Advent begins with a promise. The very word Advent means coming. And so Advent is a season of hope, of promise that the Lord will come to Earth. Now, we, of course, celebrate Advent as a celebration of Christmas, the incarnation, the first coming of Christ. And so in a sense, it's a bit anachronistic. We almost have to take our minds and go back in a time machine, back to the, the days and the weeks, the months, the years, the decades, the centuries, even the millennia before Jesus came to get the full experience of the promise of Advent. God had promised that he would send a Savior into the world. As soon as sin entered the world in Genesis 3, God didn't let a single sunset happen in the world, in the fallen world, before he promised that he would send a Savior. God shows up on the scene in Genesis 3. And we looked at this a couple of weeks ago. He found Adam and Eve in their sinful condition. He found the serpent that had lied to them. led them astray, and God immediately promised that he would rescue the world, that God himself would have a plan of salvation, that he would send a savior to the world to rescue people from their sin. It was God who designed this, God who initiated this, and God who promised it. The first gospel presentation happened on the first day of sin in the world. The heart of that promise, of course, is that God would send a human being, a son of Adam and Eve, a seed of Eve to be the one who would crush the devil and reconcile God to man. Of course, even in the promise that it would be a human, that's surprising. After all, it was an angel who flung the world into sin. It was an angel who deceived Adam and Eve into sinning in the form of the serpent, the devil himself. And so you might have expected that God would use an angel to rescue the world. But no, he was going to, in a sense, shame the angels by exalting mankind by himself becoming a man. This is the first promise. And we looked at, even if you remember how wrapped up in that promise is even the prophecy of the virgin birth, that the Savior, the seed, would be the seed of the woman. That's not the way biology works. This would be a unique birth, a unique birth that Jesus, the Savior, the rescuer, would be born to a virgin. And the rest of the Old Testament plays out as a search for who this seed is. Adam and Eve thought it might be Abel, but Abel was murdered, and so it's not him. They thought it might be Seth, but Seth went his way without rescuing the world. Noah's parents thought it would be him, but it was not Noah. He flooded the world. He didn't rescue the world. Then you get to Genesis 11. There, God flings the people on the earth around the world. He scatters them. He divides the languages. He divides people up into ethnic groups, language groups, nations. And they go forth from Babel. They cover the earth. And you don't know where the seed will be. You don't know which nation, which ethnic group, which people group will have the Savior. And then in Genesis 12, God starts a new nation, the nation Israel. And he says that they will receive the seed. They will receive the promise. And so the nation Israel is isolated. If you remember, we looked at this last week. That's the story of the Old Testament, that Israel would be isolated from the other nations of the world. And those who had faith in God would be drawn to Israel. Those who had faith in Yahweh would be magnetically attracted. They'd be drawn to Israel and place their faith in the future Savior. That's the story of the Old Testament. We understand that there was a need for a Savior because people had lost paradise. People were exiled from the garden. You understand this. You're born into this world separated from God because of your sin. You're alienated. You're a stranger. In the Garden of Eden, the world was created fit for God to walk with mankind. God was not out of place on Earth, and people were not out of place in His presence. But when sin entered the world, that was shattered. That was broken. God made us in his image, but his image is marred in sin. And so we are exiled. We're banished from the garden, just like Adam and Eve. You can go further than that. You can say we're banished from the garden just like Cain, Cain who was a murderer, Cain who was marked by God as unfit to dwell with God's people, who is cast into the world, separated from everybody else, and really pronounced unclean. That's the condition that we're in because of our sin. We don't have a relationship with God. We don't belong in his presence. We're not suited for it. We're separated from him. But God has promised that he would send a Savior who would rescue us from that, who would reconcile God to man. That's the story of the Old Testament. And then you arrive at Christmas morning in the New Testament, and you see the birth of Christ. In many ways, not what you expected. You see him born in a forgotten town, in a forgotten stable. not with fanfare, not with adoration. You see some shepherds there to worship him, some angels there to pronounce his coming, and that's it. In a way, it's the opposite of your expectations. But that's what happens. Nevertheless, it's clear that he is the seed that's been promised. If the point of the Old Testament was to bring us to the seed, the point of the New Testament is to describe who that seed was, the man Jesus Christ. And perhaps there is no more succinct summary, no more succinct advent verse, no more succinct purpose statement than Luke 19, verse 10. