Romans chapter 5, verse number 1. We're going to read about 11 verses. And in all honesty, if you've been here three or four years, you may have heard some of this. I'm sure it's changed some. But I started that doctrine last week and did justification and realized that there's some other ones that I need to do. I've already done three of them, but that was three or four years ago, so about half of y'all probably didn't hear that. I really want to cover this. I want to keep doing doctrinal stuff on Thursday nights. We only get three times a preach at your week, brother Christian. If I got to preach something shallow every time, you know what I mean? We're not growing much. So I want to do expository right now on Sunday nights and see if we can't go through some Pauline epistles. Brother Jeff's doing expository through a prophetic book in Sunday school. And we'll do this doctrine on Thursday nights and then we'll just follow the Lord on Sunday morning. And we need to learn the book, amen. It's very important. And I tell you what, I tell some of these preachers they can't hardly believe it, but I don't listen to anybody really preach. I just don't. A lot of them listen to guys every day. I used to, and it's good for young preachers to do that. But I listen to these teaching guys. Most of our guys listen to a guy named Charles Lawson. And there's some other guys that, Jeff, we probably can listen to. I listened to a guy today. Hey, man, he's pretty good. I'll tell you all about him later on. But there's some good Bible teachers out there, man. And for a preacher, I think that'll help you preach more than anything. Because you get to stay true to yourself and preach the way you preach instead of mimicking somebody. Because no matter what you do, if you miss somebody all the time, you're going to mimic them somewhat. And you can stay true to yourself, and you just learn that book, and God will use you and preach that book. Amen? Let's read Romans 5 and 1. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We talked on justification last week. By whom also we have access by faith into his grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so but we glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope. and hope maketh not a shame, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet preadventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We all know that. That's part of Romans Road. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. What wrath are we talking about? We're going to talk about it tonight. For if when we were enemies, that's what we're talking about tonight, we were reconciled to God, by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Now we all know probably that Romans here is the great, they call it the great epistle of theology, amen? I believe it was Charles Spurgeon or one of them guys, it was his favorite book, amen? But it's the great epistle of theology. Everything Paul's going to teach you in the Paulian epistles, you're going to find there in the book of Romans. Well, we found also doing expository on Galatians Galatians is like a mini-Romans. It covers every biblical doctrine, if you will, that Paul teaches in the Pauline Epistles. So you'll learn soteriology, Christiology, New Mythology, all that stuff, amen? And some guys say, why do you use them words? Well, because... And you don't have to know them words, but really you need to know the doctrines of this Bible And if you ever get into conversation with somebody else It'd be good that you know how to explain what you believe about your doctrine of salvation. That's soteriology your doctrine of the Holy Spirit and which is so cool. I never really realized how intertwined the doctrine of the Holy Ghost is with salvation. But He's the one that seals us, am I right? He's the one that indwells us. And if He don't seal you and indwell you and stay in you, then you wouldn't retain your salvation, amen? But He does. He seals you and He lives in you. So that pneumatology doctrine, that Holy Ghost doctrine is highly tied to your soteriology or your salvation doctrine, and it's all tied to Christiology, which is the doctrine of Christ, who He is, what He did for us, and that's what we're covering. We're justified because of what Christ did, amen? He was the propitiation. He made the atonement. He's the one that reconciles us back to God, and that's what we're talking about tonight. We want to understand those doctrines so we don't get confused by the one that tries to tell us we'll lose our salvation, so we don't get confused. by the one that tells us that we were elected, ordained, and some can be saved and some can't. We want to understand these things tonight so that we can know them in our heart and have faith and peace, amen, but also so that we can win souls and tell people about Jesus. So what I want to look at tonight, I've done three or four years ago, but I want to cover reconciliation tonight. And we're just gonna fill in some blanks for a lot of stuff you've heard and a lot of stuff you believe, but I just wanna see if we can help you a little bit. So when we deal with these doctrines on the meaning of the death of Christ, you're gonna deal with several things relating to what I already said, Christology and soteriology, amen? So we've talked about before, I talk about it about every message that I preach. When I talk about Christ dying on the cross, what I'm really talking about is the substitutionary atoning death of Christ. He atoned. He made an atonement for the sins of mankind as a substitute for you and I so that we didn't have to do it. He was the substitutionary atoning death, amen? And he did that for redemption in relation to sin, amen? It was a payment. Redeeming something, there's a payment made. And it was a payment for the sins of mankind in the relation to sin. And as he was at the propitiation in relation to God. See God had to be satisfied to lay aside his wrath. And that word propitiation is what that is. It is something that satisfies a deity. And Jesus Christ being perfect and being God in the flesh was a perfect propitiation as he made that substitutionary atoning death for our sins, amen? And now because God is satisfied with the sacrifice, the world has been reconciled to Him, but there is a personal reconciliation that there is that you and I must have with God tonight, amen? So I'm explaining reconciliation tonight. Reconciliation means a change of relationship from hostility to harmony and peace between two different parties. That's a common word, amen? We may not use it a lot. But that's not really old English, we know what the reconcile is, amen? The Bible even talks about reconciling with other people. You ought not have ought with anybody in this world, amen? You ought to get it right, you ought to reconcile that relationship, Matthew 5 and 23. