I would like you to turn in your Bibles this morning.
Isn't that a sweet phrase?
Turn in your Bible.
What we confess together with that statement and your activity
is that we are a people who have been drawn out of darkness into light
! by the Bible, by the truth,
that God has given to us.
And we, in this broken and very difficult world that we live in,
may rely upon every word that God has given to us
for comfort, for counsel, for encouragement,
that our hearts might, for one thing,
be resolute in our pursuit of the glory of Christ
and also confident in our eternal end.
And I trust this morning that as you take your Bible in hand,
you do not take it for granted.
And that one of the things you're actually doing,
I didn't even look at my watch to know how much time I have to do this,
but, oh, we've got time.
And one of the things that you're actually doing is you're engaged in prayer.
This is not the passive part of the hour.
It is every bit as demanding that you be engaged in what we do together
as during our corporate singing.
And by the way, the most important singers are not on stage.
They're here.
They're God's people.
The people who are up here, John and whoever the musicians are,
their heart's ambition is to help you lift up Jesus.
Do you understand that?
They're not here to entertain you.
They are here to stir your heart with a desire to see the Lord Jesus exalted.
And that's one of the reasons why one of the standard questions
that John and I ask each other is not,
how did the musicians do?
Did the pianist come in on the right note?
I mean, that's John's business, but not.
I always, how did we sing, right?
How did we sing?
Because the truth of the matter is,
is that when people who are filled with the Spirit
are touched with the joy of the Lord Jesus Christ,
it happens to come out.
Agreed?
Okay.
So here we are.
We're at this very active part of the service,
and some of you are thinking,
I thought I could kind of sit here and just kind of brain dead
and float through,
and 45 minutes from now I can think about leaving.
You have an active part in what happens next,
both in being a Spirit-enabled listener,
and that means you need to say to the Holy Spirit,
will you please help me?
Secondly, I might miss some of the important things that you have,
and I want your help to hear the things that are valuable,
and I need to remember.
Secondly, that you would remember to pray for me as I preach.
Do that.
Pray for me as I preach.
I don't care if you do it out loud.
It won't put me off,
because we are dependent upon the work of the Holy Spirit.
So I want you to look in John to chapter 4, verse 39,
and kind of back up with me just for a moment,
and it helps to kind of frame the passage.
Let me have you, as you are in John chapter 4,
to turn back just for a moment
to the very beginning of the book of John
and remind yourself that John is a different gospel than the rest.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called synoptic,
and they give us kind of a synopsis.
They give us an overview of the life of Christ.
John is different in that while it gives us much about Christ,
it is not focused primarily on the historical
or the chronological details of Christ's 33 years here on earth.
It is focused primarily on driving home this point.
Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.
And John gets right to that task immediately
in John chapter 1 where he says there in verse 1,
in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
Boom! You got it?
No hesitation and no waffling.
It's like, well, he was a pretty good person.
Bang! He is God.
Not only that, but the Scriptures roll on with power,
and you come down to what it says there in verse 14,
and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
Talking about the incarnation.
God the Son for all eternity taking on human form.
And John, as he continues in explaining the matter of who Jesus is,
he says, here is God the Son who came to earth
and took upon himself human flesh.
Why?
We understand from what John the Baptist says right there in chapter 1,
when he saw Jesus coming, he said,
Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
And so John chapter 1 lays out for us in clear, clear vocabulary
who Jesus is as God the Son, the Savior of the world.
Chapter 2, then, gives us a very interesting picture
of Jesus in two rather different settings.
One is the wedding feast at Cana,
where he privately, and known primarily,
just to his mother and disciples,
turns the water into wine and demonstrates his power over nature.
And then chapter 2, the latter part of it,
guess what he does?
He cleanses the temple.
I mean, I want you to imagine,
in contemporary vocabulary,
someone walking into the Supreme Court
and throwing all those 12 out on their ear.
That's, in essence, what Jesus did when he cleansed the temple.
Chapter 3 gives us...
Now, by the way, Jesus came to be what?
Say it with me.
The Savior of the world.
He came to save lost mankind.
Chapter 3 gives us our first picture
of Jesus interacting with an individual
who desperately needed Christ.
Nicodemus came to Jesus by night,
and he had some little curious spiritual questions,
and Jesus nailed him with,
You know what?
You have to be born again.
