You can head on out. Raffi, sorry, he's a little too old, okay? All right, I was gonna see everybody this morning, and we are blessed to have the Apple family with us, and really thankful for their sweet spirit. They've been a blessing to us this week. We've fellowshiped with them, gotten to know them better, and as I mentioned, I think in the Sunday Squad, we had just met last time we were at their church, where the Apple was the assistant pastor, But then God had him step into the head pastorate there and we went out after that, the service that we had, and had a meal at a great place. But we've gotten to know them really well this week, but I feel like I've known them much longer than we have and just appreciate their sweet spirit. And so we've gotten involved in ministries past week. With their help, the kitchen was deconstructed and did some different evangelism things, also showed them around some of the sites and His wife and son abandoned him on Monday. They left him in Ireland and came over here due to a misplaced passport, which he did find and was able to get a later flight to come over. To mention it, I didn't hear a complaint about it. I haven't heard a complaint about it. and he's the kind of man that we got here that loves the lord and look forward to what he's got to share this morning with us. Alright, brother. Yeah. And that water back there is yours. You're welcome to move up here if you want. Good morning. Good morning. Our pleasure to be here. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time in Scotland and getting to know that your Thank you for your hospitality. We've enjoyed staying here. Everything about the Lord has blessed us with some wonderful weather. Monday and Tuesday, it was kind of rainy, but we weren't traveling those days, so that was okay. The rest of the week, we've been outside, and that's been wonderful. Brother Pastor Schor sent me an email Sunday afternoon last week, letting me know that we were gonna be deconstructing the kitchen. and I let them know a hammer is best in my hand when deconstructing, not when putting something together. And so I enjoy that, being able to swing a hammer and tear things up and not have to worry about how close I'm done. That's been wonderful. It has been good to be here. Our church family back in Wisconsin has been praying with your church for quite some time. And we've been excited to hear and to see what God is doing and providing and building for you guys and uh you've done a wonderful job uh turning this by uh building from a place of darkness to a place of light. a lighthouse of the gospel of Jesus Christ and a beautiful building that you have here and I hope and I trust that you will get involved. If you've got some opportunities coming up here in the next few weeks to get involved in the ministry and to be a part of what God is doing here and so I wanna encourage you to to get involved in those things. day to celebrate and to rejoice and to give thanks to god for his provisions, for his abundance in our lives and uh you know, a farmer will uh in the springtime, he'll go, he'll plow the field, he'll fertilize it and he'll uh sow the seed and all in hopes of preparing the soil so that there can be Sometimes a harvest isn't all that good. Sometimes it's a poor harvest. And that is one of the uncertainties of life. And in life, there are many uncertain things. And we're gonna take a moment this morning and look at a contrast between some of the things in life that are uncertain, but yet some of the things in life that are absolutely certain. So, let's open up the word of prayer. Father, you're so good to us and we're so thankful of that. Lord, I am thankful this morning that when we live in a world of uncertainties, you are absolute. You are always certain and I'm thankful for the song that we've sung. I'm thankful for this Sunday school hour and the instruction that we receive in the book of Acts. Lord, if we look at how the church there with the church that prayed together, came together, a church that was united, a church that cared for one another, and cared for the things of god. Lord, how you would be just like that church in Jerusalem. That the power of God would rest upon, not just the pastor, but upon the individuals that make up this church. And Lord, that you would use the people of this church to turn Edinburgh, Scotland upside down for Christ. Lord, I pray that you would continue to bless them and use them for your honor and for your glory. Father, as we take some time to look at the Word of God this morning, we ask that the Holy Spirit would be the divine preacher and you would be the one that would speak to each of our hearts this morning. And we'll thank you for what you'll do. We ask this all in the most wonderful way. We're going to begin by looking at five uncertain things. I had four, but as I was reviewing my notes this morning, a fifth one came to mind. And we're going to kind of move through these five quickly, and we're going to spend a little more time on four things that are certain. So looking at five things that are uncertain, number one is wealth, finances, money. We talked about that. Pastor Shore talked about that during the Sunday school hour. and how we can invest our finances into worldly things and temporary things and in the end, it really has no value. Or we can invest in a spiritual thing, in the heavenly