WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 Great cancer in the blood of every human being is not 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:10.400 Cancer, it's not a virus. It's not a sickness that's come from germs. It's sin 3 00:00:16.520 --> 00:00:18.440 All of us struggle 4 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:19.840 since Adam and Eve 5 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:25.280 With the struggle we have with sin and all of us are sinners and fall short of the glory of God 6 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:30.540 The Bible says of the wages of sin is death. The Bible says that when we 7 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:35.560 Live in our sin. What we're doing is we're living in death 8 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.240 We're living in separation from God 9 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:44.600 And so as we read the Bible like when you read Genesis all through Genesis you begin to see that at the beginning 10 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:47.360 after Adam and Eve sinned 11 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:49.360 men and women live to 12 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:55.160 3900 years of age our bodies are built to last a long time 13 00:00:55.160 --> 00:00:58.480 But because of sin and thousands of years of sin 14 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:05.360 we see this cancer of sin in our bloodstream that's taking us down and down and 15 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.040 the power of 16 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:10.680 Forgiveness is huge what Jesus came to do 17 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:18.600 he came to rescue us from the power of sin in our lives by going to Calvary that means going to the cross and 18 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:21.080 being nailed to the cross and 19 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:28.600 being the perfect sacrifice a perfect sacrifice of all of our sins through being the Lamb of God and 20 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:32.240 Then he not only died on that cross for the sins of the world 21 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:38.400 But on the third day he rose again and we call that the resurrection and during the time of Easter 22 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:42.000 We call that resurrection Sunday or Easter Sunday 23 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:46.640 We celebrate that three days later after Christ died on the cross 24 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:50.400 He was resurrected and this is the greatest revolution 25 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:56.760 that's ever happened to humankind and that is the cross of Christ and the resurrection of Christ and 26 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:03.640 So every man woman and child that comes into a personal relationship with Christ through surrender to him is 27 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:10.320 Forgiven of all of their sins past present and future. Have you discovered that? 28 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:16.000 Have you discovered the forgiveness of sins the power of being forgiven of your sins? 29 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.560 Is the healer of your soul? It's more important than any antibiotic 30 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:23.160 It's more important than any surgery 31 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:28.200 You might go through that the key to the healing of your soul is the forgiveness of sins 32 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:32.520 Made known through Jesus Christ and Jesus came to set us free 33 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:40.120 Primarily from sin Colossians 1 13 and 14 if you have a Bible look at Colossians 1 34 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:47.600 13 and 14 we read for God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and 35 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:54.440 Brought us into the kingdom of the Son. He loves in whom we have redemption the forgiveness of sins 36 00:02:54.600 --> 00:03:01.640 So Christ was sent to forgive us of our sins and to rescue us from the domain of darkness 37 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.440 So when we're born we're born sinners and as we go through life 38 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:10.000 We begin to experience the dominion of darkness in our life 39 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:17.000 If you've ever been bullied if you've ever been hated by someone if you've ever been abused by someone if you've ever been stabbed in 40 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:21.960 The back if you've ever experienced betrayal, you know what this world's all about 41 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:26.800 It's a sinful world under the domain of darkness 42 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.600 the the God of this age so Satan and demons 43 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:33.520 control 44 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:35.520 Much of what happens on this earth 45 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:41.640 Even when Jesus before he started his public ministry was taken into the wilderness with Satan 46 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.280 Satan tempted him by taking him up to the pinnacle of the temple and 47 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:47.920 showing him all the 48 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:51.920 Kingdoms of the world and he said if you'll bow down and worship me 49 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:58.760 I'll give you all of these kingdoms because it's been handed over to me. What's interesting is that Jesus never? 