Nicodemus was kind of at the high end of the food chain
of being an effective, religious, good Jew.
And Jesus said,
You have to have a do-over because you're not there.
Nicodemus passes from the scene.
We have no indication of his conversion at that time.
And then we come to chapter 4,
and guess who chapter 4 is all about?
I mean, it's a scuzzbag, a lowlife.
It is the woman at the well, the Samaritan,
and she was a woman who had been married five times,
and what?
She was living with a man at the time.
And so we have a picture,
Nicodemus on this side,
the Mr. Goody-goody,
and here we have Mrs. Samaritan,
not the goody-goody,
and Jesus meets her at the well,
and he allows the conversation
to drift over into spiritual things.
And that's where we are now.
In John 4, verse 39,
let me pick up on the passage and read it to you.
It says,
Many Samaritans from town believed in him because...
And I want you to put your finger.
You may even want to underline because...
I'll start right from the get-go here
and just ask yourself this question.
Are there people that you know have come to faith
because of your testimony?
That's a fair question, isn't it?
I mean, after all,
and this is one of the things I was thinking about
as I was meditating and praying earlier this morning
about our message,
I was thinking about how many illustrations in the Bible we have
of people who discover great news
and just kind of sit on it.
I mean, I was like,
Yeah, it's a good thing.
I'm glad Jesus saved me.
I was a wretch,
but I'm not telling anybody
because I don't want anybody to know.
Right?
I mean, every case you have,
and I was reading, actually,
in my morning devotions
about where Jesus would heal these people
who were blind
or he would heal these people who were deaf,
and he would say to them,
Don't go tell anybody.
Right?
How would they handle that instruction?
Right on.
I won't tell anybody.
I can see you,
but I'm not talking about it.
Right?
They were all over the place
talking about the wonder
and the miracle that they'd enjoyed
and in classic fashion,
here is the woman saved from her sin,
and she runs back into town,
and she lets them know who Jesus is.
Let me read the passage as we go on.
It says,
Many Samaritans from the town
believed in him
because of the woman's testimony.
He told me all that I ever did.
And so when the Samaritans came to him,
they asked him to stay with them,
and he stayed with them two days.
And many more believed
because of his word.
They said to the woman,
It is no longer because of what you said
that we believe,
for we have heard for ourselves,
and we know that this indeed
is the Savior of the world.
Now, we have in this passage this morning
a very, very interesting little conclusion
to the earlier two scenes,
one of Nicodemus
and the other of the woman at the well
who came face to face with Jesus
as Jesus dealt with the heart needs
of Nicodemus and the woman.
And one of the things
that I want you to take away
from the passage this morning
is a clear understanding
of what saving faith is.
What does it mean
to be saved
or be converted
or to be born again?
And you see,
it's a very important question
because the truth of the matter is
is that heaven and hell
rest on the outcome.
When we come to that moment
in our lives
where we slip from this place
into eternity,
I want you to know
that Tim Knoyer
has complete confidence
in how the story ends.
Not because I've been
a good person
and I have done
all these nice things
that, you know,
like helping elderly ladies
across the street
and taking care
of my neighbor's cat
and those kind of...
That's not why
I'm going to heaven.
I want you to know that.
I'm going to heaven
because Jesus Christ
is my Savior
and He died in my place
and He satisfied
the debt of my sin
and I trust in
His finished work alone.
And I want you to understand
as you look at the passage
that we're going to look at
this morning,
what John's gospel
wants us to see
is what is saving faith.
Saving faith, for one,
is knowing the truth
about our need.
Saving faith
is knowing the truth
about our need.
And since the Bible
is something
that gives us the truth,
I think it's very important
for us to allow the Bible
to be the primary instrument
of helping us grab
and get a hold
of the reality
of what saving faith is.
And so I want you
to mark that little phrase there
in verse 39.
It says here,
many Samaritans from town
believed because
of the woman's testimony.
What the Samaritan woman
had done
is that she had gone
back into town
and she'd given a report.
That word testimony
that is used there
is a word that speaks
in the Greek
of bearing witness
to something
that you are
a first-hand witness to.
You may talk about
the fact that there was
a wreck on 270
and you saw pictures of it,
but I can tell you this,
the police officers
are not going to rely
on hearsay evidence
that you had from the news.
They want to actually
hear from a witness
what happened in that event.
And what the word tells us
is this woman went back
into town and she says,
I saw it.
