Good morning. I'm B.J. Stagner, pastor of Saron Chapel Independent Baptist Church. I hope and pray that today's sermon is a wonderful blessing to your heart and your soul. I want to encourage you to stay tuned at the conclusion of today's message for some vital information for you personally and those that are around you. So without further ado, here's today's sermon. to the sermon, not another table, I'm sorry, but another area that we want to focus on. But we want to look at Ecclesiastes chapter 3 because it covers, if you will, it covers the gamut of what our topic is this morning. And then just a little later on in the message today, we're going to get into the book of Lamentations. So we're going to look at Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Reread with me in your heart this morning, verses 1 through 8. The Bible says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sow. A time to keep silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace. Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord, for all that you've done. I want to thank You for one more Sunday, dear God. I thank You for one more opportunity to come to Your house this morning. I thank You, Father, for Your precious Word that is ever-enduring. I thank You, Father, for eternal salvation that is everlasting, never to be lost of those who have entered into the bond of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, I pray that You would take this message, Lord, that You would Give us the encouragement, Father, that you would give us the perspective that we need to look upon every single day that you've allotted in this world to live with purpose, to live with intent, to not put off, Lord, for tomorrow that what we need to do right here, right now, today, to not look and rest back on our laurels and rest back on our leaves. Lord, I pray this morning. But You take Your precious Word that we would not only receive the encouragement of who and what You are, but the blessings, dear God, that we find within the Holy Scripture and the conviction in the same, that we may live for You. I ask these things in the name of my Savior, Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Very familiar passage of Scripture, chapter 3, verses 1 through 8 in the book of Ecclesiastes. Tremendous book, tremendous teaching. As a matter of fact, I've heard one of the greatest, one of the best series preached by a friend and supporting pastor of ours, Brother John White, in North Carolina over the summertime. He did a tremendous, tremendous job and brought some insight that I hadn't seen before. None of that is present in this message today, although I probably wished it was. What we find, and the reason I'm using Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 1 through 8 to springboard into our topic this morning, is that Solomon here speaks of a time for everything. When you read those eight verses there, you begin to notice quite clearly that he's encompassing life in general. The positive and the negative, life, death, war, peace, all of these things. Life is filled with circumstances. Life is filled with situations, but most importantly this morning what we need to understand is that life is filled with seasonal changes, most of which, guys, we really have zero control over. Our life will vary in many ways depending upon the circumstances in our life, the situations of our particular day. I think we've all, guys, I think we would all admit this morning that we've all had days which were up, upbeat, running great, and then we've had days that are down, and really there's no explanation for either one of them. You just, there's some days that you're hitting on all cylinders, there's some days where, man, it just seems like things are falling apart. We can go as far as to say that there are days in our life when we are on, and there are days when we are just flat off. So, beloved, in a world today where situations will change in the blink of an eye, You know what's a blessing? A blessing is to know that we have the God of all seasons. No matter what season it is in our life, no matter what we may go through, no matter the circumstance or situation, whether we got ourself into it or whether we didn't get ourself into it, we still have and serve the God of all seasons, whether we're on or whether we're off, whether we're up or whether we're down, whether it's a time of war, peace, love, hate, death, planning, so on, whatever it is. Our God is a God of all seasons, and that's a blessing to know. The last letter that the Apostle Paul writes in his life on this earth, he writes to young Timothy, and he uses these words in 2 Timothy 4, verse 21. He says, "'Do thy diligence to come before winter.'" He says, "'Do thy diligence to come before winter.'" It's understood when Paul wrote this letter that he was up against his final months, possibly weeks, we believe probably months of his life. I mean at most biblical historians will say at the time that he actually penned the letter he would be killed by the Romans in less than two years. Now we look back in history and we honestly believe that it was much shorter than those two years, but historically speaking He is telling Timothy to get there, you know, come before winter, bring the cloaks, bring the parchments, bring my books, but make sure you get here before winter because time is short, he's saying. He's saying my days are numbers, but spiritually speaking, he's saying do that diligence to come before winter. In other words, to do all that needs to be done when it is not winter to be ready when it is winter in your life. You see, beloved, the world, the earth that we live in, man, what a beautiful day it is today. Again, I mentioned walking