50 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:06.880 defers in any way or deters in any way to what Satan had said and he 51 00:04:07.480 --> 00:04:10.680 Agrees with him that it has been given in some mysterious way 52 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:14.520 Satan and his demonic powers have control over the world 53 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:19.680 But what he did say is you'll bow down and worship God only and so we're born into that 54 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:22.440 kind of a world the dominion of darkness and what 55 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:28.360 Paul is saying to the Colossians is when you put your faith in Christ. He rescues you 56 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:36.800 From the dominion of darkness and he brings you into the kingdom of God the kingdom of the Son whom he loves 57 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:39.720 through redemption 58 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:41.280 Through the forgiveness of sins 59 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:47.080 So the way in which we're taken out of the dominion of darkness is not that we're extricated out of this world 60 00:04:47.400 --> 00:04:53.680 But rather we're rescued from sin and we're forgiven the blood of Jesus 61 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:56.000 covers us 62 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 covers our sin 63 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.040 redeems us 64 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 You cannot forgive your sin, past, present, and future. 65 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.160 You can be forgiven of your sin, 66 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:10.880 but it's through the higher power 67 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:12.400 of Jesus Christ in your life. 68 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:13.600 He came to redeem us. 69 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.120 The word redeem comes from the word deem, 70 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.100 and deem means to own or to control. 71 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:26.100 So the scriptures is saying that Christ came to reown you, 72 00:05:26.180 --> 00:05:30.260 re-control you, he's taking back what's rightfully his. 73 00:05:30.260 --> 00:05:34.340 You see, men and women, you're created in the image of God. 74 00:05:34.340 --> 00:05:39.340 So you are, at one point in your life, you are deemed his. 75 00:05:40.860 --> 00:05:42.980 And then through sin, through what happened 76 00:05:42.980 --> 00:05:47.980 in the Garden of Eden, that redemption was stolen, 77 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:50.620 and Christ has come to restore us 78 00:05:50.620 --> 00:05:52.620 back into a right relationship with him. 79 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:54.020 He's redeemed us. 80 00:05:54.020 --> 00:05:57.380 So he rescues us and he redeems us. 81 00:05:57.380 --> 00:06:00.300 Later in Colossians, we read, 82 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:01.980 when you were dead in your sins 83 00:06:01.980 --> 00:06:03.700 and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, 84 00:06:03.700 --> 00:06:05.440 God made you alive with Christ. 85 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:09.100 So not only did God, through his son, Jesus Christ, 86 00:06:09.100 --> 00:06:12.740 come and rescue us out of the dominion of darkness, 87 00:06:12.740 --> 00:06:15.860 translating us into the kingdom of light, 88 00:06:15.860 --> 00:06:18.060 not only redeeming us from sin, 89 00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:21.900 but also has made us now alive with Christ. 90 00:06:21.900 --> 00:06:26.460 So the wages of sin is death, 91 00:06:26.460 --> 00:06:30.620 but the reality is the rewards of God are life. 92 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:34.540 God gives us life, and we're no longer dead to our sins. 93 00:06:34.540 --> 00:06:37.700 So men and women, if you put your faith in Christ 94 00:06:37.700 --> 00:06:42.700 to restore your soul, to heal your soul from sin, 95 00:06:42.700 --> 00:06:44.860 you come into life. 96 00:06:44.860 --> 00:06:46.940 And when you look at those around you 97 00:06:46.940 --> 00:06:50.020 who've given themselves over to Satan, 98 00:06:50.020 --> 00:06:52.620 given themselves over to their flesh, 99 00:06:52.620 --> 00:06:54.860 given themselves over to this world, 100 00:06:54.860 --> 00:06:58.260 you're gonna see a dead man walking. 101 00:06:58.260 --> 00:07:01.380 You're gonna see people that are constantly sick, 102 00:07:01.380 --> 00:07:04.840 constantly depressed, constantly despairing, 103 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:07.340 constantly in one relationship after another 104 00:07:07.340 --> 00:07:10.260 that's not healthy, and they're dying. 105 00:07:10.260 --> 00:07:13.580 They're quickly dying, starting in their soul 106 00:07:13.580 --> 00:07:16.940 and now emanating out into their body, they're dying. 107 00:07:16.940 --> 00:07:18.980 But we put our faith in Christ. 108 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:20.740 When we're redeemed of our sin, 109 00:07:20.740 --> 00:07:22.860 which we could not do, but He did for us, 110 00:07:22.860 --> 00:07:25.140 and we believe and we put our faith in Him, 111 00:07:25.140 --> 00:07:28.660 He rescues us out of that dead world. 112 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:32.260 He rescues out of the deadness of this world 113 00:07:32.260 --> 00:07:35.340 into the life of Christ. 