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there rememberest, that thy brother hath ought against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, go thy way, and first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. He said, before you make the sacrifice on earth, not you go get right somebody you mad at, but if you know they mad at you, go get right with them, amen, and try to reconcile and bring peace and harmony to that relationship that has hostility in it, amen? And then we also see people must be reconciled to God, amen? Romans 5 and 10 we've already read, for if when we were yet enemies, were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life. Also over in 2 Corinthians 5 and 18 it says this, And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us The ministry of reconciliation. Man, we're supposed to help other people be reconciled. To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. So we ain't gonna understand that. You understand that's wrath between us and God. Christ being God came and died, has a propitiation for us. and reconcile us back to God. I know that triune doctrine is difficult to understand, but that's just how it works, amen? And it says, Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us, we pray you, in Christ's deed, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Amen? Adam Clark said it like this, and that this Christ might be adequate to the great work of reconciling the whole, whole human race to God by making atonement for their sins. God was in him. The man Jesus was the temple and shrine of eternal divinity. For in him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and he made peace by the blood of his cross. We find that over in Colossians 1 and 19, where it says, for it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell, talking about in Christ is all of the Godhead, amen? It wasn't modalism, it wasn't adoptionism, he wasn't man until the baptism of John the Baptist, he didn't become man on the cross of Calvary to die, amen? He was the fullness of the Godhead. and he always has and he always will be. Amen right there. Verse 20 says, and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself, by him I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both circumcision and uncircumcision, that's the Jew and the Greek, amen, the Jew and the Gentile, unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. There was enmity and he slain it, amen. Aren't you glad tonight that God provided a way of reconciliation through the God-man Jesus Christ? Aren't you glad that God Himself took on the flesh of man, robed in man's flesh, born in a manger, amen, perfect, sinless life, so that He was enabled to be the atoning sacrifice and the perfect propitiation for the wrath of God, came to this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for you and I, and was that perfect propitiation to bring a place of reconciliation with God? I'm going to show you a couple of things about reconciliation tonight and then I'm going to go home and cook a $7 sirloin. Amen. We know that God was in Christ when he was on the cross of Calvary and the purpose of it, as Colossians said, was to reconcile man to God. I want to show you facts about reconciliation, just four of them real quick, and we'll be done. Amen? Notice these facts with me tonight. Father, we love you. Lord, help us, God, understand the doctrines of our Bible, God. Help us understand, God, that it ain't Baptist, God, that it's Bible. Dear Lord, and I pray, God, that we'd know this Bible and love this Bible, God, and we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Number one, we see the fact that there is a purpose for reconciliation. Verse 10 said this, for if, when, we were enemies. You know what that means? You was on the wrong team. We was on the wrong team. You know who he was? You know who our father was? Satan himself. The spirit of disobedience lives in all those, amen, that aren't saved, what the Bible tells us. That means everybody's somewhat possessed by Satan if they ain't saved, amen. And that is our father, that is our leader when we're not saved. You're either on one team or the other, man. Jesus said, if they forsay against us, amen. And if you're not saved, if you weren't saved, you're on the wrong team. tonight, amen, and the reason that God and man are in enmity with one another is because man was born in sin. I know this is 101, amen, I know this is easy stuff, but Romans 5 and 12, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, that's Adam in the garden, right, and death by sin, because of that sin death passed upon all men, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned, amen, and God is holy. Amen, he's holy and he cannot have fellowship with sin tonight, amen. I'd say he can't even really look upon sin, he turned his back on Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. When Christ became sin for you and I, amen, the whole world went dark and God turned his back, amen. And due to that fact that we are sinful, that we are born in sin, that means we were born at war with God tonight, amen. Isaiah 57 and 20, but the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt, there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Romans 8 and 7, because the carnal mind, that's the lost man, I know I say people carnal sometimes, we don't live right, but