over here this morning. Denise and I were walking over. We just can't help but comment of how, what a beautiful day it is, amen. It's not uncommon when you have beautiful days in areas that people will choose to do things outside rather than do things indoors, and we understand that. I do, and I don't understand skipping church for it now. Let me make sure I clarify that statement. I don't care how pretty the day is. I'm not missing church, amen. Jesus Christ died for this church. I'm not going to miss it because He's blessed us with a beautiful day, praise the Lord, and we'll go enjoy it afterwards. But just like our world has different seasons—our world has a spring, has a summer, has an autumn, and it has a wintertime—our personal, everyday life has the same. We all have a spring season, otherwise known as that sowing season, when the ground is turned over, when the rows are cut in, when the heart is nice and moist, and when it's able to be, it's very malleable, it can be molded into what it needs to be. There are times in our spiritual lives when we're able to take in so much seed of the Word of God and His truth, and it plants inside of us, and it begins to germinate, if you will. And then there's the growing season, okay? That's that summertime, if you will. Those of you that have planted a garden, I mean a crop in your life, you understand what I'm talking about. And this is when the temperature goes from warm to hot, and we see the crops are growing. I remember working for a seed corn company throughout college in Nebraska or in the summertime in Nebraska and there would be thousands upon thousands upon thousands it's like looking at the North Sea just a bit but of corn and they literally had guys that worked for the company that would go out there every morning and sit there at a certain particular time they had it down to a science that within a three-day period of time, that tassel was gonna pop on that corn. And it was all due to barometric pressure, humidity, and heat, and the time of season that the corn was growing. And they would go out there and measure and monitor, and then they would sit out there, and they would watch it, and have all the little devices. And the moment that tassel would pop, they would radio back to the plant, they'd radio back to headquarters, if you will, like ants running from a kicked-over ant bed. We all started scurrying out in our machines, and we all got out there in our machines to detassel the corn. That's how you make seed corn. You have four rows of female, one row of male, and you detassel the female corn, and the male will pollinate it, turns it into seed corn instead of feed corn. So, beloved, we have a growing season in our life. We have a time when we go from all of that seed of the Word of God that was planted inside of our heart and our mind, our soul, our spirit, and we get warm, you know, by the Holy Spirit of God, and we get excited about what God is doing, what He can do, what He will do, about the validity of His Word, and we begin to make changes, and we grow in grace, and then we get on fire for God. We get hot for God. We begin to grow in the Lord. We begin to grow in His grace. These are the times, guys, when we're able to take, grow in great ways for the Lord. Well, what a blessing it is to grow in the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be sitting here today and say, Preacher, I've never experienced that growing season. And I challenge you, you need to get the seed planted. And I'll tell you this, if you're planting fake seed, you're not gonna have a growing time, amen? That just won't happen. Then there's the harvest. There's that autumn time, if you will, as you know that we're really in that season right now, and this is an unintentional sermon to be right around that harvest time, as we'll be celebrating here shortly in a couple of weeks. But there's a harvest time, a time in our life where the seed that was planted and that grew produces the fruit in our Christian life. Our life seems to be in order. family is in order, our job is in order, our ministries, we're seeing souls saved, people getting on fire for God, and I mean things again, like I said earlier, things are just hitting on all cylinders. For those of you who aren't gearheads out there, what I mean by that, if you've got an eight-cylinder car, they're all firing at the right time, amen? But yet without fail. Just like you have the spring, the sowing season, just like you have the summer, the growing season, just like you have the autumn, which is the harvest time when you reap all of the benefits, beloved, right around the corner, without hesitation, eventually there is one more season that comes around in our life. Sometimes it's there for a day, sometimes it's there for a week, sometimes it's there for a month, and that is when winter sets in. That's when things are cold and nothing seems to move. We're dead in our pew. We're sat there, I mean, the word of God bounces off our heart. I mean, it's just deflected, amen. We're in the middle of that winter. Some of y'all been in a winter season for too many years, amen. I'll go ahead and say that. This is when things are cold, guys, and nothing seems to move. The verses that you read in your Bible just the week before, which jumped off the page and convicted, now sits there on the printed pages as dead letter. It's winter season. We all have them. We all have the winter season. The key, beloved, of getting out of a winter season is to make sure you plant enough seeds during the sowing season, to make sure you nurture them diligently in order to produce enough fruit in the harvest so when winter comes around, you'll be able to make it through just fine. Because otherwise, you're