Reconciliation | 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 | Pastor Gary Hamrick

Summary

Pastor Gary Hamrick from Cornerstone Chapel explores the concept of reconciliation as presented in 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, explaining how God initiates the reconciling with humanity through Christ. He delves into the biblical meaning of reconciliation, emphasizing its two common uses—financial and relational restorations—and draws parallels between God's act of reconciliation and our daily lives. This teaching is an invitation for those who have not yet reconciled with God, illustrating God's pursuit of restoring the broken relationship through Jesus' sacrifice. Emphasizing our role as ambassadors of Christ, Hamrick calls on believers to live out and share this message of reconciliation and transformation.

Highlights

• We are ambassadors for Christ and have a constant duty to represent Him. 💼
• God initiated reconciliation despite our faults through Jesus. ✝️
• As believers, we're called to live as new creations, leaving old ways behind. 🕊️
• The message of reconciliation is an ongoing mission for all Christians. 📢
• Christ's sacrifice is central to reconciling humanity to God. ⭐

Key Takeaways

• We are ambassadors of Christ, called to represent Him in all we do. 💼
• Reconciliation with God was initiated by Him through Jesus' sacrifice. ✝️
• As new creations in Christ, we are called to live transformed lives. 🕊️
• Reconciliation is not just an event but a continuous message we must share. 📢
• The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross restored our relationship with God. ⭐

Overview

Pastor Gary Hamrick dives into 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, unpacking the deep theological implications of reconciliation. He challenges believers to consider their roles as ambassadors for Christ, explaining that this responsibility comes without days off and requires reflecting Christ in everyday actions and decisions.

The sermon paints a vivid picture of reconciliation as an initiative wholly begun by God, through the selfless sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Despite humanity's failings, God's love and mercy drive the pursuit for restoration, offering believers a clear-cut path to understand and share this reconciliation with others.

Ending with a call to action, Pastor Hamrick urges those who haven't yet accepted Christ to embrace the reconciliation offered. He reminds the congregation of their continuous duty to live transformed lives as new creations, pursuing holiness and representing Christ to a world in need of His grace.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 02:00: Introduction and Opening Prayer The chapter opens with an emphasis on Christians being ambassadors for Christ, representing Him in the world without any breaks. The focus is on aligning one's life with this role consistently.
• 02:01 - 30:00: Reading and Explanation of 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 This chapter discusses the transformative power of being in Christ, emphasizing that believers become a new creation. The old life passes away as one embraces a new life in God. It stresses that all changes are initiated by God, who reconciles humanity to Himself.
• 30:01 - 40:00: Definition of Reconciliation in the Biblical Context The chapter discusses the concept of reconciliation within a Biblical framework, emphasizing that God reconciled humanity to Himself through Jesus Christ. It highlights that believers are entrusted with the ministry of reconciliation, acting as ambassadors for Christ. The passage stresses God's role in not counting people's sins against them and the appeal to act as His messengers of peace.
• 40:01 - 60:00: God's Role and Initiative in Reconciliation The chapter titled 'God's Role and Initiative in Reconciliation' delves into the theological concept that God, through Jesus Christ, initiates reconciliation with humanity. It emphasizes the belief that Jesus, who was sinless, took on sin so that believers could attain righteousness. The chapter invites readers to reflect deeply on the implications of these verses and encourages a prayerful approach to understanding God's word and His role in bringing people back into a right relationship with Him.
• 60:01 - 80:00: Reconciliation Accomplished through the Cross The chapter likely begins with a prayer, requesting for receptivity and understanding of God's word.
• 80:01 - 100:00: Christian Identity and New Life in Christ This chapter explores the concept of reconciliation, emphasizing its repetition five times, and explaining its fundamental meaning as the restoration of harmony. It highlights contemporary applications of reconciliation, particularly in financial contexts such as reconciling bank statements and financial reports, ensuring all expenditures are accurately accounted for.
• 100:01 - 120:00: Role of Christians as Ambassadors of Reconciliation The chapter titled 'Role of Christians as Ambassadors of Reconciliation' begins with an analogy, using the concept of numerical harmony to illustrate the need for agreement. It reflects on current events, mentioning that as the chapter is being spoken, the Congress is working on a Reconciliation package. This package involves different committees within the House of Representatives attempting to align their budgets to create harmony for larger financial objectives.
• 120:01 - 150:00: Call to Accept Reconciliation Through Jesus In this chapter, the focus is on the concept of reconciliation in the context of fiscal policy and budget management. It discusses the process of adjusting revenue, debt limits, and deficits to create harmony between different committee budgets. This is referred to as a Reconciliation package, commonly understood in terms of money or accounting.
• 150:01 - 160:00: Closing Prayer and Invitation The concept of reconciliation is explored, both in terms of financial contexts like budgets and more commonly in relationships. The chapter presents a scene with two friends who share many common interests, enjoy each other's company, and have fun together. However, a conflict arises, impacting their harmonious connection.