thing, in the things that depend on the kingdom of God. And those have an eternal reward and eternal value. But, well, our finances are now If you're taking notes this morning, I'm just going to rattle off several verse references and I'll read the verses to go with them. We'll turn to some passages together. But in Proverbs chapter 11, verse number 28, Solomon writes, he that trusted in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as they branch. And so, the individual who places their trust in their riches, that person is often said will fall. I think back in the early 2000s, around 2007, 2008, you have the financial crisis. You have everybody across the world that was involved in finance become familiar with a man named Bernie Madoff. And Bernie Manilow was running a Ponzi scheme and taking people to retirement money. And I guess they had $65 billion was lost in just a matter of a short period of time. I don't think anybody here is old enough to live during what we would have called the Great Depression. But people lost their money back then. And people continue to lose their money today, so well. Solomon again says, Labor not to be rich, seize from thine own wisdom. Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Riches, money, makes themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Have you ever had that problem? Where you thought you had some money left over and you went to check and it was all gone? And it just flowed away. And the wind had come off and blown it and the money was all gone. There was a hole in your pocket somewhere and all that money just disappeared. Well, that's when money died. Wealth is not certain. several of the professional athletes who make millions upon millions of dollars. And shamefully, later in life, they have to declare bankruptcy. They've had millions of dollars, and all of a sudden they have nothing. And that's a shame, but that's what happens, because, well, money is not certain. Number one, finances or wealth is not certain. Number two, So, we wish that people wouldn't change. We wish that people would stay the same and that the relationships we have will always be there. When you're a young child, you think that mom and dad or grandma and grandpa are always going to be there. But unfortunately, relationships are not certain. In I'm sorry. Psalm twenty-seven verse ten. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the lord will take me up. When my own parents forsake me. And unfortunately, we live in a day and age in a world today where parents forsake their children. Parents walk away from their gave my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did even of my bread hath lifted up his heel against me." Now, better than that's the end of the psalm referring to the Jews as carrying the betrayal of Jesus Christ, but David is writing a psalm this person that he sat down with and then he had a meal with a fellowship with this individual has turned against him and uh and had and hurt him and and brought him into danger. Sometimes our closest friends become though that hurt us in the book of Job in the nineteenth Joe says he had to put my brethren far from me and my acquaintances are barely estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in my house and my maids count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant and he gave me no answer. Story after story of families that have split. no longer care for each other. Stories of those who used to be close friends and now they don't even talk to each other. Sometimes they even become enemies. Relationships do not always last. Relationships are not certain. Some people struggle to have any type of relationship because they've been hurt. And they don't want to open themselves up to being hurt anymore because they know that relationships are not always certain. So wealth is not certain. Relationships are not certain. Number three, tomorrow is not certain. Tomorrow is not promised. In Proverbs 27 verse 1, boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Now, it is good, it is proper, it is wise to make plans, but we understand that tomorrow may not go the way we planned. to get up early in the morning and ask the shore to pick us up and I'm going to make sure that my passport is with me and I know exactly where it is and that we're going to fly back to Dublin tomorrow. We're going to spend the day in Dublin and on Tuesday morning we're going to get up and we're going to go back to the airport and we're going to fly back to the United States of America. And I'm going to get home. and I'm going to sleep in my own bed for the first time in two weeks and I'm going to study on Wednesday and I'm going to preach in my home church on Wednesday evening. Those are the plans that I have but the truth of the matter is none of that may happen because tomorrow is uncertain. In James chapter four verses thirteen and fourteen, James says that go to now ye that say today or tomorrow, we will go away and continue their year by and sell and get gain, whereas he no not shall be on the morrow." These were men who they were planning out their lives. They were planning out their year, what they were going to do. But they were not including God in their plans. And James is reminding them, hey, you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Much less what's going to happen in 6 months or a year. Again, it is right, it is proper, it is good to make plans. We ought to do that. We would consider it to be foolish to not make plans. Let us remember tomorrow is uncertain. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what kind of phone call we're going to get this evening or tomorrow morning or in the middle of the night. We don't know what's going to happen to disrupt our plans. So tomorrow is not certain. Number four, and this is the one that I added, feelings and emotions. follow your emotions, follow your feelings. And yet, how many lives have been destroyed because people did just that. They followed their emotions. And in the midst of a of a passionate moment, in the midst of a strong feeling, when feelings overwhelm the mind and we're not thinking clearly and we Jeremiah chapter 17 verse number 9 the Bible says the heart is deceitful and deftly wicked. Who can know it? My heart is deceitful. My heart deceives me and tricks me. I cannot know the true depth of my own heart and neither can you. Only God can know. And so no, it is not a good thing and it's not a wise thing to follow my heart. Because what's going to happen is today this is what I want. And then when I come tomorrow I'm going to be like, you know, that's not what I wanted. I wanted this instead. And so I'm going to go after this because this is what I'm feeling, this is where my emotions are. And so I'm going to chase after this and then I'm going to wake up again the next day and that's not what I wanted. And when I'm following my emotions, when I'm following my heart, I'm not thinking very clearly. And we all either know someone or maybe we have been to someone who has followed our hearts, followed our emotions and woke up one day and realized that they were not trustworthy, that they were not certain. So instead, Solomon tells us in 2 Proverbs chapter 3, if you want to take your Bibles, turn to the 3rd chapter of the book of Proverbs. And while you're turning there, I'm going to go back and read another verse, and that's in Proverbs 19 verse 21. It says, there are many devices in a man's heart. Nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. There are many devices in a man's heart. My heart goes back and forth. My heart has many different opinions, many different desires, many different thoughts. And those can become quite confusing as they confluence one another, as they're fighting for preeminence in my own life. the council of the lord. That shall stand. What god says, that shall stand. And so, what I need to do instead of following my emotions, I need to set my emotions aside and I need to see what the word of god says. If you follow the third chapter of the book of Proverbs, Proverbs chapter three, I'll begin reading verse number five. Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, with all thine heart. Solomon, who had played the part of the fool in his own life, had come to the realization that he could not follow his own emotions. He could not depend upon himself. And so he says now, trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him. and he shall direct thy path. Be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord and be part of thy Lord. So Solomon is telling us to trust the Lord with all of my heart. So I can't trust God with most of my heart and then trust myself with all of my heart because that's just gonna create a problem. I need to trust the Lord with all of my heart. He says, don't lean unto your own understanding. Because when I'm leaning on my own understanding, that's a weak wall that's going to fall. So instead of leaning on my understanding, I need to lean on God. I need to lean on that which is absolute. I need to lean on that which is true. That which changes not. The same would apply to not leaning on other people. To not leaning on the world. but I'm following the current opinion of society today. That changes quite often. It changes just as much as the weather does, just as much as our finances change, up and down, as the world goes. And so not to lean upon ourselves, but rather to trust the Lord. Life is uncertain. We have younger people here today. And you think you're going to live for a long time. I know, so you're probably hoping that one day you'll be as old as your dad is. And I can say that I'm older than your dad. When we're young, we think we're going to live forever. Again, the book of James chapter four and verse fourteen. He says, for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appear for a little time and then vanish it away. A vapor. A mist. Here in Scotland, you guys are quite familiar with a mist or with a fog and uh sometimes it's here for just a moment and then it disappears. It's gone. our lives are here for just a moment. Even if we get to live to be 70 or 90 and also something about a hundred and two-year-old lady earlier this morning who is tandem skydiving. I'm not going skydiving if I make it to a hundred and two. But even that lady who lives to be a hundred and two, her life is but a labor. It's very short. It's very brief. Sometimes we have time to prepare for an individual's death. Sometimes we have no time to prepare. It can be a relative who's been sick for quite some time and we know that the end is near. Every time there's a phone call in the middle of the night, someone had a heart attack and died. Someone was involved in a car accident and didn't survive. And