114 00:07:35.340 --> 00:07:38.540 Now at first, at first, 115 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:42.020 there's probably not that much apparently different 116 00:07:42.020 --> 00:07:44.460 for someone who gives their heart to Christ. 117 00:07:44.460 --> 00:07:46.260 But what happens over time is that 118 00:07:46.260 --> 00:07:49.860 as we're maturing in Christ, as we're reading His word, 119 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:52.780 as we're learning to pray, as we're learning to obey God, 120 00:07:52.780 --> 00:07:54.260 we start having better relationships, 121 00:07:54.260 --> 00:07:57.980 what starts to happen is that God is translating us 122 00:07:57.980 --> 00:08:02.980 gradually out of death into life. 123 00:08:03.780 --> 00:08:06.700 So I see it as almost like supplements. 124 00:08:06.700 --> 00:08:11.140 If you're having sleepless nights, 125 00:08:11.140 --> 00:08:13.980 you're despairing, you're always exhausted, 126 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:16.340 and you start taking supplements, 127 00:08:16.340 --> 00:08:18.140 you start taking vitamin B12, 128 00:08:18.140 --> 00:08:21.460 you start taking walks and getting vitamin E 129 00:08:21.460 --> 00:08:24.500 into your system, you start taking 130 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:28.900 probably six or seven different supplements, 131 00:08:28.900 --> 00:08:33.620 you're not gonna see tremendous difference in one week, 132 00:08:33.620 --> 00:08:35.900 but you'll see a little bit in two weeks. 133 00:08:35.900 --> 00:08:38.659 You'll see a little bit more in three weeks. 134 00:08:38.659 --> 00:08:40.340 You'll see a little bit more in four weeks 135 00:08:40.340 --> 00:08:43.179 because you're building up your immune system. 136 00:08:43.179 --> 00:08:46.100 You're building up yourself physiologically. 137 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:47.780 Well, it's the same thing spiritually. 138 00:08:47.780 --> 00:08:51.900 The body is often prophetic of the spiritual, 139 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:54.740 that as we first receive Christ 140 00:08:54.740 --> 00:08:57.340 and we're forgiven of our sins, 141 00:08:57.340 --> 00:09:00.380 we probably intellectually understand that, 142 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:02.420 or maybe we even have an emotional experience 143 00:09:02.420 --> 00:09:06.580 with God during that time, but it's as we grow, 144 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:10.100 it's as we mature, learning to read the Bible regularly, 145 00:09:10.100 --> 00:09:13.580 learning to pray, learning to forgive people quickly 146 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:15.940 when they do bad things to us, 147 00:09:15.940 --> 00:09:18.500 which all of us experience that. 148 00:09:18.500 --> 00:09:21.740 What's happening is you're getting more life. 149 00:09:21.740 --> 00:09:26.180 With each life decision, you get a little more life. 150 00:09:26.180 --> 00:09:28.140 You have a little less death. 151 00:09:28.140 --> 00:09:29.980 So instead of making those death decisions, 152 00:09:29.980 --> 00:09:32.140 you're now making those life decisions, 153 00:09:32.140 --> 00:09:37.140 and so the power of the Holy Spirit is taking over. 154 00:09:38.140 --> 00:09:40.740 Well, our passage goes on to say, 155 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:44.060 He forgave us of all of our sins. 156 00:09:44.060 --> 00:09:47.980 Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, 157 00:09:47.980 --> 00:09:50.660 which stood against us and He condemned us, 158 00:09:50.660 --> 00:09:53.020 He has taken it all out of the way, 159 00:09:53.020 --> 00:09:54.540 nailing it to the cross, 160 00:09:54.540 --> 00:09:57.340 and having disarmed the powers and authorities, 161 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:59.860 He made a public spectacle of them. 162 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.000 Triumphing over them by the cross, Colossians 2, 13, 14, and 15. 163 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.960 So how do we become alive in Christ? 164 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.000 I see three things here. 165 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.820 Through the forgiveness of all of our sins, all your sins are forgiven. 166 00:10:13.820 --> 00:10:20.300 Number two, through canceling the debt we owe to God for our sins. 167 00:10:20.300 --> 00:10:22.640 So God came and we can't repay it. 168 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:29.840 We can't repay to God the payment that's needed, but Christ came and he became the 169 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:35.940 perfect offering to his Father to forgive us of our sins. 170 00:10:35.940 --> 00:10:40.560 And then thirdly, through disarming satanic and demonic powers. 171 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:47.840 So these powers had power and control over you. 172 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:54.120 And through the cross and through the resurrection, Christ disarmed them of their power over our 173 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:55.120 lives. 174 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.040 So men and women, Satan and demons have no power over you unless you let them have power 175 00:11:00.040 --> 00:11:01.040 over you. 176 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:08.620 I mean, if you're gonna go out and binge on drugs and alcohol, you're just letting demons 177 00:11:08.620 --> 00:11:09.620 come back in. 178 00:11:09.620 --> 00:11:10.620 That's what you're doing. 