On Time and On Purpose - Traditional
First B Jackson
2016-12-04

Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record.

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So they're down at the other end of the hall. Still, we will hear some hubbub as we get started. But that classical choir, since they were not able to stay for the four hours of the whole morning here, they do have two other concerts. And I will work on finding exactly when those are. I think December 20 at the Jackson Hole Classical Academy.

I'm pretty sure it's the twentieth in the evening. And I I I hate to say you missed a treat, but you did. And so the twentieth in the evening, it was fantastic. They did four songs this morning, but they'll do a full, I think, forty five minutes, at their concert there. Would you stand with us?

And I'm gonna try to sing, but I'm gonna invite Bob up to help me sing. And we'll sing couple of songs. Joy to the world.

Joy to the world the Lord is come let earth receive her king let every heart prepare him room prune the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love and wonders of his love wonders wonders

Amen. Thank you. And Hark the Herald Angels Sing. I think Wesley originally had 12 verses with this one. Amen.

That's good. Perfect. Y'all can have a seat. Merry Christmas. It's December 2016.

Can you believe it? It feels like we're just taking the tree down last year. Merry Christmas and I've got a few announcements up here this morning. It is the second Sunday of Advent. So, we'll be lighting the peace candle.

Actually, I'm going go ahead and light the hope candle from last week. How about that? But we are celebrating the second Sunday of Advent today And I told you, the Boy Scouts, they've been meeting in this church. I thought... I said eighty three in the first service.

Eighty four years. They've been meeting at 1st B, and they made breakfast for everybody this morning. And during the time where we do our... Have been doing our little kitchen commercial, the Boy Scouts came forward and donated a thousand dollars to the kitchen remodel. Of course, they were cooking in it all evening and all morning, so that's really nice too.

They're great to... It's great to have them all Tuesday long. From the time kids get out of school until about 08:00 at night. There are Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts here. It's really great.

3PM today, excuse me, there'll be a choir practice. That is our our militia, not the standing army. If you love to sing Christmas music, please come at 03:00 today. Bob will be helping to lead that. Come and join in if you love to sing.

03:00 today. Now that is competing with this, and Samantha Compton, one of our own, is in this, handles messiah. They're singing the Christmas portion of the messiah, today at 03:00 at Our Lady Of The Mountains Catholic Church. So that's happening at the Jackson Hole Chorale and the Jackson Hole Symphony are both playing over there. So that should be a really good one.

If you're not singing in the choir, go over there. If you are singing in the choir, sneak in the back door a little late. Okay. I don't know. I'm just kidding about that.

Awana is happening tomorrow night, 06:00, right on time, the same time as Monday nights at first b. Carl will be doing a short message, kind of a Christmas devotional for the next three weeks. So Monday nights at first b, meal music and a message. Come on in for that. Ladies, you are being invited right now.

If you haven't already RSVP'd, you still are invited. On Wednesday, December 7, which is this Wednesday, from twelve noon to two in the Grand Ballroom up at Snow King Resort, They are planning on lots of people being there. If you have not RSVP'd, you can call Nancy Irwin. But Nancy stood up this morning and said, even if you haven't RSVP'd, we're planning on a few extras. So plan on being there on Wednesday during the lunch hour, twelve noon to 2PM.

Theme is coming home. Next Sunday, December 11, we are having one service at 10AM. Next Sunday, December 11, we're having how many services? One. And what time is it?

Ten. 10AM. Okay. I'm gonna ask you later on in the sermon and make sure you remember that. It's next Sunday, one service, 10AM, and it is the reflections Christmas play.

And there were a couple of other times that people needed to know that I don't have up here with me and they're not on the slides. 09:00 for the kids? I'm asking you what time the kids need to be here. Sunday, 09:15. 09:15.

Okay. 09:15 for the kids. And they have to be here... They need to be here this afternoon also? Nope.

Okay. Never mind. Good. I knew I would confuse that if it were not written down. Sorry.