so sometimes we don't get to prepare. The year that I graduated high school, three of my classmates unexpectedly died in motorcycle or vehicle accidents. There was no time to prepare. These were young men, 18 years old, cut down at 18, and their lives snuffed out. One of the young men I was in school with, his brother was in the third grade, so eight, nine years old, and he's outside playing baseball with a friend, and he's pitching, and his friend's hitting. His friend hits the baseball, and the ball hits him in the sternum, breaks the rib cage, and pierces his heart, and he died immediately. life is uncertain. Some people live long lives. Some people live short lives. But none of us, none of us are promised tomorrow. Life, my friends, is uncertain. So, those are quickly five things that are uncertain. will focus their lives on those five uncertain things. Those are the things that will control, that will dominate their lives. Those are the things that they will pursue and follow after. The Lord Jesus Christ shared a parable in the gospels. Of people who build their lives upon that which is uncertain. He calls it sin. compared to those who build their lives upon that which is certain, called that the right. And when the storms come, and it beats upon the house that is built upon the sand, the house falls, and great is the fall of it. And yet when the same storm comes, and it beats upon the house, When the same storm comes and it beats upon the house that is built upon the rock, and that rock is the Lord Jesus Christ, it stands, it remains, it does not collapse. One of the things that I see in that parable is that it points out that even Christians face the same storms that the lost people face. Being a Christian doesn't mean that we're not gonna have difficulties. It doesn't mean that we're gonna be immune to diseases or death or tragedy or great sorrow. It doesn't mean that we're not going to have great difficulties in our lives. But when our life is built upon the right, that which is certain, compared to the sand, that which is uncertain, that makes the world of a devil. And so, I want to encourage you as we move on from five things that are uncertain onto the four things that are certain. Let us build our lives upon that which is certain. that which is absolute so that when the storms come, we can stand because we're built upon the foundation. Four things that are certain. Number one, the word of God. What God says is certain. Now, all of us have experienced us something only to find out that what they told us wasn't true or finding out that they were not going to keep their promise. They were going to conveniently change their mind and they were going to conveniently find a way out of what they had committed to and now we find it difficult to trust people like The word of god, ladies and gentlemen, is absolute. It is always true and it does not change. When god gives us his word, we do not have to worry about him changing what he said. And I am so thankful the Bible that I have, the Bible that I read every morning does not change. I don't read it one day and that I'm encouraged and I'm blessed by what I read and then several months later, I'll come back and I'll read those same verses again and they're not there or they've changed and they they mean something different now. I'm glad the word of god does not do that. changes quite a bit. You can read one article today and it'll tell you how bad coffee is for you and you can come back in 6 months and you can read a letter that tells you how good coffee is or you can read that butter is not good for you or eggs are not good for you and and it just changes back to the word. The word of god does not change in Titus chapter one verse two and hope of come before the world began. Ladies and gentlemen, God cannot lie. You and I can lie. You and I have almost lied because all of us have told a lie in one way or another. But God is incapable of lying. In Proverbs chapter 30 verse number 5, every word of God is pure. There is nothing in the word of God that is not pure, that is not true, that is not right, that is not holy. Every bit of God's word is pure. Psalm 119 verse 89. Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. When the word of God is settled, that means it's not going to change. It doesn't mean to change. Nothing needs to be added. Nothing needs to be taken away. It is settled. In John 17 verse 17, Jesus said, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. The word of God is truth. There is no lie. There is no error in the word of God. Matthew 5 verse 18. The word of god, ladies and gentlemen, is absolute. It is certain. It does not change. It never will change. First Peter chapter one verses twenty-four and twenty-five. and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falleth away. But the word of the Lord endureth forever. I am so thankful that the word of God endures forever. And when I'm facing difficulties today, I can open up my Bible, and I can read it, and I can get the help that I need. I can get the instruction that I need. When I'm going through difficulties and I need some wisdom and I need some direction, I can go to God in prayer and I can ask him to help me. I can ask him to show me what to do. I can open up the Bible and I can get the help that I need. And when I come back tomorrow, I can do the same thing. When I come back in a week