going to sit there in a dead, cold winter and be a dead, cold Christian, and you're not ever in your life going to see a sowing, growing, or harvest. I'm afraid. I'm afraid many of us have settled into that. I'm afraid many of us have become complacent in our Christianity. We have forgotten that we serve the God of all seasons. Because just as we have these seasons in our life on a regular revolving basis, There are seasons of our life that we all deal with, seasons of change, milestones in our life, life events which takes us to a new and sometimes different level. These are seasons which come with age, they come with change of circumstances, situations, either marital situations or parental changes, whatever it may be. It's different from raising a son or a daughter at four than it is at 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20. It's different, amen? It doesn't mean that it's necessarily bad or wrong or whatever, but it's different. You can't raise an 18-year-old daughter like you did when she was four years old. It ain't gonna happen. She doesn't let me fool around with her hair anymore. She doesn't let me make fun of her and put all kinds of breads and have her hair sticking all out over the place. I had her one time when she was a little kid up on the counter in the kitchen, which was a big no-no, but I did it anyway, and I had so many breads sucking her hair, she looked like a COVID virus, if you want to know the truth. She was going everywhere, man. I mean, she don't let me do those things anymore, and rightly so, she probably shouldn't. All I'm saying is this. is we have changes in our life, many of which are gonna be permanent. We have seasons that come into our days, some of which, guys, if we're not careful, are gonna be permanent. Unfortunately, the seasons that never stay around is the sowing, growing, and harvest. The ones that seem to stick in so long is that dead, cold wintertime. But what if I was to tell you this morning, there is a biblical principle, one principle in all of creation, that will see you through each and every single season of life, be it a seasonal change on a regular day of living or a life-altering change as you see your age. principle guys that will sustain you a principle that would encourage you a principle that that will see you through every single circumstance in every single situation like you say preacher there is no way on this planet that you're gonna be able to give me a principle today that will see me through every single situation of life well you just hold your horses there and turning your Bible so limitations in chapter 3 limitations in chapter 3 and let's look here this morning because I want to again submit to you this thought We serve the God of all seasons, amen? And then you have a choice today to whether you're gonna buy into this principle in the right way and plant enough seed during the sowing time in order for it to be nurtured and grow in the summertime and then harvest in the autumn time so that when the winter rolls around, You've got enough spiritual food on your plate to get through it. Lamentations chapter 3 and verses 22 and 23. The Bible says, it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions, what's His last two words? Fail not. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. What is the one single principle God will use and does use to sustain us in every single season of life, it is the faithfulness of God. It's not our faithfulness, it is His faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness, the Holy Scripture says. No matter how dark, no matter how deep, no matter how much of the depression, the faithfulness of God will carry you through every step of the way if you will let it this morning. His faithfulness is always there, His care for us, His provision for us, His attention for us, His interest in our lives, all of which is always there without compromise and, like the verse says, without fail. Even when it seems as if He isn't there. Even when it seems as, and I know as a preacher I can tell you this right here, I've stood in this pulpit and I've preached my heart out and it seemed like it fell on dead ears, God's still involved some way or another. There's times when every one of you in here this morning have read your Bible in the morning time, and by the time you finish the tenth verse, you can't remember the first verse. Those are the winter seasons. That's that winter time. But God is still there. He's still doing something. He's still sustaining you, amen? We can trust in the faithfulness of God in all aspects of our life, and I mean all, A-double-L, all aspects of our life. There isn't a category in our life that we are to trust Him and then not trust Him in something else. All means all, and that's all all means. Beloved, we can trust Him in everything because He fails not. We aren't to trust God in our job, but then not our family. We aren't to trust God in our health, but not in our safety. We aren't to trust God with our neighbors, but not with our friends. All means all, and that's all all means, God is faithful. We trust Him with our job and our family. We trust Him with our health and our safety. We trust Him with our neighbors, and we trust Him with our friends in every aspect of our life. Great is thy faithfulness, the Bible says. Why do I say that? Because we have days that are up, we have days that are down. Now I've been, guys, listen, I know that I'm a stickler, I just, I have a tendency, I know you wake up on a Sunday morning or a Wednesday afternoon or whatever it may be, and you're like, man, I really just don't feel, I have a tendency to make it this clear, just suck it up and go, go anyway. Because you'll get a