But next Sunday, plan on being here, December 11, one service, 10AM. After that, in the afternoon, we are getting together at 04:30 to go Christmas caroling, and we are gonna have the buzzer breath chili cook off around six after that. So plan on being here. That's fun. Renzi kinda heads that up.

It's always a good time. For those of you who would like to attend this, Young Life is doing a mister Christmas tree pageant. I have no idea what that means, but they're doing it. December 12 at the Pink Gardner Theater, it starts promptly at 07:47PM, and they're gonna have different high school boys, one from each class that are gonna compete in mister Christmas tree, what... For what that's worth.

If you did not know what the tags hanging are back there off of these cardboard mounts and off of the tree, those are for local families. And you may grab one of those cards or several of those cards if you'd like and fulfill a need for a needy family during the Christmas season. That's one thing that we've... Y'all have traditionally done this before I got here, long before I got here, but Tanya loves that. And Krista Nethercott loves that.

Both of them do a good job administrating it. We are still in the middle of our kitchen campaign, and it's nice to see how much this place is used. The Boy Scouts spent the night here last night. They cooked in the evening and got up this morning, some of them at 04:00, to start preparing that breakfast. And they they came forward, like I said, in the first.

That's just just great. So if you'd like to do that, there are forms in the back back there, and you can make your pledge. And if there's not anybody here that's scheduled to give the commercial, I just did. Okay. Good.

For other announcements, can look in your bulletin. But I do wanna invite up, and I'm gonna come escort them up. You all know we love Jean and Joni Damar, so they are gonna light our peace candle.

The second Sunday in Advent. This Sunday, the second in Advent, we light the candle of peace. As we prepare to celebrate the coming of the prince of peace, we're reminded that God's timing is always perfect and his provision is always sufficient.

Now, may the Lord peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Amen. Thank you. Get on with some more Christmas music. Would you all stand Would y'all stand up? Florina, play whatever comes up on the screen next.

Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. This is an any day, every day but no less true at Christmas. So, One more. This is the love of God. Now when we get to the chorus of this song, it's gonna get too high for me at this state to sing.

Don't stop. Y'all just sing. Okay? The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. Hymn number one fifty seven, if you're looking for your part or for the words, Bob is going to sing backing me up on this.

This one's a great song. Yeah. Amen. Y'all can have a seat. I'm gonna invite the frontline team to come forward.

Would you pray with me? God, I thank you for the season, for the time, the right time that you sent Jesus forth. Lord, as we consider this season and we get closer and closer to Christmas, we're gonna get closer and closer to that story about that manger. But, Lord, I think of your purposes, and I think of the advance of the gospel. So, Lord, would you take this acknowledgment that you have given us everything that we have?

We... You are our provider. Every good and perfect gift is from you. And so, Lord, would you take this, portion, this acknowledgment that we believe you, that we believe in you, and that we want to have others come to know you too. So, Lord, would you build your church and would you use these funds?

Would you bless and multiply these funds to be able to spread your good news to the ends of the earth? In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you, Florine. So I told you last week, y'all know most of y'all... I'm looking around.

Most of y'all are home folks. There are a few visitors. There are a few folks here for the first, time. But we have been going through Romans for a long time, since January 17. And I told you last week I was gonna turn the corner and go for a series of Christmas messages, not particularly a series except for we're starting very large scale and we're gonna focus down into the manger.

Christmas Day is a Sunday this year, so that's what we'll be talking about. But for right now, we're gonna talk about this. This is the second Sunday of Advent. It's peace. So there's hope, there's peace, and there's joy, joy, and there's light, and then there's the Christ candle.

And that's what we celebrate. And as I was considering Advent and the timing of it, the time, I was thinking about the time of his birth. And I was also thinking about the purpose. So on time and on purpose. God does things on time and God does things on purpose.

And so that's what I was thinking before we got started. The main text that I was considering is Galatians four four through seven. Now a few years ago on the Christmas Eve, did a short little message and I used Galatians four four through seven as the text. And the more I considered it, I thought this fits very, very well with the time and purpose theme. It's the reason I started down this road.