I saw Jesus.
I heard what he had to say
and I am giving you testimony
of the reality of who he is
and what he had to say to me.
And here is Jesus
as he ministered to this woman.
He brought conviction
to her life
and she goes back into town
and she says,
hey, I want you to meet the man
who exposed the truth
of my sinful state
and also delivered me
from sin's grip.
Not only did he expose
the reality of the hardness
and the despair of my soul,
but he also gave me hope
in that he identified himself
as the Messiah,
the one who came
to be the sacrifice
for my sins.
And what this says is this,
is that belief
or saving faith
really follows
hearing the truth
and understanding it.
And I think that's very important
because we have people
going around today
presupposing that
the fundamental responsibility
of the church
is to make people happy.
Now, I want people happy,
but people can't be happy
until they hear difficult news
about the reality
of their soul.
Over the years,
one of the things
that has happened
over and over and over again,
and spring is here,
and so it's starting the process.
I get regular calls.
People ask,
can we use the church
to have a wedding?
And my standard answer,
guess what it is?
Some of you know.
It's,
I am so glad you called
because we love the opportunity
of helping a couple
who know Jesus
establish their home
with Jesus in the center.
And I say,
it's our blessing
and our privilege,
and I would love
to have you
and your fiance
come and visit us.
Oh, I don't need
to visit you.
I've seen the church.
Really?
Yeah, I was on the web.
I thought the building
would be pretty suitable
for our wedding.
wedding.
Well, you want to do
the reception here?
Oh, no, we're going to
blah, blah, blah.
You know, I'm going to do it there.
But we just want to have
a ceremony
in a sacred place.
Hey, church is you.
It's not this place.
And I say,
well, the rest of the family
wants to be in there thinking,
oh, do I have to pay
for all those people
eating with me?
You know, I say,
no, no, no.
Just, we want to be part
of seeing your home
centered on Jesus.
Well, I'm not interested
in that part.
I just was looking
for a facility to rent
to kind of do this thing.
Well, we're not into that.
We are here
to help people grow
in their relationship
with Christ.
And here is Jesus
explaining that
this starting point
of developing
a relationship
with Christ
is coming to
a realization
of the darkness
of the soul
and the desperation
that sinners are in
because of sin
that draws them
and separates them
from God.
So what is saving faith?
I think it helps
for one
to just kind of stop
and recognize
what it is not.
For one,
saving faith
is not mere feeling.
Feelings can be caused
by so many different things.
And any of you
who know me
know that feelings
kind of,
there they are.
I was at the
ordination council.
You know,
and I had,
you know,
at 66,
I had resolved
being an older man now
that when I asked questions,
I would be kind of
just calm
and quiet
and not get emotional.
You know,
I was like,
have you ever seen me
cry at a wedding?
Never done it.
And so,
you know,
here they,
I mean,
I'm sitting towards the back
and that's a safe place
for an older guy,
you know,
towards the back.
And they said,
well,
we're going to ask
that Pastor Knoyer
asked the first question.
So I got started
and guess what happened?
Just calm,
quiet voice.
You know,
and
I was thinking
of the blessing
of being a pastor
and then
being there
as a pastor
and watching
a young man
that had grown up
in our church,
there
sitting alone
on the stage
answering questions
about what it meant
to be
a shepherd
of God's people.
And my heart
just kind of
welled up within me.
And,
and I,
I,
I was emotional.
Took me a while
to control myself
to where I could
get to the question.
So what I'm telling you
is that,
hey,
emotions are not all bad
and,
you know,
if you try to stuff
them down forever,
you know,
sometimes it's just hard
but,
but the deal is this,
is emotions
don't bring people
to faith.
Emotions may
prompt you
to think carefully
about where your heart is.
That's okay.
But at the end
of the day,
emotions are not
what save people.
Saving faith
is not sincere belief
either.
Do you realize
that there were
millions of Jews
that were put to death
by Nazis
who really sincerely
believed what they believed?
Do you follow that?
They believed that.
And,
I don't know,
some of you here
are old enough
to remember Jim Jones.
Anybody remember Jim Jones?
You heard the phrase
don't drink the Kool-Aid?
How many of you
know that phrase?
I mean,
it's like don't drink
the Kool-Aid.
Jim Jones is the one
who made it famous.
Prior to that,
there was this little ditty
called Kool-Aid.