Reconciliation | 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 | Pastor Gary Hamrick Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 an ambassador is one who represents an official dignitary our official dignitary is Christ himself and God calls us to represent him constantly in this world and guess what you don't get a day off all right everybody 2 Corinthians chapter 5 is where we're going to be this morning if you have your Bibles uh turn there with me if you are new to Cornerstone this is what we do we go straight through the Bible from cover to cover we find ourselves here in the
• 00:30 - 01:00 fifth chapter of 2 Corinthians I'm going to read the closing verses of this chapter that's verse 17 down through verse 21 2 Corinthians 5 starting at verse 17 Paul writes really a very familiar verse if you've been around church for very long therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation old things have passed away behold all things have become new now all things are of God who has reconciled us Circle
• 01:00 - 01:30 reconciled who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation that is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to them and has committed to us the word of reconciliation now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us us we implore
• 01:30 - 02:00 you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God for he made him who knew no sin that's Jesus to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him all right well there's a lot in those verses let's unpack them but first let's have a word of prayer Father in heaven we thank you for this time we can gather here in your house Lord opening your word and humbling ourselves before you and praying Lord that you would do a
• 02:00 - 02:30 good work in our hearts as we hear what your spirit has to say to us so Lord give us ears to hear and eyes to see in a heart that is receptive to your word today and I thank you for all those who are here and those who are watching online bless our Bible study we ask in Jesus name and everybody said amen well you may have noticed as I was reading through those verses that no less than five times Paul uses the word reconcile or some form of that word
• 02:30 - 03:00 reconciled reconciliation five times now reconciliation basically means to restore Harmony to restore Harmony we commonly today will use that word in two particular ways uh one way that we use the word reconciliation has to do with uh money or accounting uh bank statements and financial reports need to be reconciled expenditures have to be properly accounted for there must be a
• 03:00 - 03:30 Harmony if you will of all the numbers or else there's been some kind of error because numbers don't lie uh even right now as I speak the the Congress has a Reconciliation package that they're trying to agree on within the house and a Reconciliation package is is when different Committees of the House of Representatives are putting together their respective budgets and in order for it to all be harmonious for the big
• 03:30 - 04:00 the big beautiful budget um then there has to be some uh consiliary process where you adjust Revenue you adjust the debt limit you adjust deficits of some kind spending in some way so that there's Harmony between the different committee budgets and so they are working right now on something that's called a Reconciliation package so that's one way that we will typically use that word is as it has to do with money or accounting
• 04:00 - 04:30 or budgets the other probably more common way that we use the word reconciliation has to do with relationships so here's the scene you have two friends uh two people who get along really well they love spending time together they they have some of the similar likes and interests they they laugh at the same jokes I mean you know friends are birds of a feather who flock together they are people who enjoy spending time together hanging out and they have similar interests but one day
• 04:30 - 05:00 a rift happens between those two friends there's some matter of resentment or some offense and as a result those two friends stop talking they don't hang out with each other like they used to the Friendship has become sour it has uh become strained it has become broken until one day one of those two friends decides to put aside pride and to extend an invit ation to the other
• 05:00 - 05:30 person about uh becoming friends again and so they start to talk again and they slowly start to spend time together again and they extend forgiveness to one another and they extend peace to one another and they restore what was broken that's reconciliation and that's typically the way that we will talk about that word today as it has to do with marriages or friendships that were broken and then came back together in
• 05:30 - 06:00 some kind of Harmony and we are very well aware that that kind of thing can happen between friends and can happen between spouses there's a Reconciliation process that is necessary to bring Harmony where there was disharmony to bring Unity where there was disunity and to bring healing where there was Brokenness between two parties this is the sense in which Paul is using this word here in 2 Corinthians chapter 5