in the Bible, often times, carnal, that's lost man right there, because the carnal mind, is enmity against God. Amen? You're at war with God. For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Here's what Albert Barnes said. The sinner in this state regards God as his enemy. He trembles when he thinks of his law, fears his judgments, is alarmed when he thinks of hell. His bosom is a stranger to peace. And because of that sin, God and man are in a relationship of hostility an entity tonight. When we were lost, we were an enemy of God. And man, you don't have to hate God when you're lost. You don't have to be an atheist. You don't have to be a Muslim or somebody that would hate the God that we serve, hate Jesus Christ. I'm talking there's men, hey man, that say, I believe all that, I was raised in that, but I just want to sow my wild oats. I don't want to be saved, I'm going to be myself. There's men out there that say, hey, y'all good people, I'm thankful for y'all, and that's really what I believe, but I ain't never thought about the end, and I don't care, I don't want to know. There's men out there that say, hey, yeah, I said a prayer when I was four or five, and I'm saved, I ain't never lived it, and nobody would think they're saved, amen, they may be, they may not be. But there's men out there, they're not enemies of God, but they're not saved, they're not blood-bought, amen, they're not born again, John 3, 3, born again, honey. and therefore they are at war with God, they're at enmity with God, they're an enemy of God tonight. And that makes him a subject of his wrath. Romans 5 and 8, God committeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and much more being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him. A lost man that is not reconciled to God is in danger or a target of the wrath of God. No, we've got a loving God. He loves everyone. We're all God's children. That ain't Bible. If you ain't saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, you're a target of the wrath of God. And you might not live it here. You might not experience the wrath of God here. But when you die without God, my friend, they will experience the wrath of God. Amen? Bible says that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. One day, every knee's gonna bow. Every tongue's gonna confess, amen. And those that are blood-bought know Jesus Christ, amen. They'll bow the knee in joy and peace and happiness, amen, as they go into the millennial kingdom, amen, and rule and reign with him. and go through eternity in heaven, amen. But those that do not know Jesus Christ, amen, those that have not been reconciled to God and the wrath been appeased, amen, they'll bow the knee for sure, but God's wrath will fall on them very shortly after. One of the scariest things in the world, not be reconciled to your creator. and the wrath of God will pour out on men. It'll be worse than we've ever thought it could be. Luke 10 and 13, woe unto thee, Terizon! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done entirely in Sidon, which have been done in you, if they'd have seen the miracles and they'd have seen what God could do like you did, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for these guys over here that didn't see what God could do. Tyre inside and at the judgment then for you. It'll be easier for these jungle folk, these aborigines, these over here that never seen what God can do than you church folk that sit there and listen to preaching and tell the Holy Ghost, no, because of your pride, and you sit there lost knowing God's dealing with your heart, and you sit there and say, I'll do it another time, and you sit there and say, it's going to be, whoa, it's going to be worse for you. The wrath of God on that one that's heard the gospel over and over is going to be something to behold. Hell's a real place and it's a place of judgment. God carried the judgment on a preacher that won't preach on it, man. One man said this, A flood of false doctrine has lately broken in upon us. Men are beginning to tell us that God is too merciful to punish souls forever. That all mankind, however wicked and ungodly, will sooner or later be saved. We'd embrace what is called kinder theology and treat hell as a pagan fable. This question lies at the very foundation of the whole gospel. The moral attributes of God. His justice, His holiness, His purity are all involved in it. Scripture has spoken plainly and fully on the subject of hell. If words mean anything, there is such a place as hell. Amen? I'm glad he preserved his words, amen? If texts are to be interpreted fairly, there are those who will be cast into it. The same Bible which teaches that God in mercy and compassion sent Christ to die for sinners does also teach that God hates sin and must from His very nature, He's just y'all, He's holy, He has to, from His very nature, He must punish all who cleave to sin or refuse the salvation He has provided. God knows that I never speak of hell without pain or sorrow. I would gladly offer the salvation of the gospel to the very chief of sinners. I would willingly say to the valest and most prolificate of mankind on his deathbed repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. But God forbid that I should ever keep back from mortal man that scripture reveals a hell as well as a heaven. That men may be lost as well as saved. I'd not want to be the man that dies unreconciled to God. I'd not want to stand before God unreconciled to Him being His enemy. Him having wrath towards me. I wouldn't want to go to that great white throne judgment and God stand there not as my friend, not as my father, not as my savior, but as the mighty judge who has wrath towards me. I was going to sing it earlier. That old song, Rock of Ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure, save from wrath and make me pure. There is a wrath of God that's coming. When God committeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. If you're not saved by Him, you're headed for wrath. Every false religion out there is headed for wrath. Every false profession out there is