or a month, I can do the same thing. because it doesn't change. And I don't have to worry that maybe today it's not going to work for me. I don't have to worry that maybe today it's not going to have the answers that I need. It is certain. I can't say that about any person I know. I can't say that about all the other books I read. I can't say that when I turn the TV on and listen to the news. I can't say that when I'm scrolling through social media. Because all of that changes. The Word of God does not change. I can build my life upon that truth. The Word of God does not change. Number two. Something that is certain, something that does not change is the love of God. The love of God does not change. Human love changes because people change. But God's love does not change. Love can be difficult to accept or to comprehend. Because the way that people love is often self-motivated or motivated by selfishness. But God's love is beautiful and it is always for my best interest, always for your best. God is not loving you from an angle to get something from you. He is loving you because that's what he does. That's who he is. God is love. His love is always pure. John 3, 16. For God so loved the world that the word of purpose. He so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans chapter 5 verse 8, when God commended, He demonstrated His love toward us in that while we were One of my favorite hymns is the song called The Love of God. It goes like this, and I'm gonna read it. Don't worry, I do not sing. I sing solos, so low that you can't hear me. And I sing tenor, ten or 15 miles away, okay? So I'm not gonna sing. I'm gonna read you these words. The love of God is greater far than palm or pen can ever tell. They go beyond the highest star and reach you to the lowest hell. The guilty pair bow down with care. God gave His Son to live. His erring child He reconciled and pardoned from His sins. When gory times shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, when men who here refuse to pray, on rocked hills and mountains, all measureless and strong, redeeming grace to Adam's race, the saints' and angels' song. Could we, with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies and parchments made, were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched So, the Lord says this. Oh, love of god. How rich and pure. How measureless and strong. It shall forever endure the saints and angels song. The love of god. And you and I are oftentimes the recipients of god's love and don't even how wonderful it is that you and I can have a relationship with him and to know his love, to know that he loves you and it will not change. Go back in your mind when you were just a little child and you're at school and you've got your best friend and you come to school the next day. Well, they've got a new best friend. And they've forgotten all about you. And you've got that boyfriend, or you've got that girlfriend. And you have vouched your love for one another. And you've carved your name in a tree with a heart. And you've declared to this individual, I love you. Six weeks later, you break up. You don't love that person anymore. While you moved on, you found someone else. The love of God doesn't do that. He loved you before he forged you. And he still loves you. And he loved you so much that he died for you. God's love is certain. Number three, things that are certain. Two more to go, number three. the gift of god. The gift of god. God has offered each one of us a gift. I hope that you have received that gift. If you haven't, then today can be the day that you receive the gift. give you something. So long as you make them happy. So long as they still like you, you can keep the gift. But if you make them mad, if you stop being their friend, they're gonna take that gift from you. My wife introduced me to a phrase 24 years ago. Uh that's called an Indian giver. Someone who gives and takes back. And I guess that was a practice of Native Americans, the Indians in America. They would give gifts, and only to take them back from you. Friends, that's not what God does. God offers a gift, and it is an eternal gift. We've already read John 3, verse 16. For God so loved the world that he gave. In Romans chapter 6, verse number 23, We read the verse, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. There's a contrast there between wages and gifts. Wages are what I earn. When I work a job and my boss comes to me and hands me my paycheck, he doesn't say, hey, here's a gift for you. Because it's not a gift, it's what I've earned. It is my wages, it is my income. And what I have earned because of my sin is death. An eternal reservation, an awful place called hell. That's what I deserve, that's what I have coming to me. But the gift of God is eternal life. Now, a gift is not something that I earn. A gift is not something that I deserve. It could be that as we're getting closer to Christmas, that parents will often tell their children, listen, you better behave if you want any gifts for Christmas. Truth of the matter is we're going to buy them a gift whether they behave or not because we're their parents. We love them and so we want to give them a gift. They didn't earn them, they don't deserve them, they give them because we love them. And so the wages of sin, what I've heard, is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8-9 