• 06:00 - 06:30 Paul is using the term reconciliation five times to describe what God has done to bring Harmony between us and God now in saying that it it presupposes that there has been disharmony and there has been uh ever since the Garden of Eden in Genesis chter 3 when Adam sinned against God when Adam disobeyed God there was a break in the fellowship there was a break in the relationship between
• 06:30 - 07:00 Mankind and God and what what Adam did by sinning against God broke that Fellowship it severed that relationship and like it or not the Bible basically describes all of humanity now as having been tainted because of the sin of Adam what Adam did by sinning against God altered the DNA of humanity such that we all have inherited a sin nature every single one of us is Born Into sin with a
• 07:00 - 07:30 sin nature which means that all of us from the moment of conception and then subsequently birth are estranged from God we are all estranged from God there is a disunity there is a disharmony because of the sin nature now in humanity against God and the Bible makes this clear I'll throw a couple verses on the screen Romans 5:12 through one man Adam sin and entered the world and death
• 07:30 - 08:00 through sin and thus death spread to all men because all sinned so that's how the Bible describes us the condition of humanity is we are all sinners because we're born into sin with a sin nature there's none righteous no not one good news however is that what was broken in the garden was reconciled on the cross what was broken in the garden was reconciled on the cross the Bible also speaks to this
• 08:00 - 08:30 Colossians 1:21 and22 and you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by Wicked Works yet now he God has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death meaning the the crucifixion of Christ to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight and also in Romans 510 the Bible says this for if when when we were
• 08:30 - 09:00 enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his son much more having been reconciled we shall be saved by his life let's get a working definition of biblical reconciliation here it is it's the restoration of friendship and fellowship after estrangement gained for us with God through Jesus Christ so this is an important Doctrine for us understand you know here I am as
• 09:00 - 09:30 a pastor going straight through the Bible and we come to this fifth chapter of 2 Corinthians and no less than five times Paul uses this word reconcile reconcile reconcile as he closes out 2 Corinthians chapter 5 so it's it's not a subject I can just skip through although many of you having already been reconciled know this topic you understand what this means but for the sake of everyone those in particular who don't have a relationship with Christ it
• 09:30 - 10:00 is good for all of us to know what is biblical reconciliation all about and why is it necessary so for those of you taking notes five things here's the first thing reconciliation was initiated by God everybody this was his doing he was the innocent party in the broken relationship we were the ones who betrayed him we were the ones who disobeyed him and yet he in iated
• 10:00 - 10:30 reconciliation you know when I used the example earlier about two friends where a rift happens yes there is a rift between us and God but not because of anything God has done he's completely innocent in the relationship he's holy he's perfect he is without sin the breakdown happened when Adam sinned against God and thus because all of us are sinners we are at enmity with God and yet he is the one who initi initiates the reconciliation now stop to
• 10:30 - 11:00 think about this think about if you are in a strained marriage right now or a strained friendship right now where some offense has occurred and the relationship is strained at the least or broken at worst and yet what God does is he pursues us who have offended him like that would be taking the initiative if
• 11:00 - 11:30 you and and there's no you know innocent person and you know everyone has their faults but there can be deliberate things done in a marriage or relationship that has offended and betrayed the trust of that relationship and how difficult would it be if you are the offended party to pursue reconciliation with the one who wronged you and yet that's what God has done we have wronged him we have sinned against him and God has taken the
• 11:30 - 12:00 initiative to pursue us as the offenders as the Sinners look again in your Bibles at Verse 18 note Verse 18 where Paul writes now all things are of God like this is all his doing all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ this was God's decision to reconcile us to himself not because of our worthiness there is nothing worthy about us but because of his Mercy he has has pursued Us in all
• 12:00 - 12:30 of our sin and wickedness God has gone after us to bring us back into fellowship with him and he did this by the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross that's Point number two number two reconciliation was accomplished on the cross God's plan of reconciliation was this we are sinners and God is Holy and perfect and just in all his ways so we can't save ourselves because we are sinners a holy