Romans five six through eight is on the other side of Jesus' earthly life, but it fits the theme very well too. So I wanna talk, first of all, on time, and then we'll talk on purpose. Alright? So on time, in Greek, there are two different words that mean time. One of them is kronos and one of them is kairos.

Kronos and kairos. Kronos is time in general, like minutes, seconds, hours of the day, week, or month. It's time in general. It's also time and duration like two hours, three hours, four hours, six weeks. It's that kind of time, Kronos.

It's a particular time like we are supposed to start the service at 11:00. That is a particular time. It's often quantitative. It talks about, you know, weeks or seasons or months or years. And it also mentions sequence like things happen winter, spring, summer, and fall or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday sequence.

But Kairos is different than that. Kairos, both of them mean time. And we use in English usually, if it's Kairos, we'd say the right time or in the fitting season or at the opportune moment or there was the opportunity was there or occasion or time. Do you get that? There's a difference there.

Chronos and kairos. And so it's translated usually as time, although there might be some adjectives to explain it a little bit. That's what I'm thinking about on time. I took two Christmas related examples and here they are. Chronos is like this.

Then Herod secretly called the Magi and determined from them the exact time that the star had appeared because he was wanting to plan his attack. He wants to know what time. What time. Particularly, that instance in this time space continuum we occupy. He wanted to know what time it was so that he could plan how he was going to thwart this next king.

Now Kairos is... This is from the story of John the Baptist's father being struck mute. And behold, you shall be silent or mute and unable to speak until the day when these things take place because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time. Do you get that concept? So it's the right time.

Oportun moment. Exactly the right time. So that's it. And you'll see in Galatians four this. But when the fullness of the time came in...

Now for me, I would think that's a kairos. It's not. It's kronos, but he's added this fullness up there. When all of the minutes, seconds, hours of the day since creation up to the time of Christ's birth, when the fullness of chronological time came to be, God sent forth his son, born of a woman. God sent forth Jesus, born of Mary, born under the law.

Now it goes further. We'll get to that later on. That's in the purpose part of the message, but that's the time part. And Romans five, six and eight, like I said, on the other end of Jesus' life because it's speaking of the crucifixion, this is a kairos time. For while we were still helpless at the right time, in the opportune moment, because he had to act.

We couldn't. No one is righteous. No. Not one. No one seeks after God.

While we were still helpless at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. That is a kairos moment right there, the opportune moment. Now that's the time. We'll come back to it at the end. But on purpose.

So I like doing the long series where you all have the context and you know what's going on and I know what's going on and it saves a little bit of explanation. So I really like expository preaching. That's what I normally do. And we have been doing it in a chronological series where we're going in the order the books were written. I think it's nice.

We have certain evidence that's already been presented and we're all growing with each bit of new evidence. When I go... The reason that I like that so much, it's sanity for me where we... I know where we're going next. I have horrible blank canvas syndrome.

When I'm looking at a blank canvas and I go, what am I gonna fill this 25 with, Lord? What would you have me deliver to these people? Your people. And I get really, really exhaustive about my studies. I get...

Go big with it usually. And then I have to focus in from there. So this is something that I mentioned in that sermon on that Christmas Eve. Hena is a Greek conjunction. And when that is added to the subjunctive mood, it follows this pattern.

Henna is so that... And then the subjunctive mood is so that someone might do something or someone in order that someone may do something. It opens the possibility. So the subjective mood is the mood of possibility. It makes it possible.

If you get this construction in Greek, it is most of the time a purpose clause. It tells you what the purpose is. It can be result. It can tell the result, but it's usually purpose. So look at this.

Galatians four four and five says this, but when the fullness of the chronological time came at just the right time, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that he might redeem so that he might redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive the adoption as sons. Amen. It tells purpose. So that what? So that he, Christ, might redeem.

So that what? So that we might receive the adoption as sons. Praise God. That's what the whole Bible is about. Right?

This is the gospel. It's what Christmas is about. The incarnation. That's what it's all about. He sent him forth Jesus, born of Mary, born under the law, so that he might redeem.