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. You know, it's worth asking, why did God do this? Why did God allow the world to fall into sin? Why did God allow the serpent to be in the garden? Why didn't God stop the devil? Why didn't God stop Adam and Eve from sinning? Why didn't God restore them to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why did God allow all of this to happen? And the answer is so that his Savior could come, so that God could come to Earth as a man to rescue people from their sins, so that the Son of Man could come to seek and to save the lost. That's the answer. God designs the world around this verse. This verse doesn't just summarize Luke's gospel. This verse summarizes the New Testament. It summarizes the Old Testament. It summarizes the whole story. that God is going to seek and save people who have been banished from His presence, people who, because of their sin, are gone. God is going to rescue them. As the Old Testament fills out, of course, you get more details of this. You know that the Savior will be born to Abraham and Israelite. You know he'll be born in the line of Judah, the tribe of Judah, a leader. You know he'll be a prophet like Moses. You know he'll be a king in the line of David. You know he'll be born in Bethlehem, but from Nazareth. You get these other details. You know he'll be born 483 years after Jerusalem is commanded to be rebuilt. So you know the when. You know the where. Give a hint about the how through the Virgin. It's the why. Why would God do all this? The answer is verse 10. The Son of Man would come to seek and to save the lost. This is the purpose statement of Jesus. Our church has their own purpose statement in the hallway right outside the center doors, to seek, serve, and share. This is Jesus's purpose statement here, to seek and save the lost. I'm not saying Jesus had a tattoo. But if he did, it would have been this verse. To seek and save the lost. This is his mission statement. This is Jesus's life verse. To seek and save the lost. Notice it begins with him describing himself as the Son of Man. That's a title of humility. Jesus is also the Son of God. He could choose from either of those titles, the Son of God or the Son of Man. He often chooses the Son of Man. It's the most common way Jesus describes himself. 80 times in the gospel, Jesus is described as the Son of Man. When you see him in the book of Revelation, he's described as the Son of Man. It's a way of saying that he is fulfilling the Genesis 315 promise, that he is the child of Eve. He is come to Earth as a human. That's what this means. But it means more than that also. I mean, we're all sons and daughters of men, aren't we? But there's a more narrow meaning also. In Daniel chapter 7, the Ancient of Days, the one who is radiant with white glory, he will come as the Messiah. He will be the rescuer. And he will be known as the Son of Man. So when Jesus uses this title, it's demonstrating his humility, that he's a human. He's God in human flesh. But when he calls himself Son of Man, it's a humble title. But it's also a messianic title. That wouldn't be lost on the Pharisees. It wouldn't be lost on the Jews. By describing himself as the Son of Man, Jesus is claiming to be the Messiah who's prophesied in the Old Testament. He's the fulfillment of the promises. There's three words that jump out at you from verse 10. Seek, save, and lost. And that's going to be our outline this morning. We'll take those words one at a time. Seek, save, and lost. The Son of Man came to seek. He is on the way. He is the one who is pursuing salvation. He initiates salvation. He designed salvation. And now He is going to execute it. He is hunting down people to save. Seek is not an accidental word. Find is an accidental word. You found something. That's lucky you. That's not how salvation happens. Jesus seeks those whom He will save. And He will save you. It's helpful to look at some other places in the New Testament this word is used, because it's a common New Testament word. Matthew chapter 13, Jesus describes a merchant, a rich merchant, who is seeking a pearl of great price. I understand how you search for a pearl. He's got scores of people diving in the ocean, going through, collecting the oysters, shucking them open, and looking for a pearl. It's not easy. It's not something you're going to stumble across. Nobody happens upon a pearl of exponential value. It's something that you have to devote yourself to hunting down, the effort of prying open the shells, and investigating, and searching, and seeking. That's the word that Jesus uses to describe his mission in this world. He is on the hunt for sinners to save. There's another word in Matthew 13, the story of the man who stumbles across the treasure in the field. He's not searching for the treasure, he happens to find it. That parable is told to describe how we respond to salvation, that you find the gospel message and you stumble across it, you find it, it's given to you, and so you respond by selling all you have to receive it. But the pearl of great price is different. That's given to you to describe how God seeks people whom he will save. Another place this word is used is 2 Timothy 1, verse 16. Paul was in prison, and nobody could find him. If you remember from our study in Philemon, he was put in prison, and there was nobody who could find him. The church