• 12:30 - 13:00 just and perfect God decided to send his holy just and perfect son who would die a substitutionary death on the cross and take the punishment intended for us take the Wrath intended for us Jesus would assume the penalty that we deserved because it was God's way of initiating a plan to reconcile us to him I mean consider this it was The Great Exchange when Jesus offers his sinless life for
• 13:00 - 13:30 our sinful lives when he offers his peace in exchange for the punishment that we deserve and if that weren't enough this passage here tells us that in addition Jesus gives us his righteousness in exchange for our unrighteousness I mean this is an amazing concept to consider look again in your Bibles at verse 21
• 13:30 - 14:00 for he that is God made him Jesus who knew no sin okay Jesus was without sin to be sin for us to take on our sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him the righteousness of God in him now once we accept this by faith and believe that Christ died on the cross for our sins then we can be reconciled to God see God can initiate the plan
• 14:00 - 14:30 Jesus dies on the cross but it means nothing to US unless we by faith accept and believe what Jesus did for us by taking the punishment that we deserved on that cross which brings us then to number three because if we then by faith accept what Christ has done for us reconciliation means that God does not count our sins against us this is verse 19 notice in your Bibles verse 19 that is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
• 14:30 - 15:00 himself not imputing their trespasses to them meaning not counting our sins against us look we stood guilty before God and what did God do he expunged our guilty record the merciful judge looked Upon Our guilty lives and because we can accept by faith what Christ did for us God then expunges our record as our
• 15:00 - 15:30 merciful judge because all of our sins were put on Christ I love Psalm 103:2 as far as the East is from the West so far has he removed our transgressions from us that is our loving father who forgives us and remembers our sins no more and so when our savior when Jesus hung on a cross and he said it is finished the barrier between sinful man and a holy God was removed making all
• 15:30 - 16:00 those who trust in him according to Colossians 1:22 as holy in his sight without blemish and free from accusation and again verse 21 he made him who had no sin to be sin for us that we might become think of this the righteousness of God in Christ God now sees Believers wrapped in the the righteousness of his
• 16:00 - 16:30 son wrapped in the righteousness of his son number four reconciliation is a message God wants us to share with the world this is something else that Paul writes In this passage he basically says this it's not just enough that you and I have been reconciled to God through faith in Jesus God wants us now to spread the message of reconciliation wherever we go this is verse 19 in your Bibles say the
• 16:30 - 17:00 latter part of verse 19 and has committed to us the word or the message of reconciliation he's he's committed this to us verse 20 now then we are ambassadors Circle that word we're ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us we implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God so that's the message for the ambassadors representing Christ to go around the world saying we've been reconciled we implore you to be reconciled with God now look we know
• 17:00 - 17:30 what an ambassador is right but just by way of definition an ambassador is a respected official acting as a representative of a nation sent to a foreign land the ambassador's role is to reflect the official position of the Sovereign body that sent him okay well we have a sovereign King that we serve and his name is Jesus and we are not citizens of this Earth we are
• 17:30 - 18:00 only passing through our ultimate citizenship is in heaven therefore we must represent him as our Sovereign king and the position of heaven everywhere we go with whomever we speak as ambassadors of our King Jesus and this is a high calling friends this is not something to be taken lightly and Ambassador is one who represents an official dignitary our official dignitary is is Christ himself
• 18:00 - 18:30 and God calls us to represent him constantly in this world and guess what you don't get a day off if you decided you're going to be a follower of Christ you are an ambassador from the moment you agree to follow him and surrender your life to Jesus and it's not like you can pick which days you want to properly represent him and which days you don't as an ambassador of Christ This Is The High Calling to which he expects us to live it means means that an ambassador for Christ you don't
• 18:30 - 19:00 have the luxury of cussing out your co-workers you don't have the luxury of cutting someone else off on the highway CU you don't like the way they're driving you don't have the luxury of lying to someone or cheating them or getting drunk or hooking up because an ambassador for Christ is to represent Christ well all the time everywhere for his glory does everybody get this this is a high calling of God
• 19:00 - 19:30 listen to what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:1 this is one of the most challenging verses in the Bible to me 1 Corinthians 111 Paul says follow my example as I follow Christ can you say that can you freely say that to anybody you want to see Jesus follow me because I'm following him you want to see him reflect reflected look at my