So that's purpose right there. When I was looking it up, I found a lot of them. So this is just a sampling of the biblical text on purpose. The Bible is full of telling you exactly why. So when I was considering Christmas, who, what, where, when, I decided we start with the satellite image first, the why.

And it is all over scripture. That's one screen. That's another screen. That's just a sampling. Those are the ones that I took my highlighter pen and said these matter for this sermon.

It's 200 and something. I'm not gonna do all 200 of them. In fact, it goes further than that. There are actually this many more. So this is 10 type.

10 type with a space between each line. There are 670 something of these found in 623 verses. I read every single one of them. I have edited down for y'all. But this is what...

God's purpose is all over the Bible. He doesn't just tell his purpose. He tells the purpose why the bad guys do things too. He tells why the pharisees did what they do. He tells all about the why.

He doesn't just say believe and not anything else. Parents, when you say do this to your kids, if you don't follow it up with a so that, you're probably gonna get a question. Do this so that it may go well with you and your days will be long upon the earth. Do this. I mean, that's the that's the first commandment with a promise.

Right? So that you will make good grades. So that you will not get a spanking. So that is purpose. Why?

So as we go forward, I'll I'll keep rolling this up. But I started with the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, to start off with. Do they tell purposes? Yes. They do.

Matthew uses it particularly in the Christmas story for one particular thing. So all of this was done so that it might be fulfilled. So that it might be fulfilled. It's a fulfillment of prophecy. So all this was done so that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, prophet Isaiah, behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us.

That's what Carl's speaking on tomorrow night at Monday night. He uses it again in Matthew two fourteen and fifteen. When he arose, he took the young child, this is Joseph, his father, earthly father, and his mother by the night and departed for Egypt and was there until the death of Herod so that it might be fulfilled that which was spoken. It tells the purpose why they left so that it might be fulfilled that out of Egypt I called my son. He uses it again.

Actually, this is later on. I think it's four thirteen through 16. I'm not sure. I put the wrong heading up there. Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that it might be fulfilled that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying in the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned.

That's about Jesus. And the so that is a fulfillment of prophecy. He gave the prophecy in the first place so that we would know that it was Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah. Does Luke use it? Luke uses it right off the bat when he talks about why it is that he has written his gospel.

I could read the whole thing. And as much as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us about Jesus' life, just as those who were from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us. It seemed good to me also Luke, physician, historian, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know with certainty of those things in which you were instructed. He had a purpose for writing his gospel. It was so that you would know.

Luke goes on and he tells a story which Matthew and Mark also tell, and both of them use this purpose clause at the same time because Jesus said it. Jesus in a room full, completely full, and a man is lowered by his friends through a broken down roof. They tear down the roof and drop this man on his pallet by strands down in front of Jesus. And as he's sitting there, the pharisees and scribes and religious leaders are sitting around and they began to grumble in their hearts because they felt like Jesus was blaspheming. And Jesus said, this is on the lips of Jesus according to Luke, but so that you may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins.

Do you understand? He's telling his purpose. His purpose is to forgive sins. The sins committed on this earth, the sin that you have, Christ is showing in this story that he has the authority on earth to forgive sins so that you may know. Now if you reject that, you have rejected it.

You've thwarted the purpose of God. You've thwarted the purpose of Jesus. Oh, it is actually second person plural, but so that y'all may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins. He said to the man who is paralyzed, I say to you, arise and take up your bed and go to your house, and the man did. So the man believed him, had his sins forgiven, and then had his body healed.

He continues on. Luke has several other references. I like this one though. Luke eighteen fifteen, this talks about somebody else's purpose. So, these are the folks who live around the area where Jesus was, then they, the people, also brought infants to him so that he might touch and bless them.

Now why do those families bring the kids? So that he might touch them. Now the rest of the... Excuse me. The rest of that verse says, but the disciples rebuked them.