says, For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. There will never be an individual who stands before God in heaven and is able to extol all of their virtues, able to explain to God why they deserve to be in heaven. They won't be able to talk about getting baptized and because I was baptized, I deserve to go to heaven. They won't be able to say that I joined a church and because I joined this church, I deserve to go to heaven. They won't be able to say, I did all of these good things. I gave to charity. I helped people. I kept the ten commandments. I was a good person. I deserve to be in heaven. There's not a single person who will ever be able to do that. Those that will spend all eternity in heaven will be there because they received a gift. A gift that cannot be taken back. A gift that cannot be undone. A gift that is out of absolutely certain. Have you received the gift of salvation? Has there been a time in your life when you realize that you as an individual or a sinner lost and on your way to hell and you repented of your sin and you placed your faith in Jesus Christ, Can I tell you this morning? That God is not willing that any should perish. It is not God's will for anyone to die in their sin and go to hell. But rather, it is His will that all would repent, that all would receive that gift. But He'll not force anyone to receive the gift. Imagine it's Christmas Day. and everyone has opened their gifts. But yet there's still one gift that remains under the Christmas tree. And it has your name on it. That gift is for you. But until you take that gift, and until you unwrap it, and until you open that gift and accept it as yours, then it's not become your gift. It's there. And so, Jesus Christ has paid for the gift of salvation for each and every one of you. But until you receive Christ as your savior, then you don't have the gift. And if you were to die in your sin today, although the gift has been paid for, then you die without the gift and you spend all of eternity There's a story told of a man back in the 1800s who was homeless. He walked the streets of America, poor, looking for a place to live, looking for food to eat, hardly had any clothes to cover himself. The one thing he possessed, the one thing that just thrilled his soul, was a piece of paper with the autograph of President Abraham the United States of America. And he loved the fact that he held this piece of paper and it was signed by Abraham Lincoln. The man died homeless, poor, and as they were going through his belongings, they found this piece of paper that had Abraham The man didn't know what he had. And what it was was a check. He had served in the Army, and he had a check with enough money to take care of all his needs. But he never took it to the bank. He had never cashed the check. And so it was worthless to him. And there'll be many who have the opportunity they're taken to the back. They'll never turn from their sin and ask Christ to save them. Thus, missing out on something in life that is certain and that is the gift of god. The last thing this evening this morning that we see that is certain. If you wouldn't take your Bibles and turn to Deuteronomy chapter number eleven. Deuteronomy The judgment of god is certain. We see that in Deuteronomy chapter number eleven. God is speaking to the children of Israel preparing them for uh going into the promised land and establishing this covenant relationship with them. Deuteronomy eleven beginning with verse twenty-six. Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse. A blessing if you obey the commandment of the lord your So, God is promising a blessing or a curse. They can choose which one they want. their choice comes to either their obedience to the commands of God or their disobedience to the commands of God. Obedience from a blessing, disobedience from a cursing, or punishment. And as Christians, we love the promises of God. So long as they're the good ones, so long as they're the ones that we enjoy. But as I said earlier, the word of God is absolute. and what god has said will come to pass. And so, when we claim the promises of god, we claim the good ones and the bad ones. Because they're all true. The judgment of god, ladies and gentlemen, is certain. John chapter three verse sixteen again, for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Verse 17 goes on and says, For God said not to send unto the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Verse 18, He that believeth on him, he that receives the gift of salvation, is not condemned, but he that believeth not, is condemned already. because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Friend, what that verse just said, verse number 18, he that believeth not is condemned all the ground. Not my words, but the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you have not received the gift of salvation, then right now, at this very moment, you are condemned. You have been found guilty by God and have been sentenced to hell. However, because you're still alive, and because you're hearing the Gospel preached and because the Holy Spirit is working in your heart, you can go from being condemned to being set free. That can change this side of death. There is no person who's ever said, well, you know, I've not been perfect. Nobody's perfect after all. And I've done some wrong things and I've sinned and I've broken the law. But you know, when I die and when I stand before God, I'm going to be able to talk to him. And God is going to understand. And God is going to accept me for who I am. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not true. That is not certain. That is absolutely uncertain. He that believeth not is condemned. The only way to go, that your sins are forgiven, and that your one is better all the trinity receive the gift of salvation today in this life. And we already understand this morning that tomorrow is not promised. So, don't put it off and say, I'll get saved tomorrow. I'll get saved this evening. I'll get saved later in life. Because we don't know that we have tomorrow. We only know that we have this very moment. So today, right now, you can go from being uncertain of where you're gonna spend all eternity to being absolutely certain that you're going to spend all eternity in heaven. Not because of how good you are, but because of how great God is. Because Jesus Christ died for your sins. He paid the price for you and he offers you the free gift of salvation. And you can be certain that you'll spend all eternity in heaven because the word of god is certain. And because what god has promised will come to pass. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall I am convinced beyond the shadow of doubt, just as the apostle Paul was persuaded, that when I die, I will spend all eternity in heaven. Not because I'm good, because I'm not. But because as a young teenage boy, I repented of my sins, and I asked Jesus Christ to save me. Now, will you build your life on that which is uncertain, but when you build your life on that which is certain. I'm going to pray. Let's turn it over to Pastor Schwartz. I trust my Holy Spirit is spoken to your heart today, that you're responding to him. Father, we thank you so much for your goodness. We thank you for your love. Lord, we're so thankful that in a world of uncertainty, that there are some very important things that are certain. and we can build more lives upon this crucifixion of the word of God. Lord, I pray that if the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts even right now, that if there is one here that does not know Christ as their Savior, that they would turn from their sin and place their faith in you. Lord, make it a Christian here this morning for them to build in their lives upon that which is uncertain. would they would they turn back to you to build their life upon our church and more thank you for what you'll do. We ask this all in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ. Amen. I just want to ask a question about we have invitation. Um you know, as as he's preaching and sharing guys, we're we're opportunity to respond but if that's you this morning and and you know for sure because it is absolutely certain that the judgments coming as was preached that if you die today because life's not certain you don't know um certainly there's many people that pass away unexpectedly and we wish everybody a long and happy life um but life's uncertain and so if in your heart you know right now if I died I would go to hell because I've never put my trust in that we would plead with you today, we would encourage you to not put off Christ. And it is certain that Jesus wants to save you, it is certain that he has the power to save you, that his death is sufficient for your salvation. So I just want to ask that question this morning. Is God speaking to you about salvation? Do you want to get saved today? If you know for sure that you're on your way to hell, would you like to respond? I'm just encouraging you by way of uplifted hand just to raise your hand and say, Pastor, that's me. I need to get saved. I need to settle in it. You know, we may think somebody's saved, or maybe not know. We don't necessarily know the heart of everybody that's here, and there could very likely be somebody that's lost and not saved. And if that's you today, and you want to get saved, would you just indicate that by uplifted hand? Anybody like that today? Say, I need to get saved. I know I need to get saved, and I want to get saved today. And then as believers, again, anybody this morning, say you have a pastor or someone that says he's preaching, I'm living my life for riches, or I'm living my life for things that, you know, they don't really matter, because they're not certain. But I'm not really living my life for the Word of God. Anybody about that this morning? Just say, God, speak to me about that. I really need to live my life, return all things. Amen, let's see that hand. Anybody else today? Just say, God, speak to me about that. I need to live my life, build my life on things that are real, things that last, things that are eternal. Amen, let's go forward in prayer. Father, we thank you for your grace to us. And Father, if there is somebody this morning that in their heart, they're struggling with it, they know, you know, they're not saved, they need Jesus Christ, they didn't raise their hand, is so that they can know for sure that they died and went into heaven. And so we pray for their salvation. And if I don't get this one, one can raise their hand. Instead of trusting God, trusting my emotions, trusting my feelings, trusting my will. May the Spirit of God continue to speak to our hearts and God give us grace to really do it to you today. It's in Christ's name we pray.