in Ephesus kept sending gifts to him, kept sending messengers to him, but they couldn't track him down. There was no database back then of prisoners. You couldn't enter the name, Google it, and find out what jail they're in. The Romans didn't necessarily mark all their jails. And so these missionaries from Ephesus were hunting for Paul, block by block, looking for him, and nobody could find him. except for Anisphorus. Anisphorus came, 2 Timothy 1.16, and he diligently searched, is how the ESV renders it. He hunted Paul down, and he kept looking until he found him. He would not give up. And so Paul says, commend him. Commend him for this, because he searched for me until he found me. That's what Jesus does for us. He searches for us. He hunts us down. Psalm 119 describes him as the hound of heaven. He is on our trail. He will hunt down his children. None of his children will get away from him. It's remarkable here that God is not content to let the world go its own way. Adam and Eve fallen to sin, God could have, and you would have expected him to say, cut, cut, cut. Clear the set. Start over. Creation of the universe, take two. This time, don't sin. Roll. Or he could have just said, forget about you guys. Let the world go on. Forget about it. Let it play out. I mean, that's the teaching of deism, right? That God wound up the world and let it go. God could have done that. Just let it play out. If he would have done that, nobody would be saved. Nobody would be saved. God's not content just to let the world go its own way. He will enter his creation and he will hunt people down. He will seek them and he will find them. You know, the Bible says that we love God because he first loved us. So it's worth asking yourself, how did God first love us? Well, he loved you by making you, of course. He loved you by making the world, and he made the world a wonderful place fit for people to live on. I know that there's difficulties and trials in your life, and there's horrible suffering in the world. But nevertheless, you understand that's the fault of sin. Sin brings suffering in the world. God is still loving and benevolent because of the beauty in the way he created the world. It's sin that mars it. God made us in his image. That's a loving thing for him to do. And if you think, oh, what's so great about that? I don't have a lot going on in my life. OK, how about this? God's letting you breathe. That's a way of demonstrating his love towards you. But that's not what John means, is it, when he says we love him because he first loved us? Because that's true of everybody. God made everybody. He put everybody in the planet. He made every human in his image. He's letting everybody breathe. So why doesn't everybody love him? If that's what John meant, everybody would love him. But that's not what John means, and that's not what Jesus means here. He doesn't mean he's seeking the world. He has individuals whom he's hunting for, his children. He initiates this relationship with us. He comes, he hunts us down, he finds us, and he rescues us. I mean, the streets of Jericho were lined with people, weren't they? You're familiar with Jesus's march through Jericho. He marched around the city. There was quite a procession. That's what leads into Palm Sunday with all the palm branches. They came from Jericho. There was a parade that went through the city. Mark describes it very well. The streets were filled with people. Here, the parade is coming through Jericho. And salvation is announced for everybody, of course. But if it's simply announced for everybody, you know how many people would be saved? Zero. Nobody would be saved. So Jesus pulls the parade over. He pulls the car over, so to speak, because he has one person in mind. Zacchaeus, he calls out. Zacchaeus. Now, on the drive into church this morning, I kept repeating to myself, don't accidentally preach the whole Zacchaeus story. Don't accidentally preach the whole Zacchaeus story. Because it's such a powerful story. It deserves its own message, but just dabble in it a little bit. Zacchaeus is a villainous, evil, treacherous, stealing, thieving, conniving, no good, good for nothing. He's a mafiosa-style tax collector. He is shunned by the Jews. He's viewed as as unclean as a leper. I mean, this guy has no friends, no hope. He is an outcast, and he deserves it. He's wicked and evil and treacherous. He's a traitor to his own people. That's the nature of tax collectors. And if they're a Jewish tax collector, it's just appalling. That's Zacchaeus. So when Jesus stops the parade and summons him, this is going to cause some jaws to drop. Zacchaeus is well-known, of course. He stands out by his physical appearance, that, and he's hiding in a tree right now. And Jesus calls him by name. That's shocking. Zacchaeus has never met Jesus before. I mean, this is going to stand out. If it was me in the tree, I wouldn't be a Christian, because I'd be so surprised I'd fall out to my own death. How do you know my name? It reminds you of Nathanael, right, where Jesus says, before you came here, I knew you. I saw you under the tree. I know who you are. Don't be surprised that I know your name. This is one of those kind of encounters here where Jesus summons him by name, get down in the street. Zacchaeus scampers down, and Jesus says, I'm going to your house today. Zacchaeus did not run a bed and breakfast. This is an announcement that Jesus is going to save this