So the disciples did not allow them to come forward where Jesus could touch and bless them. So the purpose can be a purpose that is unfulfilled. Do you get what I'm saying? They brought them with intent. The intent was that Jesus would touch and bless, but the disciples rebuked them, so they stopped that.

Mark. Does Mark use it? He does. He uses it several times. In the first chapter, says on the lips of Jesus, but Jesus said to them, let us go into the next towns, the surrounding areas, so that I may preach.

In order that I may possibly preach to proclaim. That's, he says, so that I may preach there also because for this purpose I have come forth. He came forth in his first sermon in Luke when he stood up in the temple or in the synagogue in Nazareth, and he said, this scroll has been fulfilled in your hearing. I am proclaiming the favor of the Lord, the year of acceptable favor of the Lord. It's the time so that I may preach and proclaim the gospel there also because for this purpose I've come forth.

Mark three says, and they watched him. Oh, who are the they? These are the evil. These are Pharisees. They watched him whether he would heal that man on the Sabbath day so that they might accuse him.

They are always looking for how to trip him up, and they got a a question for him so that they might accuse him or entrap him or kill him. All of those things were used so that they might arrest him, so that they might crucify him. Those things are all over. John. John, my goodness.

It's all over the book of John. Everywhere you look. I've shortened the examples here. But, whenever anybody asks me where should I start reading the Bible, I don't say Genesis and I don't say Matthew, not the beginning of the Old Testament or beginning of the New. I usually say read John because it boils it down.

It is about belief. And there's no doubt about it. If you read, you'll see from the very first, John the apostle is talking about John the Baptist in this passage. And he says he came, John the Baptist came as a witness to testify about the light, which is Jesus Christ, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, John, but he came to testify about the light so that all might believe.

John the Baptist knew his mission. He knew his purpose. He knew that he was to direct people to the one who would come after him, Jesus, and that all might have life in him. John three seventeen, not 16 right here, but three seventeen says, for God did not send the son of... Did not send the son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.

That's the purpose of God in sending Christ. That's the purpose, the reason for the season. Why? The why question. So that the world might be saved through him.

Is the might bothering anybody? Are y'all looking at it and going, I don't really like that might. I I want it to say, will. So that the world might be saved. When you're dealing with the subjective mood, and it's disappearing in English and typically, it disappears in languages, It's not the mood of certainty.

It's the mood of possibility. It is possible now, but the might is contingent upon the will of the individual. If you agree with God, you will be saved. If you insist on rejecting him, you will not. That's why it's a might.

Therefore, they said to him, so what shall we do? So that we may work the works of God. And Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God, that you believe in him who he has sent. It's all about belief. While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of the light.

Light candle. Last candle. There are a lot of these that have to do with light and hope and peace and joy and Christ. The purpose of God is so that you could become a son of the light, move you from darkness into marvelous light. John fifteen eleven goes on and says, these things I have spoken to you, upper room discourse to his disciples, these things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and so that your joy may be made full.

Amen. Christ wants for... To impart to us his joy. That's great. Sixteen twenty four says, until now you have asked for nothing in my name.

Ask and you will receive so that your joy may be made full. Sixteen thirty three says, these things I have spoken to you so that in me you may have peace. Amen. In the world, you have tribulation. There's no doubt.

That's the mood of certainty. But take courage. I have overcome the world. That's the mood of certainty in the past. Okay?

That's great. The the high priestly prayer from John 17, from the time he starts praying till the time he finishes praying, he prays purpose the whole time, that they may be one just like we are one. I pray that you would sanctify them by your truth. So that, so that, so that. At least 12 so that's in John 17.

Look at it this afternoon. The whole chapter is Jesus' prayer in the garden. And it's for you. It's for his followers. It's for his people.

And it'll tell you why he prayed. It's not just the gospels. In Acts, we hear the Philippian jailer say, sirs, talking to Paul and Silas, what must I do so that I may be saved? That's the question for the ages right there. What must I do so that I may be saved?

To have the possibility of salvation. And they, Paul and Silas, said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Mood of certainty. Straight up indicative future. You will be saved if you believe in the Lord Jesus.