blessing if you'll just suck it up, Go and get in the house of God. Anyway, get up and read your Bible. Anyway, pray in the night Anyway, do your scripture rise do it. Anyway, be a witness. Anyway, even if you don't feel like it a man just do it anyway and God will bless it because he's faithful even when our hearts are not faithful God is faithful means you can trust him in everything and beloved I'm telling you this is a principle that Will get you and I through life the faithfulness of God Number one, the faithfulness of God because of His blessings, amen? Look in verse 22. It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, amen? Can you imagine that? Mercy, guys, is exercising compassion or forgiveness toward someone when it is in one's power to punish them. Being in one's power to punish them is not only positional. But more so, it's a given right. If you have the authority and the right to punish someone, it's a given right. Then therefore, if you exercise mercy, or you exercise compassion, that is having mercy on them. The Almighty God has every right to punish mankind. Not because of what God has done, but because of what mankind has done. Because of mankind's transgression. It's not a matter of how many right or wrongs we have in life, it's the fact that we had any amen going all the way back to Adam. But we have our struggles in our life. We have family work, society's ills. We have things that burden us down every single day. Yet it is the mercies of God which enables us to move forward even though the world is trying to pull us down. The mercies of God which empowers us to carry on no matter the season of our life. Yeah, I believe there's something that you gotta do. God ain't gonna sit there and reward you or carry you through, guys, when I'm When you're just a lazy sluggard, amen? That's what, hey listen, that's what dependency upon the government. The government's got no business in taking care of your business when you won't get out there and do business. Can I make that clear this morning? But we've raised up a generation of young people today that think it's the government's job to provide food and shelter and clothing. It ain't their job. You get out there and get a work, a job, and that's how you get your food and clothing. Amen, preacher. Bible says if you don't work, you don't eat, amen. I don't care if that hair lifts the Pope, I don't care. That's a biblical principle just like what I'm saying right now. But if you, my friend, if you will trust God and his faithfulness in this life, you'll render the blessings because his mercies, praise God. Man, his mercies. Not only new every morning, my friend, but man, it's his mercies that we're not consumed today. The Bible tells me that there hath no temptation taken you, but such as common to man. But God is faithful. I love that. I love there are two words in the Bible two words in the Bible that I love probably more than any of them and it's but God Amen, I absolutely love it. I love what it says, but God I'd get a license plate if I could it says but God because that's the difference in our life We messed up but God a man we sinned but God we screwed up but God we failed but God the Bible says here, but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it guys no matter the temptation what I want you to remember today somebody else has gone through it in their life and somebody else has failed or somebody else has had the victory no matter the pressure that you deal with in your life someone else has gone through it and someone else has failed and someone else has had the victory God will provide a way to escape, it is there, there is no temptation that we're going to experience that's not common to man, but the mercies of God has ensured this. It is a principle we can apply in our life. It means that we have to step up, we have to stand up, we've got to do the right thing, but God's mercies are there for every season in our life, and praise His holy name for that today. So first we find that The faithfulness of God is found in His blessings. Secondly, we find that the faithfulness of God carries us through because of His infinite benevolence. Amen. because of his benevolence. Notice there in the last part of verse 22 it says his compassions. The Bible tells us here because his compassions fail not. Now I've taught you multiple, multiple, multiple times guys about what the word compassion means. It doesn't mean to pity someone. It doesn't even mean empathy. It means to co-suffer alongside someone. Passion means to suffer. To have compassion means that you are co-suffering with them. Amen. Bible says that his compassions, notice the word is plural, his compassions fail not. It's not a generalized statement made to people to give them that warm and fuzzy feeling, but rather God said it is a truth based upon this principle. He will always, always, always, always be there for you and I. Paul says in Hebrews chapter 13, he says, My soul, man, that is a promise. I don't, here's what I don't understand about Christianity in the world today. We want to grab a hold of John 3 16 and believe every single word I am saying because I've read John 3 16 or I've exercised that Romans chapter 10 9 through 13 and Romans 3 23 and Romans 3 10 and Romans 5 20 all of it we believe those verses but when we get down to the nitty-gritty where the rubber meets the road about God never leaving us no forsaken us we're like a bunch of scared cats running around We won't submit nor commit to God's way of living, to God's life, because we're afraid that He's going to leave us high and dry. Has He ever left you high and dry? I mean, honestly, do you even have a numerical account of how many times you have failed God? Listen. I