guy. And of course, that's what happens. Zacchaeus' life is turned upside down. He repents of his sins. Out loud, he says, I give half my goods to the poor. And if I've defrauded anybody of anything, let me repay it four times. Well, there goes the other half of his money. I mean, he gets changed. And then Jesus says, salvation has come to this house. And look at this phrase, since he also is the son of Abraham. That's a little dig at the Pharisees here. The Pharisees are shocked by this. You jog your eyes back up to verse 7. When they all saw this, and all the Jews saw Jesus summoning Zacchaeus and going to his house, they all grumbled, it says. That word grumbled, it's an onomatopoetic word. You know what that means, right? It's a word that means like what it sounds like. The Greek word is grumbled. They all saw Jesus going with Zacchaeus, and they grumbled. This is not right. This cannot be. They can't do this. And what's crazy is some people think that Jesus is actually a savior. If he's such a savior, what's he doing with such a sinner? That's their logic. And so Jesus reminds them, hey, he's a son of Abraham. He's a child of Abraham. High and mighty Jews who are complaining about Jesus dining with the tax collector, he is a son of Abraham. And so can't children of Abraham be saved? And then Jesus narrows it a little bit, doesn't he? He's the son of Abraham, but then Jesus says that Jesus is the son of man. He's not just after the Jews. He's not just seeking Jews. He has specific people He's seeking around the world. He has sheep in other pens, other pastures as well. He's not just the Savior of the Jews only. He's a Savior of people around the world. And He will seek them out. And He will hunt them down. And if He is seeking you, let me tell you something. You can't hide from Him. If Jesus is on your trail, where are you going to go? Are you going to hide in a tree? That's not going to work. Going to hide in your house? He'll find you. Listen very carefully. Jesus does not fail. He finds every single person for whom he seeks. He will succeed in his mission. We're used to failure in our world, aren't we? We try things and fail. Hey, it's a virtue. You tell athletes that all the time. Go to the max. You know you're pressing yourself when you fail. Try something that is so extraneous. Try a strategy that is so extreme that if it fails, you learn your lesson. Jesus does not fail. He will seek for his people, and he will find his people. And what will he do with them when he finds them? He'll call them out of the tree, and then, the second word, he will save them. Jesus seeks, and he saves. He saves. You know, God calls all people around the world to repentance. He shows love to all people around the world. He loves everybody. But then he has a specific love for those whom he's seeking. He has a specific call for those whom he's calling effectually, for those whom he is saving. He has the call that goes to Zacchaeus that drags him out of the tree. And if you're a believer, it's because he called your name and changed your heart. He saves you. Zacchaeus, as I said, comes out of the tree, and he confesses publicly. His life is totally turned upside down. He confesses publicly his sin. He gives his money to the poor, and the other half he gives back to make restitution. I mean, this is getting saved. Some people get saved. Zacchaeus gets saved. This is a radical conversion. He restores what he's publicly confessed as sin. He's making restitution, and he's following Christ. He went from being an evil, treacherous villain to being an evil, treacherous villain who's been saved. He's forgiven of his sins, and he's now following Christ. This is what God comes to do. He doesn't just come to seek and to find. That's not his mission. He comes to seek and find and save. You know, a shepherd has a runaway sheep. He goes and looks for the sheep. But what good is it if the shepherd finds the sheep and just stands there with him? That's not what he's doing. You're supposed to find him and bring him back. Shepherd says, oh, I found the sheep, and then watches a wolf attack him. What's the point? Jesus doesn't just seek you to find you. He seeks you to save you, to change your life. Now, how can he do that? How can he save people? And this is the question of the Jews, right, that are watching this happen. They're wondering, Zacchaeus deserves punishment. If God is just, granted, all people deserve punishment. But if God is just, Zacchaeus especially deserves it. God can't just say, oh, because you had lunch with Jesus, I'm not going to judge you for your sins anymore. That's not just. So how can Jesus forgive him of his sins? How can Zacchaeus possibly be reconciled to God if God is holy and just? That's the question. Your answer has to do with Jesus's birth. That He has a miraculous birth, which leads to a miraculous life. He led a sinless life. Perfect birth leads to a perfect life, which leads to a substitutionary death. That He dies on the cross for our sins. that God's judgments and God's justice and God's wrath and God's punishment and God's vengeance on sin is placed onto Jesus so that Jesus suffers for Zacchaeus' sin. Yes, Zacchaeus deserves hell. Yes, Zacchaeus deserves the justice of God, the vengeance, wrath, judgment of God. But God takes Zacchaeus' sin and puts it on Jesus when he's on the cross. And so Jesus actually is punished for Zacchaeus' sin. And God completely punishes