Kool-Aid,
it tastes great.
Gotta have some.
Can't wait.
Now,
that's for you
who are,
I mean,
look at this.
It's like for the rest
of you,
it's like over top.
You know,
it's like,
that was my generation.
You know,
it's like we sang that song
and we really thought
Kool-Aid was good
until Jim Jones came along
and he made people
who believed in him
drink it.
See,
having sincere faith
may lead to death.
I remember growing up
in India
and truthfully watching,
I remember going to
the place,
the start of the Ganges River
and Ganges River
is sacred,
holy
and it was a gathering place
for all kinds of
real,
serious,
and sincere believers
in Hinduism.
I remember looking
at one sadhu
who had sat
on a bed of nails.
I mean,
this is the real story
and he was sitting
on that bed of nails,
he slept on that bed of nails
and he had never
gotten off of that bed of nails
except for
basic functions
and he was doing this
because he sincerely believed
that that was the means
of salvation.
I saw another sadhu
who had stared at the sun
with his eyes open
and burned him out
and he sincerely believed
that his willing sacrifice
of his eyesight
was the means
of his salvation.
Sincere belief
doesn't cut it.
I want you to understand
that apart
from the reality
of the truth
of the scriptures,
there is no hope
of salvation
and that's one of the reasons
why we who know Christ
have to be involved
in letting people
know the truth
of their need.
It is the truth
that brings conviction
salvation
and draws a person
to salvation.
Let me have you see
just how clearly
this issue of truth
is hammered at
in the Bible.
You're there in John
chapter 4,
just turn ahead
to John chapter 8
verse 32
and here is Jesus
again speaking
on the matter of truth
and here's what he says,
you will know the truth
and the truth
will set you free.
You will know the truth
and the truth
will set you free.
Truth is absolutely
essential
to our salvation.
Turn to another passage
in relationship
to this.
You're there in John,
keep your finger
because we are coming back
but I want you to go
to 1 Timothy chapter 2
verse 4.
By the way,
as I'm turning,
I'm praying.
Do you know
why I'm praying?
I'm praying,
Holy Spirit,
help me make the word clear.
1 Timothy chapter 2
verse 4,
it says this,
who desires all people
to be saved
and to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
The truth.
What the woman heard
and what she had gone into town
and communicated
to the townsfolk
listen carefully
because this is important
to understand,
started with the truth
that her sin
was her greatest need.
Let me say that slowly
so you don't miss it.
What she had gone into town
and shared with the townsfolk
is that her sin
was her greatest need.
Until a person
comes to the place
that they realize
that their sin
is their greatest need,
they really haven't come
to the place
of understanding
how essential
faith in Christ is.
This morning
in my devotional reading
in the book of Mark,
I came to the passage
where Jesus
was being criticized
by the Pharisees
because he ate
with sinners.
You can think about that.
Must have been at Walmart
or Mendy's
or McDonald's
or somewhere like,
you know,
where all they are.
And so here he is
eating with sinners
and the Pharisees,
I can't believe
you're doing that.
And here's what Jesus said.
He said,
I didn't come to help
those people
who are righteous.
I came to help,
what?
Sinners.
I came to help sinners.
And so the starting point
of conversion
is really coming to grips
with the fact,
man,
I'm a sinner
and I've got a desperate need
and here's the woman.
She went into town
and says,
you know what?
Jesus told me
all about myself.
she'd gone to the well
for water
and she'd come to grips
with the reality
of her sinful heart
that had traded sex
for security.
And Jesus not only
convicted her
of her sin
but also helped her
understand
that he alone
was the only remedy
to her broken
and ruined heart.
And all we know
about her testimony
is that she went
back into town
and she said this,
he told me
all that I ever did.
Isn't that an interesting
statement?
In essence,
what she was saying
was this,
is that Jesus convicted me
of my sin
and he let me know
what my problem was.
So,
recognize this
as you think about it
in your own life
and ministry,
true conversion
involves seeing
the truth of sin.
Now,
let me explain
this a bit.
Seeing the truth
of sin
is more than
feeling bad
about sin.
Everybody smile
when I say that.
Seeing the truth
of sin
is more than
just feeling
bad about sin.
I mean,
feeling bad
about sin
is something
that happens
fairly often
once you get
caught sinning.
Why is that?
How many of you
understand that
sin always creates
unintended consequences?