probably can't count that high. And buddy, I got a pretty good memory, amen? I can remember things I shouldn't be remembering. And I still don't know how many times I've failed him, but I know one thing for sure, I know how many times he's failed me. Zero, amen? He's never lead me, he's never, hey listen, even in the darkest times of my life, God was there, amen? The same with you. Think about it like this. The Lord is not going to fail you. He can't fail. His compassions, plural, fail not. He is the Almighty God. He is omnipotent. Listen, guys. He is all-powerful, praise the Lord. Again, you know, again I come back to compassion again. What is it? I mean, it comes from a Latin word that just means to suffer with. And we have a tendency to look at God as this hardened deity sitting upon his throne glaring down at a diminutive creation, and that's not the case at all. He suffers. Guys, when He suffers, He suffers when you and I suffer. He co-suffers with us. His heart breaks when our heart breaks. His compassions fell not in our life. They're with us every single day because of his benevolent blessings. He is almighty. Guys, we have mental health problems in our world today. October's mental health awareness, we understand that. We have mental health problems in our world. They're one of the main causes of the overall disease burden worldwide. Mental health and behavioral problems, be it depression, anxiety, drug use, etc., are reported to be the primary drivers of disability worldwide, causing 40 million years of disability to 20 to 29 years old. 40 million years combined. Major depression is thought to be the second leading cause of disability worldwide and a major contributor to the burden of suicide and ischemic heart disease. And it's estimated that one in six people just in this past week experienced a common mental health problem. Now, beloved, the issue's real. The issue is absolutely real. But I'll tell you another thing that's real this morning. You listened very carefully to me today. The issue's real. Mental health issues are real. Emotional health issues are real. By all means, physical health issues are real. And spiritual health issues are real as well. But I'll tell you what, the Lord God Almighty, whose compassions fail not, that's real also. That's real as well. The issue, guys, we need to understand. The Bible says, but thou, O Lord, art a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I remember the day, I remember exactly where I was. when that verse, Psalm 33, came real to me. I remember where we were sat. I remember when I read the verse and the thought of the lifter up of my head. No, why do you have, guys, why do you have your head down? I'm not talking about cervical kyphosis, anything like that. I'm not talking about a physiological disorder. I'm talking about why do you put your head down? Put your head down when you're depressed. Put your head down when things aren't going right. Put your head down when there are problems going on in your life. You put your head down when you're going through a winter season in your life. Every season, every temptation, every trial. The Lord God Almighty is our shield. He is our glory. He is the lifter up of our head. He protects us, provides for us, and promises to comfort us. He lifts our heads up when we are down. Amen. And we need to remember those things today. We need to remember those things when we get into that winter season, because if you're not already in a winter season, you're going to go into one, because it's part of life, my friend. But we serve the God of all seasons, praise the Lord. So lastly this morning, the Lord provides benevolent blessings for each and every one of us. or why we are not consumed by guilt, it's why we are not consumed by depression, it's the ever-changing seas in our life, His blessings, His compassions, He suffers alongside creation, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, God weeps over His creation when they hurt. His compassions and His blessings fell not because every single day, and I love this part, They are brand spanking new. I don't have spanking up in the point, but they're brand new, amen. Every one of them. Look at verse 23. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. They are new Every morning great is thy faithfulness Denise was telling me here last week that that uh She was ironing one of my suit coats my bottoms my trousers a suit coat. She says boy, honey She was this this suit here is getting a little bit threadbare. I can start to see through it now my favorite suit Which is 24 years old I left in the States because I didn't go pick it up at the dry cleaners My dad has it now in his and the next time we go over there. I'm gonna bring it back Amen as long as it ain't fought hadn't fell falling apart. I But she told me here the other day, she said that she was ironing one of my gray suits. She goes, man, this thing's getting thin. And I got thinking about it, I've had that suit 15, 16 years. It's a nice suit, still fits well, still looks good. I don't see why I need to change it or get rid of it. But she had this little conversation with me, and I got thinking to myself, I thought, man, how nice would it be that every day we got up in the morning, here's another example. David and I have matching shirts. We got a, what is it, Rock Fit, isn't it? The Deadlift Rock Fit T-shirt. He and I, when we train together, when we do it open together, we wear that, we're matchies, amen? But I'll tell you what, over the last, I've looked at pictures of me and him wearing that shirt, and that thing gets lighter. It was burgundy when we first got him, and praise God, it's cancer awareness, it's my breast cancer month, because it's almost