headed for wrath. There's a purpose of reconciliation. Secondly, there's a process. The fact that there's a process of reconciliation. Verse 10 says, For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. The consensus of the entire New Testament is that the death of the Lord Jesus Christ is the factor of man's reconciliation to God. God made Jesus to be sin. that we might be made righteousness, the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5 and 17, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation. I read this earlier. to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespass on them, and hath committed us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we're ambassadors of Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. I don't want to get into too much other doctrinal stuff, we'll cover it at some point. But you see, sin was imputed on Adam in the garden. Imputed, placed on. And when that happened, every man that's born, that sin is imputed onto that man. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered the world, death by sin, death passed upon all men. That imputation of sin on Adam And because God can't have fellowship with sin, He can't have fellowship with us. So there has to be another imputation take place. We see that in 2 Corinthians 5.19. I just read it. I can read it again. But he said, For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That is the imputed righteousness of Christ. You understand that? You've not done anything to make yourself righteous. That's the works doctrine crowd. They're trying to keep their salvation by maintaining some level of righteousness, but it's a spit in the face of Christ because His blood is what puts the righteous... That is our righteousness, is the blood of Jesus Christ tonight, amen? And the propitiation was presented and the atonement was made, and once that blood of Jesus is, quote, applied to your life by faith of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, you're justified in the eyes of God, as we taught last Thursday, and the righteousness of Christ is imputed on you. And I used to explain it, it's like donning a robe of righteousness and the Father looks down at you and sees that robe, amen, and He doesn't see your wickedness beneath you. I've talked about the law and the Ark of the Covenant and the pure gold mercy seat on top being Christ and God looks down and sees that pure mercy seat, amen. He doesn't see the broken law down inside of that Ark. But the fact of the matter is, listen, He made us righteous. I preached it last week when you were justified. He's in you and you're in him. Amen. Now we know we still see it. We know we still have it. But he made us the righteousness of Christ and you are justified and you are reconciled. The moment of your salvation he reconciles. There was that need, there was that purpose, amen, there was that process. Then there's that person of reconciliation. Look at verse 10, it says, where we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved. So there's an object of reconciliation, but here's the question. Does God reconcile himself to man or reconcile man to himself? And there's an argument between theologians about that. It's not really a big deal in our minds, amen? God's immutable. He's not going to change. We're the ones that's sinful. We're the ones that needs to change, amen? And I know the verse says that he was reconciling the world unto himself, and that's what he did. There's other verses that make people confused on who does the reconciling. God does the reconciling, amen? And he changes who you and I are, man. We're the ones that he's the one that's active in reconciliation. We're the ones that receive the reconciliation and we receive the relationship of peace and harmony because of what God did in us through that reconciliation. God's reaction to sin in the process of reconciliation is that of condemnation. So what I mean by that is when the Holy Ghost begins to deal with your heart, when you got saved, He begins to reprove you of your sin. That's just another word. You can look at the meaning of it. It's conviction. He convicts you of your sin. What happens is God allows man to feel the condemnation of their sin. Now, this is where the Calvinists jump on this. You're never going to explain God. You understand that? That's what I believe. The one, two, three, repeat after me, guys. Try to say, well, there it is in that verse. It says, call on the Lord. If you say that prayer right now, you're saved. I don't care if you're two years old and you can say that prayer. Write it down. Put it in your glove box. You'll be born again forever. That's sending a whole lot of people to hell, y'all. Then the Calvinists are trying to figure this out, and they're saying, well, the Holy Ghost has got to convict you. God's got to lay that condemnation on you. To be reconciled, you've got to feel that wrath, amen? You've got to be convicted. And they sit over here and say, well, he only convicts certain ones because they can't explain how he does it. We can't explain it. I can't explain why most of my life I was under little smidgens of conviction. I felt wrong about certain things. I can't explain why that day in 2004 that I was so deep in sin and the Holy Ghost, it felt like I was having a heart attack, brother. Scared me to death. I can't explain why some young people get under conviction at five years old and call on the Lord and nature to get born again. They're saved like Tyler. I think he was six or seven or something, a little bit older. But I can't explain how that works. But we understand that when God reconciles man, There is the process of man understanding the wrath of God on him. Why is there men out there that walk around and they'll listen to me preach the same sermon somebody else will and this one over here will fall under conviction of their sin and feel the wrath of God in their life and feel the condemnation and that other man, it won't faze them one little bit, amen. I can't explain that. I can't tell you that tonight. But all I know, when you got born again, you better have