In every case,
there are some of you
sitting here
that are thinking
to yourself,
well,
the sin that I'm committing
doesn't have any
unintended consequences.
You're fooling yourself
and the reason
that you may not be
enduring the consequences
right now
is because God
is being incredibly
patient and gentle
with you
but when he
lets you experience
consequence,
he is going to
take away
all the arguments
and you're going
to come face to face
with the fact
that your sin
is your greatest problem.
It's not hard
to feel bad
about sin
when you're
suffering the consequences
but that's not
converting faith.
Adam and Eve
felt bad
after they'd eaten
the fruit.
We know that
because they tried
to sew leaves together
to make clothing.
Have you ever
tried that,
by the way?
I mean,
you know,
a little bit of vine
and maybe
a thorn
and trying to
stitch leaves together.
I've actually
tried that in India
and it's not
a good idea.
The garments
don't have any
durability
and moving in them
don't go there.
Okay,
so,
true conversion
involves coming to grips
with the reality
of your sin.
True conversion
also involves
seeing your utter
inability
to save
yourself.
Let me say that
and have you
connect with it.
True conversion
also involves
seeing your
utter inability
to do anything
to save yourself.
More than just
exposing the reality
of her sin,
Jesus had showed
her that
her hope
and deliverance
from the crushing
burden
of her shame
and guilt
was really
in his hands
and his hands
alone.
He was the only one
who could solve
the problem.
I remember still
years ago
when I hurt
my back
and,
you know,
standard thing
when men hurt
their back
is I'm alright,
you know,
I'm not taking
Advil or anything
like that
and eventually
what happened
is I started
having numbness
that it made
walking,
my left leg
was what was
giving me trouble.
Stop smiling,
Hannah.
Hannah is going
to be graduating
and leaving us
which I don't think
she should do
but she's going
out to,
where is it,
Montana,
Idaho?
I don't know.
Can we take
a vote on that?
We love you anyway.
Okay.
But here's the truth,
I had paralysis
that was
as the result
of my nerve
being impinged.
I went to a chiropractor
and I tried
the medicine
and I tried
all different
kinds of therapy
and nothing
was helping
and I was bound
to determine
that I wasn't
going to,
you know,
do anything
other than
just kind of
gut it out
and then I
started falling
because my leg
was atrophying
and I was
kind of,
you know what
a numb leg
works like?
It doesn't.
I fell twice
mowing
and I came in
and I said to
Judith,
we got to do
something about this.
Well,
ended up having
an MRI,
ended up having
x-rays
and all that
kind of stuff
and finally
went to a surgeon
and took the MRIs
and she looked
at this
and said,
yeah,
I can fix that.
A couple weeks
later,
I was actually
rolling into the
surgery and my
MRI films,
this is before
electronics were
what they are
now,
but I remember
rolling into
surgery and just
as I'm getting
ready to leave
the waiting bay,
they come in
with my x-rays
and slide them
alongside.
The doctor
walks in and
grabs those
and looks at them
again.
She had about
47,000 to do
that day and
you know,
it's like,
which one am I
doing,
here we go,
but she
looked at
those films
and she
knew what
needed to be
done and
I had been
fully persuaded
by that
recurring pain,
incredible as
it was,
and by falling
that I
couldn't solve
my problem
by myself
and I was
willing to
submit to a
good surgeon.
Until you
come to grips
with the reality
of sin in
your heart,
you will not
come to
the good
physician.
And so as
you look at
the passage
going back
there to
John chapter
4,
you find there
that she
goes into
town,
she tells
them the
truth about
who Jesus
was,
and what
they do
then is
they as
well come
to grips
with their
condition and
recognize their
desperate need.
And I like
what the
outcome of
this process
is.
Number one,
the Spirit
convicts us
that we are
sinners and
we can't
save ourselves.
And furthermore,
number two,
the Spirit
comes and
helps us
understand that
Jesus is the
Savior.
Look at
verse 42.
We're going
to step
ahead for a
second.
It says there,
they said to
the woman,
it's no longer
because of what
you said that
we believe for
we've heard for
ourselves and
we know that
this indeed is
the Savior of
the world.
The Spirit
of God brings
us to the
point that we
understand that
our only hope
is in Christ
as our Savior.
Savior.
So recognize
these two
pieces.
Number one,
saving faith
convinces us
of the reality
of our sin.