pink, isn't it, Brother Dave? Hey, listen, how nice would it be that every morning we got up, And we open up our drawer, open up our cupboard, or not a cupboard, but our wardrobe, and our clothes are in there brand spanking new. No threadbare, no fade, no shrinkage, amen. I mean, all of it was perfect. Every single morning, how nice would that be? Well, that'd be pretty nice. We'd love that. Well, that ain't reality. But what is reality is that the blessings of my God are new every morning. Beloved, when you've had a long, tiring day, and your nerves are wrecked, your mind is aching, your body's tired, you have one of those Mondays on a Thursday, if you will, you go home, you go to bed early, a solid night of sleep, and you wake up refreshed, ready to take on the day, it's a new morning. This is the mercies and the compassions of God, that He's given you another morning to serve Him, to praise Him, to be a witness of Him, to read about Him, to pray unto Him. All of these things are new every single day. Because he's omnipresent, it means he's everywhere at all times. He's omnipotent, it means he's all powerful. He's omniscient, it means he knows all things. So he knows what tomorrow morning's gonna hold before you ever see it. And he makes sure that his mercies, that his compassions, that his blessings are brand new for you tomorrow. Nothing we are gonna go through, no season, no trial, no temptation catches him off guard. Not only is He aware, He's ready. Not only is He ready, He's willing. Not only is He willing, He's able to take everything that comes our way because, beloved, no matter if everyone and everything in this world forsook you and left you high and dry, God, my God, the God of all seasons, is faithful today. So let me say this to you guys, our life, the struggle's real. seasonal changes the things that we go through as we age and we get older milestones that we hit but great is the faithfulness of God today he is the unchanging all-powerful Savior in this world he is the one who will comfort us all the time of need and rejoiced with us in the time of celebration the Bible tells me Malachi 3 6 It says, You trust every morning that His blessings will be there ready, willing, and able for each one of you. Will you bow your heads this morning? Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord, Thank you so much for joining us today. I do hope and pray the sermon you just heard was a tender blessing to your heart and to your soul. I hope that it gives you the encouragement and edification to face the challenges that we see each and every day and week throughout our life. I'd like to invite you out to one of our live services here at Seren Chapel in Aberamon. We are located on Lewis Street as well as Davis Street. Davis Street is the entrance to our chapel and as well As louis street is the entrance to our hall and you can use either one of them But secondly today guys, I would like to share just a brief message to you now to ask you to where you are going in eternity If today was the last day you were alive if today by some tragedy This is the last moment you had on this earth when you closed your eyes. Would you wake up and see jesus christ? It is a simple question guys and it is even a more simple answer The Bible tells us that for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. paid the ultimate price for mankind. He gave us the free pass to eternal life by giving his life on the cross of Calvary, being buried into that grave, but rising again on the third day. It is simple as this. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 10 in verse 9, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. You see guys while we were sinners the lord jesus christ loves us so much that he gave his life as a matter of fact Romans 5 8 tells us but god commended his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners christ died for us Sin is defined as the transgression of god's law But what happened was the payment with for mankind is death romans 6 23 clearly tells us for the wages of sin is death But the gift of god is eternal life through christ jesus our lord. So I ask you today What would what would stop you right here right now for bowing your head and saying a prayer much like this lord? Jesus christ. I trust in you Jesus christ I believe that you died on the cross for my sins and I believe that you stepped up out of the grave To give us victory over sin and victory over death I invite you into my heart and ask forgiveness of my sins And ask you to lead god and direct me throughout the rest of my life. Now. Here's the thing You say that prayer in your own words, but you have to say it and believe in it. Remember Romans 10 9 says and believe in thine heart that God had raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. That is a promise from the Word of God. That is a promise from God himself. That is the promise from the creator of all things that if you'll believe on Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today, ask forgiveness of your sins, accept his free gift and pardon of sin into your heart today that you will be born again that you will have eternal life in heaven. Guys, I hope and pray this is a blessing to you today. I hope and pray that you'd make that decision. And if you have, if you've made that decision today, let us rejoice with you. Come by and see us here at the church or hit us up online at any of the social media outlets or through email or however you can just share with us the glorious transformation that you just received in your life. Guys, I hope to see you soon in the house of God. Hope to see you soon right here in Sharon Chapel. And may the Lord be with each and every one of you. God bless.