179 00:11:10.620 --> 00:11:14.440 You're just allowing them to come back in and get a foothold or stronghold in your life. 180 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:19.540 If you're angry at someone and you don't repent of that and you continue to be angry 181 00:11:19.540 --> 00:11:25.800 at that person or you're envious of that person, you're just opening the door to the enemy. 182 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:30.340 So I'm not saying that you won't struggle with that, but I am saying that you can be 183 00:11:30.340 --> 00:11:38.440 alive in Christ and you can choose now through the power of the Spirit to not make death 184 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.720 decisions as much as you used to. 185 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:45.360 And over time, you're gonna come to a place in your life where through the forgiveness 186 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.600 of your sins, you're not gonna want those sins anymore. 187 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:55.000 You're not gonna long for those sins and you're gonna be experiencing more and more life. 188 00:11:55.000 --> 00:12:01.160 Maybe it's just a little bit at first, but now it's more and more life that you're experiencing. 189 00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:09.360 Psalm 103.12 says, as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from 190 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.360 us. 191 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.000 Isn't that amazing? 192 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.880 I can't think of anything more distant than the east and the west, because we don't know 193 00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:17.520 where it begins and ends. 194 00:12:17.520 --> 00:12:24.160 But that's what God says is how much God has removed our transgressions, our sins from 195 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:28.840 us is through, like the east is from the west. 196 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:33.680 And then in Acts 13, we read, therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus, 197 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:36.440 the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 198 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:42.560 Through him, everyone who believes is set free from every sin. 199 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:43.560 Amazing. 200 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:50.480 When we believe in Jesus, we believe in what he did at the cross and what happened on the 201 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:53.680 third day through the resurrection of Christ. 202 00:12:53.680 --> 00:12:57.680 God says he will forgive us of all of our sins. 203 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:06.280 If you've harbored animosity, bitterness for many years, it can all be forgiven today. 204 00:13:06.280 --> 00:13:09.160 But you must come to Jesus. 205 00:13:09.160 --> 00:13:12.060 You must put your faith in him. 206 00:13:12.060 --> 00:13:19.120 And so many years ago, I remember a woman who came to me and she'd had three abortions 207 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.560 and two failed marriages. 208 00:13:21.560 --> 00:13:29.280 And she was so eaten up with guilt and unforgiveness toward herself and toward so many situations 209 00:13:29.280 --> 00:13:30.280 in her life. 210 00:13:30.280 --> 00:13:35.400 And we had to sit down and talk about that, talk about each situation. 211 00:13:35.400 --> 00:13:39.480 And then we had to put her life under the blood of Christ. 212 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:45.280 I said, you know, you need to come to Jesus and be forgiven of all your sins, past, present, 213 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:46.280 and future. 214 00:13:46.280 --> 00:13:47.640 And she agreed. 215 00:13:47.640 --> 00:13:50.040 And she gave herself to Christ. 216 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:56.480 It didn't happen overnight, but this spiritual revolution began to happen in her life. 217 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.920 She began to learn to forgive herself for the mistakes that she had made. 218 00:14:00.920 --> 00:14:06.360 She began to forgive the men who were involved in the mistakes that she had made. 219 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:13.840 And she later got married and today is happily married because of the forgiveness of sins, 220 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.120 the power of what Jesus does when he forgives us of our sins. 221 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:22.920 And there was another young man several years ago who was an army ranger and had been in 222 00:14:22.920 --> 00:14:26.960 a lot of combat situations, killed a lot of people. 223 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:33.440 And he could not forgive himself of the guilt he felt for what he had done in these tours 224 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:34.440 of combat. 225 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:38.800 And we sat down and we talked about that and he needed to receive Christ. 226 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:45.320 He needed to accept Christ and let Christ begin to show him that he was beloved, that 227 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.880 he was beautiful, and that he was forgiven. 228 00:14:47.880 --> 00:14:49.320 And he did that. 229 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.600 And his life has been transformed ever since. 230 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.040 But it took him surrendering to Christ fully. 231 00:14:56.040 --> 00:14:57.840 So have you surrendered to Christ? 232 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:00.000 Have you given your heart to Christ fully? 