them. All of the infinite wrath that Zacchaeus deserves is poured out on Christ. Now, that would not be good news if Jesus didn't rise from the dead. I mean, if I were to tell you that Jesus took your guilt and suffered in your place, and God poured out the wrath that you deserved on Jesus, your next question would be, well, what happened to him? Oh, he died, and he's buried. That would imply, at the very least, that there is still more wrath to be had. There's still more judgment to be had, that the full sentence has not been executed. But because he rises from the grave, that lets you know that all of God's justice has been satisfied. All of God's wrath on Zacchaeus' sin was poured out on Christ. And Christ satisfied. He paid the penalty. He satisfied justice by rising from the grave. And so because he's risen, he can save those who place their faith in him. He can save those for whom he died in that way. It says he came to seek and to save. The streets of Jericho were lined with people that were not saved. But Jesus succeeded in saving the man whom he sought. Listen, just like the streets of Jericho were lined with people that weren't saved, I'm sure churches are filled with people that aren't saved. I'm sure people come to church that have never been saved by the Lord, that have never turned towards the Lord. They've never given him their life. That's why this passage is so critical. Jericho was a wealthy city. It was a beautiful city, very unlike the Jericho of today. This Jericho had fountains, and gardens, and a fence outside, and the river ran next to it. It was immaculate. Historians tell us it was probably the most beautiful city in Israel, filled with people who wouldn't follow the Savior. But some did. Blind Bartimaeus, he came from Jericho, if you remember the story in Mark. And here's Zacchaeus, out of the tree, over to Christ. There's a lot of people who sing Silent Night that don't understand what they're singing. What separates those who come to faith in Christ from those who don't? It's the last phrase, the word lost. Jesus comes to seek and to save who? The lost. People who are bankrupt. This is the first beatitude. People who are bankrupt. They're broken. They mourn. He comes to save the lost. Now, we don't really know what it means to be lost anymore, do we? We have GPS on our phones. I mean, do we ever get lost anymore? You're driving somewhere you haven't been, maybe, or somewhere it's hard to find, namely anywhere in DC. And you get frustrated. Is it this left or is it the next left? I don't know which left. I can't tell on my phone. Tall buildings, not updating. It could be this left or it could be the next left. That's our definition of getting lost right now. You have to go back in your minds before the time of cell phones. Do you believe that there was a time when there was no cell phones? I remember telling one of my children that there was a time, believe it or not, when cell phones didn't exist. And the child asked me, how did you guys text back then? Well, it involved carrier pigeons, I guess. Do you remember Thomas guides? Those old bound maps that had the city that was gridded? In Los Angeles, that's what everybody lived their life by. You would take the page from the Thomas guide. I rode a motorcycle. I'd cut it out and tape it to the front of my gas tank if I knew where I was going. That was how I would get lost. If the thing blows off, game over. Most lost I've ever been. I spent a summer in Seattle with some friends when I was in college, and we were trying to get to a soccer game. And we didn't know Seattle very well. A guy at the game had given us directions. My friend miswrote it. We left late. He miswrote the directions. He wrote the wrong exit number. That exit, the number that he wrote, didn't exist. Like, is it the one before it or the one after it? We don't know. We were supposed to go north when we got off the freeway, but the freeway had turned, so there was really no north there. Totally lost. We're driving through fields. We stop at a gas station. We're asking people, do you know where a soccer field is? They look at us like we're from a different state, which we were. We try to call our friend on the pay phone. Do you remember the pay phone? You put coins in it and try to remember the number and call the person. He's at the game. He's not answering. You finally get a hold of a friend. We don't even know how to describe where we are. I'm under the sun right now. What do you do? That's the most lost I've ever been. By halftime of the game, we gave up. But you know what we did when we gave up? We headed home. We went back to our house. Just retraced our steps. It's not hard. Just went back where we came from. So that's not really lost, is it? You know, DC is hard to get around. But how lost can you be? You know, drive over until you hit the river. Go south, you'll hit Alexandria. You're home. How lost can you be in a country with oceans? That was our joke when we were in Washington. Let's just turn left, drive west, hit the ocean, drive south. We'll hit LA. We'll be home. You're really lost when you don't know where you are. You don't have any map. You don't have anyone you can call. There's nobody that will answer the phone. There's nobody that will tell you how to get home. You have no help. There's no ocean by which you can navigate. There's no river that will take you back to where you live. You're lost. You don't even know