• 19:30 - 20:00 life follow my example as I follow Christ that's a very challenging verse now I get it there's going to be some days that all of us because none of us is perfect and we're going to look at our we're going to look back on our day and think wow I didn't I was not a very good Ambassador today I didn't represent Christ very well in whatever situation it might be all right well then say you're sorry to whomever you offended by not representing Christ well and then the next day do it all over again
• 20:00 - 20:30 because we got to be his ambassadors every day this is what he calls us to be about and that means we have to be people who are living in a holy way to reflect a holy God there's no room for compromise there's no room for the church to be a bad example of Christ you say well I'm a little uncomfortable I don't I don't want to you know well well okay then don't say you're a Christ follower because if we go around saying we're a Christian but we're living in a way that is inconsistent with what we
• 20:30 - 21:00 profess with our mouth and we're in in in different ways dishonoring him then don't go around saying you're a Christ follower like he he is to be exalted in everything about our lives it is a high calling it is a high bar but he calls us to be his ambassadors everywhere we go with whomever we speak lastly number five this all culminates in really where this whole passage began number five reconciliation means that we
• 21:00 - 21:30 are new creatures in Christ this is verse 17 look again at verse 17 this is familiar to many of you therefore if anyone is in Christ meaning has a relationship with Christ he is a new creation old things have passed away behold all things have become new now this is how God sees you he sees you as a new creature in Christ he sees
• 21:30 - 22:00 you as someone who has been redeemed and reconciled and forgiven which means this is how we therefore need to see ourselves and how we need to see others let me start with ourselves when you become a Christ follower there's a whole new identity that you inherit and it's a whole new mindset uh it's a whole new way of not only looking at life but also looking at
• 22:00 - 22:30 yourself not to be self-centered I don't mean it like that I just mean you know before you came to know Christ you were living a certain way and when you come to Faith In Jesus and you've been forgiven and you've been redeemed and you've been reconciled to him there's a whole new identity and mindset that comes with that and I think that where it begins is to understand what it means to be forgiven I know too to many people who
• 22:30 - 23:00 don't fully live out their lives for Christ because they're still stuck in their own past and the shame of it and the guilt of it has limited their ability to really be effective ambassadors for Christ because they don't know who they are in Christ and the fact of the matter is that our identity in Christ is vital for living a healthy life for Christ who we are in him has a lot to do with how we
• 23:00 - 23:30 live for him and and again the key I think to living for Christ is knowing who we are in Christ and it begins with understanding how we have been forgiven let me just read a few verses to you Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ Paul says it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me
• 23:30 - 24:00 Ephesians 2:10 Paul says for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them Romans 8:1 therefore there is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but according to the spirit there's verse after verse after verse in the Bible that we have to saturate our hearts and Minds with to understand who am I now in Christ what
• 24:00 - 24:30 does it mean to be forgiven what does it mean to have a clear conscience and then to be able to serve him clearly as an ambassador because I know what he's done for me this is important for all of us to understand our identity in Christ and and and listen read this verse over and over again in verse 17 that I'm a new creature in Christ I've been forgiven I've been reconciled and this is how God sees me and by the way the other part to this is this is how we need to see
• 24:30 - 25:00 others who are in Christ we need to see them as forgiven we need to see them as new creatures because if we're not spending time haunted by our own past sin and failures that are now under the blood you know what we tend to do we look at other people and we judge them for their past sins and failures that are under the blood of Christ and this is wrong we need to see them as new creatures in Christ look at verse 16 this is a verse we
• 25:00 - 25:30 didn't read but back up even one verse earlier to verse 16 where Paul says this he says therefore from now on WE regard no one according to the flesh even though we have known Christ according to the flesh yet now we know him thus no longer let me read that same verse to you in the New Living Translation so we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view at one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view you how differently we know him now and what Paul is saying