John, when he gets to the end of his book after he's given us purpose after purpose after purpose after purpose, Therefore, many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples which are not written in this book. We sang the song, the love of God. Could we with ink the ocean fill and where the skies of parchment made, where every stalk on earth a quill and every man ascribed by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky. But these things, John says, have been written in this book so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and so that in believing you may have life in his name. That's the purpose right there.

First Peter. And he, Jesus, himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. A holy life is covered by the purposes of God. It's not just salvation but also sanctification and the advance of the gospel by obedient, holy, kingdom, citizen. Romans 15, we just covered this couple weeks ago.

For whatever was written in earlier times, that scripture was written for our instruction so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope. All of those prophecies on the front side of Jesus and all of those prophecies about the second coming of Jesus, we might have hope if we take our encouragement from the scriptures. Now if you don't, you've thwarted the purpose of God in giving the scripture. Your will is required. Romans five, six and eight, like I said a little while ago, is on the other side of the cross.

Listen to the rest of this series. For while we were still helpless at the right time... That's Kairos. At the right time, the opportune moment, exactly right, not too late, not too early, Christ died for the ungodly. For one man will hardly die for a righteous man, though perhaps for the good man, someone would dare even to die.

Like a bodyguard or somebody that really loved a family member, they might step in front of them and protect them. There's no greater love than this that somebody lay down their life for their friend or their brother. But God demonstrates his own love, agape, toward us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He made the first step and he did it at exactly the right time. He did it at the opportune moment.

Galatians, I want to read the rest of that passage too, four through seven. But when the fullness of the time came, when all of the minutes and seconds and hours and days and weeks and years and the thousands of years that the Jews even had been looking forward to their messiah. When all of that came, God sent forth his son, Jesus, born of a woman, Mary, born under the law so that he might redeem those who are under the law so that we might receive the adoption as sons. And I want to stop right there. So sons.

That might seem a little bit gender specific in today's society. And you might see that and say, it bothers me. Why didn't he put sons and daughters? Well, for one thing, like Spanish, Greek includes when they say men, it can mean men and women. Not always, but it can.

This one, it means sons. Doesn't mean sons and daughters right there. It's saying that as a man or as a woman, you can receive adoption by God as a son. Now in this time, when you adopted a boy, he had all the rights of a natural born child, including inheritance, including blessing, including everything that a natural born child would have. But a daughter did not at this time.

A daughter had a completely different set of rules. She couldn't... They couldn't transfer property or inheritance to her. She was a second class adoption. That's not the case nowadays.

Praise God. But in this society... So that's an even greater level than you might have considered that you receive the adoption as sons because you are sons. God has sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts crying, Abba, father. Actually, if you go back up just in Galatians four one through three, it says there's no male and female.

Okay? But it just does make it an even stronger, like, wow, there's more to gain than I would have even considered. God has sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts crying, Abba, daddy, papa, father, therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son. And if a son, then you are an heir through God. Now those are both...

Those can't be son or daughter. Alright? You're no longer a slave but a son. If a son, then an heir through God. Now on time.

Excuse me. Chronos time. It is ten minutes till twelve on Sunday, 12/04/2016. Could this be an opportune time? It could be.

It could be an opportune time for you to consider the purpose purposes of God. You could consider that purpose of God and say, I have resisted and rejected for so long. But lord, I'm feeling the fullness of time has come on. I have been... I've wandered far away from God.

Now, I'm coming home. It could be a rededication of your life. It could be stepping forward for salvation. This morning, after the first service, somebody came forward and said, today was the day for me. It's an opportune moment.

Praise God. He's been hanging out for a while, but today was his opportune moment. He was asking Carl before the sermon got started, and he said the question literally he asked Carl this morning is, what must I do to be saved? And then he gets this message. Praise God.

I think that that's the last slide. So I believe that God is sovereign, but I believe in his sovereignty. He has put that might out there. He has a purpose to save. He is mighty to do it.

Would you agree with him and would you believe and be saved?