233 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.240 Because that's the beginning of the power of forgiveness, is to come to the forgiver who loves you and cares for you. 234 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:09.360 In Acts 2, we read, 235 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:15.680 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, 236 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:17.920 and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 237 00:15:17.920 --> 00:15:20.640 Men and women, have you repented of your sin? 238 00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:21.920 And here's what repentance means. 239 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:36.320 Repentance means to do a 180, to turn around and to agree with God that what the life we've lived and the sins that we have truly have transgressed against him. 240 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:41.600 And then to receive Christ, to say, Jesus, come into my life and begin to transform me. 241 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:49.200 So if you've never prayed, if you've never given and surrendered your heart to Christ, let's do that right now. 242 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:53.920 Let's give our heart to Christ, and then I want to challenge you to get baptized. 243 00:15:53.920 --> 00:15:57.760 After you receive Christ, get baptized any way you can. 244 00:15:57.760 --> 00:16:00.240 If you're not in a church, then find a church. 245 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.640 Get involved in that church and get baptized. 246 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:10.080 If you're in a situation where you're not around a pastor or a chaplain or a leader, find one. 247 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:11.520 Ask God, get baptized. 248 00:16:11.520 --> 00:16:15.760 But first, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. 249 00:16:15.760 --> 00:16:18.400 He wants to forgive you of all of your sins. 250 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.520 So if you're listening to this right now, if you're driving, don't bow your head and close your eyes. 251 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:25.280 Keep your eyes open. 252 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:30.640 I don't want you to have a wreck or something, but I want you to come to Christ. 253 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:37.280 This is the prayer that I prayed so many years ago, over 40 years ago, when I gave my life to Christ. 254 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.440 Lord Jesus, I need you. 255 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:42.080 Come into my life. 256 00:16:43.520 --> 00:16:45.840 Make me the kind of person that you want me to be. 257 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:50.640 Lord, thank you for dying on the cross for all of my sins. 258 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:59.440 Thank you, Lord, for taking my sins upon yourself and then giving me your righteousness. 259 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:05.119 By the God, I ask that just as Christ was resurrected on the third day, 260 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:09.280 that I would be resurrected in Christ through the forgiveness of sins. 261 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:11.440 So God, I give you my sins. 262 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.040 I give you my sins of the past. 263 00:17:13.040 --> 00:17:14.640 I give you my sins of the present. 264 00:17:15.280 --> 00:17:17.440 And God, I ask you to heal me. 265 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.480 Begin to heal me today of my sins. 266 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:28.000 God, give me the forgiveness that is promised to me by me putting my faith in you. 267 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.440 I trust you, Lord. 268 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:30.640 I give everything to you. 269 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:38.560 Show me when, where, and how to get baptized so that I can begin to really grow. 270 00:17:38.560 --> 00:17:40.400 Give me a passion. 271 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:47.040 Give me a desire to read the Bible and to live for you in every detail of my life. 272 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.360 In your name we pray. 273 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:49.840 Amen. 274 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.360 So God bless you. 275 00:17:51.360 --> 00:17:55.760 That's my first message in this series. 276 00:17:55.760 --> 00:18:02.160 And that is that Christ comes with the power of forgiveness in our souls. 277 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:06.880 So I pray that if you prayed that prayer, you're beginning to grow in Christ. 278 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:07.520 Get a Bible. 279 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:09.440 If you don't have a Bible, get a journal. 280 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:11.280 If you don't have a journal, get a journal. 281 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:15.920 And just begin to discover a personal, vital, dynamic relationship with Christ. 282 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.200 I've talked about PB&J in other episodes. 283 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.200 That's prayer, Bible, and journal. 284 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:28.080 You might look back and find those messages, especially for those that are new to the faith 285 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.080 and begin to grow from those episodes. 286 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:45.360 God bless you.