where you're. Adam and Eve were exiled from the garden. But I mean, you have to get to Cain before you really start to understand what lost is. He is banished. Nobody can help him. God marked him so that nobody could help him. He didn't know where the garden was. He couldn't get back there if he wanted to. Even if he had the desire to get back to paradise, there's no way he can do it. It's not capable of it. That's what it means to be lost. Do you know what it means to be lost spiritually? If you have never been lost spiritually, then you can't be saved. Because he came to seek and save the lost. Some people think they know where they are spiritually because they're in church. They made it to church. They think when they die, they'll go to heaven because they went to church. That's not lost. Or they think when they die, they'll go to heaven because they know who God is. That's not lost. Because they keep the Ten Commandments, that's not lost. Or because they think they're a good person, that's absolutely not lost. You think you're following the map just fine. And people are quick to say, I know I haven't led a perfect life. I know I've made mistakes, but God is going to let me into heaven because he knows that I've tried to do the best I can. Listen, that is not lost. That's a person who thinks everything is going just fine. Yeah, there were some wrong turns along the way, but I'm generally headed north. That is not who Jesus came to save. He didn't come to save those Pharisees that are grumbling about Jesus saving sinners. He came to save the sinner that doesn't even know where to go, that's wandering in circles and finds himself up a tree. That's whom he came to save. He came to seek and save those who recognize they have no hope apart from him, those who are absolutely lost. Paradise was lost. We can't find a way back. That's when you realize your loss is when you, I mean, your challenge is to get back to God. Go. Get back to the Garden of Eden. One, two, three, let's all go together. Oh, yeah. You wouldn't even know where to begin. That's what it means to be lost. You have to recognize that if you were left on your own, you wouldn't know how to find God. You wouldn't know how to get to heaven. If you were to die and be appearing before God in the afterlife, you would realize you don't belong there. You don't belong there. You're out of place. You have no way to get there. You are absolutely lost. And you know what's the amazing thing about this? The most incredible part of this story? Only when you realize you're lost and you look around, you see that Jesus came to you. This is why I call this a Christmas story, an Advent story. This is why, this is the significance of the incarnation, that God came to man. Mankind was lost, so Jesus came to us. You're lost and you don't know how to find God. Jesus comes to you. He becomes a human. He leads a human life. He comes to seek and to save those who are lost. This is only good news if you realize that you too were lost in darkest night. You couldn't find the way to salvation. The sin that you loved was keeping you away from God. And when you collapsed on the street corner and gave up is when the Lord found you. Lord, this is our story that you are seeking God. This is the message of Christmas, that you came to us as Moses When we were dead, you gave us life. When we were poor, you gave us spiritual riches. When we were broken, you bound up our wounds. When we were poor, you gave us spiritual riches. When we were dead, you gave us life. When we were poor, you gave us spiritual riches. You've extended your gospel to us because you are a saving God. You've always been a saving God since Genesis 3. You've been a God who wants to save. By nature, you are a Savior. And we delight in that, Lord. We trust in that. I pray for anyone who's here today that has never trusted you with their life, that has never put their faith in you. I pray that this would be the Christmas season where their heart is open to the truth, where they would realize their lost estate, they would realize their lost condition, and they would open their eyes and see you there, calling their name, inviting them home. We were all strangers, aliens, exiles, foreigners, absent from the covenant, separated from faith, and yet you sought us, Lord. If you could find Zacchaeus, if you could find us, we know that you find others as well. Lord, I pray, even this morning, people would give you their lives and would believe that you are the promised Savior. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. You have been listening to Emanuel with Pastor Jesse Johnson. You can find more resources like this at ibcva.com. Here is a parting word from Pastor Jesse. If you have any questions about what you heard today, or if you want to learn more about what it means to follow Christ, please visit our church website, ibcva.com. If you're not a member of a local church and you live in the Washington, D.C. area, we'd love to have you worship with us here at Emanuel. We're located in Northern Virginia, and for more information about when and where we worship, check out our church website. I hope to personally meet you this Sunday after our service. But no matter where you live, it's our hope that everyone who uses this resource is involved in their own local church. Now may God bless you this week as you seek Jesus constantly, serve the Lord faithfully, and share the gospel boldly.