It's based on
truth and
drives home the
point that we're
in a mess.
Number two,
saving faith is
believing the
truth about
Jesus.
You look at
verse 39,
she went into
town, she told
them the truth
about Jesus,
and in verse
40, out they
come.
Many of them,
they wanted to
hear who Jesus
was, and as they
listened to him,
they said,
would you stay
here longer
and keep
ministering to
us?
And he did,
he stayed two
days.
Now everyone
that had believed
at that moment,
and we read that
a number of them
had believed
earlier as a
result of the
woman's testimony,
they were part of
this throng that
gathered, and they
perhaps just listened
further as Jesus
was teaching, and
those who did not
believe came along,
and as a result of
listening to what
Jesus had to say,
they came to grips
with their own sin.
Look at verse 41.
And many more
believed because of
his word, because of
his word.
Now what word would
Jesus bring that
would bring salvation
to individuals'
hearts?
Number one, and I
want you to have
this pictured firmly
in your heart and
understand it clearly,
number one, saving
faith means believing
that man cannot save
himself.
Think with me.
Common question.
I don't have any
hesitation asking an
individual.
Is so, when you die,
where are you going
to spend eternity?
It's a fair question.
I mean, after all,
what it says in
Hebrews chapter 9 is
this, it says, it's
appointed unto man
once to die, and
after that, what?
The day is coming
when I'm going to
give an account, and
you're going to give
an account to Christ.
Christ.
And so, where are
you going?
I get a chuckle when
I'm on an elevator, and
we're going up or
down.
It doesn't make any
difference, but when I
get ready to punch the
buttons, one of the
things I say is, my
last trip is up.
You know, it's like,
I'm a little weird, but
you know, it's like, my
last trip is up.
Okay?
And it is.
Jesus makes it clear in
the scriptures, man
cannot save himself.
And until you come to
that point that you
recognize the moral
bankruptcy of your
heart and the absolute
desperate condition of
your soul, you are not
there and ready to hear
the sweetness of the
gospel.
Number two, saving
faith believes that only
God can save men from
their sin.
sin.
Only God can save men
from their sin.
I want you to get that
clearly fixed in your
mind because there's a
lot of people running
around today that when
you ask them, why are
you going to heaven,
their standard answers,
I've been a pretty good
person.
Now, I'm glad to hear
that.
I mean, I wish there
were more people that
were pretty good.
But the truth of the
matter is, the Bible
says, not by works of
righteousness.
There's nothing that
you and I can do that
can bring redemption or
salvation to us.
Why is that?
We sang a very
interesting song this
morning.
It said, all my
righteousness is as
what?
Filthy is the
discreet King James
translation of a much
more blunt Hebrew word.
word.
The truth of the matter
is, our best efforts
actually have a little
tincture, a little
flavoring of self-
adulation and
appreciation.
Aren't you glad, God,
I'm as nice as I am?
And he says, yuck.
Man cannot save himself,
only God can do that.
And finally, saving faith
believes that God sent
his son to be our
savior.
Do you know that?
You're a sinner.
I'm a sinner.
sinner.
I have never gotten
over.
I have never gotten
over.
The reality of the
convicting power of
Jesus that led me to
discover just the
darkness of my heart.
And brought me to
realize that the only
person who could do
anything about me was
Jesus.
And what he did for me
was Jesus died on the
cross to pay the
penalty for my sins.
Oh.
We sang that song this
morning, what can wash
away my, what?
Sin.
What can take away the
burden?
The darkness.
The depression.
The hopelessness.
The blackness of your
soul.
There is no remedy
but the blood of
Christ.
And the reason that
there is remedy is
Jesus stepped up and
took your place
and died your death.
He paid the penalty
for your sins.
And saving faith
is a
clear
truthful
grasp
of bad news.
I'm a hopeless
mess
deserving God's
judgment.
And the good news
God sent his son
to die
for me.
And there's
nothing else
that counts
but that.
we're going to do
something a little
different this
morning.
John is going to
lead us in two
songs.
By the way,
happy people that
know Jesus do what
when they sing?
I always smile,
they blow it out.
Okay?
That's what they do.
They don't just kind
of sit there.
And I'm not going to
be watching John,
but you give me a
grade, will you?
I am hoping that all
of you are not going
to be sitting there
like this.
Okay,
John's going to come
lead us.
First song,
you sing