• 25:30 - 26:00 here is we have to look at people through the lens of God's eyes and see them if they are in Christ as new creatures in the same way that we want to be seen as new creatures in the same way we want to have a healthy right understanding of our identity in Christ we need to view other people in the same way people can change sir and more importantly people can be changed by the trans forming power of the Holy Spirit
• 26:00 - 26:30 through the Forgiveness of Jesus [Applause] Christ who are we then to think any less of others who are in Christ than what Christ thinks of them himself you will show Grace to others to the degree that you understand Grace for yourself whoever is forgiven much loves
• 26:30 - 27:00 much when you realize how much Christ has forgiven you then you can love others the way Christ does I close with this illustration two famous poets who were married Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning two famous English poets Elizabeth Barrett married Robert Browning and 1846 against her father's
• 27:00 - 27:30 wishes they eloped her father did not want her to get married her father by historical accounts was a very controlling and um very tough father he didn't want any of his children to get married so he did not agree for Robert Browning to marry his daughter Elizabeth Barrett so the two of them eloped in 1846 and they ended up after they got married of saing to Italy where they lived out the rest of their lives
• 27:30 - 28:00 Elizabeth Barrett Browning never stopped trying to reconcile with her estranged family every week Elizabeth Barrett Browning would write a letter to her family trying to reach them trying to reconcile especially with her father she did this week after week year after year finally after 10 years Elizabeth Barrett Browning received a
• 28:00 - 28:30 big box that had been shipped to her she opened up the box this is after 10 years and inside the Box she found every single letter she had written to her parents unopened those letters of her attempted reconciliation became a lot of her poetry that she ended up publishing her parents missed the opportunity for
• 28:30 - 29:00 reconciliation because they never opened the letters the Bible is God's love letter to reconcile you to him contained within the pages of this book is God's heart to attempt to go after the ones who are estranged from him if you were already reconciled because you know Christ as your savior then the charge for us today is to be ambassadors and to reflect him well in
• 29:00 - 29:30 this world if you are not reconciled to God because you don't know Christ as your savior then let today be that day that you respond to his love letter that he so loves you he sent his son Jesus to die on a cross for you because he wants relationship with you it's a profound thing to think that the creator of the universe actually would stoop so low that he wants personal relationship with every single one of us and yet he does this is God's heart to reach Humanity
• 29:30 - 30:00 the one who is perfect and holy in all his ways has gone after the estranged ones from him who are estang not because of anything he has done but because of our sinfulness be reconciled to God today trust him as your lord and savior Surrender Your Life to him you say well how do I do that I'll Lead You In a prayer and let's close that today would you all bow your heads with me Father we thank you for your word word today the word of reconciliation for those of us who
• 30:00 - 30:30 already know you we've been reconciled God I pray that we would live out our lives in a way that reflect you well as your ambassadors everywhere we go that people would see Jesus in us and so help us Lord as we live out our lives to bring you much Glory and Honor as ambassadors of Christ but for those who don't know you today maybe they're watching online maybe they'll listen later on podcast or they're seated right here today they
• 30:30 - 31:00 would be honest enough to admit they don't know you they don't have a relationship with you Lord I pray that today would be the day they would be reconciled and so for those of you who want that you want to be reconciled to God just open up your heart right now I'm going to lead in a very short word of prayer very simple prayer and if you want to be reconciled to God then you can just pray this prayer with me right where you're seated just say Lord Jesus thank you for loving
• 31:00 - 31:30 me thank you for dying on a cross for my sins I admit that I'm a sinner like everyone else and I ask you Lord to come into my life and save me I want to be reconciled to you today and I thank you for what Christ did on the cross I accept by faith Jesus and his finished work on that cross for me that I might have relationship with
• 31:30 - 32:00 you thank you God for loving me thank you Jesus for dying for me come into my life and save me today I accept you by faith in Jesus name now everybody look at me for just a minute if you prayed that prayer is going to be a pastor down front here to give you a Bible before you leave just come and get it free gift no strings attached we just want to give you a Bible to remember today's decision and if if you were online and prayed that
• 32:00 - 32:30 prayer you can text into the church and we'll send you a Bible just text in I have decided to 73 8449960027 [Applause]