understood that the wrath of God was upon you, and God was your enemy, and you needed reconciliation. You don't really understand all them words and all that. You just fall under conviction and you realize, I'm a sinner, amen. I'm going to hell if I die right now. I need to be saved. Amen. How are you going to get saved? It's because you know you've got to be saved something. Amen. You know the wrath of God is on your tail. Amen. He lays that condemnation on you. And you call upon the Lord in faith and believe in Him and He saves you. And then you know what happens? you're justified and you're reconciled, amen, and all of a sudden there is a peace of God in your life that passes all understanding. Y'all ever felt that? Anybody know what I'm talking about? I've told the story over and over about laying in a bed as a drunkard worried about sickness and worried about people coming after me and crying out to God with absolutely no peace. You understand the day I got saved, I was an alcoholic, I was in some trouble. Hey man, the cops had my name. I didn't know if I was going to go to jail. I had done messed up a little girl's life, a little girl's life. I was in a lot of big trouble. I went there and got saved. And yes, when I got saved, I laid down all bottled down like that. Yes, I quit cussing. I quit trying to do everything I was doing that was sin. But you know what? It didn't wipe all that worldly stuff away. But you know what I had? Even though I still had a pregnant girlfriend, even though I still had, even though I still had all them problems, even though I still had the worry of whether I was gonna go to jail or what, there was a peace that passed over me that passed all understanding because I was reconciled. I was no longer an enemy of God and I had a friend and I had a help. It had a comforter in me. I hope you felt that. I hope you've had that in your life. That's salvation, y'all. There's so many people out there playing games. They ain't never really had that. They ain't never really been saved. I want a church full of saved people. I hope you've been reconciled. That reconciliation's for a person. That person's you. He died for you. And lastly, there's the fact that there's a provision of reconciliation. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. God made a provision of reconciliation through the death of Christ on that cross. In a world where man could not be saved from his sin, I mean, there was no, we had to have a way. and God provided a provision. Limited atonement of Calvinism is hogwash. If you don't understand what that is, it's the L in the tulip, the five-point Calvinism of limited atonement, meaning the sacrifice of Christ on the cross is not an all-atoning substitutionary sacrifice, but it's a limited atonement only, as they say, for those that will believe. So it's not for the whole world. They're saying it's just for the elect from predestined, from the beginning of time elect before the foundations of the world. God chose them and they were going to believe and those with no, God in his foreknowledge knew who would choose to believe in their own free will and they're predestined to be like Christ because once you get saved, God knew you was gonna get saved. Once you get saved, you're gonna become Christ-like at some point in time if it's all the way up to your glorification, it's gonna happen. That's your anti-Calvinism in a nutshell right there. Limited atonement of Calvinism is hogwash. You know why? 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. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. He died for the world, all of mankind. The Lord is not slack concerning His promises. Some men count slackness, but His longsuffering to us were not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So God made a way to reconcile the world to Himself, but individual reconciliation through faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ changes the position of the individual from an unsaved man to a saved man. That's when your sins are forgiven and that's when you got a home in heaven. God took the initiative and reconciled the world to himself. This was done by the death of Christ and that provision changed the world into a salvable position, a place able to save before God. Yet though the world had been reconciled, man needs to be reconciled by changing his position about Christ. Then and only then is his condition changed before God. Are you at peace with God tonight? Heads bowed, eyes closed for one minute. Gladly and cheerfully lift a hand if you are at peace with God tonight. Are you saved? You got peace, 100% peace with Him. You can put them down. If you couldn't lift your hand tonight, I want you to know it's available for you. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I gave you the entire gist of salvation right there. He died for your sin. I didn't mention the resurrection. He rose from the grave. When he rose from the grave, it says, believe on the resurrection and thou shalt be saved. That's what made him God is that he got up. He died, he put all that plan in place of redemption and justification and reconciliation, but what brought it all together was the resurrection of Christ. If you'll believe that God died for your sins and that he rose from the grave, put your faith and trust in him and your heart, believe it in your heart and trust him tonight, you'll be reconciled to God and you'll no longer be at enmity or war with him. And I'm just gonna tell you there's a peace that is unexplainable. The world doesn't know it. The world will never have it. Do Christians struggle with anxiety and fears and things? Oh, yes. Do I believe it's the same level, same place as the world does? No, sirree, not at all. Thank God for the indwelling Holy Ghost of God. If you're not saved tonight, you can be. If that's you, you probably ought to stick around and talk to me or talk to somebody tonight and we'll show you in this Bible how to be saved. I'm going to pray and we'll be dismissed. But if you need to be saved, stick around and talk to me. Father, we love you. Lord, we praise you tonight.