15 this is so good 15 starting at verse 21 here's what it says for Since By Man Came Death by man also came the resurrection of the Dead for as in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive so the question to you question to me do we see the need for Easter the need for Easter in us that only comes because of one man messed it out one man fixed it up as we think about our closing time I need

Easter and you need Easter and the world needs Easter acts 4 and verse2 says this neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved let's pray father as we spend time in the Stillness of this moment father I pray that you help us to see ourselves that we are not self deceived but we know where we are we know where we are with you and father as we see where we are in the midst of empty chairs that we can see these chairs as you see these chairs that in my heart

I think that as you see these empty chairs that tears stream down your face and as you came into Jerusalem on that triumphal day and you looked out upon Jerusalem we know that you wept you saw the lost souls you saw the ones who rejected you saw their hurt you saw their Brokenness and you wept father may we weep as well may we weep and see them with your eyes and even as we leave out of this place that we will see people alongside on the streets on the on the corners and we will see them with you your eyes and understand that you gave

yourself as a substitute for our sin and right now if you're here and you know Jesus Christ and praise the Lord may you check your position where you're at today see your need as you fast throughout this week in the weeks to come and father I pray that you will put into the hearts of these folks here somebody that they could ask to Resurrection Sunday now if you're here and you don't know Jesus it's very simple you've seen everything that you need to see there's there's nothing more of the Gospel that I can share you saw our sin and our Brokenness there's there's only one

answer there's only one way to solve it it's through trusting in what Jesus did on the cross if you've never done that before or if there's a doubt maybe I'm not sure then now's your time today is your day the Bible says that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved when you trust in what he did on the cross to pay for your sin ask him to come your heart and save you there's no fancy words there's no special prayer you have to pray that's it and you pray right now and if you're like that and you pray you ask Jesus

to be your savior at the end of our time together if you want to come share that with me I would love to Rejoice with you or any any other church member Church leader here just come and let them know hey I prayed today to ask Jesus to be my savior but father we close our time with worship we close our time together in unity of of heart in mind and in spirit and and purpose remind us this isn't about us this is about you help us to see what you want us to do today we pray this in Jesus name amen